Monthly archives: September, 2019

Blog #8

The writing by Beck does truly have both an interesting but confusing piece of writing. Julie uses a lot of question but doesn’t provide a lot of answers which leads me to believe whether to trust her credibility or not. It is tricky to answer his question in regards to whether I have many selves. …

Blog #7

-Clarity: This portion of the rubric helped me double check to make sure that my vocabulary, and my syntax weren’t just bamboozling the reader. Alongside my peers annotations, I was able to really analyze my essay for a much better publication. -Organization: This part helped me analyze my own structure, which so far it gave …

Blog #6

After reading Anne’s writing, I did realize and if not agreed with a lot of her statements. That the first draft is the “child’s draft”. When I think of this, I think usually of using non-eloquent language with disconnected pieces of evidence and etc. As I glanced my own writing and even the notes my …

Peer Annotations

150 Word Note: You have a solid piece of writing here for a rough draft. Your language and vocabulary is so eloquent I thought it was a final draft. Definitely loved the way your wording. Also, the relevancy of the subjects you chose will definitely help you connect more to the audience. Some things to …

Blog#5

Are metaphors a language everyone speaks? Ranging from the Doctors of Harvard, to the simple mind of a child. Has the concept and language of metaphors saved lives and brought influence to clubs and communities and civilizations of this world?  Some might critique that it has. Infact, some authors like Khullar, Geary, and Erard understand …

Blog #4

“Did she, on some level, feel she lost the battle because she didn’t fight hard enough.” This complicates the metaphor because, you can’t really “fight” a disease. Yes there are ways of fighting a disease in a medical sense, however in a literal sense like “fist fighting” is not the case here. You can’t literally …

Blog #1

The metaphor of the beautiful lie, and the ugly truth goes a very long and far way in life. As life continues on, and we experience everything we can, every vast intricacy of our own world, the size of a peppercorn in an everlasting and ever expanding Universe, is what we consider joyful and pleasurable …

Blog #3

After doing an additional thorough read about Erard’s metaphors, I did find an additional topic I was evidently curious about. My curiosity took me to learn more about the power of metaphors. Erard speaks of how whether or not “metaphors have any power”, which in a literal sense no. Depending on the person they could …

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