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5 Discussion Board posts chosen for project

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Going into this class I was very skeptical, I usually strongly dislike literature classes but right from the start this one seemed to be different. Although this summer semester was made online due to the pandemic, it didn't really feel like an online class because of our weekly zoom meetings which kept that physical classroom environment. As I said before I typically don't like literature class but the content for this class surprised me. The readings we had to do weekly were very interesting and easy to read, not very long stories due to them all being short stories and I really enjoyed reading them. I found the weekly discussion questions and discussion board posts to be very effective, they were a great way for me to analyze and dive into the stories deeper, rather than just reading them and being done with them. I enjoyed how we would go over all of our discussion questions during the zoom calls and how everyone would interact. It made the zoom classes a bit more entertaining. The discussion board posts were also surprisingly engaging as well because we had to respond to classmates and were able to see everyones perspectives on the stories assigned. Towards the end of the semester we were assigned a group project and I found to be very tedious due to not having the liberty to meet with our groups physically to talk about the project. Although we got it done in the end accompanied with some procrastination I think it was a good way to learn and analyze work through a different outlet which was this presentation. When it comes to knowledge learned from this class I believe I learned a lot. At the beginning of the class I was struggling a lot with being able to "correctly" analyze work. I am an exercise physiology major so I typically don't have do this type of work but as the class continued I slowly started to get an idea as to how one analyzes a story. I learned how to do a literary analysis without it being too repetitive which is something that I previously struggled with. I was able to break the stories down piece by piece and dissecting all the information I could from them to formulate a good discussion post or analysis paper. Finally, what may seem an obvious take away from this class was that I learned a lot about short stories that I hadn't realized before. I learned that short stories are very different from a novel or a series, short stories are obviously shorter so they are more jam packed with information because they don't have as much room as a novel to tell what they want to tell. I found short stories to be a lot more engaging then a regular novel, where what usually happens is that I daze off and have to keep re-reading the story because I get distracted and forget what I read. That didn't happen when I would ready the short stories, I found them very interesting and they actually held my attention. Overall, I really enjoyed this class, it was a pleasant surprise and has changed my outlook on literature classes.

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The stories for this post included Edgar Allen Poe – “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”(1841) and Franz Kafka – “A Report to the Academy”(1917). For this discussion post and after reading these two stories I remember feeling confused. I stated in the post that I wasn't sure as to what the main point of the stories were but a similarity I did find was between the invitation into the mind of the characters where you felt like you were on a journey with the characters. But besides that I still believe these stories didn't have much meaning, the main purpose of the story was to just tell a story is all.

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DB6 consisted of Doris May Lessing “To Room Nineteen" and Junot Diaz's “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars. I really enjoyed writing this discussion post because I believe I did a good job of introducing a new perspective. I focused on how the women in the stories reacted and how they might be feeling. I said that it seemed the women wanted to act like nothing happened, that this was their way of being strong and protecting themselves but possibly ended up doing more damage to themselves. I remember being very emotionally invested in this story. I think everyone is always scared of being hurt by people especially people who they are in a "relationship" with so I found these stories and post very intriguing.

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This post was about Zora Neale Hurston's "The Sweat" and Charlotte Perkin Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". I touched on the fact that in "The Sweat" there were a lot underlying messages and symbolism that may have been missed on a first read. I like that I chose to include that because some of the symbolism touched on how there are still times where women aren't treated respectfully and equally which is a very important issue to talk about. Then, I talked about "Yellow Wallpaper" and said that the there was some confusion or space left for interpretation that also held symbolism.

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DB4 was about Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and Ngugi Wa Thiong'O's "Minutes of Glory". For Fitzgeralds piece I mentioned that what stood out to me was the viciousness there was between the teenagers when it came to popularity and their interaction between themselves. There was a lot of emphasis on the teenagers and issues with their self worth. After reading my post I think I could have maybe discussed Minutes of Glory a bit more. The ending of both stories showed a lot of growth and I believe the ends of the stories held the most meaning and were very well developed.

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For this discussion board post I believe I did a good job of establishing that this story felt like one I had read before but it had a different twist. I included that it was surprising to see that the villain in the story was a male and not the typical "evil step mother". The similarities I found is both stories were related to the characters and their own calls to action in the story. I further added that it breaks usual ideologies where a man is usually the one that seems "heroic". Overall I believe it was a good discussion post.