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Step 1: After analyzing Whitman's notebook, the first thing I want to touch on is how messy yet elegant his handwriting.  Although it is very hard to read and piece any of the words together, his strokes look very smooth and done with precision.  All that matters is that he can read what he is writing because it is his notebook.  Another thing I noticed is how the notebook was described as small and that it could fit in a poet's coat pocket and how he might have had it with him when he first saw Abe Lincoln.  I find it fascinating how Whitman was so committed to being a poet that he kept a pocket sized notebook with him probably at all times.  Lastly, towards the end of his notebook are multiple sketches and one might not think much of them but they really stuck out to me and made me think about multiple questions like: "Who could that be?" "Why would Whitman draw these things?" "How are these drawings going to be helpful to him?"  Along with thes...

1. The "American Dream" has meant two different things to me in my life span.  Growing up, I always believed that the "American Dream" was an idea or concept that people from troubled countries with poverty or unequal rights would travel to the United States in order to run their own business to make money.  I do not know why I thought they had to run their own business, maybe it was an influence from movies I had seen growing up, but for whatever reason I thought that the immigrant had to run their own business.  And with the idea of running their own business, the immigrant believed that they would have the equal rights of all other Americans because that was a part of the  "American Dream."  After growing up and paying attention to today's society, the true meaning of the  "American Dream" is being able to move into America without having to be worried that you (an immigrant) will not be able to find a job or you will not be given the same...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xM8-dhIAq0WXItZW8tdkJQc01qSWdQRDVGTVNqSjZSOUgw/view?usp=sharing Criterion A: 7 because I fell like some of the comments I made about the text were incorrect and I also forgot the time period in which the play took place (it was the 1000's).  I do feel like a lot of my comments were strong and accurate and I also made good connections between two separate quotes from the excerpt.  I also had a strong understanding of the novel and not just the excerpt Criterion B: 2 because I did not really focus on literary features as much as I should have.  I used the metaphor of nature=unnatural but I didn't describe it as a metaphor.  I will need to focus more on literary devices that the author uses during the real IOC/next practice. Criterion C: 5 because I had a really good organization.  I had an introduction that included background of the play as well as the two themes I was going to address and then two sections where the the...

I Bed to Differ Translation #1:  Gregory Samsa woke from uneasy dreams one morning to find himself changed into a giant bug. When looking at this translation, the first thing that stuck out in my mind was how this translation has the name as Gregory instead of Gregor like the other 3.  This is a very strange piece of diction because names are usually not changed or different in translations.  Another choice of word that was very strange to me was the use of the word "changed".  When I think of someone who went to bed as a human and woke up as a bug I would describe that as a transformation, like the translators did in the other three.  The translator uses the descriptive word "uneasy" to describe what type of dreams Gregory was having and it makes the reader think that is was something that caused him not to want to keep sleeping. Translation #2:  When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning he found he had been transformed in his be...

Brief example of all four images: Top Left: This book cover is an image of Kathy sitting in what looks like a field of small flowers.  She is looking off into another direction, not looking at the "photographer" and she is looking down at the same time, kind of looking upset for some reason. Top Right: This book cover is an image of a boat being tied up to a pole on the edge of the bank.  The ocean and the background and the entire cover is all a dark yellow and black color.  It is also very foggy. Bottom Left: This book cover is all very dark and grey.  It is an image of an outlined shirt.  The shirt outline is made with barbed wire and the inside of it is an outline of organs like the lings and others. Bottom Right: This book cover has a yellow background and in front of the background is a girl with short brown hair and a light blue dress.  Her image is very faded and it looks like she is twirling around. Some similarities that I found ...

Once upon a time there was a child who was very behind on his homework The Sunday before school was upon him and he began to lurk He noticed that it was the beginning of the new semester And he chose to continue his streak of being a slacker SO HE GOT A NEW FREEBIE AND USED IT RIGHT AWAY!!!