Creative nonfiction

This is a movie about writing and all the implications surrounding that world. It may seem easier just to conceive an idea and place it on a piece of paper, but there are different situations affecting a writer. This movie is one of those stories that explains some situations about writing a book. On the day his third wife leaves him and his literary agent arrives to pressure him to finish a novel seven years in the writing, Carnegie Mellon professor, Grady Tripp, also learns that his married…

My first interaction with the play Julius Caesar was part of my curriculum and entirely changed my stand on Shakespearean literature, while The Hunger Games is one of my favourite books. This is, what persuaded me, to find a common ground between the two books. The research question I have chosen has implications which gives us an interesting outlook on how literature and language to portray human psychology. The question is worth considering for it is living proof that human psychology has…

The skill of multitasking is looked upon as a desirable trait to have, when in reality people really can't multitask effectively. Writer and literary critic William Deresiewicz presents to his freshman class at West Point that multitasking and the use of others ideas is ineffective for leaders and in fact concentration alone is what leads to a successful leadership. Deresiewicz poses rhetorical questions in order to encourage the students to open their eyes to new ideas, a combination of ethos…

My favorite novel I’ve read before, that I very much enjoyed would have to be the book The Giver. The book is about a society where emotions are denied. Everyone in the story must follow rules given by a higher authority and cannot disobey or else they will be faced with a harsh consequence. The main character Jonah on the other hand is given a chance to become someone far greater than anyone else and is able to experience feelings and types of physical traits he was never able to feel before.…

Imagine lying in bed, curled up with a good book when all of a sudden your phone starts blowing up with texts. You want to keep reading because your book is at such a good point, but then you stop and check your phone; just in case your crush texted you or your best friend has some hot gossip to tell you. The average American person will roughly send about 32-33 texts a day, although numbers may vary depending on age, according to Text Request. That is roughly around 13.4% of your time texting…

Writing is something that everybody does. It takes many forms: a text message, an email, an essay, a resume, or anything. A lot of the time we find ourselves writing for fun, that is, if we are writing to converse with someone. Other times, we find ourselves writing almost robotically, following format and length requirements. These are the times in which writing is less enjoyable. However, some people have learned that even when they have requirements to follow, they can still enjoy it.…

After reading upon the review of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, “Mrs Tilscher’s class”, which was written by John Smith on the back page of The New York Times(which was published on 14 march 2016) stating the poem lacks a theme and has a cursory meaning behind it, which I strongly disagree because there is theme which is portrayed by the use of different literature devices by the author ;which occurs consistently throughout the poem and has a deeper meaning behind it- which he completely missed out on-…

Nicholas Peterson Instructor: Avra Spector HSS1-M: Freshman Seminar 12-09-14 The Word Scratcher What happens to an oral culture when someone starts writing it down? What are the dangers of written words or stories, of using the same language as the police reports and laws? Solibo Magnificent is a metaphor, an exploration of the fate of an oral tradition in an age of writing. In the middle of telling one of his greatest stories under a tamarind tree, Solibo Magnificent, the storyteller, dies…

The usage of the right type of language is extremely crucial when used in a writing. If used correctly, it sets the mood of the storyline, it causes readers to get lost into the pages of the writing. Language is an extremely powerful weapon authors use to get into a readers mind. Like so, Yann Martel, the author of “Life of Pi” uses a beautiful form of language to tell us about Pi’s journey to survive alongside Bengali a tiger in the Pacific Ocean. The theme of this story is that Man’s inner…

Reflection text. When I applied for the English course, I did not really know what to expect. Sure, I knew it would be a lot of work to do, a lot of thoughts to think, and many new things to learn. However, I find the course interesting, and I have learned so much already. One of the main things that made me want to participate in the course is that I want to be a better English teacher. During this course, I got different kinds of inputs, and I find all of them interesting. Some of them made…