Narritive 1: Pages 294-301
A popular American belief is that the inhternet is bringing everyone in the world together, casting aside racism, classism, and creating a virtual eutopia. Their are contrasting views on this "global village" that is said to have been created, there is the Romantic side, which belives that people aroud the world will be brought together, and will live in harmony. The realist on the other hand see the global village in a less appealing manner, the realist sees Americans losing their status as the most powerful country in the world, because, in a global village all are equal, no one is above another. Due to our ignorance as Americans, we have revised the idea of a global village to fit our desires more, keeping us comfortable, and in power. The first image reaveals how we, Americans, feel that we founded the global village, giving us a sense of superiority. Americans feel that if we become part of the global village, we will become foriengers, losing our identety and superiority, becoming equals with the rest of the world.
Cynthia Selfe, author of the book "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution", claims that "becoming just another member of the tribe, just another citizen of the global village, suggests the possibiy that Americans could be asked to relinquish their current privileged status in the world where, as Negropnte also reminds us, twenty percent of the population currently consumes eighty percent of the resources."(pg. 294) impying that Americans are not ready to accept the idea of a global village, fearing that it will create equality, stripping them of their privilages and sense of superiority. I think that Selfe is generalizing all Americans as selfish and ignorant people. In fact, Selfe only mentions America in this entire book, and she makes it seem as if America is the only advanced country in the world, than making America appear as the enemy, when, there are, in fact, plenty of other 1st world countries that Selfe could have included in her book, but their absence makes it difficult to take her seriously. Yes, some Americans may be scared of losing power, but it does not appear that the global village Selfe speaks of will have any effect on these power mongers.
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
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