Leah Corey

⁍ I am from out-of-state

⁍ I love cranberry juice and mint chocolate chip ice cream

⁍ I spend my free time reading, swimming, or doing random things

⁍ I love to spend time with friends, go to farmers' markets, ice skating, hiking, being outside or in the water, or going to sporting events and concerts

⁍ I like most music, anything from Johnny Cash to Metallica to One Direction, and everything in between

⁍ I am studying Mechanical Engineering

⁍ I am in Engineers Without Borders

⁍ I want to either work on planes and rockets or help bring access to resources around the world

⁍ I would love to travel the world and experience different cultures and lives

⁍ My favorites:

>color is purple

>weather is thunderstorms in the summer

>movie is 10 Things I Hate About You or The Pirates of the Caribbean

>song is Bim Bam Toi by Carla, Cut My Hair by Tate McRae, or Born To Be Alive by Bea and her Business

>animal is a moose

>flower is a sunflower

>vegetable is potato or sweet corn

>fruit is an apple

>food is Jilbert's mint mackinac island fugde or scanza

Introduction:

Memoir: On page 9, John Green talks about his work creating a trail in his yard from a tree house to his office shed, "a room that depending on your worldview is either an office or a shed... It took me a month to build a fifty-eight second walk in the woods."

Research: On page 12, he talks about his discovery of the word Anthropocene and his brother's explanation of its meaning. "I can't remember when I first came across the word Anthropocene... Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geological age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity... My brother, Hank... once explained it to me like this:  As a person, he told me, your biggest problem is other people. You are vulnerable to people, and reliant upon them. But imagine instead that you are a twenty-first-century river, or desert, or polar bear. Your biggest problem is still people. You are still vulnerable to them, and reliant upon them."

Reflection: On pages 13, 14, and 15, John Green starts to reflect on his life and what he has done with it. "I wasn't paying attention to what I was paying attention to... I felt like for the first time in years, I was at least trying to pay attention to what I pay attention to... I wanted to understand the contradiction of human power... Even separated, we are bound up in each other... there are no observers, only participants... It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world... I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony... We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here... Here is my attempt to do so."

In his Introduction, John Green discussed many things in his life and his goals and ideas and inner workings of his mind and life. He seems to have done a lot of thinking and reevaluating of his life and dreams in recent years. He seems to have found a purpose to live. He has a goal, something to aim for. He is no longer just going through the motions of life, he is doing things with a purpose. He is doing things for himself and his loved ones. John Green is a world renowned author and podcaster and youtuber and so much more. He seems so different from everyday people with all his accomplishments and work, but this makes him relatable and seem like a real person, not just there.

Lascaux Cave Paintings:

Memoir: On page 39, John Green talks about his kids' art and their hand outlines. "I am extremely happy that my children are no longer three, and yet to look at their little hands from those early artworks is to be inundated with a strange, soul-splitting joy."

Research: On pages 39 through 43, John Green talks about the discovery and history of the cave paintings. "So there were only four boys who discovered the cave, but only two who could remain there... the hand stencils also remind us that humans of the past were as human as we are."

Reflection: On page 43, John Green reflects on the people who made the paintings, who discovered them, and people today. "Humans making fake cave art to save real cave art may feel like Peak Anthropocene absurdity... But we didn't. We let them live on by sealing them off."

In his review of the Lascaux Cave Paintings, John Green compares the ancient paintings on cave walls to his kids' art. There is a lot that has changed is so much time, but yet somethings still stay the same, like making art with our hands. How else are people today similar to those who live a long time ago? What else is so much older than people realize?

Our Capacity For Wonder:

Memoir: On pages 37 and 38, John Green explains how his son showed him to see beauty and wonder in a simple brown leaf. "I kept trying to get my oblivious two-year-old to appreciate the landscape... he... reached out and grabbed a single brown oak leaf from the little tree next to us... nothing in the forest was less interesting... it wasn't just a brown leaf."

Research: On pages 34 through 36, John Green talks about the flop and success of the Great Gatsby. "The initial reviews weren't great, and the book was widely considered to be inferior... the book became a hit at last."

