My name is Jinde Piao, and my major is Media Study. I hope to learn professional knowledge about film in my college life, so that I can shoot some short films, which may be helpful for my future work. My hobbies are watching movies and painting. Before I prepare to shoot the video, I will draw some storyboards, which has some advantages for my video creation.
Category Archives: Blog posts
Blog Post #1
- Personally, I believe that the most important aspect that Culler points out is that there is not one way to define literature. He makes this clear when he states that “We are dealing with two different perspectives that overlap, intersect, but don’t seem to yield a synthesis” when referring to how literature is not a frame put around a specific type of language, nor is literature a specific type of language used to catch someone’s attention. Just because something is well written does not make it a piece of literature nor does something have to be incredibly eye catching to be considered literature. Culler believes that multiple points/perspectives are needed to consider something a piece of literature. However, just because these points are present in something, it isn’t automatically considered literature. This belief supports one of Culler’s earlier claims that “What sets off literary works from other narrative display texts is that they have undergone a process of selection: they have been published, reviewed and reprinted, so that readers approach them with the assurance that others have found them well constructed and ‘worth it'”. As someone who has never been very confident in their own writing ability, something that I pull from Culler’s text is that, just because your method of writing or expressing yourself does not fit into the standard that you consider “literature” does not stop others from potentially appreciating your work.
- A question that stuck with me as I read this chapter was “By whose standards would one be considered fit to deem a ,text/passage/body of work, a piece of literature?”. As Culler explained that a reader can understand how to approach a text based on the fact that it has been published or reviewed by others that tells them that it is considered well constructed or worth it. What is it that qualifies someone else’s opinion of literature to be trust worthy?
Rafael’s Introduction
Hey All!
My name is Rafael Correa. It is my second semester here at LaGuardia. Currently I am pursuing a degree in Childhood education with hopes of one day using my experience in school to teach music and/or history in elementary schools.
Though I don’t work in a school at the moment, I have worked as an educator to children in museums and currently work as an educator at a cathedral here in the city doing public tours and K-12 workshops and tours.
I’m also a musician and enjoy playing guitar and keys on my spare time. I look forward to getting to know everyone!
Hellloooo!!!!
Hi Everyone, my name is Jania Crawley and Im currently majoring in Early Childhood Education. I wanted to go into this major because I love children and I enjoy teaching. To be honest, English is not my best subject but I want to learn ow to put my thoughts together where its not all over he place and that it makes sense. My favorite activities is hanging out with my friends and benj watching Netflix.
Blog Post Prompt #1
Chaewon Lee
What is Literature and Does it Matter?
1. After reading the chapter What is literature and does it matter? I think the most important aspect of this section was when Culler drew an analogy between literature and weeds in a garden. This is because in this section, Culler discusses what makes readers treat some texts as literature. I think in order to define what literature is, it is important to analyze what makes us, the reader treat a piece of writing as literature in the first place. The authors analogy makes me wonder what weeds out great works of literature to plain nonsense. Culler says “What sets off literary works from other narrative display texts is that they have undergone a process of selection: they have been published, reviewed and reprinted, so that readers approach them with the assurance that others have found them well constructed and “worth it” (27). I think that Culler discussing that not every piece of writing is worth calling a piece of literature is the first step in finding out what defines literature. It makes me question what sets apart the texts that I read as literature to just empty words on a page. It is important to think about definitions of literature because literature is everywhere in our lives. We are surrounded by pieces of writing everyday from small to bigger texts, so it is important to recognize the meaning behind the texts that surrounds us everyday.
2. A question that stayed with me as I read this chapter was, “What is involved in treating things as literature in our culture”( 23)?
Introduction
Hello everyone, my name is Amir Hanif Uddin. I usually just go by Hanif. I am a transfer student to LaGuardia, making me a freshman again. I spent a few semesters in Hunter College, and made a lot of mistakes during the beginning of my college career. I ended up leaving Hunter College instead of staying and trying to fix my mistakes as it just didn’t feel right to me. I am happy to restart my college career with a much better understanding of how college is in comparison to everything that comes before it.
HEY! I’M JANETTE :)
Hi, My Name is Janette, this is my second semester here at LaGuardia. Becoming a student at LaGuardia has opened up a lot of new things, before starting school I was just a sales associate at Macy’s in retail and also work at school as a secretary for the main office.
Hi Everyone !
- My name is Anna Zou, and this is my second year studying at Laguardia Community College. My major is Media Study. I want to learn professional knowledge of film shooting and the history of cinema during my college years. My favorite hobby is watching movies when I’m not working or studying. I also like to watch movie critics gain information from other people. I think the best pieces of film criticism could comfortably be included in a book or personal and intellectual essays. I mostly hang out with my friends, discuss films, and shoot videos together.
About Solange
Hey everybody, my name is Solange…I’m french. This is my second year with LaGuardia, and I hate that it now has to be virtual! I major in Criminal Justice, studying to get into the police academy, and eventually become an African American, female, homicide detective! 2020 has been a crazy year for me, to say the least!! But nevertheless, I believe in education; One can never stop learning, and we all should use these challenging times to our fullest advantage.
You all be well,
Solange Hippolyte
Hi everyone!
I’m Mosamad Kamrun Nahar and I’m 23 years old. I first came to the USA in 2015 from Bangladesh. I complete my HSC in my country in Business studies with good GPA. Now I’m studying an Accounting major at LAGCC and this is my 4th semester. Hopefully, I’ll be complete my Associate degree in following spring. I believe that this English course will help me to strong writing and improve my communication skill with others which I need to improve more and more.
Now, I want to share with you what I like. I like to travel a lot. So far, I visit 7 state in the USA and 6 country but this year I can’t travel anywhere because of pandemic. I love food so much and I’m trying to make new recipe which I like most. Also, I like home decorate, clean everything like new. At last, I want to say that I’ll try my best to get a good grade for this course. Thank you everyone and please stay safe and keep your family and neighbor healthy.
