Home is like...

Home is like sipping on hot chai tea on a crisp fall morning. That feeling of comfort you receive from it overpowers the anxiety of the day ahead. Home is like falling asleep and taking the best nap ever knowing all your duties are accomplished for the day. It's that feeling when you close your eyes on the swing and you think you're going to lift off. Home is like love, it's an inspiration, and one of the most important aspects of our lives.

Derrida's Passion

The only time when I am afraid to write is when it is a topic I do not understand fully. Other than that, I can write about anything. Jaques Derrida's words on his writing was highly relatable. One cannot be afraid to write the truth, and inscribe all your feelings and emotions in every word. Writing does not always have to be serious. However, everything one decides to write down should have feeling behind it, hence why I am afraid to write about something I do not fully understand. Derrida spoke about how he would never take back what he wrote if it offended someone. I agree completely. My belief is to write what you feel and feel what you write.

The Endless Possibilities of Digital Text

The argument in this Prezi presentation was that technology such as E-readers, Facetime, etc... is not overpowering writing so much as it is writing. They showed how different forms of these technologies are writing, just writing revolutionized. Print text is still in our culture, but it now serves as more of a foundation for new technology rather than our main source of reading and writing. As Bolter stated, it is a sense of remediation, not disintegration.

Taylor Mali Breaks it Down

Taylor Mali's performance of his poem versus the written out version present different interpretations in one's brain. Although Mali's performance was well acted out, the use of the text brought forth a better understanding of the words that were being spoken. The words acted out what Mali was saying; each defining word had some sort of animation that set it apart from the rest. It highlighted exactly what needed to be emphasized and made one realize exactly what he was saying to a better degree. 

 The text makes the poem clearer and gives more imagery that one would not get from the performance. For example, when he said that we are chopping down our language, the words created a tree that was chopped down by the next words he spoke. Although Mali's performance had a more comical appeal to it, the text is what makes you really sit down and understand exactly what he is trying to say.