Writing Reflection

Ideas and Content:

My writings demonstrate appropriate ideas and content because unlike the Alchemist essay where my writing felt a bit empty and weak, my JC essay sticked to the and was a bit more specific. I would improve by backing up my ideas with stronger facts.

Organization:

My writing has demonstrated good organization because since the Alchemist essay, I have stuck to writing with a common theme in mind. In the Alchemist essay I followed the theme of understanding oneself and facing those obstacles, and in the JC essay I have stuck to the theme about Cassius' disease like motifs to kill Caesar.

Personal Growth:

I do feel that I have grown and this is so because I have actually liked reading a bit more, but not as much as to waste two hours just reading but enough to get a good understanding of what has happened in the story.

SLR:

The SLR i have used would be to Reason Critically. This SLR is important to get a great result in writing because with this SLR, I would be able to chose the best fact and the best quotes that will enhance my writing.

Sudanese Collage Reflection

Think Creatively:

In this collage, the creatively element was that i tried to make a story though my collage starting from one end and going to another end. For more creativity I added some other images to distinguish the sides.

Reason Critically:

I have used images to highlight my understandings about the lost boys by, just showing some pictures that relate to what happened to them. For example, the lion image was put there to show that they were eaten by lions, or the pile of money that symbolizes that the US is somewhere you can earn a living ( but hardly for some).

Communicate Effectively:

By collage doesn't really communicate effectively because its quite plain and boring but it does tell you some things that the lost boys faced, encountered and received.

Live Ethically:

I don't think my collage gives out any empathetic emotions because to me it is quite plain and a bit emotionless.

Cassius, The Act Of Just Or Injust

"Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.” ~said Cesar (Act1.2 lines 191-192). This quotation creates some tension and foreshadows what will occur further down the play. This quote also shows that Cassius is being seen as a threat to Caesar and that Cassius has this craving for power and that hunger is targeting a certain someone. With Cassius’s heart filled with jealousy and an ego full of a gluttonous lust for power and reputation, he plots to assassinate the weak Caesar from being king with the help of the Conspirators.

Jealousy is common in everyone, but for Cassius it was more of a disease. Cassius with his jealousy running through his veins watches as Caesar whom Cassius see’s as a weak old man and an unfit leader rise up in power and be offered a crown. With this disease that manifests Cassius, he tries to convince people that Caesar is unfit to be a leader. “And this man. Is now become a god, and Cassius is a wretched creature, and must bend his body if Caesar but carelessly but nod at him” ~said Cassius (Act 1.2 lines 115-118). This quote that Cassius said shows that Caesar has risen to the reputation of a god and that Cassius has the reputation of a mere wretched creature. Cassius filled with jealousy feels that he needs to even things out and make things fair and just, for him. This disease of jealousy has further evolved into Greed, which has created a lust for power deep within Cassius. Cassius is greedy with power because with Caesar rising to be the king of Rome, the Republic way would cease to exist taking away all the power that Cassius has as a Senator and leaving this one man to rule all of Rome. “Ye gods, it doth amaze me a man of such feeble temper should so get the start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone.” ~said Cassius (Act 1.2 lines 127-129). This quote shows how Cassius thinks that Caesar should not be the only one with the power, and in this scene he does not care about the Plebeians but more for himself. This further motivate Cassius to kill Caesar because with all his power gone, Cassius is left powerless and this is not what he thinks to be fair and just to him. With Jealousy and Greed enveloping him and the thought of this weak man becoming leader of Rome and taking his power, Cassius plots to assassinate Caesar not for the people of Rome but for himself.

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s mind, the jealousy flowing through his veins, and the gluttonous greed that lust for power inside of him, Cassius behaves very sly and manipulative, speaking poorly of Caesar to find fellow members who share the same goal and to kill Caesar. Even though Cassius has thrust his blade into Caesar and achieving his goal, he still failed at getting his power. Cassius only got through half of his plan and this happened because he has done this assassination not for the people but for himself and this was not a very honorable act, that is why it did not fully appeal to the people of Rome even when Brutus, ‘the most Honorable Man in Rome,’ has given a speech about how noble there was no hiding the true meaning of this murderous and unworthy act.

The Changes We All Face And SomeHarder Than Others

The biggest trouble with migrating to another country is the getting use to the culture over there. Well if you think you have had a hard time getting through your transfer from one country to another for a job that your parents had or for an education, the LOST BOYS have it even harder.
These boys were refugees for nearly 11 years and only 4 thousand out off 10,000 other boys were transferred throughout America for a better life.

In this supposedly better life, Santino Majok Chuor has faced a money hungry world, laws that he doesn't even know of, a lack of education and the trouble most of us face, fitting in. Now, to get this straight, Santino and the other Lost Boys were promised a better life that was like a haven for them, but they were tricked. Santino was struggling to pay his rent due to having cheesy career and getting a salary of 7$ and hour. With that little money, he also struggles to balance feeding himself and sending money to his old refugee camp to help his family and friends. Also without the knowledge of the laws in America, Santino is clueless about the system and how things work there. At the refugee camp Santino had promised to not forget his culture, but that doesn't mean to stay with the same Sudanese people and not trying to mix up your relations with other cultures to fit into America better.

Santino's first impression of America was that it was heaven, but after 3-4 months in America, Santino's culture shock started. Everything was so different to Santino, in Sudan, the men would be able to hold hands and not look homosexual, but due to the stereotypical assumptions in America, Sudan has excepted this view and adapted to this easy cultural difference. Another adaption that Santino was dealing with was another stereotype in which states that Blacks are bad people and that anyone with that skin color is a bad person. Santino did not really adapt to this idea, but instead he tried to be a better person by being kind and polite. So in a way, he is trying to prove to the people of America that they can do something in the world that does not always lead to crime.

With promises and expectations crushed, and a life full of hardships, Santino has lived a not so promising life. Santino didn't even follow his responsibilities that were given to him by the elders at the refugee camp, so he has failed in helping his people, failed to fully adapt his new culture and also failed to make something of his new life.

Duet Of Julius Caesar Act 1.2

The context of the passage is that Cassius is trying to convince Brutus that Caesar is weak and that he shouldn't get the crown and become king. This passage is significant because it characterizes Cassius and Brutus at the start of the play. It characterizes them because of how they act. For example, Cassius is saying the Mighty Caesar is weak and that he is far stronger than him, This shows Cassius being jealous and envious of Caesar. Brutus here is characterized as honorable and yet gullible because even though he won't accept helping Cassius to overthrow Caesar but he is still inquisitive to listen what he has to say.

ACT 1, SCENE 2, PAGE 28-32, LINES 35-88:

Haris-Cassius

Lucas-Brutus

BRUTUS
Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.

CASSIUS
Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?

BRUTUS
No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.

CASSIUS
'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.

BRUTUS
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?