Here is my 6th essay. It needs to be a bit longer, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, please tell me. Thank you for reading my essay!!
Courtney Ryan
Lauren Servais
8 December 2008
English 1A
Can anyone be a fully honest person?
Every time I get to the grocery store, the clerk will ask me how I am doing. Most of the time I will just say, “I`m good”, even when this is not true. Lies, wait, aren`t people who tell lies liars? The other day in class we discussed lying and Lauren posed the question of, is it possible to lie and still be an honest person. My first response was to say, well no. Yet, the more that I thought about it, and we talked as a class, my views were opened up. I realized this question is not so black and white. Many things came up with this conversation. I think that most people do lie, as it is very difficult not to lie, when we live in a culture that seems to accept small acts of dishonesty. However there is a big difference between small lies that only affect you and a few others, and a lie that will affect many people.
An example of an accepted lie is Santa which we seem to tell children very often. When adults become parents, many parents begin to tell children things that are not true. Christmas time is a good example of this. Most parents in our country begin to tell our children that Santa Claus is a real person. We do so, telling our children that he is real, only we cannot see him. I know of many people who I would call honest, that tell their children about Santa. This is part of being a child. Children have these ideas and are allowed to have an imagination to make believe. It is interesting to look back on how I viewed my parents, and how much I believed in Santa. They were also very honest people. I would call them honest people because this lie is told to so many children, and I don`t believe that it caused me or my sister any serious harm by being told about Santa. This is because we have created socially accepted lies, when eventually every child will find out the truth. This lie is only told to young people, and has become part of the childhood experience.
We live in a culture that seems to accept lies. I think that people often tell lies just to save themselves from something they did. In this case, it is often easier to just lie, than confess. We are a culture that doesn`t accept the truth as much as I think we could. When most people get pulled over by the cops, it is our first reaction to lie and act as though we didn`t know we had done something wrong. This is done because people want to save themselves and don`t want to admit the truth. People would rather try to get out of a difficult situation, then to say the truth. We have these cultural norms that we are supposed to follow and a certain way that we expect others to act. It is often times easier to act innocent then recognize what you did, and accept that as the truth. I wish that people would be more honest with each other, but unfortunately not everyone feels the same way. Some people really cannot take responsibility for what they did and would rather simply lye then fess up to the situation. This is partly because people see lying as being the easy way out of a situation, and then they never have to fully admit to themselves what they did.
When talking about lies, I must clarify that I think it is possible to tell small lies, and still be an honest person. When someone lies to a person about how they look, we are only affecting that person, and the people who will be around this person while they appear this certain way. We live in a society that makes small insignificant lies acceptable. Yet, if a person tells long involved “out there” lies, that they tell all the time, then I would consider them to be a liar. An “out there” lie would be a lie that is farfetched, and much exaggerated. It becomes much bigger when a person tells a crazy lie, when the truth might have been easier, and perhaps not so difficult to discuss. It is when a person tells lies just because they feel that they can, or just to completely disguise the truth to save themselves or another person. When a person tells a lie that affects many people, then other people become involved in a lie that could have been a lot less of a big deal had only a few people been involved, or had the lie never been told, many less people would be involved in this false statement.
I think that how a person views lying has a lot to do with the morals a person has. I was raised in a family that taught me that lying is not good. Not in any situation, nor for any reason. I grew up as a pretty honest person, for that was encouraged in my family. In my house it was spelled out crystal clear that if you lie, you were a liar and that if you never lied you were an honest person. Meanwhile other families might either directly or indirectly teach their children that lying is acceptable, as long as you do not get caught for your actions. Your morals are your own personal beliefs about something, and I think that the subject of lying falls into that. I wish it wasn`t accepted for people to make up big lies, as they can cause many people harm. The war in Iraq is a good example of this. The country was told that we had to attack them because they attacked us on 9/11. Then we were told that we were going to go to war, to get back at them for what they did. Our country was lied to and this has had massive reprocutions. So many people have died from this war, when it was a lie that started this whole thing and could have been avoided. Many people believe that if they can get away with lying, then it is alright. This works for some people although it can have some very bad consequences.
