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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:11 pm
"Autumn's breeze is three words long..." ♫ Hello... I'm back, again. ^^U
So... How are you all? I really don't know what else to say, yet I'm aching for a conversation; the days are growing longer... Literally, as well. X__X ♫
"... Always in my heart I'll carry his song."
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:12 pm
Fancy Random Freak “I, who stand in the full light of the heavens, command thee, who opens the gates of hell. Come forth, divine lightning! This ends now! Indignation!” I did this during a STORM. Then lightning struck. Epic. THAT IS EPIC.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:15 pm
Not for Rei, who enteres the work force again tomorrow, to spend all day between school classes and work. I wont be on -
HERE. Schedule. :3 (U.S and Canada, Mountain Time)
Monday- Rei will be on after work: 4:30- About 9Pm.
Tuesday- Rei will not be on.
Wednesday- Rei will be on after work: 4:30- About 9Pm.
Thursday- Rei will be on after work: 4:30- About 9Pm.
Friday: Rei will be on from waking to class: Noonish-5Pm
Saturday: Rei will be on after class: 2Pm- Around Midnight.
Sunday: Rei will be on all day.
This, assuming Rei has no errands and other chores to take care of. I.e: Homework, Laundry, Cleaning, Errands, Entertainment, Extra work.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:36 pm
My mind is so blank lately. ;_; I don't know why. I've had sufficient rest through the holidays... Sorry for the holdup, people. D:
Back to homework for me too, though. >_>
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:51 pm
Get some Kratos booty. That will livin you up to post. :3
Let Kratos "inspire" some ideas for you. >3
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:26 pm
Sup.
I'll tell you what's sup.
The sky.
Ha!
Treated
Every frequenter of the random nonsense thread 'cept me gained the title of Tricked AND Treated.
On Halloween, I got a piece of candy. Turns out it was actually a piece of cancer. I got tricked and treated. Now I'm dying a slow and painful death. =D
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:57 pm
Harp darp. Sorry for the slow up with Rugnica. I've been staring at my paper due tomorrow for the last couple of days in kind of a blank stare. I have no idea how the hell I'm going to fit the second part of the prompt in there smoothly. I wrote the critique of the book in, and now I'm having trouble doing an analysis of it. or rather getting the analysis I wrote to fit in smoothly without doing a complete 360 degree turn on the globe.
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:48 am
I understand completely. I HATE ESSAYS. And now we have to do a 5 PAGE ONE in expository writing. Normally we write to about 2 pages or less... gonk
AND IT'S A RESEARCH ESSAY. AS USUAL, MY SOURCES HAVE ZERO!*
*Well, maybe two...
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:48 am
I, actually, don't have school for two mores days...
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:14 am
and I'm just ditching so I can get this paper done. But. dfdfaf. I'm stuck again. Trying to finish the last paragraph for context, then write the conclusion. Then I forcibly give up.
Here's the whole thing.
Alastair Campbell could feel it was coming on the day that John Smith suffered from a heart attack and later died. Tony Blair was definitely going to be the man that was going to over the job as the Labour Leader. It also meant that Campbell would be taking the job as press secretary. Across the pond in America, we were following down the path that lead into the war on terrorism. The book follows Alastair’s own personal experiences as a Blair’s personal secretary, giving us a deeper insight into the side of Tony Blair’s job that no one could really see from the outside. Though it may sound intriguing, things are often misleading in this world. The style of writing, the tone of the text, the word usage, and the content were major contributing factors to “The Blair Years” being only a fairly average book.
