I am so stressed out about this class right now. English class has always been my favorite and best subject until now. To be honest, I have never received anything less than a B on any English paper assignment until this class. I have already failed the last two papers. I am completely in shock and i am losing hope because I actually try on my ( Read more... )

As a student, I very much enjoyed watching "Stranger than Fiction" in the class.  If you ask me what I think would be a good movie to replace this current movie with would be "The Diary of Anne Frank" because not only does it have an intense plot, but it is also a historical and true movie. This is the autobiographical story of a young Jewish girl ( Read more... )

Did I enjoy watching the movie, "Stranger Than Fiction"? To be completely honest, "Stranger Than Fiction" is one of my favorite movies but it would actually have to be towards the bottom of my list of favorite movies.  I remember watching this film many years ago in the movie theater with my mom when it first came out.  At the time, it was an ( Read more... )

What I had learned from watching the movie, "Greater Than Fiction" is that I must not lose myself and my life to time and the hours or minutes or even seconds that are read on my watch.  Throughout the first half of the movie, it is seen that Mr. Crick is highly dependent on his wristwatch, which he allows to control his whole life for the past ( Read more... )

You may ask yourself, “What is stereotype”? Well, stereotype is a over simplified generalization and commons words used to describe people who may be different from what is believe to be the standard way a person should be. I believe that there was a stereotype that the director was trying to portray in Harold.  The director clearly wanted to make ( Read more... )

In class, we went over and discussed about certain qualities that give a book literary merit.  From my understanding, qualities that make a book literary include artistic values and a plot that can be applied to life and is also relevant to the average life of the reader, regardless of what time frame the reader is in.  For example, one of my ( Read more... )