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This is my Blog Portfolio for the first quarter of my IBHL English Course. Enjoy it and feel free to comment.


Is There Any Absolute Truth?
http://asimlikesenglish.blogspot.com/2010/09/is-there-any-absolute-truth.html

I chose this post as my Coverage Post because I cover many of the aspects of double think and other elements from 1984 as well as the evidence of absolute truth project.


First the Forest, We Discussion
http://asimlikesenglish.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-forest-we-discusion.html

I chose this as my Depth Post because I made many inferences about the nature of man from these two pieces of literature. I state that for a person to be human, they most have a wanting to learn, have greed, and have the ability to think for themselves. I ended up using this argument to help construct a thesis for an essay I wrote. Along with that, the following site helped me formulate my ideas: http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-1/fogley/.


Akash’s Comment
http://akashenglish.blogspot.com/2010/09/shine-lived-through-unthinkable.html#comments

This is an example of an Interaction. I commented on a classmate’s blog, Akash, who was writing a post about an article in the New York Times about a North Korean Gulag. I raised the point that the child in the Gulag, because he was born there, knew nothing of the outside world and thought the world he was living in was normal, and how that related to his neutral feeling towards the Gulag before he learned that there was an outside world. I also pushed him to make inferences to the novels We and 1984.


Wesley’s Comment
http://whamiltonthegreat.blogspot.com/2010/09/use-of-truth.html#comments

I helped out Wesley’s argument by ushering him to go more in depth with an argument. This is my example of Xenoblogging. I introduce the idea about the controlling of the past leading to the controlling of the people and provide an example from the past to strengthen it. It would be an Informative Comment because I introduce the idea about the Hitler Youth.


Oh My God Wildcard!
http://asimlikesenglish.blogspot.com/2010/10/oh-my-god-wildcard.html

I chose this post as my Wildcard because I genuinely enjoyed writing about it. I talked about the book A Clockwork Orange and how it relates to free will.


Newspeak: The Light at the End of the Tunnel
http://asimlikesenglish.blogspot.com/2010/09/newspeak-light-at-end-of-tunnel.html

This is my Discussion piece because it began a conversation between Saumya and me. I was arguing for the abolition of ambiguous words while she was against it.