English 210 so far...

I've enjoyed intro. to lit. it is a lot of work bu thats how i expected it to be. There was only one thing that i disliked and that was the novel that we had to read but i got over eventually. i've liked the conference that we had with you to discuss the paper and i will continue to meet with you, little bits of grammar on fridays, and i actually enjoy learning new vocabulary each week. i feel the second part will go smoother.

"The Little Mermaid"

The point of view in "The Little Mermaid" is omniscient narrator, and the settign of the story is both on land and under the sea.

Compare and Contrast

1.) The characters in both "The Birthmark" and "Bartelby, the Scrivener" are motivated. In "The Birthmark", Aylmer is motivated to remove the birthmark that was placed on his wofe Georgiana's left cheek. In "Bartelby, the Scrivener" the lawyer is motivated to get rid of Bartelby because he was no longer participating in his work.
The plots of the two short stories are different because in "Bartelby, the Scrievner" the narrator tells the background of the majority of the characters, which is using exposion, in " The Birthmark" there was some what of suspense because after Georgiana had drank the mixture that her husband had made to get rid of her birthmark as the reader we were not sure what was going to happen since she was unconsious for so long but in the end i was not expecting the birthmark to be her soul.
2.) By comparing the two stories we as readers learnmore about the characters and what they are motivated to do and what their goals are at that particular time.

Sticks and Stones

In class today what some of my fellow classmates were saying pissed me off. I have a white mother and a balck father and he also is part Blackfoot Indian.So today when my classmates were trying to distinguish if Twyla and Roberta were white or black, I didnt say anything because I was thinking about the list we made up on the board- I have white cousins have bad grades and drop out of school, my older sister who is full black is married, has a job, and a son,  and my father is extremely successful, so i didnt know why some of the people in the class were trying to distingish who was black and white with those characteristics. In class you asked what do you think it would be like to be disliked becasue of you skin color and my answer is that it is hell! i know that I am only half but in soiciety I am classified as black. I never really realized racism while i was in elementry school because the children were so inoccent, but in junior high is when I started hearing the stereotypes with the watermelon, kool-aid, and the chicken, and if i heard them I would tell them that they are completley wrong, first I dont like watermelon, second kool-aid isnt a daily drink, and third who the hell doesnt like chicken its not just black people, but as i would try and clear up the stereotypes as much as i could i would just get the ignorant people yelling Nigger at me. That would always start a fight between me and whoever happened to yell it, which happened very often. Well my dad was very good at telling me that living in South Dakota this shit is going to happen, we only stayed in South Dakota because of my dads job, people are going to judge me because of my skin color all day, everyday and there is nothing I can do about it, he always told me sticks and stone hints why I got it tattooed on my body, he also told me that if people are going to be ignorant then prove them wrong in everything I do so as I got older I was the best at everything I did and i got respect and nobody yelled Nigger at me anymore. My senior year in high school i had to transfer to another school , a smaller school, and there happened to be about 3 or 4 very racist people and as soon as they say me walking around the school they immediatly thought of the word Nigger, thats the first thing that came to mind for them and i just thought of sticks and stones but the next day they all had Confederate flags hanging from their vehicles, I asked them if they knew the meaning of the word Nigger or even the meaning of the Confederate flag , and the ignorant dumb asses didnt know the meaning. So I just went on with my life and after that day they didnt say anything to me the rest of my senior year, and now my 2 younger sisters go to that school and I am going to have to teach them sticks and stones, and that they just need to keep their head up and be the best they can be.

Fake Twitter Accounts

what i think about the fake twitter accounts is that there is not much we can do about it because if people are going to be immature and create a fake account then they are going to do that, until they realize how stupid they are being. Yes, if someone created a fake account with my name i would be pissed but what can i do but try and find the person who created the account and tell them to delete, which may not end up deleted anyway.

First Paper- Completed!

With the first paper i was a tad bit overwhelmed at first because i wasnt quiet sure how to put all of my thoughts into the paper. I did not like the peer review because i didnt really get much feedback from the people i was working with and i couldnt decide if it was becase they didnt understand my topic of if they just didnt have anything to say about it, but having a confrence over the paper helped tremndously! going through the paper with someone who understood what i was trying to say was very helpful and gave me a bunch of ideas, after the confrence i torn my paper apart word for word and attempted to make it better with the ideas that were discussed in my confrence, and now i feel confident about my paper.

The Metamorphosis

hmm it thought that "The Metamorphosis" was one the oddest short stories that i have ever read. i wasn't expecting a human being to turn into a bug but it made me realize that people need to be greatful for what you have and don't take anything for granted!

Sources

Bickford, Jill. "Consumerism. How it Impacts Play and its Presence in Library Collections." Children Technology. (2007): 54-6. Acedemic Search Permier. Web. 30 Jan. 2011.

Kudriavtsev, V. T. "The Productive Power of a Child's Imagination." Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. 39.2. (2001): 6-29. Acedemic Search Permier. Web. 30 Jan. 2011.

Zamyatin, Yevgeny. We, 1884-1937. New York: Modern Library, 2006. Print.