Thursday, September 25, 2003
Analyzing Robert Madsen's "The North Korean Calculus"
In his response to the Michael O'Hanlon's op-ed, Sept. 17 at Washington post, Robert Madsen wrote the Letter to the Editor "The North Korean Calculus" . In his letter, Robert Madsen analyze the suggestions of Michael O'Hanlon by presenting the effects caused from putting into effect those suggestions. Through this analyzing process Madsen is trying to provide the counterargument why the idea of North Korea won't give up its nuclear program for any deal. His method is very effective.
In the second paragraph, Madsen explained that North Korea is not reliable because "North Korea routinely violates its own treaty obligations and denounces other countries' pledges as meaningless". While in the third paragraph, he explains that how it is impossible to work out any deal as O'Hanlon contends. He explains that even though North Korea agrees and keep up with the deal, once the nuclear plants are closed the "donor government" won't be any more attempted to continue the deal.
Through out the post Madsen used effectively the cause and effect method, even though in somewhat different way than 'X' is caused because of 'Y'. The difference is largely because Madsen was counterarguing something that's not happened but that was proposed. In his method, Madsen explained 'Y' will result into 'X'. Overall, it was very effective in proving the point made.
In his response to the Michael O'Hanlon's op-ed, Sept. 17 at Washington post, Robert Madsen wrote the Letter to the Editor "The North Korean Calculus" . In his letter, Robert Madsen analyze the suggestions of Michael O'Hanlon by presenting the effects caused from putting into effect those suggestions. Through this analyzing process Madsen is trying to provide the counterargument why the idea of North Korea won't give up its nuclear program for any deal. His method is very effective.
In the second paragraph, Madsen explained that North Korea is not reliable because "North Korea routinely violates its own treaty obligations and denounces other countries' pledges as meaningless". While in the third paragraph, he explains that how it is impossible to work out any deal as O'Hanlon contends. He explains that even though North Korea agrees and keep up with the deal, once the nuclear plants are closed the "donor government" won't be any more attempted to continue the deal.
Through out the post Madsen used effectively the cause and effect method, even though in somewhat different way than 'X' is caused because of 'Y'. The difference is largely because Madsen was counterarguing something that's not happened but that was proposed. In his method, Madsen explained 'Y' will result into 'X'. Overall, it was very effective in proving the point made.
Friday, September 19, 2003
Hi! Welcome back for another blog!
We are suppose to read the war blogs either by Salam Pax, Riverbend, Turning Tables, or LT Smash (one can get the links at http://tryon1101.blogspot.com). WAR!! Ahh! So painful, so inhuman!! So I visited the archive for March month when the war was the hottest issue in the whole world.
I read couple of entries and scanned through few more. Each of them had the same emotion. No, it was not fear. It is something that can?t be explained. The closet word describing that unique emotion would be, say, anxiety, may be. These blogs are way graphic. The images depicted were obviously censored by Pentagon, and no doubt why. When the thoughts of the war shook several people in here (the place miles and miles and miles and ? and miles away from the place of war), it is just imaginable what the people who faced it everyday, mostly in form of the waiting death.
These blogs (they seem to be a true description) depicts the picture of the bomb affected buildings and area. As the city of Baghdad was bombed and the memories of many were brought down to dust, the feeling ?The only thing I could think of was ?why does this have to happen to Baghdad??, the same New York people had after 9/11 was evident. In fact, the lives of these Iraqis at Baghdad were the worst because they knew the city was going to be bombed and with the countdown (?we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq?) the fear of their roof being unfortunate target of disobedient missile increases.
Such disturbing images by the person who is experiencing them makes these blogs very effective in the hidden message that the war is something one never wants, or atleast one despise like in this case when the light of freedom can be seen at the end of the war.
The eye-witness of Salam in itself is hearttouching, and regarding Salam's ethos to believe whether these experiences mentioned in the blogs are real, forget about it. Even if Salam in itself is not real, the experiences and the emotions depicted are not far away from the reality!!!!!!!
