Blog Portfolio 2

Blog Portfolio 2: Blog Portfolio 

I. Coverage 

1. "The Traveling Onion"

2. Narrative Poem

3. Rap Lyrics 

4. Deception in Much Ado

5. Paradox in Much Ado

6. Much Ado: Comedy or Tragedy?

7. Kite Runner: Ch. 13

8. Kite Runner: "I run" 

II. Depth 
I chose to highlight this post because I felt my online independent research helped provide further analysis when it can to  identifying what rhyme schemes or repetition was located within the rap song, Feel Good Inc. by the Gorillaz. By learning and depicting the different types of rhyme such as internal or end rhyme, I was able to better understand the song's message and my own understanding and knowledge on rhyme. However, I was surprised about how much value and influence rhyme and repetition has on a particular song. Not only does it create a certain flow within the piece, but the story behind the song became apparent, something I was unaware  before hand. Without this back ground information, I would not have been able to complete the assignment as I would not know any type of rhyme scheme or story line behind the song. Overall, by going in depth, I was able to understand the overall assignment and piece much better. 

III. Discussion 

My post on The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye revived many comments.While many agreed with my theme, that you should never take anything for granted, most of the comments I acquired gave me feed back on my analysis. Although, they liked the many literary techniques I used to support my theme, most said that I needed to focus on one technique in particular in order to develop my analysis further.  Thus, some of my peer made suggestions to which technique was the strongest or how to incorporate several techniques within my post. This caused a debate as people raised their opinions.The comments that followed my posts illustrated many perspectives thus, capturing the idea of a discussion.

V. Xenoblog 

The comment I made on Mary Kate's blog was able to demonstrate my ability to provide thoughtful and new ideas and/or perspectives.In her recent post entitled "I Ran" she stated that the phrase "I Ran" was interpreted as a positive expression. Although I agree with her post, I also included several quotes from The Kite Runner that I had collected and posted in my blog, giving my own perspective. By illustrating that the phrase "I Ran" could be interpreted negatively I brought forth a new perspective on the matter, an allowed Mary Kate to expand on her post.  I then also included other student's blog posts who had similar ideas to that of mine,  in the hope that Mary Kate could strengthen her argument. Overall, my comment helped develop new ideas with regards to The Kite Runner as well as provide hard examples and evidence from the text. 

VI. Review 

 I chose to review "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" because personally, Spider-Man was my favorite childhood superhero growing up and I felt very strongly about the recent release of Marc Webb's sequel. Although, I did not find the movie to be as "amazing" as I though it would be or recommended it to people, I wanted to give my honest opinion on the film. While growing up, it was the Spider-Man's comic books I read before bed and I wanted to relate them to the film. Within my review, I summarize the plot and then give my personal feed back on the movie, commenting on what aspects the movie did well, or more likely with the case of my post, what the movie did not do well. Overall, in no way was I intending to sound harsh or discourage people from watch the movie, but as a superhero fan, felt obliged to comment on the motion picture.