Hi Dr. C.  I ‘m getting really frustrated with this whole blogging thing.  My blog page hasn’t shown up in the updated column for at a least a week now.  Now, it seems as if my comments aren’t showing up either.  I responded to B&B about the Jo/Beth/Amy/Meg quiz.  For some strange reason it showed […]

I have finally finished the novel but did not read all of the afterword.  Towards the latter third of the book, it struck me that “Little Women” might be a deconstructionist work.  This idea caused me to pull out “The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms,” Second Edition by Ross Murfin and Supriyia M. […]

This post is for Dr. Campbell.  I’ve noticed that my posts don’t show up in the column called “Updated Posts.”  Does this matter? 

When Dr. Campbell asked us to think about who we identify with most in the novel I immediately thought, “I’m all Jo.”  However, after I thought about it for a while I realized that I have a lot of Amy in me.  I relate to Amy’s practicality and her matter-of-fact way of going about life.  […]

It looks like to me that if MS wants to patent something they will give it their best shot.  However, when I reread the article I referred to in my earlier post, I saw things a little bit differently.  That is, it seems like MS is trying to get their RSS patent by means of […]

This post is primarily one for Dr. C., however I would like to hear from anyone who has thoughts on the subject.  My post concerns an RSS patent.  From my scant research (primarily Google), it looks like Microsoft is involved, or planning to be involved in, patent litigation against other holders of RSS technologies.  Is […]

I’ve been thinking about the metaphor of cuts in a movie being metaphoric extensions of the human heartbeat.  It made me think about all kinds of things.  For example, what would a heart murmur look like in a scene?  My understanding of a heart murmur is that it is an extra sound that is not […]

As simplistic an exercise as it may have seemed in class today, it proved quite helpful to me in understanding what Dr. Campbell meant by the term.  At times I felt myself longing for a “cut,” while at others, I didn’t want another one.  I noticed that sometimes the director cuts while a character is […]

Ok, so, I finally got cable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is nothing in life I can’t conquer now that I have cable.  The sky is the limit.  I think getting cable will even make me a better blogger.  I’ll understand the films I’m watching and be able to say “smart” things in class like everyone else. Dr. C. […]

Coffee and chocolate are the perfect after-Campbell-class apertifs in post-FTC blog discussion requirements.  I’m here at Panera because they have WI FI and I have no internet access at home (hopefully a short-term thing).  Anyway, jumping right into adaptations-they’re incredibly complicated, involved processes.  Since it is impossible to relate an entire novel in the amount […]