Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Course Review
When we first began our first extended essay, the usage of the multiple authors and bloggers information and ideas really helped me beyond the making of my paper. I got a chance to learn about writing and reading than I ever thought possible. The Through the in depth analysis of how writing has evolved and been transformed into today’s form, I learned more about myself and how I changed the way I write and read. I began with rigorous hours of searching for research in a library, and ended 19 years later by skimming through websites for information. Once noticing this change, I got a chance to write my first extended essay on the matter. After this experience I ended up changing my ways in to the old me, which was much more true to the aspect of researching, reading, and writing about a topic. Once I decided that I was going to transfer back to the olden ways, I realized how this has affected me. I appreciate reading and writing more, and this allows me to think more in depth about a topic so that I collaborate a good idea to write about the certain topic that I am given to write about. This portion of the class probably had the biggest affect on me because I now know which way is better for me to read, write, think about the topic at hand. I intend to take these earnings with me through my adventure in college.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Linage of Mysterious Mountain Man
Kollin Nava
Extended Essay 2
Eric Leake
2/18/2012
The Linage of Mysterious Mountain Man
Throughout history stories have started and proceeded. As this sense of time elapsed, new versions of these stories began, interpretations arose, and understandings began to take the story’s place as the plot and meaning of a topic. This way of change has been around since the beginning of folk culture. A “tale” appears into society, and as it is widely spread, different waves of the story begin and become known by many is various ways. Through this olden process, we get our version of today’s storytelling from the press, media, peers, and blogs. So as we continue our lives, so will news and stories. They will evolve in a sense and adapt to people’s perspectives and ideas.
The first story that popped up on most of my local reads early yesterday morning, was one of a local Utah man roaming the backcountry of the state, eluding police and breaking into log cabins to gain supplies and food. Now, this story like many others has become a hybrid as it has slowly changed and been allowed to transfer through this realm of perspectives. The first stage it received was obviously the press, for the reason of the actual story beginning with the journalist words of Brain Skoloff and Paul Foy from Associated Press. However, this part of the story is just an extension from where the last reporters left off, since this story is conjoined within five years. However, this portion of the timeline will be different due to the influences that time has on a story due to the word of the people. In this case with the beginning word of the press, the outline of the story begins and people start to get a feel and an understanding of what the information means to them. In other words, the press is the starting point in which people begin to interpret the story from the point of the story’s publication. From here, the story can take different paths, but in the end, the story is always different and some how distorted from the “beginning” point of analysis.
The proceeding path that this particular story takes is that of the media’s hands. Depending on what media station covers the story affects the stage before it continues on to the following portion of interpretation. For instance, through out the media of The New York Times, CBS News, and Fox News, the story itself has not changed, due to copyright laws, but the commentary about this issue has changed inadvertently. With CBS and the Times, I found different comments towards how it was a cool lifestyle and how we should leave the poor man alone since he is not hurting anyone. However, in the conservative Fox News, I found babbling about how this man should be poisoned, killed, stopped before he goes on a killing rampage, so on and so forth. As one can see, the polar fields of stances in which people can take are determined by who is giving the information. Once a source is titled a certain form, for instance Fox News being conservative, then its’ followers are more than likely to show characteristics in their commentaries of the source. From this case in point, the ‘new’ story starts its new route of being evaluated and explained by peers to others. These commentators will get off their computers and smart phones, and will go out into society and give their version of the story to their family and friends.
From this point of view, is when I actually find the biggest change in a story to occur. Through the peer portion of the so-called “press-sphere,” I learned a new version of this story, because of bias interpretation; and from this I was allowed to progress through the ‘lifetime’ of a story. After the press airs the story, media interprets it, then the peers’ version of the story appears, which is diluted and formed into the story that I listened to from my friend Brenan Birch, who is from Utah. Words of curiosity, awareness and excitement were said. Between the scrambled words, I got out of his version, that this mountain man is a concern, but not dangerous. However, he should be kept aware of. This version of the mysterious backcountry man story gives me a personal ideological depth of what its like to live in Utah and have to experience the effects of this story. In a way, the story becomes an almost close and personal type of news. I am allowed to get close to the scene and personally understand how I could be affected. Across this change of position on the topic, I feel, is in charge of most of the info that is spread so differently within the population. By means of word of mouth, seem to be the best way to spread stories.
