Reflective Essay xD

Throughout the entire process of my blogposting in the first quarter, I have been writing about anything that seems to come to me out of nowhere. When it comes to responding to other people’s blogs, the ideas all seem to flow right onto my computer screen. Writing is something that just comes natural for me and for that reason, I pull ideas either from different people or from anything out in the open. My inspiration for writing all followed up to some of my best work of all.

I feel as if when someone throws a topic at me and they just give me a couple of minutes to process it, I can come up with a response that comes natural to me. I have a lot of inspiration when it comes to my writing, and that all emerges from just simply getting the chance to read another persons blog. When I see other people’s ideas on a topic, I am able to either agree with them or disagree with them, but that all helps in the process of me being able to come up with an idea of my own. It fascinates me to read the thoughts of others and from that forming a new topic just based off of what they had previously said. I’m not stealing others ideas on their topics; I just basically group all of others’ ideas to come up with a way that helps me comprehend what they are writing in order to help myself come up with a similar topic.  For example, when I was responding to John's blog aboput swagga style, I was able to understand what it was that he was writing about and from that, I agreed with him on his thoughts while also having the capability of expressing my own thoughts,

“I agree with John’s final statement because I feel as if people don't have the right to judge the way you dress. In my opinion, a person can be who they want to be and they have the right to that. Just as people are entitled to their own opinion, then they are also allowed to dress the way they want without having to worry what others will say about them.”

Although reading other people’s blogs does feed to my inspiration, it does not only come from them. My inspiration to my writing has so many ranges and I do not think there is ever any possible way that I will not be able to write about a topic because I keep an open eye for everything. Inspiration for everyone comes from all angles. That seems to work for me since I get inspired easily from anything and everything.

My favorite blog post has to be my response to Ianna's Kissing Blog. I think the reason behind why I liked it so much was the fact that I got to express how I felt and I got to show what I thought about the subject that was at hand. The whole situation about her post was that she was basically asking the question of why people think that kissing is such a bad thing to do. Along the way, she began to mention how the topic of sex also comes up with this process. Throughout her entire blog, she mainly stated her response to her own question and asked if anyone had any thoughts on that. Just by reading through this, it inspired me to write about it since it kind of is a controversial topic to most and it was a very interesting fact to talk about in my own words rather than Ianna’s.

“To respond to this blog, I guess I have to say that people view kissing as such a big deal because of the times we are currently in. to better explain myself, back in the day, everything used to be old-fashioned and kissing was something that took a big step as it proceeded gradually. Nowadays, people especially the young; tend to express how they love each other in public. They usually will be in a public place and just start making out with nobody caring. To some this might seem wrong because they are still caught up in the old days…For me personally; I think it is just wrong for random people to care so much about what others are doing. If kids are kissing in public, then so be it. That is nobody’s business and they should just let it go. When it comes to sex, then that also doesn’t matter because it is happening behind closed doors. That is nobody’s business but the two people who are involved.”

The true meaning behind my response was to show how I honestly felt about the subject. I wrote about how I feel as if others frown upon the decisions that are not made by hem and that causes people to be judgmental. I truly wanted to show how I viewed the topic and to show that I thought that whatever decision is made by another person other than you is up to them and no one else. Ianna was my inspiration because I know that without her ever coming out with this topic, I would have never even thought of writing it. This falls into the way my inspiration helps me in coming up with one of my favorite blog posts.

Although I do not think that my writing process in my blogs have been bad, I still feel as if there is never any room for improvement. I stated that when I write, everything can be my inspiration and that it works for me. Even if this is true, I think I can make a goal to make sure that the ideas that flow to me are ‘juicy’ enough to write about. I have ideas about blog posting coming in out of no where and I think my only downfall is that I do not always tend to write about the topics that are way to out there. My goal for the next quarter is to not be afraid to write about anything. I know that my audience is not a problem for me because I write for myself and no on else, but I do think it would be interesting if people got to read what I had to say and see my take on things. 



