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Why Songs Are Like Letters (Bear With Me Here)
When looking at the last letters of the Holocaust, there are some main similarities: most people will try to reassure their loved ones of their safety and positivity. However, this meant that most people didn’t get a “last goodbye”. This left me extremely upset, and as I began to look through the letters, I searched for anything that would ease my mind. In the first of my two letters, the mother says something I found to be extremely significant: “Do you still remember the songs? I also sing them.” This was precisely the heartfelt thing I was looking for. On my drive up to college, one of the most important…
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I’ve Decided To Write A Book!
This week in class, we read letters written by children in Japanese Internment camps. These kids had written letters to their librarian back home asking for books, supplies, and comfort. What surprised me most was how awful some conditions sounded, yet the kids still tried to focus on the positive. Alec read a letter in which a girl was trying to make sense of a riot that had happened at one of the camps, and she was trying to make sense of why what she heard at the camp was different than what she had heard on the radio. This is extremely important because it is a direct example of…
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Dear Expectations,
Late Wednesday night, as sleep flooded my thoughts and my lamp flickered, I looked down at my last assignment of the night: my letter to my future self. Although this same task was presented to me at orientation, the weight of this one felt heavier since I no longer had restrictions on space. My immediate thought was what I wanted to ask myself, yet this question is very daunting. I panicked as I began going through the list of things I wanted to accomplish. What if I fail? What if this letter reminds me of all of my failures? What if everything changes from now till then? One might think…
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Weekly Writing #1
My Writing Process If asked to describe my writing process, I would call it organized chaos. I am an intelligent person who is reasonably organized, has exciting ideas, and can typically articulate my point intelligently. However, when it comes to articulating other people’s points, I tend to fall short. During this class, I hope to gain the skills needed to better back up my claims and apply these skills towards research papers and argumentative essays. This being said I would like to keep my creative way of brainstorming using my theater orientated mind and my expansive knowledge of shows as a backdrop for my writing style, and my way of…
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Weekly Writing #1
Epistolary Explorations My immediate thought, when asked about epistolary explorations, is to think about the impact letters have on my daily life: my mother makes me hand write thank you notes for all of my birthdays, my grandmother writes to me in college and send me $20 every time, I write to my friend you in in the navy because it is my only form of communication with him. Letters surround my daily life and although I find myself turning more towards technology, it will never take the place of paper and pen. Epistolary explorations means understanding why writing letters is so important both in our history and today. So…
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My First Post
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