Which connects to the next path in which a story can mutate and form, by virtual and textual based blogs. Places like blogger.com and YouTube help people connect to the general public quickly by publishing their virtual or text-based information. Through YouTube, I found the blog videos of dogwood12, who explained exactly what the media had informed him of. However, he as well added a little portion to the tapings, dealing with how he felt and what he sensed should be the correct precautions in capturing this eluding wilderness man. He continued on through his comments with his followers on how he feels that this guy has been roaming around too long for society to feel safe. However, he is leaning towards authority returning from the search parties with a live man, instead of a dead one. From this kind of context, one develops a personal kind of story, instead of the mass media from that is factually filled and delivered with a mask on by the news castor(s). In the opposite realm of blogging, this news becomes absorbed by few and in a newfangled and clearer understanding. By applying news to a lower number of people and how they receive the news, allows for the story itself to develop into the individual’s own interpretation. A sense of gray meanings steps into the playing field of the common black and white arena of the press-sphere. Through this transformed quality of media, comes the continuation of the story within different, possibly recurring steps, as it ventures across the cyber, peer, and blog media.
From all of these influences, comes the “me-sphere” version of the news that I acquired. This stage, after analyzing various types of stories, is when I start to develop my own take on this particular article. Through this, I found an ending story that seemed to be a mix of what I found through out my “digging.” I agree, that even though this mysterious guy has not caused any physical harm yet, he needs to be found and dealt with before further precautions are wished that they had been used. Besides this tangent, I feel this guy’s life style is an interesting one that can only be fully understood by few. The life with a natural background, one of simplicity, yet demanding at the same time. One that truly helps me set up what the actual information means to me, through my interpretations. From these different yet similar stories, I started to understand that the Utah mountain man was probably not too dangerous, and that maybe he was just fighting to stay alive like humans do. However there is a negative thought towards this because he should not be breaking into people’s log cabins, especially to the point of scaring people off. It’s not a description of one’s life that is well looked upon. Therefore after summing up all my diffused beliefs, I came to the idea of what this story means to me personally. The story is not too important to me, but I am concerned for people’s safety with this adventurous man out in the backcountry. As long as nothing harmful happens, and precautions are kept up, then this man shouldn’t be too destructive.
Work Cited
"Elusive Mountain Man Occupies, Robs Utah Cabins - CBS News." Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment & World News - CBS News. Web. 18 Feb. 2012..
"Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18 Feb. 2012..
"Mystery Mountain Man To Utah Cabin Owner: Get Off My Mountain | Fox News." Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Skoloff, Brian, and Paul Foy. "Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - Yahoo! News." Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines. Associated Press. Web. 18 Feb. 2012..
"The Press Becomes the Press-sphere « BuzzMachine." BuzzMachine. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
"Utah Mountain Man Eluding Authories « Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog." Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Extended Essay 2
Eric Leake
2/18/2012
The Linage of Mysterious Mountain Man
Throughout history stories have started and proceeded. As this sense of time elapsed, new versions of these stories began, interpretations arose, and understandings began to take the story’s place as the plot and meaning of a topic. This way of change has been around since the beginning of folk culture. A “tale” appears into society, and as it is widely spread, different waves of the story begin and become known by many is various ways. Through this olden process, we get our version of today’s storytelling from the press, media, peers, and blogs. So as we continue our lives, so will news and stories. They will evolve in a sense and adapt to people’s perspectives and ideas.
