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		<title>SPN3730 diario: Pascual Duarte parte A</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La parte A se refiere solamente a las dos novelas estudiadas. La parte A debe ser preparada después de leer la primera mitad de la novela y contestar las siguientes preguntas: ¿te está gustando la novela/película o no, y por qué? No me gusta la novela. Las personajes que puedes gustar son superficiales, o hacen [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>La parte A se refiere solamente a las dos novelas estudiadas. La parte A debe ser<br />
preparada después de leer la primera mitad de la novela y contestar las siguientes<br />
preguntas:  </p>
<p> ¿te está gustando la novela/película o no, y por qué? </i></p>
<p>No me gusta la novela. Las personajes que puedes gustar son superficiales, o hacen algo malo en las próximas paginas.  Los otros personajes son repulsivos.  El unico personaje que puedes aclamar es el de Pascual Duarte mismo, pero cuando tienes compasión para él, el hago algo repugnante, violente, en las próximas paginas.<br />
Yo sé que este libro  quiere representar la vida horrible de los pobres en España, y de incomodar los lectores, pero no me gusta.  Los actos violentes de Pascual Duarte son por mayor parte inexplicables, quizás son de un mente agitado.<br />
<br />
<i>¿cuál(es) de los personajes o qué episiodio(s) te han impresionado<br />
particularmente? </i></p>
<ul>
<li>La historia triste y corto de Mario, hijo no amado y descuidado, me parece muy triste.  El afecto de su vida en la vida de Pascual creo que vamos a ver más de ello.
<li>El aborto, cuando Pascual esta borracheando con sus amigos, solo 3 días después de su matrimonio, es muy triste también. Creo que Pascual es más agitado que antes, y va a hacer algo impactante, como un asesinato, en los próximas paginas. </li>
</ul>
<p><i>apunta una o dos oraciones que te parecen significativas </i></p>
<p>&#8220;La rabia que llevaba dentro no me dejó ver claro; tan obcecado estaba que ni me percaté de lo que oía&#8221; (P.96) Creo que ese rabia va a crecer y controlar a Pascual.<br />
<br />
&#8220;Por otra parte, y aunque no fuera por eso, nunca está de más el ser humanitario.&#8221; (P. 84)<br />
<br />
<i> ¿qué preguntas o misterios quieres que se aclaren para el final de la novela? (al<br />
menos 3)</i></p>
<ul>
<li>¿Cuando va a Pascual hacer su primer asesino?</li>
<li>¿Qué alta es el número de bajas cuando termina el libro?</li>
<li>¿Van a tener más hijos, Pascual y Lola? </li>
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		<title>SPN3730 diario: La colmena</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[¿cuál es tu impresión global de la novela/película? ¿te gustó o no el final y por qué? apunta al menos una reflexión que la novela/película te ha provocado sobre tu propia vida o la de un/a amigo/a o pariente identifica al menos 2 cualidades literarias/cinematográficas de la novela/película que la hacen destacar Basada en la [...]]]></description>
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<ul>
<li>¿cuál es tu impresión global de la novela/película? </li>
<li> ¿te gustó o no el final y por qué? </li>
<li> apunta al menos una reflexión que la novela/película te ha provocado sobre tu<br />
propia vida o la de un/a amigo/a o pariente </li>
<li>identifica al menos 2 cualidades literarias/cinematográficas de la novela/película<br />
que la hacen destacar </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Basada en la novela del mismo nombre, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083743/">La Colmena</a> representa las vidas de Madrileños en 1942. El libro, de Camilo José Cela, era prohibido en España, y<br />
era publicado en Buenos Aires, Argentina.  La película era estrenaba en 1982. </p>
<p>Este pelicula es sobre las maneras de sobrevivir en la España de 1942, unos años despues de la<br />
guerra civil.  Hay muchas escenas de comida y de hambre. Fue un poco dificil de mantener todas las historias pequeñas de todas las personajes de la pelicula,<br />
porque hay mas de sesenta. </p>
<p>Mi impresion global: como dice Purita- &#8220;ssssi. no, no me gusta.&#8221; (Martín: por qué?) &#8220;porque es<br />
muy triste.&#8221; fue como seguir a personas en sus vidas diarias, algo un poco incómodo en los momentos privados. </p>
<p>Del final:  Me gusta que son libres de ir a sus vidas, aunque son vidas pateticas.  No sabes si todos<br />
