Hello readers! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. Since school ended, I preformed in my studio’s ballet production, started training for my job, gone to Colorado to snowboard, and, the most important, implemented my research. I may be less than halfway through my research, but patterns are already emerging. I don’t want to be presumptuous, so I’ll let you guys come to your own conclusions.
As a part of my implementation I have a list of literature that I will be reading and annotating. The list of literature is as follows: “The Harmony of Words”, “Our sweet companions-sharing your bunk and your bed”, The Blind Musician, “A Cloud of Trousers”, The Lower Depths, And the Quiet Flows the Don, “Vision in Spring”, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Daisy Miller, and The Jungle.
So far I have read and annotated “A Cloud of Trousers”, Daisy Miller, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. After beginning my implementation, I realized that my work was going to be much more difficult than I anticipated. Although I developed a code, nothing was as clear-cut as I had expected it to be. A content-analysis, at first glance, seemed easier to do than other methods that my classmates were doing. All I had to do was look and note certain key-words and phrases, and then once I had accomplished that, I had to count them all up.
I was mistaken. The code that I developed was not as inclusive as I had hoped. Problems began to arise as I was reading my first piece of literature, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and I had to reevaluate my code. My original code included exact quotations or references to keywords or phrases: “energy”, “mining”, “milling”, “textiles”, and “printing.” However, in order to properly capture the effects of the industrial revolution I had to include the changes that the industrial revolution brought. Since the industrial revolution changed the lifestyle of some people from farming to cities, there were changes that were not included in my code. References to occupations and building that did not exist prior to the industrial revolution had to be included, because these new labors and buildings exemplify the changes that the industrial revolution brought. For example, there was a reference to a toy store that had to be included because although not energy, mining, or textiles, would not have emerged without the industrial revolution.
Unfortunately with the code constantly changing, it has been difficult to implement my research to its fullest extent. I have to keep going back and re-annotating. This has led to less progress than I had hoped for. With less than a month until our final papers due, I am scared that I will not have everything done in time. Due to my fears, I have decided to cut one piece of literature out of research. The literature is And the Quiet Flows the Don. There are a few reasons for cutting this piece of literature in particular. One, the length of the book exceeds what I am capable of reading and annotating in the time I have remaining. The book is the longest in my list, and with so much to do, and my still wavering code, it would be too much to read a four-hundred page book. Two, the book length does not match any of those in the American category. I did my best to pair a book from America and Russia in length, and And the Quiet Flows the Don, did not fit with a piece of American literature. For both of those reasons, I decided that I will not be reading And the Quiet Flows the Don.
Lastly, I would like to present my findings. Every week I will update this table with the new information.
Literature
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Number of references to Industrial Language
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Number of references to Natural Language
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References to Synesthesia
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“The Yellow Wall-Paper”
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13
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26
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1
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“A Cloud in Trousers”
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27
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26
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2
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Daisy Miller
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19
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32
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1
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Feel free to comment any thoughts you have on what I have already accomplished and thanks for reading! See you next week!
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