Farewell!!!

Dear Classmates and Prof. Gross,
It has been a very interesting semester full of new things and full of new knowledge provided to us. This semester was the most difficult semester I have taken, and not because of this particular class, but because I have been multitasking with my personal life and 6 classes at AVC. Through it all, this class has taught me so much new things that have been kept as a skill. Blogging was actually the assignment I enjoyed the most from all the assignments we had in this class. The essay were very difficult to me, however, the peer reviews made the assignment be helpful and full of new ideas that I can include in my essay. Although this class was never taken in an actual classroom, I feel as if all the assignments we consisted of, connected every single one of us to each other. We all talked to each other somehow, either by responding to the blogs, or by peer reviews, of by the reading forum. This has been a good experience and I can actually say that this class has been the best class I have taken online. The professor made the class much easier and the assignments were given with enough explanation. Best of all the professor was available whenever we needed any kind of assistance.
Although I did not do very well on the essay assignments in this class, I can admit that I learned to cope and continue going every single week. The essays have taught me to gain so much knowledge in this class and it has also taught me to take my time and not do anything at last minute. Personally writing essays has been very challenging to me throughout my entire life. It is not something I enjoy doing, but this semester the peer reviews really made me feel much more confident on my essay because it have me feedback that I inserted in all of my thought when I would rewrite the essay assignments.
Other than all the assignments, I think the grading policy could have been better improved. I think that we did so much work with the blogs, the response to blogs, questions for analysis and so on. Yet, I do disagree with the fact that essay are worth more than our regular assignments. I personally think that the essays should have a great portion towards our grades, but I feel that the assignments also took up so much time and are only worth so little on our final grade. Regardless of what the grading policy is, this class is soon to be over and we have to move on.
Well farewell to everyone who took this class with me this semester. It has been a great pleasure to have worked together on a few assignments. Best wishes from now and on. Hopefully that everyone gains something from taking this class and hopefully your future is filled with very astonishing and positive things.
Geraldine

AIMEE MANN

Aimee Mann has many terrific lyrics in her sight. She is an authentic navigator and focuses on the less traumatic subjects, however she still conceives to have some kind of fear in her songs. Two other great songs I found were, Driving Sideways and Beautiful. Although both of these words seem very precise in action, and they are both a bit of an opposite, they are both indulged with fear. In the song Beautiful we notice that it talks about a fine day out on a date. She talks about how the date started and how good the kiss felt. However, she then questions why so much tenderness hurts her. Through the lyrics she repeats this statement a couples of times. Here we get the intimidation that she is trying to tell someone and to let someone know by her writing this song; however she wishes they can see it without the need of her voice to say it. She also says, how I wish you can see it, this shows that she wants to let someone know that although she makes someone happy, she feels hurt with so much tenderness.
The other lyric I found by Aimee Mann was the song called Driving sideways. Again the title both insinuates that they are two very opposite songs. They are opposite in subject, but just like we heard Aimee Mann scream out for help in the prior lyrics, we also hear her cry for help in this lyrics. In these lyrics we also see that Aimee Mann is trying to let someone know what is happening, but she is topics that they see it with their own eyes without the need of her voice saying anything. Here they are people driving in a car again. Then they must be intoxicated of some kind. Eventually the title tells us that they are driving sideways and something bad is happening. Through the poem we realize that they will never make it to their destination.
When we click together both of these lyrics we see that Aimee Mann has some kind of fight to gather up some kind of fear she has lived or she has some concern about and wishes to have spoken out without actually letting her voice say anything. Both of thse lyrics fight for a fearful voice that is hidden behind the voice of this lady. I believe that with her own personal style, Aimee Mann connects her lyrics with beautiful lyrics and astonishing results. She can tell us her fear and she even lets her voice speak out through this terrifying notion of words, but we do not see it bad since it is just another song that we interpret by the singer. Through her lyrics I also notice that Aimee Mann can be very short on her voice and lets the lyrics of her music somehow identify herself.

