Janessa's Blog

It’s so easy to forget how small our time on Earth really is. We hear the elderly reminisce on “the good’ole’times” but never truly recognize the sadness that is life. So, you can imagine how disappointed a person feels when they are reminded of their own mortality during their first encounter with death. About 2 weeks ago, someone very close to me died a horrible death. I can’t imagine the antagonizing pain she was in, despite the on-scene medic’s observation that “she was unusually calm” during her last moments. I don’t necessarily want to focus on her actual death, I find that the last couple of months of her life are more relative in the long run. Try to understand that death does not wait for anyone. This woman was a troubled soul. She had a dead-end job and she didn’t particularly make the best of decisions when it came to her family-these were the only two things she had in her life. That didn’t stop her from complete unhappiness though, I recall a few times when I saw her smile...

How much has the environment changed since the Industrial Revolution?

The Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, born between 1340 & 1345, would go on diplomatic missions which exposed him to many other authors' works, including Dante, Boccaccio & Froissart. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic-figures/chaucer-geoffrey.shtml Historical Context: During Chaucer's life, it was basically easier to die. The Black Death was taking lives through out all of his life. In fact, the Black Death was more heard of than Chaucer's choice of language in the Canterbury Tales. Back then, French and Latin were dominate languages, so it was unheard of to publish a piece of work in English-which Geoffrey Chaucer did. In this article, it explains how the rich were profiting off war & began to indulge, escalating class tensions and how you can percieve this through Chaucers' work. https://www.owleyes.org/text/canterbury-tales/analysis/historical context The Work: Most of the tales are framed in first-person point of view. The title originates from the co...

I like to think the tone of a story is how the author wants you to percieve the story. I agree that diction has much to do with tone, but I think the biggest factor that aides tone is the authors real intentions. If you think about how authors write horror books, they think of their intentions with the story. An author might want to spark fear in a reader, so they'll set the tone. This is where diction comes in. Really, the only tool an author can use for books are words. Powerful words can set the tone of a piece very elegantly-if it's the authors' intention to.

My experience with creating satire was easy because it's almost like you're agreeing with something that really wrong, and that very idea catches my attention completely. I like being sarcastic, I like writing with intentions to drop jaws. If i was asked again, I would create another piece of satire.

As functioning humans, living in a chaotic melting pot, we are taught key rules. These key rules are given to us to keep the smooth system that is our society going. Being a functioning member of society, I have to follow these key rules. I pay my taxes, I stop at red lights, and I work 9 to 5 to support my family and their needs. As an adult, I feel that I should spare my little ones the stress that is adulthood. I propose instead of teaching our children how to do their taxes, we teach them the Quadratic formula. Instead of offering our children driving lessons in a safe and in an organized fashion, we should give them 5 pound books that hold 200 year old stories for them to remember and be tested on, word for word. So that when our children have finished their schooling, and are ready to be functioning members of society, they will have no knowledge of how much their credit score is going to affect them, but at least they will know what a parabola looks like on a graph.