Reflection On Breaking Beautiful

“Beauty” by Tony Hoagland was written in 1998. In this poem, Hoagland expresses his feelings on how women care too much about physical appearances. Throughout his poem he tells the story through the eyes of a brother of a girl who learns to love herself for who she is. Hoagland’s poem stresses the importance that beauty goes deeper than the surface. Throughout his poem, Tony Hoagland uses many literary devices to perfect his poem. These devices include the message, tone, imagery, figures of speech, and personification.

The poem that I have chosen to analyse is I Died for Beauty—but was Scarce by Emily Dickinson. This poem is one of Emily Dickinson’s most well-known poems and it only includes 12 lines and 3 stanzas. It is an allegorical and metaphorical piece of work that portrays the speaker who died for ‘Beauty’ while the man beside gave up his life for ‘Truth’. This simple and straightforward poem, written in first person, mainly explores the theme death but then also shows beauty and truth through Dickinson’s choice of words. Although this poem is daunting and frightening, it is also definitely fascinating and truthful.

The strategies in this scene are good. It shows that even though families are different culturally, they can come together and set aside differences. It shows that people can change too. Jack did not like Greg at first and tried to keep him and Pam apart. In this scene, you can tell Jack supports Pam, even if he still is not completely comfortable. Also, part of the ceremony is done in Hebrew. Mark, the friend who does the ceremony, translated from English to Hebrew so that everyone knew what he was saying.

I think and tell his teacher his teacher he was sick this morning that he will take his test tomorrow.” She would have had the mind set of not wanting to interact with Raheem any longer. I think the audience would have engaged into the text if we knew more about a particular scene. “When I got to tell her don’t even think about it, I trip over my own two feet.” I think the audience would have gotten a little more hype about that particular scene if we knew what would have happened if she didn’t trip over her two feet and went after the

The seminar that was conducted among the students in the IB English class focused on the novel “A Prayer for Owen Meany” and the film “Simon Birch”. Upon this two topic, the students were able to concisely derive insightful meanings of the both the novel and the film. Personally, I believe that the class did an incredible job in conducting the seminar. All students had an opportunity to participate and certain students asked questions that transpired in the entire class to engage in a sociable discussion. However, there were a few flaws that seemed to recurrently appear during the seminar. These flaws that I noticed during the seminar was the format in which the seminar was conducted, for instance, I noticed that the class had a tendency to

The discussion for my assigned reading went better than I expected. This book was a bit of a challenge to read because e of the way that its written. Even though this reading isn’t one of my favorites, it was a challenge for me, therefor it made me want to understand it more. I think that the discussion went well, many students shared their opinion, and for the most part, the subjects of the discussion intermingled. It was good to hear that many students shared some of the same thoughts. I think that this made the discussion interesting because they felt comfortable sharing their opinion and thoughts about the book. I really enjoyed leading discussion because I was forced to share my opinion and listen carefully to others in order to agree or disagree with what they said.

During the group discussion, Mrs. Williams would ask questions as a formative assessment. As the group compared and contrasted the main characters together, Mrs. Williams was able to assess their understanding of each

In this section, we reviewed and learned a lot of things that will help better prepare me in the future. We learned about different reading, writing, listening and speaking strategies. In U1A3 we learned about both listening and speaking strategies which I feel go hand in hand. This is because to be able to communicate effectively you need to be able to here exactly what the person is saying to respond back to them appropriately. In assignment U1A3 we watched a video titled Ricks Rants. In this assignment, I analyzed the video and made commentary based on how I felt he portrayed the learned speaking strategies. In assignment U1A3 you can see the process of this, and how my understanding of the speaking strategies helped me

Throughout this meeting, we discussed abundant of things about the importance of the setting, to the development of themes and connections to real life. Debating from interesting quotes and events that occurred throughout. This meeting was phenomenal as everyone had their own opinion and viewpoint of the story.

By presenting his life events to the students, he formed a character anyone would love to become. He began to speak about success, they say you need to work hard to achieve more but he discusses it was just his luck. This gave the audience hope, it brought him closer to them in a way many people can’t he showed he isn’t anything more than everyone who sat before him. Developing this persona not only created an argument of ethos, but allowed him to win his audience over. The audience only knows a successful man standing on that stage, not the humble one that is willing to admit the road has been tough.

Our protagonist is Maya, an Ethiopian girl who is seventeen years old. Her mom passed away when she was eight years old, and her father is a successful business owner who she has a strong relationship with. Her father remarried when Maya was twelve and her stepmom has two sons and two daughters of her own. At the beginning of their journey, as legal-immigrants from Ethiopia, Maya and her family are stepping off the plane in Dallas, Texas. Soon after they get settled, Maya gets placed into an eleventh grade classroom at Centennial High School. Maya comes into the school year when her english class is analyzing the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Throughout the unit, Maya realizes her classmates and teachers level of ignorance about various African cultures. In class, Maya expresses her thoughts on how the Western culture views what she has grown to be accustomed to, as something that is misguided. They view it as such, simply because it is not similar to their own culture. Furthermore, as time progresses, she sees her dad, a previously successful business owner, struggling to make ends meet in the land of endless opportunities. Maya has always had a passion for writing, and as the school year progresses, her english teacher, Mrs. Madison recognizes her talent as a young writer.

The short film entitled “The Most Beautiful Thing” is about a smart and lonely boy in high school who falls for a girl who is also lonely and has special needs. This film came out in 2012 and Cameron Covell is the director, writer, and producer of the film. It is only about 11 minutes long, but it conveys a very powerful message about love. This short film is a great movie to watch because many people can relate to the struggles of the boy (Brandon), it is amazing to see who he falls in love with (Emily) and how she changes his world, and the courage displayed by both Brandon and Emily at the end of the film is astounding and encouraging.

One emotional aspect of this class is reflecting our opinions based off of the Alligator river story. This story is about a woman named Abigail, who is desperate and in love. She desires to obtain the chance to be reunited with her lover, Gregory. The only thing that separates the two is an alligator filled river. When her friend, Ivan, refuses to help her across, she is then faced with a boat captain’s offer. In order for Captain Sinbad to help Abigail across the river, she would first have to perform intercourse with him. At first, Abigail refuses the offer, but then decides to take the boat captain’s offer. Once Abigail is reunited with her lover, Gregory, she confesses her wrong doing. Gregory gives Abigail the boat and she is left heartbroken. She then tells her another friend, Slug, about what had happened. Being the compassionate friend, Slug beats Gregory brutally while Abigail watches while laughing. After reading the story, each group was required to label each individual from 1 to 5 and 1 being the most reprehensive. Our group

The first day I practiced this project was November the twenty-ninth, a Wednesday. During the first day I was relatively forgetful; I repeatedly forgot to practice my virtue. I often found myself talking without a purpose throughout the day. I also found it difficult to decipher what speech was necessary and what speech was not. During lunch I made a comment to Sophia I initially deemed necessary, but on second thought was overly drawn out and mostly unnecessary. I also made unnecessary comments during physics and AP US history. Going into

I giggled trying to picture my 57 year old aunt kicking a girls butt in the mud ring, I started reminding myself that this is why she is the person that she is. The doorbell rings and I jump in my seat imagining a biker man trying to come through the door, luckily it was one of the kids parents coming to pick their child up. Cheryl came back calmly with a smile on her face, to see her change from story telling about a dangerous moment within this event to a completely caring and loving person telling the child goodbye was a moment of realization for me this is her badass coming out not the bike rider undercover cop lady who experienced a boat load in her life, but her way of adapting and understanding what is needed of her in that situation.