Utopia Achieved

Okay, I have Internet again! YES! Anyway, on to the weeks reading's. I just finished the "Utopia Achieved" reading and I have to be honest with you.....these readings are making me feel like a total MORON! I mean I can't make heads or tails of any of it. I don't know how to sit and read these and be able to make any of it stick. I think what this one is talking about is the differences between America and Europe and the way that the people interact and view different things in there cultures?? I mean this one just jumped from one thing to the next throughout the entire thing. Talking about America and San Francisco being like Europe and then talking about how we handled the situations with the Indians ( casino not Slurpee ) and the blacks. Then it jumps to saying something about the assassination of Kennedy has something to do with the way that Regan is running the country. I am just so confused right now, I am trying to get into these readings I really am but I find myself having to start and stop A LOT in them to get my mind from wondering around endlessly while reading. Meaning that I can't get into them so my mind wonders to other things while reading so I have to stop and start paragraphs over and over again.

"Ways of Seeing"

Okay, well, I know that I just read something but not sure what exactly it was. These readings are getting harder and harder to get into and in turn get anything out of. According to what I am reading John Berger is trying to open our eyes to different types and styles of art viewing. Trying to show us that when we look at art either first hand or in pictures of first hand that what we get from the two are going to be completely different things that we take out of it because of the fact that a picture taken from the natural "real" thing is never going to be the same as the original. There are going to be certain things lost from the original to the photo, important things......

"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision"

Okay, well another reading down and still very much of the same feelings after reading this one, there is however one difference in this one to "Sources" at least I can somewhat understand and put together part of this writing. The author is trying to show the readers what it was like for her to be an author of her time, what it was like to have a dream and A want for something more than just your typical house wife and mother. This lady wanted to be a writer and in fact was a writer, and she used different ways to hide the fact that she was. Always wrote in the third person so that she could hide her identity. ( I could be way of the mark with this. But like I said before I am having a very hard time getting into these readings )

"Sources"

WOW, what can I say about the crazy thrown together words that make up the poems ( I think ) that I just spent five minutes of my life reading.....can I have that five minutes back?? Not that I am against poems but when it comes to poems like that I have to lash out and let my voice be heard. Like I said previously, I spent five minutes reading that couple of pages, not once but TWICE and I am sitting here in front of this PC trying to remember one thing that the writer was rambling on about. For sure not one of my favorite things. Not meaning to offend rather just speak my mind.