Love is Rare

Katelyn Hayes

Composition and Literature

Professor Brady

Paper #4

“Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never…never forget it,” Curtis Judalet. This quote clearly expresses the idea that love is rare, unforgettable, and should be cherished. Shown among the poems Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone by W.H. Auden, To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet, and Champagne written by myself, Katelyn Hayes, with the use of tone, the themes exemplified throughout each of the poems express only a few of the various types of love.

Reflection

Katie Hayes

Course Reflection

As expressed throughout the many lectures, we as a class were encouraged to express our ideas. With this constant encouragement, we slowly became more knowledgable on each topic discussed. The knowledge not only came from our professor, however from my classmates as well. We are created differently for a reason, and that reason being to express the different ideas to which we possess. By elaborating on each topic of each lecture, not only myself but others as well became more involved in the classroom discussion. Not all, but most classrooms discussions have greatly impacted my overall outlook on life.

You got a dream. You got to protect it.

The song that keeps me going: Keep Your Head Up

Life at a crossroads when confronted with abortion

We as humans are created to have different opinions, these opinions help make our decisions in life. As expressed throughout the lecture based on the short story Hills like White Elephants, the themes conveyed, express a deeper meaning based on abortion. Throughout the lecture, the pros, cons, themes, and symbols were expressed in great detail. A variety of the pros elaborated in the lecture consist of: the chance of a woman being raped, poverty for the family, the physical state of the child, as well as if the child were to believed to cause physical harm for the mother. On the contrary, there are a variety of cons associated with the political issue being that of abortion. For instance some cons include using abortion as a form of birth control, the moral ethics associated with abortion, also abortion being used as a form of murder, lastly using abortion for needed government assistance. Although abortion is a complicated decision and there are many plausible reasons for one to get an abortion, I am a firm believer in the idea that abortion is detrimental for women and society as well.

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“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves,” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dating back to February 7, is another classroom discussion which has had a great impact on me. The topic of the discussion, deception. To deceive, meaning to mislead by intentionally misrepresenting. We are all misleaded in one way or another, we are blinded by the half truths, and observed to be tricked because of our naive nature. By reacting to one’s deception, one is conforming to the illusions to which are false.

Identity: freedom, desire, destiny

Dated back to April 28, is the lecture believed to have the most impact on me. We are all created to have desires, to set ourselves apart from others, and to have a say in our own destiny. The theme and title of the poem Identity written by Julio Noboa Polanco, resinates with me due to the expressed themes being that of desire, freedom and destiny.

Agreeing with the idea that all people have different desires, some choose to follow the norm and conform with society. However I am one of many like the speaker of the poem, who stray from the plan I was expected to follow by my peers. I desire to be different, my destiny is whatever I want it to be, and I enjoy being an outcast like the “weed” in the poem. One of my favorite stanzas in the poem is “I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging on cliffs, like an eagle, wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.” This stanza resinates with me because the metephor of the speaker comparing himself to an ugly weed, relates to his desire to stand on his own feet and to make his own plans for life. The eagle also symbolizes freedom which is something the speaker, like myself, desires.

The Birth-Mark

Katelyn Hayes

Paper #3 Midterm

            “One day, very soon after their marriage, Aylmer sat gazing at his wife with a trouble in countenance that grew stronger until he spoke.” Throughout the short story The Birth-Mark author Nathaniel Hawthorne creates the main characters, Aylmer and Georgiana to represent two completely different ideas. With the use of symbolism, Hawthorne is able to create Georgiana’s birthmark to express deeper and profound ideas.

Raynor Wallace Poetry Contest

http://www.farmingdale.edu/campuspages/artssciences/academicdepartments/englishhumanities/wallace.html

Crossroads

Katelyn Hayes

Paper #2

Crossroads

             “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion,” Chinese proverb. Despite the decision made in life, the outcome of the decision will always affect one’s future. Throughout the short stories Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, A&P by John Updike, as well as the poem The Road Not Taken by author Robert Frost, the authors all clearly express the importance of decision making, and how every decision made will greatly impact one’s future.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Katelyn Hayes

Paper #1

               "They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at-Elysian Fields"-Blanche Dubois. The look of disgust and dissapointment on Blanche's face based on the sight of her apartment for the summer, made it very clear that Elysian Fields was below her standars and she is superior to everyone and everything there. Throughout the play "A Streetcar Named Desire," author Tennessee Williams uses many symbols and motifs to express the character's personalities by showing their destructive, protentious, and gentle characteristics.