The first thing that made the book mediocre was the style of writing. It was written in first person point of view. That’s not a bad thing if done correctly, and I was hoping with Campbell’s job as a writer and dealing with the press all of the time that he would have some idea how to make his writing at least somewhat engaging. I was sorely mistaken, however, and found myself lost amongst 970 odd pages of the “I + verb” sentence structure. This lead to the book’s “good” content to be chained down by a monotonous and boring delivery. A good example of this is Thursday April 12, 2010 in which he wrote: “I wasn’t sleeping well, and I had a nagging feeling that Cockerell was a mistake and I was headed for a fall. I went over to the Northern Ireland office for a meeting with Peter M. Philip…” (44 cool
It is not hard to figure out why Campbell would write the book in such a way. He stated himself on the first page of the introduction that he “didn’t have a good memory – One of the reasons he keep a diary.” So the book was written more as a personal inflection tool to help strengthen his memory. As somewhat of an author myself, I often find scratching a few paragraphs of my inner thoughts on a piece of paper helps me organize them. Though personal inflection tools aren’t really meant for eyes other than your own, because most of the time you’re the only one who can understand them comprehensibly. An example of this was his tendency to call people by their initials. I often had to go back to the lists at the beginning of each new term and fox out one person out of all of the names just to get who he was talking about. Again the book gives me the impression that it didn’t get much scrutinizing from an editor, and was left the way it was originally written. Though not necessarily bad, it just made reading the text comprehensibly a bit more difficult.
The tone of the writing was something I liked overall throughout the book. He wrote his emotions as he felt them, and didn’t have an overstated arrogance about how every move he made throughout his campaign was right like most American politicians have. An example of this is Saturday, March 20 2002 when the Queen Mother had passed away. “…TB came on the line and we went over what to do. Unlike Diana’s death, there were well-laid plans which swung into action pretty quickly. But it was evident that they were a bit worried, unsure that there would be enough crowds to justify the three days lying in state, or that there would be the level of interest necessary to fill the nine days of news…” (610.) Clearly he expressed that he knew that the British citizens would most likely not be interested, and knew that those next nine days were going to be pretty rough for him.
Something that I also definitely liked was Campbell’s word usage. He wrote his journals like the rest of the English speaking community does. He didn’t take the time to sugar coat his language, and used words that he knew the meaning of. Though one would agreeably argue that dropping the F-Bomb in the middle of a paragraph made Campbell look more ignorant, I think it shows that he was a bit more worried about doing his job correctly than making himself look better. The swearing, in my mind, also meant that he was expressing his true emotions and not ones that masked politicians often like to use. “…He was adamant he was not behind the leak. We were facing a real problem of leaks in this area at the moment. Godric said that the day had been a nightmare of Majoresque proportions. After setting up the broadcasts and doing the overnight briefings of ministers and hacks, I finally got to bed at 1. Another ****ing day off gone.” (267) Does one not get the sense of frustration and indignation from Campbell with his word usage? I’m sure if he had worded it: “I went to bed around 1. Another day off gone.” The level of anger he had felt towards his job at that moment would have been completely lost.
The content of “The Blair Years” was also affected greatly Campbell’s emotions, and the fact that it was his own personal journal. Being in the media, the sources he used were either really good, or highly questionable. However, considering his job yet again, he didn’t want to be ‘dead sure’ on the facts until he got the whole story. This often lead to days where he would offer a small glimmer into what was going on, and just left it at that. On occasion, Campbell would go back and re-dress those glimmers with greater detail if they were important to him. This at times was very confusing if there were several news heavy days in a row. At least with the book being a journal, it flowed in a chronological, easy-to-follow order.
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:51 am
Hmm. Can't really tell if you're complimenting or criticizing it. Both, I guess.
Anyway, I'm not really the person to come to about writing, so I have nothing else to say. I have too many essay worries as it is...
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:38 pm
Evilweirdo 0 Fancy Random Freak “I, who stand in the full light of the heavens, command thee, who opens the gates of hell. Come forth, divine lightning! This ends now! Indignation!” I did this during a STORM. Then lightning struck. Epic. THAT IS EPIC. Once I randomly pretended I was Lloyd with two steak knives. I successfully pulled off a Sword Rain. ACCIDENTAL PULLOFF OF TECHS AND ARTES FTW!
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:51 pm
Well, I successfully used the excel act "Six Lights" with my umbrella!!
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:58 pm
I can't really do that stuff (I have made many a failed Tiger Rage attempt), but I do poke my sister with a stick and say "Sonic Thrust!", though! Does that count? sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:59 pm
Works, but thrust upward and say Light Spear Cannon.
Cause Emil's version is wrong.
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