Do Androids Dream

A scene I found interesting in Do Androids Dream, was in chapter 5 where Rachael Rosen is put through a test for to see if she is android or human.  The test reads her muscle reactions to certain stimulus put in front of her. Deckard asks her certain questions to see her body reactions to them.  This would be interesting to test on certain people today. I think I would have a hard time keeping a straight face through a test like that.    I don't know that my muscle reactions would quite match up with what I was thinking.

Chapter 11 of A&B

    Something that stood out in Chapter 11 when I read through it was locally and globally revising your draft. Locally and globally revising will require me to go back and look at my essay in a different way. When I read through it I will now not only look at the sentence structure and just a few sentences at a time but the piece as a whole. I know when I write I sometimes just run off on a tangent then read through and edit as I go instead of looking at the whole picture. I liked one of the quotes it gave as a reason why revising is so important "meaning is not what you start out with but what you end up with", A&B.

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

The first four chapters of  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? gave us a main character with the name of Rick Deckard who is a bounty hunter of androids. Rick is on search of nexus 6 androids that look exactly like humans and do not want there cover blown. I do not understand why these androids where built to look exactly like humans. If it is a possibility for us to create those androids in the first place, I don't see why they could not have been built to look more like robots. Besides that fact it is interesting to see the kind of mind warping advertisement that is shouting from the TV sets. The steady progress of advertisement today definitely seems to play along with the books portrayal of ads in a apocalyptic era.

A&B

One of the most interesting parts of the first three chapters of  The Allyn & Bacon Guide To Writing is on page 22. On page 22, the authors talk about How Writers Think about Audience. Some of the questions that a lot of writers ask about there audience are questions like: How busy are my readers? What are my reader's motives for reading? What is my relationship with my readers? How interested are my readers in my topic? Do my readers already care about the subject? This idea was very interesting to me because it is new. In previous years of writing, there has not really been much thought to who the audience would be. The assignment was given and I was asked to right about a topic. My thoughts were get this done as fast as I can so it will be done and out of my way. I never had the thought to look into who would be reading this paper if it were not just for a school assignment.  This definitely changed my ideas about writing and all the aspects that go into being a good writer. Next time I sit down with a paper I will definitely ask these questions about my paper's audience.

So it begins...

English 151. I am a first time blogger, so I am a little nervous about entering the blogging world. I hope one day to clime the ranks of blogging and go down in history as one of the greatest bloggers ever to come through Eng 151. Basically this class is going to focus on the apocalypse and exploring it in fiction and film. The blogs purpose is for the class and will correlate with the theme of the apocalypse. The type of reading that I am most accustomed to is through Facebook, magazines, and reading articles all over the web.