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Educational Goodness, Take 2
Firstly: Programming is causing much stress right now. It is due in on Friday, and I still have to do the last two questions. Grrr... at least I got two done in my Prac today.
Next: We finally went and got our questions for the next essay in Lit. Which is slight annoyance, as though I know I want to do mine on 1984, I am not entirely certain of which question to do. I think I'll put it up to you guys: which of the following questions do you think I should do for my next essay?
9. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell was concerned to show how language might lead men and women to deny objective reality and accept the fictitious world of totalitarian propaganda, and that the fate of the world lay in the choices made by intellectuals. Discuss.
Or
11. Write about the ways in which you think George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four remains relevant today? Or does it? You should discuss both his realist mode of writing and his ideas about the political and cultural direction of modern society.
Currently, I am leaning towards 9, but there is just so much that should be done with 11, if you did the research right...
Oh, and I have decided that my new Psych lecturer is freaking amazing! He is this Canadian guy, named Dr. Trot Visser (which automatically makes me think of a Fandom-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named I used to adore, but we won't go there), and who was the source of vast amusement at today’s lectures.
Some choice Psych Lecture Quotes:
(To the audience) "Has anyone been to Canada?"
(A few raise their hands)
"Did you like it?"
(The raised hand people shake their heads)
"Right answer."
"I thought, Jeeze, this is my course, I can do what I want."
(Displays giant picture of his baby daughter)
"Give me good teacher ratings or I'll lose my job and can't feed my child."
(About "The Phenomenological Method) "I like this method because I like saying Phenomenological!"
I probably should have been taking notes about Psych, rather than my amusing teacher. Oh well...
And the stupid college internet has been down for like the last hour. Why, I ask you, why?
Next: We finally went and got our questions for the next essay in Lit. Which is slight annoyance, as though I know I want to do mine on 1984, I am not entirely certain of which question to do. I think I'll put it up to you guys: which of the following questions do you think I should do for my next essay?
9. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell was concerned to show how language might lead men and women to deny objective reality and accept the fictitious world of totalitarian propaganda, and that the fate of the world lay in the choices made by intellectuals. Discuss.
Or
11. Write about the ways in which you think George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four remains relevant today? Or does it? You should discuss both his realist mode of writing and his ideas about the political and cultural direction of modern society.
Currently, I am leaning towards 9, but there is just so much that should be done with 11, if you did the research right...
Oh, and I have decided that my new Psych lecturer is freaking amazing! He is this Canadian guy, named Dr. Trot Visser (which automatically makes me think of a Fandom-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named I used to adore, but we won't go there), and who was the source of vast amusement at today’s lectures.
Some choice Psych Lecture Quotes:
(To the audience) "Has anyone been to Canada?"
(A few raise their hands)
"Did you like it?"
(The raised hand people shake their heads)
"Right answer."
"I thought, Jeeze, this is my course, I can do what I want."
(Displays giant picture of his baby daughter)
"Give me good teacher ratings or I'll lose my job and can't feed my child."
(About "The Phenomenological Method) "I like this method because I like saying Phenomenological!"
I probably should have been taking notes about Psych, rather than my amusing teacher. Oh well...
And the stupid college internet has been down for like the last hour. Why, I ask you, why?
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This whole super surveillance state thing is creepy, especially with technology from nowadays. I mean, so you really know what all those governments do with the stuff? They could be zooming in on your bathroom window anytime, you know... (Hmm, maybe I shouldn't watch Conspracy Theory again....)
I'm saying #11 because this world can make you paranoid if nothing else does.
~ sera
PS: I catch myself taking notes about the fun stuff in lectures instead of the lectures themselves... It doesn't really help when you're preparing for exams, you know. For example, I was going through my notes and found this:
Cathy: Okay, there's a fine line between complaints and martyrdom. ... If in doubt, be a martyr!
I have no idea what this was all about, but it didn't really tell me anything about early Irish history. *g*
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She had the Secret Service turn up? Honestly? That is incredibly weird, and not a little frightening - just how much do they know?
Then again, I adore conspiracy theories (even if I don't believe most of them), and the mere idea that so much is hidden, so the common people come up with all these crazy ideas is very telling about what goes on in the government today.
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Conspiracies are fun. Looks like the rest of the people commenting here think like that, too. :-)
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And are more worried about that girl on trial for drug smuggling in Indonesia, I suppose.
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I don't think it's that bad anywhere else, either. I mean, I don't think anyone would care if I made Kill_Schröder (Schröder is our Chancellor) my lj ID. Some people would roll their eyes, and that's it.
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Please ignore me if you think I'm talking bollocks.
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But your ideas about Question 11 are very interesting - as I said, a lot more research would need to be done with it, but such a huge amount of ideas could be covered by it. And I am not even going into the US Government versus 1984's Oceania thing...
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And I can't really help with the essay thing, but it may interest you to know that The Eyre Affair is a VCE Literature text this year.
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*remembers Geoff, King if Bad Puns*
And I just noticed The Eyre Affair was on the list the other day. I was so incredibly jealous - why couldn't I have studied it? It would have been so much more fun...
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11 looks cool, because you could tie in recent developments in world politics, and propaganda/rewriting history (japanese textbooks!) etc, and how today is scarily similar to Orwell's vision....
but I think I would go with question 9 -- mainly because I was obsessed with the idea of Newspeak - it's fascinating (ehehe Linguistics nerd), and there's a *lot* to write on....
come to think of it, I think I did my essay on Orwell on Newspeak, or at least included some discussion of Newspeak...... (you can have a look at it if you want lol cant remember if it was any good or not... :\)
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And the good questions were why I was having so much trouble choosing.
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*is torn between the two questions*
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And VISSER. Hee.
PLOCK!
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So not going into the Visser thing...
PLOCK!