We are suppose to read the war blogs either by Salam Pax, Riverbend, Turning Tables, or LT Smash (one can get the links at http://tryon1101.blogspot.com). WAR!! Ahh! So painful, so inhuman!! So I visited the archive for March month when the war was the hottest issue in the whole world.
I read couple of entries and scanned through few more. Each of them had the same emotion. No, it was not fear. It is something that can?t be explained. The closet word describing that unique emotion would be, say, anxiety, may be. These blogs are way graphic. The images depicted were obviously censored by Pentagon, and no doubt why. When the thoughts of the war shook several people in here (the place miles and miles and miles and ? and miles away from the place of war), it is just imaginable what the people who faced it everyday, mostly in form of the waiting death.
These blogs (they seem to be a true description) depicts the picture of the bomb affected buildings and area. As the city of Baghdad was bombed and the memories of many were brought down to dust, the feeling ?The only thing I could think of was ?why does this have to happen to Baghdad??, the same New York people had after 9/11 was evident. In fact, the lives of these Iraqis at Baghdad were the worst because they knew the city was going to be bombed and with the countdown (?we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq?) the fear of their roof being unfortunate target of disobedient missile increases.
Such disturbing images by the person who is experiencing them makes these blogs very effective in the hidden message that the war is something one never wants, or atleast one despise like in this case when the light of freedom can be seen at the end of the war.
The eye-witness of Salam in itself is hearttouching, and regarding Salam's ethos to believe whether these experiences mentioned in the blogs are real, forget about it. Even if Salam in itself is not real, the experiences and the emotions depicted are not far away from the reality!!!!!!!
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Hi! Welcome back for another blog!
We are suppose to read the war blogs either by Salam Pax, Riverbend, Turning Tables, or LT Smash (one can get the links at http://tryon1101.blogspot.com). WAR!! Ahh! So painful, so inhuman!! So I visited the archive for March month when the war was the hottest issue in the whole world.
I read couple of entries and scanned through few more. Each of them had the same emotion. No, it was not fear. It is something that can’t be explained. The closet word describing that unique emotion would be, say, anxiety, may be. These blogs are way graphic. The images depicted were obviously censored by Pentagon, and no doubt why. When the thoughts of the war shook several people in here (the place miles and miles and miles and … and miles away from the place of war), it is just imaginable what the people who faced it everyday, mostly in form of the waiting death.
These blogs (they seem to be a true description) depicts the picture of the bomb affected buildings and area. As the city of Baghdad was bombed and the memories of many were brought down to dust, the feeling “The only thing I could think of was ‘why does this have to happen to Baghdad’�, the same New York people had after 9/11 was evident. In fact, the lives of these Iraqis at Baghdad were the worst because they knew the city was going to be bombed and with the countdown (“we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq�) the fear of their roof being unfortunate target of disobedient missile increases.
Such disturbing images by the person who is experiencing them makes these blogs very effective in the hidden message that the war is something one never wants, or atleast one despise like in this case when the light of freedom can be seen at the end of the war.
The eye-witness of Salam in itself is hearttouching, and regarding Salam's ethos to believe wether these experiences mentioned in the blogs are real, forget about it. Even if Salam in itself is not real, the experiences and the emotions depicted are not far away from the reality!!!!!!!
We are suppose to read the war blogs either by Salam Pax, Riverbend, Turning Tables, or LT Smash (one can get the links at http://tryon1101.blogspot.com). WAR!! Ahh! So painful, so inhuman!! So I visited the archive for March month when the war was the hottest issue in the whole world.
I read couple of entries and scanned through few more. Each of them had the same emotion. No, it was not fear. It is something that can’t be explained. The closet word describing that unique emotion would be, say, anxiety, may be. These blogs are way graphic. The images depicted were obviously censored by Pentagon, and no doubt why. When the thoughts of the war shook several people in here (the place miles and miles and miles and … and miles away from the place of war), it is just imaginable what the people who faced it everyday, mostly in form of the waiting death.
