Reading, Writing, Telling, Feeling

Ok, I'm in Germany right now and this morning went out to see the movie Avatar. The scenery is pretty amazing and the film itself is sim...

Hey class of reading: to be quite honest, this class is amazing. i can honestly say that i found a beautiful thing inside each and everyone ...

So here is my official last act for RRT&F, but I want to attach it to Anneva's posting because I am a huge supporter of the Arts. ...

1) I've been cast in a piece for the U of M dance faculty and student show this Spring! This show consists of 2 faculty pieces: an Afro...

Everybody: What an amazing experience it has been working with all of you! There is no doubt in my mind that between Ben's talent for ge...

Christina, I wasn’t in class when you said this, but the next class I attended I heard about what you said. It was something about how the s...

Dear Rodney, This didn’t necessarily happen in class, but shortly prior. I would hope that is okay for this assignment. What you sa...

The comment that I am going to use actually works out very well for the ending of this class. When discussing a Wrinkle in Time in class, An...

Jason, thank you for showing genuine interest in what other people thought. Like they say in Fight Club , “when people think you're dyin...

Quite honestly I cannot remember much from one specific person or a specific instance. I want to concentrate on the class as a whole. The cl...

My blog is in the comment section..I couldnt copy and paste and I wrote it in Word first! Sorry!

Well - I'm going to write down some final thoughts about the class, seeing as though I am now officially done with my college career. (a...

Christina, A few classes ago, when we were discussing Never Let Me Go, you compared us as a class to the students in Hailsham. I distinctly ...

Sean, that was a really fun and interesting interpretation presentation you, Erik, and Joey had created for the class when you three acted...

To Jim and Jason, there was an example Jim made previously in this class that made me think a lot. it was during the debate about the good p...

Kaitlin, When we were reading House Work the class was discussing Willy and you made a point that struck me. You spoke on how Monica views ...

Dear (in the words of Christina 'reading') class, I had such a hard time deciding on one person from this class--because, I seriousl...

Dear Yerbol, During the first class in which we discussed Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and prior to the break and our interpretation pres...

Jamie, Throughout the duration of this course there were many times when I found myself struck by your comments. This is completely in a goo...

Jamie, The class before the last class, the class was talking about what the students in Never Let Me Go wanted to be when t...

John, One day in class when we were talking about the differences between the signifier and the signified you made a comment about the way c...

When thinking about someone who said something that has struck me is when Whitney and I were working on our context presentation, I told her...

Anneva, I was moved by the comment you made in your 7th blog. You wrote “Mustafa Sa’eed repeatedly uses large mountains and hills as metaph...

Sean, a couple weeks ago in class we started discussing the book Never Let Me Go . We were on the topic of the Ruth, Kathy, and Tommy an...

(What follows is, with no substantial changes, the final assignment as described in the handout in class.) Think about one person in our cla...

When I was reading Never Let Me Go, I felt a couple different things. First, I felt very sad for these poor children; they were being raised...

So far, I think this is my favorite book that we have read so far. Maybe it's because of how the language moves in the book or the invo...

Colleagues, Thank you all for your well wishes while I worked my way through the Eye Incident of 2009. I am approaching Ishiguro with some ...

Well, this book brings a lot of thoughts into my head and so did last weeks conversation. One thing I don't think that we sufficiently h...

my biggest concern is about the donors behavior, i still don't really understand why wont they stop donating organs even though they kno...

One question that I have after last week’s discussion is whether or not Ishiguro is trying to make an argument about the ethics revolving ...

For one I was slightly confused for most of the book. Second I really felt for Tommy with as much as he was picked on really got me feeling ...

I read the assignment for this weeks blog and thought, wow that's easy. Just plop down what I thought at the end of class and I'm do...

At the end of class last week I was thinking about cures to diseases and the lengths to which we are will to go to get them. While there are...

After doing the interpretation presentation the role of the guardians stood out to me. I wondered why anyone would choose to be a guardian....

We touched on this idea during our class discussion on Never Let Me Go but never looked at it in-depth. The idea of discussing the thre...

Never Let Me Go introduced a lot of issues that, although fictional, seem to strike home with me as being important in determining where our...

- Actually, I am still really thinking hard about what I brought up at the end of class on Wednesday.. about how much it seems like we (huma...

A question a feel like we haven’t really discussed fully in class yet is how restricted the donors’ lives really were? What similarities an...

one last point i would like to touch on in the next class meeting is about the donors... this question was written on the board.. "conf...

When we took part in the interpretation presentation near the end, I began to think very deeply about the book. My group was assigned the r...

The one thing that I instantly wrote down after class last Wednesday was the dialogue near the end of the book in which Ms. Emily describes ...

From last week: Michelle...I'm pretty sure it was Michelle but I could be wrong...mentioned something I'd like to discuss further. ...

Because, I didn't have any real signifigant thoughts on what we were talking about at the end of class ie. what I thought the Guardians ...