Sunday, April 15, 2012

Spring Break HW 1

I liked Diana's post on "Much a do about nothing" and Josh's poem "What is America".

First i want to talk about Josh's poem. Reading this was a privilege. When i drove down south this spring break, in states like South Carolina and Georgia i saw bumper stickers and billboards plastered with phrases like "TAKE BACK AMERICA" and "AMERICA LAND OF THE BRAVE AND FREE", yes they were obnoxious boasting about how "were the best" but his poem shows the cold and painful truth about our sugar coated nation. Wile driving through the south i passed Trayvon Martin's home town which brought me a chill down my spine. For example a young boy can be murdered for basically being black and yet the racist murderer isn't charged for it for over a month, that is are so called fair justice system. Or like Josh brings up the 13 million Americans who can't find work. There will always be problems, we will always have to struggle but we have to keep trying. Anyway his poem bang tears to my eyes, it was written in a way that is hard to describe so the best way i can is to say in a perfect structure with simple yet meaningful words, so perfectly put together it's positively divine.

I liked Diana's post very much. I liked how she kept it simple only using the details f the performance she needed to, saying what she liked, what she did not, her favorite characters and things like that. But she did elaborate very well using the details she needed to use from the play. Very nice short and sweet.

Sometimes i feel like i put too much summary and not enough about the actual context in the article, book or any type of text. I also like to elaborate, but sometimes i admit i go over board, now i understand that you have to keep it simple. Elaborating with too much summary or unnecessary dialogue can damage your post even if you have a good idea.

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