The first story that popped up on most of my local reads early yesterday morning, was one of a local Utah man roaming the backcountry of the state, eluding police and breaking into log cabins to gain supplies and food. Now, this story like many others has become a hybrid as it has slowly changed and been allowed to transfer through this realm of perspectives. The first stage it received was obviously the press, for the reason of the actual story beginning with the journalist words of Brain Skoloff and Paul Foy from Associated Press. However, this part of the story is just an extension from where the last reporters left off, since this story is conjoined within five years. However, this portion of the timeline will be different due to the influences that time has on a story due to the word of the people. In this case with the beginning word of the press, the outline of the story begins and people start to get a feel and an understanding of what the information means to them. In other words, the press is the starting point in which people begin to interpret the story from the point of the story’s publication. From here, the story can take different paths, but in the end, the story is always different and some how distorted from the “beginning” point of analysis.
The proceeding path that this particular story takes is that of the media’s hands. Depending on what media station covers the story affects the stage before it continues on to the following portion of interpretation. For instance, through out the media of The New York Times, CBS News, and Fox News, the story itself has not changed, due to copyright laws, but the commentary about this issue has changed inadvertently. With CBS and the Times, I found different comments towards how it was a cool lifestyle and how we should leave the poor man alone since he is not hurting anyone. However, in the conservative Fox News, I found babbling about how this man should be poisoned, killed, stopped before he goes on a killing rampage, so on and so forth. As one can see, the polar fields of stances in which people can take are determined by who is giving the information. Once a source is titled a certain form, for instance Fox News being conservative, then its’ followers are more than likely to show characteristics in their commentaries of the source. From this case in point, the ‘new’ story starts its new route of being evaluated and explained by peers to others. These commentators will get off their computers and smart phones, and will go out into society and give their version of the story to their family and friends.
From this point of view, is when I actually find the biggest change in a story to occur. Through the peer portion of the so-called “press-sphere,” I learned a new version of this story, because of bias interpretation; and from this I was allowed to progress through the ‘lifetime’ of a story. After the press airs the story, media interprets it, then the peers’ version of the story appears, which is diluted and formed into the story that I listened to from my friend Brenan Birch, who is from Utah. Words of curiosity, awareness and excitement were said. Between the scrambled words, I got out of his version, that this mountain man is a concern, but not dangerous. However, he should be kept aware of. This version of the mysterious backcountry man story gives me a personal ideological depth of what its like to live in Utah and have to experience the effects of this story. In a way, the story becomes an almost close and personal type of news. I am allowed to get close to the scene and personally understand how I could be affected. Across this change of position on the topic, I feel, is in charge of most of the info that is spread so differently within the population. By means of word of mouth, seem to be the best way to spread stories.
Which connects to the next path in which a story can mutate and form, by virtual and textual based blogs. Places like blogger.com and YouTube help people connect to the general public quickly by publishing their virtual or text-based information. Through YouTube, I found the blog videos of dogwood12, who explained exactly what the media had informed him of. However, he as well added a little portion to the tapings, dealing with how he felt and what he sensed should be the correct precautions in capturing this eluding wilderness man. He continued on through his comments with his followers on how he feels that this guy has been roaming around too long for society to feel safe. However, he is leaning towards authority returning from the search parties with a live man, instead of a dead one. From this kind of context, one develops a personal kind of story, instead of the mass media from that is factually filled and delivered with a mask on by the news castor(s). In the opposite realm of blogging, this news becomes absorbed by few and in a newfangled and clearer understanding. By applying news to a lower number of people and how they receive the news, allows for the story itself to develop into the individual’s own interpretation. A sense of gray meanings steps into the playing field of the common black and white arena of the press-sphere. Through this transformed quality of media, comes the continuation of the story within different, possibly recurring steps, as it ventures across the cyber, peer, and blog media.