los personajes van a sobrevivir, y el final era un poco deprimente. </p>
<p>De mi propia vida, no vi mi carácter en los personajes, pero es interesante pensar en que yo lo hago<br />
en esas situaciones.  Me gusta que tienen la café para congregar, y para mi esa lugar es Wholefoods, pero<br />
las mesas no son lápidas del cemeterio y no hay una dueña enojada. </p>
<p>La pelicula usa la musica mucha para empatizar la atmósfera.  Cuando vi la pelicula, hemos usado<br />
los subtítulos en español para comprender el diálogo, y las palabras [MUSICA TRISTE] eran usadas<br />
para indicar el mismo sentido para los que no pueden oir.  También fue interesante el uso de las<br />
secuencias filmadas de los años 40, da un realismo a la pelicula. </p>
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		<title>SPN3730 vocabulario 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colmena colmena. (Quizá del celta *kolmēnā, der. de *kŏlmos, paja; cf. bretón kôlôen-wénan, de kôlô, paja, y wénan, abejas). 1. f. Habitación natural de las abejas. 2. f. Enjambre que vive en la colmena. 3. f. Recipiente construido para habitáculo de las abejas. 4. f. Lugar o edificio en el que vive mucha gente apiñada. [...]]]></description>
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<b>Colmena</b> </p>
<blockquote>
<p>colmena.</p>
<p>(Quizá del celta *kolmēnā, der. de *kŏlmos, paja; cf. bretón kôlôen-wénan, de kôlô, paja, y wénan, abejas).</p>
<p>1. f. Habitación natural de las abejas.</p>
<p>2. f. Enjambre que vive en la colmena.</p>
<p>3. f. Recipiente construido para habitáculo de las abejas.</p>
<p>4. f. Lugar o edificio en el que vive mucha gente apiñada.
</p></blockquote>
<p>En el sentido de la novela, la colmena se refiere a &#8220;Lugar o edificio en el que vive mucha gente apiñada.&#8221;</p>
<p><i>La gente más pobre vive en unas colmenas en las calles más sucias de la ciudad.</i>
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marj_k/75345471/"><br />
<img src="pineapple.jpg" align="right" /></a><br />
<b>Apiñada</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p>apiñado, da.</p>
<p>(Del part. de apiñar).</p>
<p>1. adj. De forma de piña.
</p></blockquote>
<p>¿De forma de piña? ¿¡qué!?  Ah. El diccionario español/inglés Merriam-Webster</p>
<blockquote><p>
Main Entry: <b>apiñado, apiñada</b><br />
Function: <i>adjective</i><br />
Language: Spanish</p>
<p>: jammed, crowded
</p></blockquote>
<p><i>Hay grandes problemas con el sistema de transporte publico en Melbourne: cada día la gente viaje apiñada en el tren. </i><br />
<small>(Foto del grande piña gracias a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marj_k/75345471/">marj k</a>)</small></p>
<p>Aunque <i>apiñada</i> es una palabra muy divertido, no es en el texto, entonces:
</p>
<p>
<b>Paños Calientes</b></p>
<blockquote><p>Mienten quienes quieren disfrazar la vida con la máscara loca de la literatura. Ese mal que corroe las almas; ese mal que tiene tantos nombres como queramos darle, no puede ser combatido con los paños calientes del conformismo, con la cataplasma de la retorica y de la poética. </p></blockquote>
<p>Estoy usando el frase en ves de la palabra <i>paño</i> ¡porque hay muchos definiciones de la palabra paño!</p>
<blockquote><p>
<b>[paño]~s calientes.</b></p>
<p>1. m. pl. coloq. Diligencias y buenos oficios que se aplican para templar el rigor o aspereza con que se ha de proceder en una materia.</p>
<p>2. m. pl. coloq. Remedios paliativos e ineficaces.</p>
<p>3. m. pl. p. us. Diligencias e instancias que se hacen para avivar a alguien en orden a que ejecute lo que le está encomendado.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>C.J.C. esta diciendo que las maneras de combatir la censura no funcionen, son paños calientes, &#8220;remedios paliativos e ineficaces&#8221;.  Disfrazar ideas en la poética no funciona de comunicar los ideas fuertes.  Entonces, se debe publicar su libro fuera de España, en Argentina.</p>
<p><i>Los estudiantes cuenten en los paños calientes de Red Bull y estudiar a última hora para aprobar sus exámenes. </i></p>
<p>
<b>Cataplasma</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p>(Del lat. <i>cataplasma</i>, y este del gr. κατάπλασμα).</p>
<p>1. f. Tópico de consistencia blanda, que se aplica para varios efectos medicinales, y más particularmente el que es calmante o emoliente.</p>
<p>2. f. coloq. Persona pesada y fastidiosa.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Como paños calientes, C.J.C. está diciendo que la retorica y la poética son demasiados calmantes y emolientes, entonces no son eficaz en burlarse de la censura.</p>
