How I feel about writing.

Writing has always been one of my strong suits in school.  Though I like math and science subjects more, I always feel that I have a strong connection with writing.  Coming into this class I felt that I was a strong writer and that my skills were good enough and they didn’t need to improve too much.  However, as I went through this class I realized there was still a lot more I could learn about writing.  Both this class and the writing center helped me to learn many different things about paragraph transitions and redundancies.  I learned that I often had a lot of redundancies in my papers, and that I needed to freshen my vocabulary throughout my paper.  Going into next semester I will try to keep an open mind, because this time I know that I do not know everything about writing.  I will also continue to use my professors and the writing center as sources of information for my papers and assignments.  Hopefully I will again learn something to make myself a better and more avid writer in the future.  Writing will continually become a bigger part of my life and therefore I must improve it, even if I feel it is adequate for now.

Caitlin Rudy Thoughts on Writing

Going into the spring of 2014 I feel that I am a very prepared writer. Writing has always seemed to be a strong suit of mine. Once I get a pen and piece of paper in my hand, words always seem to flow out effortlessly from my pen to the paper. I feel like I often go into another world or something when I’m writing. I’ll finish an entire paragraph in a few minutes, go back to read it and ask myself “did I write that? Because I don’t remember writing that”. It’s such an interesting concept to think about, but it completely makes sense to me. I become so involved in what I’m writing that my mind pushes away every other thought not regarding my current paper. One thing I learned this year is that grammar is very important. Going back over the comments on my three papers, I realized that when I got points off, most of the time it was due to grammar issues and not necessarily content. I feel like this has prepared me more for English next semester because I’m going to make it a priority of mine to proof read my work. Up until now I’ve never proof read a single paper I’ve written because I feel like my initial thoughts are usually the best and that I shouldn’t over think things. While I still think this is true, making sure I use commas and that words are spelled correctly can be just as important as great ideas. This is one lesson learned this year that I will be sure to carry with me on to English 1106.

 

How I feel about writting

Before I started writing in college I was accustom to analyzing passages out of a book, or a poem. I was also use to never writing in first person, explaining many of my points from a generic point of view. My teacher in High School only ever wrote in this fashion. So I was good at that. However I learned in college how to write what I felt, how I was doing, what I saw. It was very different from what I was accustom to, but at the same time had always dreamed of writing in this style. If you read a book you do not hear the author doing an analysis of the way that the sky is blue or the character has a deeper meaning, you read about the characters feelings and how the storyline is developed. You read it for the enjoyment not to do an analysis. I enjoyed writing in college because it allowed me to open up and write like an author, verses doing an analysis.  I feel very prepared for English next semester because I am now much better rounded in my writing abilities. I also learned how to use the analysis that I learned in my high school English class for real life applications. I wish that my teacher had taught me how to analyze a movie or a picture instead of a short story of a poem. Being able to analyze what happens in a movie and in a larger case life is much more important then being able to analyze a poem.  I can not wait for English next semester.

Here is the link to the ending for paranormal activity.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXmk4QAcUc I use to not watch horror movies until my friend showed me this one, and i remember after I watched it how scared I was and how I could not get to sleep. I just kept remembering this very last scene. However as I got over it (after a few weeks) I decided to give another movie a try, and soon I began to understand why people watch horror movies. It is not because we enjoy being scared, but because we enjoy the thrill and rush of adrenaline that comes from watching it. I realized after a few months that I had become addicted to the thrill and rush of my adrenaline after getting scared by horror movies such as this one. It is something that makes you remember certain parts of movies such as this one because they scare you so much that they get stuck in your head and will not go away. So I choose this scene since it is where it all began many years ago and is still stuck in my head.  hope you enjoy watching it.

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    I choose this one,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvAAYjmqkE&list=PLlwbO6p7sGMj1gFnFLKjUOcxm-Lahpb8b, which is the clip of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi's ending.
    I choose this one, is because among all the films that I saw, that all the clips of films I can remember, this one is the one that means so much to me now. I think it may be seen as a very normal ending, but after I reviewed it, I can bring lots of things from the normal surface, to the deep potential meanings.
    I think many endings would have some sort of so called meaningful endings, but few of them can be remembered by the audiences years later after watching the film. However, this one is different, because even forty years after the original version was released, people can still remember the film story, and this ending.

Andrew Bergman Blog 5

Andrew Bergman

ENGL 1105

Professor White

11 November, 2013

People Help People

            Art is a fundamental piece of humanity.  It’s a tool we use to send messages, express ourselves, and to show beauty as well as destruction.  It is something that, if taken away, would leave a gaping hole in all of us.  Everything we have, and make is art, and it all sends different messages.  A great artist named Greg Stanforth once said, “If art did not exist, man would be sitting butt naked in an open field.”  This is true, but what truly is the greatest part about art is not the beauty of a painting, but instead the message it leaves with the viewer, whether that was the message the artist intended or not.  Street art, normally known as “graffiti,” is seen in every major city around the world.  It is meant to be seen by many so it can send messages to the common man.  One great example lies in Artotale, Germany, where a bold message of few words is presented.

            Graffiti is designed to be graphic and strange so that its image and message stays in the viewer’s memory for a long time.  The work of an artist named Herakut is no different.  Herakut’s most famous piece lies in Germany, and is famous for the message it sends to people.  The imagery itself is highly complex, and the meaning of the piece is hard to pull out.

            Physically, the art work is a spray painting on the side of a building, similar to most common graffiti.  However, this piece is much larger, in fact, it takes up the entire wall of the building, which is two stories high.  Portrayed is a girl, with a strange combination of clothes.  On her head, she sports a red beret that is in the shape of a sea creature.  The sea creature could be described as a squid or a fish.  Along with this headgear, the girl is wearing yellow and pink striped socks and a grey jumpsuit.  Kneeling, the girl holds an old style ink pen, which she uses to pen in a simple message on the wall.  “Art doesn’t help people.  People help people.”  It is also important to note the girl is not looking at what she is writing.  Instead she is looking out from the wall, as if she were looking at a person standing in the distance.  Her face, which is disproportionate, produces a scowl.  

Brian Doyle Blog 5

            Many visuals either photographs or paintings cause the viewer to stop in awe and reflect on that image for quite a long time. Other visuals are not very impressive and people tend to look and just walk by them. The image I chose to write about is a painting by Albert Bierstadt called Among the Sierra Nevada, California. I first saw this painting my junior year in an Art History class, and I will never forget it. It is a beautiful piece of art that I can look at for hours on end and not get bored of it. There is so much going on in it and it all flows very well together. I love being outdoors in nature especially in the mountains or woods and this is an ideal location for me. The waterfall in the background along with the mountains that seem to be going up to heaven are breathtaking. I would love to have a printed version of this art in my house when I am older and have it be one of the first things I see every day. When I look at this art I am instantly at peace and feel very relaxed. Bierstadt was a very talented man and I am eager to look at some of his other work.