From all of these influences, comes the “me-sphere” version of the news that I acquired. This stage, after analyzing various types of stories, is when I start to develop my own take on this particular article. Through this, I found an ending story that seemed to be a mix of what I found through out my “digging.” I agree, that even though this mysterious guy has not caused any physical harm yet, he needs to be found and dealt with before further precautions are wished that they had been used. Besides this tangent, I feel this guy’s life style is an interesting one that can only be fully understood by few. The life with a natural background, one of simplicity, yet demanding at the same time. One that truly helps me set up what the actual information means to me, through my interpretations. From these different yet similar stories, I started to understand that the Utah mountain man was probably not too dangerous, and that maybe he was just fighting to stay alive like humans do. However there is a negative thought towards this because he should not be breaking into people’s log cabins, especially to the point of scaring people off. It’s not a description of one’s life that is well looked upon. Therefore after summing up all my diffused beliefs, I came to the idea of what this story means to me personally. The story is not too important to me, but I am concerned for people’s safety with this adventurous man out in the backcountry. As long as nothing harmful happens, and precautions are kept up, then this man shouldn’t be too destructive.
Work Cited
"Elusive Mountain Man Occupies, Robs Utah Cabins - CBS News." Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment & World News - CBS News. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
"Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
"Mystery Mountain Man To Utah Cabin Owner: Get Off My Mountain | Fox News." Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Skoloff, Brian, and Paul Foy. "Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - Yahoo! News." Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines. Associated Press. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
"The Press Becomes the Press-sphere « BuzzMachine." BuzzMachine. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
"Utah Mountain Man Eluding Authories « Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog." Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Final Essay
Kollin Nava
Extended Essay 2
Eric Leake
2/22/2012
Throughout history stories have started and proceeded as time has passed. As this sense of space elapsed, new versions of these stories began, interpretations arose, and understandings began to take the story’s place as the plot and meaning of a topic. This way of change has been around since the beginning of folk culture. A “tale” appears into society, and as it is widely spread, different waves of the story begin and become known by many is various ways. Through this olden process, we get our version of today’s storytelling though the press, media, peers, and blogs. So as we continue through our lives, so will news and stories. They will evolve in a sense and adapt to people’s perspectives and ideas.
The first story that popped up on most of my local reads early yesterday morning, was one of a local Utah man roaming the backcountry of the state, eluding police and breaking into log cabins to gain supplies and food. Now, this story like many others has become a hybrid as it has slowly changed and been allowed to transfer through this realm of perspectives. The first stage it received was obviously the press, for the reason of the actual story beginning through the words of Brain Skoloff and Paul Foy. However, this part of the story is just an extension from where the last reporters left off, since this story is conjoined within five years of occurrences. However, this portion of the timeline will be different due to the influences that time has on a story due to the word of the people. In this case with the beginning word of the press, the outline of the story begins and people start to get a feel and an understanding of what the information means to them. In other words, the press is the starting point in which people begin to interpret the story from the point of the story’s publication. From here, the story can take different paths, but in the end, the story is always different and some how distorted from the “beginning” point of analysis.
The proceeding path that this particular story takes is that of the media’s hands. Depending on what media station covers the story affects the stage before it continues on to the following portion of interpretation. For instance, through out the media of The New York Times, CBS News, and Fox News, the story itself has not changed, due to copyright laws, but the commentary about this issue has changed inadvertently. Through CBS and the Times, I found different comments towards how it was a cool lifestyle and how we should leave the poor man alone since he is not hurting anyone. However, in the conservative Fox News, I found babbling about how this man should be poisoned, killed, stopped before he goes on a killing rampage, so on and so forth. As one can see, the polar fields of stances in which people can take, are determined by who is giving the information. Once a source is titled a certain form of information, for instance Fox News being conservative, then its followers are more than likely to show characteristics in their commentaries of the source, in order to further the story. From this case in point, he ‘new’ story starts its new route of being evaluated and explained by peers to others. These commentators will get off their computers and smart phones, and will go out into society and give their version of the story to their family and friends.
