Theodore Kronfeld

                                                                    The Anthropocene Reviewed

Introduction

1. John Green uses Memoir during the beginning of the introduction section of "The Anthropocene Reviewed" when he quickly and succinctly recounts a variety of life experiences and how they affected him such as clearing and building a path between his house and his children's tree house through the woods and his diagnosis and recovery from labyrinthitis and the feelings/memories of anxiety it brought up.

2. A section in "the introduction of "The Anthropocene Reviewed" that I believe incorporates research is when he discusses how Booklist reviews work and why they don't incorporate the 5-star rating system.  He then goes on to further explain a bit of the history of the 5-star rating system and how it didn't become mainstream until the advent of the internet.

3. I'd actually argue that most of the introduction section could be considered as a reflection of John Greens life.  He frequently calls upon and reflects upon prior experiences to further convey his message; a great example of this is when he recalls what his brother Hank Green had told him during a car ride about his relationships with other people and his vulnerability around other people and how that affected him.

4. My general impressions of this introductory section is that it's a wonderful piece of reflection of various life experiences and how they changed him as a person and informed his future decisions and his view of life. I'm also stricken by the way he positions his reviews of things as pieces of the larger experience known as life.

Lascaux Cave Paintings

1.Green uses memoir in the beginning section of this passage when he recounts the memory of his young children doing hand stencils. He believes that while he's thankful that his children have grown since then, he also believes that it's a reminder of how things have changed and how they've moved away from him.

2.Green incorporates research into this passage when he tells the story of the four boys who explored Lascaux cave during the second world war and their discovery of the cave paintings. The tale takes a simultaneously heart wrenching and heartwarming turn when the Nazi encroachment on the French countryside breaks the group up, yet they all lived to reunite in the future. 

3.Green incorporates reflection in this section when he ponders what the symbols could mean and all of the mysteries of the cave paintings. He then wraps back around to the hand stencil and reflects on how human nature and the ability to create art hasn't changed much over the past several thousand years.

4.My general impressions of the Lascaux Cave Painting story that Green retells is that it's a fascinating statement about human nature and how even though we're completely different from our stone age ancestors in terms of our technology and culture, we're still human at our core and we still have the same propensity and capacity to create art. It also speaks to the bonds and loyalty between people with the group of friends who discovered the cave protecting it and watching over it for years.

Penguins of Madagascar 

1.When analyzing the opening of the children's film, The Penguins of Madagascar, Green incorporates memoir when he talks about people with provocative opinions, and he specifically uses the example of someone proclaiming that Ringo is the best Beatle.

2.Green incorporates research into this section when he discusses lemmings' population cycle and the myth that was started by the 1958 Disney movie White Wilderness that lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs. He then segways from the lemming discussion to an analysis of White Wilderness and how instead of being remembered as a documentary, it's instead remembered as an example of the lengths people will go to, to maintain a lie and how the opening of The Penguins of Madagascar lampoons it.

3.He incorporates reflection almost immediately after the research portion when he discusses how the penguin who stays in line and proclaims "I question nothing" is a reflection of his own feeling of wanting to follow the rules of society and stay in the proverbial line of human society even as we approach the precipice of the cliff.

4.My general impression of this analysis is that it's both incredibly entertaining yet also quite fascinating about how the introduction of a middle of the road children's movie can have so much depth and can be analyzed so thoroughly. 

                                                                                   P1 Prewriting 

1.  A discussion of the resurrection of characters and why it is the story trope that I personally hate the most.

2.  Something I've been thinking about for a little while that I'd like to discuss is the question of if it's possible to create a long story with no main character. While I know it's definitely possible to do this in the form of a short story, I've been wondering if it's possible in a longer narrative.

3.  Something about comic book writing and how writing comics differs from other forms of writing.

4.  Same style as #3 except it's about music writing and how it differs from other writing forms.

                                                                                                  Project 1  Rough Draft

                                                                                          Untitled document - Google Docs 

                                                                                                          Audio File     

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                                                The Anthropocene Reviewed Podcast-Humanity's Temporal Range

Part 1

Text: Content and Form

. The general premise of this episode was the temporal range of humanity and a discussion of the future and end of the planet/the end of humanity. Green goes through multiple examples of apocalypses that were foretold but failed in the past and potential future apocalypses such as Y2K and the climate crisis. 

. The thing that caught my attention the most was Green's unbelievable skill at oration and the weight of what he said and the way he said it. He's so verbose and it's so impactful that it deeply affected me.  

.  There were a few different types of audio material that I noticed, besides Green's narration, I noticed that when he got especially deep and passionate, the music swelled.

. The podcast was structured in a form that started with a personal retrospective on his own experiences with thinking about humanity's temporal range and then expanded to a more existential and broad examination of entropy and the end of humanity.

Paratext 

. I used Soundcloud.

. It reads: John Green reviews the concept of humanity's temporal range.

. No, I did not use a transcript.

.  I did not have any advertisements.

. The visual elements were extremely limited, it was just a static image of the Anthropocene Reviewed podcast logo.

Listening environment and experience 

. I listened to the podcast at my desk in my dorm room.

. I was not doing anything else of particular note, I was primarily listening.

. I listened to it in one sitting.

. It was later into the night, so before I listened to the podcast, I was just hanging out and playing video games.

. I listened to it on my computer.

. I just used my computer speakers.

Part 2

Listening to the podcast was far more engaging and entertaining for me than reading the book was. The way it was structured and presented enthralled me, the music in the background also helped with engaging me and the music changing to fit the mood helped immerse me even further in what he was talking about. It was so engaging that I noticed that even though I had initially intended to put the podcast on as a background thing while I did other stuff, I ended up so enthralled that I didn't do anything else. I think the podcast proved to be so engaging for me because the themes and the subject of the limited lifespan of everything and the concept that everything must end is something that I've been thinking about a lot recently. In conclusion this podcast really struck a personal chord with me and is one of the most profound things I've heard in quite a while.

                                              Advice for and from the future-Should I cryopreserve my dog?

should I cryopreserve my dog? – Advice for/from the Future (futureadvice.club) 

The episode of the Advice for and from the future podcast was the episode that discussed cryogenics and more specifically cryogenically freezing dogs. The host started with reading a letter that a listener had sent about inquiring whether or not they should cryogenically freeze their dog. She then has an expert who works in dog euthanasia come on and discuss the drawbacks and benefits of cryogenically freezing your dog and how it works. She personally didn't recommend it as an option for multiple reasons, most of all the fact that it's primarily theoretical and falls more in line with a pseudo-science than an actual scientific process. They then discussed the more existential implications of dogs that have been cryogenically frozen, waking up in the future without their human partners, they specifically cited the example of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" where Fry's dog waits for him the rest of his life after Fry was cryogenically frozen. After this, the guest left and the narrative of the podcast expanded to a broader discussion about hope, about how even in what seems like a hopeless time, hope is brought up constantly, to illustrate this point a bot compiled and recited every sentence from every Ted Talk that had the word hope somewhere in it and that played under the rest of the podcast. The podcast closed out with a fictitious scenario performed by various voice actors of dogs waking up from cryo sleep in the future without their humans and being completely unable to comprehend life without their humans. In conclusion, this podcast was an incredibly well-done examination of a wide breadth of topics, ranging from hope for the future, to funerary practices, to processing grief. I was thoroughly engaged throughout the entire runtime of the podcast, and it made me contemplate and analyze things such as how pets would be able to cope without their humans and how even though we often feel like everything's hopeless, we still constantly talk about hope because we are inherently hopeful creatures and that is exemplified through our relationship with dogs as I think this program pointed out.