10/16/2017 0 Comments Life-Choice Memoir ReflectionInterpret and annotate Reflective Writing.
In this blog post i will be explaining my opinions on the Reflective Writing Process and how i have used this process in my most recent work. I will also talk about how my opinions have possibly changed from when i first made them in this assignment. The only people that assisted me in making this paper were my girlfriend and my older sister. Yes, i do believe this was a great approach due to her being an English major and how she helped me polish up my explanations in this story. I also think this was good approach because my girlfriend is involved in the story. The rhetorical mode that i used in this assignment was narration with the genre of non-fiction. I wrote most if not all of this assignment when we first got the opportunity to write in class. And then i finished up the assignment the night before we had class. I think this was the most efficient and effective writing i have ever done especially because of how into the topic i was. Well like i explained in the previous answer i wrote most of the paper in class. But after that, i wrote the rest in my bedroom on my laptop while listening to some podcasts. I think the classroom was a pretty effective place to write but only really if i have headphones. I say this because of how anxious it makes me that i can hear other people just typing away while i'm over here barely typing at all. But regarding writing at home i think i am most productive in my room due to how quiet and far away from everyone i am. I chose to write about this topic because i have never talked about events that happened similar to this. And because it kinda scared the shit out of me and i thought my girlfriends mom was gonna me. I also chose to pick it because my professor recommended to when he saw it in one of my blog posts. I think that it was a good choice based on how it was one of the rare moments where i couldn't faced a lot of flak from all sides but i didn't. It felt a little wrong to be writing this assignment on this event because of how i feel about it and because i didn't ask permission from the girlfriend to write about it. After writing this paper i definitely feel more confident on its meaning and also about what happened overall. I guess in a way it made me feel relieved to write it all out rather than keeping it all in my head, like it was almost therapy for me to write about it. Honestly, i think that assignment is fine as it is but i think that my professor will be able to pinpoint some places for improvement. I will revise it but correcting any errors that my professor pinpoints for me and i will probably go back to my sister and have us read it a lot more in depth and see if i can explain something more thoroughly or something like that.
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10/3/2017 2 Comments Life Choice: Is This My Tradition?In this blog post, I will be talking about Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. “The Lottery” is about an annual tradition that takes place in a small town. The tradition consists of a member of the community being randomly picked to be sacrificed by being bludgeoned with rocks until they die by all the other people.
https://polsci307.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/americas-lottery-traditions/ One tradition that still takes place in our country today that is similar to “The Lottery” is the presidential election. I think that the presidential election is similar to “The Lottery” because of how the candidates and the media will throw rocks at the opposing candidate to theirs until they fall out of the election. Another way that the presidential election is similar to “The Lottery” is how although they are different in that in “The Lottery” they chose randomly is that they both have massive amounts of people participating in this event. Another similarity that I see between these two traditions is how only the people or candidates that lose are the ones that are complaining. That “This isn't fair. This isn't fair!. And the ones that win don't complain at all about the system due to them either being able to survive another year or being able to rule the country of The United States of America. The final similarity that I see between these two traditions is that no one really asks questions about them and why they should be either removed or at least revised. And the people that do are either shamed or just hushed. I made an important decision to stop taking part in a tradition when i stopped going to the Pro-Life Walk in Washington DC. Now let me explain myself, I went to these walks because they were offered as an optional field trip when I went to Catholic School in Middle School. I honestly didn't really have an opinion on the subject, I only went because who wouldn't take a field trip over a day of class. Looking back on it now, it was so messed up that our Father and school let us see these brutal images of fetuses that had been mutilated at such a young age, but they did. I went on the trip twice, once in sixth grade and another time in seventh grade. Most of the trip was really just spent exploring the city and not the march. I stopped going to these marches when i realized how messed they were and because i was now smart enough to stop passively supporting something i didn't really support when it came to my standpoint on the subject. The only real appeal i got out of it was just how i really liked to travel when i got the chance and free food but obviously I know a lot better. Regarding the priests and my school letting us see the explicit images, the priests did warn us about them and told u to cover our eyes and look away. And as far as I know they don't have this trip anymore. |
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