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Ilechukwu INT-211A Reflection Paper. Session 1 Journal. Life for me has been a blend of good seasons and not-too-good seasons; and as it is expected, they come and go. But the interesting thing is that they leave behind lessons and wisdom to be gleaned if my mind is sensitive. I will say that, I am a product of the lessons I have learnt from my own life’s experiences, be they good or bad, or resulting from unwise decisions or sheer ignorance of mine. At the start of one of such experiences,…

In essence, rhetoric forms the basis of an extremely important skill set that everyone should be given the opportunity to learn and benefit from. Heinrichs combines the art of rhetoric with modern culture to make lessons more appealing to young readers. He uses relatable, realistic examples to prove his ideas and shows how to use rhetoric in real life situations.…

When I originally listened to Choplin’s Prelude in Minor E, my initial response to the piece was that its goal was to evoke sadness. My first impression was that it gave a very dark, lonely tone while I listened to the Prelude. When I listened to the piece, I pictured someone going through a difficult time and dealing with a lot of sadness. I imagined the individual to be walking home on a very dark and gloomy day. The weather brought out their sadness even more. I sensed that the issue they…

help create the reason behind their stories. William Faulkner and Tom Whitecloud are both writers who expressed their stories using plot and structure. Plot is the ideas or reasons as to why certain things happen in a story, elements of plot help the reader understand the story. For example, the suspense, conflict, exposition, rising action, crisis, resolution etc. of the story. Whereas structure, on the other hand, is the way the writer arranges the story’s plot. The structure is the gestures,…

wander it? Well, there is some poetry that can give you a better understanding about life,ourselves, and how to handle situations that come across our path. Inspiring you and motivating you to do your best. This types of poetry can really give the reader a deep knowledge about how to challenge the unknowns. Guiding you on how to work on your up and down moments. Poet Erin Hanson writes poetry that explains the cruel reality of life and also poetry that attracts all walks of people and their…

Being considerate and helpful to others is what makes you have a humanity. “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is a story about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge who was tremendously greedy and was visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to make him see what his selfishness had caused him.This story has multiples themes, such as social justice, the true meaning of humanity, etc. Greed overtakes the humanity of those who possess it because it pushes away everyone you love and…

Literary critic, Kenneth Eble, analyzed Gatsby’s character himself and states that: “Gatsby, the ‘mythic’ embodiment of the American dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. His insecure grasp of social and human values, his lack of critical intelligence and self-knowledge, his blindness to the pitfalls that surround him in American society, his compulsive optimism, are realized in the text with rare assurance and understanding. And yet the very grounding of these deficiencies is…

“Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” by Willa Cather and Margaret Atwood’s short story, “Death by Landscape,” focus on how the protagonists are isolated from the world, the people around them, and how they handle conflicts. There are similarities in how the protagonists are isolated and involved in conflicts or struggles, and although both protagonists experience a suicide situation, their endings are different. Paul, the protagonist in “Paul’s Case,” lives his short life fully, whereas Lois,…

There are suitable subjects for children’s literature and appropriate topics or situations for them to read about. In this essay, I am going to discuss the themes in northern lights and subject that Pullman thinks are appropriate for children books but not for adults and how is this novel of northern lights a crossover novel, and what is suitable books for children to read, and how the quotation relevant to this novel northern lights. Northern lights is a novel by Philip Pullman, it is a…

Do you like to read? If you do, then you probably read either in paperback or digitally. Although paperback and digital books are both great ways of reading, they each have distinct advantages and disadvantages. There are three categories in which some of the main advantages and disadvantages can be sorted into; Price, Enjoyment and Convenience. The first category price can vary for both ways of reading. Paperback books can be fairly expensive when bought one at a time and that’s similar for…