Week One Readings..

The Cheese Monkeys

As I began reading the article titled “The Cheese Monkeys,” I found myself lost and confused. The sentences reminded me of sayings the mad hatter would say in Alice in Wonderland. However after I went back and re-read it carefully I began to understand more clearly what was being said. I thought it was interesting when they spoke about dimensions, he said, “We are the Western world. We read, see, think. Left. To. Right. We can't help it. You have few givens in this life, in this class. That is one of them. Use it.”  This made start thinking about other things in my daily life that happen left to right it also provoked me to wonder why we follow this practice so often in America, and how it is different in other countries.  A statement that saturated with me was, “when you leave here, you are not just going to work, “you are going to war.”

Some issue or concerns I had with this reading was being able to grasp the context of these random thoughts. However after our second-class meeting the passage had more meaning to me, as I understood that these were lectures from an art professor. Another issue I had with the readings was how the different ideas brought about didn’t really relate to each other and connect in a cohesive way.

The Heresy of Zone Defense

The Heresey of Zone Defense brought about many thought provoking ideas. I liked how he discussed rules in our current society, and how rules are needed to make these better. This made me begin to ponder what other rules I adhere to everyday that make my life better. I thought about traffic laws, and laws that keep others from breaking in our house, or robbing us. This passage made me realize how important these rules are to keep our day-to-day lives running smoothly. It made me see that these rules are imperative in order to keep society safe as well. I thought the article was a bit out dated, as the rules in the basketball game have been changed, I did think it was interesting to learn how the basketball game we know today was created by James Naismith. It was thought provoking to think how different our generation would be without one of our nations favorite past times. 

Some issues or concerns I had with this passage were how broad some of his ideas were. Not being a sports fan myself I found it difficult to understand his references and be able to connect some of the ideas he was trying to get across. I also didn’t like how his points were so strongly opinionated, for him it was either this or that, there was nothing really in between for the readers to interpret.