Outstanding Blogz

1. Economic advice to Barack Obama?
Jacob Harris's blog has a very good example of economic advice to Barack Obama. He decided to focus on more than one idea rather than just one. I was never confused or was wondering what his advice was, it was very clear and straight to the point. For example his first piece of advice was: "Give every major financial companies CEO/CFO/COO a government employed watcher, so as to prevent any mishaps such as Thorpe's renovation of his Merrill Lynch office. Who pays ~$1400 on a trash can? It's still going to fill up with trash."

2. Literary Analysis?

Ana Forsythe's honors blog she wrote about The Alchemist, she was very descirptive and used very good examples from the book to support what she thought was the theme. She explained how allegory was key in "tying this book together." Allegory is simply the representation of abstract ideas or principles. Her example was as follows: "The wise man tells Santiago to carry a spoon full of oil without spilling it, and look through his house full of treasures, paintings, and marvels of the world. The first time, Santiago was focused so intently on keeping the oil on the spoon, that he didn't notice any of the paintings or treasures. After he was told to look at the walls, he forgot all about the oil and let it all spill to the ground."

3. Historical Writing?

Will had an outstanding example of the relevance of FDR's first inaugural address in modern America. He expressed how speaches are only intended to raise confidence in listeners where otherwise there would be only despair. He then goes on to say FDR's first inaugural address, under closer inspection these uplifting words are revealed to be meaningless." I disagreed with him completely until i read on. Will stated "You will be convinced of this by examining the purpose of speeches and their inherent un-trustability." His view was completely different than mine and opened a new perspective for me.