In the story about the Green Knight and Sir Gawain we are shown many qualities of the knights code and how they are followed and disrespected. The Green Knight comes to Arthur and gives a challenge to which Sir Gawain accepts. Gawain takes the challenge, because he views himself as the least valuable knight. This …
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Historical Background
In the historical background project, I learned about the many different events that occurred in the Middle English time period. I researched about famous vikings first. I learned about Leif Erickson and how he was the first European to set foot in North America. I learned about the architecture and design of castles at the …
Social Commentary
Social commentary has become an everyday thing for most people. Society is constantly using social media to give their opinion about politics, technology, and any other thing imaginable. Social commentary can be negative or positive depending on the topic. It gives an insight of what someone thinks truly about society. I think technology has been …
Field Of Dreams Reflection
The field of dreams movie related heavily to Beowulf through the similarities in the heroic themes. Both stories follow the same hero qualities throughout. Both of the stories start in the middle of a incident and lead with action. They both have a hamartia, which is similar. Both characters go on a journey to find …
Anglo Saxon And Elegies
Learning about the Anglo Saxon time period was fun and interesting. It showed how most of the writing techniques and styles evolved into what they are today. It showed how the heroic story hasn’t rrally changed at all in the last 500 some years. Every style of writing we have can corolate to some way …
Clutter Reflection
Every passage of text you’ve ever looked at had probabaly had some form of clutter within it. Clutter is a big part of our every day lives and nobody notices it. Learning to unclutter passages was very difficult and annoying to me, and yet I still write with it in every one of my sentences. …
Scholarship Essay
When I first heard we had to write a scholarship essay about ourselves, I felt annoyed like I do with most assignments. I didn’t want to do it. Write about something you’ve done or experienced, it was something I’ve done a thousand times. I slacked it off and didn’t do it until it was due …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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