Poem..... it doesn't really make sense but it follows a specific pattern!
Friends; silly, youthful, lovable,
Everywhere, everyday, yearlong guidance
Eternal liveliness
Supersecret thoughts spilled
Supportive, energetic chica's.
Stylish Hollywood darlings so opinionated
Devoted debs so original
Loving girls, surprising gals!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Fun Words
Nathalie Rohling
Engl 101
Andrea Johnson
9 November 2007
Engl 101
Andrea Johnson
9 November 2007
Fun Words
The other day I was chewing bubble yum on my way to Jackie's House. I blew one of the biggest bubbles ever. It was the size of my head! I was so excited that I started to run to her house. I was right outside of her door when I felt a huge hick-up coming. I banged on her door as loud as I could, hoping that she would make it in time. She opened the door holding a spoonfull of fluff. As her eyes looked up at my face, I lost it, my hick-up turned into a sneeze and I blew boogers all over her food.
Monday, November 5, 2007
secrets
Nathalie Rohling
engl 101
Andrea Johnson
5 November 2007
engl 101
Andrea Johnson
5 November 2007
Secrets
I really liked the discussion that we had in class today! It reminded me of the music video "Dirty Little Secret" by The All-American Rejects. When class was over I went back to my room and watched the video. Towards the beginning of it there is a girl that stands there holding a sign covering her face. On it there is a note written in marker that says, I want to go blind so I don't have to see them together.
I guess that you can interpret this in a lot of different ways but I have my own idea of what it means. In my head, I imagine this girl, the one holding the card, looking at an ex boyfriend and his new girlfriend. It hurts her so much that she would rather not see anything than see them together. No matter how you interpret this, the emotion that girl feels is a very strong one. For anyone to say that they would rather see nothing than something specific is a very rash thing to say.
Even though this girls secret is only one example, everyone in this world has at least one secret. The web page that we saw in class and music video's like The All-American Rejects are just someways that people are able to tell their secrets. Some might be extreme and others may not be a big deal but they are just things that people choose not to tell others about themselves. I really liked the discussion and I think that it would be fun to expand on.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Parody/ Satire exercise
Nathalie Rohling
Engl 101
Andrea Johnson
1 November 2007
Poems usually don't make very much sense to me. I have to really analyze them and even after that, the images and thoughts that I create in my mind from the poems are not very accurate. Poems are very complex and are open for interpretation but some kind of understanding of the topic is needed by the reader. It is usually hard for me to read a poem and understand anything that is going on in it though. This is a major problem when reading poems, however, when TV shows like the Simpsons do a satire of the famous poem "The Raven," I can understand the poem because of the imagery used by the show. I really like the way that they did this so I tried to rewrite one of the poems that we had to read in English class, "A Smart Cookie." I hope that I can so as good of a job as the Simpsons without being able to use a visual aid.
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I could have been someone you know; famous, everyone could have known ME, I could have signed autographs, and gone to famous restaurants. My mother rants on as she does every morning. She has lived in the same place her life but knows nothing of the normal routine of things. She can speak different languages, she can sing opera, she can dance, she can tell me what to do, but she doesn't even know how to ride the subway. The same subway that has been there her whole life, her whole life of living in the city. I have to hold her, comfort her as we wait for the subway to arrive.
She used to draw me complex, beautiful pictures all of the time. Now she only draws with a simple needle and thread. Someday she would like to go to the ballet. Someday she would like to see a play. Someday she would like to go here, go there. It is always about someday with her. She can merely borrow an old opera record from the library and sing along. Someday she would like to go to the opera, someday.
Today, she sings as Madame Butterfly, while cooking me oatmeal, until she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me yet another time. I could have been someone, you know; famous, everyone could have known ME, I could have signed autographs, and gone to famous restaurants. Hun, please go to school, she pleaded with me. Study hard. Madame Butterfly is a fool, don't be her. She went back to stirring my oatmeal. Perhaps thinking more of Madame Butterfly. Look at my friends, all of them. Izaura whose husband has left her and Yolanda who husband has died on her. Shaking her head back and forth, she sighs again. Take care of your own.
