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Blog #2

Jonathan culler stated that not everything can be considered literature but it is called literariness which is a non-literary phenomena  and an example he gives is history. When we read a normal form of literature we learned that most stories have beginning climax and end that’s how we learned throughout our years in school,  but now I learned that this is not tru, an example fuller gives is with historians. He proceeds to tell us how historians don’t have a predictive explanation based with science they can’t really show you how two things will necessary lead to one outcome

Another example he  talks about is taking a text book and making pass as a novel or taking things out of a yellow book or sentences from random places yes they are readable but it doesn’t mean they are considered literature

Blog post #4

Jonathan Culler emphasized that Aristotle believed poetry was a way of letting go of any intense emotions, and from the out burst of emotions the ignorance that once took part of a persons life now became knowledge to themselves and to others. While reading “The Sea is History “ Derek Walcott starts off by asking a rhetorical questionWhere are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,”and than continues to point out specific events in history that took away people’s joy, freedom, tragic events kept happening one after the other and how time went by with no change being made until years past by.

Now when we look back at these events we see them as history and we learned from the mistakes that happened and it really impressed me because I never really thought of poetry in this way I always assumed poetry would be romantic or help describe a joyful event in someone’s life.

Hello everyone

Hello everyone!

My name is Karen Hernandez, my major is Secondary Education in Liberal Arts in Social Science and humanities. I have a 4 year old that started school this year and he was exited until he found out there is homework so here i am being a good role model for him.

i enjoy going to museums and learning about different cultures, events that happened way before I was even born. In the summer i got on road trips with my family to discover hidden rivers, lakes, waterfalls around New York, or new activities to do around nature.