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Final Presentation: Catagories

To begin with I was both certain and uncertain of what I wanted to do for my final presentation. I had decided right off that I didn't want to just do a basic presentation, figuring that the class (and myself) would appreciate something more interesting, and almost immediately, my mind was cast back (though I don't know why...) to an eleventh grade english class that had made quite an impact on me. We had been reading The Handmaid's Tale, a novel that was known for its strange uncertainty of chronology, and my teacher had handed my class a bunch of excerpts from the book and asked us to put them in the right order.

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Crafting of the Documentary Narrative

                                                       Crafting The Documentary Narrative

 

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What is the revolutionary potential of comics as a medium?

Hello classmates, professors, and visitors!

As the culmination of The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, I have created a comic in dialogue with Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics that is meant to complement his work by both demonstrating how his ideas are useful and also highlighting some things that he left out of his theory of comics as a revolutionary medium.

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a GIST Portfolio - online!

still in the works, but it's easier to show pictures and video online than it is on paper! 
If anyone wants to do something similar, or finds an even better website to do it with, feel free! 

merlingist.tumblr.com/

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Final Presentation: GIST to GIST

For our final presentation, our group (consisting of Maria, Julia, Katherine, and myself) put together a game of Apples to Apples using terms and vocabulary from the course. 

Apples to Apples is a game of association and definition. Each player is given seven noun cards and a stack of adjective cards lays between all of the players. One player turns over an adjective card and it is their job, for that round, to judge the noun cards that are applied to that adjective. For example, I turn over the adjective card "Virtual." Maria lays down "Serendip," Julia lays down "MMORPGs" and Katherine lays down "Batman." I choose "Serendip," because I think that best fits the adjective (although Batman would be a close second).

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Final Performance Description: Weaving Together The Stories of The Course

For our final presentation, Coral and I interpreted the interactions of the four texts, as well as Adaptation, through the “Line” literary theory of J. Hillis Miller, who proposes that the trajectory of a narrative can be traced as a thread through the tissues of the page, and on a broader plane, that of culture. Through a silly, simple chalkboard illustration we tracked Darwin’s original line of The Origin of Species into Dennett’s book which explicated (shown through an unraveling) and complicated (shown through a know) Darwin’s line. After Dennett, the we found a parallel line of literature along the scientific stories studied thus far, and both Generosity and The Plague intertwined to show the inter-and intra-textual relationship of literature.

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A Creative Conversation Between Three Texts

Audrey Johnston
Evolution/Stories/Diversity
Professor Dalke & Professor Grobstein
Web Project #4


A Creative Conversation Between Three Texts

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Evolution in the media: the translation of our story in The New York Times

 One of the most significant ways in which I have learned from our class this semester is through its manifestation in other realms of my life.  As new themes evolved in our discussions, their appearance in my life outside of class has progressed into my social life, other class discussions, and I have even noticed their presence frequently in the newspaper.  I think it speaks to the nature of the course that almost every conversation we have had has followed me outside of the classroom and I know others feel the same way.  Even though, at first, I thought it was just a random coincidence that all of my classes were connecting and every day when I ope

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Questions of Reality--Questions of Illusion

So this is a bit late, but there's something that's been bugging me, and I feel that I just need to get it out there. I'll begin with this image:

And this one:

And this as well:

How does one tell illusion from reality?

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ORLAN & Frankenstein, Part 2: Beauty and DNA

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