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Writing

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Screaming

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Reading

Opening

Music Poem

Nothing is so beautiful as the sound of Music

The synchronizing of the instruments, radiating the sounds of cadence and joy

The strumming of the guitar showing the passion and love

The sound of a piano note showing sorrow and regret

The sound of a singer crackling with pain and agony

Telling a story with every word he scribes

One that relates to others,

The Outcasts it touches inside

Touching upon the themes of rebellion and to “trying to feel forever young”

And the universal feeling of being in love giving the sensation of

“Stomach being tied in Knots”

Acrostic Poem

Composers creating a new sound

Inspiration drawn from mind

Singer: Tenor leggiero

Unification of sounds

Musical Instruments singing

Musica!

The word music can have variety of connotations with each individual. When creating this Word “Map” I chose words that best correlated with what I best believe have to do with music. Although some words branch off to even more connotative words that may not even be on the same sphere as the word Music these branches start from specifics to create something more magical. From “Vocals” to “Storytelling,” these words are apart of music since some might appeal to a certain artist due to the Vocal performance on song, while others connect to another band since they enjoy the band because of the amazing skills of writing lyrical songs that take a new perspective on storytelling.

RACE!

Revving of the engines

Acceleration pedal floored

Cars lining up

Eight speed transmission

Homework, Oh Homework

Someone to do my homework at night

Must have legible handwriting

Good at mathematical equations without leaving a zero behind

Must know how to write poetry

Must never fatigue, like I do

that you just say “I’m done with this” and make your journey towards your bed

flicking the light switch off

If you succeed, you will surpass all others

Let The Seminar Begin!

This past week my classmates and I took part in a socratic seminar that was broadcasted live on YouTube. The story we discussed within the seminar none other than the piece of Alice Walker, “Everyday Use,” where Walker presents us with the setting in South Georgia where an African American family dwell. The family consists of “Mama,” Dee, and Maggie where family tensions between Mama and Dee are pretty intense after the events that had occurred where Dee had burned down the house and left without acknowledging them of her absence. However, she returns to her family with her new husband, who happens to be Muslim, to reclaim the quilts that were once offered to her since she her endeavor made her realize the value of the quilts. With such a touching story that promotes the importance of family values, this story was sure a great one to discuss. About each and every one of my partners in the had given their insight about the story spilling their ideas out to other members of the group to make sure they’re well understood. When I was explaining to my peers my own interpretation of the story in the aspect that Mama didn’t give Dee, or in this instance Wagnero, since she believed that out of the two daughters Maggie deserved the quilts more since Maggie would use the quilts how quilts should be used and Dee would use them as display to promote her “African” tradition. Many agreed with the fact that Dee was unworthy for the quilts since her loyalty never always lied with her mother therefore basing her choice out of preference within her children. Although only a few of my classmates stayed quiet like Gabby, the Socratic Seminar was quite productive, not only having agreements but disagreements as well with ideological characteristics seeping out bit by bit.

Poems, Oh, Poems. How you hurt my head.

1. How would you define the word poem?
1. A poem is a piece of writing that partakes elements from a speech and a song applied with a cadence of some sort with metaphors that make the reader ponder the meaning behind the text.
2. What kinds of words are in poems?
1. Metaphorical terms, similes and a lot of figurative language to give this lingering effect in the reader’s mind to be sorta obsessed with the text due to the author’s use of diction.
3. What do poems sound like?
1. Poems sound like stories that tend to have a catchy rhythm to it tending to have extended metaphors throughout
4. How is a poem like a song?
1. With the iambic pentameter (in select few of poems) and the rhyme scheme into play, the poem really gets into a tune where the reader goes with the flow.
5. How can it be like a story?
1. It can touch upon the themes that a story may convey throughout the whole novel in a couple of stanzas. Plus, it even leaves a more lasting effect to the readers.
6. Have you ever written a poem?
1. I wrote a poem once in English II for a project on Ender’s Game in the perspective of the protagonist, Ender.
7. Would you like to?
1. Once I believe that I can create a complex piece similar of Edgar Allan Poe or Emily Dickens.

Weekly Discussion Forum 10.0

“Everyday Use” and “I Stand Here Ironing” are two narratives that touch on family values and the importance to be compacted with your relatives. Both of these stories are told in the perspective of the mother, the person best known as the stronghold within the family, dealing with the hardships of motherhood. While similar in message, the situations in which our narrators are thrown in are quite different with the mother from “I Stand Here Ironing” regretting for her absence of motherly nurturing for Emily, while the mother in “Everyday Use” breaks the forbidden rule of preference over her children. Similar in character structure, each mother have an older daughter that have their own “trait” that alters the perspective of the mother, causing the mothers to fault over their skills of being a mother. However, both stories have similar plot structure in the fact in which the daughters eventually overcoming over their struggles, almost feeling the emotion of praise radiating from the mothers through the author’s use of diction. With each story’s author conveying the importance of family values, even though every family has a dilemma of their own, that a family must always stay compacted and never be torn apart.

