What's the point of a college education?
When I read the article I believed it told students that college is meant to set you up and prepare you for sittuations in the job world. It does not necessarily prepare you for a certain job because things frequently change within jobs. When I looked at the wordle, I noticed that life, jobs, and education came up a few times. This tells me that the article is saying if you have a good education that sets you up for a good job you will be set for life. This is the deceiveing part becaus that is not what the article is necesarily about. The text in the worlde is very motivational because it uses words such as "life, philosiphy, think, different, and mind".
I was correct with my guess in which word would show up the most. I guess it would be "education" and that word showed up 11 times.
highest frequency word: "a" showed up 38 times
highest content word: "education" showed up 11 times
Things I changed:
- layout: from "any which way" to "half and half:
- colour: from "indian earthy" to "blue meets oragne"
Screen Shot #2:
Blog from last week
I know that this blog is about the article on "What's the point of college education" because I wrote the blog last week. I think the word that will show up most often is the word "paragraph" because I used that a lot of times at the beggining of my blog to describe what was going on in the article. When I put my blog into wordle I was right, "paragraph" (used 11 times) was the word most often used so I took it out and the next most used word was the word "article". This was used 6 times throughout the blog. From this article I can only really connect that the blog is about an article. I would also guess that the author of the article has a last name of Stemedel because that name is also quite large. I do try and use as many different words when I write as possible which is why I believe there are quite a few words that are mid-sized. I did not change anything in this wordle to do with the layout because I thought it all looked good.
highest frequency word: "the" showed up 44 times
highest content word: "paragraph" showed up 9 times
Screen Shot #3:
George Orwell's 1984
This was a very long article which I did not read all of. From the wordle I can tell that there is a man named Winston and he is possibly at a party looking at a woman. I get this because the words "eyes, moment, one" come up often making me think of a man looking for a women, observing her beauty and thinking of this time as the one moment where they will be able to talk.
highest frequency word: "the" showed up 5805 times
highest content words: "Winston" showed up 455 times and "party" showed up 270 times.
Things I changed:
- colour: from "indian earthy" to "moss"
- font: from "owned" to "loved by the king"
Screen Shot #4:
Steve Jobs' 2005 Commencement Speech at Stanford
Seeing as this is a commencement speech I figured that it would focus mainly on life after college, jobs, and future families. After putting the speech into wordle it seems that I was mostly correct. The word "life" was used the most in this speech probably because most good commencement speeches talk about life and what will happen after people graduate. "college" is another big word i'm guessing because Steve talked about his time in college as well as other people's time at the school.
highest frequency word: "the" showed up 96 times
highest content word: "life" showed up 15 times
Things I changed:
- font: from "milk paints" to "yramirP"
Screen Shot #5:
Representative Poetry
Since this poem is so short pretty much all of the words are on the wordle. The word "thou" was used a lot which made me believe that this was a love poem to a lost lover. When the writer writes "thou" it means they are talking about someone not directly too them. When they say "thee" it means they are usually talking directly to them. I removed the words "thou" and "well" and I was left with "lov'st" as the word most used. "lov'st" I believe means "loved" which brings me to prove the point of the lost lover.
highest frequency words: "well", "what", and "thou" showed up 5 times each
highest content word: "lov'st" showed up 3 times
Things I changed:
- layout: from "mostly verticle" to "half and half"
- colour: from "kindled" to "heat"
- font: from "laegue gothic" to "steelfish"
Screen Shot #6:
Social media from Facebook
This is a message that was sent between a group of members on the rowing team about a meeting that we held on Wednesday at 1:30. Just by looking at the wordle it is easy to assume that this is what the message thread was about.
Screen Shot #7:
An essay I wrote
This is an essay I wrote on "The Book of the Dutchess". It is all about a dreamer and reconnecting himself to life through his dream. I took out the word "Dreamer" because it was dominating the screen. It changed the layout quite a bit. Now the screen emphasizes the word "life" which is a key part in the story of "The Book of the Dutchess".
Screen Shot #8:
Text of My Choice
I studied this in my second year. It is Milton's "Paradice Lost". I thought it was a very interresting peice and I thought it would be cool to find out what the most used words are. I was not suprised to see that the word "hell" came up a lot because Milton in this text talked about heven and hell constantly and the struggle that sinners go though once they move on past life.
Things I changed:
colour: from "moss" to "firenze"
text: from "goudy bookletter 1911" to "lucida sans"
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