 
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Night Essay

 During ones’ lifetime, they must come face to face with challenges and above all, the conflicts that surround them each and every day. Many problems can break through in someone’s life when dealing with multiple situations. In Night, Elie faces his struggles within his troubling society.
    Although Elie’s main conflict is with his society, it branches out to the point where he has to deal with sub-conflicts. He has an ugly encounter with another fellow Jewish man named Idek. Elie catches him when he was doing wrong and for that reason, Idek gets angry. At this point, Elie’s conflict with Idek begins, “…You’re going to pay for this pretty soon,” (54). Idek was angry with Elie and his authority over him was supreme. This goes to show how Elie’s society has even had an affect on other characters including those of the same race. Idek has turned on his people by being part of the others who are against the Jews. His revenge against Elie began with a beating, “He took his time between each stroke,” (55). Elie is fighting for himself against a society that is keeping him down. The society that he is currently residing in influences people to change against their own people. This becomes an obstacle for Elie when another character, another Jewish man such as himself, becomes part of his struggle during his time being in the concentration camps.
    In between all the chaos that emerges throughout the book, Elie manages to make himself feel guilty about his thoughts on different topics. While on this stressful journey, Elie must stick with his father who is on the verge of death. At one point or another, he begins to think that without his father holding him back, he could put all his strength forward in surviving for himself only, “Don’t let me find him!...Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever,” (101). This shows a turn of events when Elie psyches himself out to believe that he does not need his father by his side even though his mindset in the beginning was to go on and save both his father and himself. His cruel society has brought this sort of mentality down on Elie. At first, he wanted to come out of this tragedy victorious with his father right beside him. Near the end, Elie begins to turn on his father leaving him with a guilty conscience. The brutality coming from Elie’s society has affected him when it comes to feeling self-guilt towards the one person he had planned to save the entire time.
    When Elie and the other Jews arrive at the concentration camps, they realize that the Germans will eliminate all the people who are not worthwhile. The Germans were in the process of burning people in the crematory. Elie has now experienced the evil side of his society as he witnesses the cremating of babies, “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky,” (32). With this act of violence against the young children who never did anything wrong, Elie sees how bad his society has turned on their moral righteousness. This is one of the many breaking points for Elie just for the simple fact that he had never expected   Elie has come a long way to see his conflicts within his society.
    Night is a compelling story that demonstrates how everything has changed from how things used to be. Elie’s conflict within his society falls into other conflicts involving another character and even with himself.

Response to daddy Pedro

PEDRO:I also like the short story The Dinosaurs. One thing I got to disagree about it is that I really do not mind the fact that the story is short because I enjoy reading a good story. This was a good story because it kept me engage. I thought that it was really interesting.
I also agree with him when he said that at the end he turns into a human. When he said I went into the train station and was lost once again really shows how he is clearly a human. No other living being takes the train, the only living beings that take a train are humans.

I also want to say that I like the conflict. The fact that he was confuse of what he really was and did not know whether being a dinosaur is a good thing or not was interesting to read about.
What I like about the story is the fact that Q is a really interesting character because he got to experience a lot of forms of living beings. He did not just got to experience life from one animal but multiple. What I do not like is that he cannot remember what he has being through when he turns into a new animal. I also like the other story about Q with his uncle the fish. That one was also interesting to read about in kept me engage as well.
So overall I do agree with him because the conflicts in the book were really good to read about. Q had many problems going on and did not know who he really was into the end when he realize that being different is not a bad thing. At the end he turned into something new witch only means he is now going to experience a new adventure as a new animal.

REflectin to Night

Although I think the book Night is really sad and there is a lot of wrong things going on I think that is a really good book. It informs me a lot about how life was in the labor camps. This book keeps me engage because it is never boring there is something going on in every page.

I think this story is really sad. The fact that they are burning babies is wrong. I do not see how a person could had done such a thing. I think that the people ere really wrong because they really do not have a reason to do this to the Jews. They are only doing this to make them suffer and just make their life miserable.

I think that the Jews should just stay together because if one of them die I think that it can cause the life of many other people. For example when they were in the bus they told them that there were 80 people in the boat and if one of them went missing they will had killed everyone in there. So I think that if the Jews stay together and have hope they would make it alive.

In the beginning of the book it seem that religion was going to be a big part of the book because he was really religious. He had a lot of faith in god, he would like to learn about him, but as the story went on it seem that he lost faith of god. He kept wondering why would he let all this happened to them. I and is true if they day god is all about protecting a person why would he let such thing happened to someone. He should had prevent this from happening, I believe that no person deserves what is happening to them to happened to them.

So overall I really enjoy reading this book because although is a book it is actually informing me about new things I did not know. It is teaching me they life about the people in a labor camp.