Carpe diem

I sit here in this half empty room listening to music. I try to think of what keepsakes to use for my Opus project. This project isn 't hard, but very tedious and time consuming. I already found four objects to use and wrote the paragraphs about them. I really hope what I wrote about them is enough. I follow along in my book, but the movie jumps and lose where I am. I give up following along, so I just watch the movie. I am completely enthralled in the movie and the story line. The Importance of…

Every minute of every day we are exposed to some form of leadership, whether it be in a newspaper clipping about the presidential election, or on a famous pop star’s Twitter feed, leadership is prominent among a multitude of platforms in our society. In class we have learned about leadership through our understanding of articles like, “The Enemies of Trust” by Galford & Seibold Drapeau, and also through the classic leadership book, On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis. Through these lenses we…

Chapter 1 every Trip is a Quest (Except When It 's not) Summary: Foster discusses the idea that though many details are different, every quest has the similar archetype or makeup. There is always a protagonist on a quest, a place they must go, a stated reason to go to their location, and challenges and trials they encounter on their way. Also, Foster states the reason any quest truly occurs is self-knowledge. This is proven by the fact people who go on quests are young, showing they have an…

ME: Sounds good... Carpe Diem? FLYNN: You got it! Ah Flynn, still carrying out Jack’s plan after all these months. Not that I thought he would give up or lose interest, I thought maybe he would get it started and pass it off to Casey or Abby once things got underway. I love…

In Using Reader-Response Theory in the Introductory Literature Classroom, Anderson adopts the pedagogical principle: Reader Response, also known as the rhetorical approach to literature to incorporate literary theory into the classrooms. As Louise Rosenblatt points out, in order to produce meaning, the reader and the text should work together by engaging in a transaction, each influencing the other in the creation of meaning (Rosenblatt, p.29). For this, every reader is assumed to employ his…