Singapore, although maybe considered dirty, is actually just a portrayal of the beauty of life in its smallest form. In the poem, a woman goes to the bathroom to see one of the stalls open and another woman inside washing something. As the other woman turns around the woman wonders what should really be in a poem. The other woman fully turns ( Read more... )

This post is in response to jordar5's post on change. I do believe change is always bad. I mean, look at how change affected Karen Eiffel's story. In the movie, Stranger than Fiction, Karen Eiffel changed the end of the story in order to save Harold's life. According to Dr. Jules, she had ruined the perfect story and only made it an acceptable ( Read more... )

  When I watched this film before, I watched with more for an entertainment purpose rather than in an analytical way. This time, when I viewed the film with the intent of writing a paper with it, I was able to understand so much more. I was much younger when I watched the film, and I simply did not have the thinking power to understand some of the ( Read more... )

Chapter 1 Journal:

After reading chapter one, I have realized that I only read stories to read them. If I read a book for school, I rarely annotate any of it, and when I do make notes, they tend to be short and sweet. Any comments about the book or poem I am reading I leave out. When I am reading a novel or short story, I don’t try and ( Read more... )

My name is Matthew McNeal, I was born in Independence, Missouri, and I was raised in McKinney, Texas. As a child I was mainly into animals and dinosaurs, and I wanted to become a paleontologist so I could study dinosaurs. The movie, Jurassic Park fascinated me, and I loved to imagine being in the dinosaur wonderland they had created in it. However ( Read more... )