The following is a reflective essay that will elaborate on what I have achieved on the Literature class that was about sixteen weeks longs. The first week was doing introduction to ourselves in divided groups of other students. Through the discussion board everyone had a chance to talk about themselves, basic background history, interests, major career and the what one hopes to learn from the Literature class. The following are few of the topics that caught my eye during the quarter which includes the following writers: Earnest Hemingway, Harrison Bergeron, Jamaica Kincaid , William Shakespeare, Amy Tan and students in my ground Gabrielle and Megan.
Ernest Hemingway is known as one of the American novelist and short-story writer, that he
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Amy Tan appealed to me as I liked her story “A pair of tickets” I didn’t have any challenges while reading this story and I liked the way she was able to relate the past and the present.
Harrison Bergeron used his writing style focusing on the future and how everyone will be the same thus no competition. The story was on pdf about George brain being controlled as he was a genius.
The other part that also appealed to me is through discussion post from Megan and Gabrielle that were in the same group with me. Every week I was looking forward to learning from the students mainly because the way each responded to question made it easy to learn and through both commenting on my post made me realize what I may have missed while I was reading or responding to the questions I had chosen to answer. I liked the way Gabrielle was always ready posting her answers on Monday night while at other times I had no idea what to answer on Monday until I go and read her post and from there I was able to get it too. One example is when I answered my post on week 12 Megan made a comment on my post that helped me there was another sense of feeling different to the one I had mentioned on my initial discussion post. Discussion board has really played a big role on this class to me, I was able to know how to use different wording so my response is not basic or short of words.
What appealed to me towards this subject is I was able to understand how author use
At the beginning of this novel, we were introduced to Sarah Nickerson, a Harvard graduate, with a good paying job as the vice president of Human Resource at Berkeley Consulting, three kids, and a sweet husband. However, she was career-driven and dedicated to her job to afford to live in Welmont and to be able to take care of the family as her husband is trying to survive the second round of lay off at his work. However I noticed that this job put a lot of stress and strain on her and her family, as she didn’t get to spend a lot of times with her kids or husband. In the morning on Friday, she would get her kids ready for school but her and her husband would rock, paper, scissor on who would take the kid to school and when she didn’t have to, she was pretty happy. The day of the accident was when she didn’t have to take her kids. As she was trying to make a phone call, she crashed and ended up in the hospital for eight days. I like how this book go into details of her life before the accident and then illustrates her life afterward.
Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel or play and, or considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole.
From grammar jeopardy in English class to researching Túpac Amaru in Spanish, all of my classes at BHMS are extremely alluring and fun, but my Humanities class to stand out within all of my great classes. The Humanities class in BHMS is the perfect combination of hands-on education, creativity and Fun. Mixing those three things is a tough thing to do, but my teacher Launa Schweizer does it every time. She make every single class so fun and engaging, whether it is going outside and polling people or making an imaginary journey to Oregon. Humanities is by far my favorite class and always manages to interest me no matter what.
I learned a lot in this class during the semester. The first project was our learning narrative, it was not what I was expecting from a writing class. I expected we would be writing a many formal essays in MLA format with lots of sources and research. The first essay being a creative writing project was unexpected. At first writing a narrative from my personal experience was difficult for me. I had not written anything besides formal essays since high school. Writing something that was creative and expressive was an adjustment. After a few days of writing I began to really enjoy my learning narrative. I liked being able to express myself and my own experiences and share them with others.
For this final literature project I have decided to write a course reflection. I have choose three readings from this semester to write about and why I like them. The first reading I am going to write about is Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. The second reading is Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death. The last story is Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. All of these stuck out at me and will remain with me for a long time.
