Poetry

To me poetry is putting words together that has a better flow than a book, but also is limited by various rules such as rhyming. I personally hate poetry because it isn't always straightforward. I don't like it when things are mostly metaphorical, and it feels like that's how most poems are. I appreciate things that don't dance around a topic, but instead have a structured plot. Such as books.

Masked Reality

One thing that many people are good at ignoring is how our actions effect the environment in places that we can't see ourselves. One particular example is how our use of machinery and factories increase global warming and even though there are ways to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions, we tend to ignore them. We could all do small things like biking instead of driving, but we are stubborn in our ways and not many will change their way of life.

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1. Initially I see the outline of a bird. After looking closer at the picture I can see that the bird is made out of different colors and patterns. I think this symbolizes that things are made from many pieces and that the viewer may not understand all if any of those pieces.


2. I see a man wearing a suit falling from nothing in to nothing. It makes me think of the t.v. series Mad Men. The colors, the suit, and how the character is falling gives me a sense that what the ad represents is something bold like Mad Men


3. I see a malnourished and naked young black boy on a dry piece of land, and behind him is a vulture. To me the picture conveys that the poor and hungry are prey in the world who have other just waiting for them to drop.

The Wig associatons

1. In The Wig, when the dad is talking about how the wig fits like a football helmet it made me think of Manny from Modern Family. His son is doing something different and a bit strange but he doesn't seem to know that, or he just doesn't care.
I also associated comics with Calvin and Hobbes. It's what I used to read.


2. The thing I usually tell myself is to sit back and observe things before I get involved. Typically I don't get enough sleep during the week so I have to tell myself to stay awake during my earlier classes. At the gym I tell myself to push my body until I can't.

I think that if i was someone who was reading my paper that I would think that I needed a bit more details in my story. I also think that I would a little more to the middle paragraph to describe the person that I was talking about a bit more. I do believe my story needs a bit more explanation than i already has.

Life Changing Event

One extremely important time in my life was my freshman season of soccer. I went into tryouts not expecting a whole lot because while I loved playing soccer, it wasn't necessarily a huge part of my life. To my amazement I made varsity. The coach later pulled me aside and said, "We didn't choose you because of your skill right now. We want to see you work hard and improve and the best place to do that is on this team". I worked my ass off and about a  quarter of the way into the season I was a starter. Before this part of my life I never really had anything to work extremely hard for and I believe it taught me something about working towards a goal until you've reached it.

Example Narrative Response

Overall I think that this example essay was a good one. I didn't have a lot of complaints about it. First off, I thought the content of the story was a good one. Not something that would happen everyday, but it is a feasible situation. I also thought the theme that her story revolved around was smart to choose. The realization that material things aren't as essential in our life as we think they are is something most of us have had to think about at some point in our life. The way the writer described the subway to the reader was good. The details make it easier to understand the story as a whole. One thing I noticed what her diction when she wrote about calling nana. It makes shows how the writer is feeling at that moment, younger and more vulnerable kids tend to call their grandma nana. Some things I noticed that I didn't like were how short the story feels. I know it shouldn't feel like a novel, but it feels like the writer is racing to finish. I also noticed a couple grammar and spelling errors, but those are to be expected in a rough draft.