Warm Up 10/20/15 Symbolism

american flag - symbolizes the amount of states with the stars as well including the 13 colonies with the stripes

Ford Automobiles - not only originally from America, but also signifies a truck that every true american should wield

Football - although Eastern Hemisphere have their own version, football is seen as America’s past time for Sundays

Baseball - known as America’s pastime, baseball is filled with the awe of spectacle of the American way of life

Many things associated with the U.S. such as the American Flag, Football, Baseball, and the Ford Automobiles symbolizes the American way of life with the Flag symbolizing the past of America, Football and Baseball symbolizing the past time for America, and Ford Automobiles symbolizing American ingenuity displaying America’s innovative skills.

Weekly Discussion Forum 8.0

In “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, we are introduced to the protagonist, Harold Krebs, who prior to enlisting himself into the Marines, was a proud member of a frat party at Methodist college in Kansas. The stereotypical definition for a frat is usually loud, full of life, and feeling like the king of the world. With Hemingway first introducing Krebs as a young man who enjoyed his life was quickly flipped when he entered the war walking out like a new man, but a new man that every soldier before him unfortunately turn into as well. What Hemingway does so excellent in his style of writing is that he puts the readers into the shoes of Krebs making the reader feel isolated. We never thoroughly get to learn about the other characters since Hemingway’s intention was to elevate the feeling of Krebs’ withdrawal from society, also writing with an emotionless tone to understand griminess that Krebs is withstanding.

 Usually in life we always encounter someone who has suffered greatly whether is would fighting in a war, losing a loved one, or witnessing tragedy. These specific individuals are usually the quiet ones, psychological believing no one will understand their perspective. Without words being their source of communication, the silence in which they radiate says more about their behavior. In this week's reading of "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway,  we are introduced to the protagonist, Harold Krebs, who was a man who came back from war who ever since then hasn't spoken much.

Before being enlisted into the Marines, Krebs was a part of a fraternity party in a Methodist College in Kansas. With frat boys being particularly known as being loud, energetic and cheerful, Krebs enters the war and when he returns from the traumatic experience he returns as a secluded man withdrawing himself from society. With his late return and the credibility of his stories playing factors for his isolation, its his psychological status that radiates his silence exponentially. However, sometimes silence can say a lot more than spoken words, with silence detecting an internal disturbance within him we get more character depth with Krebs than any other character since the readers as well experience the seclusion and agony he suffers.

With the title "Soldier's Home" and Hemingway being the creator of the writing we can understand the pain that many suffer from traumatic events. Since words cannot fixate their problems, their only coping mechanism is silence.

Weekly Discussion Forum 7.0

In this week’s video, Mary Helen Washington touched upon the themes of isolation within the story “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell where Minnie Wright (Foster) allegedly murdered her husband, Mr. Wright. Although this piece had many themes intertwined within it, the one that is drenched with the most is isolation. From Martha Hale’s  depiction of the house and it’s unwelcoming atmosphere, the reader gets the idea that Mrs. Wright who was once a happy, illuminating individual, was dwelling in an establishment where it seem odd to that she associates with such setting. With her placement there, she is isolated from her past life and having only but one beam of her hope for herself: the bird. The canary could been seen as a projection of Mrs. Wright since the bird “bright” and “luminous” and just like her is also “caged” in. With her house being described as an unwelcoming setting and the journey to her dwelling was promised with bitter, cold weather, the chances of her peers paying a visit was very low. Glaspell did an excellent job by using the setting to accentuate the characters bringing out the theme of isolation.

Weekly Discussion Forum 6.0

In “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, the story is narrated by Emily’s mother describing the hardships of motherhood. With the mother’s perspective we are introduced to the main protagonist, Emily who is a troubling child who constantly feels outcasted from society. One would think that the Emily would fall under a flat character since it’s told in the eyes of another individual, when in fact the narrative shocks readers by making Emily the most complex character in the story while also making the narrator just as complex. With the narration of Emily’s mother, she recounts about the troubling times Emily experienced being aware that she was “frail” and “foreign looking.” Emily’s psychological state alters as well, with at first constantly pleading for the love of her absent, hardworking mother to not even desiring a speck of love from everyone. What this does to a girl mentally makes the reader’s empathetic even though the story lacks the inner thoughts of the protagonist herself. However, with the mother’s narration and thoroughly elaborating Emily, the lack of Emily’s conscious is compensated for.