Writer's Block

I have learned a lot from this class. Professor Hamon at first I wasn't sure how much I would like you at first, but you grew on me. You had a different way of teaching and expected a lot from your students. You pushed us harder to get the grades you knew we could produce by giving us a 2, when you knew we could do better. I know that got my ass in gear for sure, I wanted to hate you for giving one of my documents a 2 as i'm sure many others did too. I can see why now, taking a second, third and fourth look back threw my own work I saw things I didn't at first, and as the class progressed I learned more of how to fix those things to make it right. You didn't expect anything that wasn't possible but you gave us that push and I am thankful for that. The actual content of the course, I don't know that what I took from poetry was a part of the lesson but I relate poetry to life, in a way that not everyone takes the same road to find the meaning, but at some point we...

Zack, Jordan and I, all seem to agree that things have definitely changed over the years as to how woman are looked at in modern days. Zack says, "woman do not have to give up what they want to do" I think this is really important, in the fact that woman more than ever are working towards their own career goals, not leaving them to solely rely on the man of the house. Jordan mentioned in her post that she "thinks there are still men that believe women should be seen not heard" and I would agree with that, having a different culture (coming from out of state and up north), I see some things that are different down here and I think that some old fashioned southerners still have that mentality down here. Not all of course, but you can see how some people act in public and it gives off that impression.

The role of woman has changed drastically, from back in the day. Women were looked at before as the house keepers, as in the maids, the chefs, the keeper of the kids. While the men were the financial holders of the house, holding the status of the bread winners. Nowadays, women are not the soul care givers of the children, because women hold jobs now as well in order for the household to make it. Also the divorce rate is higher, so there are more single parents out there than there used to be. My mom kept our house in the divorce from my dad, and worked full-time to support my sister and I. My dad paid child support and still had part time custody. This split family style is more common than it used to be. Many married young, and began families young, while the fathers worked and supported them. The woman had strict routines involving all of the cleaning and cooking, as well as watching and teaching their children. Now it is more common for children to be left in daycare's while bo...

Harry potter movies have a great plot, I love watching them. The first one I remember the best (probably because I've read the book a few times as well). Of course the movie is based off of Harry finding out that he is a wizard and going to school to learn his abilities. This grabbed my attention from the beginning because although we know wizards aren't real, it had a nice story line and graphic animations to make you believe every spell was real, flying on the brooms was real, and all of the different things preformed were really happening before your eyes in the movie. With Harry being 11 and more movies to come, you get pulled in my the mystery of what being a wizard consists of. Although I was younger when they first started coming out with those movies, they still are very much a part of my life because they are so good to watch. He grows older through the movies along with everyone else like Ron, and Harmione. Harry starts out as a kid who lived with these terrible peopl...

The Office, is the greatest show ever, in my opinion. If you have not seen it yet, you should! I binged watched all of the seasons on Netflix as much as I could until I was finished every episode. The setting of The Office takes place in a small paper company called Dunder Mifflin. It consist of groupings of desk, a receptionist desk, two office rooms and a break room. Majority of the show is played out through this building. I think that is important in making The Office the way it was because being in those tight knit quarters, the people who worked there were like one big dysfunctional family and this showed in many ways through out the show. 

why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead This is an example of irony, because it says "what could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead", and to me that sounds like its generalizing all that are dead are happy. Followed by the next line saying " who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter", how could anyone rushing to their own slaughter be a happy death, heroic yes. Happy, no. No one wants to die, but I guess it is assumed to be for good reason.