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So that animation was highly amusing. I feel like they hit on a lot of the problems with twitter. Especially in the fact that people who tweet really are talking to no one. When I post on twitter it is less of an intentional message and more of a release of randomness from me. I feel like in other writing environments there is a definite audience that you are talking to. I imagine that no one really is reading my tweets. Even if they are reading my tweets it probably just goes in one ear and right out the next. The purpose of micro blogging is to release a sort of knowledge from within oneself that one feels they must randomly use.

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 Just you wait, this class will be very interesting. Prepare to think in ways that you might not have thought before. Prepare to see writing as more then just writing, more then just a form of communication. Prepare for zany ideas you might not agree with and amazing ideas that change the world for you. Don't expect to just be writing picture perfect 5 paragraph format papers. There is more to writing then your pre-conceived notions. Through the whole process remember one thing. Be yourself. Write how you feel comfortable writing. It is not about how you say it but what you say. Take a leap, a chance, a risk. You might actually learn something.

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Jones could be arguing many things with this poem. I think he is arguing about the flightiness of language. One second you think of writing down something or some idea so you write it down.Then maybe you look back and want it again like the coconut/rum. But you already wrote that idea down you can't get it back again. or that idea that you put down is now stuck in your head and you cant take it back, you are forced to keep thinking about it. There is also a certain aspect of time in this poem. He lists a date and says  "time on the water" What we write over time maybe washes away and as we progress we get better and better. Those are just a few ideas of what Jones could be saying.

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When I wear clothing I do it in anticipation for many things. First I check the weather outside. Then I think about what I am going to do that day and see kid it requires a certain type of clothing. From there I will look at my clothes and see how I want to present myself. If I want to be lazy I will wear sloppy clothes that could say anything, I won't care. If I want to seem more professional that day I will try and wear something nicer like a button down shirt of a t-shirt with a nice message. If I want to show pride for my crew tram I will wear my crew clothing. If I want to seem musical I will wear a band T-shirt. But some days it is just plain random. So whether or not I expect an audience depends on how much I even care if there is an audience.

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The President and the poet are two completely different characters and must behave and communicate in really different ways. The difference is how serious each needs to be. The president is running a country and needs to behave as such. Many thousands of lives depend on the things that he says and does. The poet does not have this huge responsibility. The poet can sit and ponder life's mysteries and think about how things can be different. If they experiment in living it just affects themselves, no one else. Zadie suggests there is no difference in how they speak. Zadie says they both need to embody the voice of different people. The president needs to look at the situation he is in through the eyes of many different people. The poet also looks at things through other people's eyes. Zadie uses Shakespeare as an example. This idea that presidents and poets both use multiple voices is true but she ignores the differences in what each needs to talk about.

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What I really think about twitter as a writing place is that it is meant to be an informal fun place. Something I have noticed on twitter is that it is kind of rare for people to actually write correctly. Grammar and spelling problems seem to abound whether on purpose or not. It really is just a way to tell you friends random thoughts that you have. With hash-tags people can now look and find funny things like first world problems and other things like that. It is a place to laugh and have fun. One of my friends tweeted just the other day "I'm trying to think of a tweet to put up now so I can laugh at it tomorrow".

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Are the four letter word projects writing?

I don't think that the four letter word projects are writing. To me writing is expressing an argument or idea through words on a piece of paper. Writing is a type of communication. The four letter word projects are also a form of communication. Just because they are both trying to express something does not mean they are the same thing. Yes they are about using a word, but it is more using the word through visual images which turns it more to the artistic side of things.not to say writing isn't artistic, it is just a less visible form of art. Writing is not visible, four letter projects are.

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Flexibility...
      IN VOICE:

• Communicate w/ different people
• "                     in different settings
• to get desired results

      IN ALL THINGS:

• Communicate in every area of life
• voice is used everywhere, but it is not always the same.

(before the bullet points there is a box that is checked)

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Is the writer influenced by the writing implement she uses?   Yes, she instead of writing a normal paragraph she made a sort of checklist for two different lists. I think the fact that she was using a crayon really made this seem like an informal writing(which it was) so she felt more free to use this alternative mode of writing.
Is the writer more expressive or less expressive as a result of the physical constraints of the crayoned page? The writer becomes more exspressive through the crayon by writing in multiple colors and changing the format of how she wrote. The writer was constrained by the fact that the crayon had her write large which made less space for information to be written.
Is the writing any good? The writing is ok, it seems limited. All it does is list the positive aspects of being flexible in voice and in all things. It did not engage deeply in the subject but it did cover the basics very well.

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1. "we feel that our voices are who we are, and that to have more than one, or to use different versions of a voice for different occasions, represents, at best, a janus-faced duplicity, and at worst, the loss of our very souls."(180)  is this true? I understand that we feel that our voice is who we are, that makes sense. But the idea that we think that us using different voices is wrong? I disagree everyone changes their voice depending on their situation. It helps us to relate to others. It is not "the loss of our very souls"

2."This new president doesn't just speak for his people. he can speak them." (182) Is this Obama truly trying to speak like other people or is he just getting in their mindset so that he can better represent them?

3. "his story of a genuinely many voiced man. If it has a moral it is that each man must be true to his selves, plural." (183)   Does Obama break the mold? is he somehow better at having more voices then us? is it not to him the "loss of his soul"?

4. "to occupy a dream, to exist in a dreamed space, is surely a quite different thing from simply inheriting a dream." (183) Is Zadie trying to say that we take our aspirations and goals and change our voice to fit those? and that goals our parents try to force on us change our voice?

5."Everyone wants to be Barack Obama. Even I want to be Barack Obama" (184) Is this really how Zadie feels Obama thinks? I feel like she is leaving out politics in how he would have created this figure of Barack Obama intentionally knowing he cant be it but can still receive those votes.

6. "I further audaciously hope that such a man will not mistake the happy accident of his own cultural sensibilities for a set of natural laws, suitable for general application." (194)  Does Zadie think that the voices we have we look at from a distance and let decide what we do?

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I'm not sure why so many people wear texts on their clothing and on their skin.  Perhaps they feel that such portable writing serves to identify themselves. I feel that what people decide to wear shows what they want to be seen as in life. Some people wear jokes on their shirts to try and seem more like the funny guy. They want to be that class clown sort of character. Other people might where shirts describing a place or university because they want to seem like a member of that community. Others where shirts with their teams or clubs so that people will know they belong in that and they are like that stereotype. I think this idea of people wearing what they want to be goes past words though. Depending on a style of what people choose to wear they want to be identified in that way. That is why I feel like people where words on their clothing.

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