To me, a hero is a person who has to help make the world a better place while inspiring others to impact themselves or their community positively. This means that a hero not only has to do good but encourage others to do good as well. Mike Boyd has been named the “Learner of Things” …
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Raising Awareness About Littering and KAB
My group chose to write about the topic of littering while putting some notice in the Keep America Beautiful organization. This picture shows our infographic on Reddit. The post totaled four likes and five comments in the first 24 hours of the posting. It is now at seven likes and comments. The perceived outcome was …
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Productive Procrastination
Henneke, author of How to Cherish Your Shitty First Drafts (And Get More Writing Done), writes about how she gets through her rough draft process. She draws on the ideas of Lamotte in the sense that the first draft doesn’t have to be good. She even goes as far as to stating that quantity may …
Essay 3 Blog Draft
My group chose to write about the topic of littering with an emphasis on the Keep America Beautiful organization. When raising awareness about littering, we decided that we wanted to use a website called Canva to create our infographic. This website gave us a template to work with which allowed us to get the infographic …
The Stressful Games
In The Hunger Games, Katniss is seen as a character rooted in the survival mindset. This is seen in her District 12 life when she tried drowning her cat so she didn’t have to feed it and when she goes out hunting for food despite the possibility of facing punishment if caught. While …
They Communicate, I Chat
In Chapter 9 of They Say, I Say, the authors discuss how a writer should mix in both a formal and informal voice into their writing. One of their main points in favor of using relaxed language is that it helps connect with the reader: “ Such informal language also helps you connect with readers …
Speech Over Swords
When reading the Knight of the Cart, Lancelot gets deceived by a dwarf. While imprisoned, he becomes aware of when his tournament. After hearing this, he begs to be released for his tournament and then he’ll return: “My lady if you are afraid that I will not return at once to your keeping after the …
Hero Of The Rose Tinted Glasses
The Knight of the cart is shown to have an extreme love towards the Queen. This amount of love is shown when he doesn’t hear the guardian of the ford’s warning, resulting in him getting knocked off his horse. Blinding love was also seen when a knight wanted to fight the main hero for a …
Hero’s Journey Cut Short
In What Makes a Hero? By Mather Winkler, he connects the hero’s journey seen in many fictional books and movies to the events that unfold into ordinary people. While I can see his overarching point that people will improve themselves from overcoming the adversary, I dispute the notion that the hero’s journey is a mirror …
The First Draft Masochists
I find how Lamott describes the reality of writing a little unnerving. She describes her version of the writing process as “you can either type, or kill yourself. We all often feel like we are pulling teeth” (2). While her feelings towards the writing process are probably exaggerated and ironically probably took her a long …