From this point of view, is when I actually find the biggest change in a story to occur. Through the peer portion of the so-called “press-sphere,” I learned a new version of this story, because of bias interpretation; and from this I was aloud to progress through the ‘lifetime’ of a story. After the press airs the story, and media interprets it in a new way, comes the peers’ version of the story, which is diluted and formed into the story that I listened to from my friend Brenan Birch, who is from Utah. Words of curiosity, but not feared; yet aware and excited to know more, became to be said in a conversation about my paper. Between the though scrambled words, I got out of his version, that this mountain man is a concern, but not dangerous. However, he should be kept aware of. This version of the mysterious backcountry man story gives me a personal ideological depth of what its like to live in Utah and have to experience the effects of this story. In a way, the story becomes an almost close and personal type of news. I am allowed to get close to the scene and personally understand how I am being affected. Through this change of position on the topic, I feel, is in charge of most of the info that is spread so differently though out the population. By means of word of mouth, seem to be the best way to spread stories.
Which connects to the next path in which a story can mutate and form, by virtual and textual based blogs. Places like blogger.com and YouTube help people connect to the general public quickly by publishing their virtual or text-based information. Through YouTube, I found the blog videos of dogwood12, who explained exactly what the media had informed him of. However, he as well added a little portion to the tapings, dealing with how he felt and what he sensed should be the correct precautions in capturing this eluding wilderness man. He continued on through his comments with his followers on how he feels that this guy has been roaming around too long for society to feel safe. However, he is leaning towards authority returning from the search parties with an alive man, instead of with a dead one. From this kind of context, one develops a personal kind of story, instead of the mass media from that is factually filled and delivered with a mask on by the news castor. In the opposite realm of blogging, this new becomes absorbed by few and in a new and clearer understanding. By applying news to a lower number of people and how they receive the news, allows for the story itself to develop into the individual’s own interpretation. A sense of gray meanings steps into the playing field of the common black and white arena of the press-sphere. Through this transformed quality of literacy, comes the continuation of the story through different, possibly recurring steps, as it ventures through the cyber, peer, and blog media.
From all of these influences, comes the “me-sphere” version of the news that I acquired. This stage, after analyzing various types of stories, is when I start to develop my own take on this particular article. Through this, I found an ending story that seemed to be a mix of what I found through out my “digging.” I agree, that even though this mysterious guy has not caused any physical harm yet, he needs to be found and dealt with before further precautions are wished that they had been used. Besides this tangent, I feel this guy’s life style is an interesting one that can only be fully understood by few. The life with a natural background, one of simplicity, yet demanding at the same time. One that truly helps me set up what the actual information means to me, through my interpretation. From these different yet similar stories, I started to understand that the Utah mountain man was probably not too dangerous, and that maybe he was just fighting to stay alive like humans do. However there is a negative thought towards this because he should not be breaking into people’s log cabins, especially to the point of scaring people off. It’s not a description of one’s life that is well looked upon. Therefore after summing up all my diffused beliefs, I came to the idea of what this story means to me personally. The story is not too important to me, but I am concerned for people’s safety with this adventurous man out in the backcountry. As long as nothing harmful happens, and precautions are kept up, then this man shouldn’t be too destructive.
Work Cited
"Elusive Mountain Man Occupies, Robs Utah Cabins - CBS News." Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment & World News - CBS News. Web. 18 Feb. 2012..
"Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18 Feb. 2012..
"Mystery Mountain Man To Utah Cabin Owner: Get Off My Mountain | Fox News." Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Skoloff, Brian, and Paul Foy. "Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - Yahoo! News." Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines. Associated Press. Web. 18 Feb. 2012..
"The Press Becomes the Press-sphere « BuzzMachine." BuzzMachine. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
"Utah Mountain Man Eluding Authories « Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog." Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Extended Essay 2
Eric Leake
2/22/2012
Throughout history stories have started and proceeded as time has passed. As this sense of space elapsed, new versions of these stories began, interpretations arose, and understandings began to take the story’s place as the plot and meaning of a topic. This way of change has been around since the beginning of folk culture. A “tale” appears into society, and as it is widely spread, different waves of the story begin and become known by many is various ways. Through this olden process, we get our version of today’s storytelling though the press, media, peers, and blogs. So as we continue through our lives, so will news and stories. They will evolve in a sense and adapt to people’s perspectives and ideas.