The Study of Creation

Studying and comparing creation myths teaches me a lot about myself and other. I had a different understanding of how we came to this Earth. Of course this is just another question that is answer with a myth. I actually enjoyed the three myths I watched, which were The Mayan, the Inca, and the Inuit. They all gave different creations that illuminated the world in different ways. Their creations were made by this Gods, however this is a question I can never stop asking myself because the truth is that I will never really know how was the first human ever created. Many different myths can give me an idea, but it makes no sense to watch many different myths and yet, not know the exact one. I am not really a “church” person, however, one time I remember asking my mother where the first person ever came from. She eventually started talking about Adam and Eve and how they committed a Sin and so on. This story gave me an answer, but did not give me an answer to the question that I was asking. Especially now that I have studied other creations of Earth, now I feel even more confused on what the truth of creation of the world is. I guess it is just a matter of pushing our own buttons and believing whatever myth fits, or we can simply create our own myth that will eventually evolve and that we will feel confident with in order to go along and continue answering the same questions to our kids, and our kid’s kids and so on.
Eventually through the study of the creation of Earth I learned that my life is very precious because although I was not the first one created, I was put on this earth with a purpose of learning to survive and to walk without the need to be destroyed. I also learned that we should not be destroyed in earth by other gods, but we do have to live our life and then eventually moved alon to let other humans live their life. Today I can ask many people the question of how the first human was ever created and everyone will have some difference in their story. However, this study has taught me that however the first person was ever created and however the first person ever walked on this Earth, we have evolved and have changed the world ourselves without following the nature of any God or any simple theme. The Human Nation has taken over the world and now there are thousands and thousands of our ancestors who we might never know anything about, but who we will fight in order to continue moving in life and ourselves becoming ancestor to a near future. Whatever it is we learn from now on will be what will most likely be passed on to the rest of the world in our generations because eventually technology will be different and although the myths will be surviving, the new generations will be over crowned with smartness on the technology issues.

The Understanding Of Lily

The relationship that Lily has with Zach expands her understanding of herself and of society, because it lets clear where a white person stands and where a color person stands. At the beginning of the story we see that a white person has a color lady as the maid and the nanny. The interpretation is set out as the force to conclude that color people were at times still used as servants, yet they were paid. Eventually we meet up with the climax of the story where Rosaleen is set in jail for spitting onto the shoes of three white man. I do agree this was a disruptive thing for Rosaleen to do but there was no real need to do such situation. We also read how these men were allowed into the cell of Rosaleen and beat her up. They were not incarcerated, yet the color women was kept in there. I feel this is very sad and se the idea that society was white and color people were never even cared about. In this time of the story if a white man would have been beaten down by color man than the color men would have been in jail in less time that we can think. Eventually the story progresses and color people and white people still have their lines of differences. It was not good seen if a white person was to be with a color person. The fact that her relationship with Zach could only lead to a certain point, showed that society was very stuck up with discrimination that no color person could have ever dated a white person and society would be okay with this.
The entire relationship that expanded from both of this characters, were put together as a form to show the inequality of the times in the years when this book was written. There is no real shadow that could have portray inequality than this couple. Zach also stated that when he becomes a lawyer and when he has money and when things in society are okay, and then he will come back and start a relationship with Lily. This is very sad because we see that although many different laws and constitutions were changing, society was not rolling any closer to identify what to do. The environment was still painted with a border line between the white and the color. There was no further difference although many color and white people would talk to each other.
Eventually Lily understands that Color people and white people could not mix in the eyes of society. It was like mixing oil and water. Lily, however found the home she never had with this color people and decided that she would work hard to changed things in life. The same way that Zach had one day told her that there will be a time when they, meaning society, pronounce that color people can be mix with white people and that will be okay in the eyes of the entire world.

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An experience I can set myself on is the day when my parents’ divorce. I was young and did not understand what was going on. My strongest attachment was my father and the day he left the house, I felt numb. I could not concentrate, or feel any kind of pain. I was being torture and my feelings were staying blank. I was not showing any attachment to the situation, but I can feel a strong distraction from the world. I was neither altering to my perspective of life, nor was I overcoming the situation. It was just pain killing me in, and blankness leaking out. It was a tremendous movement in my life. Never did I think such thing can damage me this bad that I cannot control my actions, my desires, or my reactions to situations. I can remember being send to through the trash out, and in that bag, there was a piece of thick glass. A thick glass that arranged a deep cut on right side of my knee. It was bleeding and shattered. The thickness of this glass had crashed through my soul and I was not feeling anything. I was only depicting the blood that would stream down from my knee. And I remember my mother trying to take me to the emergency room, but I felt nothing. I was still in a condemn shock that my father had left. It was the worst day of my life, and I still have a scar left behind because of this situation. A pain I did not capture until days later, when I realize, this was no joke. This was my life.
I am not sure what animal I can compare myself to. It can be logically closer to any animal that can trace down the pain, and yet fell nothing until days have occurred.
When I look back at this situation of my life, I think how ridiculous such situation can make me react. In reality it happened when I was young and rather the shame must have been the one that kept me shock. When I look back now, it does not look as bad as it looked that day. This is because I did not understand what was happening. Now that I comprehend why things in life occur I get a better sense of why this happened and I am actually thankful that my parents situation ended in a divorce and not in a more tragic way. This is just a knowledgeable appearance into life.
With this in mind I can have the understanding that I learned a great lesson from my own experience. I learned that a child is naïve and can lose a lot of understandings of the world. It is not until we are old enough to comprehend, that we actually see what happened and how the problem could have been resolve to a better route. Indeed the child has a naïve mind, that which an adult overshadows and comprehends.