Reflection: On pages 35 through 38, John Green reflects on the ideas in The Great Gatsby and what it was trying to say about the American Dream. "Gatsby is a critique of the American Dream... The book makes you feel for the entitled spoiled disgusting rich and the poor people living in the valley of ashes, and everyone in between... the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires."

In the chapter titled Our Capacity For Wonder, John Green talks about how The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows the flaws of society but also embraces them. It has so many what ifs and questions and makes the reader thing. The novel makes people mourn and rejoice for everyone and the "American Dream." John Green really brings up the brilliance and fall of the novel. He shows how the true story, the over-the-top-rich-ness and the need to be on top and hurting others for personal gain, is lost on many. He shows how society continues to prove Fitzgerald's assessment and criticism of the "American Dream." 

Humanity's Temporal Range:

Part 1:

Text: John Green talks about the end of the world and how many people perceive it. Some think it is the end of humanity and some think it is a catastrophic apocalypse.  What I found most interesting is how John describes the timeline of the world compared to the modern human species. The Earth has been around for an insanely long time, and the modern human has been around for a really long time, and yet, humans have existed for an impossibly small fraction of time compared to the Earth. I honestly did not pay attention to all the different types of audio in the podcast episode, I have a hard time as it is pay attention to podcasts. I was focusing on what John was saying. He is a great story teller and his passion comes through the recording really well. This particular episode is structured very similar to the chapters I had read last week. He starts off with a story from his childhood and the jumps around with different stories and research and facts. He goes in circles but never confused me. It was like a roller coaster, listening to the episode. I never knew what was going to come next, but I knew what had happened and that John would come back to where he started.

Paratext: I listened to this episode on Spotify. It had no description of the episode. I did not use a transcript. There were no ads that I can recall during the episode. My visual elements were band posters across the room from me while I zoned out listening to John.

Environment/Experience: I listened to the episode in a friend's room. For a bit, I was trying to help my friend with other homework, but I stopped because I was not paying attention to John nor did I understand the assignment. And I did stop to talk to others near the end of the episode. I listened to it mostly in one sitting. I had to go back a couple times because I realized I had stopped listening to it or I was doing something that took my attention away. Before starting the episode, I was looking at other homework and with friends who where doing Material Science homework. I used my headphones connected to my phone to listen.

Part 2:

Some differences for me between listening and reading John Green's Anthropocene Reviewed is that I was not as focused and I multitasked while listening. I found that I was easily distracted while listening to John Green compared to when I read from the book. It was not that I was not interested, because I was, but more that my hands and eyes were free to do other things. I was trying to hold conversations and do other homework while attempting to listen. It did not work. I ended up tuning John out. So I had to go back and relisten. I had to make an effort to pay attention. When reading, I occasionally was pulled away, but my attention was mostly on what I was reading. I knew what I had read. One thing I did enjoy about listening to John read the chapter was that I could he how his voice changed. It brought a new level of fascination that could not be translated with text on a page. I could hear his passion and the deeper meanings in his words by listening. I really liked that. Maybe I just need more practice with listening to podcasts and audiobooks, but that would also mean I would most likely have to isolate myself from my friends while I listened so I could pay attention. I like doing homework with my friends, so that might be sad. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. Goodnight.

01/29       P1 Pre-Writing:
Ideas: homework, books, music, libraries, people, swimming, brown.

Homework: Homework sucks. It's unnecessarily hard and frustrating. What is the point really?

Music: like books but from more people. stories are shorter but can be deeper.

books: Just books, what else is there to say? Can go to any world and live any life possible. It's an escape and a way to learn.

libraries: They are confusing. The books are great but the organization is weird and I never know what I can and can't do. They are intimidating.

people: either are really great or really awful. also are very confusing and unique.

swimming: good work out for mind and body. competitive and relaxing at the same time. my escape.

brown: I think it's an underrated and unappreciated color. Lots of things are brown, eyes, hair, wood, mud, animals, and more.

01/29:

Throughout the montage, the music was dynamic and had classical notes. The art was very parent-child focused. In the beginning, the group seemed carefree - almost childish with nostalgic tones. As it progressed, it seemed more reflective and showed signs of growing up. The colors were vibrant. Though during the kissing scene, it was more mood-oriented.

