Blog Assignment #15
Final Reflection Reflection In this blog I am reflecting on my entire experience in this course it was an amazing one. I really grew a lot as an author. And as a person I hated commenting on others work but that was a whole grade in this class and it really helped me become more comfortable with this. Your author identity. How has it changed in this course? My author identity has changed quite a lot in this course now I’m a blogger, a website author, a memoirist. Look at me now I heard that I had to compose a blog and I panicked my first blog was horrible I don’t even think it was 500 words and it was so hard to write them, but now I feel as though I’ve grown as a writer and become better at it. Your theory of writing. How has this course impacted the way you define and value writing? I feel as though I write more with meaning now then I ever did before I always wrote because I had to and now I write about things I care about. And it’s made me a better writer. Which composition concepts/terms do you most value? I value the term discourse community because it really makes me feel not like a class but a family it just makes me feel at home with this class. Your growth as a writer. How are your past academic writing experiences different from your present experiences with writing in this course? I have grown as a writer in my length I would never even dream of having an almost 2,000 word research paper. I really grew as a writer by I never had to comment on my classmates work before I think it actually helped me stay on track of what I have to do by seeing my fellow classmates. How are the past and present experiences the same? They really aren’t not at all. My past experiences with writing were all really bitter and I never liked anything that I was writing about because it was something that didn’t matter to me and it had nothing to do with me. Your knowledge transfer to future writing situations. I plan on transferring my knowledge into my next courses and as a teacher I am going to teach my future students to make meaning when then write. I will help me understand what that means and to me that means to care about what your writing and don’t write something you don’t care about. How do you plan to use your growing writing knowledge to compose texts in future academic and non-academic contexts? I plan on using my growing knowledge to become the best writer I can be as I go on to West Chester after I’m done at DCCC and to continue writing as a teacher and teach my students the things I’ve been taught in this course. To make meaning and care about your education don’t be like me do what makes you happy and make it so it makes you happy don’t do it just because you have to.
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Blog Assignment #14
Research Project The Media’s Toxic View On Woman In this post I'm going to talk about my paragraph explaining Plato's Cave. `Plato’s Cave is a story that was told to Plato by his teacher Socrates and this story was about men who were restrained with chains to only look at the walls of the cave they were chained to, behind the men was a fire that burned because of that they could see the reflection of the people who passed by them. So all they could see was the shadows that the restrainer allowed them to see. One day one of the men was let free and experienced the world outside of the cave for the first time later he came back to the cave to tell his friends what he had saw he began yelling to them but they could not understand him and could not see that it was him because they couldn’t turn around. I perceived this story as the people are the men who are restrained, the media is the restrainers and the chains. Some people get released into the media and sees what goes on but a lot of us are still stuck in those chains only seeing what they allow us to see. This paragraph is all about Plato’s Cave and what it is. I decided to analyze this paragraph because I found Plato’s Cave interesting because it’s called Plato’s Cave but it’s not Plato’s thoughts. It’s actually Socrates thoughts which I didn’t know and I feel like he should get more credit for his work. In my essay I need to fix a few things one of them being I need to incorporate Plato’s Cave into my paragraphs more. And stop repeating myself so much. Week 13
Blog Assignment #13 Research Project: Plato’s Cave, Miss Representation, and The Mask You Live In Research Project In this blog assignment I will be discussing Plato’s Cave and how I think it connects to the films Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In and also the messages I received from these works and how I think go together. From watching and listening to Plato’s Cave it made me think about the two films differently then when I first watched them. I got quite a few different messages so I will be discussing all of them. First I would like to tell you about the cave and the two films in Plato’s Cave a man was chained to a cave his whole life and he could not see behind him which was a path way that people walked on to get into town and there was also a fire back there, and one dayone prisoner gets let out and he experiences the world outside for the first time and then he tries to come back and tell the others but when he does they can’t turn around and see him they just see his shadow and a mumbled voice so they never get to see or hear about the world outside. So a message I got from this story was a saying I’ve heard many times which is “Somethings Never Change.” I took this as the prisoners can’t see what the restrainers don’t want them to see and that is the same thing in Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In we see things the way we are taught and how they want us to see them. And even if we try to change them such as the prisoner who came back to tell them and they couldn’t hear it so they didn’t know the same thing with if we did change the way women are shown on tv and the way men are raised there would always be at least one person still doing it the same way because you can’t force someone to change they have to want to change. They have to be let go of the restraints that we are held in by the writers and see it with our own eyes experience it in our own way. Another message I got from this film was only seeing what they want you to see on tv do they show us things like woman being lawyers and things like that no they show us woman being strippers, do they show us football players crying no they show us them being strong and “manly” and in the cave the men can only see the wall of the cave and they can only see what the restrainsers allow them to see the restrainers could easily turn them around and let them see the people but they don’t want them to directors do not want us to see women being strong because a lot of them were raised that the women stay home with the kids and the men work and they want us to see football players and things being a man not being soft like what they think a women would do. So we really only see what they want us to see and we don’t see everything that goes on. Think of the saying “You don’t know what goes on behind closed doors. Blog Assignment #12
Research Project: Analysing Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In Research Project In this blog post number twelve I will be analysing Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. It’s a part of my research because I had to research in the script and get out key points to put in my research project paper. I will be talking about the Slug Line, Six Word Memoir and Found Poem I had to make for each. When I read the Miss Representation script I only had a small excerpt of it and it was amazing to me how many cruel words were in it “Unhappy” “Looking so haggard” “Stupid” “Bitch” it blows my mind all the names these people called the women in this film. A slug line that I took right out of the text without any of my own words was “We get conditioned to think that’s what woman look like.” Why is there a special way a woman should look why are we objectified by the way we look. It’s crazy to me that people actually think this is okay. Next I made a six word memoir which was Self Objectified, Unhappy Woman, More Vulnerable. It’s a story that is very true to women today, so many women today stand in front of the mirror and say wow I wish this was gone or I wish I had more of this and it’s wrong, woman should not have to adjust themselves for the world the world should adjust to the way the woman want to look. And finally I wrote a Found Poem which is, We see so much in the media, There’s a concept of the perfect woman, There’s so much negativity, “Something looks fundamentally wrong with her”, This really defines how the media sees woman they see them as objects not as people we often here about young actresses getting taken advantage of because they want their career to go forward and the men just take advantage of that because they see them as property and not a person. For the Mask You Live In I also did a Slug Line, a Six Word Memoir, and a Found Poem. My slug line is The way boys are brought up makes them hide all their natural vulnerable and empathetic feelings behind a mask of masculinity. This quote really hits me hard because I see this so much with my family especially because I have so many boys in my family who grew up with this and it truly troubles them because they don’t know what to do they don’t want to cry but sometimes it’s hard to hold it in. My six word memoir was Aggressive Friends, Tough Mask, Scared Boy. For me this really paints a picture in my head of a trouble boy whose parents taught him to be strong and not to be soft of cry or anything like that but to be a “man” and this boy is now very scared but wants to fit in with the wrong crowd. And finally I had to do a Found Poem for this film which was: How hard is that? To walk around everyday with a poker face on. Sometimes I would cry myself to sleep. I felt really depressed and alone, I didn’t have anyone to talk to. Can’t reach out and ask for help because, not allowed to or, won’t be a real boy. This poem really makes me step back and think wow this is true for so many young impressionable boys who just want to be happy and want to express themselves but the way they were raised it’s not an option. Blog Assignment #11
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