Class Reflection

Blog # 15

Class Reflection

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 When we start any project as a simple as it appears, we noticed that maybe we won't do it. We feel afraid to everything new, it is normal,but a soon we learn and follow the instructions little by little we getting in to.
When I started this course I didn't know where I was going, with all of this papers and projects, the word blog was new for me. Instead blog  I used the e-  portfolio, it was very interesting too.
The first blog was simple and I followed the instructions, but nothing yet in my brain, I did it because I had to. The blog  was simple and I was asking many questions to my friend who was sitting next to me.

The blogs have been different all of them, the second was better than the first and so on. Reviewing all my blogs entries, I like what I have done.  It is a reflection  of what  I have learned at La Guardia, specially in my class Eng, 102.The first ones was very simple, but this is done with more conscience, love,  experience,dedication and the most important things is kind of reflection of myself, how after the a long class and doing a lot of thing, now I can sitting down and looking back and to continue thinking ahead.  However I still have  a lot thing to learn, I have a big problem writing in English that I have tried for many times and each time I felt more frustrated about this language,  I will continue trying to write better.  All the blogs are very interesting, are described poetry, narrative and drama that were the topics of the class, we used books, ideas and opinions.

Read and write is very interesting,because we improve our knowledge about everything, authors,speakers, characters.  Also about work citation, and to understand whatever the read is about.
I mentioned before that I have experience  writing through the Internet, preparing the work for  e-  portfolio, but was different experience. Really it was  the first time that I have had a class writing online and for me was the best, not only for all facilities that we have "today" about technology everything is the Web, It  helps us to lean more and how to use all of this facilities.

It is filled with lot of information, but the most important thing that I have to say is that I Thank to my excellent teacher Dr. Ximena Gallardo, who encourage me and all my classmate to approach all her ideas, to connect us through the world technology, and use it in her class. I have improved the use of Microsoft and other tools, so we can connect with all my classmates' activities and learn more from them.  Thank  Dr. Gallardo,for you  dedication, time and patience  for giving us all your knowledge,  that make us to continue  reaching our goals.

Today I feel better and more confidence and  proud of myself. After a hard  day I look back and see  all my work and this blog  Class Reflection.  Now I want to finish my semester and my Associated in few months.  Thank again and to all my classmates  good luck in their future.

Reflection

Blog # 14

REFLECTION

  http://www.shakespeareflix.org/2010/03/summary-of-much-ado-about-nothing-32-41.html

Personally, writing about drama  through the semester  was a experience more, very important in my life. Much Ado about Nothing, showed us one more time the capacity of the most greatest poet  William Shakespeare. All his works  has been admired and were collected and printed in various editions

I think that I'm proud of having this class. because I have the opportunity to know more about Shakespeare and all his beautiful work. I didn't chose one specific blog, I choose this play or comedy, because we  can find all combinations of elements, humor, shame, love and politic. It was a  joyful comedy that ends with multiple marriages and no deaths.
Althought one of the characteristics of Shakespeare comedy is no one die, but also he considered the death as a part of life and  in Much Ado about Nothing Hero has to pretend to die of humiliation makes die and making the comedy very strong sense of anger.

Reborn

 REBORN

Blog # 13 

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The unmasking ceremony was a party where everybody was pretending being mistaken for  other people.  In the play much Ado About Nothing, we see famous examples who played somebody's personalities or characters. Margaret who is mistaken Hero, Beatrice  was looking for Benedick's mask, but Benedick was masked man who turns out to be Benedick himself. He wanted Beatrice and he wanted to appear as a real life in the play, he was in love Beatrice and he wanted to show that in the play.  They were unmasked, because they wanted to conserve their identities in certain way.  They love each other,so they didn't pretend other character just being  themselves.

Also Hero has symbolically die and be reborn, pure again for Claudio to marry her a second time . Hero's false death is a symbol to convince and take out the rumors in Claudio that it is a social ritual to cleanse her name as person and her infamy.

After everything was cleared and Claudio believed  Hero's innocence, everybody was happy and its play had a "happy ending"  both both couples, Hero recovered her dignity and reputation and Benedick and Beatrice declared their love.

