Essay
Love Interpretations
Shakespeare is one of the earliest and most poetic writers from the 1500’s. He has written over thirty plays and 154 sonnets. Throughout the plays and sonnets Shakespeare has had some experiments with different forms of love. Within the world of love there are many interpretations. I will prove that Shakespeare interprets love in many ways in his writings.
The first of Shakespeare's interpretations is where love is found in spite of being enemies. An example of this is found in Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the story, Romeo falls in love with Juliet, whose family is an enemy of his family. And Juliet falls in love with Romeo. An example of this is when Juliet says to Romeo, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene II) An example of Romeo falling in love with Juliet is when he says, “See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene II) An example of the Juliet saying that names are insignificant is she says, “Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes, without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name which is no part of thee, take all myself.” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene II) What Juliet is saying is that names aren’t important. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Romeo by any other name would be as irresistible. However, names mean everything to Juliet’s family and Romeo’s family. Thus, if the family hates another family just because of their name, they really don’t get to know the people they are hating because they put up a wall. I have proven that Shakespeare has interpreted love using enemies to become lovers by using different emotional techniques such as love and hate relationships.
The second way Shakespeare interprets love is where love is forced in a magical way using a magical flower to both mess up and fix love. An example is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream where love has been forced by a fairy god Oberon. “Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian changeling to Oberon... Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience. He calls upon Robin "Puck" Good fellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called "love-in-idleness", which turns from white to purple... “When the concoction is applied to the eyelids of a sleeping person, that person, upon waking, falls in love with the first living thing they perceive. He instructs Puck to retrieve the flower with the hope that he might make Titania fall in love with an animal of the forest and thereby shame her into giving up the little Indian boy. Titania falls in love with an ass and she ends up giving up the Indian boy for Oberon’s delight.” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene I) Shakespeare causes lovers to be in a virtual reality because of a magic spell while fixing the mistakes made by the magical flower. Another example from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is when Puck, the fairy god’s servant wants to force love and it ends up creating an illusion and fools them. Puck is to spread some of the magical juice from the flower on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, not having actually seen either before, and administers the juice to the sleeping Lysander. Helena, coming across him, wakes him while attempting to determine whether he is dead or asleep. Upon this happening, Lysander immediately falls in love with Helena. Oberon sees Demetrius still following Hermia and is enraged. When Demetrius decides to go to sleep, Oberon sends Puck to get Helena while he charms Demetrius' eyes. Upon waking up, he sees Helena. Now, both men are in pursuit of Helena. (Shakespeare, Act I, Scene II) Shakespeare causes Puck to think the person is someone else. In the end, Shakespeare creates a virtual reality for the lovers due to the blindness of love caused by the magical flower. I have proven another interpretation of love where Shakespeare uses a magical flower to both mess up and fix love.
A third way Shakespeare interprets love is by keeping lovers away from each other, which causes them to persevere and pursue each other more desperately. For example, with Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the parents of these two next-door neighbor lovers keep them from seeing each other. “Their nearness made them acquainted, and love grew, in time, so that they would have married, but their parents forbade it. But their parents could not keep them from being in love: their nods and gestures showed it— You know how fire suppressed burns all the fiercer.” (Shakespeare, Act V, Scene I) But the lovers still found a way to communicate. “There was a chink in the wall between the houses..., But the lovers found it—love is a finder, always— Used it to talk through, and the loving whispers went back and forth in safety. They would stand One on each side, listening for each other, Happy if each could hear the other’s breathing, And then they would scold the wall: “You envious barrier, Why get in our way? Would it be too much to ask you to open wide for an embrace, or even permit us room to kiss in? Still, we are grateful, we owe you something, we admit; at least you let us talk together.” (Shakespeare, Act V, Scene I) I have shown that even if you keep lovers apart they will persevere more because absence makes the heart grow fonder. What you can’t have makes you want it more. Forbidden love can cause lovers to pursue it even more. It becomes more appealing. You become obsessed. It’s a quest.
