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I’m going to use the format of an academic essay. I chose to do this because I feel like what I want to communicate is all through my writing, rather than other creative modes. I will also create some kind of visual that represents the beauty in said novel to go along with my essay.

Texts:  Jethro Elsden – https://capx.co/harry-potter-and-the-economics-of-the-wizarding-world/ &  Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (film) Numerous attempts have been made to analyze Rowling’s famous economy—insightful analysis found focused on the societal structure in relationship to Harry Potter’s economy: Jethro Elsden’s article The Economics of the Wizarding World. Many studies have been doneContinue reading “Project 1: Analysis Draft”

I want to eventually understand how to save money long-term and how some people are able to ammass way more wealth than others. I want to understand how people’s actions lead them to be either profitable or poor in their lifetimes. I feel like so much of the economy is just up to chance, orContinue reading “Engagement 2/17 Freewrite”

The author says on page 15 that “A college education…has become an individual good.” Do you agree? On page 12, the author says she signed-up Jason “in a college considered by many to not be real.” Do you feel a technical college degree has the same equivalence as a regular college degree? Why do youContinue reading “McMillan Discussion Leader Questions”

Jason to me seemed to have been wronged by the technical college coaches. He was trying to further his education and instead was met with further roadblocks to his quest for knowledge. But was it a quest for knowledge? I think it was a quest not for knowledge but for money. Jason wanted to makeContinue reading “McMillan Reading Response”

The article interested me as early as page 3, where the author first started to discuss education accessibility in relationship to social class. This field of study has interested me in the past, dealing with whether the social class a person is born into will determine how educated they become. There definitely seems to beContinue reading “RR#3 – Bourdieu”

Aileen Wagner & Olive Lemberger Question 1: Letter and Replying Letter between professor and students, meant to be educational, informative Question 2: The professor is thorough in responding and gives counterarguments to each argument. There is also history supporting his arguments, showing in-depth thought. Question 3: Restricted in that it’s a stream of consciousness…but alsoContinue reading “Engagement 2/5”

Aileen Wagner Stephen Tragesser Julia Myers Maria Popieluch Artifact: Economy of Harry Potter Rhetorically: relates back to reality, makes us examine our own economic system. Looking for the multiple devices in the film that contribute to the rhetoric. In a film course, it would have different techniques used in each scene. Close-ups of the moneyContinue reading “Engagement Activity 2/3”

I find Zelizer’s article connects back to our class as it examines the narrative behind the economic. It provides the social part on why people categorize their money a certain way (the narrative part) rather than just how people spend their money (the economic part). It connects together the human element that controls the economy,Continue reading “Zelizer Reading Response #2”

A piece of culture (a song, movie, book) I encountered recently that has to do with money is the first Harry Potter movie–Harry goes to pick up his savings from the bank, but it’s in wizard currency (galleons, sickles, etc). To write a rhetorical analysis, I would start with figuring out how the monetary systemContinue reading “Piece of Culture”