02/12 Project 1:

One thing I think is the strongest element of my writing for the first project is I think my timeline was pretty clear and the overall flow is good. If either the timeline is unclear or the flow is messy, the personally I think the whole piece is confusing. It throws off the whole purpose and takes attention away from the words when the reader is trying to figure out the timeline of events or the order of the writing. I think my piece flows in pretty much chronologically order and the flow follows it. I do not think I jumped around much and tried to incorporated the facts in with my memoir and reflection. A challenge I found was making sure I had enough research. I am still a little unsure. I tried to follow John Green's structure. Some of his chapters did not have a lot of true, hard research but more common facts incorporated with how he experienced those facts. So that is what I tried to do, put in facts and show how I experienced them. A goal I want to work on is when revising take others ideas and opinions and feedback into consideration and see how others wrote their ideas. I also went to the Student Writing Support Center and I found them to be very helpful and their feedback useful. I want to also start being nitpicky with my writing and dedicate more time to making everything clearer. Sometimes writing my ideas is hard and they do not always come out clear, so rereading my work. I would love any feedback you are willing to give, but I would like you to focus on my overall flow and the composition of the different aspects and my incorporation of facts. For this project, I would give myself around a 90/100. I put in a lot of work in class and outside of class. I have three total drafts and I went to the Writing Center for additional help. I tried to meet and go beyond each aspect of the assignment. I am pretty proud of how my final project turned out, I know it is not perfect but I think is it one of my best. I gave others my honest and realest and best feedback when peer-reviewing and took theirs into great consideration.

"Should I Follow My Partner to Mars?" https://www.futureadvice.club/2020/06/16/my-boyfriend-wants-to-go-to-mars/

Some sources cited in the episode were Andrea Silenzi of the Why Oh Why podcast, Shannon and Scott from the Salad Song podcast, and the book  The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Shannon and Scott made an alien version of Area Codes by Ludicrus. Andrea, who has a dating advice podcast, helped answer the question of what do if your partner asked you to go to Mars with them. They came to the conclusion that the partner is willing to run when things get hard and not even try to fix the problem. They said that it was a sign that the partner would not stick around and provide the support that a partner should. I think they thought of this very differently than I would have. They saw it as a sign that the partner had given up and wanted to abandon everything here, and most likely the relationship. I more thought of it as a fun adventure, but I can see where they were right. The trip to Mars from Earth is about a year long. Just to get there. And it would be very dangerous and all family, friends, everything would be gone with no way to reach it. I'm not sure I could do that. Actually, I know I couldn't do that. I'm down for an adventure, but I'll stick to adventures on Earth. There is so much here that it is impossible to do in a single lifetime, and much safer. Here I could leave everything behind if I wanted to, but I still have that choice. I often have the urge to do something fun, different, or to even just up and leave, but Mars is too much for me. Thank you and goodnight.

The phrase "the difference between knowing what we know and knowing that we know" in the very first paragraph is possibly one of the most confusing thing I have ever read, yet it makes total sense. The reading goes on to explain the difference and how it is applied to writing and can be applied to pretty much anything imaginable. Just knowing something is not always enough. Sometimes it will do, but actually understanding it and where it came from and why it is the way it is is very important. It can take a written piece to a whole other level. It can make doing almost anything more precise and clear. Just knowing is not enough, but actually having a true understanding is ideal.

What do cars of the future look like? Will cars learn to fly?

Cars are a big part of life for many people, especially in the US, and there is a lot of new technology being developed. What will cars be in the future? Will they become electric like we are led to believe? Will cars every fly? Cars have come a long way since they were first invented, and yet they have not changed much. Technology is advancing faster and faster, so how will cars develop? Will electric truly replace internal-combustion? 

Sources (so far):

⁍ The Steering Column Newsletter

⁍ Back To The Future

⁍ IEEE: "Looking at cars 100 years in the future"

⁍ Scientific American: "The Future of Cars"

Interviewees:

⁍ Darrel Burnett: Exectuive Director of the Automobile Gallery in Green Bay, Wi. He knows a lot about cars and has many connections in big companies, such as Ford and General Motors. He is very passionate about cars and his work. The gallery has lots of cars from one of the first electric cars, a DeLorean DMC-12, to highly coveted cars that require applications and interviews. I have already interviewed Mr. Burnett over the phone and he was very helpful and knowledgeable.

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