A Woman's Charming Do Analysis

Although I enjoyed the essay about love, I found the essay about Cannibalism very helpful formulating my essay. Each paragraph had a purpose. Especially the first impression paragraphs. The first four paragraphs

Overall, the essay seemed to lack flow as a result of a noticeable absence of transition words. The essay had bad syntax. Each paragraph seemed to be scenario after scenario and each sentence seemed to be idea after idea. For example, in the first paragraph, the list consisted of multiple sentences, instead of just one sentence with commas. “But they are few: Being mistaken for a wheat field by a cloud of locusts. Being buried alive”...“Interviews from film festivals.”, this seemed like an awful way to list ideas. In addition, the fourth paragraph of the essay was made up of only 2 sentences, one

Comments- This essay is very striking personally to me. I share some of the feeling

The hand and 55 Miles to the Gas Pump were pretty good short stories that kept my mind alert. These stories had great meaning and symbolism behind them. They also illustrated other aspects of life that I haven’t noticed before reading these pieces. In conclusion, there

Throughout this course so far we have read several short stories, many of which I have enjoyed. Each story we have read is different in their own ways, some have figurative language while others have life lessons throughout the story. There are a couple of short stories that I would recommend to friends, although one particularly stands out. The one story that I would recommend to a friend to read would be "A Sound Of Thunder" due to it teaching a valuable life lesson while being enjoyable and having a surprise ending.

All of these things - diction, details, language, syntax - must be woven seamlessly together to create a sound essay. That is hard work, hard work that I did not want to do. I love writing, but I struggled more than I thought I would and feared that my lack of creativity would write the essay instead of granting me control. But before I could take control of actually writing, I needed to decide what to write about.

My strengths in this essay, I believe, are in not just analyzing the information that Solnit provides, but in also analyzing the effect that this information has on the readers. My final body paragraph details both the logical and the emotional responses that Solnit brings up in her audience. Additionally, I feel that I was successful in tying all of the analysis that I supply back to Solnit’s purpose in writing the essay. It is easy to look at the context and the substance of an essay, but to relate it all back to the author’s goal in writing it is what shows that you have a fuller understanding of the work.

Second, I used tone to give the essay character. The speaker throughout the essay appears to me very haughty and excited. The quote “Now I have solved two problems, bullying and your failure in school. I should really write a book.” shows

Overall, in my opinion, my Anthem essay showed my creative side when it comes to writing. It also showed some risk taking as I wrote in a style that I’ve never written before, I attempted to sound “passionate” rather than “passive” through new and complex vocabulary. Despite it being my first essay of the year, I felt it was still an excellent essay, however, I’ve noticed flaws such as not explaining my quotations and claim very well, and some minor grammar and wordiness issues. Compared to my freshmen essays, my Anthem essay definitely showed substantial growth. It was not my best work, though, I struggled a great deal in trying to explain how my textual evidence related to my thesis.

The article, “Looking at Women” by Scott Russell Sanders published in The Norton Reader, 13th edition, embarks on a journey to find out why men look at women. Sanders starts off with his personal encounter as adolescence were he was told not to look at women out of lustful desire, because women would not want to be stared at like that. He also wondered from his early college days, were his bunkmate had pictures of nude women and he and others would endlessly stir at these pictures. Sanders questions whether women enjoy being looked at by men and how should men look at women. He uses quotes from people and facts to find answers to these questions. He also analyses the problem from global perspective. He wonders why women try so hard to look good. He concludes with the fact that women like looking good, but they sometimes don't like it when men stare at them. Sanders opines in his thesis that " to be turned into an object – whether by the brush of a painter or the lens of a photographer or the eye of a voyeur, whether by hunger or poverty or enslavement, by mugging or rape, bullets or bombs, by hatred, racism, car crashes, fires, or falls – is for each of us the deepest dread; and to reduce another person to an object is the primal wrong” (188).

It was really difficult for me, writing this essay. The idea that “honesty is the highest form of intimacy” rings true on so many levels, and I’ve never liked sharing the deepest parts of myself with other people. That’s such a cliché, I know, and I’m sure half the class shares the same feelings, so it probably isn’t very original, but whatever. I could just write about something light, like “I believe Leo deserved the Oscar way sooner than when he received it,” but I think I’d miss the point of the assignment entirely, and I don’t want to see Dorion roll his eyes at my smart-assiness. Another reason I had difficulty writing this essay has to do with the fact that I believe in so many things.

In the selection, A Respectable Woman, Kate Chopin portrayed the life of an early nineteenth-century woman, expected role, and behavior in a largely patriarchal society. During that period, churches in America were instrumental to the way people lived. Due to the large influence of Catholics, Anglicans, and other Protestant churches in America, people believed that having an affair outside of marriage was a taboo and ungodly. Married women symbolized perfection and most times battle, with satisfying sexual desires, and keeping their role as respectable women. Chopin employed the use of plot, conflict, theme, imagery, and symbolism, verbal and dramatic irony, and foreshadowing techniques to narrate the story of a woman torn between satisfying sexual desires and staying faithful.

I personally think that the essay from Gretel Ehrich was the best. Why I think is the best is because when I was reading it I felt like I can picture what she was talking about in my head. As I was readying this essay I felt like I can place myself in the place she was describing for example when she was taking about being at the farm and other things she made reference too. This essay was just really calm, essay to fallow, it was clear, and as I as readying it I felt like I was connected to it. this is why I liked this essay more than the one from Annie Dillard when I was readying the essay from Annie I just could focus on what she was talking about because she would take her story to multiple places. She would be talking about one thing and then she would all the sudden change it and this is what I didn’t like about her essay because it was just really hard to fallow with all the multiple places she was referring too. Another thing I think like about it I that when it was telling her story she would repeat herself. This is what made it hard for me to understand, it’s just crazy and goes on and on.

In this portfolio I have included three essays, my personal belief of my worst, my most improved and then my best. My hardest essay to write would have been the more personal one. I decided to write my first essay on American Sign Language (ASL). I believe this to be one of my weakest essays due to not have writing many personal ones. Usually when people think of essays they think of book reports or

In the selection, A Respectable Woman, Kate Chopin portrayed the life of an early nineteenth-century woman, expected role, and behavior in a largely patriarchal society. During that period, churches in America were instrumental to the way people lived. Due to the large influence of Catholics, Anglicans, and other Protestants in America, people believed that having an affair outside of marriage was a taboo and ungodly. Married women symbolized perfection and most times battle, with satisfying sexual desires, and keeping their role as respectable women. Chopin employed the use of plot, conflict, theme, imagery, and symbolism, verbal and dramatic irony, and foreshadowing technique to narrate the story of a woman torn between satisfying sexual desires and staying faithful in marriage.