One may say that a person will lie most to the ones that they care about. As we all know, people are sensitive and often times people will say lies to someone that they care about. Would they still be considered a liar? We as humans often want to hear what we think, even if this is not how the other person really feels. This often comes up when someone will ask another person how they look. Often times when a person says you look great, they will say that they look good even when the other person doesn` t look very good in their opinion. Although I cannot speak for all people, I would say that a big reason for lying about something like this is that the individual simply does not want to have the other person go through the hassle of changing, and perhaps does not really care what the other person looks like. I would prefer honesty, although some may argue that this is an acceptable lie, simply because you care about the other person. Yet, I think that this falls into the category of a white lie. For it doesn`t affect a large group of people, and the only person you are potentially hurting is the other individual.
Some may say that any lying makes a person a liar, which certainly could be an agreement. Although I do not see it as being that clear, and this is perhaps why the issue of lying is so difficult to pin down. This is because when discussing lies, we have to be honest with each other and recognize that it is extremely difficult not to lie occasionally.
An interesting opinion I found on lying is that pertains to the media, which I was interested in. “As CP Scott the longestserving editor of the guardian famously said, comment is free but facts are sacred. News stories, at least in serious media are expected to be accurate. Of course the pressure to break stories first leads to great temptation. A story can be seen as `true’ if it cannot be disproved, or if it survives a news cycle.” (Reeves 2006) This I found rather concerning because it seems that the people who watch the media or read the news are not always being told the truth. The worst pat is that most people don`t have the resources or perhaps the time to thoroughly investigate all that they read. This means that people will accept many things that they see or read without fully finding out about that topic.
One positive to lying that I found pertains to directors, although I imagine it would work for anyone. “Lies of kindness, consideration, encouragement and even inspiration can be truly valuable. Telling someone they are “right on track” and getting better all the time” can bolster confidence and make those outcomes a reality, even if they are, to some extent, a fabrication when they are spoken.” ((Posner 2006) Lies are often thought as a negative. This shows how a lie that only affects a few people can change an outcome. This is blatant lying directly to a person, who without this lie would not have been encouraged by being told the truth at that very moment. This sort of lie is meant to encourage a person to do better than they are doing presently. I do not see a problem with this type of lie, as it is only said to assist a person. This lie also does not have the butterfly effect; it simply stays between those individuals.
There are also the lies that we tell ourselves. In the last election John McCain held confidence that he was winning the election, right through the final days of the election. “McCain did not mind being the underdog; he seemed to almost glory in battling for a lost cause. “The crazier things get, the calmer he becomes," said Matt McDonald, a senior adviser to McCain.” (Newsweek 2008) McCain wanted to hold up the thought that he was winning, even though it was clear that he was losing. I heard say one day to a reporter “we have the people right where we want them”. He was saying this in regard to how the polls were showing he was doing. This is a lie that he was telling himself, in hopes that others would believe him and thus decide to vote for the “winner”. I watched this whole process, and I was amazed that McCain was able to lie in this way, when the facts were pretty obvious that he wasn`t going to win. He installed confidence with people through a lie.
As a society I feel as though we should strive for a culture that is as honest as we can possibly
be. Even though small lies are always going to happen, I feel it would be in our best interest to
try to be an honest group of people. People respect honesty and I think people would respect other
people more if we all told the truth as much as possible.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Works Citied for Essay #6
Here are three of the sources that I may use for my essay. I found them all today.
That's a Lie!
Aaron Posner. American Theatre.
Honesty: Is it always the best policy?
Anonymous. Current Health 1.
When lying is acceptable
Richard Reeves. Management Today.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Plagarism Blog
1. In the case of University of Virginia, they punishment that those students recieved was pretty harsh, considering that they just left them in Greece, and made them retake all the classes they took that semester. I think that they should have recieved another form of punishment, but I am not sure exactly what it should be. When I read that the honor code is 150 years old, it made me think that they should look at plagirism from a 21st century viewpoint. I think that if a person writes a particular thing and then a teacher finds that same line someone on the internet, people have to remeber that there is only so many ways that a person can say a particular line or pharse. Alison just told me about this website called turnitin.com which seems crazy that common sentences that a person writes, even if they wrote them on their own, can still be considered plagirism. So, plagirism is a sticky, weird, subject.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
English Essay #5
Courtney Ryan
Lauren Servais
17 November 2008
English 1A
Every time I got to the grocery store, the clerk will ask me how I am doing. Most of the time I will just say, “I`m good”, even when this is not true. Lies, wait, aren`t people who tell lies liars? The other day in class we discussed lying and Lauren posed the question of, is it possible to lie and still be an honest person. My first response was to say, well no. Although the more that I thought about it, and we talked as a class. My views were opened up to realize that this question is not so black and white. Many things came up with this conversation. I think that most people do lie, as I it is very difficult not to lie, when we live in a culture that seems to accept small acts of dishonesty. There is a big difference between small lies that only affect you and a few others, and a lie that will affect many people.
