Mid-Term Check In

One of the biggest challenges in this class so far has been not having the typical one hour session class with the instructor in front of the class. I have taken other online classes but taking an English class is very different it makes it more different and difficult due to the fact that we do not have in class discussions. I really have succeeded in getting more involved. By getting more involved I mean commenting other people working and seeing what other classmates are doing. As a college student all I focus is on my work and trying to succeeded I have never cared for other peoples work. But when this class started commenting peoples work is fun because there is a meaning to it and that to me is working ad helping together. The readings that we have done in the class have not affected me. I must admit that they are not the easiest but I try my best to understand the readings. Literary Analysis is different from other writing I have done in college. It takes more effort and more time to understand what I am reading. My goal for this next half of the semester is to put more effort in my readings. Also to communicate with the professor for any questions I have for any confusion I have and would like to have a better understanding to succeed in the assignments. My goal is to end this class with a good grade and with strength that will help me succeed throughout college and my career.

 

Tentative Thesis Paragraph

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       A Modest Proposal

Who cares of the health risk of eating babies, our societies potential would be reached. Why not have a juicy baby for dinner. " A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dine alone, the tore of hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in the winter"(Page 11). Swift proposal in killing babies that come from poor families would benefit the wealthy people both in having a healthier meal and dealing less with invaluable people around them. Swift proposal would become a disruption to human morals and value. The idea of eating babies might not be the healthiest thing to do but would be his point to population control.

A Modest Proposal

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A Modest Proposal

The problem that Swift identifies is the population in his society is causing a lack of resources which included fewer jobs for people, homeless people, and starvation of people. Swift is making fun of how people should start eating babies. The purpose to his idea was based in cutting the population down and having people eating meat and getting protein from the baby's. Swift proposed to star eating baby's including the suggestion in women given birth to more baby's providing more baby's to be killed. The more baby's they were able to kill, the more food they had and the less people they had in their society.  

His solution is not logical. It is very dramatic because the audience knows that people are not really going to eat babies but yet the idea is thrown out causing women to faint due to his proposal. Swift created this proposal to get the society attention and to make them realize that something must be done. in order to become a better society. Satire brings attention and is blaming the people for the conditions the people are living with and by Swift proposing this proposal his goal is to correct them. Swift uses irony and exaggeration to explain his message.

   

 

Subaru: Cut the Cord Advertisement

This Subaru advertisement is very effective to me. The young child targets the audience her with fear and sweetness makes a lovely character making the car brand Subaru look good. The audience to this advertisement is parents. Especially parents who are raising their young children and scared for them to be on their own. The Subaru car brand in this advertisement shows a dependability does who own a Subaru. In this example the father the child is very protective and by him owing the Subaru, he can always count on his car to help get to where his needed. The purpose of this advertisement is to show parents that a Subaru is the best family car to own.

What my work will be About...

It was really hard to pick one of the quotes I had two in mind but I choosed to write on quote number two " Bartleby's ghostly presences in the story is the result of a breakdown of the narrator's mind. In fact, Bartleby does not exist at all as an actual scrivener, but instead represents a part of the narrator that he wishes to repress in order to become a more effective and industrous worker." I am currently summarizing and looking over a couple of other quotes in the book that I would like to use as part of my paper. Once I pick my top four I will focus how it reflects to the thesis I have chosen.

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Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street

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“What was to be done? He would do nothing in the office: why should he stay there? In plain fact, he had now become a millstone to me, not only useless as a necklace but afflictive to bear. Yet I was sorry for him”. (Pg. 42, paragraph 3)

            This quote contributes to the memory of the meaning of the story in how 

The lawyer in the story was able to realize that he felt sorry for one of his employees. He had hired a simple copier by the name of Bartleby who was given an office to work in. At some point Bartleby decided to stop doing things around the office and his only response to mostly everything was “I would prefer not to”. One day the lawyer found out that Bartley was living in his office. Bartleby had no family, no place to live, and knew no one in town. One day the lawyer told Bartleby should start working once again or start packing his stuff and move along.  Bartley continue his attitude and sure did the lawyer fire him. The lawyer suggested that he should be gone by tomorrow. The lawyer keeps thinking over and over again whether he would find Bartley in the office again or not. Bartley never left the office and would not say any words. Like in the quote, The Lawyer had no idea of what he was going to do with Bartleby how was he going to get rid of him. The lawyer did not wanted to just throw Bartley out in the street he wanted to help him out. This quote is important because it explains how Bartley had become a mean full person to him. The lawyer worried in what Bartley was going to do without his home which was his office. The lawyer knew that he had nothing more to do in the office. Through the book the Lawyer tries his best to get Bartley out not his life and having not to deal with what would happen to him. But at the end of the day Bartley comes again to the Lawyers life. At the end of the story the Lawyer ends up taking care of Bartley as much as he avoided to help him and to not have him around he knew deep inside him that he wanted to help him out. The lawyer was very sympathetic towards Bartleby through the story.

Summary vs. Analysis

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