These blogs (they seem to be a true description) depicts the picture of the bomb affected buildings and area. As the city of Baghdad was bombed and the memories of many were brought down to dust, the feeling “The only thing I could think of was ‘why does this have to happen to Baghdad’�, the same New York people had after 9/11 was evident. In fact, the lives of these Iraqis at Baghdad were the worst because they knew the city was going to be bombed and with the countdown (“we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq�) the fear of their roof being unfortunate target of disobedient missile increases.
Such disturbing images by the person who is experiencing them makes these blogs very effective in the hidden message that the war is something one never wants, or atleast one despise like in this case when the light of freedom can be seen at the end of the war.
The eye-witness of Salam in itself is hearttouching, and regarding Salam's ethos to believe wether these experiences mentioned in the blogs are real, forget about it. Even if Salam in itself is not real, the experiences and the emotions depicted are not far away from the reality!!!!!!!
Monday, September 08, 2003
HI!
Thanks to the comments from Lyn Hejinian, I understood little bit of what Benjamin has to say regarding the degrading of the art of storytelling with the entrance of the modern technologies and advancement. But I am pretty much sure that had he been born and brought up in today's world, he would have never wrote this particular piece of work, called "the Storyteller". Largely because today the storytelling can be found in movies, television series, documentaries, and other digital media. AND how can one forget about BLOGS. Yeah! blogs form the style of literature and a form of literature through which the feelings are expressed, views are exposed, angles are given, and experiences are shared not in the form information but more like a storytelling because opinions are formed, personal views are added, and all other features of storytelling are found. AND guess what? all uncensored!!!! So, it is at higher level than storytelling itself.
So, it is very hard to agree with Benjamin largely because I am not from the era he was ( I cannot imagine his era). Also, it is tough to understand his argument not just because of high level language ( which is pretty annoying for a reader with below average English vocabulary) but largely because he seems to be contradicting himself. He argues that in the post-mechanic war the experiences are shared like information and not like storytelling, and in this information " no event any longer comes to us without already being shot through with explanation (The Storyteller, 89)". AND from the comments of Lyn Hejinian in an interview (by Craig Dworkin, originally published in Idiom #3 (Berkeley: 1995)), I found out that storytelling and poetry "offers readers [or listeners in case of storytelling] the opportunity to participate.....second because poetry generally doesn't over-explain itself". If an information is unexplained, does not that leave the room for the readers [or listeners in case of electronic media like Television] to participate? If I am not mistaken for my whole AP Language and Compostion class in high school, we read novels and participate in the discussion with lot of issues addressed unexplained. It was more fun to discuss novel than a poem!
Lyn Hejinian further comments "[novels] are written in the past tense, after the death of the characters and after the completion of the events" and that somehow results in isolation. What!!! If reading or writing a novel leads to isolation just because it is written after the completion of the events, then I think same should be storytelling because even in storytelling the events are told after its completion.
It seemed for a moment that Benjamin feared the change in society with his criticism of the changing technologies.
A very high level vocabulary threw me off the argument because I had to look in the dictionary quite often ( that I quit reading left 4 pages). I had two major benefits by reading this essay, one that my English sucks and second how important blog writing is as it maintains the quality of storytelling and the pace with time!!
Thanks to the comments from Lyn Hejinian, I understood little bit of what Benjamin has to say regarding the degrading of the art of storytelling with the entrance of the modern technologies and advancement. But I am pretty much sure that had he been born and brought up in today's world, he would have never wrote this particular piece of work, called "the Storyteller". Largely because today the storytelling can be found in movies, television series, documentaries, and other digital media. AND how can one forget about BLOGS. Yeah! blogs form the style of literature and a form of literature through which the feelings are expressed, views are exposed, angles are given, and experiences are shared not in the form information but more like a storytelling because opinions are formed, personal views are added, and all other features of storytelling are found. AND guess what? all uncensored!!!! So, it is at higher level than storytelling itself.
