May 04, 2006
Portfolio 3 "From Beginning Till The End"
Portfolio 3 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
The portfolio of the second half of the semeter show how much growth I have learned with this class. American Literature has taught me how to read,write, and even blog better. I never thought that I would be able to get this down pat but it has come to be so seay for me. This portfolio covers reading that were required in the class and different class disscusions. I really enjoyed learning in a different way then what I am used to with my feild of study. I liked the challenge that you provided to your students, although at times I was ready to cry because I never thought that I would make it through. Now being at the end and looking back I would have changed some things, but I can only look to do better in the future. I can definalty say that I know more walking out then when I first walked in to this class.
COVERAGE: These are reading that required many days of long hours reading over a couple times to be sure I was understanding what is being taught and said in class.
*O'Connor The Displaced Person
*The Great Gatsby chapter 1-3
*The Great Gatsby chapters 4-6
*The Great Gatsby chapters 7-9
*The Color of Water, McBride
*The Color of Water, McBride
DEPTH: These works are things that I looked more in depth with. Focusing on them reading them a couple times to be sure that I was understanding the main topic of the story.
*Roberts, Chapter 18
*Roberts pg. 254-263
*Roberts, 254-263
*Roberts, Appendix C
*Roberts, Appendix A
INTERACTION: These are works that I made comments on to help my peers or agree on the same of different thoughts.
*O'Conner A Late Encounter With The Enemy
*O'Connor Good Country People
*O'Conner "The River"
*A Good Man Is Hard To Find
*Ressurection BLues
DISSCUSSIONS: Conversations from peers that sparked my attention or got me thinking about another idea or topic. It is important to help your peers , so that everyone understands where they are expected to be.
*A Good Man Is Hard To Find
*O'Conner A Circle In The Fire
*Frost and Huges
*Roberts, Chapter 8
TIMELINESS: Entries that I posted long before the due date, to help me work ahead with my schudule and give each of my classes equal dedicataion to my work.
*O'Conner "The River"
*The Artificial Nigger
*Roberts, Comparsion and Contrast
*Roberts, Ch 17
XENBLOGGING: Helping others but at the same time other peers helping me see different things, ideas, topics, quotes, that I did not pick up on when reading.
*O'Conner "The Life You Save Maybe Your Own"
*A Stroke Of Good Fortune
*A Temple Of The Holy Ghost
*O'Connor The Displaced Person
WILDCARD: Acheivement that I have made as a blogger throughout the semester.
*O'Connor The Displaced Person
*Formal Presentation
*Formal Presentation #2
*Ressuration Blues
I have really been taught so much in this class throughout the entire semester. Although some things did not come as easy to me as maybe others. I never took the easy way out...I just kept pluggin away, knowing that all I had to do was the best that I knew how. I will walk form this class taking many different things that I have learned and I will use it with my future class or one day in my classroom with my own studnets. Thank You, for teaching me things that I never thought I could do, I have completed them to the best of my known sucess!
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May 03, 2006
Ressurection BLues
After fiinshing this play I really ended up enjoying the last 2 scencs. They seemed to make the most sense to me. I think that this play would be awsome to see, even though I love to go and see plays all the time and musicals.
I thought that the character's were really funny how they would bicker back and forth. Definality would recommand to keep this book for the end since it is short and a easy read, I think that it would be a great idea to act out some parts to this play our last class.
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May 01, 2006
Ressuration Blues
"Prego, Signor.....No, that's Italian. Bitte... not bitte...stop, okay? What's Spanish for "stop"?
Liked this quote being that I am Italian....I am trying to get the talking Italian down better. It is not that easy. This play is very confusing to me. I have two more scences to finish reading so i think that the end will help me understand what is going on. I think after I read some blogs, and listen to some class disscusion I will hear things that i remember reading and have a better understanding of the play. I think it is a great play so far.
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April 26, 2006
Formal Presentation #2
Melissa Lupari
Title: Flannery O’Connor’s the Quest to Vision Spirituality, Hope and Existence
Thesis:
In Flannery O’Connor a Good Man Is Hard to find and Other Short Stories, we find two stories that focus in on one another in two very diverse ways. In Flannery O’Connor’s “The River” and “Good Country People,” we see that life is not always the way we would picture it providing us with many trials and tribulations. In O’Connor’s short stories we vision that life for some of us is to difficult and hardened by what God has provided us with, not always willing to except things the way they are and try to take our life to a whole new outlook through a vision of spirituality and comedy.
