A reminder to meet in the Writing Center in the morning L-221. (The lab closest to the elevator.) What else, bring all your books and your questions about research. We will be talking about composition and style within the context of writers Hardy, Dyson and Guy. We'll look at how audience impacts these rhetorical choices.
Oh, bring your money in for the Hardy book. I think students owe me $14?
I have one too many. I think it's Johnny's. Oh, the essays will be back by Tuesday. We'll have little mini conferences during the class meeting. We are meeting in tbe lab until further notice. Dress warmly.
In Guy try to read ahead. Just keep going. We'll try to wrap up the book mid-month, by November 15, so we can leisurely stroll through The Elephant Man.
For Elements of Style we'll look at a different section each week continuing with "Elementary Principles of Compost ion" for the week of 11/6; A Few Matters of Form and Words and Expressions Commonly Misused the week of 11/13; and "Approach to Style" and "Afterword," 11/19. Develop 5-6 questions and/or comments for each section. We'll converse on line about it each week.
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Blood Beats Response #1
Reading Ernest Hardy’s essay “Homegrrlz: Reclaiming TLC” inferred the group’s unmatched femininity and originality not seen or heard from other artists at the time. TLC had an attitude and sexiness that attracted listeners on the hip hop world. Overall, the group’s voices created harmonious hip hop: “Chili’s sweet but strong R & B stylings; Left-Eye’s nasal, steely flow; T-Boz’ husky rap” (Hardy, 95). Their songs were generic, but captivated an alternative audience to the all the pop stars and girly hip-hop wannabes.
I agree with Hardy’s thoughts of former girl group TLC. The group easily stood out from the rest because they didn’t degrade themselves, put themselves in the position that levels them with the rest of the hip hop world of misogyny, homophobia and violence. TLC was a group that represented “girl power”. This essay brought me back memories of the years i listened to TLC. They were one of the few female groups that I remembered and actually came to like. Their versatility and catchy chorus hooks were one of a kind and is hardly heard in from a female group in the present day.
Works Cited
Hardy, Ernest. Blood Beats:vol. 1:demos, remixes & extended versions. Washington, DC: RedBone Press, 2006.
-Tristan Jazmin
happy halloween! -tristan
Nov 30,2007
The class watched a video and were suppose to pick a film we were intrested in. The class listened to the selected film from the headset, and also take notes. People who completed midterm papers turned papers in.
Semhar Kefela
Nov 1,2007
Freewrite
It seems as if Tu-Pac feels that a broken heart is so fragil that it can be broken evenmore if a slight of air touches the broken heart, basically air should be aware of fragil heats, because if the heart becomes damage then air would be blamed.
Semhar Kefela
Nov1,2007
The class met in the lab,The class reviewed BloodBeats:vol.1 and we participated reading the essay we liked. We disscused the research paper, also the database library assignment sheet focus:word program.Also we read Tu-Pacs poem "The Rose That Grew from concrete" pp.31&33 (freewrite).
Semhar Kefela.
Thanks Tristan. A belated Happy Ancestor Day to you too!
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