A couple examples of good blog post

Here are a couple of examples to model if you're unsure about how to engage with the texts. There were a lot of great postings, but these two looked especially helpful for demonstrative purposes:

Stacy’s post excellently takes a moment in Ferlinghetti that initially looks difficult and contradictory opens up that difficulty into an interesting theory. See her comments about the lines “ speaker of the poem represents America or not.

http://developingsanfran.blogspot.com/2008/10/ferlighettiginsberg-response.html

Lisa’s post provides a good example of describing a real world experience of San Francisco in detail, relating this experience to a poem, and describing complexities in her own feelings in relation to both.

http://lisamichellem.blogspot.com/

WEEK 2: RESPONSES TO YOUR CLASSMATES' COMMENTS ON ANGEL-HEADED HIPSTERS

Please respond here to your classmates comments.

These responses are due by Wednesday at 8am.

WEEK 2's ASSIGMENT: Angel Headed Hipsters

Assignment Week 2 (Due by Sunday at Midnight)

Are Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti and Williams Carlos Williams describing the same people when they speak of

1) “angel headed hipsters,” (Ginsberg Howl 9)
2) “one with burlap feet” (Ferlinghetti 73 “I saw one of them”)
and
3) he who “shared among the teeth and excrement of this life"” (Williams Carlos William Introduction to Howl 7).

Why or why not?

To answer the question you may have to consider whether: Social conditions are different when each of the men are writing or whether the differences are due to personal/class/generational/stylistic/geographical or other differences that might cause differences in perspective amongst these three men. Or maybe you'll take the position that there are more similarities than there are differences.

OR

Take a look around the streets of Santa Cruz. Where are the best minds of your generation today? Write a description of some of these minds using a parallel syntax similar to the one found in Howl.

Week 1: Community Responses

Hello everyone,

Please write the name of the person that you're responding to and a rough idea of the topic that you're responding to as the first line of your response post. Then use the body of the post to write out your comment.

Ex. Jill Flanders/The Flaneur

Jill helped me understand the flaneur in this line of her post: "xxxx." Her interpretation of xxx, make me think of xxx. I disareed with her about xxx, however.

This is meant to simulate the kind of conversation that we would have in discussion--so please try to think of your responses as pieces in larger conversations that will continue over the course of the quarter.

Healthy debates are always good, although keep the disagreements civil as you would in a face to face converation please.