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When I write--text or hypertext, fiction or theory--I must set aside a certain space in which to work. I use the word "space" here to group several kinds of space: physical, temporal, and cognitive. The writing space is not merely a desk or office where I keep my manuscripts and disks and pens and computer. It is also a space of time set aside from day to day life: from my job, from my wife, from all people and activities other than the work, the writing. But all the time and (physical) space in the world would be to no avail if I could not set aside one further space, a kind of internal solitude--a meditation perhaps--to which I turn to recapture the vision I had when last I wrote, or to see what lies ahead. This space is a little hard to describe, but it is there that writing, as I have quoted Walter Ong elsewhere, transforms human consciousness

I use the term "writing space" not just because I find it apt, but on purpose to augment the ways in which Jay David Bolter uses it in Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Bolter uses the term in at least three ways, all developed out of his initial concentration, the literal writing space,"the physical and visual field defined by a particular technology of writing": the papyrus, the page, the computer screen (Bolter 1991, 11)

As an upcoming Teacher, I will teach in the inner-city school system. My students will learn that regardless of what society labels the city they come from and how society expects them to be just another statistic of “the hood”, they are someone and they will be someone successful if they so choose. I will give them support, care, and a chance to see themselves as people and NOT just another statistic or number among the uneducated. I will share with them my willingness to help them achieve despite of the surroundings and experiences - if they were negative.

I enjoyed the article “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud. It was entertaining, funny, a little complicated, but true. I agree that “we” do program ourselves to believe that a representational symbol is the actual object or person. Take a look at how street signs have an affect on us. If the word Yield was in the red octagon with white letters, we would STOP instead of Yield. Why? Because we would associate the symbol and not read the sign. Think about it!! We are so used to seeing the red octagon as STOP that we don’t read the signs, we just see them. It would be the same as taking a minute to comprehend what we are actually seeing versus what the word says when we have to read the words red, blue, green, yellow out loud. It will be difficult. If we took more time to examine, read, and process information then our lives would be much smoother to live.