<p><i>Cuando me quemé mi dedo cocinando la cena, una cataplasma de áloe fue útil para curur la quemadura. </i>
</p>
<p>
<b>Bibliografía</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>
Apiñada en Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua española vigésima segunda edición <a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=apiñar">http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=apiñar</a>
</li>
<li>Apiñada en Merriam-Webster Spanish English Dictionary <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/spanish/apinada">http://www.merriam-webster.com/spanish/apinada</a>
</li>
<li>Camilo José Cela Nota a la primera edición</li>
<li>Cataplasma en Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua española vigésima segunda edición <a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=cataplasma">http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=cataplasma</a>
</li>
<li>
Colmena en Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua española vigésima segunda edición <a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=colmena">http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=colmena</a>
</li>
<li>
Paño en Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua española vigésima segunda edición <a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=paño">http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=paño</a></li>
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		<title>SPN3730: In Memoriam FFB: vocabulario</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Para leer las artículos para el curso, tengo dos colores para subrayar los palabras que necesito aprender. Tengo dos colores porque hay palabras realmente nuevas, pero también hay palabras que debo saber, pero no puedo recordarlas. Voy a recordarlas aquí en orden que aparecen en el texto. Palabras Nuevas Antonomasia: &#8220;he aguardado como millones de [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Para leer las artículos para el curso, tengo dos colores para subrayar los palabras que necesito aprender.  Tengo dos colores porque hay palabras realmente nuevas, pero también hay palabras que debo saber, pero no puedo recordarlas.  Voy a recordarlas aquí en orden que aparecen en el texto.</p>
<h2>Palabras Nuevas</h2>
<p>
<b>Antonomasia</b>:</p>
<p>&#8220;he aguardado como millones de mis compatriotas este día, el Día por antonomasia que debería partir &#8230; mi vida, nuestra vida en dos&#8221; (11) </p>
<p>de la RAE:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=antonomasia"><b>antonomasia.</b></a></p>
<p>(Del lat. antonomasĭa, y este del gr. ἀντονομασία).</p>
<p>1. f. Ret. Sinécdoque que consiste en poner el nombre apelativo por el propio, o el propio por el apelativo; p. ej., el Apóstol, por San Pablo; un Nerón, por un hombre cruel.</p>
<p>por ~.</p>
<p>1. loc. adv. Denota que a una persona o cosa le conviene el nombre apelativo con que se la designa, por ser, entre todas las de su clase, la más importante, conocida o característica.
</p></blockquote>
<p>La parte segunda es la más relevante, una cosa (el día) con que se las designa la más importante conocida o característica. </p>
<p>Entonces, una nueva oración con la palabra:<br />
<i>Los novios esperaban el día de su boda, el día por antonomasia que marca un nuevo comienzo.  </i></p>
<p><b>Saña</b><br />
&#8220;el olvido ha sido siempre más fuerte que mi saña.&#8221; (11)</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=sa%C3%B1a"><b>saña.</b></a> </p>
<p>(De or. inc.). </p>
<p>1. f. Furor, enojo ciego. </p>
<p>2. f. Intención rencorosa y cruel. 
</p></blockquote>
<p>Creo que en contexto saña significo &#8220;furor, enojo ciego.&#8221;
</p>
<p><b>desembocar</b><br />
&#8220;la increíble opresión del campesinado, proceso que debía desembocar en la década de los 60 en la conversión del país en una sociedad industrial moderna&#8221; (12)</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b><a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=desembocar">desembocar.</a></b></p>
<p>(De des- y embocar).</p>
<p>1. intr. Dicho de un río, de un canal, etc.: Entrar, desaguar en otro, en el mar o en un lago. </p>
<p>2. intr. Dicho de una calle: Tener salida a otra, a una plaza o a otro lugar.</p>
<p>3. intr. Concluir, alcanzar un desenlace.</p>
<p>4. intr. Salir como por una boca o estrecho. 