The first story that popped up on most of my local reads early yesterday morning, was one of a local Utah man roaming the backcountry of the state, eluding police and breaking into log cabins to gain supplies and food. Now, this story like many others has become a hybrid as it has slowly changed and been allowed to transfer through this realm of perspectives. The first stage it received was obviously the press, for the reason of the actual story beginning through the words of Brain Skoloff and Paul Foy. However, this part of the story is just an extension from where the last reporters left off, since this story is conjoined within five years of occurrences. However, this portion of the timeline will be different due to the influences that time has on a story due to the word of the people. In this case with the beginning word of the press, the outline of the story begins and people start to get a feel and an understanding of what the information means to them. In other words, the press is the starting point in which people begin to interpret the story from the point of the story’s publication. From here, the story can take different paths, but in the end, the story is always different and some how distorted from the “beginning” point of analysis.
The proceeding path that this particular story takes is that of the media’s hands. Depending on what media station covers the story affects the stage before it continues on to the following portion of interpretation. For instance, through out the media of The New York Times, CBS News, and Fox News, the story itself has not changed, due to copyright laws, but the commentary about this issue has changed inadvertently. Through CBS and the Times, I found different comments towards how it was a cool lifestyle and how we should leave the poor man alone since he is not hurting anyone. However, in the conservative Fox News, I found babbling about how this man should be poisoned, killed, stopped before he goes on a killing rampage, so on and so forth. As one can see, the polar fields of stances in which people can take, are determined by who is giving the information. Once a source is titled a certain form of information, for instance Fox News being conservative, then its followers are more than likely to show characteristics in their commentaries of the source, in order to further the story. From this case in point, he ‘new’ story starts its new route of being evaluated and explained by peers to others. These commentators will get off their computers and smart phones, and will go out into society and give their version of the story to their family and friends.
From this point of view, is when I actually find the biggest change in a story to occur. Through the peer portion of the so-called “press-sphere,” I learned a new version of this story, because of bias interpretation; and from this I was aloud to progress through the ‘lifetime’ of a story. After the press airs the story, and media interprets it in a new way, comes the peers’ version of the story, which is diluted and formed into the story that I listened to from my friend Brenan Birch, who is from Utah. Words of curiosity, but not feared; yet aware and excited to know more, became to be said in a conversation about my paper. Between the though scrambled words, I got out of his version, that this mountain man is a concern, but not dangerous. However, he should be kept aware of. This version of the mysterious backcountry man story gives me a personal ideological depth of what its like to live in Utah and have to experience the effects of this story. In a way, the story becomes an almost close and personal type of news. I am allowed to get close to the scene and personally understand how I am being affected. Through this change of position on the topic, I feel, is in charge of most of the info that is spread so differently though out the population. By means of word of mouth, seem to be the best way to spread stories.
Which connects to the next path in which a story can mutate and form, by virtual and textual based blogs. Places like blogger.com and YouTube help people connect to the general public quickly by publishing their virtual or text-based information. Through YouTube, I found the blog videos of dogwood12, who explained exactly what the media had informed him of. However, he as well added a little portion to the tapings, dealing with how he felt and what he sensed should be the correct precautions in capturing this eluding wilderness man. He continued on through his comments with his followers on how he feels that this guy has been roaming around too long for society to feel safe. However, he is leaning towards authority returning from the search parties with an alive man, instead of with a dead one. From this kind of context, one develops a personal kind of story, instead of the mass media from that is factually filled and delivered with a mask on by the news castor. In the opposite realm of blogging, this new becomes absorbed by few and in a new and clearer understanding. By applying news to a lower number of people and how they receive the news, allows for the story itself to develop into the individual’s own interpretation. A sense of gray meanings steps into the playing field of the common black and white arena of the press-sphere. Through this transformed quality of literacy, comes the continuation of the story through different, possibly recurring steps, as it ventures through the cyber, peer, and blog media.
