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LeGuin Blog Post Prompt
How does Le Guin use the stark contrast between the idyllic city of Omelas and the suffering child to explore the ethics of societal happiness and the nature of morality? In Omelas, it was festival time, the Festival of Summer. Omelas was not happy because it was naive or foolish, but they constructed a society where all could live meaningfully. It has music and dancing in the streets, children playing, and magnificent buildings decorated with colorful flags. The citizens of Omelas were brilliant, mature, and filled with life. There was imperfection in their lives, but they were filled with satisfaction. But the really ugly side of Omelas’ happiness was unhappiness…
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Morrison Blog Post Prompt
How does Toni Morrison use ambiguity and the absence of explicit racial markers to explore themes of identity, memory, and the complexities of race in “Recitatif”? In “Recitatif,” a short story by Toni Morrison, the ambiguity and absence of explicit racial markers interrogate identity, memory, and the complicated nature of race itself. The story follows two girls, Twyla and Roberta, who meet when they are very young in a shelter and become linked throughout their lives. Morrison’s primary mode of ambiguity is leaving racial identity undefined between the two protagonists. This, in turn, puts the onus of judgment on the reader’s own understanding and prejudices regarding race. The reader starts to wonder…
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Baldwin Blog Post Prompt
How does James Baldwin use the motif of jazz music to explore themes of identity, community, and the power of artistic expression in “Sonny’s Blues”? By utilizing the grandeur of jazz music, the motif has been cleverly played throughout the story to bring up serious issues like identity, community, and the power that an art form can generate. Jazz becomes the canvas on which Sonny and the narrator illustrate the landscapes of their perceptions regarding themselves, the relationship they share with their community, and art’s transformative capacity. The first traces Benny’s closeness to jazz music, especially in his attempts to express emotions independently of the expectations and limitations attached to…
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Blog Post #1
What is one big idea or question that one or both of the poems on the syllabus this week make you think about? How has the poem shaped your thinking about this big idea or question? Are all poems subliminally bringing the idea of souls? Since both poems mention souls in different contexts. Most poems do tell a story but aren’t called stories in that context but poems and yet, most poems I have read in my life have this feeling of emotions in them but at a much deeper level than a story.
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Blog Post #3
Walt Whitman seems to make a connection with everything around him on his daily commute and the people around him, how everything is connected in some shape or form. He connects “his present” while we make the same connections in our present. Every line is like a connection of the past to the present, the bridge that connects them both. In the line, “Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!” This line is played out both in the past and present, where we all are curious about the people around us that we see as we commute to where we need…
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INTRODUCTION
Hello everyone! My name is Edwin Genaro Perez. My major is Physical Therapy Assistant, I do want to go back to school in the future as a Physical Therapist. My current job is as a home care attendant or com hab for disabled kids and kids on the autism spectrum. I love my job because gives me the general idea of working in the medical field. My hobbies are nothing too ordinary, I love to sleep, listen to music, and relax.