Week 13, End of Semester Reflections!

This is my last post for English 1080 at Memorial University of Newfoundland with an awesome professor, Jonathan Parsons (whom I've had lots of trouble spelling his name). Overall, English 1080 has been a pretty awesome course, probably my favourite course out of my first ever semester at MUN. I'm probably a little biased, considering I love learning and analysing poetry and short fiction, and I have ever since I started school. My absolute favourite piece of literature we have discussed over this term is probably "Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. I found this piece particularly interesting because first of all, it has a lot of allusion. If you do not have some background information of this story, you probably won't understand it. If you do not have an underlying knowledge of the story of Eve and the tree of knowledge, or the story of Charon (the ferryman of Hades) you probably won't understand several of the allusions throughout this story, and this is why I particularly appreciate the time my professor takes to analyse the poems and short stories with his students. I wouldn't understand the poems or stories half as much without the analysing in class time with my professor and other classmates. The things I liked most about this class are what we focused on, like I said previously, short stories and poems. I liked how we have some freedom within the blog post, and I enjoyed how we weren't forced to read any annoying professor chosen books throughout the course which most of the time, I find distasteful. I do not want to read about things I have no interest in, which is another reason I enjoyed this course. If I did find something I didn't like, we didn't spend the whole semester on it, it was only a small part of the course, which I did appreciate. I do not tend to pay attention to things I am not interested in, and therefore, this course caught and held my attention because of how interesting, stimulating and new everything was.

Week 12, How To Make Cherish (me) Happy

This weeks blog post is a "how to" on making me, the author of this post, happy. Then, hopefully someone will give my boyfriend a link to this post so he can keep it in mind when he does something wrong.

1) Make Tea

You can never go wrong with making me some good old fashioned black tea. Not that foolish green tea or iced tea, I mean black tea with a bit of milk and sugar. The warmth of the mug in my hands, the delicious taste of the tea, who could ask for anything better?

2) Get Me Chocolate

Chocolate makes everything - or almost everything - better. If you expect me to share chocolate when and if you do something wrong, you better buy enough to make at least one person sick, because if I'm mad, I probably don't intend on sharing.

3) Play Video Games With Me

If I'm mad at you, and you want to do something with me like play video games, first of all, let me choose the video game. I don't want to play COD or Halo, or anything silly like that. I probably want to play Super Mario Bros or World of Warcraft. I don't like silly shooters, I want something fun and interesting with no little (and even sometimes big) boys screaming profanities.

Meme, week 11

Week 10, quotes.

"Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength."- Dalai Lama XIV

For those of you who have read my blog previously, you should know that I have a disease that sometimes I struggle with. Life throws you the worst experiences possible when you're least expecting it, and those experiences can sometimes be tragic and life altering, like my experience with my illness. It's something I have to live with everyday, my own personal little tragedy I deal with constantly, which I know no one else in this world has ever felt or went through exactly what I have been through. Your life experiences, even if they are a tragedy, should be used as your strength like I use mine as a source of strength. On the hard days, I remember that I am unlike anyone else. I am the only one who has experienced what I have lived through, and I am one tough girl to get through it all.

"Either I will find a way or I will make one." - Philip Sidney

Usually, people take being called stubborn an insult, but why? You have an opinion, you have a stand, you have a hold, you have a choice, you have a reason, you have an objective. You have other people trying to convince you that you're wrong or you can't do something? Prove them wrong, I have done it several times, and now, when someone even bothers to try to tell me I can't do something, it makes me want to do it even more, this quote, to me, shows determination, stubbornness and empowerment. You can do whatever you put your mind to. 

"Fortune favours the bold." - Virgil

A person who does not speak does not stand out. A person who is quiet does not get heard. A person who does not act will not be involved. Fortune gets manipulated by the will of the person, and if you are more bold, more willing, more involved, you will most likely have greater fortune because those who do stand out, and most of the time, that leads to good fortune in itself.