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bedlamsbardOkay, in English teacher school, do they teach you to have horrible handwriting or is it a requirement for entry? Because I can't tell if my Brit Lit prof is writing "foul", "fool", "foal", "good", or "good." I think it's good, as in "good use of textual citations to bolster your insight." This is even worse than my AP English teacher's! It's like reading a foreign language, except it's English.
This is to say, I got my first paper back (yes. I have been in college for two and a half months now, I have an English class, a history class, a theatre study class, and a class called Reading and WRITING Women, and this is my first paper), and apparently it's not as wretched as I thought, because I got an A-. Whoo!
Should one ever read my papers, one will notice I tend to revisit the same theme over and OVER. This is the third paper that I can think of off the top of my head where I've talked about the heroic ideal. First one was a comparison of Greek and samurai heroic ideals and how Alexander the Great fit both (for my Stanford EPGY summer program), the second was Paradise Lost and how Satan fit the Greek/modern heroic ideal but not the Christian (for my AP Junior English class), and this one is Beowulf and The Dream of the Rood and the pagan and Christian heroic ideals.
*looks at icon* Peter: weird meld of both, probably leaning more towards Christian because of Lewis hating the entire world. Whoops, did I say that out loud?
This is to say, I got my first paper back (yes. I have been in college for two and a half months now, I have an English class, a history class, a theatre study class, and a class called Reading and WRITING Women, and this is my first paper), and apparently it's not as wretched as I thought, because I got an A-. Whoo!
Should one ever read my papers, one will notice I tend to revisit the same theme over and OVER. This is the third paper that I can think of off the top of my head where I've talked about the heroic ideal. First one was a comparison of Greek and samurai heroic ideals and how Alexander the Great fit both (for my Stanford EPGY summer program), the second was Paradise Lost and how Satan fit the Greek/modern heroic ideal but not the Christian (for my AP Junior English class), and this one is Beowulf and The Dream of the Rood and the pagan and Christian heroic ideals.
*looks at icon* Peter: weird meld of both, probably leaning more towards Christian because of Lewis hating the entire world. Whoops, did I say that out loud?
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Date: 2008-10-29 05:20 pm (UTC)This sounds like my 'any excuse to stick a pair of wings on someone and make angel correlations!' thing in art... A-levels, my bro and best friend... only the place I managed to pick for background shots was apparently a notorious pick-up point for hookers at night. Combine with the semi-undressed state, WHOOPS. (I got extra points for extra allegorical allusion, though). Foundation year, descent - from arrogance to wings cut off to drunken tramp. Art college, Neil Gaiman quotage with horrendously *subtle* allusions.
mind you, re-visiting tropes in writing? As my mate puts it, 'oh look, they're vaguely sociopathic, have a tendency to make shieldmate bonds and are horrendously competent. We've found you an entry character in that fandom!'
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