Typewriters

Personal Response to Bonnie Liang's "An Ode to a User Friendly Pencil" How many times have we've been told to hand in formal writing typed? For the average writer this is already assumed to be the standard. Having a computer is seen as favourable for writing. Although, according to Bonnie Liang, this may not be the case. In her essay "An Ode to a User Friendly Pencil", she suggests that pencils surpass the computer as a writing tool. Laing goes on to say that computers are too expensive,…

I have recently come upon the opportunity to purchase a tpyewriert typewriter and i intend to put it to smoe use. As it is the beginning of a new year, I was hoping to get in the habit of doing something new. Thus, I have decided to begin a journal in my spare time. Forgive the errors prior, but my typing skills are hardly comparable to a novice. I will type more slowly and carefully to ensure you, dear reader, the most enjoyable reading experience. I do wonder who may come upon this journal…

Christopher Latham Sholes “Father of the Typewriter” As you were typing a paper or email have you ever wondered why the keyboard was organized this way? Or even who invented the notion of the typewriter? Well Mr. Christopher Latham Sholes invented the typewriter and also the Qwerty keyboard which we use today. Christopher “freed the world from pen slavery” by developing the first working typewriter. . Christopher Latham Sholes was born on February 14th, 1819 in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania.…

Importance of Minor Characters Minor Characters have been overlooked and sometimes deemed unimportant in books, movies, and plays. Perhaps we are wrong maybe they are important to stories. Harper Lee the author of To Kill a Mockingbird makes the point that minor characters are possibly important to books. Looking at the three minor characters in To Kill a Mockingbird Mrs Dubose, Boo Radley, and Mr Underwood it is evident that Minor Characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird teach the main…

Scout- In chapters 24, Scout shows signs of understanding what a lady really is. All through this time, Aunt Alexandra have been trying to change Scout into a lady by enforcing her strong opinions in Scout’s head. She however, denies her Aunt’s opinion and continues her way of life normally ,until after the Tom Robinson’s case she begins to change. It was on that day when she was wearing her ,“ pink Sunday dress”, when she began having the desire to accept her aunt’s wishes (pg. 306). Miss…

As one first steps into Oring’s exhibition, one observes the placement of numerous typewriters locked inside dull and rusty steel cages. Although they’re just material…

I also had an experience with a standard Royal typewriter at one of my first “real” jobs. I worked in the personnel office at a large nut and bolt manufacturing company in Elgin, Illinois. The employment manager supplied me with numerous reports for typing, which required seven to ten copies per report. Needless to say, my typewriter was the trusty old standard Royal. I wasn’t permitted to use the copy machine (truth be known, I’m not even…

sleep, picking it off on his typewriter with one finger. Once in a long time you prick up your ears and listen. You've heard of some one you knew in Singapore, Halifax or Paris, long ago. Maybe they've been promoted, but more probably they've been murdered or drowned. Perhaps they just decided to quit and took some bizarre way out. Made it interesting enough to get in the news. But that doesn't happen often. Most of the time you sit and doze and tap, tap on your typewriter…

“Words, Words, Words” by David Ives is a farce play that is about ten minutes long. It has exaggerated comical situations that are very impossible. It is an act of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, that states that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare”(Wiki). The three monkey characters are based upon the poets John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Franz Kafka. T…

In the movie, “Love and Anarchy”, there are two alternative titles to this story. The other title is “This Morning at 10 in the morning in a well known House of Tolerance.” For this asssignment, we are asked to discuss potential reasons that Wertmuller may offer these two titles for us. Personally, I do not completely understand the second title. I think “Love and Anarchy” makes much more sense, and appeals more to people in general. That may be one reason why this title is more well known, and…