STRESSED

[hani_backup]

I have a personality psych paper (draft) due tomorrow on a case study we did ourselves.  No page minimum or length, just as much as we need.

I have a Science Fiction: Past and Present paper (final) due Friday.  It's 7-8 pages and I've only had some kind of pissant notes jotted around, despite meeting with my professor twice.  (I wish I had more to show her... I feel so bad.  I basically told her I hadn't started it yet.) 

This is my chosen topic for the 2nd paper:

1.)    Explore how one or two texts address questions surrounding human identity.  How do your chosen works define, redefine, estrange, satirize, or reaffirm humanness? What specific literary techniques do these texts use to do so?  Some of the different issues that you may address could include human and nonhuman:

 

·         intelligence

·         emotions

·         psychology

·         embodiment

·         consciousness and/or sentience

·         life (organic, mechanical, grotesque, sublime)

·         self-other relations (including racial, sexual, colonial, gendered, classed, species, or ecological relations)

·         culture and/or community

·         language and/or communication

·         science and/or technology

·         ethics and/or morality

·         faith and/or religion

·         aesthetics

·         creation and/or reproduction

·         anthropomorphism

·         historical and/or evolutionary transformation (“progress,” “regression”)

Of course I'm not doing all... I'm doing H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  There should be enough compare/contrast between the two...

At least I got Tuesday's paper turned in, and Friday's other paper done with a partner (second draft) is done. 

I keep distracting myself by online stuff like YouTube and articles, emails, as well as trying to find jobs THAT APPLY TO MY MAJOR so I can use OPT... 

Must get down to it.  At least I have about 2 pages down for Personality Psych, single spaced. 

Feels way better then I double space it afterwards and bam! Longer!

Man, I have a craving for chicken now...

Comments

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

What is OPT? Good luck with your papers! I'm glad you got the one you were working on last night done!

[hani.livejournal.com]

This is OPT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optional_Practical_Training (I don't want to mis-represent it or give wrong facts.)

Thanks for the good luck wish.

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's neat!:)

[himisterbill.livejournal.com]

Good luck and hang in there!

:)

[hani.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Hope so!

[suburbaknght.livejournal.com]

Suggestion: instead of typical compare-contrast (boring!) explore the reasons why they're different, in particular cultural shifts due to time, geography, endurance through world wars, etc.

[hani.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Alex. :( Already had an outline done when I saw the person at the Writing Center last night at 9pm.

[hani.livejournal.com]

And it seems like your suggestion is more in line with some of her other prompts, mainly number 2:

2.) Examine the role of the observer or narrator in one or more works of fiction. How do your chosen works define his/her/its point of view through literary style and tone, narrative form, and/or cultural, temporal, or historical difference? (You may also draw from the bullet points listed for topic #1.)

or a little of

4.) Examine the relationship between science fiction and history in one or more texts. How do these works address expectations, limitations, and possibilities surrounding the past, present, or future? You may consider how they address concepts of temporality or historical logic, including: cause and effect; the genre of alternate history (“uchronie”); origin myths/ myths of divine creation; linear, cyclical, or more chaotic/apocalyptic views of history; individual and species history; and human, posthuman, and greater cosmological views of history.