Download and read 2-3 stories of your choosing. Then, answer the following questions:
1. In our class last night we discussed three types of time that persist in our lives:
a) Teleological time, which is like a cause-->effect, beginning leads to end, linear time that relates to a purpose life
b) stellar time, in which our life consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives (think of the movie Crash as an example)
c) entropic, or chaotic time: life's events are completely random, and therefore there is no purpose or meaning to life
Starting tomorrow and up until Sunday you will use your Twitter account to post and follow responses about your daily activities. Be sure to post/visit at least twice a day, and to post not only experiences but also personal reflections about your studies, personal life, or values. The more you post the better--we want to be aware that there is life going on outside of our comfort zone, and that life can have an effect on us!
Then, from Sunday-Wednesday, you should post a response on this blog that does the following:
1. discuss what type of time most influences yours and others' lives based on TWITTER. Were you at all affected by what your peers were writing? Did anything unanticipated happen that ruptured your daily construct of living?
2. The 1001 Nights is also "interwoven" of different moments: The narrator is fictitious, yet she is the consistent thread that weaves all of the stories together. Stories occur within stories, and the reader can easily lose a sense of past, present, and future in the overall story. Provide a specific example of this from our reading today, and tell us what type(s) of time theory are present.
3. These works derive from Arabic cultures - do some research to determine how they might be received in Islamic countries today. Post your findings.
