Hello my name is Samir Ahmed and this is my second year in bmcc and my major which I am studying is computer science. I am taking this course because this is a class i am required to take to get credit i hope to graduate and get my degree and transfer to another senior college for bachelors degree. And in the near future i see myself finding a career in software developing for big companies like google and Microsoft and making money enjoying my life to the fullest. Besides for the that outside of my academic and college for hobbies i like to watch tv play videogames cook and work part time to make some money so i can spend out and go shopping which i enjoy doing.
Daily Archives: February 5, 2022
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In the beautiful and haunting story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a profound change takes place in a remote village on a seaside cape after a beautiful, drowned body washes to shore. I think Professor Conway has assigned this as the first story of the course because its inspiring and motivating. As students we can learn to work together to become better for ourselves and for any task at hand individually. This story argues that a great person has the power to change themselves and to change others, to inspire those to be better and to make them want to be exceptional. It also shows the effect such a person can have on those who admires him or her and manifests as a desire for self-betterment. In the story, the Drowned Man, Esteban, symbolizes an overwhelming experience for the villagers. With his body being washed away to shore, it brought the villagers to gather, and they took on the responsibility to make changes as a team.
The story of The Handsome Drowned Man In the World I say was dictated as first reading to help us to do an in depth thinking on the parable of this story. To make us use our imagination to see how this story was devised and set in place and the plot of it. This story with its three parts tests the imagination of the women on who, and how this stranger died, where he came from than also on his stature. The men just wanted him thrown back in the sea forever. The village was so dull till his body appeared be gray and gloomy. The women came up with a name for Estaban as the called him. After he was sent back to the sea the town started to rebuild their homes, plant flowers throughout the village.
“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” was a great first story as introduces the idea that one singular object can change the entirety of a group of people. It also was somewhat more direct with its themes and ideas of the story, so it was easier to understand as a whole. The descriptive writing of the author really allows the reader tom take in the scenery of the village. However, the description of the body itself is in a whole league of its own. The author took his time with each individual line describing the man as to draw in the reader and actually help them visualize what the man could have looked like. I think this was chosen as a first story in order to help us as a class get a better feel for really focusing on the individual details of our work while not straying too far from the overall theme.
