Jonah Lehrer’s main argument was very similar to Ma’s in that it argues that science really needs the arts to be able to operate especially in the future. He argues that disciplines like physics and psychology are struggling to find answers to important questions like where does consciousness come from and what is dark matter …
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Blog 7
The way I have been achieving my annotation goals is by asking more critical questions about the text. The surrounding context of this essay is that it was written by a famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2014 for the World Post. Yo-Yo Ma also started preforming at only five years old and has numerous accolades …
Blog 6
First of all I definitely wouldn’t wouldn’t say my first draft experience was as dreary and panicky as hers (although it was at least a little bit panicky and dreary.) It was also different in that I at least made an attempt to keep it organized and coherent although it of course needs more polish …
Blog 5
I personally felt right at home prioritizing global edits over local edits in part because I’m not to picky about the grammar and sentence structure I read. Luckily my partners had very few local errors to distract me anyway so it wasn’t that hard to focus. I actually really liked prioritizing global edits especially since …
Blog 4
Metaphors are powerful tools of teaching and understanding that have helped people gain and spread knowledge since the dawn of recorded history, they help us understand by making connections between things but there is a significant danger when people fail to understand the exact nature of these connections. Many reputable linguists have given their two …
Blog 3
In “The Trouble with Medicine’s Metaphor’s” by Dhruv Khullar the author explains how the word choice in the metaphors used to describe things to patients by medical professionals has a large role in the patients outlook on their condition and treatment. He goes on to elaborate how specifically the military diction present in a lot …
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I think by annotating with different colors it became much easier to for me to separate out the different parts of the paper out mentally. For example I would color all of the example metaphors (not just all of the metaphors since there was a lot of them hidden in there) the same color to …
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One thing that I noticed in the text on page two was a paragraph describing how a team of researcher apparently fixed the design of a paintbrush by designing metaphors and the metaphor that ended up saving the day was “a paintbrush is a kind of pump” which stood out as ridiculous to me as …
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I like ePortfolio because I think that it is going to organize my assignments in a visually appealing way. Unfortunately I’ve never been that great with computers so the navigation and technology is a bit of a learning curve for me but I really think that this is at the very least a way for …
