Maria Saitta

Why do you think #Keen included scientific studies to prove how to write in an empathetic tone? #Muddybuddies

It was interesting to read in #Keen's essay about all of the common misconceptions about empathy. Like how there is a difference between personal distress and empathy itself, they can be seen as very similar. #Muddybuddies

Interestingly, #Prasad used dialogue between the AI bots as to show the audience how the technology acts human toward one another even though they are not. Does Prasad predict a world where the AI bots will communicate with one another w/o human control? #Muddybuddies

Why do you think the one embodied AI bot in #Prasad's story is called Constant Killer? It was not clear who the bot was killing. #Muddybuddies

At the end of #Adjei-Brenyah's text the inclusion of the defense's last argument serves as a flashback and gives Emmanuel a reason for his actions. He believes if Dunn could get freedom so could he. It's an interesting and powerful flashback considering the moment. #Muddybuddies

#Adjei-Brenyah uses a sarcastic tone when he describes the violence that occurred at the beginning of the story. This tone reflects how society thought the decision was just, but in reality, the narrator's take clearly expresses, thru the tone, how it was unjust. #Muddybuddies

Interesting quote from #Anders, "Others chose Molly's store bc books meant civilization, or maybe the store's name seemed to promise a kind of safe passage:the 1st page leading gracefully to the last." Reflects a theme of restoring faith in humanity thru literature. #Muddybuddies

Does Molly, in #Ander's story, control what the people read by selling mostly books on one view, similar to the totalitarian principles presented in 1984 or Fahrenheit 451? Is Molly considered responsible for the non-diversification of thought or ideas in this area? #Muddybuddies

A theme I found in #Chiang's story was the cruciality of preserving words. The characters were overpowered by a digital world and came to understand the value of the truth in writing, instead of learning auditorily, they skepticize "truth" that comes from the mouth #MuddyBuddies

I thought this quote from #Chiang was very powerful and conveys a universal message, "Digital memory will not stop us from telling stories about ourselves. As I said earlier, we are made of stories, and nothing can change that." No digital world can steal our memory #Muddybuddies

I like how #Saunders incorporates popular company names very strategically because it adds a layer of confusion that adds to the satire of the story. In some places the company names make sense and others don't make sense. It's an interesting dynamic of the story. #Muddybuddies

Does #Saunders use the satire of the advertisements and common goods as a way to represent how in this world and the dystopian world love can only be like a marketable product? #Muddybuddies

#Jameson makes clear that the use of media on the scale it was when this essay was written was enough to make historical events superficial and that people no longer engage with their country's history. #Muddybuddies

When #Jameson says, "That particular Utopian future has in other words turned out to have been merely the future of one moment of what is now our own past," is he trying to say that Science fiction is responsible for the impossibility of Utopia? #Muddybuddies

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I like the concept of #Collins writing a Sonnet about a Sonnet. This is a good poem to use to teach sonnets and their structure. The iambic pentameter is also very easily identifiable in this poem. #1202NF

#Collins uses an interesting allusion to Christianity. Referencing how a Sonnet has a line for each station of the cross (there are 14). #1202NF

#Rossetti makes clear in her poem that painting is a sense of poetry, and her words themselves explain how poetry itself is like a painting. A rather exquisite analogy. #1202NF

I like how #Rossetti explains how the painter can see anything they want to in their subject and use a blank canvas to portray any message or mood that most strikes them. They can see the beauty and the ugly in anything. #1202NF

What is the historical context of societal norms that defined beauty in the time that #Shakespeare wrote this sonnet? #1202NF