Ernest Hemingway is noted as being one of the greatest authors in American history. His style of writing and the topics he chose were appealing to readers of his time and his works are widely read to this day. Ernest was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Creek, Illinois to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. As a young boy, he spent most of his time outdoors and enjoyed staying at his family's cabin in Michigan. It was here that he discovered his passion for hunting, fishing, and the outdoors. During high school, Hemingway wrote for the sports section of his school's newspaper and continued his newspaper career immediately after graduating when he went to work for the Kansas City Star. It was here that he gained valuable writing experience and adapted
English is a hard language to learn, for there are numerous elements of effective usage and writing. Many people, including me, struggle in writing because of a lack of knowledge. Since middle school, English was not a strong suit of mine. I struggled with the simplest of tasks often taking a considerably longer time to complete a task than the other students. Unmotivated teachers and a lack of interest resulted in remedial writing skills. To put it simply, I had little confidence in my writing and I dreaded taking the class because of the writing involved. In spite of my fears, I took the course and I was able to perfect and challenge my mediocre writing skills.
When I entered your classroom on the first day of school this year, I was confident that what I had learned in previous years was sufficient enough to call myself an experienced and competent writer. However, I discovered throughout the semester that this confidence hindered my ability to improve in the beginning. The first few days of analyzing essays and literary works was something I had never experienced before, opening up my eyes to a side of literature and the English language that I previously did not pay any attention to. After we finished writing our very first in-class essay, I was extremely surprised to see that the score I earned was a 6. But when I look back on that very first essay, I am even more surprised to see what I could improve using the knowledge and strategies I learned in AP Junior English.
When taking this class, I got to learn how to think critically, ask the right questions and formulate my thoughts into coherent paragraphs. The presentations gave me a lot of information; the assignments helped me remember and better process what I learned. And finally, the discussions gave me the opportunity to express my ideas, as well as an insight into what my classmates
It was my first day in Mr. Howard’s AP Literature Class. There were approximately thirty of us sitting in rows of six in a dim classroom. Low background music was playing and light projectors beamed colorful bright lights that traveled dizzying paths across the room. I sat beside and chatted with my close friend Andrea about our concerns regarding our new English teacher. Based on our English department’s poor reputation, we were afraid that Mr. Howard would contribute to that conception by being another poor instructor. However, many of our friends, who had him as a teacher during middle school, stated that he was an exceptional teacher. The bell then rang, indicating that passing period had come to an end and Mr. Howard flicked on the lights, muted the music, and began to introduce his course to us. He stated that we would write one or two essays a
The databases of EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text were used to identify evidence-based research concerning the issue of nurse faculty shortage and strategies for dealing with the problem. Identifying keywords selected for the search were nurse faculty shortage, nurse faculty, nurse faculty shortage solutions, and global nurse faculty shortage. Published articles chosen for review fell between 2010 and 2015. Sixty articles matched the key terms in the initial search. From these sixty, eleven of the most relevant and appropriate articles were selected, evaluated, and are discussed within following the review of literature.
So who is the author Ernest Hemingway? Well according to Biography.com, “Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea” (Bio.) Hemingway was born in whats now known as Oak Park, Illinois; in 1899. He was renowned for novels
This English class has been an amazing learning experience for me. It made me grow as a writer, I am now more convinced when I write and can express myself more effectively, so readers understand what it is exactly that they’re reading about. Although I didn’t get off to a great a start in this course and if I had to do it over again, there are definitely some things that I could have done better. Interacting with my peers on the discussion board, made me learn a few things about working with others and the Smart thinking was helpful as well. However, above all the things I learned from this course, the most was about myself. The knowledge
Ernest Hemingway is one of the most legendary and influential writers of the 20th century. His many experiences in war and living in other countries shaped his ideas, opinions, and writing style. He also had a background in journalism that was considered the basis of his writing style. Hemingway is important to American literature because of his writing style and his perspective of war.
Writing has always been something I dread. It’s weird because I love talking and telling stories, but the moment I have to write it all down on paper, I become frantic. It’s almost as if a horse race just begun in my mind, with hundreds of horses, or words, running through my mind, unable to place them in chronological order. Because I struggle to form satisfying sentence structure, it takes me hours, sometimes even days, to write one paper. It’s not that I think I’m a “bad writer,” I just get discouraged easily. Needless to say, I don’t think highly of my writing skills. When I was little I loved to both read and write. I read just about any book I could get my hands on, and my journal was my go to for my daily adventures. Although it’s