This take on the story In to the world really let you imagine what it felt to be a victim of such a tragedy. It shows that even though some people go through some tragedy, it'll all end up okay. Communities band together to help each other. Audience is everyone in a community and going through tough stuff, don't be afraid to help out and it will always get better, you will recover. Providing the videos of the victims of the tornado showed that they struggled, and that they're all good now. It made me really emotional, i know many people who really struggled in such tragedies, and i know several people who have never made it out and really opens your eyes and shows you how people suffer. The form of a video really opened your eyes and showed you what it's really like to go through that kind of stuff.
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AJR breaks down their new album Neotheater
AJR sits with Zach Sang and the gang talking about their new album Neotheater. They go song by song and go through the writing process they had for each song and how special the song means to them. Intended Audience was Zach Sang/AJR Fans, the purpose was to just give a little insight on how they come up with their songs and what each songs means to them emotionally, how it connects to them. Writing comes from the heart seems to be a message. They spoke a lot about their past and what their future could be. As an AJR Fan it made me understand how they come up with their great songs and that anyone can write from the heart. Lots of Pathos, Logos, and Kairos was involved. Writing about something that hurt you really gets the emotions out of you. When I was writing my narrative I didn't want to write about something happy, cause usually people write about the best experiences of their life. I wanted to write about something that really has affected my life and made me the person I am. What better to write about the breakup? Throughout the writing I just wrote what came to mind, in chronological order: The best memories, the worst memories. Remembering all that happened really hurt, and definitely got me all emotional, but that’s what brings out the best writer in all of us. If you’re not writing something from the heart, are you really writing at all? That’s what I mainly thought of writing this narrative. I could’ve gone on and on and on but due the word constraint and wanting to have mercy on my fellow classmates from reading the worst parts of my relationships, I kept it simple. Now, if I were to be asked to write a book about the relationship, man would I have a story to tell. Really, it isn’t hard to write about something you’re passionate about. It brings the flow out of us and makes us phenomenal writers. I know this from experience, after tons of writing of stupid passages about short stories, my greatest work came from stuff I actually enjoy writing. All you have to do is write what you think is right. I could’ve sincerely written something stupid and funny cause I have tons of stories, but I think this story could have really brought the writer out in me, and it is probably the most proud paper I’ve written, especially since it gave me a sense of relief that things were finally getting better. It always ends up being better. Three questions of my personal Narrative:
Was the format okay? Somewhat of a letter to one person to another? What should I do about the conclusion paragraph? felt it was a bit awkward and just out of place? Is the topic okay to talk about for a personal narrative? I'm an emotional guy, even watching any sort of tv show or movie will hit my touchy feelings. Seeing anything hurt or anyone saved really gets me feeling emotional. We all go through those feelings, whether it be sadness, anger, frustration, or heartbreak. It's a normal part of our lives that shape us to be who we are.
Thats why I think Im willing to talk about the thing that has definitely affected my life the most in my 18 years of life. Heartbreak, is never fun. The sound. having someone to talk to everyday, just being able to hear their soothing voice after a long day, the voice in which brings you to your happy place, soon being reduced each and everyday, slowly and slowly dying down, to the sad sound of silence as you're left wondering, how did this happen? The feeling of just looking at them, remembering the reason you fell in love with them, their curly hair, their brown eyes, they're white smile, the sights of them on your lock screen, only for it to eventually go black, reduced to nothing but broken memories. You remember how it felt to wrap your arms around them. How your hands fit perfectly into their hands, you remember the first time you held their hand and how clammy it felt, cause you were both awkward teens tackling this new relationship together, never having done it before. Wrapping your arms around them as your head rests on her shoulders. Her hair was always all over the place so you get bombarded with hair going in every direction, even to the point where it accidentally pokes your eye. *Poof* It's gone. There's no one there and your hand is starting to cool down, having you wonder why did this happen? You're spending time together, you went to the park. You're in your parents car, cause you don't have your license yet. You're sitting together during lunch. You're sitting in the back of her mothers car on the drive back from a concert. Her hand grabs your hand and her heads rests on your shoulder. You can smell her perfume, a scent you'd be able to recognize from anywhere and was there when you first got together, every-time you're with her you smell it, making it the best scent in the world. So good it even tops the smell of mother's cooking. It dies down, leaving nothing but the smell of failure and regret. Wondering what just happened? You recount the countless meals you had together, the taste of the leftover York peppermint patties you got for her because of her birthday, and you knew it was her favorite candies. You remember the taste of eating Italian food right before you're homecoming dance with her, you clumsily drop a little bit of a sauce on her dress, which you both laughed off anyways. Where did the time go? It's gone, you go through a string of emotions, the 5 stages of grief, but in the end nothing can fix it. It changes you, shapes you into the mature being you have become today. It's okay, because everyone's happy. You aren't alone. Your friends are there, you remember hearing the sounds of laughter with them, watching stupid movies you make fun of to each-other. The smell of freshly baked cupcakes and pie you make with them. Eating the ice-cream the bought for you. You forget about the times you've come crying to them in their arms remembering how cruel the world is for this to happen. It's getting better, you're getting better. Even though they will always have a small place for that S/O in your heart. It get's better. I promise. The writer of "The Storm, In Fragments" is a tuscaloosian giving his vivid memories of a tornado that seemed very familiar to the one he experienced in his younger days and gives a good insight on what it's like to experience it with deep emotions. The authors message seems to be that no matter the damage in the catastrophe of the present and not only that the past, all will prevail, and life will go on. It's definitely to give hope to those and to acknowledge that there are people suffering through disaster and that everything will surely improve in the future. The Audience are those going through disaster and times in their life, where they can't move on. He states, We will prevail, talking not only about those struck by the tornado, but by mankind itself getting through its challenges and hardships. The author uses a-lot of pathos to really put out emotion, he gets you to feel bad for all those who has it worse than he did with his wife and cats, gets you feeling really bad for all those. He cries himself for them, for not only himself, but for those who have been affected more, really causing you to think and feel awful for all those who have gone through such tragedies, whether it be Tornados, to Hurricanes, Earthquakes, or even fires. Everyone goes through them, and the matter is we will get through it with the help of each-other.