Quotes:
“She officially changed her name to Hulga to reflect the ugliness she feels about her life and to spite her mother.” (Bosco)
“But nevertheless is filled with Christian hope given neither death nor pain.” (Sparrow)
“That there can not really be such a thing as good country people.” (O’Connor)
I would appreciate any comments or suggestions at the bottom, and then return it back to me:
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Formal Presentation
Formal Oral Presentations -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Anagogical Vision and Comedic Form in Flannery O’Connor: The Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable
By: Melissa Lupari
What is Comic Vision?
o Comedic- means of or relating to comedy.
o Vision- the power of being able to see or use your imagination.
What is Anagogical Vision?
o Anagogical- interpretation of a word, passage, or text (as of Scripture or poetry) that finds beyond the literal, allegorical, and moral senses a fourth and ultimate spiritual or mystical sense.
How could Flannery O’Connor’s writings be described?
o Does Flannery O’Conner use a lot of Comedy in her writing or, is it more or less a word or a passage?
Why do you think that Comedy has hinged on the work of Flannery O’Connor?
o Comedy has traditionally hinged on the ending of the work.
o Example: “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” at the beginning you may have laughed with laughter, but by the second half you sat in silence and were stunned by what you were reading. (Askin, 58)
o O’Connor uses comedic paradigm as we have seen in her writings, by developing plot, character, and the mode to her stories. She distances comedically, barring emotion and engaging on intellect. (Askin, 58-59)
o O’Connor also at times leaves the reader to struggle for “the point” making us wonder what happened, where the conclusion… is leaving us hanging. (Askin, 60)
My Paper…The Progress:
Title: Finding what good there is in life and making a vision.
Thesis Statement: In Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Short Stories,” we find two stories that focus in on one another in two vary diverse ways. O’Connor’s “The River and “Good Country People.” In These two stories we find that life is not always what it is made out to be. Sometimes some of us do not even try at all, never wondering or worrying about what vision will come to mind about life and the future.
I have changed my Thesis Statement about three times each time I feel I am getting closer to what I want to say. The Focus of my paper is taking these two stories and looking into more of there vision. What are there similarities and how do they deferrer? At the time what was Flannery O’Connor thinking about in her writings, mood, etc.?
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April 21, 2006
Roberts, Ch 17
I think when looking at everything that we have studied throughout the semester, I see me focusing on a lot of the reading, the major detials that pin point the topic or primary text.
As for my paper focsuing on Flannery O'Connor the way she makes the charcters come out in her writing, even though very vague and sad, she trys to teach us not to be to trusting of others and that there are not to may good people on this earth. Aso the religion and way of living down south. There can be several different types of questions it all dpends on you track of thought.
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April 18, 2006
The Color of Water, McBride
"See a marriage needs love. And God. And a little mone. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It's not about black or white. It's about God and don't let anyone tell you different." (233). This is so true if you let people try to live your life for you then why are you living a life..there is no point. You have to be your own person following you own dreams and your own goals not following what someone else has in mind for you. This hit me in a personal way, with me dealing with my familiy, mother always trying to live out my life and tell me what she thinks is best for me but that is not what I want i want to live my own life and make my own good and bad choices no matter how it effects me and move on with it from there not always looking at the bad part in things,which is how some people live and look at there life and it never really gets them anywhere but being mesiraible and unhappy.
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April 17, 2006
The Color of Water, McBride
"As a small boy, I was never wuite aware of the concept of "Father." This really was very sad to me. Growing up never knowing who your real fatehr was but having someone else to look up to a call dad and as you get older and understand that the man who has raised you are and never really will be his. That just breaks me thinking that it happens a lot to children. (117)
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April 10, 2006
Portfolio 3 "From Beginning Till The End"
Portfolio 3- Jerz: American Literature II (EL267)
The portfolio of the second half of the semeter show how much growth I have learned with this class. American Literature has taught me how to read,write, and even blog better. I never thought that I would be able to get this down pat but it has come to be so seay for me. This portfolio covers reading that were required in the class and different class disscusions. I really enjoyed learning in a different way then what I am used to with my feild of study. I liked the challenge that you provided to your students, although at times I was ready to cry because I never thought that I would make it through. Now being at the end and looking back I would have changed some things, but I can only look to do better in the future. I can definalty say that I know more walking out then when I first walked in to this class.