</p></blockquote>
<p>En el contexto, concluir, alcanzar un desenlace.  Está diciendo que la opresión del campesindo termina porque ya no existe.</p>
<p><b>Zapar</b><br />
&#8220;deberían zapar de modo sordo los fundamentos de su régimen, en razón misma de su aparente y ostentoso triunfo.&#8221; </p>
<blockquote><p>
1. intr. Trabajar con la zapa (‖ pala).
</p></blockquote>
<p>Creo que es una referencia de los zapadores que construyen trincheras para atacar un enemigo.   Zapar es como destruir.</p>
<p><i>Los zapadores destruyen el puente para retrasar el enemigo.</i></p>
<p>
<b>Medrar</b><br /> <br />
&#8220;para los hombres y mujeres de dos generaciones sucesivas, más o menos dotados de sensibilidad social y moral, y para quienes la libertad de medrar o enriquecerse de forma más o menos honesta no podía satisfacer en modo alguno sus aspiraciones de equidad y justicia&#8221; </p>
<blockquote><p>
<b><a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=medrar">medrar</a></b>.<br/></p>
<p>(De *mejdrar, sínc. de mejorar).</p>
<p>1. intr. Dicho de un animal o de una planta: crecer (‖ tomar aumento).</p>
<p>2. intr. Dicho de una persona: Mejorar de fortuna aumentando sus bienes, reputación, etc. 
</p></blockquote>
<h2>Palabras que encuentro otra vez </h2>
<ul>
<li><b>rencoroso</b><br />
<blockquote><p><a href="http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&#038;LEMA=rencor">rencor</a>: Resentimiento arraigado y tenaz.</p></blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<b>rasgos</b>: características.  (en inglés: <i>features</i>)
</li>
<li><b>pugna</b>  &#8220;pugnas personales&#8221; (11), batalla, pelea. </li>
<li><b>enemistad</b> cuando dos (o más) personas son enemigos y se odian al otro. </li>
<li><b>aborrecimiento</b> aversión.  (por pensar un poco, recuerdo la definición)</li>
<li><b>dolencias</b> enfermedades </li>
<li><b>presos</b> y <b>fusilados</b> (en inglés: <i>prisons</i> y <i>firing squads</i>)</li>
<li> <b>égida</b> escudo o protección </li>
<li> <b>apoteosis</b> elevar al nivel divina</li>
</ul>
<p>Bueno, el ejercicio es solo de identificar dos palabras que no se, no todos.  Hay otras palabras que he necesitado buscar, pero tengo garabateados en los margenes. </p>
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		<title>creativehedgehog in spanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pursuing a major in Spanish and Latin American Studies for my Arts degree, and having grown up in Bolivia, South America, I can speak Spanish. As I found out with blogging for FIT2001, keeping a journal is very beneficial to your learning. A journal that is published, such as on a blog, forces [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am pursuing a major in Spanish and Latin American Studies for my Arts degree, and having grown up in Bolivia, South America, I can speak Spanish.  As I found out with <a href="http://www.creativehedgehog.com/?cat=19">blogging for FIT2001</a>, keeping a journal is very beneficial to your learning.  A journal that is published, such as on a blog, forces you to write clearly because you are writing for an audience.  For <a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/units/SPN3730.html">Dictatorship and Democracy in Contemporary Spanish Fiction (SPN3730)</a>, one of the classes I am taking at the moment, has vocabulary exercises and journal exercises as part of the class work mark, and I will be blogging them for several reasons: </p>
<ul>
<li>I find blogging really easy and fun to do, so will be encouraged to complete the work</li>
<li>Writing for a public will help with the entry&#8217;s clarity. </li>
<li>Writing in Spanish helps me improve my Spanish</li>
<li>Publishing my journal will enable my tutor to check the diary as it comes, instead of having to wait for the due date to read all the entries (from everyone) at once.</li>
</ul>
<p>So, any future entries in the <a href="http://www.creativehedgehog.com/?cat=23">SPN3730</a> category will be written entirely in Spanish.  I hope you won&#8217;t find too many errors here! Please, if you find any, please comment and correct the errors, my Spanish will be less rusty. </p>
<h1>Creativehedog en español</h1>
<p>Estoy haciendo un &#8220;major&#8221; de Español y Estudios Latino Americanos para mi licenciatura en Letras, y (por su puesto) puedo hablar en español, porque vivió en Bolivia, América del Sur, por muchos años.  Para otra de mis clases, FIT2001, encuentro que el proceso de mantener un diario es muy útil para recordar la materia. Un diario publicado, como en un blog, se hace escribir en una manera clara, porque estás escribiendo para otras personas.</p>
<p>Para <a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/units/SPN3730.html">Dictadura y Democracia en la Literatura de España Contemporánea (SPN3730)</a> me voy<br />
a poner en este sitio de web los ejercicios de vocabulario y los diarios de lectura; estoy usando mi blog para estés razones: </p>
<ul>
<li>Me gusta bloguear, es divertido y fácil de hacer, entonces me anima de hacer el trabajo.</li>
