Next week, I am hoping to read more interesting text like this week. I really did enjoy this week’s reading and the comments and analysis’s of my classmates readings. I also do hope to find more information for my project. I would really like to make sure I cover all angles of the topic I decided to write about. The readings in class are hard because not much information can be found about them, but I am hoping with the background information I do locate, it will better assist me and my writing. I also look forward to move to the next step in the my project – to place all my ideas and analysis into something more. To grow on the topic and to see how I can thoroughly explain my topic. However, next week will be a busy week for me, in all of my classes because the work is getting a bit more heavier. I do hope I am able to manage it all and push through and finish the week strong. It will be a challenge, but I never back down from a challenge. For this week, I really ...
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In this week’s reading, I learned about the story of Joaquin Murrieta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Murrieta). I decided to look up his history. I searched his name on Wikipedia and found that he was also called Robin Hood and that he was a famous outlaw in California during the California Gold Rush. I then decided to look into the California Gold Rush, I clicked on the internal link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush). It began on January 24, 1848 and it is actually when gold was found by James W. Marshall in Coloma, California. It is said that Gold Rush had an effect on the Native Californians and resulted in the declining percentage of the natives due to diseases, genocides, and starvation. I wanted to dig in a bit deeper on the Native Californians so I clicked on the internal link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_California). I found that the Native Californians were also known as the Indigenous people of California. They were hunter-g...
I decided to pick the article “How to Spark Creativity When You’re in a Rut,” by Priscilla Claman ( https://hbr.org/2017/04/how-to-spark-creativity-when-youre-in-a-rut ). The article discusses how one can find creativity when they don’t have it. When you are having trouble finding creativity, you can observe from someone else according to the article. This is something I already knew, and I have actually tried and it works. I find it is always best to learn from someone or pick off ideas from others when you are in a rut because you are able to pull something from others creativities sometimes. A good tip that the article provides is, “Capitalize on obstacles” This is a great idea because when you have an obstacle, you need to get over it but the only way to get over it is to analyze it and that is what that means. One thing I am curious to explore is the concept behind writers block, and why it happens so often spontaneously.
Nursling the Sky Reading Notes · Defines the climate of California · It a very nature based o Describing different seasons: rain, snow storms, dry desert winds that occur in California · Quotes from text: o All that storms do to the face of the earth you may read in the geographies, but not what they do to our contemporaries. I remember one night of thunderous rain made unendurably mournful by the houseless cry of a cougar whose lair, and perhaps his family, had been buried under a slide of broken boulders on the slope of Kearsarge. We had heard the heavy detonation of the slide about the hour of the alpenglow, a pale rosy interval in a darkling air, and judged he must have come from hunting to the ruined cliff and paced the night out before it, crying a very human woe. I remember, too, in that same season of storms, a lake made milky white for days, and crow...
Samuel McDuffie February 24, 2019 ENGL 205 Project Plan Project Research : Topic: Pick a subject: love, work, freedom, etc. Then choose two selections and discuss how that subject is discussed in those selections. Use literary devices to help frame your discussion. Readings chosen: The Luck of Roaring Camp Whitfield: Self-Reliance Subject focus: Love Symbolism: The infant baby symbolizes more than one thing. It may symbolize life, and it may also be a Christian symbol. After being born, the baby revives the spirit of the camp, giving it a new life. The men start to wash themselves and act with decency. The Christian symbol comes into play when they take the baby to church for its christening. The baby is like a recreation of Jesus who gave faith to people and life to the land. It also symbolizes love, purity, calm. · “It takes a village to raise a child” · ...
Samuel McDuffie Literary Analysis The Hunt for Revenge John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) was born in 1827 into a distinguished Cherokee family in Georgia. His father, John Ridge and grandfather Major Ridge were prosperous farmer and slaveholders. Both grandfather and father were influential leaders in the dispute over how to respond to pressure from the United States to give up Cherokee Lands and move west. He was the first Indian to publish a novel. In his work The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit is a contemporary account of California as it was settling. In the reading assigned, the reader is introduced to lawless men in California, known as bandits, and Joaquin Murieta. Joaquin Murieta is a Mexican-American bandit, who leaves behind a legacy of morals and bravery. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, tells the story of the Joaquin in the Gold-rush era, wanting to find fortune and happiness;...
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs · 1823-1915 · Born in Philadelphia · Abolitionist o Shared platform with Fredrick Douglas and an active agent in the underground Railroad · 1850 migrated to San Francisco · Founded the first black newspaper in California Mirror of the Times · An American Consul to Madagascar · Shadow and Light ( An autobiography published in 1902) o “Ignus fatus" meaning a deceptive goal or hope § Having faith in a time that Gibbs is present is what ruins people § Pessimistic o “Effervescent happiness of some of the worshipers at this shrine was conspicuous” § What shrines is he talking about? o Hon. John C. Fremont ...
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) (p. 163-170) · First American Indian to publish a novel · Born in Georgia - Cherokee father and a white mother From The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit · Contemporary account of California as it was settling · Lawless · The war with Mexico has been fought, and California belonged to the United states · Follows Joaquin and his band as they set post-Mexico California ablaze o Joaquin Murieta: Mexican § His complexion was neither very dark or very light, but clear and brilliant, and his countenance is pronounced to have been, at that time, exceedingly handsome and attractive. His large black eyes, kindling with the enthusiasm of his earnest nature, his firm and well-formed mou...