In conclusion, I have shown that Shakespeare has used three different types of interpretation of love. The first interpretation from Romeo and Juliet is where love is found in spite of being enemies. The second interpretation of love from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is where love is forced in a magical way using a magical flower to both mess up and fix love. The third interpretation of love from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is where parents are trying to keep lovers away from each other which causes them to persevere and pursue each other more desperately. I have proven that Shakespeare interprets love in three ways in his writings. Since he was such a talented writer, I imagine there are many more ways he interprets love in his writings.
Works Cited
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/full.html
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act2-script-text-midsummer-nights-dream.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe
Shakespeare is one of the earliest and most poetic writers from the 1500’s. He has written over thirty plays and 154 sonnets. Throughout the plays and sonnets Shakespeare has had some experiments with different forms of love. Within the world of love there are many interpretations. I will prove that Shakespeare interprets love in many ways in his writings.
The first of Shakespeare's interpretations is where love is found in spite of being enemies. An example of this is found in Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the story, Romeo falls in love with Juliet, whose family is an enemy of his family. And Juliet falls in love with Romeo. An example of this is when Juliet says to Romeo, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene II) An example of Romeo falling in love with Juliet is when he says, “See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene II) An example of the Juliet saying that names are insignificant is she says, “Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes, without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name which is no part of thee, take all myself.” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene II) What Juliet is saying is that names aren’t important. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Romeo by any other name would be as irresistible. However, names mean everything to Juliet’s family and Romeo’s family. Thus, if the family hates another family just because of their name, they really don’t get to know the people they are hating because they put up a wall. I have proven that Shakespeare has interpreted love using enemies to become lovers by using different emotional techniques such as love and hate relationships.
The second way Shakespeare interprets love is where love is forced in a magical way using a magical flower to both mess up and fix love. An example is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream where love has been forced by a fairy god Oberon. “Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian changeling to Oberon... Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience. He calls upon Robin "Puck" Good fellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called "love-in-idleness", which turns from white to purple... “When the concoction is applied to the eyelids of a sleeping person, that person, upon waking, falls in love with the first living thing they perceive. He instructs Puck to retrieve the flower with the hope that he might make Titania fall in love with an animal of the forest and thereby shame her into giving up the little Indian boy. Titania falls in love with an ass and she ends up giving up the Indian boy for Oberon’s delight.” (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene I) Shakespeare causes lovers to be in a virtual reality because of a magic spell while fixing the mistakes made by the magical flower. Another example from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is when Puck, the fairy god’s servant wants to force love and it ends up creating an illusion and fools them. Puck is to spread some of the magical juice from the flower on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, not having actually seen either before, and administers the juice to the sleeping Lysander. Helena, coming across him, wakes him while attempting to determine whether he is dead or asleep. Upon this happening, Lysander immediately falls in love with Helena. Oberon sees Demetrius still following Hermia and is enraged. When Demetrius decides to go to sleep, Oberon sends Puck to get Helena while he charms Demetrius' eyes. Upon waking up, he sees Helena. Now, both men are in pursuit of Helena. (Shakespeare, Act I, Scene II) Shakespeare causes Puck to think the person is someone else. In the end, Shakespeare creates a virtual reality for the lovers due to the blindness of love caused by the magical flower. I have proven another interpretation of love where Shakespeare uses a magical flower to both mess up and fix love.
A third way Shakespeare interprets love is by keeping lovers away from each other, which causes them to persevere and pursue each other more desperately. For example, with Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the parents of these two next-door neighbor lovers keep them from seeing each other. “Their nearness made them acquainted, and love grew, in time, so that they would have married, but their parents forbade it. But their parents could not keep them from being in love: their nods and gestures showed it— You know how fire suppressed burns all the fiercer.” (Shakespeare, Act V, Scene I) But the lovers still found a way to communicate. “There was a chink in the wall between the houses..., But the lovers found it—love is a finder, always— Used it to talk through, and the loving whispers went back and forth in safety. They would stand One on each side, listening for each other, Happy if each could hear the other’s breathing, And then they would scold the wall: “You envious barrier, Why get in our way? Would it be too much to ask you to open wide for an embrace, or even permit us room to kiss in? Still, we are grateful, we owe you something, we admit; at least you let us talk together.” (Shakespeare, Act V, Scene I) I have shown that even if you keep lovers apart they will persevere more because absence makes the heart grow fonder. What you can’t have makes you want it more. Forbidden love can cause lovers to pursue it even more. It becomes more appealing. You become obsessed. It’s a quest.