COVERAGE: These are reading that required many days of long hours reading over a couple times to be sure I was understanding what is being taught and said in class.
DEPTH: These works are things that I looked more in depth with. Focusing on them reading them a couple times to be sure that I was understanding the main topic of the story.
INTERACTION: These are works that I made comments on to help my peers or agree on the same of different thoughts.
A Late Encounter With The Enemy
DISSCUSSIONS: Conversations from peers that sparked my attention or got me thinking about another idea or topic. It is important to help your peers , so that everyone understands where they are expected to be.
TIMELINESS: Entries that I posted long before the due date, to help me work ahead with my schudule and give each of my classes equal dedicataion to my work.
XENBLOGGING: Helping others but at the same time other peers helping me see different things, ideas, topics, quotes, that I did not pick up on when reading.
The Life You May Save Maybe Your Own
WILDCARD: Acheivement that I have made as a blogger throughout the semester.
I have really been taught so much in this class throughout the entire semester. Although some things did not come as easy to me as maybe others. I never took the easy way out...I just kept pluggin away, knowing that all I had to do was the best that I knew how. I will walk form this class taking many different things that I have learned and I will use it with my future class or one day in my classroom with my own studnets. Thank You, for teaching me things that I never thought I could do, I have completed them to the best of my known sucess!
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April 01, 2006
Roberts, Chapter 8
"Oldfactory image refers to smell, a gustatory image to taste, and a tactile image to touch." I never heard of any of these words used before and for each of them to use a part of the 5 sences, it was something new that i had just learned today and become very interesting to me. So i learned something new. A great deal of love poetry deals with this.
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March 28, 2006
O'Connor The Displaced Person
"At last," she said, "I've got somebody I can depend on. For years I've been fooling with sorry people. Sorry people. Poor white trash and niggers," she muttered. "They've drained me dry."
Everytime Mrs. McIntyre gets some one to people here they do a half assed job, it seems to me that she is extremely picky and Mr. Shortley was not going to help her, because his own work to do in his barn and the side work with his wiskey. Mrs. McIntyre seems to be very predjustice against white and blacks, it makes me wonder what etnic background she is? I guess some times people do not appricate the help that they do get or have until they loose all there help. Toward the end she does get very sick and has to sell all her cow and there is only a black women to take care of her and the priest that comes by once a week to explian the doctrines of the church to her. I guess now she is not so cruel to blacks because there is no one more willing to help take care of her then this women.
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O'Connor Good Country People
"but I guess the world ould never be better off if we were all that simle." Life was not that simple for Mr. Pointer as he called himself, but at every house he would change his name so what was his real name. He knew who to munipulate these women, and the fact that the mother let Hulga go with hime, they did not even know the man that well he just come to there house sat down and had dinner the next minute Hulga was meeting him in the park for a picnic. Another good county man, i think he was out to see what they had, nosey boy one who you know better than to trust coming down the street out of nowhere.
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Roberts, Appendix A
Structuralism stems from the attempt to find relationships and connections amoung elements that appear to be separate and discrete. The structuralsit critical approch attempts to discover the forms underlying all literature. It is so important to come across your work in a wide variety of approaches. Focus on the approach that is there and work with the different structures between structuralism and archetypalism. Grammer is a very important part to this as well. Languages can associate with different types of literature.
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March 26, 2006
O'Conner A Late Encounter With The Enemy
This story was a little confusing to me. I understood it to be about Sally Poker Sash at 62 years old she was going to gradutae and she took care of her father General Sash who was 104 years old. He seemed to be more of a sneeky man if i am understanding the story corectly. He tired to hide near the pop machine when she was walking in the line she had to get out of line and have the scout take him into the autoturium. I am thinking that there was someone there that general did not want to encounter, maybe John Wesly.