An example of an accepted lie is Santa that we seem to tell children often. When adults become parents, many parents begin to tell children things that are not true. Christmas time is a good example of this. Most parents in our country begin to tell our children that Santa Clause is a real person. We do so, telling our children that he is real, only we cannot see him. I know of many people whom I would call honest, who tell their children about Santa. This is part of being a child is having these ideas and having an imagination to make believe. It is interesting to look back on how I viewed my parents, and how much I believed in Santa. They were also very honest people. This is because we have created socially accepted lies, that eventually every children find out the truth. This lie is only told to young people, and has become part of the childhood experience.
We live in a culture that seems to accept lies. I think that people often tell lies just to save themselves from something they did. In this case, it is often easier to just lie, than confess. We are a culture that doesn`t accept the truth as much as I think we could. When most people get pulled over by the cops, it is our first reaction to lie and act as though we didn`t know we had done something wrong. This is done because people want to save themselves, and don`t want to admit the truth. People would rather try to get out of a difficult situation, then to say the truth. We have these cultural norms that we are supposed to follow, and a certain way that we expect others to act. It is often times easier to act innocent then recognize what you did, and accept that as the truth.
When talking about lies, I must clarify that I think it is possible to tell small lies, and still be an honest person. We live in a society that makes small insignificant lies acceptable. Yet, if a person tells long involved “out there” lies, that they tell all the time, then I would consider them to be a liar. It is when a person tells a crazy lie, when the truth might have been easier, and perhaps not so difficult to discuss. It is when a person tells lies just because they feel that they can, or just to completely disguise the truth.
I think that how a person views lying has a lot to do with the morals a person has. I was raised in a family that taught me that lying is not good. Not in any situation, nor for any reason. I grew up as a pretty honest person, for that was encouraged in my family. In my house it was spelled out crystal clear that if you lie, you were a liar and that if you never lied you were an honest person. Meanwhile other families might either directly or indirectly teach their children that lying is acceptable, as long as you do not get caught for your actions. Your morals are your own personal beliefs about something, and I think that the subject of lying falls into that. I wish it wasn`t accepted for people to make up big lies, as they can cause many people harm. Many people believe that if they can get away with lying, then it is alright. This works for some people although it can have some very consequences.
One may say that a person will lie most to the ones that they care about. As we all know, people are sensitive and often time’s people will say lies to someone that we care about. Would they still be considered a liar? We as humans often want to hear what we think, even if this is not how the other person really feels. This often comes up when someone will ask another person how they look. Often times even when a person says you look great, they will say that they look good even when the other person doesn` t look very good in their opinion. I would prefer honesty, although some may argue that this is an acceptable lie, simply because you care about the other person. Yet, I think that this falls into the category of a white lie. For it doesn`t affect a large group of people of people, and the only person you are potentially hurting is the other individual.
As a society I feel as though we should strive for a culture that is as honest as we can possibly be. Even though small lies are always going to happen, I feel it would be in our best interest to try to be an honest group of people. People respect honesty and I think people would respect other people more if we all told the truth as much as possible.
Lauren Servais
17 November 2008
English 1A
Every time I got to the grocery store, the clerk will ask me how I am doing. Most of the time I will just say, “I`m good”, even when this is not true. Lies, wait, aren`t people who tell lies liars? The other day in class we discussed lying and Lauren posed the question of, is it possible to lie and still be an honest person. My first response was to say, well no. Although the more that I thought about it, and we talked as a class. My views were opened up to realize that this question is not so black and white. Many things came up with this conversation. I think that most people do lie, as I it is very difficult not to lie, when we live in a culture that seems to accept small acts of dishonesty. There is a big difference between small lies that only affect you and a few others, and a lie that will affect many people.
