Research and A Beautiful Mind

Hey again...

On another note about A Beautiful Mind, we did some research about the actual Nash for our paper as I suspect a lot of people did, and it is indeed interesting how they took his story and fit it into the narrative arcs that we discussed in class. In our paper we wrote some about the idea of the 'tragic hero' as part of the reason literature tends to portray mathematicians the way it does, perhaps to make them more accessible. That way everyone can identify with the character when they wouldn't otherwise probably be able to.

I thought the whole group research project was an interesting idea. I think how one divides up the work is an important part of it. I think we divided ours up along the lines of topics in our argument, and perhaps we should have done so along the lines of tasks, like research and writing or something. The problem with dividing up sections is that it's so easy to lose track of what you're trying to say. On the other hand since you have so many people writing you get a lot of material to work with and edit down, so you're left with a lot of good stuff hopefully.

Anyway I believe this is my last post. Bye everyone. Yay writing component! No but seriously it was a good class.

Probably the last post to go on this one

Once again i forgot to do a post, in fact this is number two that slipped my mind. so i better make this one good and very informative because i know that every person in the entire class is just itching to see what i have to say ;-). Man, i do sound arrogant sometimes.

Now, what to talk about to entertain all of John, being that you will probably be the only person to read this. Ah... i've got it. This post will be all about lions and tigers and bears... NAH.

How 'bout i just talk about something more relavant like how my group worked on our paper. Well i must say that is a fantastic idea and i thank you for suggesting it John.

My group, being Cheney, Haseeb, and I, worked together quite well if i can say so myself. There was no exact leader, although Cheney did lead the conversations. The work was split up evenly and finished to the same caliber, or i would think that it is. Our paper is basically a close reading on A Beautiful Mind and compares it to what we found about John Nash's real life. it basically goes a bit like this, there are three parts we are focusing on Nash's: student and work life, his relationships with family and friends, and his hallucinations. We then took each one of these and split it up to something like this: what actually happened, what the movie portrays, why they are different, and analysis. although looking at our work the why and analysis are pretty much squished together because we have so much info to work with. Now that you know what our basic paper will look like i hope you enjoy it on Thursday, because reading stuff that you don't enjoy just isn't fun