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2. In my edition, Chapter 1, page 13, the last paragraph starting with "holidays and the time for warming fires...," that entire sentence was crossed out. I'm not sure why this was crossed out. I don't think the sentence was "wrong" to have the whole thing removed in the paragraph. However, I think some of the words like "dusty" and "chambers" may shed some true light on what was going on at this time.

Personally, I dislike speculating and other people speculating because most of the time we're wrong, and some take little to no evidence in their speculation to make it sound credible, but it's just utter nonsense. So, I'm choosing to not guess why this choice was made, and just share what I found curious.

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1. My book edition of The Bondwoman's Narrative is completely different than the ones my classmates and professor had this Tuesday. From what I can remember from that day, and searching the book up online, their front cover made it look like aged paper, almost like a scroll or paper from a typewriter. There was also yarn holding the pages together, it had a stamped "A Novel" impression on the front cover, and the title, author's name, and editor were also on the cover.

Mine looks completely different:

A blank page color on the cover.

The spine had the author's name, title, and editor printed on it.

Hardcover over the paperback edition from my class.

I don't know if this is in all the formats of the book, but on the Contents page, there's a "Textual Annotations" section, "Appendixes: Authentication Report-- Dr. Joe Nickell, Testimony of Jane Johnson- Version 1 & 2," and a "John Hill Wheeler's Library Catalogue, Complied by Bryan C. Sinche."

This isn't printed on the book, but there's a sticker on the spine that says "USED."

However, a similarity that both shared was the different colors on the cover and spine.

Scrolling down on Google Images and also Shopping, I couldn’t find my version of The Bondwoman's Narrative.

Since I don't have the universal format of this book, and with its lackluster paratext, I'm not sure why these choices were made. Since I can only speak for my edition of the book, it doesn’t seem like a standard story novel, but a novel, and annotation of the novel. From what I said in #3, I think my inference can be considered true, in a sense.

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Going back to my original post on Voyant Tools, I copied and pasted the URL example I originally used to understand the tool better. This was the URL I used: https://jujutsu-kaisen.fandom.com/wiki/Choso

In my original post, I said Voyant showed the most frequently used words on the website, the website's document segments, and a bunch of different annotations.

With this assignment, with the mindset of looking at what I don't see, I noticed some details that were missing from the URL website. A huge was the missing images-- including the characters' profile, and illustrations of their fights and powers. I think missing those key elements with Voyant Tools can make me wonder who this fictional character is if I didn’t already know him. If Voyant did include them in its analysis and didn't have that limitation, I wouldn’t have to wonder over "trivial" things. To overcome this bias, I'll have to open up a new tab and google this character myself.

It also jumbled up the words from its original formula, causing a bit of confusion while reading. With that said, I could be missing a button that solves that problem, but it's kind of difficult to pinpoint it.

With its built-in analytical formula for examining and interpreting readings, I think this computer software does have an ideology. In that line I just wrote, I'm personifying an inanimate object by giving it beliefs. (I don't how that relates to what I was writing about, but it's something I noticed.)

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Jeremiah Mack

Level 1

Step 1: Make an inventory of 8-10 words or z-words phrases from Level 1 of “Ozymandias.”

Traveller

“Antique land”

Trunkless

Sculptor

Step 2: Roleplay as my character

When I chose “traveller,” I was trying to convey a person who doesn’t stand still, moving from place to place.

Step 2.5: Choose a different character & again complete the sentence, “When I chose these words…”

When I chose “sculptor,” I was trying to convey a creator, a person who is creative.

Step 3: Combine my statements from steps 2 & 2.5 (to the best of my ability) to provide this statement:

This text uses these terms, travaller and sculptor, to highlight how a traveller discovered a place where the scultoprs’ work are forgotten and reduced to debris.

Level 2

Step 4: Make an inventory

Pedestal

“‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’”

“Colossal wreck”

Step 5: Write a _ explaining how your new inventory is related to your Lit. Critical Claim” (Step 3) & how you see this in compensation with the meaning of the poem.

My new inventory relates to the meaning of the poem because the words and phrases I pulled from it, “pedestal,” “colossal wreck,” and “look on…,” show a past world that was once great, now gone.

Death of Liberty

The print shows a person, representing The Law, attacked by what appears to be Death wearing a mask, possibly to hide its identity. An army is behind Death marching with him.

The audience for this art piece could be for non-radicals, or radicals who haven’t thought about their outcome’s results.

It doesn’t show radical reform in a positive way– it’s violent and deadly, leading an annihilation in its wake. Religion is a bedrock for law, supporting it.

Extreme radicalization can crush preexisting social concepts.

“England of 1919” and “Death or Liberty '' shows England in a what could be future if things continue to escalate– an empty state of what was a mighty empire, now a desolate wasteland.

I see a relation of past empires now gone, or are on their way to end between the two texts and “Ozymandias.”

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I decided to take Steven’s “Anecdote of the Jar,” and paste it in Voyant Tools. At first glance, while I don’t the tool gave me some enlightenment I hadn’t received already from the poem, it did give me general context:

Word Count

Vocabulary Density

The average words per sentence, Etc.

It broke down the poem in it’s technical form, not figurative. With that in mind, I think Voyant Tools in the future can help me break down essays and texts that I have trouble reading word for word, and have them go over each line, or sentence, with specific detail.

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Voyant Tools.

First, I had to look up the definition of "voyant" because I didn't know its meaning. From Google, it said voyant means "obvious or easy to notice," it's an adjective.

Clicking on the "About" page, "Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts; it's designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for students/scholars."

While browsing the website, I learned that with Voyant, I can use it to study texts I found on the web or ones that I'd edited and saved on my computer, add interactive evidence to my essays that I'll publish online, and learn how computer-assisted analysis works. To be honest, I'm not sure what all these three mean entirely, but I hope I'll find out as I begin using it. To test it out, I copied and pasted a URL of a fictional character's profile page, and from what I can make out, Voyant Tools took out the words that were frequently used, the "document segments," unsure what that is, and a bunch of different annotations.

With Voyant Tools, I hope it can help me better analyze literary texts, learn different annotations that were discovered, and find some correlations between different texts.

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When I got my new tv installed four years ago, my mother told me, “Don’t remove the tape.” I didn’t ask why. I obeyed her instruction. Maybe I thought, “If we removed the tape from the television, it will not be considered NEW anymore. The television will lose all of his value, his pizzazz, if the plastic was peeled off of him.” Or was it complete lunacy to think that this clear, narrow strip of tape, that confined all corners of his shape, will unravel all the reasonings, thoughts, emotions that were made when this television was purchased. Was this “madness” that was drenched inside my mother’s mind that day somehow slipped its way into me? I can not answer. But what I do know for certainty is that that is there unpulled, collecting dust.