Metacognition: History Essay

I would really love to say that I have a well-structured and organized writing process. But I honestly don't. I do study what I must write about, but for the rest, I usually sit down, think about it for a few minutes, then start pulling things out of thin air. If you ask some authors what their writing process is, their eyes will go blank and the only thing they will think to say its "ummmmmmmmmmmmm.....". Seriously, I asked an author once. Anyways, for my History essays I usually brainstorm beforehand, write down a few things, and then memorize it for the next day. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it doesn't. It tends to surprise me. I probably should improve my use of transitions and grammar. After I complete an essay, I read it over. And with this one particular essay, I read it in a southern accent! I have no idea why and what made it come along, but it did. That was probably the most surprising thing about my thinking ever. But I did like the process I used, because afterwards, I said it in a British accent and it sounded better than ever.

Blogging Around

For Lauren's Best of Week post:

I'm right there with you Lauren. I feel completely cheated from the real story. It's not fair to treat everybody that happens to live around here with "the western mind" kind of story. Life is not a pretty picture painted with simple texture and dull colors. It's a freaking mess! Whenever a book ends in ultimate closure, like the Harry Potter series, or any fairytal you can name, my imagination wanders onto what could have been. What if Harry became a suicidal drunk, plagued with the images of his close friends' deaths? (Granted, this is probably why they wrote Harry Potter Should Have Died). What if Cinderella and Prince Charming rushed into a hopeless marriage, and both of them leave it more distraught then before? It's just not right! Closure is something that makes you feel all warm and safe, because everything is good again. But sometimes, I think everyone needs a little bit of a reality check, or we're all gonna go around thinking that life will always end in one big closure. Well guess what? It doesn't.

For Bill's Connection post:

First of all, Bill, I congratulate you for having excellent TV show choice. Bones is my favorite show. It is more than just a crime show. It's intelligent, quirky and hilarious at the same time. Anyway, the juxtaposition is a perfect symbol of the lives of Temperance Brennan and Seely Booth. And, throughout the series, there are many more, which just makes the show more an more intelligent. It's strange at sometimes how indifferent and unconnected Brennan can be, and how sometimes that all melts away when she's with Booth. But, the minute he leaves, the bones of her life come back to her. I think it's amazing that you were able to connect juxtaposition to my all-time favorite show. It actually makes me understand the whole idea more now.