So ultimately, I decided to take a look at my good friend Teresa's blog, overall looking at her blog seems fairly simple, all 3 tabs are easy to locate. Easily accessible by touching the buttons found at the top of the page. Text is usually on a lighter background making it very visible to see with no confusion. Lots of pictures to go with the topic of her blogs and such, her blog pages are separated keeping everything organized, the blogs on her blog page are divided properly so that it's easy to see what is where. The Home page is an interesting little tidbit about her so the reader can get to know her. Overall: would rate this Blog a DOGE/10
Going through the writing process is always difficult for me, thinking of a clever hook, building off of that thesis and just letting my mind take over writing. I don't know if it's just permanent writer's block or what. I guess just what really overall stumps me is looking for the right thing to talk about and hoping that I don't get something wrong and end up looking pretty stupid. Crafting theses' is something that is really hammered in my head after having junior year be ALL about rhetorical analysis so that was a walk in the park. Really, the most difficult part for me always seems to be finding ways to improve my writing, and looking and seeing what I can improve, I guess that’s where the peer reviews really come into play.
Having comments on my RA and such is definitely the high focus for me, places I know that can be improved because others have pointed out what I was too oblivious to see, as well as looking at the corrections you have made on other people’s papers and seeing, huh. I can really improve myself this way, or hm, this is a really clever technique that this person used that I can definitely somehow incorporate into my paper. Some call it stealing ideas, I call it borrowing so I can get a better grade. In all seriousness, this whole process has really gotten me to look at my papers more thoroughly whenever I turn them in. It’s gotten me definitely more vigilantly aware of what I need to improve on and really, taking the time to write this whole essay overtime has made me definitely really think about my writing plan and how I plan to write these things out, it’s been nice not leaving a whole paper due in a couple hours and not even having started it. What advice would I give myself two weeks ago? Really, there's only one thing I would say to the past me. DO NOT forget to click that DAMN submit button. The story of “How to ruin everything” shows the indepth schedule of our protagonist who performs as a comedian to many different colleges and gigs around the united states. We see the protagonist visually annoyed multiple different times because of failed gigs he has been booked to speak at, where eventually he gets a packed gig and he visually enjoys talking in, where he is meeting and seeing people who would love to see him perform again. He speaks about his ego inflating and the gig making him feel different.
I’ve gotten multiple messages out of this but the most important one would be that not everything will be perfect, especially starting out there will be hardships and bumps in the road but without the journey there wouldn’t be destination. You must go through the hardships of life and what it provides you before you could even consider getting to the fun part about it. The things you have worked hard to get to. Even if you do not feel like going through the days where its hard, and you just want to quit sometimes, eventually, you'll be where you want to be because of these hardships. Eventually you’ll make it big and everything you worked hard to get to will be all worth. It’s written for those of us rising as adults, fixing through go through the hardships of college and life, sometimes it doesn’t work out for us like the man who suffocated in his own wheat, but it should be a motivation for us to learn what we’re doing and fear failure, cause ultimately its our decision how we want to ride out our future. The story of “How to ruin everything” shows the in-depth schedule of our protagonist who performs as a comedian to many different colleges and gigs around the united states. We see the protagonist visually annoyed multiple different times because of failed gigs he has been booked to speak at, where eventually he gets a packed gig and he visually enjoys talking in, where he is meeting and seeing people who would love to see him perform again. He speaks about his ego inflating and the gig making him feel different.
I’ve gotten multiple messages out of this but the most important one would be that not everything will be perfect, especially starting out there will be hardships and bumps in the road but without the journey there wouldn’t be destination. You must go through the hardships of life and what it provides you before you could even consider getting to the fun part about it. The things you have worked hard to get to. Even if you do not feel like going through the days where its hard, and you just want to quit sometimes, eventually, you'll be where you want to be because of these hardships. Eventually you’ll make it big and everything you worked hard to get to will be all worth. It’s written for those of us rising as adults, fixing through go through the hardships of college and life, sometimes it doesn’t work out for us like the man who suffocated in his own wheat, but it should be a motivation for us to learn what we’re doing and fear failure, cause ultimately its our decision how we want to ride out our future. |
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