An example of an accepted lie is Santa that we seem to tell children often. When adults become parents, many parents begin to tell children things that are not true. Christmas time is a good example of this. Most parents in our country begin to tell our children that Santa Clause is a real person. We do so, telling our children that he is real, only we cannot see him. I know of many people whom I would call honest, who tell their children about Santa. This is part of being a child is having these ideas and having an imagination to make believe. It is interesting to look back on how I viewed my parents, and how much I believed in Santa. They were also very honest people. This is because we have created socially accepted lies, that eventually every children find out the truth. This lie is only told to young people, and has become part of the childhood experience.
We live in a culture that seems to accept lies. I think that people often tell lies just to save themselves from something they did. In this case, it is often easier to just lie, than confess. We are a culture that doesn`t accept the truth as much as I think we could. When most people get pulled over by the cops, it is our first reaction to lie and act as though we didn`t know we had done something wrong. This is done because people want to save themselves, and don`t want to admit the truth. People would rather try to get out of a difficult situation, then to say the truth. We have these cultural norms that we are supposed to follow, and a certain way that we expect others to act. It is often times easier to act innocent then recognize what you did, and accept that as the truth.
When talking about lies, I must clarify that I think it is possible to tell small lies, and still be an honest person. We live in a society that makes small insignificant lies acceptable. Yet, if a person tells long involved “out there” lies, that they tell all the time, then I would consider them to be a liar. It is when a person tells a crazy lie, when the truth might have been easier, and perhaps not so difficult to discuss. It is when a person tells lies just because they feel that they can, or just to completely disguise the truth.
I think that how a person views lying has a lot to do with the morals a person has. I was raised in a family that taught me that lying is not good. Not in any situation, nor for any reason. I grew up as a pretty honest person, for that was encouraged in my family. In my house it was spelled out crystal clear that if you lie, you were a liar and that if you never lied you were an honest person. Meanwhile other families might either directly or indirectly teach their children that lying is acceptable, as long as you do not get caught for your actions. Your morals are your own personal beliefs about something, and I think that the subject of lying falls into that. I wish it wasn`t accepted for people to make up big lies, as they can cause many people harm. Many people believe that if they can get away with lying, then it is alright. This works for some people although it can have some very consequences.
One may say that a person will lie most to the ones that they care about. As we all know, people are sensitive and often time’s people will say lies to someone that we care about. Would they still be considered a liar? We as humans often want to hear what we think, even if this is not how the other person really feels. This often comes up when someone will ask another person how they look. Often times even when a person says you look great, they will say that they look good even when the other person doesn` t look very good in their opinion. I would prefer honesty, although some may argue that this is an acceptable lie, simply because you care about the other person. Yet, I think that this falls into the category of a white lie. For it doesn`t affect a large group of people of people, and the only person you are potentially hurting is the other individual.
As a society I feel as though we should strive for a culture that is as honest as we can possibly be. Even though small lies are always going to happen, I feel it would be in our best interest to try to be an honest group of people. People respect honesty and I think people would respect other people more if we all told the truth as much as possible.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Male and Female Ideal
As discussed in the article, the media shows that women need to look a certian way, and that this is the only way that someone will find you desirable. That if you fall into a particular body type, you will have a great life. Men need to be manly and they need to be a tough, gruff man. This is shown in movies where men always appear to be muscular. This is also shown in magazines that Lisa is looking at, including Mens Health. Masculine and feminine are also taught by our parents who show us the way that a boy and girl are supposed to be. Parents whether aware of it or not are teaching there children the way a child is supposed to act, soley based on their sex. I work at a health club, and it seems like kids are wearing adult clothing, just smaller, it is as if we are teaching our children to grow up and become young boys and girls as opposed to just kids. Looks seem to matter at a small age.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election Results
I was so very excited to see Barack Obama become our new president!!! Last night was so historical I feel grateful to be alive to have witnessed history. I know it sounds cliche, but it is true. I knew he was going to win, but to see it happen, ah just amazing. He may not accomplish everything we want him to during his term, but I at least I know he is on the right track, and I feel like he cares about the people. I volunteered for his campaign, so it was nice to see my work, and, the work of so many others pay off. It is weird to me how we can vote for an African American to be president, yet we ban gay marriage in California. We take these huge steps nationally, yet on a state level, we cannot even give people the freedom to marry who they want to marry. I don`t get it. I heard that the smart train passed, which seems rather silly to me. Seeing as this train only goes to Larkspur, I don`t think it is a cost effective project. Even though you will be able to get on a train, you still have to pay for parking, and then the train. I don`t get it. I have mixed feeling about this election, but thank goodness Obama is our president!!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Essay 4
Hey folks, here is the start of my 4th essay. It is still a bit short, but I am planning on making it longer, I just need a few more ideas, if you have any please let me know, the more the merrier. I love suggestions, and this essay has been a bit difficult for me, so any advice would be awesome.
