Should High Schools Require Students To Read Classics?

     High school should not require students to read the classics because some students don't read books they don't like which results in them not getting good grades on the work related to the text, which then results in them failing. In addition to this, reading certain texts won't help us in the future academically. Other than the fact that it introduces us to new vocabulary, it doesn't really do anything else to benefit us and it's just a waste of time. High schools should teach us how to write and how to help us improve on our writing instead of reading books we're all going to forget about once the year ends. It's not interesting to the majority of students and it's not beneficial either. According to the text, it states "Asking students to read books that they are unable to understand because of unfamiliar vocabulary, syntax, or underlying culture will almost surely ensure that they either won't read the books or that they won't learn what was intended by those who chose them", which supports my claim about why reading classics won't benefit us in our academic skills.

Philosophy Question

     Philosophy is "the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, 

knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language." It is important to study this because it can help us 

communicate and interact with things better. An example of this is helping us solve problems. The 

reason why the study of philosophy can improve our way of solving problems is because philosophy 

provides us with information we can use. Since philosophy is the study of issues concerning matters 

like existence, values, reason, language, mind, and knowledge, these things can help us with real world 

issues. The way society can be improved by the study of philosophy is because of the same reason it is 

important to study it. It teaches us how to deal with certain issues. It also can improve us with our 

writing because we can take information from the stuff we learned into our writing.

Blogger 2/27

1. On page 8, Conrad’s narrator in Heart of Darkness describes the scene, “Flames glided in on the river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing, overtaking, joining, crossing each other--then separating slowly or hastily.”
2. Like Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien’s character, Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” and so rejects exile and embraces the warrior’s heroic code (Annotated Hobbit 226). Another work by Tolkien confronts the same issue. The character Frodo is told that he must resist going to a “cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten” (365).
3. Magazine covers are often overtly political. Take the example of Time magazine’s most recent issue, which featured three swinging orange wrecking balls with yellow hair.
4. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Dill is introduced primarily through narration. Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it. (11) In the film, Dill must relate everything through gesture and dialogue, "I’m little, but I’m old. Folks call me Dill. I’m from Meridian, Mississippi, and I’m spending two weeks next door with my Aunt Stephanie. My mama works for a photographer in Meridian. She entered my picture in the Beautiful Child Contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to me and I went to the picture show twenty times with it."
5. The Modern Language Association advises that “[t]he curriculum of a major should present an integrated, progressive course of study with articulated goals for each course” (5).

Blogger 2/26

                  The letter order for the first paragraph should be B, D, A, C
                  The letter order for the second should be B, D, A, C, F, E, G

Goals 2019

   
               The goals I set for myself in the beginning of the year was to become a better writer and use stronger language in my writing. I did not achieve most of them yet but I'm still trying to get better since they were long term. Some subjects I would like to major at college are nursing and psychology and some colleges I have been thinking of joining are Liberty University and John Jay University.