So, it is very hard to agree with Benjamin largely because I am not from the era he was ( I cannot imagine his era). Also, it is tough to understand his argument not just because of high level language ( which is pretty annoying for a reader with below average English vocabulary) but largely because he seems to be contradicting himself. He argues that in the post-mechanic war the experiences are shared like information and not like storytelling, and in this information " no event any longer comes to us without already being shot through with explanation (The Storyteller, 89)". AND from the comments of Lyn Hejinian in an interview (by Craig Dworkin, originally published in Idiom #3 (Berkeley: 1995)), I found out that storytelling and poetry "offers readers [or listeners in case of storytelling] the opportunity to participate.....second because poetry generally doesn't over-explain itself". If an information is unexplained, does not that leave the room for the readers [or listeners in case of electronic media like Television] to participate? If I am not mistaken for my whole AP Language and Compostion class in high school, we read novels and participate in the discussion with lot of issues addressed unexplained. It was more fun to discuss novel than a poem!
Lyn Hejinian further comments "[novels] are written in the past tense, after the death of the characters and after the completion of the events" and that somehow results in isolation. What!!! If reading or writing a novel leads to isolation just because it is written after the completion of the events, then I think same should be storytelling because even in storytelling the events are told after its completion.
It seemed for a moment that Benjamin feared the change in society with his criticism of the changing technologies.
A very high level vocabulary threw me off the argument because I had to look in the dictionary quite often ( that I quit reading left 4 pages). I had two major benefits by reading this essay, one that my English sucks and second how important blog writing is as it maintains the quality of storytelling and the pace with time!!
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
HI!
It is interesting what Rebecca Blood wrote about ethics in weblogs. I am not a lot familiar with blogs, but so far I just thought that the views expressed in the blogs are original, means they convey what the writer feels. It was to me a digital or precisely an electronic diary. And I still feel that way.
I agree with the ethics set forward by Rebecca Blood in the essay, but I do not understand why there is any need for ethics? Like in diaries, in blogs people express their feelings, views, experiences, and so on. None of these can be right or wrong. And why is there any need to delete previous blogs? Just write another one correcting the previous one! I understand the effect of deleting or editing the previously published blogs and so the need to avoid the changes in the previously published blogs. That does not mean, if a moron wants to change his or her existing blog, he or she should not. Just send the recent update to the links to that blog, and let the people referring to that blog know about the changes. And how smart it is to use someone’s (one who can not be confirmed to be expert in the field) opinion as the research source.
I agree that the given person should be given proper credit, but can one eliminate plagiarisms from literary writings? Morally all the ethics set forth by Blood are right, but logically either they are irrelevant or they are tough to maintain!
It is interesting what Rebecca Blood wrote about ethics in weblogs. I am not a lot familiar with blogs, but so far I just thought that the views expressed in the blogs are original, means they convey what the writer feels. It was to me a digital or precisely an electronic diary. And I still feel that way.
I agree with the ethics set forward by Rebecca Blood in the essay, but I do not understand why there is any need for ethics? Like in diaries, in blogs people express their feelings, views, experiences, and so on. None of these can be right or wrong. And why is there any need to delete previous blogs? Just write another one correcting the previous one! I understand the effect of deleting or editing the previously published blogs and so the need to avoid the changes in the previously published blogs. That does not mean, if a moron wants to change his or her existing blog, he or she should not. Just send the recent update to the links to that blog, and let the people referring to that blog know about the changes. And how smart it is to use someone’s (one who can not be confirmed to be expert in the field) opinion as the research source.
I agree that the given person should be given proper credit, but can one eliminate plagiarisms from literary writings? Morally all the ethics set forth by Blood are right, but logically either they are irrelevant or they are tough to maintain!
