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Week 2 - You and your media diet  First things first - We have to talk about what is important:  Here is the trailer for Dogma Here is the trailer for Full Metal Jacket. Warning - this is intense. I saw it on an Air Force Base when it came out. Seeing it years later, and wars later, it gets harder and harder to watch. It is also the great director Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Clockwork Orange, 2001 Space Odessy) so it is worth watching for the art of it. 

 You have heard this all before Free write Pre-write Writing to learn In a Crowley class, you will call it  Puking on the page What does it mean when I ask you to "puke on the page?"   It means that you write. You write to have a conversation with yourself. You write to figure out what it is that you understand. You write to refine your ideas. You write for no one but yourself.    TOOLS FOR PUKING   1. A notebook that no one looks at or in but you. 2. A pen that you trust (and other pens or pencils nearby)   This is my pen. There are many like it but this one is mine. I want you to make your own writing and creativity creed. Take this seriously as this   Gunnery Sergeant Hartman  from the movie Full Metal Jacket  TOOLS FOR PUKING   1. A notebook that no one looks at or in but you. 2. A pen that you trust (and other pens or pencils nearby)   Puking must take place on paper and not on a computer. You can re-write (which is w...