Monday, January 12, 2009

Blogging Project Post #16

What did you think of the essay we had to write over the weekend? Was it hard or easy? Did you have trouble finding certian examples from the text or did you know exactly what to write? What are your thoughts on it?

23 comments:

JP Kuhlman said...

Personally I thought this was one of our harder essays, however I like writing essays. I believe I am good at writing papers. Overall though the question took a lot of work to answer because you had to reread all of the old dark romantic stories and then you had to actually somewhat understand this new story by Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here?” However once I started the paper it was not that hard to complete.

AnthonyViennas said...

I personally think that this essay is among the hardest pieces to write, because the story we had to compare with, has so many hidden aspects to it, that you almost don't realize what similarities it holds with Dark Romantics.

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Bennett Wolfe said...

I thought writing the essay was kind of hard and our hardest essay yet. Since we did not have you to teach the class I was not clear on the directions. We had a sub and I had no idea what was going on.

10Jbrown said...

I thought that the essay was going to be really hard and would take a long time but after I started wrting it, it became easier. The story was a preety easy read and it was easy to compare to other Dark Romantics we read.

Zack Jewby said...

The essay that we had to write over the weekend, was kind of hard because I am not very good when I write essays because I get distracted very easily. I am ok when it comes to writing short essays but when the essays are long I am no good.

rrobinson10 said...

I think it was the hardest essay we had to do so far because you had to think a lot more than the other essays that we wrote in the past.

Troy Brodie said...

I think this essay was hard to write because the story was so unclear and it made it hard to pick out parts to compare it with other stories. You really had to stretch some things in order for it to make sense. It involved some thinking to write.

Andrew Lewis said...

I think that this essay was the hardest this year. You had to understand and comprehend a confusing story. Also you had to remember back to older other stories we read that were also deep and hard to comprehend.

viktor said...

I thought that the essay was so hard because first of all I didn’t understand what was going on in the story so I had to read it like three time. Then I still could not really get what the author was saying so I tried to write the best of my knowledge by saying some quotes from the story and elaborating on it. I barely got a page and I hope I got a good grade on it because it was so hard. Plus I think he should have us read it first and then we go over it in class, so we then can write an essay on it.

Fgoodwin1 said...

I liked the short clip we saw from the movie. It deniatly showed the moral of the story and it gave us a look of what the story might look like in real life except it was old and had terrible special effects.

Bobblogs said...

It was so hard because i didnt even know what was going on in the stories.

ajox10 said...

I think that this past essay that we had to write was one of the toughest ones so far mostly because you were out of school that day and you usuallyt give us a good idea of what to do kind of guide us. yet as an overall this essay was definitly the toughest essay assinment so far

coreykieff said...

The essay we had to write over the weekend was fairly tough, however it was an interesting piece of literature written by Joyce Oates. It wasn't all that easy finding examples of the Dark Romantics to compare with "Where is Here", but I managed to get a couple in the "Minister's Black Veil" and "Moby Dick".

Ritchie Pevo said...

Personally, I thought that the essay was a fairly difficult assignment. Although I comprehended the stories well, I had a hard time finding concrete examples to support my thoughts. Also, some similarities were hidden within the stories and could only be seen through firm analysis. Although I believe that I did an above average job on the essay overall, I will admit that the assignment was definitely not an easy one.

Christian Henry said...

I think that the essay we had written was hard, but it was fun. Writing is fun to me. To be able to put your thoughts on paper is something that is not hard at all. Its long, but it helps you to expand on the story.

Boss Blog said...

I thought the essay we had to write was pretty easy overall. A lot of people said the story had a lot of hidden aspects to it but that is one of the main features of the dark romantics mystery and hidden things.

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xWBR IIIx said...

i think most of the essays are hard beacause of the amount that we have to write. In particular this was one of the harder essays because it had to be five paragraphs. Find the facts in the stories are easy

xWBR IIIx said...

i think most of the essays are hard beacause of the amount that we have to write. In particular this was one of the harder essays because it had to be five paragraphs. Find the facts in the stories are easy

jamie said...

I think the essay we had to write over the weekend was very affective because it tied the story to what we are covering at the time. The essay was pretty easy to me because the similarities were so strong. The similarities were so strong and vast that they were fairly easy for me to find.

bigprettyKEVIN ROSS said...

I taught that writing the essay was difficult because the question took allot of thinking to finally write the essay.
Kevin Ross

Dougaree said...

The essay was very hard to wirte because i had just gotten back from retreat and it was very hard to think about the stories.

KarlGreen said...

I honestly thought it was really hard and i struggled with it. The reason being is because i really couldnt get a good finger on what to right about the the dark romanticism cause they were actually hard reads to me. But as I got into it it actually eased up a little and wasnt so bad in the ending.