Christian's Blog

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...