For your HW tonight:
1) Read TIB, pp. 32-58
2) Choose the essay from this section that had the strongest impact on you and summarize it here (no need to bring a hard copy to class).
3) At the end of your blog response, please answer the following question: "What specific things were challenging/okay about writing the in-class essay?"
Due: Before our next class meeting
Note: Don't worry about the part of the HW calendar that says to write a TIB reflection
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The essay "The Person I'm Supposed To Be", written by Andy Blowers, had a big impact on me because Andy wrote the aspects of living your life and learning upon the building blocks of depression and suffering. I really like how he throws the thoughts of the Matrix in his essay, explaining that through his battle, fighting the agents helped form Neo into the warrior he was supposed to be. Through the darkest of nights, pain is greatest aspect upon guiding our future.
ReplyDeleteMy most challenging part/parts about the in class essay were thinking about what to write next, intergrating the quotes, and uncontrollable hand cramps.
I really liked all the essays that I had to read. The essay " The Person I'm Suppose To Be," by Andy Blowers, caught my attention the most. He wrote about his depressiong and the suffering that came along with it. Although his he would have the pain from depression, he mentions how it helps make you stronger and it helps shaped the person youre suppose to be.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that challenged me most for the in class essay was just the organization. I wasn't sure where to put what.
The essay “The Deeper Well of Memory” by Christine Clearly is about the belief that memory is never lost. In the essay Clearly explains about her mother having Alzheimer’s and not being able to remember being married but her face filled with love and her eyes got misty. She goes onto explain the difference between remembering and memory. Remembering can be lost with Alzheimer’s but not memory.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this essay because sometimes I feel like I don’t remember a lot of things. But if the difference between remembering and memory is true I have my memory. As long as I have my memory the details don’t seem to be as important as before.
The only problem I had was the time limit. I think I could have made my essay better if I could have had a little bit more time.
ReplyDeleteThe essay "the deeper well of memory" by Christine Cleary is about the true place of memory; in the heart not the mind. She shows how even when her mom having Alzheimers disease she never forgot the feelings she had when she got married.She recalls remebering her husband seven years ago and remebers what she felt when he was next to her and holding her. The essay goes on to show how our memory is nurtured by emotion.
ReplyDeleteI liked this essay because my grandfather passed away when i was in 8th grade. I remember being there in the hospice before he died and when we were all gathered around for his last moments he shed one last tear after we all said our good byes. He died of Alheimers and Parkinson's disease. I thought this essay was a perfect example of the same situation Christine wrote about.
I think my main challenge with the essay was that i couldn't help but feel i had no actual point and i wasn't making sense...maybe i need to sleep more.
The essay Teaching a Bad Dog New Tricks by David Buetow tells of the life lessons he learned from his dog Duncan. David talks about striving to gain the level of happiness that his dog has with the simplest things in life. David says that getting Duncan taught him to be less selfish and forced him to become more dependable in relationships. Now David lives his life just like Duncan does, by appreciating all of the small things in life.
ReplyDeleteI have some trouble trying to come up with things to write about when I have a set time limit. I am better at writing papers that I can spend time rewriting before I can turn them in.
Out of all the essays I found that the essay "The Person I'm Suppose To Be" was the most interesting. The Author Andy Bowers goes on to explain the hardships that went on in his life and how he had to overcome them positively. I liked this essay because it shows that no matter what you go through all the trials and hardships pay off and help make you stronger.
ReplyDeleteA challenge that I had with the in class essay was trying to find enough material and research to make the length of three pages.
"Making It Up as I Go Along" by Alice Brock had an impact on me because i have that same mind set. I live my life as it goes, i dont like to plan things out because when they dont turn out as planned i become depressed andif i try something new i keep trying till i get it right and. In the story i she says how she opened up a restaurnt and she was not the best cook but she wanted to give it a try. Like she says not planning leaves room for challenges and creativity.
ReplyDeletewhat i found challenging for the in class essay was not having the right material or more sorces.
I enjoyed reading the essay "The Learning Curve of Gratitude" by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Mary talkes about how a pulmonary embolism that landed her in the ER changed her perspective on life. Now each day she cherishes her life because no one knows when there time on earth will end. It took her her entire life to appreciate just one day in that quick moment.
ReplyDeleteThe challenging part about the in class essay was the limited amout of time we had. I needed more time to organize my paper before I write and felt in a rush.
The essay that had the strongest impact on me was "The Deeper Well of Memory" by Christine Cleary. In her essay Christine writes about losing her husband to cancer. After he was diagnosed and they bot knew he only had a short time, she began to try to memorize everything about him. Only years after his death did she realize that memories and remembering are two different things, and memories are emotions you will never forget.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing I found challenging about the in-class essay was trying to organize my essay and get all my thoughts in the right order within the short period of time.
i liked the essay "The Learning Curve of Gratitude" by Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was amazing how being in the ER due to her pulmonary embolism changed how she viewed life. Because of that day she now cherishes live for each moment and never take anything for granted.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing i found challenging about the in-class essay was figuring how to stretch all my opinions and quotes and information into three pages with in an hour and a half. I felt that I was a little pressured with time, which made it difficult to think straight.
I was deeply moved by, "The Deeper Well of Memory," by Corinne Colbert because I to believe that love is an emotion, that when paired with time, can be even stronger than the boundaries of the human mind. Before her husband died she would try and build a mental image of him, and after his passing she would have feelings of him near. She gives examples of the strength love has on a person by describing the way her mother seemed to fill with joy at the mentioning of her husband, even though she had Alzheimer's and could not clearly remember him. She believes that remembering is something you do and that memories are something you have.
ReplyDeleteI felt miserable. when I'm doing an essay I like to get up and walk around. I need to stop doing the essay sometimes and take a break, not work on it for two hours straight. I also felt extremely rushed. When it was almost the end of class I had to go to the bathroom so i just wrote stuff to fill the last page. All in all I would say that it was not an effective way to writ a good essay.
"Failure Is a Good Thing" by Jon Carrol impacted me most out of all the essays, because I feel like we all fail at some point in our life. He wishes his granddaughter failure, so that she may learn from that failure. Learning something and succeeding at it all the time gets boring. Like his daughter, the trapeze artist, she was successful at what she did, but was bored. She tried something new, and failed. Through failure, we pick up the pieces and try it again, and again, until we succeed.
ReplyDeleteThe most challenging thing for me when writing the in-class essay was putting my thoughts on paper. I wanted to do the best I possibly could, but was unable how to phrase it. That is always a challenge for me. I always know what I want to say but can never put down the way I want it to sound.
I liked the essay " the person im supposed to be" by Andy blowers because i like the way he talked about all the troubles he has had in his life and how he overcame them all. i think it was pretty inspirational the way he talks about how all those dilemmas set him back but getting through them made him stronger as a person.It makes you think about the problems you had to go through yourself in life.
ReplyDeleteThe most challenging thing that i faced with the in class essay was staying on topic. i think i did pretty well with the quotes but i dont think i could relate them all to my thesis sentence.