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Roberts, Appendix C
"Porphyria's Lover" (1836)
This poem really got my attention.....it seems to me that this man loved this women so much that he took her life, because either he could not control what she did and did not do, or he wanted her all to himself and the only way he could have her was by killing her. I don't understand if he was going to keep her or going to bary her. Hopefully for her sake and peace he would bary her, but he seemed like a sick man. And the last line "And yet God has not said a word!" This man will probably go to hell for what he done....esecially killing an inosiant women who loved him and he loved her too, but i what i would call a sick manner.
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March 23, 2006
O'Conner A Circle In The Fire
Mrs. Pitchard and Mrs.Cope working on the beds of the house, always making them look presentiable and neat. One day three boys comming down the street they came to see Mrs. Pitchard. One of the boys remembering Mrs. P when he lived back this way with his father, before he died. He come to see if him and his freinds could ride the horses, but Mrs. P said not that she did not want anyone to get hurt. The boys stayed for lunch till the next day Mrs. P knew that they seemed like there were up to no good, the ended stealing the cows and lighting the woods on fire, all the pride and joy that Mrs. P had. The boys seemed like trouble to me from the begining there were coming there for on reason and one reason only. They wanted to ruin everything she had and owned more in likely because they had nothing, to go to no home or residence.
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March 13, 2006
Paper #1
Trifles
Melissa Lupari
English Literature II
March 14, 2006
Seton Hill University
Trifles 1
Melissa Lupari
Dr. Jerz
English Literature II
14 March 2006
Trifles: True Crime To Cover For Love
In Susan Glaspell’s one act play the Trifles, we are focusing on evidence trying to find whom to pin the murder to Mr. Wright’s killer. Believing that Mrs. Wright could be the possible victim of Mr. Wright killing in Trifles, we have no real given evidence that it was her. Until they found a piece of quilt that Mrs. Wright had been working on. “It’s a log cabin pattern. Pretty isn’t it? Wonder if she was goin’ to quilt it or just knot it” (396). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter are trying to figure out what has just happen to their friend did she really kill her husband? Was she capable of doing such a god afoul thing?
Mrs. Wright loved to sing and quilt, that was her love besides her canary. Mr. Wright never gave Mrs. Wright any children to rise because he was not interested in having any at the time and he said, ‘No’ (393), it was either his way or no way. Mr. Wright seemed like he controlled what Mrs. Wright could and could not do. Mrs. Wright never seemed to talk to her neighbors much; she basically alienated herself from others due to her unhappiness. Nobody ever saw much of her; they began to think that she was getting depressed because all she would do is stay inside in her rocking chair and quilt. Her house was a mess because it finally set in that she was in the middle of doing
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everything when the “shock” of her husband’s death set in.
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters went into the home to get Mrs. Wright some clothes because she did not have the time to grab any clothes. As they were searching for clothes in the cupboard they found a birdcage all broken and wondered were the canary was and what happened “I think she would a wanted a bird” (398). She loved to sing just as a bird would, “She was a kind of bird herself-real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery” (398). Mrs. Hale finds her sewing box thinking that her scissors might be in there, but instead the find something wrapped in a piece of silk, “It’s a bird” (398). The women started thinking that if Mrs. Wright killed the canary she could have sure killed her husband, but she was never that kind of a person. “She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir” (396). Little did they know that Mrs. Wright was verbally abused by Mr. Wright and he hated noise and children that is why they never had children. Mrs. Wright also lost interest in going to church and singing in the choir, “I wish you’d seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbon and stood up there in the choir and sang” (399). She was perfect it seemed till she settled down with Mr. Wright.
When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter are starting putting two and two together they thought that Mrs. Wright probably killed her husband because of the way he treated her and he took everything that meant something to her from her believing that Mr. Wright killed her canary because he hated sound in the first place and the bird would always sing. “I wonder how it seemed to not have any children around. No, Wright wouldn’t
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like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too” (399). To Mrs. Wright, that was like her child to her since she was never given the opportunity to have any. So she hid the canary in a box with a piece of silk because she wanted to bury it the right way. Mrs. Wright was sick of the life that she had with Mr. Wright and took his life even though she is not a cold person. But never admitting to committing the crime, she never put up a fight either.
Supposing that Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale understand what might have happened while Mr. Wright was living in the house; they saw things that other neighbors did not. For one Mrs. Wright was always a friendly person and would speak to anyone, but feeling ashamed in letting her husband rule her around and treat her the way that he did.
