{"id":3159,"date":"2017-11-20T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2017-11-20T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:29:48","slug":"the-martians-claim-canada-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/11\/20\/the-martians-claim-canada-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Martians Claim Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey bloggers,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope everyone\u2019s week went well and everyone is as excited for thanksgiving as I am. This week we were to read a short fiction story and I chose The Martians Claim Canada written by Margaret Atwood. The story starts out with a group of Martians that are coming to Earth in their spaceship. They wanted to go to New York to see a musical but accidentally land in a forest in Canada. The Martians meet mushrooms whom they ask where they are. The mushrooms can live very long lives, some even live for thousands of years. The mushrooms begin to share some of the history of the land to the Martians. They also share how countries are formed and the idea of colonization. We see through the conversation of the Martians and the mushrooms the tragedy of claiming land and what it does to both the people that were already living there and those who have taken over control. In the end the Martians decide to take over the land and claim Canada as their own so that they can have musicals. I like how they took such a heavy topic and lightened it up through conversation between Martians and mushrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google Fusion Tables was not too difficult to use. The guideline attached in the prompt made it very simple and easy to figure out how to plug in my data and create a graph. The Martians speak with the mushroom throughout the entire short fiction and the graph created accurately represents that and is very simple and easy to read. Since they all have to meet in order for one of them to meet the other, the graph is not directed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I like how the graphs help you draw connections between different characters having conversations. This can be very helpful when there are a lot of characters in a story. The limitation of it would be that by looking at the graph you cannot determine the length of conversations between characters. Some may conversate between others more often but there is no way of identifying that through the graph.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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