Exploration Two: Amanda Gifford

My name is Amanda Gifford and I graduated from Harding High school. During high school, I was involved in the Art club and painted many murals within the school and one at the Health Center downtown. I also was awarded Art Student of the year, Spring of 2016. Outside of the cement walls, I have done many independent art projects. One of my favorite artists is Andy Warhol, I find his style unique and his viewpoint of life interesting. What I want to pursue is Art Therapy to help others through self exploration use creativity in their healing journeys.

What stood out to me while reading The Call to Write was the quote of Sidney Mintz regarding making lists, " must be connected to thinking of time as finite and limited, and we live in a society that gets its power partly from telling us that everything is scarce--even time."   The power of making lists highlights the important aspects of thoughts in our own type of personalized tasks.  List making is a specialized form of communication to organize thoughts in a sequential process to complete or communicate with others.  Lists can be utilized for short term tasks or long term goals.  Our thoughts can turn into lists and those lists can direct activity to accomplish unlimited achievements.

      

Exploration #2- Hunter Bayer

Hi, my name is Hunter Bayer. This is second class I have with Mike, so if you need to know what this class is like, I am willing to help out. I'm not the most exciting person, and I am a rather simple guy, but I guess one interesting thing about me is that I enjoy drawing and through my love for drawing, I have developed a strong photographic memory, allowing me to remember details or designs that I could implement on my drawings. I mostly draw with a realistic/cartoonist style.

An image of myself on my last day of high school.

The first chapter in The Call to Write was about the use of writing and how people use it personally every day. I found it interesting how they used list as an example. I never thought about how my to-do-list would be considered any real form of writing. It's quite strange to think about how much writing people do everyday, even if it's as simple as something like signing a check. That is definitely one of the themes I got from the chapter after reading it.

Exploration 2 by Joe Campanella

     My name is Joe Campanella. I am a first year student here at the Ohio State University at Marion. I am from the Cleveland-Akron area about two hours north of Marion. My preferred major of study is Finance, and I plan to transfer to the Columbus campus next fall. One of my favorite hobbies is to play basketball and hang out with friends. An interesting fact about me is that I love Chipotle and usually go a few times a week.

     Chapter one of, The Call To Write, talks about literacy events and their impact in the world with how they make sense out of writing. What stood out for me in the chapter, was the benefit and logic of making lists for personal use. One of the primary tasks and functions of making lists, is to manage time correctly, and successfully plan for the day. Another benefit of making lists, is to free you from having to commit information to memory. Some examples of lists can be remembering homework, getting chores done, planning events, and grocery shopping. Making lists is a key literary event at a personal level to manage time effectively and to store information.

Exploration Two from Dathan

     There is a section of farm land that people sometimes drive through with golden fields and one to two houses as far as the eye can see. The name of this strange land is Edison. As you can guess, that is where I from. You will hopefully be able to see from the above that my name is Dathan Lyon, but i also respond to Jason, Ethan, Justin, Nathan, and a few other choice words that should not be spoken of here. I am short, a fairly quiet, twenty-one year old person who has almost no idea what to write about, but that has never stopped me before. I would say that currently Gattaca, Sevendust, and Bioshock are my favorite movie, band and video game in that order. My goal is to become either an English teacher or a journalist.

     As far as a central theme for the first seventeen pages of our book you could make an argument for almost anything inside the reading, or maybe even outside if you really want to reach. One thing that I thought of that normally doesn't come to mind is the fact that we surrounded by messages. While I don't often think about that fact, I can't think of too many realistic setting or situations where there would be no messages. All writing is someones opinion I have heard. People who are trying to persuade you about something. You could say that all of this clashing of ideas is a bad thing, and in some cases it is, but at least we are thinking.

Groomsman at a friend's wedding on 8/20/16.

Exlporation Two: Introductions, From John Link

                  My name is John Link. I'm originally from a small town called Warren, Ohio. I moved to Columbus in 2009 and graduated high school from Olentangy Orange. I enjoy being outside and try to do a variety of activities such as rock climbing, hiking, and swimming. I also enjoy quite a few indoor activities such as board games, card games, and playing music. I played snare drum in my high schools marching band as well as drum set for the show choir combo band.

               
             The Call to Write has interesting theme to it which I hadn't previously considered when reading and writing. Of course I had been impacted by pieces I read and wrote and accepted them as piece of who I am, but have never fully grasped the scope that literary pieces affect the world we live in. Something so simple as a shopping list can exhibit the most basic principals of writing, the topic without any kind of description or explanation, This can also be seen in simple things such as street signs or even the "memes" that circulate around the internet. The call to write begins to define what it means to write and read in the world around us, not just in class but in our everyday lives.

Exploration Two: Pauleina

Hi, I am Pauleina May and I am from a little town called Upper Sandusky, Ohio and no I do not live near Cedar Point. I am 20 years old and this is my first year here at OSU, I transferred from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and I should be a junior but with transferring I am now a sophomore. I study Social Work and hope to work with healthcare. Some fun facts about me are I work for Jeffery Jewelry Store, I enjoy art, Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author of any book and movie, and I was born and raised on a cattle farm.

One of the themes that stood out to me in this chapter was the section it spoke about making list. For me, making list is my go to for everything. I make lists for when I go to the grocery store, what homework I need to do, or just even a list for the whole day. It says in the chapter that making a list is very powerful, it is a friendly reminder for when we get busy and forget what we have to do, it helps with keeping organized when it gets crazy. I feel overall from what I read was very informational and I learned more on how to write better.

Exploration Two by Matthew Johnson 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

My name is Matthew, I am 19 and a Sophomore.
A fact about me is that I absolutely adore music and often record on an armature level with friends and by myself. I play drums primarily as well as guitar, bass, and trumpet. The type of music I typically play and listen to is jazz, although I am open to any well-produced music.

Within "The Call to Write" I found page 4 to be interesting. In the section under "Making Lists" it has a quote by anthropologist Sidney Mintz saying: "Making lists must be connected to thinking of time as finite and limited...". And in the next paragraph The Call to Write talks about how Plato was concerned that, with the widespread use of writing, people's capacity to store things to memory would diminish. Mintz and Plato see the aspects of writing that inhibit us through our day to day lives and even effect us in the long term as a society. These paragraphs have made me think about writing in a different way than for it to just be a form of communication or as a tool;  literacy has become the root of our society and it defines us. The choice is ours to allow the literacy around to effect us poorly or to change us for the better.