Thanks for reading, and comment away!
-Courtney
Courtney Ryan
October 23, 2008
Lauren Servais
English 1A
Oh, Women of Huckleberry Finn
After reading the essay entitled A Response to Fredrick Crews , I began to understand Woodmanses point. In this essay Woodmanse’s begins by analyzing Crews` view of two other critics. Woodmanses` main point is that the meaning of any writing is up for debate, because when we read a text, we always bring our own experiences to the text and for this reason we can never fully understand a text from an unbiased perspective. While Crews` feels that the book is not sexist, I believe that it is, and I plan to challenge what Crews` has said. I will also discuss what
Woodmanse writes that anytime you look at writing through the lenses of gender analysis, this will also change a person’s view because they are more aware of that issue. They will then naturally notice it more when they have been taught to look for it. This is clear when she writes, “one of the major ‘empirical facts’ that Crews seems to ignore is the fact that texts very often have effects that are different from the purposes for which they were intended” (Woodmanse 518). In other words, an author can write something and mean a specific thing, while another may come along and translate the text in a way that is not how the other intended it to be.
Crews writes that “his assessment of two recent feminist considerations of Huckleberry Finn by calling for “empirical accountability in literary study (Crews 516). This means that he wants evidence that is testable using experimentation. In response to Crews, Woodmanse writes, “for Crews gender analysis of the novel is viable only when it proceeds empirically rather than aprioristically.” This means that Crews wants evidence that is testable using experiment and observation, rather then a belief that is based on prior reasoning or principles. He wants direct proof about what people are saying rather then just a thought. He wants aprioristic proof.
According to Dictionary.com, the definition of sexist is: “Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women. The other is: Attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender.” Now I am curious about what Crews would say when it says in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when Huck writes, “But I warn`t comfortable long, because I happened to think of something. I knowed mighty well that a drowned man don’t float on his back, but on his face. So I knowed, then that this warn`t pa, but a women dressed up in man’s clothes.” This shows that Huck has ideas about how a women and man act about things that were not even related to the sex of a person.
According to Crews, “Jehlen has had to distort all manner of literary fact”. This means that Jehlen is messing with all literary fact to prove her point. I think that Jehlen`s main point is that when we look at literary work through the eyes of gender, we begin to be opened up to new ideas that we might have never thought about before. Woodmanse goes on to say there is an example of this when Jehlen discusses Judith Loftus. While discussing a scene, where she writes, “…the fact that the accepted definition of males and females in our culture are products of social conditioning rather than reflections of the way boys and girls “really are” (Jehlnen 517).
Looking at the text through Woodmanses point of view, gives us another perspective on the way this text is read. Woodmanse argues that with any text, we are always reading with our own opinion in mind. This seems to be true in regards to Crews. Crews` refuses to say that the book is sexist. An example of this is when Huck is at a funeral, “…and so everybody broke down and went to sobbing right out loud- the poor girls too; and every woman, nearly went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never seen anything so disgusting.” Woodmanse would say that we always view text through our own lenses. Perhaps what her main point is that if we are told to look for something, or have had our eyes opened to a new idea, which will directly translate into how we see a text. This scene shows how Twain viewed woman and how they responded to the situation. It is upsetting to see the way that Twain portrays woman.
