Marywood’s core values can be read in a variety of different works. While re-reading through our assigned literature, I noticed how many poems had the same theme, empowerment. To me, “empowerment” is Marywood’s strongest value because it states how education and learning is at the will of the student. In our extremely up-and-coming modern era it is critical that students have the desire to learn because if they don’t then they are not going to obtain as much information and therefore lose potential that they possessed before attending higher education. In the poems “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and “The the Impotence of Proofreading” by Taylor Mali I can see where Marywood was inspired to include “empowerment”.
The first reading that speaks to me of empowerment is “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. In her poem she discusses the troubles that set her back in life and discouraged her hopes and dreams. One particular line that stands out to me is, “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” (“Angelou” 40), because she is defending not only herself, but every black person who has been degraded for no reason other than their skin tone. Angelou is showing the world, with this single line alone that a slave’s dream is …show more content…
In Mali’s poem she writes about how unsettling it is to read a work of literature that hasn’t been proof-read. The catch is that she writes that disaster herself and has the audience be the unofficial “teacher” that finds (rather collides with) multiple mistakes. A very smart approach for the topic because it allows the reader to feel exactly what it is like for an educator to read a paper that is not proof-read prior to submission. It emits an almost cringe-worthy feeling that leaves every writer with paranoia before handing in a paper, which was exactly Mali’s vision while writing the
The first reading that speaks to me of empowerment is “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. In her poem she discusses the troubles that set her back in life and discouraged her hopes and dreams. One particular line that stands out to me is, “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” (“Angelou” 40), because she is defending not only herself, but every black person who has been degraded for no reason other than their skin tone. Angelou is showing the world, with this single line alone that a slave’s dream is …show more content…
In Mali’s poem she writes about how unsettling it is to read a work of literature that hasn’t been proof-read. The catch is that she writes that disaster herself and has the audience be the unofficial “teacher” that finds (rather collides with) multiple mistakes. A very smart approach for the topic because it allows the reader to feel exactly what it is like for an educator to read a paper that is not proof-read prior to submission. It emits an almost cringe-worthy feeling that leaves every writer with paranoia before handing in a paper, which was exactly Mali’s vision while writing the