FINAL BLOG!!!!

The things that I've improved on was actually analyzing my writing!  On my last paper, hopefully, I analyzed, not summarized!  And I've learned how to get right to the point on my papers and not blab on.  I've learned some strategies and here they are: going to you and sitting next to you because I feel more comfortable about things, like my writing, and actually making my own little outline to help me focus on what I'm going to write about.  My third paper was the easiest to write, because I've had two times of practicing and I now know what you actually want in a paper.  As much as I hated them, I think the Grammar Guides were the most helpful.  Because little reminders make things clearer for me.  I do feel more prepared to write college level papers, because I actually know and understand what an academic paper is and how they are needed to be written.

Class Discussion on Wednesday

I thought class discussion was not what it usually is.  We obviously didn't talk much, but I personally got a a better understanding on the poems that we were supposed to read.  I liked the different points that my classmates brought up because then I would take the poem into a different aspect.  But I thought the poem that Shakespeare wrote was very interesting, because he was describing on how looks really arn't everything.  Which is very true and I really enjoyed what he wrote.

"The Flea"

Well, to start out with, this poem talks about marriage.  Two people who have become united in marriage, and it basically describes their honeymoon night.  After that night, they have conceived a baby, making it three people in the family.  The parents didn't like the guy, or the guy parents didn't like the girl.  Then one of the couple killed the other and the baby.  So that's what the poem meant to me!

I really don't understand what the "flea" has to do with anything, but it does mention that it is passed from one to the other person.  So i'm interested in what other students put for the meaning of "flea"!

Poetry!

Well, I honestly loved doing poetry in middle school because I loved to rhyme my words and it had a little ring to it, well now I got to high school and figured it would be the same...nope, it changed.  It wasn't rhyming anymore, it was just an important person putting words together and for some reason, those words became famous and they were now published in a book. 

In high school, we didn't cover poetry that well because we were running out of time and it wasn't very liked by my classmates, so I know the basic structure, but not as much as I would hope to know.  I really like Dr. Seuss, because of the rhyming!! But for real people, I enjoy Emily Dickinson because her poems are deep and filled with meaning, which I really enjoy, a lot!

For the definition, I would say it's a clumping of words filled with meaning.

Topic for my Drama Paper!!!

So i'm doing my paper on Mephistophilis and here is my argument:  Why is Mephistophilis acting as a 'good' devil and not a bad one, and how is he tempting people?

So basically i'll explain how the devil played a role in the Bible, and then go to how Mephistophilis doesn't really follow in the Devils footprints by being "bad".

Class discussion

I thought Monday's discussion went pretty well.  I really focused on what people thought about Mephistophilis becuase he is a character that I think I am going to do my next paper on.  I could go many ways on this.  I'm going to talk about how "good" of a devil he really is.  And Mephistophilis has many ways of temping people, so I think Mephistophilis has something big up his sleeve.

Sticks out the most...

The thing that sticks out to me the most in Dr. Faustus is Mephistophilis.  He is the devil and basically people have described him as a good devil, well there is no such thing as a good devil.  So I'm thinking that the so called 'good' part is Mephistophilis is tempting people, and he is pretending to be good and making the people fall for whatever tricks that he is playing.  So like I said, he is tempting people, just like the devil did to Adam and Eve.  So I think the Bible will come to play in this play!