Walker is also able to see that women are stereotyped in Huckleberry Finn. Walher writes, “All three of these women who attempt to make Huck conform to society’s rules are derived from traditional stereotypes of women who may superficially be seen be seen as mother figures from the same societal mold…” An example of this appeared when our class watched a scene from the film, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this scene we see Huck with his family members, and they are sitting very quietly, and they appear to have become very withdrawn and seem to be trying to teach Huck to be like them. Yet Huck is a fourteen year old boy, so it seems a bit peculiar for them to be teaching Huck to be as sophiscated as they are.
One might argue that this is historical realism. Historical realism is the idea that the text is written to be historically accurate. If one is going to follow this idea, we also must look at the way many other aspects of this book are written. When we begin to see this book through lenses of historical realism, it becomes clear that Twain is indeed racist. At one point we see Huck say something along the lines of him realizing that it was now clear to him that Jim was indeed white inside.
Even though Crews` tries to say that the text is not sexist, I find it difficult to agree with this. Sexism is favoring one sex over another and it seems very clear through reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that both sexes are not treated fairly, or accurately. Even if we consider historical realism, it still appears to not be a fair way to represent the variety of personalities that women have, even during this era. These women never appear to have enough personality to fully understand and become familiar with their character. I think that is very likely that Twain was aware of this, and that that was his intention.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Outline
This is just an outline of what I am going to be writing about, I just figured out what I would be writing about today. Please give me suggestions and feedback, even though it is just a start. I am going to combine this with the last essay I wrote.
Courtney Ryan
October 22, 2008
English 1A
Lauren Servais
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The third essay
A Response to Fredrick Crews
She also writes that anytime you look at writing through the lenses of gender analysis, this will also change a person’s view because they are more aware of that issue, so they will naturally notice it more when they have been taught to look for it. This is clear when she writes, “one of the major ‘empirical facts’ that Crews seems to ignore is the fact that texts very often have effects that are different from the purposes for which they were intended” (Woodmanse 518). In other words, an author can write something and mean a specific thing, while other may come along and translate the text in a way that is not how the other intended it to be.
Crews writes that “his assessment of two recent feminist considerations of Huckleberry Finn by calling for “empirical accountability in literary study (Crews 516). This means that he wants evidence that is testable using experimentation. In response to Crews, Woodmanse writes, “for Crews gender analysis of the novel is viable only when it proceeds empirically rather than aprioristically.” This means that Crews wants evidence that is testable using experiment and observation, rather then a belief that is based on prior reasoning or principles. He wants direct proof about what people are saying rather then just a thought. He wants aprioristic proof,
Crew’s writes that Jehlen is using her own political agenda. In response to Jehlen Crews writes, “…she turns this product of the “relatively benighted 1880s” into a realization of her own feminist agenda” (Crews 517). Crews feels that Jehlen is simply putting her agenda into the reading, and reading it from that perspective. Although Jehlen writes that “…Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a man`s book about a boy, and just as likely an object of gender critism as writing by or about women” (Jehlen 499). This means that anything that is written is likely to be judged for some aspect of it, whether this be writing
According to Crews, “Jehlen has had to distort all manner of literary fact”. This means that Jehlen is messing with all literary fact to prove her point. I think that Jehlen`s main point is that when we look at literary work through the eyes of gender, we begin to be opened up to new ideas that we might have never thought about before. Woodmanse goes on to say there is an example of this when Jehlen discusses Judith Loftus. While discussing a scene, where she writes, “…the fact that the accepted definition of males and females in our culture are products of social conditioning rather than reflections of the way boys and girls “really are” (Jehlnen 517).
Looking ahead to another literary criticism, I am curious as to what another author would say about these three authors. In my opinion, Jehlen and Woodmanse seem to be saying similar ideas. All that is being done with this is essay is Woodmanse commenting on other authors, and then coming in with her own opinion. I feel as though this is done to help strengthen her point, by reflecting on what others have said previous to her. One of my questions to Woodmanse would be, do you agree or disagree with Jehlen? I think that that would be my most important question.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
My Essay Proposal
I plan to elaborate on the last essay that I wrote about. My literary critique is titled A Response to Fredrick Crews. These essays are a response to Huckleberry Finn. In this essay, Woodmanse, the author begins by critiquing Crews, who says that he wants evidence that is testable using experiment and observation, rather than a belief that is based on prior reasoning. Woodmanse`s main point is that any text is up for debate, because whenever we read a text, we bring our own experiences into the text. I will then discuss how I agree with Woodmanse.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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