Kim's English 101 Blog

Friday, March 31, 2017

The Comparison

http://www.seattleshakespeare.org/8-reasons-why-a-dolls-house-rocks/

I know we all make comparisons of books to movies and what they did the same and what they changed, but this one is different. This is a comparison of reading a play to one of its many performances.

Helen Keller

https://www.pinterest.com/asiapettus13/helen-keller/

Over the weekend I had the chance to go see the play The Miracle Worker. This play was just an amazing thing to go and watch about the life of Helen Keller. It all started with how she became deaf and blind and then expanded on how she started to learn language and how to communicate with others given her disabilities.

Rebel Music

http://www.soundfountain.org/rem/remkitchin.html

Rebel Music by Daniel Felsenfeld is a story about a young boy who found his passion in classical music. This young boy grew up in Orange County, California, so he was kept away from many cultural differences. Felsenfeld was only exposed to the life in this little community which was filled with rich people and their social events. The way the writer talks in this literature really brings a voice and musical tone into this writing. It almost seems like you can hear him listening to "real" classical music for the first time. After listening to the "real" music that he missed during his youth years, Felsenfeld realized how much he loved the classical music and how intrigued he was in it. This then led him to go to college to be a composer and learn how to understand it further than just the music.

My Playlist, My Self

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYp6rVjrf-I

When people meet for the first time, one of the first things we talk about are our interests, hobbies, and what we like to do in our free time. Most people these days would say that they listen to music in their free time, but I like to watch TV during that time. The shows and movies that I am most attracted to are family movies, crime shows, or murder mysteries. These shows catch my attention because I am a very family oriented person, but I do enjoy the mysteries that can happen in life and I just enjoy seeing how different people would handle those situations.