Energy and Place
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First Draft
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Personal Philosophy Project
- Essential Questions:
- What is the purpose of your existence?
- What is happiness and what makes you happy?
- What does it mean to live a meaningful life?
- To what extent can literature shape your personal philosophy on happiness and meaning?
My art piece is a collage of my favorite picture of my favorite memories. These pictures include vacations to California, my dad's wedding, hanging out with friends on my birthday and general shenanigans. On the collage I also have the quote "What are you so afraid of?" This quote ties to my poems because they remind us to live life to the fullest, despite fear of the unknown. All the pictures are adventure that if I decided that I was too afraid, would have not happened and created less happiness.
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The Morality and Politics in Justice Project
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Final Draft vs. First
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Personal Writing Goals
After conferencing with my Humanities teacher, Ashley Carruth, I have set the following goals for my writing over Junior year.
In future writing assignments I will . . .
Develop more cohesive and overarching thesis for my papers, allowing for the writing to correct tie in together easier and allow more analysis. An example when I did not do this was in my literary analysis essay for the play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. I said "After reading this play, one realizes that the most important ideas from Thoreau’s life are to importance live independently, learn from your own experiences and fight for what you stand for" This thesis does not state why these lessons are important and why people should learn them.
More Clearly connect the dots between my claims and the body to allow my ideas to more clearly come to the riders mind. In my literary essay, I did not do this when I wrote "This is the most basic way to act on Transcendentalism. Thoreau is a very enlightened person, and understands the importance of self reliance. This makes him a powerful figure in that he creates a life for himself, and can then act upon things that he finds unjust, like the war." This is not showing us why the playwrights thought that this was important to place in the play.
I will begin to streamline my writing for better clarity and conciseness by narrowing my choices of evidence, begin to use active verbs (is using vs. uses) and cut out repetitive word choice. Some examples when I did not use active verbs to create concise wording was when I wrote "Instead they should leave their comfort zone and fix the injustice instead of escaping." I had repetitive word choice when I said "One of these men is Henry David Thoreau, known today as a man with ideas and morals that surpassed his time. Thoreau ideas and morals. . ." and I choose too many pieces of evidence, as I gave two examples for each argument, like the first paragraph when I quote both the William's scene and when Thoreau is telling his cellmate about his life.
Develop more cohesive and overarching thesis for my papers, allowing for the writing to correct tie in together easier and allow more analysis. An example when I did not do this was in my literary analysis essay for the play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. I said "After reading this play, one realizes that the most important ideas from Thoreau’s life are to importance live independently, learn from your own experiences and fight for what you stand for" This thesis does not state why these lessons are important and why people should learn them.
More Clearly connect the dots between my claims and the body to allow my ideas to more clearly come to the riders mind. In my literary essay, I did not do this when I wrote "This is the most basic way to act on Transcendentalism. Thoreau is a very enlightened person, and understands the importance of self reliance. This makes him a powerful figure in that he creates a life for himself, and can then act upon things that he finds unjust, like the war." This is not showing us why the playwrights thought that this was important to place in the play.
I will begin to streamline my writing for better clarity and conciseness by narrowing my choices of evidence, begin to use active verbs (is using vs. uses) and cut out repetitive word choice. Some examples when I did not use active verbs to create concise wording was when I wrote "Instead they should leave their comfort zone and fix the injustice instead of escaping." I had repetitive word choice when I said "One of these men is Henry David Thoreau, known today as a man with ideas and morals that surpassed his time. Thoreau ideas and morals. . ." and I choose too many pieces of evidence, as I gave two examples for each argument, like the first paragraph when I quote both the William's scene and when Thoreau is telling his cellmate about his life.
Revised Essay Link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woDZyP5VNKNC5F2giw6gnHzsTY7u1I5sdnxoA_LIhfw/edit
Voices from The Animas
Link To Interview on Story Corp
https://storycorps.me/interviews/september-18-voices-from-the-animas-interview-with-vivien-and-michael-rendon/
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