On Thursday, we watched a series of videos that involved poetry. I found these to be very different and almost mind-boggling. Some of them were eerie, some of them I found to be interesting and caught my attention, and some of them could barely hold my attention. I thought the one about "Sasquatch" was interesting, and then we took a dramatic turn and watched creative writing "videos" that were depressing.
The piece about the chair and the wood floor being messed up was painfully terrible to me because of the tone of her voice, but I found some humor in it. I especially liked the last piece, where one woman spoke throughout the video, but a number of different people appeared, speaking in her voice. That was very creative and refreshing to me, I believe that one is my favorite. I appreciate the pieces for what they are, and the meanings behind them, but some of them could not hold my attention whatsoever.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
NOTES TOWARDS THE MAKING OF A WHOLE HUMAN BEING:
I love the way this essay
begins by describing the school and giving multiple examples of how this school is
different from other schools. In the first paragraph, the school is
being described as "a small desert college in the American West" in then goes into detail about the students of this school's students: "for which young men at
eighteen are plucked from the East and delivered to a campus surrounded by
mountains, the size of Manhattan, closed off from the world by a series of
cliffs, honor, dehydration cattle guards, mountain lions, community censure,
nearly fifty-three miles to the next human outpost, and the lure, at eighteen,
of a world behind walls where boys can be boys,".
As I read D'Agata's essay, it made me think of a piece of literature entitled Lord Of The Flies because of the setting. The description throughout this essay is very vivid and I could definitely compare the essay to what it said college was like. The essay talked about meetings, Student Council and Greek life. John D'Agata did a phenomenal job at expressing the details of college in this essay.
As I read D'Agata's essay, it made me think of a piece of literature entitled Lord Of The Flies because of the setting. The description throughout this essay is very vivid and I could definitely compare the essay to what it said college was like. The essay talked about meetings, Student Council and Greek life. John D'Agata did a phenomenal job at expressing the details of college in this essay.
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