From all of these influences, comes the “me-sphere” version of the news that I acquired. This stage, after analyzing various types of stories, is when I start to develop my own take on this particular article. Through this, I found an ending story that seemed to be a mix of what I found through out my “digging.” I agree, that even though this mysterious guy has not caused any physical harm yet, he needs to be found and dealt with before further precautions are wished that they had been used. Besides this tangent, I feel this guy’s life style is an interesting one that can only be fully understood by few. The life with a natural background, one of simplicity, yet demanding at the same time. One that truly helps me set up what the actual information means to me, through my interpretation. From these different yet similar stories, I started to understand that the Utah mountain man was probably not too dangerous, and that maybe he was just fighting to stay alive like humans do. However there is a negative thought towards this because he should not be breaking into people’s log cabins, especially to the point of scaring people off. It’s not a description of one’s life that is well looked upon. Therefore after summing up all my diffused beliefs, I came to the idea of what this story means to me personally. The story is not too important to me, but I am concerned for people’s safety with this adventurous man out in the backcountry. As long as nothing harmful happens, and precautions are kept up, then this man shouldn’t be too destructive.
Work Cited
"Elusive Mountain Man Occupies, Robs Utah Cabins - CBS News." Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment & World News - CBS News. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
"Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
"Mystery Mountain Man To Utah Cabin Owner: Get Off My Mountain | Fox News." Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Skoloff, Brian, and Paul Foy. "Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins - Yahoo! News." Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines. Associated Press. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
"The Press Becomes the Press-sphere « BuzzMachine." BuzzMachine. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
"Utah Mountain Man Eluding Authories « Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog." Kentucky Mountain Girl's Blog. Web. 18 Feb. 2012.
Sports to Sports
The way, in which Jarvis describes, “taking an approach” in the first few sentences, is working in the mode of another writer. Through this process, there is a weak version in which a writer simply assumes the role of disciple, adopting the moves and interests of another thinker. Jarvis explained it as your typical school writing, in which you are asked to apply the ideas of a writer to your assignment. For instance, I would take the ideas that Matilde Zimmermann implements in her book Sandinista, and apply it to my paper about civil war corruption in Guatemala. Instead of drawing on new ideas and thoughts, the point of taking an approach is to prove that the originator of the reading is correct. However there is a catch to taking an approach. When you decide to take an approach on something, both yours and the author’s thinking needs to change, for the reason of new knowledge being acquired. Since the author cannot be entirely right about the entire topic, it is up to the individual disciple to research newer information and incorporate these finding into the original approach. Instead of rewriting an author’s factual-based article, the concept behind this literary concept is to rewrite a text by using the author’s mode/ style of writing. Characteristics of writing like what concerns does the writer usually take on, how the author answers these concerns, and what kind of person I feel this author is, behind his or her own writing.
Through this window of taking an approach, the media instantaneously appears in my mind. Many authors of the press use characteristics of others. For my blog in particular that I follow, called Deadspin, the few authors and contributors try to use the mindsets of news castors. The info is thrown out there as if I was sitting in front of the television. As well, they commentate as if it is Sports Center, meaning that they have conversations with the public as if they will answer, like people do usually with ESPN. These characteristics obviously all stem from either training or self-learning through other sources of media. Since this capability is more than likely happening, these bloggers are actually taking an approach of the reporters on sports news.
Through this window of taking an approach, the media instantaneously appears in my mind. Many authors of the press use characteristics of others. For my blog in particular that I follow, called Deadspin, the few authors and contributors try to use the mindsets of news castors. The info is thrown out there as if I was sitting in front of the television. As well, they commentate as if it is Sports Center, meaning that they have conversations with the public as if they will answer, like people do usually with ESPN. These characteristics obviously all stem from either training or self-learning through other sources of media. Since this capability is more than likely happening, these bloggers are actually taking an approach of the reporters on sports news.
Forward or Counter?
