To be completed before class, Wednesday, January 21
Length: at least 450 words
• Go to our class blog, http://english347.blogspot.com/ . If it doesn’t want to let you post to the blog, email me and remind me to add you as a contributor!
• Make your first blog entry. In that entry, please spend at least 450 words answering the following questions:
• What are you studying, and why do you like it?
• Where are you from, and what’s it like there?
• What are your interests and hobbies?
• Have you had good or bad experiences in English courses? What were they?
• Which poem are you thinking of writing about in Paper #1? Why does that poem appeal to you? What issues does it raise that strike you as important? What’s strange or non-obvious about this poem? What assumptions or beliefs does it convey (possibly without meaning to)?
• What do you hope to learn in this class? (Don’t be lame and say, “I want to learn about African American poetry.” Be more specific than that.)
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Hey, I'm not sure that this is the correct way but here it goes...
ReplyDeleteI am majoring in both English and PCA, these two subjects serve as my foundation for Law School. English provides me with the instrument of writing and reading comprehension, while PCA allows me the capacity to present an argument and, more importantly, myself in an advantageous and proper manner. Both subjects, in my opinion, should be required as a prerequisite for law school, as it drastically improves one's delivery and content. As for my logic skills...if i only had time for a third major, the LSAT is going to beat me down. I truly hope i do well, surely i do not wish to shuffle of this mortal coil having lived in my hometown of Rouses Point, New York my entire life. There really is nothing prosperous anywhere near my lovely lake town, don't get me wrong - it's beautiful, but boring at times and lacking job opportunities. Pretty much everyone lives on the same road or a side road branching off from it. We are a friendly and welcoming community, guilty only for our dabbling in Canada's beer and Vermont's cheap gas as we are the most northern town in New York nestled up at the very northeastern corner of the state. I enjoy sunshine and desert roses...j/k. Due to the ridiculous amounts of downtime and my musical father my hobbies include playing rhythm guitar and singing for a hometown band, throwing shot put, playing football, sailing, getting into trouble and playing volleyball on Tuesdays at my high school. I have had mainly good English experiences. I found out that i love poetry, i know that sounds weird but i truly like to write poetry. It is liberating, i am good at it, i like to exercise my creative muscles, i am good at it... I hope to become more familiar with the African American poetic philosophy and structure, while simultaneously comprehending the tension between multicultural America. I am truly enthralled by the Slave song: Motherless Child. I am set to curiosity by the line, "I spread my wings and I fly." It is a line that contains multiple levels of emotion, it is a line that describes the pleasure taken in death. To me when one chooses death over life, there is something to be sought out and capture, there is something that needs to be learned and nourished and flourished into a counter-active force. That line is a line that stands as a staple in the Slavery world, wishing for death and rejoicing when it comes, but at the same time i feel like it counteracts the notion of resilience and persistence that the slaves, i thought, originally wanted to relay. I am looking forward to looking into it.