On Essay 2 I believe I have done the most out of other semesters despite that I did not do my first essay. Most of what my professor told me since the beginning of the class was that I put in present tense sentences when speaking of a quote, or connecting with the sentence that has the same tense. The thesis statement wasn’t hard to understand but I found less structural meaning of my first paragraph when I tried to mirror the thesis to the conclusion. I learned next time by increasing transparency and context to the sentences relating to my point, would my professor grade it at a higher than 85. Even if, my grade is good enough based of my educative and personal input of the subject. Last semester and the semester before, many of the students, even me, used AI for everything, and I of course mainly look up particular sources when looking for structure. Additionally I treated it as a fail safe search engine, while other people even use it 100% and had their sentences look like it was rushed, before coming in with a bad grade. Before I did not catch any patterns in between the real person’s speech and the one made by text generators, such as ChatGPT. And I figured that the tension of the neglected use of artificial intelligence can spell doom to real artists, construction workers, and even tutors and scientists. Essay #2 teached me further in fact that Professor Conway taught me a valuable lesson about education through challenges versus cakewalking challenges to bypass whatever mistake along the way can help you achieve whatever obstacles and cracks in the road. Like a smoked turkey well cooked under the ingredient of love, she allowed her words to be addressed flawlessly that […]
Isaiah White
The short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel García Márquez in the passage described commonplace but precise language by interpreting the drowned man’s appearance in perspective of other woman’s view into a whole different person altogether. Here this story expresses the women of affection, of charismatic charm and naming of uncertainty they were holding inside their village. One of the women gazed to the corpse in curiosity, in her mind that “‘He has the face of someone called Esteban'” (Marquez, pg.2). On page 6, the author uses the word ‘knife’ in a harsh yet bold manner as to allow the readers in describing the tough stony fingers of the corpse man. Despite the local village and their customs, Marquez’s short story clearly followed Raymond Carver’s idea by emphasizing the commonality of the utensils in figurative speech along with the potential view using a common name to the readers.
Why I believe fairytales are important, so let us just start here with “The Little Snow White” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm for example. When reading the story, I notice that Snow White is a curious yet brave girl who ventured into the woods wen she was kicked by her father. Upon her adventure, the stepmother always watches her on every corner. This led to her unknowingly venture to trouble. She even got “killed” by eating a poisonous apple by a suspicious old hag. But by the end she had a happily ever after story while the stepmother , who tried to take the beauty away from her, danced into the bottomless pit. The benefit of fairytales to children is by granting them creativity as they learn and evaluate lessons from the whole story, and knowing that they can relate to Snow White being that they have a listening curve in a young age. And to relate with the stepmother since emotions can easily be expressed with jealousy and bad mishaps, so bad behavior can be avoided one way from reading fantasy novels. When it also comes to fairytales, children don’t have to be literal about what they view of. We imagining bad people as monsters, or the blue sky as another ocean, or the moon as… Well, a big ball of swiss cheese! Whenever fantasy comes to light in children’s minds, the sky’s the limit.
Grandma, from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” can be seen through the lenses as a neutral character. At the beginning she was being passively racist. She was talking to her children at the highway as she tempted to tell them that is now how African Americans dress like at her time; she explained it in a way she feels she wants their close people to understand her linguistics while using defamatory language to her kids. Modern day parents would take this as an excuse that I justify her bad tongue as a “good saint”. However, I feel that there are more differing sides to every story than only the good side and the bad side. Grandma had tried to help the man to see the light of God to; to bless him. Even if she failed to find the good man in the criminal, her intentions of showing him that there is more to life than loosing that chance to be good gave her a chance to express the morals to be better.
Poetry really taught a lesson for me throughout the semester, much more than when I was in high school. In my studies in high school, we were introduced to poetry in ELA where all we know much about, that was true at the time, is they always rhyme when we were studying about their fluctuation and how the reader is taught “to make ideas as they believed” when reading a poem. For the majority we had to read them by overused but famous poets like William Shakeshphere and Edgar Allen Poe. We also learned that poetry’s like a code of words dressed into the sentence structures of each stanza, along with the assumption every poem can be easily understandable by just the beginning, or read once. I would like to include Haiku there as a good example written by Buson. “In lantern light, My yellow chrysanthemums Lost all their color” This comes at first glance as simple to me if I were a beginner of poetry. It then tells me Buson’s people became old when his friends died. Which I respect about the way Buson described coloration as shifting. In Oedipus, there comes a simile and metaphors between most lines at the same time, as usually within haiku’s use in describing their ideas in a natural element. Before high school, we were taught that poetry comes with a “hum”, describing the melody in the tone of the writer who made them decide to express figurative languages into emotions and feelings. These myths both helped and discerned me. For the good side, myths are used as a testament to my knowledge because they allow people to understand what to avoid, and not to accept. On the flipside, knowing these myths into true beliefs had led me […]
Currently as I haven’t done finishing the essay, I have left myself thinking too much about each sentence I’ve been writing. Because often times when you do, it takes away the time necessarily needed to build a functionally written essay about what you have written. I encountered problems critiquing the student’s AI-written essay about one thing only and nothing related to the other. One major error I did was that I tried to look back so many times about literary devices. Including are the outlines and such and not finding out what in the heck the student’s sample meant. Such words I intended to use were ‘overwritten, bland, robotic, nonsensical, and overgeneralistic. But as a student, I learn it is not to overexert yourself during the English course when you needed help and advice. For what it’s worth, I should’ve need to efficiently increase their time and resources into both evaluating the student sample according to the directions and the criteria on how he/she performed, and how well I done my assignment from the start, not only to reevaluate my structure, but to encourage my integrity with feedback from the people who wanted me to really succeed in this class. I have not mention that I sometimes worry about time as much as the writing assignment. I should next time only focus on the essay at hand, try to do it earlier next time, and keep doing work more efficiently so that this mistake wouldn’t be made for the next semester.
After reading through the short story “The Lesson”, the title would be “Through the Lense of Childhood Challenges”. Bambara made a very good point about the fact childhood life exists with challenges as well as challenges that come with it. Stories can tell us something about what had happened at the time of setting within the writing, and something big for it to represent the situation. I think for this short story, her childhood represented a big impact. That big impact I learned from the short story is through the struggle of education. We see this girl in a coming of age story viewing her background with much anticipation of the world. We don’t even know how Sylvia is educated. But we understood by Sylvia’s personality that she might have been well observative and analytical to her surroundings. But regardless if Sylvia is well educated, there can be other potential problems she has experienced through the story like her neighborhood and society. I imagine Ms. Moore would be the testimony behind Bambara’s past life if she were to be a real life person.
After reading through the short story “The Lesson”, the title would be “Through the Lense of Childhood Challenges”. Bambara made a very good point about the fact childhood life exists with challenges as well as challenges that come with it. Stories can tell us something about what had happened at the time of setting within the writing, and something big for it to represent the situation. I think for this short story, her childhood represented a big impact. That big impact I learned from the short story is through the struggle of education. We see this girl in a coming of age story viewing her background with much anticipation of the world. We don’t even know how Sylvia is educated. But we understood by Sylvia’s personality that she might have been well observative and analytical to her surroundings. But regardless if Sylvia is well educated, there can be other potential problems she has experienced through the story like her neighborhood and society. I imagine Ms. Moore would be the testimony behind Bambara’s past life if she were to be a real life person.
