Reading a Sentimental Journey evoke a lot of memories in me as a traveler myself. I love history and love to read and visit places I read about. I remember I read about the leaning tower of Pisa in Paris and years later I was standing beside it taking pictures. The emotion that came over… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd: A Sentimental Journey.
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Jacqueline Floyd:Equiano 2.
As Olaudah Equiano traveled freedom was always on his mind. I think along the journey he made the best of it knowing he would eventually get his freedom. “We arrived safe and in good time at Philadelphia , and I sold my goods there chiefly to the Quakers.” pg 129. It must be frustrated for… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd:Equiano 2.
Rebecca V Close-reading
For my final paper, I hope to write about Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina. I find this text to be one of the most compelling that was covered in this course with relevant themes including taste, sentiment, feminism, etc. “I can only say that besides the Alteration which the Change of Dress made in her, she was… Continue reading Rebecca V Close-reading
Jacqueline Floyd:Olaudah never gave up.
Olaudah was sold to the other slave master James Doran he and witness more evil of slaver. But again he was lucky and was sold to Robert king an humane slave master. Olaudah seems to be contended with his new owner. he noted that he was so useful to his master that he words would… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd:Olaudah never gave up.
Jacqueline Floyd: Olaudah Equiano’s travels.
Olaudah traveled all over visiting different states and countries but I notice that he was being bought and sold throughout his life. With his slaves’s master Pascal , Olaudah seems to grew fund of him and even wanted to learn the English culture. At first Olaudah was scared of the European and the treatment of… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd: Olaudah Equiano’s travels.
Jacqueline Floyd:Olaudah Equiano early days.
Reading Olaudah Equiano story was interesting and fascinating . You get a first hand knowledge of the life of a slave because he was telling his own story. it seems that Olaudah didn’t realized the depth and evilness that slavery entails. Olaudah was kidnapped at the age of eleven and sold into slavery. In the… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd:Olaudah Equiano early days.
Close Reading-Rania
“Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro’ the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.” (10 Gray)
Skhi Clyburn close reading
For my final essay proposal, I’m choosing the poem Elegy in a country churchyard. The reason why I’ve chosen this poem is because to me it gives reflection on different concepts of morality, legacy, and potential of everyday lives. What I found very interesting about this poem is that Thomas Gray was able to make something… Continue reading Skhi Clyburn close reading
Close Reading- Rania
“Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro’ the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.” (10 Gray) In this stanza, Thomas Gray turns his voice toward the powerful, the aristocrats, the historians, and architects of cultural memory;… Continue reading Close Reading- Rania
Close Reading – Donovan James
“There is a species of philosophy, which cuts off all hopes ofsuccess in such an attempt, and represents the impossibility of everattaining any standard of taste. The difference, it is said, is verywide between judgment and sentiment. All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever… Continue reading Close Reading – Donovan James