Frias's Advices

Frias's Advices

Blog # 12

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Claudio and Hero get married after that, Claudio knew that Hero had faithful before marry. She was accused by infidelity,and the people think that Hero is impure and her father also condemns her.

Frias Frances advices to Leonato that Hero has to die and keeps her in secret, and publish it that she is dead, and makes show for her and prepare an appropriate burial.  Frias Frances defends Hero, because he knows her and thinks that she is impossible to commit such acts. Frias convinced Leonato that Hero has to die from the shock of humiliation in front of the people in the weeding day, so Claudio has to regret his treatments to Hero. Leonato hero"s father agrees with the plan; after that they planed to reunite Hero and Claudio

Hero was recovering her reputation, when Borachio admits the whole mistake to don Pedro and Claudio an out moving Hero publicity to clear her name publicity.

Romances

Blog # 11

Romances Shakespeare's Society

According to Shakespeare's society. the men had the entire assumption of superiority, they have a control over the women, and as a traditional families in the Shakespeare's time, the women had to obey to the men and they were to be disposed to stay in home and attend their husband. The men looked the women as a their properties and they have to do whatever the men wanted..
Beatrice and Benedick were of couple of the play.  they treatment called the attention in  that time,because was considered challenger in that time were the women were very traditional wives and following all their husbands orders,because it was a patriarchal society.
The people were interesting in this kind of plays; the behaviors in these relationship between men and woman called the popularity.  The society in general in the Shakespeare' society was very patriarchal and one thing different at the routine was viewed with attention, as a Benedick and Beatrice romance.

Benedick of Padua was Don Pedro's companion. He never married , but he falls in love at Beatrice, and he swears that he will never marry. He was called "courtier" that means attending on the prince

 In Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare's society  all men in the  play thing that women have to have all virtues as purity,virginity, class, noble to be property of them.

  KINDRED

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Kindred was a novel where the author OCTAVIA BUTLER, dedicated her time and her talent to write about slave.  She wrote the most significance novel about African American literature.

Reflection

Blog # 10

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Really this is my favorite blog about the slavery.These representations I wanted to put in my anterior blogs, because  we have many materials and all of them very significances about the novel that Octavia Butler, in her narrative recreation of slavery, has shown the life during the slavery in the life in general, in the plantations and dedicated her novel to teach us about African American slavery.

We  were witness of the abuse, the power and traditional gender roles, mysterious and how the African American Women suffered in that time being slave.

The blog that I'm not to proud, but that impressed me was when Dana being good educated black, strong woman was obligated to go and see the life in the plantations and slavery, how the kids were taking out from their mother and sell them and send to other place, where they had another master and exposed to the abuses, cruelty, ignorance, limitations and have to server to white man only because he was white and other was his slave, or because he was a "nigger"that they usually call them. Also another act of repudiation was when the slaves where whipped,insulted, slapped in special the women were treated as animals.

All of them  accepted the situation because they didn't have another choice, they didn't receive any education. The slaves were victim of that kind of abuses from their masters and the system itself. Verbal abuses, psychology, emotional, fiscal and the most cruel daily brutal act,  was taking the kids from the their mothers and send them to another plantations.

I consider that we have learned many things reading this fiction novel. The way how we were encouraged by you,  to read and enjoy each act, in natural way that you did. Also to think about how many slaves are now in our society, that they are treated with crudely  and terror. Maybe we are slave, but in different ways, it is another time,  and other circumstances, but we have systems that we are absorbed us and some people are abused by their "masters".

I learned also from my classmate that they are very smart and all of them did a excellent job, each other understand the concept of the novel and the massages that Octavia Butler wanted to transmit through the story.and how she developed and put the right characters to play the life as salve.
The slaver systems have been managements and controlled by white people who, through the abuse or tyranny,oppression have specially black people to work for them, for a few benefits or in very difficult way of live,also the relations interracial es that we can notice in this novel. Kindred was a great opportunity that Octavia Butler showed us all the contrasts of life in the plantations and the differences of cultures, the ignorance of all slaves.

The abuse, degradation, humiliation,they were to whipping for so little or without reason,all of the salves were expose a all kind of abuses.  The women had to give their kids to the master and be sold.  All of this things made the Kindred a spectacular novel in 1979 when was its first publication.