In conclusion, I have shown that Shakespeare has used three different types of interpretation of love. The first interpretation from Romeo and Juliet is where love is found in spite of being enemies. The second interpretation of love from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is where love is forced in a magical way using a magical flower to both mess up and fix love. The third interpretation of love from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is where parents are trying to keep lovers away from each other which causes them to persevere and pursue each other more desperately. I have proven that Shakespeare interprets love in three ways in his writings. Since he was such a talented writer, I imagine there are many more ways he interprets love in his writings.
Works Cited
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/full.html
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act2-script-text-midsummer-nights-dream.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe
Project Reflection
1. Write an introductory paragraph that includes a brief description of the project and your role in it.
For A Midsummer Night’s Dream my class had to study and go into depth about how Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter and how he also uses different forms of love and hate in relationships. We had to write an essay on A Midsummer Night’s Dream choosing between three topics. During class we were to put on a play and my role was Flute/Thisbe. In my role I was one of the mechnicals which was a group of players who put on plays for the duke. Due to the king requesting them to put on a play the mechnicals met in a city called Athens. They went over who was to play whom. My character Flute was chosen to be Thisbe in this play.
¶ 2. How did you connect to this project? What did you like the most? The project's academic components included Romeo and Juliet compare/contrast, Dana Gioia poem and close reading of Theseus, Iambic pentameter, the Pyramus and Thisbe seminar, and the Greenwood Reading.
I liked my character of Flute because he shows great love towards someone and determination to be with that person. I also I liked being in the play. It was my first time in a play and it was interesting to see how everything worked. The thing that I liked most was to see the audience’s reaction when my character Thisbe popped her balloon. I had fun pretending to be someone else.
¶ 3. How was this project difficult? What was most challenging? Describe a moment when you had to persevere through something difficult.
The most difficult thing that I found throughout this project was when someone in the other class spilled paint on our set design and we had to find a way around it. We ended up repainting the sheets. In the end we managed to persevere through it and the set design ended up looking fine. Also, it was difficult to memorize my lines at first until I learned iambic pentameter.
¶ 4. What did you learn about yourself during this project? (as a learner, collaborator, leader, actor, etc.) Be specific.
I learned how to act. While acting, I learned how to be over exaggerating, sad, and funny. From this experience, I realized that being an actor isn’t as hard as everyone says it is. I would really like to act more in the future.
¶ 5. Now that you have finished your study of Shakespeare, how would you answer this essential question:
Why, 400 years later, does the English-speaking world still gravitate/celebrate the works of William Shakespeare?
The world still celebrates the works of William Shakespeare because his stories were filled with tremendous emotion and had such a variety of themes. People today can relate to his stories because he uses different kinds of emotions. Emotions like sad, angry, funny, tragic, magical, inspiring, ambitious, soulful, and love to mention a few. Emotions never change throughout the centuries.
For A Midsummer Night’s Dream my class had to study and go into depth about how Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter and how he also uses different forms of love and hate in relationships. We had to write an essay on A Midsummer Night’s Dream choosing between three topics. During class we were to put on a play and my role was Flute/Thisbe. In my role I was one of the mechnicals which was a group of players who put on plays for the duke. Due to the king requesting them to put on a play the mechnicals met in a city called Athens. They went over who was to play whom. My character Flute was chosen to be Thisbe in this play.
¶ 2. How did you connect to this project? What did you like the most? The project's academic components included Romeo and Juliet compare/contrast, Dana Gioia poem and close reading of Theseus, Iambic pentameter, the Pyramus and Thisbe seminar, and the Greenwood Reading.
I liked my character of Flute because he shows great love towards someone and determination to be with that person. I also I liked being in the play. It was my first time in a play and it was interesting to see how everything worked. The thing that I liked most was to see the audience’s reaction when my character Thisbe popped her balloon. I had fun pretending to be someone else.
¶ 3. How was this project difficult? What was most challenging? Describe a moment when you had to persevere through something difficult.
The most difficult thing that I found throughout this project was when someone in the other class spilled paint on our set design and we had to find a way around it. We ended up repainting the sheets. In the end we managed to persevere through it and the set design ended up looking fine. Also, it was difficult to memorize my lines at first until I learned iambic pentameter.
