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phoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Barthes' Camera Lucida (Assignment #3),...
“Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.”(Barthes, p. 6) Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida is full of complex information and...
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Hi! I loved your blog post, thanks for sharing it. I really liked what you wrote about stadium and punctum, you wrote it clearly and in an easy to read way. It really helped me understand the two...
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Hi! I thought your blog post was really interesting, and the opinions you formulated from reading Barthes’ Camera Lucida were really well thought out and articulated. I especially liked the way you...
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https://picasaweb.google.com/116719714693556474746/IDCPhotoPortfolio?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCIG52Jymj8e-swE&feat=directlink Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo IDC 1000H Professor Heath Of all the aspects of...
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Hi Sabrina! I really enjoyed reading your essay and looking at your photos! The whole essay was really well-written and powerful, and I love that you focused on using daily-life imagery that shows more...
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Hi Neha! This was really great! I loved that you chose to focus in on modernization and tradition in an urban environment. Your essay was so well put together, the first paragraph also really drew me...
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Hi Kiran! Well done! Your whole essay was great, especially the first paragraph! The part where you wrote about how finally noticing the place you live in, after taking it for granted for so long, is...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Modern Opera, on the site Seminar 1:...
I spent so much time thinking about how to respond to the prompt of writing our own operas with modern day themes and plot lines, and ultimately it made me realize how hard it must have been to write...
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Hi Marina! I loved that you drew from English class to create the story for your opera. Inequality, especially as it relates to college education, is definitely a topic that is close to our generation....
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Hi Dsvinka! I thought it was a great idea to take a story that you’ve enjoyed and think about how you would transform it into an opera! I also liked the concept and the story you chose. It is...
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Hi Hannah! I liked that you took the story from a popular movie and thought about the ways that it could be relevant to the general public as an opera! I think that that would probably be a good way to...
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phoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, A "Better" NYC, on the site Seminar 1:...
In trying to think about ways to transform and change New York in the attempt to improve it, I figured it would be important to think about the aspects of the city that make it a good place to live,...
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Hi Kiran, Woah I love the idea of the transportation method like the sky ride, I would really enjoy taking that if we ever got it here. I think that you’re completely right about developing more green...
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Hi Neha! I really enjoyed reading your post, you were so clear and straightforward and you have some really awesome ideas that are practical but also provide long term solutions to real world issues. I...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Object Diary, on the site Seminar 1:...
https://plus.google.com/photos/116719714693556474746/albums/6090800764067037345 Part One When making my list, I realized that in just one day, I interact with countless objects. I defined a meaningful...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, IDC Final Project: Redesigning Penn...
Thanks for such a great semester everyone! Here’s the link to my project: http://prezi.com/uwnhsywpjdvt/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Discussion Sept. 11: Cats, on the site...
The articles “When the Cat Comes Back, With Prey” by Jan Hoffman and “Quantifying free-roaming domestic cat predation using animal-borne video cameras” by Kerrie Anne T. Loyd, Sonia M. Hernansez, John...
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I definitely agree with all of this! I also like the way you sort of divided your post into the way the two articles differed in purpose, methodology, and even tone. I agree that the NYTimes article...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Wilderness, on the site Honors Seminar...
I suppose the concept of wilderness could be interpreted in a variety of ways, but personally I’ve always seen it as a place with a kind of isolation and quiet. For the most part, when I think of...
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Hi! I really liked that you used the word “raw” to describe wilderness. I kept looking for an appropriate word to describe the way wilderness is usually untouched and unspoiled by humans, but I really...
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Hi! I definitely agree that the endosymbiosis theory doesn’t seem to necessarily conflict with or change Darwin’s theory, but instead just explores evolution, and its causes, further. It seemed to me...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Evolution and The Endosymbiosis Theory,...
Darwin’s theory of evolution was certainly received with controversy when first developed, but today the theory is widely accepted by the scientific community. The theory states that species and...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Geological Laws, on the site Honors...
Of the geological laws presented in this video, I found the law of Uniformitarianism the most interesting. Proposed by Ibn Sina, a Persian philosopher, and popularized later by James Hutton, this law...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Water!, on the site Honors Seminar 3:...
Everyone knows that water is a huge, indispensable part of our daily lives. But I had never really sat down and thought about all of the ways that I benefit from water, both in tangible, direct ways...
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I never even thought about the traveling thing! That is so true, and the ability to travel is really something that the majority of people value. I think that most people, like me, have probably never...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, October 25th Discussion, on the site...
There is a surprising amount of knowledge and information to be gleaned from the footprint fossils from the Jurassic period, present in the Connecticut Valley. As explained in the reading, fossils in...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, October 30th Discussion, on the site...
A climate model is a set of mathematical equations that represent and solve for a variety of factors (such as heat relations, ocean conditions, and precipitation), helping scientists to better...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, November 6th Discussion, on the site...
With all of the information swirling around the world today, between social media and the “blogosphere,” it can be hard to know whether what you’re reading is true, unbiased, fact or some crazy...
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I liked that you brought in the issue of overpopulation, and the fact that we may not be able to feed our entire population if we continue our current food production system. I thought that your use of...
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Your definitions were very clear, and the examples explained the definitions really well. I hadn’t understood before what exactly climatologists can draw conclusions about from the use of the climate...
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I thought it was really interesting that you pointed out the fact that scientists can’t really determine the interactions between these animals, solely through footprints and fossilized remains,...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, November 20th Discussion, on the site...
It’s easy to fall into the thinking that, as humans, we are the only species capable of true social communication and cooperation. But in reality, animals work with one another in social ways all the...
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I like that you made the point that animals’ needs aren’t necessarily only fulfilled by themselves, and that you even pointed out humans, of course, are the same way. I also think it’s really true what...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Exoplanets, on the site Honors Seminar...
Exoplanets are planets that orbit around the suns of other solar systems, suns other than our own. There are a couple of methods used to detect exoplanets, as telescopes can’t actually discover them,...
View Articlephoebetaylorvuolo28 wrote a new post, Artificial Intelligence, on the site...
Despite many technological advancements and scientific achievements, we have yet to create a computer with artificial intelligence exactly equal to human intelligence. This seems to be, in part, it...
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