I quote from a primary source in my first blog post, where I write about the issues that “Eye in the Sky” by Radiolab. On the other side, I quote from a secondary source in blog post six where I analyze Jessica Hale’s paper and mention her use of someone else’s argument. Though her primary source is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, her secondary source represents other writers’ critiques. In both cases, I utilized quotations to either create my thesis statement or understand the “they say” component of an argument. After giving a short summary of what “Eye in the Sky” presented, I used that upon building my main-point in my argument. In analyzing Hale’s argument, I mentioned writer Shoene-Harwood’s literary writings to explain how the author of the paper employs others’ opinions to build upon her own.

Here are the revised versions of the quotations I used in my blogs:

1. In “Eye in the Sky”, a podcast by Radiolab, the issue of surveillance is discussed. The post talks about an “eye in the sky”, or a modern camera, that allows investigators to “scroll back in time”. The authors of this podcast emphasize there being an eye in the sky that allows for time to become more fluid in order to suggest that the government is invading people’s privacies.
2. In her paper “Constructing Connectedness: Gender, Sexuality and Race in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, Jessica Hale argues that males show signs of femininity by being nurturing towards their female lovers. In her paper, she supports writer Shoene-Harwood’s point that “men who feel secure enough in their masculinity to display feelings of domestic affection…who seem perfectly balanced in their manliness which incorporates rather than categorically excludes the feminine”. Because Hale emphasizes the importance of homosocial relationships between men in the novel, Shoene-Harwood’s points emphasize her main-point.