¶ 4. What did you learn about yourself during this project? (as a learner, collaborator, leader, actor, etc.) Be specific.
I learned how to act. While acting, I learned how to be over exaggerating, sad, and funny. From this experience, I realized that being an actor isn’t as hard as everyone says it is. I would really like to act more in the future.
¶ 5. Now that you have finished your study of Shakespeare, how would you answer this essential question:
Why, 400 years later, does the English-speaking world still gravitate/celebrate the works of William Shakespeare?
The world still celebrates the works of William Shakespeare because his stories were filled with tremendous emotion and had such a variety of themes. People today can relate to his stories because he uses different kinds of emotions. Emotions like sad, angry, funny, tragic, magical, inspiring, ambitious, soulful, and love to mention a few. Emotions never change throughout the centuries.
Graphic novel
Love Always Finds A Way
In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a strange society where everyone is brainwashed and under the control of the government. While John and Lenina come from two vastly different societies and express each of their society's traits, I will argue that their deep love for one another shows that two individuals from different societies can connect across societal boundaries.
In the Brave New World society, babies are born in a bottle; they are shocked as infants to behave a certain way; they are trained to think as specific members of that society. They are required to take a drug called Soma; this drug makes you happy. Lenina grows up thinking as an individual in that society; however, her thinking starts to change when she finds out about the Savage Reservation. She meets a man named John. The societal traits John has includes believing in God and participating in ceremonies where boys become men. John says “a proud, defiant lifting of the chin “to show that I'm a man.” (Huxley, pg: 117) In this society, happiness comes from what a person likes to do; however, there remains realistic problems, such as diseases, old age and poverty. These two individuals come from different societies; yet they discover they can coexist.
In the Brave New World ceremony there is a god called Ford; the person who is portrayed as the one and only god. They sing praises such as Orgy Porgy and Oh Ford Oh Ford. To the BNW society this means that they are doing their good turns towards their god and proving that they believe. In the Savage Reservation, the ceremony starts with people crowding around the altar; two men show up with a cross for their lord Jesus. The first two people go up to the altar; dead snakes are thrown at them. People in the crowd start throwing pieces of corn towards the center. A man steps out from the crowd with a whip. The boy who has been chosen to be a sacrifice starts running around the altar and gets whipped; consequently, he started to bleed. The man who was whipping the teenager disappears into the crowd leaving the teenager to bleed. At the reservation, if you sacrifice yourself to others, you will become a good person.
From the traits of the two societies, I will prove that John found Lenina attractive. “He had seen for the first time in his life the face of a girl whose cheeks were not the colour of chocolate or dogskin, whose hair was auburn and permanently waved, and whose expressions (amazing novelty!) was one of benevolent interest.” (Huxley, pg: 117) Following is an example of how Lenina loves John. “Lenina was smiling at him; such a nice looking boy, she was thinking, and a really beautiful body. The blood rushed up into the young man’s face; he dropped his eyes, raised them again for a moment only to find her still smiling at him, and was so much overcome that he had to turn away and pretend to be looking very hard at something on the other side of the square.” (Huxley, pg: 117) As you can tell, John and Lenina experience love at first sight.
As I have written, Brave New World and the Savage Reservation have vast differences. They have different values, they practice different religions, and they use different types of medicine. From this I have proven that traits from Brave New World and the Savage Reservation have no effect on Lenina and John. Even though they are different, they love each other across societal boundaries.
In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a strange society where everyone is brainwashed and under the control of the government. While John and Lenina come from two vastly different societies and express each of their society's traits, I will argue that their deep love for one another shows that two individuals from different societies can connect across societal boundaries.
In the Brave New World society, babies are born in a bottle; they are shocked as infants to behave a certain way; they are trained to think as specific members of that society. They are required to take a drug called Soma; this drug makes you happy. Lenina grows up thinking as an individual in that society; however, her thinking starts to change when she finds out about the Savage Reservation. She meets a man named John. The societal traits John has includes believing in God and participating in ceremonies where boys become men. John says “a proud, defiant lifting of the chin “to show that I'm a man.” (Huxley, pg: 117) In this society, happiness comes from what a person likes to do; however, there remains realistic problems, such as diseases, old age and poverty. These two individuals come from different societies; yet they discover they can coexist.