Mrs. Peter’s realizes that the dead bird will be used as the stereotype of Mrs. Wright as a madwoman who overreacts in “Trifles”. Mrs. Peters is the playing the role of sheriffs wife and becomes “married to the law” (400). She claims that her position as the person who dispenses the lots in life when she moves to hide the bird and thus denies the men “something to make a story about” (400).
Symbolically, Mrs. Wright is linked to Mr. Hales description of her “rockin’ back and forth” (393), a motion made similarly to the motion of cutting by the scissors. Mrs. Peter’s discovers that the dead bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing box and exclaims, “Why, this isn’t scissors” (398). Ironically, the dead canary takes the place of the scissors. The death of the bird directly ties to the death of Mr. Wright. Mr. Hale relates that in his questioning of Mrs. Wright, she admits that her husband “died of a rope around his neck,” but she does not know how it happened because she “didn’t wake up;” she is a
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sound sleeper (393). Mrs. Wright “I was on the inside” (393). Her involvement with the rope of death is equivalent of serving the thread of life. She did not spin the thread, nor did she assign the lot, she merely contributed a part of the whole, and that collective whole became the great part of the story. For this reason, Mrs. Wright is correct in denying on her individual knowledge or responsibility in the death of her husband.
In Trifles the evidence is really waved by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter’s. They feel sorry for her knowing what she just might have gone through with Mr. Wright. Never really understanding what happened in their relationship. On the Outside always seeing Mr. Wright as a good man “he didn’t drink, and kept his word as well as most, I guess, and paid his debts. But he was a hard man, Mrs. Peter’s” (398). For Mrs. Wright they was not much in his eyes that she could have done right, so she just assumed to quite doing everything and then she would not have to listen to him “like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (398).
Mrs. Wright carries out with the verdict; although the procedure us somewhat reserved. Susan Glaspell’s use of fate or the three sisters, does not weaken or dramatize the women who are oppressed by men. Although some believe that the power of the three sisters remains trivial. Glaspell reminds her audience that, regardless of the myth and the twentieth-century law, it still takes three women to equal one man. Man are not always as lucky to have friends that will stand by there side and find a way to protect them as women do. They are all qualities that remain a mystery.
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Works Cited
Bill, Keveny. “‘Mrs. Harris:’ True Love, true crime.” USA Today (2006): 9-10.
Holstien, Suzy Clarkson. “Silent Justice in a different key: Glaspell’s ‘Trifles.’” Midwest Quartley Vol. 44 (2003): 282-291.
Kanthak, John. “Feminisms in Motion: Pursing the “Wild Zone” Thesis into the fourth dimension. Literature Interpretation Theory Vol. 14 (2003): 149-164).
Marsh, Kelly. “Dead Husbands and other ‘Girls Stuff’: The Trifles in Legally Blonde.” Literature Film Quarterly Vol.33 (2005): 201-206.
Roberts, Edgar. “Trifles.” Writing About Literature-11th ed. (2006): 392-400.
Russell, Judith Key. “Glaspell’s Trifles.” Explicator Vol. 55 (1997): 88-91.
Salla, Michael. “Creating the ‘Ripe Moment’ in the East Timor conflict.” Journal of Peace Research Vol. 34 (1997): 449-467.
Yamashita, Brianna. “A Lady Never Trifles With Thieves” (Book). Publishers Weekly Vol. 250 (2003): 58-60.
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March 07, 2006
Roberts, Chapter 18
When starting a paper the hardest thing that I find myslef having is selecting a topic and knowing am I going to be able to write a good paper on this topic and will it meet the requirements. He says to pick a particular topic and author and then compare and contrast the two types. The look at some other specific works and you might find something that influences you more. To research more about the topic go to diferent libraries and look for articles, information, books,and journals. If you feel confident about your paper, then begin setting up our biblography.
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O'Conner "The Life You Save Maybe Your Own"
"Give it to her when she wakes up," Mr. Shiftlet said.
He stopped to get something to eat and left Lucynell behind, i knew from the beginging that he was a no good man and that he was out to get someone. He was in a rush to get to Tuscaloona. The only reason he bothered with those women was becasue they had a car that they never used since the women's husband died and he knew that was his ride to where he had to be. Very stiny man, sneaky.
