Hits and Misses
My first "Hit" for this year would be my blog about Symbolism. I really enjoyed writing this because it was a topic that was very close to home for me. I also liked this because I liked how I could relate simple things to a deeper meaning.
Symbolism comes in many forms, in many different circumstances. Symbolism for me comes from butterflies, especially light yellow ones. When my grandfather passed away, I didn't really know one thing that would symbolize him except for ordinary things like golf and race cars. Everyone remembered him by these things, but I wanted something that I could remember him by for myself. So, as the days went by after he passed away and after his first funeral in Baton Rouge, I sort of forgot to look for things to remember him by. Instead, I just remembered him as everyone else did.
A couple of days later, my family and I had to travel to Virginia for my grandfather's second funeral. I had completely forgotten by now about finding something that could symbolize him for me. After the funeral had ended, I obviously was sad and extremely hot during the summer heat. I wasn't very focused on anything until I looked over at the beautiful coffin and saw a light yellow butterfly swoop across the top of the coffin and back again. I knew this was a way of my grandfather symbolizing that he was still watching over me. From then on, every time I see a light yellow butterfly, I know that my grandfather is still with me.
A couple of days later, my family and I had to travel to Virginia for my grandfather's second funeral. I had completely forgotten by now about finding something that could symbolize him for me. After the funeral had ended, I obviously was sad and extremely hot during the summer heat. I wasn't very focused on anything until I looked over at the beautiful coffin and saw a light yellow butterfly swoop across the top of the coffin and back again. I knew this was a way of my grandfather symbolizing that he was still watching over me. From then on, every time I see a light yellow butterfly, I know that my grandfather is still with me.
My next "Hit" would be my Lord of the Flies literary analysis. I thought that this was a challenging essay that pushed me further as a writer. It taught me a lot about formatting and connecting parts of the book to my thesis.
My final "Hit" would be my narrative essay, "I'm Fortunate, I Should Be More Thankful." I loved writing this because I prefer writing about personal experiences. Even though I chose this essay as my revision, I thought that it still one of my best works.
My first "Miss" would be my research paper, "The Ever-Changing Hagia Sophia." I thought that this paper was extremely difficult for me to write because I wasn't as familiar with the information. It was also hard for me to formulate it into a long essay.
My next "Miss" would be my blog concerning political views. I'm not very familiar with politics so writing about political news was a challenge for me.
In this article, it shows how Trump is proposing that private schools should be given part of the governmental funds for its tuition. This being said, public schools will not have much attention anymore considering the funds. However, this article states that even if some of the tuition is paid for, the amount would not be significant enough to completely pay for the tuition of any private school. For example, it says that this amount would come out to around $1,800 for each person compared to the overall price of private school tuition being more than $11,000. Also mentioned in this article is the lack of funds that the less wealthy, public school children would receive. These children wouldn't get as much, if any, of the money they used to get that helped with their school careers. Also, this proposal is being depicted even worse in this article when it shows how kids receiving these funds to go to private school are not doing as well academically as they were in the public school system.
The focus of this article seemed very negative towards this proposal by Trump, and I would have to agree. I think that this choice to help the school system is a good idea, but it doesn't seem like it would be helping the entire school system. Most of the kids attending public school don't have enough of the funds to attend a private school, so why would we take away more of their funds so that they can't attend public school? The only kids that this is affecting for the better are the private school kids. This is a twisted idea of giving more money to the people who at least already have enough funds to pay for its tuition. This is the reason I chose this article. As I was looking through news articles, I came across this article on US News by Neil Campbell. It really intrigued me how Trump could think of taking more of the funds from the less wealthy and giving it to the somewhat or decently wealthy. Even though Trump might be trying to benefit the school system and its funds, it would hurt so much more of the population to carry out this proposal.
The focus of this article seemed very negative towards this proposal by Trump, and I would have to agree. I think that this choice to help the school system is a good idea, but it doesn't seem like it would be helping the entire school system. Most of the kids attending public school don't have enough of the funds to attend a private school, so why would we take away more of their funds so that they can't attend public school? The only kids that this is affecting for the better are the private school kids. This is a twisted idea of giving more money to the people who at least already have enough funds to pay for its tuition. This is the reason I chose this article. As I was looking through news articles, I came across this article on US News by Neil Campbell. It really intrigued me how Trump could think of taking more of the funds from the less wealthy and giving it to the somewhat or decently wealthy. Even though Trump might be trying to benefit the school system and its funds, it would hurt so much more of the population to carry out this proposal.
My final "Miss" would be my blog where we had to analyze a song for poetry terms. I found this difficult for me to do because maybe I wasn't completely familiar with the terms. Also, I don't like how short I made this post and I feel like I could expand on it more.
In the song "Umbrella," Rihanna continually uses assonances of "ar" in the middle of words to link the lyrics together. This creates a rhyme that is easy to follow along to. Rihanna also uses metaphors to describe her devotion to the person mentioned in the song. For example, Rihanna says, "you'll still be my star." This directly states that this person who is mentioned is "her star." Rihanna also uses a hyperbole when she states, "here for infinity." She is implying that this person will be here forever but obviously exaggerating.
Not only does Rihanna use poetry in her lyrics, but Jay-Z as well when he features in this song in a rap. Jay-Z also uses assonances in his lyrics like when he sings words after one another like "hydroplane" and "fame". This makes his raps flow more smoothly and easier to say faster. Rihanna uses anaphoras to show the future in her lyrics. For example, she sings "when" at the beginning of two lines to show how her devotion to him lasts beyond the present. Lastly, Jay-Z uses an oxymoron when he states "come" and "gone" in the same line.
Not only does Rihanna use poetry in her lyrics, but Jay-Z as well when he features in this song in a rap. Jay-Z also uses assonances in his lyrics like when he sings words after one another like "hydroplane" and "fame". This makes his raps flow more smoothly and easier to say faster. Rihanna uses anaphoras to show the future in her lyrics. For example, she sings "when" at the beginning of two lines to show how her devotion to him lasts beyond the present. Lastly, Jay-Z uses an oxymoron when he states "come" and "gone" in the same line.
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