In the Brave New World ceremony there is a god called Ford; the person who is portrayed as the one and only god. They sing praises such as Orgy Porgy and Oh Ford Oh Ford. To the BNW society this means that they are doing their good turns towards their god and proving that they believe. In the Savage Reservation, the ceremony starts with people crowding around the altar; two men show up with a cross for their lord Jesus. The first two people go up to the altar; dead snakes are thrown at them. People in the crowd start throwing pieces of corn towards the center. A man steps out from the crowd with a whip. The boy who has been chosen to be a sacrifice starts running around the altar and gets whipped; consequently, he started to bleed. The man who was whipping the teenager disappears into the crowd leaving the teenager to bleed. At the reservation, if you sacrifice yourself to others, you will become a good person.
From the traits of the two societies, I will prove that John found Lenina attractive. “He had seen for the first time in his life the face of a girl whose cheeks were not the colour of chocolate or dogskin, whose hair was auburn and permanently waved, and whose expressions (amazing novelty!) was one of benevolent interest.” (Huxley, pg: 117) Following is an example of how Lenina loves John. “Lenina was smiling at him; such a nice looking boy, she was thinking, and a really beautiful body. The blood rushed up into the young man’s face; he dropped his eyes, raised them again for a moment only to find her still smiling at him, and was so much overcome that he had to turn away and pretend to be looking very hard at something on the other side of the square.” (Huxley, pg: 117) As you can tell, John and Lenina experience love at first sight.
As I have written, Brave New World and the Savage Reservation have vast differences. They have different values, they practice different religions, and they use different types of medicine. From this I have proven that traits from Brave New World and the Savage Reservation have no effect on Lenina and John. Even though they are different, they love each other across societal boundaries.
Self Assessment
I think the strongest element of my paper is evidence. The reason why I choice evidence i because in every paragraph I have in my paper, I use 1- 2 pieces of evidence from the book to explain my point. The paragraph with the most evidence is paragraph four. I explain the traits of each society taking examples from the book. For example, “He had seen the first time in his life the face of a girl whose cheeks were not the color of chocolate or dogskin, whose was auburn and permanently waived, and whose expressions was one of benevolent interest.” (Huxley, pg: 117)
I feel the most beautifully worded sentence is: While John and Lenina come from two vastly different societies and express their societies’ traits, I will argue that their deep love for one another shows that two individuals from different societies can connect across social boundaries. The reason why I chose this sentence is because it has a good flow of words and it’s punctuated correctly. The sentence summaries the topic of my paper.
Semicolons was the biggest grammar lesson that help me structure my writing more clearly. It showed how to combine two sentences with two individual clauses. For example, in paragraph two I wrote: Lenina grows up thinking as an individual of that society; however, her thinking starts to change when she finds out about the Savage Reservation. Another example: Lenina was smiling at him; such a nice looking boy she was thinking, and a really beautiful body.
The first element grade I would give myself would be an A. This grade shows how I used evidence from the book to explain my points in the paper. The second element grade I would give myself would be an A because my paper has a good choice of punctuation which leads to flowing easily when reading. I would grade the third element with a B because I didn’t show all of the grammar ways I was taught. Granted there are many grammar ways and I will be sure to use them in the future.
The overall grade I would give myself is an A because I feel I understood what the author was trying to portray through the book. That while John and Lenina come from two vastly different societies and express their societies’ traits, their deep love for one another shows that two individuals from different societies can connect across social boundaries. I also explained in depth the differences of the two societies. Lastly, throughout my paper, I showed many different ways of punctuation such as commas, semi-colons and colons and grammar usage.
I feel the most beautifully worded sentence is: While John and Lenina come from two vastly different societies and express their societies’ traits, I will argue that their deep love for one another shows that two individuals from different societies can connect across social boundaries. The reason why I chose this sentence is because it has a good flow of words and it’s punctuated correctly. The sentence summaries the topic of my paper.
