Tiffany James- English 145

I must say that I was intimidated and overwhelmed with all the reading and my writing in the beginning, but now that I have a strategy and worked on my time management, I feel more confident. However, some of the readings are long, and I find it harder for me to read in the time I have allotted for my weekly reading. Thus far, the only unenjoyable reading for me was the “Journey of the West.”   I was tortured for hours while trying to make it through the end of the story, which to me was way too many hours. Not only that I had to reread certain parts to gain understanding for my analysis. When you have other responsibilities reading thirty (literary) pages can be a bit much. I am okay, with my project. I would like new feedback from my classmates who gave me suggestions, now that I have taken their suggestions into considerations and made the corrections.  As far as my writing is concerned, the reading notes have helped my writing my analyses less stressful.   It a...

“Ode to the West Wind” Wind/Words/Power/Influence The West Winds are known to be the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds, yet the author describes them as the West Winds as “O wild West Winds” Knowing the influence of the wind rather mild or wild is why the author beseech help from the wind even though it does not tell him exactly what he wants yet. He describes the dead autumn leaves “Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, pestilence-stricken multitudes: O though, who chariots to dark wintry bed.   Maybe the author is trying to describe how his work is viewed seeing that not too many people cared for his work. “The winded seeds, where they lie cold and low, each like a corpse within it’s grave, until thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow.”   The author is describing that despite the leaves dying, there are still seeds left behind that in due season spring will cause it to eventually grow. The author will hope that one day the impact of his...

Fredrick Douglass born Fredric Augustus Washington Bailey born a slave in the stare of Maryland around 1818.   A young boy with no knowledge of his identity.   Torn from his mother and never knowing the identity of his true father, who was presumed to be his white master. Taught to read by his master’s brother wife, Sophia Auld.   It not this privilege that transformed his life, but the respond of his owner’s anger “discontented and unmanageable” and so “would forever unfit him to be a slave.” He understood that education would be the pathway to his freedom. It is a sad fact that before or a child’s first birthday they were ripped for their mother’s arms and shipped out as a commodity to be sold off.   It’s amazing that the Frederick defined a child as an it back then and not a person. “Frequently, before a child has reached it’s twelfth month, it’s mother is taken from it, and hire out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the c...