I was thinking something along the lines of post modernism. I'm 95% sure this is what i'm going to do as soon as i finish narrowing down exactly what i want to argue.

Serious replies appreciated.
Nonserious replies welcome also.



I probably won't listen to any of your advice anywayz.

1/29/2008 12:48:11 AM

1/29/2008 12:50:54 AM

Holy shit.



i think i'm going to write it on TWW.

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 12:53 AM. Reason : i'd just have to argue that DiamondAce is a fag or something.]

1/29/2008 12:53:05 AM

1/29/2008 12:53:36 AM

Is Walls1441 not enjoying life anymore?

1/29/2008 1:19:36 AM

uhh, you're going to have to narrow it down a bit more than "postmodernism"

1/29/2008 1:43:34 AM

down to the wire bitches.


what the fuck kind of research can i do on youtube.

2/3/2008 1:46:28 PM

on a serious note, someone just give me something random or not so random that i could actually research, or at least propose research on.

2/3/2008 3:46:48 PM

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"ENG101"

lol, college n00b

2/3/2008 3:50:11 PM

yeah yeah yeah, i know.



i just have trouble picking topics for projects that are completely open ended.

2/3/2008 3:56:11 PM

i just did alternate fuels

EDIT:

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"Major: Eng"

nevermind

[Edited on February 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM. Reason : nvm]

2/3/2008 3:56:21 PM

as in engineering.

2/3/2008 3:57:43 PM

oh, nevermind the nevermind then. i thought it was english

2/3/2008 3:58:13 PM

EL CHUPACABRA

2/3/2008 3:59:13 PM

alternate fuels is easy. all you do is talk about the positives and negatives of all the different options and say that not a single one will do and we'll have to use many diverse sources.

[Edited on February 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM. Reason : not sure what i got on the paper, but i got an A- in the course]

2/3/2008 3:59:25 PM

Its not post modern, but you can take the various instruments used in the application of the death penalty in the US and their arguments, which are basically made for you...you just have to pick a side

2/3/2008 4:17:16 PM

thats not really the point of the project though. Its basically preparation for Upper level courses or graduate level thinking, on a really easy level. Doing some sort of research that hasn't been done (overdone?). I'm not supposed to spit out facts, its just an argumentative research paper.

2/3/2008 4:19:57 PM

ENG 101. Serious Business.

2/3/2008 4:26:12 PM

exactly....

[Edited on February 3, 2008 at 4:48 PM. Reason : lol i spelled it wrong]

2/3/2008 4:47:58 PM

how will you apply postmodernism to engineering?

I'm interested

2/3/2008 4:49:59 PM

this is like the last english paper i'll ever have to write.


i'll just take some other easy humanities.

2/3/2008 4:50:58 PM

Postmodernism is much too expansive a topic to write a paper on

I attempted to when I was a freshman and I went a little crazy... I don't think you want to do this to yourself - unless you're kind of already a philosophy and critical theory nerd

if you narrow the scope of your studies you can do a postmodern reading of something... that way you can get exposed to some of the theory and place it in a context

2/3/2008 4:53:02 PM

Why you support the Gay Center?

2/3/2008 4:57:50 PM

The term 'postmodern' has been applied to much of contemporary writing, particularly with reference to the use of experimental forms. The fundamental philosophical assumptions of modernism, its tendency toward historical discontinuity, alienation, asocial individualism, solipsism and existentialism continue to permeate contemporary writing. But the tendencies of the modernists to construct intricate forms, to interweave symbols elaborately, to create works of art that, however much they oppose some established present order, nevertheless create within themselves an ordered universe, have given way since the 1960's to a denial in any order, to the presentation of highly fragmented universes in the world of art, and to critical theories that are forms of phenomenology. Myths have been deconstructed, traditional forms have given way to denial of those forms, and the traditional protagonist has become not the her, but the antihero. The postmodern period in literature dates from 1965 forward.

2/3/2008 4:58:08 PM

I know what postmodernism is, all i meant by that was that was where i was going to start searching for a possible topic, but i never found something that i could 'research'.

2/3/2008 5:02:11 PM

She told us to pick things we're interested in:

Black holes, metal, xbox 360 games.


she's not going to get much out of that.

2/3/2008 5:05:26 PM

I originally thought this said Casiotone, but now I don't give a shit.

2/3/2008 5:05:30 PM

pick a novel or a few short stories you like?

Kafka is good

2/3/2008 5:07:44 PM

might help to tell what the fuck a Capstone thingy is

2/3/2008 5:08:44 PM

Walls, you could get alot writting about Gay Rights.

2/3/2008 5:09:11 PM

what's this guys hard-on for homosexual activism?

2/3/2008 5:09:50 PM

i like the idea of the kafkesque moment, but i didn't like the trial. Metamorphosis was alright.


i like Cormac Mccarthy.
Blood Meridian rocked. Indians, 14 year olds, and guns.

2/3/2008 5:10:16 PM

then write on him

2/3/2008 5:11:26 PM

Quote :

"writting"

2/3/2008 5:11:33 PM

maybe he was using Middle English?

2/3/2008 5:12:59 PM

nawh, i just remember Walls(i think) was discussing how you can fake kiss a guy in another thread...so just put 2 and 2 together...anyways, glad I am out of college and dont have to do that shit.

2/3/2008 5:15:39 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkoEbyp19J8

2/3/2008 5:17:09 PM

yeah that wasn't me.
thanks though.

2/3/2008 5:19:33 PM

why are you trying to read that word?

are you a fag?

2/3/2008 7:14:29 PM

wat?

2/3/2008 7:16:14 PM

postmodern practices of power in pre-kindergarten and day care societies

make sure to draw heavily from Foucault

[Edited on February 3, 2008 at 7:18 PM. Reason : -]

2/3/2008 7:18:21 PM

fuck that, i'm just going to do something easy.

i wouldn't want to actually have to spend time on this.

2/3/2008 7:20:00 PM

lazy fucker

2/3/2008 7:21:45 PM

Quote :

"this is like the last english paper i'll ever have to write"

you'll have to take a retarded literature class and write papers for it.

2/3/2008 8:01:42 PM

Quote :

"Postmodernism is much too expansive a topic to write a paper on"

Exactly.

Also,

Quote :

"i like the idea of the kafkesque moment, but i didn't like the trial. Metamorphosis was alright. i like Cormac Mccarthy. Blood Meridian rocked. Indians, 14 year olds, and guns."

Neither of those are postmodern.

Blood Meridian is more of a Bildungsroman than anything else, really.

[Edited on February 3, 2008 at 8:06 PM. Reason : .]

2/3/2008 8:04:15 PM

i know that.

i gave up on the post modern thing like two weeks ago. way too much work.

2/3/2008 8:08:06 PM

January 29th was two weeks ago?

2/3/2008 8:09:59 PM

Bildungsroman, aww shit

coming of age stories

I'm taking my lit. competency exam tomorrow

Siddhartha would be my example

2/3/2008 8:23:19 PM

Quote :

"like two weeks ago"

we're talking TWW time baby.

2/3/2008 8:24:44 PM

1. In what ways can a literary work both reinforce and subvert the dominant ideology of the period in which it was written? Select two texts, one pre-Enlightenment and one from a later period, through which to illustrate your response.


2. From the earliest poets until today's fiction writers, authors have inserted themselves inside their texts. Discuss two works from two different literary periods which demonstrate this kind of self-reflexivity. What conclusions do you draw from the comparison?

2/3/2008 8:32:28 PM