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February 24, 2006
Dessert Places
"I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawareness."
A man feeling very lonely and unaware of his surronding that are around him. He is too much a one way person to look on the other side to see what might just be happening around him or the people in his life.
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Mending Wall
"Good fences make good neighbors."
Having a fence up and not having to deal with the neighbor is sometimes the best neighbor to deal with.
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Apple Picking
"Magnified apples appear and disappear"
I believe that the poet is trying to say in this line that he is just exhusted from apple picking all day and he is starting to see thing because his eyes can not stay in focus.
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Portfolio One for E267
Portfolio 1 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
This is my first blog portfolio of the semester. It cover all the reading and discussions that we have talked about in and out of the classroom. This class has really taught me new things that I have never done before. So I am looking forward to walking out of this class knowing more than when I walked in.
COVERAGE: (This shows all of the reading that we have done so far this semster. Things that took several days to do and lot of time reading and analyzing what was going to be wrote or talked about for the next class or for the blogging.)
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-3
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 4-6
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 7-9
DEPTH: (These works show a little more time and effort spent on them. They may not be any longer or as long as some of my blogs, but they are so of the things I spent more time focusing on to understand or maybe cause I really enjoyed working on them.)
* Trifles
INTERACTION: (These are some comments that I made to my peers, in helping them out to better understand what they are reading or discussing.Each one of us are her to help each other understand what we are being taught. It is important to want to help one another become more sucessful at what we are trying to excel for.)
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-3
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 4-6
DISCUSSIONS: (Conversation from peers that sparked me. I love to sometimes just sit back and take a look at what other peers are thinking or talking about, see if I even thought about that through a poem or a reading.)
TIMELINESS: (This section show entires that I posted long before the due date so that I could keep up with all the work and be ahead of the schudule. These are entries that also I also took a liking to and that I was interested in reading more about.)
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 7-9
* Writing about Plot and Structure
XENBLOGGING: (Helping others when needed, and of course all the help that other peers have given me,things that I could elaberate on.)
WILDCARD: (Acheivements as a Weblogger and things that I learned by reading the Roberts, Writing About Literature.)
* I believe that I have come a long way from the first week in this class. There are many things that I am still learning and unsure how to do. I give every peice of my work my heart and soul and I try to do the best I know how. I realize that not everything comes to me as easy as I think it might. That is why I spend at least ten hours a week just on this class, to be sure I understand what I am learning. I want to come out of here with the opportunity to have taught myself something new that I can use in the future to teach others and teaching children. It has been a wonderful experience meeting so many helpful students. I like how we all work together and help one antoher out. Those now who I am talking about, Thanks For All Your Help!
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February 18, 2006
The Great Gatsby chapters 7-9
"I don't think she ever loved him." (p. 152)
Gatsby is saying this to Nick. That she never loved Tom but because he was around and Gatsby wasn't because he left for war, that is why to chose to marry him so she would never have to think of being alone with nobody.
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The Great Gatsby chapters 4-6
"I certainly am awfully glad to see you again."
Daisy is speaking here, she is very glad to get to meet up with Gatsby again. She remember's once her love for him and what they shared, knowing that she is married to another man it may be it late to kindle that realtionship again.
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The Great Gatsby chapter 1-3
"The only crazy I was was when I married him." (p.35)
I think Daisy is talking about her husband Tom in the chapter. I think she realizes that he has another women when he runs to use the phone. Daisy trys to spy on him to see what he is up to.
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February 15, 2006
MLA Recommendations
"Documenting Your Work"
Sources must by all sited. There are many different ways to site different materials. Electronic sources can be a little more difficult. Never neglect to search printed information.
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Writing about Plot and Structure
"In it's most elemental form, a conflict is the opposition of two people."
When to people read a story or an article they may have two different points of view. They may not be able to relate to what each other is feeling, and have different oppinions.
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February 09, 2006
Roberts Chapter 10
"Objects and descriptions that are not universal symbols can be symbols only if they are made so within individual works."
By determining what something means and looking at all the different ways to look at it and come up with a topic and see the whole picture not just part of it is really imoportant fot the writer. The reader has to understand what is being said and read.