<li>Escribiendo para un publico se ayuda con la claridad.</li>
<li>Escribiendo en español me ayuda mejorar mi uso de la lenguaje española</li>
<li>Si publicaré mi diario, mi profesor puede leer cuando él quiera, sin espera para las fechas de entrega.</li>
</ul>
<p>Entonces, los artículos de blog en la categoría <a href="http://www.creativehedgehog.com/?cat=23">SPN3730</a> escribiré  solamente en español.  ¡Ojalá que ustedes no encuentran errores de lenguaje aquí! Por favor, si puedes comentar y corregir los errores, ¡mi español se encuentra menos empolvado! </p>
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		<title>Rhizomic Hypertext: an essay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my final essay for Introduction Critical Theory, and I really enjoyed writing it. I thought I might share it with you, in case you&#8217;re interested in it. The essay deals with hypertext and the rhizome, based on the ideas found in essays by Stuart Moulthrop and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. As both [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is my final essay for <a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/units/CLS3000.html">Introduction Critical Theory</a>, and I really enjoyed writing it.  I thought I might share it with you, in case you&#8217;re interested in it. </p>
<p>The essay deals with hypertext and the rhizome, based on the ideas found in essays by Stuart Moulthrop and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.  As both these articles where written before the WWW took off, I have a look at how these concepts apply to the internet we know and love today, including Youtube and Facebook.  I also got to mention Rick-Rolls in my essay. <img src='http://www.creativehedgehog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>You can get my essay in <a href="rhizomichypertext.pdf">PDF format</a> or in <a href="rhizomichyptertext.html">HTML</a>. </p>
<p>This essay is Copyright to me.  Please don&#8217;t steal it and turn it in as if it is your essay.  However, feel free to use me as a source if you find it useful.  I don&#8217;t like publishing my full name online, so contact me for the appropriate Bibliography information. </p>
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		<title>2010 Semester 1 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I&#8217;ve put down my pen for the last time for Semester 1, 2010; now I can relax and enjoy a few weeks of holidays. Before I archive my uni stuff, I thought I would do a short review on each of the units I have taken this semester. CLS3000 My lone arts subject this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve put down my pen for the last time for Semester 1, 2010; now I can relax and enjoy a few weeks of holidays. Before I archive my uni stuff, I thought I would do a short review on each of the units I have taken this semester. </p>
<h4>CLS3000</h4>
<p>My lone arts subject this semester, <a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/units/CLS3000.html">Introduction to Critical Theory</a> was the unit I chose because I could do it at third year level without any pre-requisites, I need a certain number of  third-year points to graduate.  I also could count CLS3000 as an elective for my Spanish Major.  There is a lot of reading in this subject, but it&#8217;s really interesting stuff.  Sometimes it was a bit hard to grasp the ideas, but the class discussions were always fun.  I really enjoyed writing my final essay. At first this subject seemed really difficult, but in the end it was one of my favourite units.</p>
<h4>FIT2001</h4>
<p>My last-ever second year level unit, <a href="http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit2001/">Systems Analysis and Design</a> is probably the best unit I have taken so far in terms of student support.  The resources available in the forums, Moodle site, Study Guides, Lecture slides, podcasts of lectures and podcasts of interviews, chat rooms and more! were made even more useful by the active involvement of Peter O&#8217;Donnel (aka POD), the Caulfield lecturer and chief examiner for the unit.  Being friendly with the students  over twitter, we could ask quick questions very easily.  Sometimes the topics covered were pretty boring, but POD fought hard to make the lectures, tutorials and assignments interesting.  I found that the best way to tackle the assignments was to have a go, then get the tutor to tell you what was wrong with your diagrams.  My tutor was very helpful.  Rocking up at the student consultation sessions was well worth it.  A helpful tutor is basically giving you free marks when you ask questions!  In the end, I think I know that a career as a Systems Analyst isn&#8217;t really what I&#8217;d like to pursue, but I wish more subjects were like FIT2001.  Even having lecturers and tutors hang out in the forums before an assignment is due or before the exam would be a good first step.  Speaking of the exam, the format of this subject&#8217;s exam was great.  A good mix of confidence building easy questions and questions that stretched you.</p>
