apathy, thy name is shannon

so we were supposed to read the part of kevin's paper that he posted on his blog and comment on it. this is what i have to say: good job so far. indeed! i especially liked the last paragraph because it seemed like you're going into the actual ways that imagination and memory lead to better learning and education. guess how much of my paper i have done? absolutely nothing. yay me! but to be fair, now that we're in the last 5 weeks of class, it seems like i have a major paper or project (or both) going on in every class i'm taking. ick. anyway, my paper is going to focus on how the fall of primary orality gave way for print culture, which allowed more ways of communication to blossom, therefore making it more possible for deaf people to interact with the world. i mean, it had to be pretty hard for a deaf person to exist in a totally oral community - unless they became a master at lip reading...but also, in the "olden days" ;), alot of deaf people were considered deaf and mute, because they lacked ways of learning to speak. but once writing came along and deaf people could (somehow) ...( - i'm seeing some research in my future) learn to read, think of the opportunities they had! and the fact that someone who can't hear can learn to speak words that they have never heard blows my mind, too - so hopefully i'll be adding some stuff on that in my paper. it just never occurred to me that oral traditions could exclude certain people - kind of like how print culture excludes people who are illiterate. sad.
i've already found some stuff in chapters 5 and 6 in ong that i can use for my paper, so hopefully i'll be able to make a good case for my paper - i'm really not good at the whole research thing. i get bored, frustrated easily, but since i'm actually interested in this subject, i think i'll be able to stick it out. however, frankly, i'm feeling uber apathetic about school right now - which is bad, based on how much stuff i have to do. whatevs. c'est la vie, oui?