My Reflection on the class.

    When  I first started this class I really thought it be a basic English class. Coming off the heals of English 101 I thought it would be just another English Class reading some stuff and writing essays about it and moving on. But I saw that it was more.  What is interesting is that I learned that English was a lot more then reading something writing something about it and moving on. Which has been the basic formula that has been used for all English Classes thus far. And although that was here it is inescapable with any English class it incorporated things to better dive into all thee things we read and wrote. It was more about reading something interpreting what we thought about it translating that into our own lives and the world we live in then putting it all on paper for our other classmates to read.

    

    When ever we would read something new we would have to somehow relate it to ourselves or the world we live in. Which forced me at least to really think about the piece and what it was trying to say and how it could relate. And I definitely liked that about the class. It allowed me to make some connection to the thing we reading and therefore gaining more interest into it. The idea that the things we read are more then good ideas put on a piece of paper by someone who is long dead is surprisingly not something a lot of other classes will do. And if they do they force meanings or interpretations of things down our throats that may not fit. But instead here we could list tons of themes meanings or other interpretations for things instead of just one. One short story could have 100 different themes ideas and meanings enough at least to fill up a whole chalk board at least. 

     

     And this is something that I will take away from this class in my life and somethings that resonates with me. That instead of one or two strict meanings to something their can be any number of them. That no idea to something is wrong as long as you can back it it with things that come out of the text. I think this is the thing that will make us all smarter. Reading and rereading something to pull out quotes and evidence to support our own ideas that we formed and when we can do that successfully it shows our intelligence and understanding of the piece. Using our own ideas with evidence to back it instead of some cookie cutter idea everyone else has thought of already. 

    But the hardest part of this reflection is where I see see my self in 5 years. Well by then I will have graduated from Farmingdale University with this class being a burning memory in my mind. Hopefully by then I will working on my masters at some university and I will be starting my career in law enforcement at what ever department I go to. But I think I will still be using the ideas I have learned here in my Freshmen Year of college. The ideas that your thoughts and intelligence must be expanded on that no one else can do our thinking for us and we have to come up with meanings, ideas and solutions to issues all on our own. And our intelligence doesn't just coming up with those ideas but also from how we got them and if we can back it up with the information given to us.