Is Suicide Ever Justified?

This is a very controversial subject in every point of aspect in life. The question may shatter many people, but at the same time it might just get many other people very upset. Many situations that have occurred where suicide is the last aspect of the subject, the situation can be very insignificant. For example, there is a time that occurred not that long ago where two young girls committed suicide by placing themselves in the middle of the train tracks. The train eventually took their lives away. The patterned under this problem, was because a young girl had lost her boyfriend and she decided to kill herself. In that thought her 2 best friends were going to kill themselves with her. However, when they set themselves in the train tracks, one of the young girls backed down. The other two, however, lost their lives. In such situation like this one, I cannot consider any thing okay with killing yourself. I am actually a strong believer that suicide is not justifiable regardless of the issues, or problems you might be passing by. We always have to remember that there are many people out there in the world that are less fortunate than us, and they are working very hard to stay alive every day. This is showing us that we cannot let a simple problem take us down. I have fallen so many times in life and I have felt very shattered, but from that, I have never thought about killing myself. This is because I always remember that somewhere out there in the world there is someone passing through worst situations than me. Such as the little kids that are hospitalized for a cancer. This subject always gets me sad, but in reality god has given us an opportunity of life. Unfortunately many of these young kids die at such a young age. This kids wish another opportunity in life, and yet there are those people that think that their life is the worst and is easy for them to take away the opportunity of life they have been given. It is sad, but true and many have to set foot on earth and realize that the world does not revolve after them and everything has solutions, we just have to have patience with life. Other than that, I feel sad when I talk about suicide because many times there is a question that is always asked, “Why did they do this?” unfortunately they leave this world leaving everyone that cared, behind with no answer to their question, just the sorrow of the lost one and the unpredictable situation of why something like this occurred. Although I do not believe that suicide is justified, I also feel very upset for the family, because they have no understanding and just the thought of such occasion can cause many disruptions and false guilt towards themselves or others. Other than that I would consider that many people that have thought about suicide might have an entire different view to life, but this stills keeps me very confused, because while there are people thinking about suicide there are those people that are thinking of a new way to survive.

Life is like a swing

I portrayed life as a swing. Many times there are people out there in the world who believe that nothing can ever be wrong at their sight. That can be a possibility, but we cannot live out here by deteriorating what we could have changed. At times we are overtaken by the power of certain little stigmas that astonishingly overshadow our lives. Such examples as when we feel superior to another person because of where we live or the money we have or even the car we are driving. I can remember an episode in my life when I was about 12 years old and I had a cousin who lived in very good conditions. We were the same age and he would always put me down, by telling me that I was poor and what so ever. I was young and little things like this really pushed my buttons. I always appreciated the fact that at that point of my life we were struggling to even eat anything on a single day. This situation really made me appreciate every single time my parents would go out and work for us to have something in our tummies. Now I see that same cousin of mine and I feel sad, yet appreciated at the same time. He has his own family, just like me, however, he has been struggling lately. I am not saying I am doing great, but I am surviving and I am working really hard every single working day in order to achieve. This is the reason I focused my thought on urging to the sensation that life is like a swing. When we are up high and doing great, then that feels really good. But when the swing goes down, and so those our life, then we feel really terrified.
I wrote a small poem that does not really rhyme. I focused this on the issue that a really closed friend has passed by and she decided to share the story.

How many times did I tell you crying
Don’t play with me don’t lie to me

Because your
Going to end up in the street
Wasted and lost selling your life.

I told you
Think of what you say
Don’t you see that life is like a swing

When the swing is up high
It feels really good
But once it goes down
That hurts very much

Now you see it
Today you see yourself lost
Selling your life
And here I am happy at life

Hope to god,
That you will soon dry up
And let the wind take you away

It’s not that I have hate for you
or would like to wish you your bad luck
but I would live appreciated
if at this time
you would go away from my life

Now you see it
Today you see yourself lost
Selling your life
And here I am happy at life.