Monday, April 27, 2020
Jumping off of a line
For this weeks blog, you will watch the performance of the poem and then choose a line that resonates with you. You will write your thoughts, a poem, or a journal entry based off of the line you choose.
We did something like this in class before. Your response should be about one to two paragraphs.
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“She knows hope is like a stubborn ship gripping a dock”. Life is filled with tests. When you are young, you try to find out who you are and what you want to be. Once you are old enough to realize it, you must become stubborn. You will be tested. You will feel like you should give up. But this is just life testing you to see how much you really want it. It is important to hold on to hope that your dreams can come true.
ReplyDeleteI have many fears about going to college and not fitting in with the cutthroat atmosphere, but deep down I know it will all work out. I will cry and scream and laugh. And ultimately I will stay true to myself and will get through whatever is thrown at me. I want to be a strong businesswoman one day and that is what I will be.
People go through the endowment of life, debating if they’re good enough to be put to the test of whatever the world may throw at them. This regarding those who are afraid to take that leap of a goal they want to achieve in, “a truth: that you can’t stop a dreamer or knock down a dream,” when one has an idea they have the right to be consistent and fulfill their own potential. The word unique can mean when one stands out from everyone else; they don’t do this just to be recognized but to show that being different in the world is good. In this society, people all look up to being labeled, rather than striving in their own path; yet there are those who want to become more who want to prove their purpose in their dream goal they have set up for themselves. At the end of the day, people will be people who are only trying to succeed in this crazy hectic world; which is why when someone settles for something that makes them happy at least they know they deserve it.
ReplyDeleteIn a personal aspect, this can apply to who I am, because as a goal I have set for myself is to finish college with a business degree. That point forward, I plan on moving off to New York or a smaller city to pursue a goal of mine in fashion merchandising. Many local people have other plans of theirs, as nursing being a popular one, engineering, or teaching. All throughout my life, I have aspired to be this type of person living up to their expectations, and there are those who tell me to do something else because out there in the fashion world is very hard to succeed at. However, I feel like when one has a dream they have the ability to pursuit through the hard times they encounter when striving through the difficulties to accomplish their dream goal. This being even if it seems high in the sky, but all of us are all human, mistakes will be made. Those mistakes help build trust in oneself to go further on their journey when becoming more independent over time.
¨Hope-we must bestow it¨. In the current situation we live in today, time can feel like its frozen. One might feel stuck locked up in a house all day. We were all blindsighted by this pandemic and everyone has a million questions flowing though their brain. And for many it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel but this quote is reminding us to trust and invest in hope. Hope is something everyone needs right now to get through this troubled time. I chose this quote because I felt like it was the quote that fit the present time we live in right now. So by having hope, it makes the time melt away and it will lead us to the light at the end of what feels like a long dark tunnel.
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ReplyDelete"A nation composed but not yet completed". People are an example of change. Because the world is always evolving and social norms are constantly changing, it shows how one ideal can never become the main ideal. Everyone belongs somewhere but also nowhere at the same time. There is enough foundation for us to compose ourselves and for the world to compose itself but nothing is ever truly completed because of this change. The foundation may be the same, but the constant flow of everything is never in one place. It's like when people walk the same ground and breathe the same air but never actually see the same colors or notice the same objects. Every emotion that everyone experiences can never be described the same or felt the same because of the constant mixture of change that one goes through. I think that no one is ever truly completed. Even after death, the stories are told but the road is still open and people still walk it.
ReplyDelete“The story of an American city, defeated but not depleted.” When people join groups or gather together, conflict always arises. Conflict is an easy term to describe America because no matter the period, someone is still fighting for a different right. I find beauty in valuing human rights and finding common ground. Though, our nation is beyond this mindset of ‘conflict’ that we transformed into a mindset of negativity. This negativity includes fighting, hating on opposite political parties, and using a political party as a personality trait. People forgot the real value and beauty of America. Instead, we post about how we live in a poor country or how America should rot. America isn’t a place; it’s an ideal that combines a bunch of people. We don’t live in a poor country; we live in an area of flawed people that make mistakes. We’re not perfect, but to claim our ideal is “awful,” is wrong. I suppose we’re defeated but not depleted.
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Delete"Tyrants fear the poet". Like the famous saying a pen is mightier than the sword, words are move the world. Each spoken or written word has more meaning behind it than the initial face value. It tells a story, gives an emotion that enhances everything around it. Everything has meaning, even if the meaning shifts depending on the interpreter. Everyone views everything differently, but there is still the message. Written words can be used to speak out against wrongs or vent about the feelings individuals are subjected to suppressing. The tyrant fears the poet because the poet expresses freely. Their emotions, their experiences, their thoughts it is there in their writing whether the author themselves realizes it or not.
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