Wednesday, January 28, 2015

What makes you laugh?

Apparently I didn't get the memo that we were suppose to be asking our peers about the definition of humor and laughter, as well as the implications of negative humor. So instead, I simply just asked them what exactly it is that makes them laugh?

Claire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg7ldd7bVb8

Kylee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3-c67l6Is

Grace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjYt0Syy8yg

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Literature & Civilizations Definitions

I interviewed my brother and his roommates on what they thought the definitions of literature and civilizations were. They came to a pretty clear consensus. All in all, they viewed literature as written works that display some type of meaning. In addition, they saw civilizations as groups of people living with one another. My brother added the fact that he viewed civilizations as a system of people that have a governing body or some type of order. They thought that in this class we would be surveying literary works throughout different civilizations in order to compare and contrast.