#1 Mumbo Jumbo

When reading "Introduction to Criticism, I found that it was very easy to read. The language he used was professional, using a rather large vocabulary and different sentence structuring than I'm used to. He made everything easy to understand by using examples of modern day phrases. He used the word terrorism as an example of giving power to words. Here in America, we use the term to sum up Islam as a whole, as a bunch of terrorists, who hate America for their freedom. But he says, if we look at Islam and do research, we will find that not everyone there has a vendetta against us, our freedom and what we stand for. He says if we look at Islam and do the research, we will find things called Islamic Relief, a charity that focuses on helping others. Another thing he talked about was Capitalism. I liked how he talked about power, money, wealth, and how we give meaning to a piece of paper that says $100 or a shiny gold rock. It helped me understand his passage about Capitalism when he finally started to talk about. One section that I didn't understand too well was "Effects Are Sometimes Causes." I wish he would have taken the time to explain it like he did with the Capitalism passage, or expanded it to provide more examples. It was simply to brief for my liking. Contemporary Theory was something else I didn't understand. I tried to do some research on what it was, and a whole list of things popped up, I just didn't know where to begin! I really enjoyed the reading because it opened up a whole new level of thinking when it comes to reading, analyzing and critiquing someone’s work.