Climaxxxxx

The climax of Do Androids Dream really took me by surprise. Isidore realizes that everything begins to die and decay. "He walked unsteadily into the living room to be by himself; he stood by the tattered couch and gazed at the yellow, stained wall with all the spots which dead bugs, that had once crawled, had left, and again he though of the corpse of the spider with its four remaining legs. It long ago began to decay and it won't stop. (211)" Isidore sees this vision of everything dieing and getting worse and it sets up the ending of this book. I thought the humans would be able to put the world back together but my thoughts were obviously wrong.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A specific scene that I found most interesting was in chapter fifteen when Rick brings home the goat to Iran. She is excited and not depressed anymore because now they have a real animal and not an electric sheep. Rick's neighbor compliments them and spirits are high. A part that confused me though was when Iran says she got hit by a rock. I wasn't sure what exactly happened there. But, overall I thought chapter fifteen was really amusing because its full of events. They get a real animal, Rick tells Iran he empathizes for androids, and he doesn't want to be a bounty hunter anymore.

Chapter 11 A&B

The most interesting and beneficial part of chapter eleven was understanding why expert writers use multiple drafts. When you write a paper you need to get all of your ideas out before you submit your final copy. Writing a paper multiple times or rewriting a paragraph helps your brain think of new ways and methods to approach the topic. The more you think about it the better understanding you have of it. In the beginning of a paper you think of ideas and instantly jot them down or type them out. When you look at the same ideas later you can revise them and make them clearer for you and your audience. Now that we are writing our cloning summaries this concept has helped me greatly and increased the quality of my paper.

Blade Runner in general is a weird book and many things were interesting and new to me. Something that stuck out to me a lot was that Rick and Iran had an electric sheep and everyone else had real, live animals. Rick used to have a real sheep but one day it died. I find it interesting that the cool thing is to have animals. Its like a weird fad.

a&b

The most interesting aspects of chapters one in Allyn & Bacon were when to use open and closed forms of writing and when writing in those forms what your paper should entail. Sometimes its confusing to write a paper in a form you are not used to but this chapter really does a good job of explaining it. Allyn & Bacon informs you of good strategies and qualities in coming up with a subject matter question. It explains that the three most important qualities the question should entail are being problematic for the audience, significant, and interesting for the writer. I also learned plenty about rhetorical aim and the focus of writing. No one wants to read a boring paper with no purpose and this section can really help make your paper jump out at the reader. Something else that really caught my attention was the skills for "wallowing in complexity". I had never learned or heard of that term before so I figured these skills would be a great help to me.  They are six short skills to help you think rhetorically about your subject matter. The last and most interesting section I read was thinking rhetorically about how messages persuade and the angle of vision. Analyzing the angle of vision and reading the strategies for constructing and angle of vision really intrigued me and I'm interested to learn more.

First Post

 I'm Lizz Selvaggio. I'm writing this blog for English 151 which is a class with a theme of apocalypse. If your not too sure what that is, its about different ways the world could end. I enjoy writing I just need a topic first. Reading is tight also but I need a book that keeps my interest right from the beginning or I won't keep reading. I'm exposed to all technology, I'm no computer nerd but I know  a thing or two.