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.
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