<h4>FIT3084</h4>
<p>In contrast to FIT2001, <a href="http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit3084/">Multimedia Programming for the WWW</a> was extremely interesting to me. We talked about HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, CGI, CSS, colours, images, and good design concepts.  The lectures were very good and enjoyable.  I took lots of notes.  However this subject was let down by the way it was run. This was an elective counting towards my computer science degree, not a common core unit so it was a fairly small class.  The lack of an online community was a bit ironic considering that this was an Internet subject, and this led to the lecturer <a href="http://fit3084-2010.blogspot.com/2010/06/exam-questions.html">being flooded with emails</a> just before the exam</p>
<p>
The project was to create a design document for a website and then build it.  This was worth 30% of the mark, which makes sense because it was group work. 30% is understandable as you don&#8217;t want to be pulled down too much if you&#8217;re lumped with a bad group. I found working in a group frustrating but we <a href="http://users.monash.edu.au/~ambai3/fit3084/">got it done</a>.  The assignment marking system was interesting, with a system of ranking by peers.  I think this was useful to see what everyone else was doing. </p>
<p>
The low 30% assignment mark made the exam a scary 70% of the mark.  Due to the really broad nature of the subject, the exam was hard to study for and required lots of memorisation.  The format of the exam was also annoying, with heavy black lines ruled through the question answering space. I prefer either thin lines (like in the separate answer book) or no lines (like the FIT2001 exam), not lines that cramp my writing.  I also was annoyed that &#8220;look up in your own time&#8221; stuff was examinable, so you had no idea what really was going to be on the exam.  Part of good exam revision is preparing for the exam format as well as for the kinds of questions, so the sample exam wasn&#8217;t as useful in that regard.  The exam was out of 145 marks, not 100, which is a bit weird and awkward for time planning. </p>
<p>The tutorials were optional, and were like Q&#038;A sessions, and could have been vastly improved if they had been held in a computer lab.  The exercises provided were good, but there was no real incentive to try them.  Having a piece of code on a screen to say: &#8220;it&#8217;s supposed to do this, but it does this&#8221; is better than having to demonstrate your code projected on the wall! </p>
</p>
<p>To improve this subject, I would make the exam worth 60% of the final mark, the two group assignments out of 30% and add a 10% tutorial component.  Basically an easy 10% where you would get marks full marks for completing the exercise, half marks for attempting the exercise, and one mark for turning up.   </p>
<h4>FIT3086</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/FIT3086.html">Project Management</a>.  Before starting this subject I thought it would be pretty ordinary, but the first lecture got me interested.  I really enjoyed some of the exercises: crashing networks is like a sudoku puzzle.  However, the lectures soon became incredibly difficult to sit through.  The tutorials were good, my tutor was really professional and helpful.  The second assignment was pretty ordinary and annoying. Being forced to wrestle with Microsoft Project was pretty annoying also. The exam was ok, I hadn&#8217;t reviewed ROI but overall the exam was ok.  It could have been made a bit clearer and less ambiguous- I&#8217;m sure language and learning would have been able to help.  This subject has great potential, but it falls short.  Because it has the potential to be so good, it&#8217;s sad that it&#8217;s terrible.  I&#8217;ve heard that you can knock this subject over in two weeks during the summer semester. </p>
<h4>Next Semester</h4>
<p>Next semester I&#8217;ll be taking: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/units/SPN3730.html">SPN3730</a> Dictatorship and Democracy in Contemporary Spanish Fiction</li>
<li><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2010handbooks/units/ENH3360.html">ENH3360</a> Fairy Tale Traditions</li>
<li><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/FIT3080.html">FIT3080</a> Artificial Intelligence </li>
<li><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/FIT3036.html">FIT3036</a> Computer Science Project </li>
</ul>
<p>But for now I&#8217;m going to enjoy a well earned break!</p>
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		<title>FIT3084 revision: PERL and CGI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>titanium</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, from my notes I took during the PERL lecture: Exam: need to read in file, process, print to web doc (CGI) This is what we had to do for the tutorial exercise. The first and most important thing to remember is the SHEBANG line (so named for the # and !, sharp and bang) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, from my notes I took during the PERL lecture: </p>
