Ampersand Reflection

The thing that I am most proud of improving in my writing this year is how I now use punctuation to control the speed at which my audience reads. In my artist statement for American Icon project i had the habit of creating long and very runny paragraphs. This was causing my writing to seem to difficult to read. As the months went by, Media Saves the Beach came and went, and along with it was my artist statement. For this piece my writing became more structured, detailed, and having the correct pace at which readers could connect to my project. One of my future goals is to master 3 specific writing tips, vary the length of paragraphs, make meaning early, and also to create concerts, not pancakes. Combining all these tips will help with creating better, more focused, and a stronger foundation for my future writing pieces.

 

 

 

Back from the Dead

If I was able to bring a historical figure back fro the dead, i would bring Franklin D. Roosevelt. I think that being able to learn from a person who had the ability to win over peoples minds and hearts is something can be priceless in the line of work i would like to get into. I would love if FDR to be a close friend in college. He could help me with the debate team and maybe even with class president! The possibilities are endless. I chose this person because I feel like he had a certain characteristic of charisma.

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Back from the Dead

If I was to bring any character to life from the books we have read together in class, I believe that I would bring back Kurt Vonnegut himself (although he was a real person). Just the thought of being able to ask him so many question of why he wrote things a certain way it would just make me feel awesome. There are so many question that I would like to ask him, for example if slaughterhouse 5 is a pro life book or if it’s a anti-war book, who are the people who influenced him, what were his thoughts while writing a book that t almost 20 years. It seems that Kurt Vonnegut would play the role of mentor in a way for the fact that I would love to be able to write like him. Having the ability to put subliminal messages into writing and have to force the readers to think deeper into what they are reading. One of the things that I have been wondering while we read this book, what did Kurt Vonnegut meant to say in “nothing is true, everything is permitted” does he believe in a higher power? Or is he simply making fun of religion. So many questions, so little time.