Inflated Ego

Constant Envy, Arrogance,

Entitlement, So Ugly

Lack of empathy

Requires admiration

Narcissist indeed

Jorge Roque-Velasquez

April 8th 2019

Prof. Gold

Question 1: What did you notice about your writing?

Answer: What I noticed about my writing is that it is easier for me to express my thoughts through my writing sometimes because I am able to thoroughly think before I write a thought down and I can make sure that it makes sense before anyone sees it.

Question 2: What was surprising about this?

Answer: What was surprising to me about writing this Haiku is that I was able to focus a lot more when I had a specific topic. I personally feel that if it was free writing I would’ve struggled a lot more.

Question 3: What was the easiest and what was the most challenging part ?

Answer: The easiest part of this Haiku was describing a narcissistic person, because I was so familiar with the traits of people who were narcissistic it made it a whole lot easier to come up with descriptive words. The most challenging part of writing this Haiku was following the pattern of syllables for each line. When I first heard what the format was like I thought that it couldn’t be hard but once i started writing it became difficult because I had so many words, and sentences and some were too long while others fell short.

Question 4:What strategy/approach helped ?

Answer: The strategy that helped me was honestly just taking my time with the haiku and actually thinking about the best words and phrases that would fit

Hello.  Please print and read both of these texts for Tuesday–we will also be working with both on Thursday as well.  Please have both texts with you on Tuesday.

Here are the links:

https://www.juhsd.net/cms/lib/CA01902464/Centricity/Domain/256/2016_The%20Veldt.pdf

and:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html

Please bring both on Tuesday and Thursday.  I will also have copies of the SECOND part that I pasted but please print that as well if possible.  Let me know if you have any questions.  Please also have the Dirk text with you.

Hi all,

Here is one link that I will ask you to print and read this genre example:

http://www.psi.uba.ar/academica/carrerasdegrado/psicologia/sitios_catedras/practicas_profesionales/820_clinica_tr_personalidad_psicosis/material/dsm.pdf

We will also be working with this handout that I am pasting here:

Genre Example:

These quotes are all taken from philosophers. Specifically, these philosophers are known as ones who write about philosophies of life or living. The second example is taken from a text that is also considered a religious philosophy that some people live by or follow.

These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great perfection appears defective, so use can never make it worn; great fullness seems vacant, so use can never make it empty. Great straightness seems bent; great skill seems clumsy; great eloquence seems inarticulate. Haste overcomes cold, tranquility overcomes heat.
Clear and tranquil, be a standard to the world.

Lao Tzu ( from the Dao de Jing)

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche (these are three separate quotes)

…all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties. And still men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hi all!  Here is a link to the reading that we will be working with this week Tuesday and Thursday:

https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/dirk–navigating-genres.pdf

Please also come to class Tuesday ready to discuss the question: what kinds of writing do we encounter/come across in our day to day lives?

See you all on Tuesday!

Hi all!  Here is another link for formatting:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_quotations.html

Also, please make use of the questions that I gave you in class on Monday to help you with your essays.  Please bring answers to those questions with you tomorrow.

Quote- I hate to break it to you but what people call “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage.

Goal- How to fully constructed a essay which is grammatically correct with appeal to the reader.

Hi, my name is Lou. My goals this semester is to improve on my writing and expand on my reading material.

My quote: Writing allows you be everlasting.