<blockquote><p>
Exam: need to read in file, process, print to web doc (CGI)
</p></blockquote>
<p>
This is what we had to do for the <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/courses/FIT3084/tutorialExercises/exCGIscript.html">tutorial exercise.</a>
</p>
<p> The first and most important thing to remember is the SHEBANG line (so named for the # and !, sharp and bang) with the path to where perl lives.<br />
<code>#! /usr/bin/perl </code> should be fine for the exam. </code></p>
<p>There are a couple of different ways to read in a file, I like:<br />
<code><br />
 open (FILE, 'data.txt');<br />
</code><br />
Then we have to process it.<br />
<code><br />
while (<FILE>) {<br />
}<br />
</code></p>
<p>If we have more than two options in an if... else bracket, we have to use elsif (note the lack of the second e).<br />
<code><br />
    if ($var = 1) {<br />
        $found = "one";<br />
    }<br />
    elsif ($var = 2) {<br />
       $found = "two";<br />
    }<br />
    else {<br />
        $found = "not one or two";<br />
    }<br />
}<br />
</code>
</p>
<p> Well, there is more, but that's enough for this blog post. </p>
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		<title>FIT3084: colours!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>titanium</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like colour. Colour is something that is very fun to play with. My own room at the moment is painted with three shades of blue and an orange (with white ceiling and trim). Colour also did my head in at school when I learned that the primary colours are Red, Yellow and Blue, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like colour.  Colour is something that is very fun to play with.  My own room at the moment is painted with three shades of blue and an orange (with white ceiling and trim).  Colour also did my head in at school when I learned that the primary colours are Red, Yellow and Blue, but the cones in our eyes are Red, Green and Blue, not to mention that printer cartridges come in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.  In this post I&#8217;m going to talk about Additive Colour, Subtractive Colour and Colour for the web.  </p>
<h4>Additive Colour</h4>
<p>Additive Colour is so named because you start with black, and add different coloured light until you get to white. (Newton proved using a prism that white light is a combination of all the different colours of light.  Our bodies are designed with the additive system in mind, with our cones coming in three types: Red, Green and Blue.  These are the primary colours of the Additive colour system. The secondary colours of this system are Yellow, Magenta and Cyan. </p>
<h4>Subtractive Colour</h4>
<p>This system is the one we&#8217;re most familiar with, as it is the traditional colour mixing system.  The primary colours are Red, Yellow and Blue.  The Secondary colours are Orange, Green, and Purple.  The system is called &#8220;subtractive&#8221; because we start with a white sheet of paper that is reflecting white (all) light.  Then we subtract some of the light by absorbing it in a pigment, and reflecting just some of the light back.  </p>
<h4>Colour for the Web (hexadecimals) </h4>
<p>Computer screens, while not true Additive colour devices, follow the additive method by emitting different colours of light.<br />
So, the World Wide Web colours work in the same way. </p>
<p><font color="#ff0000">Red: ff 00 00,</font> <font colour="#00ff00">Green: 00 ff 00, </font> <font color="#0000ff">Blue: 00 0 0ff, </font> are the primary colours, and then to mix them:<br />
 <font color="#ffff00">Yellow: ff ff 00, </font>  <font color="#ff00ff">Magenta: ff 00 ff, </font> and  <font color="#00ffff">Cyan: 00 ff ff</font>.  <font color="#ffffff">White, of course, is ff ff ff, </font> while <font color="#000000">black is 00 00 00.</font>
</p>
<p>HTML colours are in fact colors.  In order to have your code work as expected, you need to use the color=&#8221;#cc00cc&#8221; wording. </p>
<h4>Colours that go together (and those that don&#8217;t!) </h4>
<p>Colours that are directly opposite on the colour wheel are complimentary.  This means that Blue complements Orange on the traditional colour wheel, but yellow on the additive colour wheel.  Colours next to each other on the colour wheel often go together, so blue would go with purple.  Not opposite and not next-to colours are contrasting, such as blue and red.  Some colour combinations look ok to some people and others think those same combinations are horrible.  </p>
<h4>Hue, Saturation and Value</h4>
<ul>
<li><b>Hue</b> is the colour</li>
<li><b>Saturation</b> is the measure of how saturated a colour is </li>
<li><b>Value</b> or brightness. </li>
</ul>
<p>The HSV system is sometimes called the HSB system (B for brightness).
