Reflective Autobiography Essay

to get caught up in what could have been and allocate blame to suppress the failure. Anyone to ever encounter a setback in their life has likely been told admitting it is the first step but that advice offers no solution. In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, Franklin recollects the experiences throughout his life that shaped him into the man he became to offer an objective lesson in failure by pure apprehension through acting upon it within one's parameters of control. Furthermore, Franklin…

Throughout my sixteen weeks in English 101 I believe that my writing skills have developed in ways that I never thought they would develop. There is always room for improvement, especially with writing. Before taking this class I thought I was a good writer, but after the first few essays I realized how much I could truly improve upon. The writing topics and prompts we were given each taught me something more about writing, how to structure things, or simple writing tactics that could make my…

arguing among themselves about the nature of mankind, Franklin believed in bringing his moral and scientific ideas to the common people. His wit, coupled with his intellect, had an immediate appeal to his readership. In the introductory lines of the Autobiography, which he began writing in 1771, he addresses his son William, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, with the intention of…

During the American Revolution women’s equality was put into question when women were not offered the same rights as men. One of the early women to advocate this idea was Judith Sargent Murray. Judith Sargent Murray was an early American woman who proposed Women’s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Murray’s ideas about women’s rights were considered extreme in the 1700s. Murray asserted education should be equally offered to women as the same as men and argued for women to…

During times of political turmoil or unrest, the pulse of a country, region, or general population can be seen most clearly through the scholarship, and more specifically the novels, being published at that time. There are many reasons that the novel acts as the perfect litmus test for the greater society around it at the time of its publishing, the most significant of which is the fact that cultural and political criticisms can be veiled under the genre of fiction. This does not always absolve…

Brown was remarkable, for besides oration and documentary reports he also produced a novel, European travel book, plays, several historical studies, and reflective memoirs. He spoke up against slavery even though everyone was for slavery. “William Wells Brown’s commitment to the struggle for freedom and equality for the blacks was a consuming passion that found expression, not alone in effort to affect his…

Elizabeth Bishop proposed that “[i]f you’re in the right frame of mind, everything strikes you as poetry” (Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 13). Bishop’s first collection, North & South, already demonstrates the finesse and themes of her later work. “Paris, 7a.m.” exemplifies Bishop’s mode of poetic process in that the poem very much reflects Bishop’s thought progression. Bishop gives the poem a specific geographic location in order to further contextualize her reflections. In her poem,…

Tricia Rose’s “The Hip Hop Wars” commences and entitles the first chapter as “Hip Hop Causes Violence.” Before furthering on with the chapter, one may intuitively develop a bias supposition that what is titled is based on an actual fact without having any valid evidence to prove why it is the way it is. Tricia Rose, whom is an author, a scholar, and a public speaker presented an argument stating “a key aspect of much of the criticism that has been leveled at hip hop is the claim that it…

reflecting none of the strength she exhibited in the first encounter. Most of the media sources concluded reporting on her prior to her return to Ireland, so most did not track the story to her marriage. The other media on her, the ballad, broadside, autobiography and Ladies’ Magazine all did not mention it. The articles that did discuss her marriage did so with a flair for the dramatic, focused on the scandal of her rescue while her husband was not even named. Thornton was to marry a man,…

As each year passes, more facets of popular culture become somewhat like wrestling: a stage-managed reality in which scripted storylines bleed spontaneously into actual events, with the fuzzy line between fact and fiction seeming to intensify, not diminish, the viewer’s obsession with the melodrama. The modern media landscape is scattered with reality shows that viewers know that are not real; that basically, is professional wrestling. In the same vein as soap operas, melodrama can be…