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Roberts Chapter 13
"To study the versification in any poem, you scan the poem."
When looking at poems you want to be sure you read them over a couple good times to get a feel of what the poem is about and what the writer may have been thinking when writing it. You will want to be aware of rhyming, meters, sounds, unusal words, feeling/emotions, and what time of year was it taken place in. There are many thing you want to be thinking about when you look at poetry.
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February 07, 2006
The Revolation
"The Revolation"
Which means to me that he wants to know more about her but does not have the confidence to ask.
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
In the Wallace Stevens poems the "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
In my thoughts the sailor was dreaming of being out at sea with red skies at night and in the morning.
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Bernice Her Bobs Hair Class comments
I really liked how the class dicussion made it more clear on what the story was about. I was not quite sure if what I had come up with was the correct idea. I do believe the Bernice wanted to be her own person, and that she wanted to get back at Marijore.
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February 06, 2006
Adding Machine
"This place is only for the good ones" Pg (111)
Zero had done a crime by killing his boss and do believe his was guilty, but he worked all his life never took a day off, never got a raise, and i think he just had it with his job. They found him guilty and he went to purgatory.
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February 05, 2006
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"Oh I wasn't thinking about that. I was considering whether we hadn't better bob your hair."
Bernice really wants to have her hair bobed to fit in society and have more poeple look at her and admire her as a women. But when she got her hair done she didn't seem to like it, and everyone had there opinions on it. Brenice seemed to be a very strong willed women with a strong mind and very demading on what she wanted, she was going to get.
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February 03, 2006
Chapter 3 Roberts
Fitzgerald, ''Bernice Bobs Her Hair'' (1920) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Like ordinary human beings, fictional characters do not necessarily understand how they may be changing or why they do the things they do."
Characters are functional in the way that it is essential to keep the action moving along, they provide the material that draws to the conclusions, of every play and story. They enhance the motions of a story and keep us readers and movie watches, in tune to what is happening.
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February 01, 2006
Close Reading Chapter 2
"A more mangageable and desireable technique is therefore to devote attention to the meaning of individual parts in realtionship to the entire work."
Pick the things that stand out to you the most, the things you would enjoy talking about or discussing. Put forth an effort that might take more individualized time and try to make sense of it by breaking it up into parts. When you write put your whole self into it, write from your heart, express what your feeling and don't be afraid to say what you feel is right. There are no wrong anwers in life. The only wrong answers are the ones you are afraid to answer. Express yourself in your writing cause you are the one that understands who you are.
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January 31, 2006
"Trifles"
As I read they play I realized that the police were after Mrs.Wright foir the kiiing of her husband. Oddly enough Mrs. Peters wish she would have visited Mr. Wright more often then she had. I think her friends know as well but are not coming out saying anything to Mrs. Wright or the Sheriff, because they can just be as guilty for not telling the truth. The women keep trying to look for clues but seem to be haveing a hard time getting any luck. Quite an interesting play.
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January 30, 2006
On "Dessert Places"
"What inner desert it reprsents, of course, goes with him, and, as "Stopping by Woods" remind us, we must go- move, do- if we are to be."
This quote reminds me of there are things in life that we are not always sure about, but we must go and attempt the things that we are unsure about and may not even like. There are things that we have to do as a person that may help in making each and everyone of us a better person. Have no fear attempt the things that you would normally not do. The risk could be in your favor.
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The World Trade Center
"Until that Friday afternoon in February
When the bomb went off and the buildings became
A great symbol of America, like the Statue
Of Liberty at the end of Hitchcock's Saboteur.
My whole attitude toward the World Trade Center
Changed overnight."
I believe this has so much to say...America never really knew what kind of danger and such destruction they were up against. When this happened it changed the United States forever. The World Trade Center is something that can not be brought back, and the lives that were taken will be something never to be forgotten.
We never think about how lucky we are to have all the things we have and how quickly it can be all taken from each one of us.
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January 26, 2006
Mending Wall
"But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,"
"Where there are cows? But here there are no cows."
I really liked how Robert Frost included animals and nature. He included other things besides talking about his neighbor. I think he made himself be so secluded from everything that he did not even realize what he was doing.
After reading poem several times it started to make more sense to me.
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