She yet again blurted out another phrase; shame is bad you know. It keeps you down. I quit school out of shame, shame of my clothes. Though I had no nice clothes I had brains I did.
I could have been someone you know; famous, everyone could have known ME, I could have signed autographs, and gone to famous restaurants. Yup, I was one smart cookie then.
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I kept a lot of the same ideas as the original poem and even some of the same lines but I think that the tone may have changed a little. As I rewrote this poem, I really analysed the lines that were in the original copy. I think that this activity has really helped me understand the poem more and what the author was trying to portray to his readers. I really liked going back and trying to focus on the meaning and interpretation of the poem.
Everyone in the class may not have as hard of a time understand poems as me, but I think that this assignment can help everyone out a little. Any further understanding of poems can always help the reader out. Especially when poems can have so may different meanings behind one idea. This activity was a lot of fun and I think that it can benefit the whole class.
Engl 101
Andrea Johnson
1 November 2007
Poems usually don't make very much sense to me. I have to really analyze them and even after that, the images and thoughts that I create in my mind from the poems are not very accurate. Poems are very complex and are open for interpretation but some kind of understanding of the topic is needed by the reader. It is usually hard for me to read a poem and understand anything that is going on in it though. This is a major problem when reading poems, however, when TV shows like the Simpsons do a satire of the famous poem "The Raven," I can understand the poem because of the imagery used by the show. I really like the way that they did this so I tried to rewrite one of the poems that we had to read in English class, "A Smart Cookie." I hope that I can so as good of a job as the Simpsons without being able to use a visual aid.
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I could have been someone you know; famous, everyone could have known ME, I could have signed autographs, and gone to famous restaurants. My mother rants on as she does every morning. She has lived in the same place her life but knows nothing of the normal routine of things. She can speak different languages, she can sing opera, she can dance, she can tell me what to do, but she doesn't even know how to ride the subway. The same subway that has been there her whole life, her whole life of living in the city. I have to hold her, comfort her as we wait for the subway to arrive.
She used to draw me complex, beautiful pictures all of the time. Now she only draws with a simple needle and thread. Someday she would like to go to the ballet. Someday she would like to see a play. Someday she would like to go here, go there. It is always about someday with her. She can merely borrow an old opera record from the library and sing along. Someday she would like to go to the opera, someday.
Today, she sings as Madame Butterfly, while cooking me oatmeal, until she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me yet another time. I could have been someone, you know; famous, everyone could have known ME, I could have signed autographs, and gone to famous restaurants. Hun, please go to school, she pleaded with me. Study hard. Madame Butterfly is a fool, don't be her. She went back to stirring my oatmeal. Perhaps thinking more of Madame Butterfly. Look at my friends, all of them. Izaura whose husband has left her and Yolanda who husband has died on her. Shaking her head back and forth, she sighs again. Take care of your own.
She yet again blurted out another phrase; shame is bad you know. It keeps you down. I quit school out of shame, shame of my clothes. Though I had no nice clothes I had brains I did.
I could have been someone you know; famous, everyone could have known ME, I could have signed autographs, and gone to famous restaurants. Yup, I was one smart cookie then.
----
I kept a lot of the same ideas as the original poem and even some of the same lines but I think that the tone may have changed a little. As I rewrote this poem, I really analysed the lines that were in the original copy. I think that this activity has really helped me understand the poem more and what the author was trying to portray to his readers. I really liked going back and trying to focus on the meaning and interpretation of the poem.
Everyone in the class may not have as hard of a time understand poems as me, but I think that this assignment can help everyone out a little. Any further understanding of poems can always help the reader out. Especially when poems can have so may different meanings behind one idea. This activity was a lot of fun and I think that it can benefit the whole class.
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