so we've finally reached the end of semester! well done everybody on surviving! anyway i thought i would just briefly go through all my favourite readings of this semester's text, Schwiebert's "Reading and writing from Literature"...

Doris Lessing, A Woman on a Roof
I really enjoyed reading this text, especially as it dealt so well with stereotypes. ( Read more... )

acting is hard. seriously, it is.

when we first chose our roles and plays, i thought this task wouldn't be too hard-all we had to do was speak some lines, right?

WRONG!

this was so much more difficult and complex than i had imagined!

first, there was memorising the lines. this was a bit difficult, especially as some bits and pieces sound very similar ( Read more... )

ok everybody...here is my poem for week 10. It's one of those inside jokes-so don't worry if you don't understand it. I'm just rambling AGAIN =D

fear nothing
but fear
or so i am told.

yet nothing
but you
can make
my fear unfold.

the way you look
the way you see
the way i hear you
coming near me.

the way that you move
so daintily.
makes me feel sick ( Read more... )

MG posed us this question for week 9:

The key question that Shakespeare asks throughout his plays though -and especially in his last play "The Tempest"- is "do we have to be on the stage all the time?" Is there a time in life when we can -if only temporarily- get off the stage, and simply be ourselves? Which self? That is an important question for ( Read more... )

this week i was reading Schopenhauer's work and really like quite a few quotes that he had written, so i thought that i would elaborate on my favourite.

just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less ( Read more... )

i'm not perfect
thanks for reminding me.
i'm not perfect
but neither are you.

what is perfection?
it is not real
because perfection
is just an ideal.

is it having great hair?
or a really great bod?
perhaps good clothes?
or the latest ipod?

instead i think you'll find that it's true
that someone who's perfect
is someone else-
not you.

“When you’re looking at ( Read more... )

in DESPERATE need of motivation and ideas, i was going to write some quotes of Emerson that i liked, but then i saw an online dating service ad and began to think. why is love and finding partners so important to us and so prominent in everyday life?we have online dating services, blind dates and even a day dedicated to sending that "special ( Read more... )

with the ongoing discussion of stereotypes throughout our blackboard discussions and reading other people's entries, i thought that i would take Georgina F (thank you!) up on her suggestion to write a short story on stereotypes based on last week's journal entry. please keep in mind that i'm not a fan of writing short stories, so this is a bit ( Read more... )

so, in today's tutorial we were discussing stereotypes and binaries. we looked at this by discussing Judith Ortez Cofer's short story; the myth of the latin woman: i just met a girl named maria.i found this story actually very interesting as it was stating how people found this latin woman to fit into certain categories based on her physical ( Read more... )

ok, i thought i would write about something a little different today. for whatever reason, i was talking with joanna about my addiction to eclipse mints, especially the green ones and orange flavoured ones (yes, orange flavoured eclipse mints do exist!) has anyone noticed how you have one, but they're chewy, so you eat it like a lolly? and then you ( Read more... )