Semicolons was the biggest grammar lesson that help me structure my writing more clearly. It showed how to combine two sentences with two individual clauses. For example, in paragraph two I wrote: Lenina grows up thinking as an individual of that society; however, her thinking starts to change when she finds out about the Savage Reservation. Another example: Lenina was smiling at him; such a nice looking boy she was thinking, and a really beautiful body.
The first element grade I would give myself would be an A. This grade shows how I used evidence from the book to explain my points in the paper. The second element grade I would give myself would be an A because my paper has a good choice of punctuation which leads to flowing easily when reading. I would grade the third element with a B because I didn’t show all of the grammar ways I was taught. Granted there are many grammar ways and I will be sure to use them in the future.
The overall grade I would give myself is an A because I feel I understood what the author was trying to portray through the book. That while John and Lenina come from two vastly different societies and express their societies’ traits, their deep love for one another shows that two individuals from different societies can connect across social boundaries. I also explained in depth the differences of the two societies. Lastly, throughout my paper, I showed many different ways of punctuation such as commas, semi-colons and colons and grammar usage.
Semester 1
Mask Project
Project Reflection
Paragraph 1. What is socialization and how does it affect your life and our society?
There is a cycle of socialization. We are introduced to life with no shame or guilt. Then, as we get older, our parents tell us different things to influence us to be like them. Next, we get to go to school. At school we are told that pink is for girls, and so on and so on. However, some people will break the gender norms and get crap for that. Also, we are told that everyone has to be perfect, including being handsome and popular. This has affected me because I was raised to be myself and see others for who they are from the inside out.
Paragraph 2. Describe the project as if someone who's never been to Animas wants to know what you did. Explain the essay and explain how your mask represents your essay.
We did a great project about socialization and how it affects our lives and our society. We were able to pick one of seven norms. For example, race, class, and gender norms. I chose the gender norm. I wrote my essay on how I was positively and negatively socialized as a male in middle school. My mask was made of pieces of broken glass representing my shattered hopes and dreams. My mask also showed a smile and that I was trying to be myself.
Paragraph 3.Describe the process we went through as a class in writing our essays. What important ideas and techniques did you learn?
The steps for our essays were first we had to learn about the TEA paragraphs. That is the topic sentence, evidence, and analysis. Next, we had to make a rough draft. After that, we ended up doing multiple drafts. One of the things I learned and will take away from this project is that society is around us from the very beginning from when we are born and with us until we die. We never know what society will bring to us. For example, think of how the internet has affected us since it began.
Paragraph 4. Describe what you are proud of so far in your first year at Animas as a student and a person, and what you are looking to improve upon. This can be something inside or outside of Humanities class.
I am most proud of my mask project. One thing I’m looking to improve upon this year would be my essay writing skills.
Paragraph 1. What is socialization and how does it affect your life and our society?
There is a cycle of socialization. We are introduced to life with no shame or guilt. Then, as we get older, our parents tell us different things to influence us to be like them. Next, we get to go to school. At school we are told that pink is for girls, and so on and so on. However, some people will break the gender norms and get crap for that. Also, we are told that everyone has to be perfect, including being handsome and popular. This has affected me because I was raised to be myself and see others for who they are from the inside out.
Paragraph 2. Describe the project as if someone who's never been to Animas wants to know what you did. Explain the essay and explain how your mask represents your essay.
We did a great project about socialization and how it affects our lives and our society. We were able to pick one of seven norms. For example, race, class, and gender norms. I chose the gender norm. I wrote my essay on how I was positively and negatively socialized as a male in middle school. My mask was made of pieces of broken glass representing my shattered hopes and dreams. My mask also showed a smile and that I was trying to be myself.
Paragraph 3.Describe the process we went through as a class in writing our essays. What important ideas and techniques did you learn?
The steps for our essays were first we had to learn about the TEA paragraphs. That is the topic sentence, evidence, and analysis. Next, we had to make a rough draft. After that, we ended up doing multiple drafts. One of the things I learned and will take away from this project is that society is around us from the very beginning from when we are born and with us until we die. We never know what society will bring to us. For example, think of how the internet has affected us since it began.
Paragraph 4. Describe what you are proud of so far in your first year at Animas as a student and a person, and what you are looking to improve upon. This can be something inside or outside of Humanities class.
I am most proud of my mask project. One thing I’m looking to improve upon this year would be my essay writing skills.