“One major area of understanding you gained from the course.”
Writers I am interested in,
-Swinburne
-Beddos
-Arnolds
-Bob Browning
-Liz Bar Browning
-Coleridge
-De Quincy
-Goblins Market
-Ruskin
I will be honest. These names have been pretty much unknown to me starting the semester. I feel like I need to watch documentaries or read some basic biographies about these writers. I knew about Coleridge… not about his drug addiction. I have grown a fascination with sub-conscious writing of 1860-1920. I like the imaginative writing that predates the pulp style of the 1920s. These writings seems more niches, a little more elitist, and more about personal dairies of the self. Also, the wirings about culture are shocking. Very similar to everything today. I have gained more information about the Victorian age and as well some of the Romantics. Before then, everything seemed to be about Modernist and Today. I think, the Victorian age is significant because it is about history. Much of what the Victorians did never left us.
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“One contribution you made to the class.”
I like saying things I feel like saying. It becomes a habit. To be professional, one has to embrace the other. I still feel too shy, too embarrassed, too weak. It’s all about the right environment at the right time. I can’t learn unless I make connections to things that influence my own reality. My reality is much more powerful than my career reality. It’s too hard not to talk about… say politics… in class, because, it’s most likely, I will be going down to Philadelphia on weekend, and see my proud, socialist friends. They talk nothing about the greatness of “socialism.” And yes, they went to “college” too. To go into Rosemont, and not talk about these things, is repressive. And so I must embrace this, or feel pride and tease everything around me. Most people are happy and work that lets them be isolated, free, and open. It’s why there is a big drop out rate in college. It is either to embrace the school scene, or ignore it, like a day time job at the cubicle.
I have made healthy contribution to classes in the past. Sometimes, I am important and is open about things. The environment is healthy, the good professor and the careless students. Sometimes, I have class where I just listen, and go on with the future. Everybody wants to get on with the day and skip everything mundane. Rarely, I am in a class, as the butt-end of a joke. This never happens, but It could. Going to classes is like a hand of new cards every time. Also, hogging the class, with obnoxious correct answers about the subjects, and digressions that go nowhere, and said by arrogant students. They don’t learn. They self-confirm. They are the main star to a soap opera no one is watching. And their life after college will be nothing more than that.
I made my contributions.Private, yes. Not public. I fear public stunts. If I do it, it must be honest to myself. It must increase my own wisdom. I am a very public person. However, there is a public that “gets it.” So, it’s why there is the Trump crowd and the Bernie Brigade for the masses. Further divided, equally against. They get one another. I get my own public.
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The Best of Cause & Effect.
1. The Beginning Of The End
2. You Are The One
3. You Think You Know Her (The Promiscuous/Unfaithful Mix)
4. The Echoing Green (Sean’s Remix)
5. What Do You See (Original Mix)
6. World Is Ours
7. Nothing Comes To Mind
8. In Shakespeare’s Garden
9. Inside Out
10. Another Minute
11. Happiness is Alien
12. Alone
13. It’s Over Now (Single Mix)