</p>
<h4>Other things</h4>
<p>
Mac users, try the key combination [control]+[option]+[command]+[8] to invert the colours of your screen. You will see that the Red becomes Cyan, green becomes magenta, and so on. </p>
<p>There are 216 so called &#8220;web safe colours&#8221;.  This means that you should only specify web colour values using 0, 3, 6, 9, c and f.  Even though you stick to the &#8220;safe palette&#8221; you might find that colours look different on different monitors. </p>
<p>It is impossible to match colours between the additive and subtractive colour systems.  (Have you tried printing a child&#8217;s artwork from made in Paint or another drawing system and comparing them?) </p>
<p>Dithering is what happens when you don&#8217;t have the exact colours you want so you take two (or more) close to the colour you want and mix them. It is something to avoid because it can be done badly and look ugly.</p>
<p>When you mix Cyan, Yellow and Magenta pigments or inks together, the expected result is black, the result is actually a brown.  This is why printers use black ink as well.  This system isn&#8217;t perfect, so sometimes other colours of inks are added to the base CYMK system. </p>
<h4>Wikipedia Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color">Additive Colour</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color">Subtractive Colour</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV">HSV</a></li>
</ul>
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		<title>FIT3084 quicky: ECMAScript</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to ECMAScript in the lecture, but saw that it was an exam question on the sample exam (blankscript is the &#8220;politically neutral&#8221; scripting standard which browsers are supposed to adhere to, for instance with JavaScript and JScript.). I had no idea what this was on my run through of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to ECMAScript in the lecture, but saw that it was an exam question on the sample exam (<i>blank</i>script is the &#8220;politically neutral&#8221; scripting standard which browsers are supposed to adhere to, for instance with JavaScript and JScript.).  I had no idea what this was on my run through of the sample exam, so when I found a cryptic &#8220;ecmascript&#8221; with an arrow pointing to it saying &#8220;standard&#8221; in my notes, I had a look at wikipedia. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript">wikipedia article on ECMAScript</a> doesn&#8217;t tell you what ECMA stands for: but some more digging reveals that it is the <i>European Computer Manufacturer&#8217;s Association</i> which is really boring to try and remember. (Ecma has also moved beyond Europe, so the acronym is no longer accurate.)  The creator of Javascript, Brendan Eich (of Netscape) said &#8220;ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease&#8221; (see the wikipedia article for source).  Basically Netscape came up with JavaScript, and Microsoft copied them, but used the name JScript to avoid lawsuits.  (This was during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#The_first_browser_war">first browser war</a>.)  So ECMAScript was the name chosen to be &#8220;neutral&#8221; for the standard. </p>
<p>So: all we need to know is that ECMAScript is the scripting standard that JavaScript (and friends) is supposed to adhere to.  I am using the mnemonic &#8220;Elephants Coyly Model Adjustable Swimwear&#8221; which is silly, and generates an amusing and memorable mental image, which will help me to remember it.  I&#8217;m also reminded of a good old dad-joke: </p>
<blockquote><p>
<i>Why did the two elephant brothers get kicked off the beach?</i> </p>
<p>Because they only had one pair of trunks between them!
</p></blockquote>
<p>So yes. ECMAScript. </p>
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