Prelude, Context, Problem, Solution

Have you ever lost someone you love in a drunk driving accident? People lose their lives every day by making one huge mistake. It involves drinking beers and deciding not to have a designated driver. Every year, thousands of people are killed by drunk-driving related incidents. It is so simple to change these numbers. But it takes a certain amount of intelligence to do so. How can we prevent people from getting into drunk driving related incidents and costing thousands of people their lives? There are many ways to make it happen. You can always set a designated driver or have money for a taxi prepared. You could have a plan to stay over at a nearby friend’s instead of heading home. 

Bibliography for Tumblr paper

1) "About." Tumblr. Tumblr, Inc. Web. 15 Apr. 2012. <http://www.tumblr.com/about>.

2) Bruns, Axel. "News Blogs and Citizen Journalism: Perpetual Collaboration in Evaluating the News." Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. 2nd ed. Vol. 45. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 69-99. Print. Digital Formations.

3) Chapman, Andy. "Tumblr Case Study." NetHosting.com. NetHosting, 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 15 Apr. 2012. <http://www.nethosting.com/buzz/case-studies/tumblr-case-study>.

4) "Why You'll Love Tumblr." Why Everyone Loves Tumblr. Tumblr, Inc. Web. 15 Apr. 2012. <http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblr>.

5)  Contributers. "Microblogging." Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 10 Apr. 2012. Web. 15 Apr. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microblogging&oldid=486665233>. 
6) Hedengren, Thord Daniel. Tackling Tumblr: Web Publishing Made Simple. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011. EBook.


1- A page giving the description of Tumblr, clippers of reviews and how the website runs and how it was founded. 
2- A chapter about how blogging differs from mainstream news sources, mostly by the lack of moderation.
3- statistics about Tumblr.
4- a description of tumblr features
5- a description of what is microblogging.
6- a book about how to use tumblr and its coding.

the essay in 2parts: part 1

The essay is a weird conundrum. I believe the essay is a work which allows for a personal connection. The article is more fact based and has less emotion behind it. The essay can get in your face and provide a story and something exciting to read. Paul Heilker makes many points towards how the essay is an art form of free expression. The most important part in my opinion is that the exploratory essay can be private thoughts and you control who reads them. Articles are more focused on reaching others who are not on a personal level with the author.

In terms of essays I would like to read, there are so many options. My first choice would one that was light in tone, maybe containing a personal story. I want to be able to connect with the writer. In order for that to happen, the work must have been written with their full heart and soul. I like essays that make me think as well. I don't want to hear random facts that I already know. For example, I want to see an essay that explains how music is connected to wildlife. This is just a random option, but still, I would be excited for it.

Paragraph Revision for Wound Dresser Essay

To start off, we will start with how Wilson interprets the arts. In chapter ten of his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, he states that, “Artistic inspiration common to everyone in varying degree rises from the artesian wells of human nature. Its creations are meant to be delivered directly to the sensibilities of the beholder without analytic explanation”. In short, art is based on human experiences and emotions. It is due to this fact that people become so interested in art. The beholder can feel the same emotion that the artist wants to convey. How Wilson explains this is Gene-Culture CoEvolution. As humans progressed in evolving minds, culture came into existence. We gained the ability to understand what was going on in our world and to put it into a form of interpretation.

Points to Focus On:

Remove Unnecessary Words.

Exchange long phrases for words.

We will begin our exploration by learning how Wilson interprets art. In Chapter 10 of his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, he states, “Artistic inspiration common to everyone in varying degree rises from the artesian wells of human nature. Its creations are meant to be delivered directly to the sensibilities of the beholder without analytic explanation”. In short, art is based on life. People are interested in an artwork because the artist has successfully conveyed the specific emotions that he or she wants them to feel. This is in part due to what Wilson calls Gene-Culture Coevolution. As humans' evolved physically, so did their ability to understand what was going on around them. They wanted to convey their emotions with others. Thus, art was born on cave walls.

Whitman Now

I am writing about the article "Whitman Now." from The Whitman Virginia Quarterly from April 2005. The article, written by Rafael Campo, briefly discusses how to define Walt Whitman's poetry in the time of the Bush administration. The whole reason why I am writing about The Wound Dresser is because art is supposed to transcend to all times. That, according to Wilson, is how the arts and humanities work. What better way to see how the poem still makes  than an article about it. My other references include a book of letters from Walt Whitman to his mother during the Civil War, and the first 14 pages of a thesis on how Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott and The Wound Dresser are related to one another through the events of the Civil War. Such work is true and beautiful because it conveys emotions and views from another time and makes them visible to future readers.

Works Cited for The Wound Dresser

1)  Traphagen, Sarah Katelyn. "Our Wounded, our Wounds: Disruption, Ideological Permeability and Transference of Agony in Louisa may Alcotts "Hospital Sketches" and Walt Whitmans "Memoranda during the War" and "the Wound-Dresser"." State University of New York at Buffalo, 2010. United States -- New York: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.



2)  Campo, Rafael. "Whitman Now." Virginia Quarterly Review 81.2 (2005): 126-127. Academic SearchPremier. Web. 6 Mar. 2012. 


3) Whitman, Walt. The Wound Dresser; Letters Written to His Mother from the Hospitals in Washington during the Civil War,. Ed. Richard Maurice Bucke. New York: Bodley, 1949. Print.


1) The thesis revolves around how Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman worked as nurses in war hospitals and how it was reflected in their writing.
2) The essay concerns how to relate Walt Whitman's poems to the Bush presidency over 100 years later.
3) This book is a collection of letters from when Walt Whitman served as a nurse during the american civil war.

From Genes to Culture

I was reading the chapter when I came across the section on how changes in breeding and heredity are studied. First of course they mentioned the Kenyan marathon runners and how their abilities are based on heredity and environment. I found this easy to relate to because most people today know how amazingly well runners from Kenya perform at the Olympics. The. They talked about studying twins. Ive heard of these cases do often it wasn't that hard to follow. Heritability is still a term I have a hard time understanding, for now.