After reading Jeff Jarvis’s “The Press Becomes the Press-Sphere,” the connotation is rather harsh. I feel Jarvis views the press as a stepping-stone towards what a final story becomes. Through this distortion itself, comes the actual story and information. The reason is because through commentary, blog posts, and reporting, come different aspects of the story, that as a whole collaborate to make one big story that is to be shared to the public. Because in my way of receiving stories and news, the way in which a story gets to me changes drastically as the source changes. For instance, if I get my news from the Television, then more than likely my story will be in the exact spot in which Jarvis placed it, or if I receive my news from peers, then my story line may be a bit more extended and have more components that allow it to become a story. There are so many ways in which news becomes someone’s own personal story by the end of the day. It takes a community to create a story, and it takes an individual to complete it.
I tried to edit the sentences that were countering and change them into ones that were more forwarding. Instead of being negative and going against his way of thinking, I simply tried to take his writing and ideas, and go off in a new direction. I interpreted his sense of how writing in the media is portrayed through his mind, and I took my interpretation of the article, and came up with my own understanding of Jarvis’s words.
I tried to edit the sentences that were countering and change them into ones that were more forwarding. Instead of being negative and going against his way of thinking, I simply tried to take his writing and ideas, and go off in a new direction. I interpreted his sense of how writing in the media is portrayed through his mind, and I took my interpretation of the article, and came up with my own understanding of Jarvis’s words.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
It's Still Writing
In the next portion of Joseph Harris’s book, the chapter of countering becomes the next point of focus. Through this chapter, I very simply definition for the literary term of countering, is when someone simply reads a writing, and decides to compose another paper about the same topic. However this time, the new author may take the originator’s ideas and write about it in a new sense. Harris uses the phrases of ‘On the other hand’ and ‘Yes, but’ to portray the meaning of countering a position of a reading. Through this way of critiquing, the means of highlighting a paper’s weaknesses or showing the limit of the topic at hand are ways in which a person may counter someone’s words. It is not an argument, but it is a contradiction. This is exactly what Harris aims at trying to do when he explains the concept of countering. Once again, this type of idea is always seen through out today’s press and media coverage. Through a specific article called “The Utah Mountain Man Scares Owners,” a writer took a different outlook on the story at hand. Instead of commenting about how this mysterious mountain man is breaking into log homes and rummaging for supplies, he takes the position of talking about how cool of a life this guy is living, and how we shouldn’t bother him and simply just be more careful with our homes. This new direction of writing is an example of countering. However, through countering, one loses the aspect of the original story. Instead of facts being thrown around, opinions now take their place and make the basis of the actual story. The idea of the story is lost, and a new one is born. But after all, isn’t that writing of today anyways?
A New Way with an Old Meaning
After reading Joseph Harris’s second chapter in his book Rewriting, I learned about his characteristic of what he feels writers generally do inadvertently while reporting about a topic to the public. Through out the reading, I gathered his sense of a definition of being forward in one’s own writing. To be forwarding, means when an author takes words, images, or ideas from a source and is then using them in a new context or meaning. It is like a means of summarizing with out plagiarizing. You use some of the originator’s ideas and key concepts, but one may extend onto further ideas and maybe take a new direction of the story’s plot. All of these characteristics deal with the technique of being forward. One great example of being forward was seen in my daily blog readings of the blog spot: Deadspin. Through this sports based blog, a new story of Jeremy Lin popped up as the main story. As I read this story, I started to notice how forward the author of this blog was being. The evidence behind it, is that as the actual saying of, “Chink in the Armor” was posted as live feed, commentary and news reporting began immediately about the immense disgrace. Once this feeding frenzy began, the sense of being forward began, as at least in my understanding it did. However now, since the aspect of forwarding means to change the meaning or idea behind primary sourcing ideals, the concept of the reporter’s thoughts on the Lin headline will be different form the actual live feed. From this technique, the idea of simply reporting about Lin has switched to an apology to Lin personally and an apology as well to the entire Asian-American community. The idea of a miss slip that turned into an apology is how I feel being forward in writing works in today’s society.
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