This semester at Eng102 class was a very enjoyable experience for me. I had the most fun than any other previous English class I had experienced here at La Guardia. When I first sat down in class for the first time I had thought what type of writing us (students) were expected to do. Learning it was the "Super Natural" theme, I found it very exciting because themes like Greek Mythology, Angels and Demons, Vampires and Werewolves were fun topics I could talk freely about in my writing. I then thought of my youngest sister who is currently a high school freshman at Long Island City High School. She loves to read books such as the Harry Potter series and is a huge fan of the Super Natural. I would recommend this class to her if she ever considers to take an English class here at La Guardia. Talking back about me again, my first blog opened the door of myself that connected me with the other students. I then read from other students and learned that each introduction was a different story. Reading from their first blogs, I learned a little bit about their personalities through their writing style.
My second blog started the real work in class; I had to choose a poem of my own choice and the first thing that had popped into my mind was Greek mythology. I wanted to find a poem that would talk or relate to the heroes, gods and goddesses that were so famous and exciting to read about. I chose Ares because he was the type of god who would always have his way of doing things and he loved to partake in battles for senseless fun and I thought that was cool. The other reason was that there was a popular video game that is still popular in the series. That game is “God of War” and playing that game for the first time was an insane experience. It was brutal, gory and it did bring me fear seeing how I slaughtered mythologcial monsters but as I continued on the game grew on me and I saw myself being the hero on a very important quest. Which then brings up to my next fun experience that I had learned in this class called the 'Hero's Quest'.
The other theme we worked on in class that was really interesting to me was the Hero's Quest. In class we had watched an animated film, by the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, called 'Spirited Away'. I actually very much enjoy Japanese anime culture and famous action hero films that exist in Japan. For our own choice in choosing a hero’s quest film, I had chosen to write about a heroic Japanese film called “Azumi”. She is the lone female assassin that actually survives all the trials and challenges that her fellow male assassins could not. She is the unlikely sexy heroine that would take on an entire army of soldiers and bandits in order to save japan from another war that has brought devastation upon many people. Using 'Monomyth' or the 'Hero's Journey' helped me to analyze the film by seeing the story into specific stages that lead to the hero surpassing or transcending his/ her former self. Learning this helped me to analyze heroic films even differently than i had seen them before.
For one of the last few blogs i had worked on the end of the semester was a short story called the "Tell Tale Heart". In this Engish class, I had also learned topics related to the field of Psychology and before I thought that studying the field would make a person go crazy but I see now that the topic is indeed very interesting. we learned about the Carl Jung's 'Shadow' and Sigmund Freud's 'Psychoanalytical Criticism'. Working on my short story has piqued my interest to learn more about psychology and what goes on inside the mind of people that are suffering mentally. Back again to my short story, Using psychoanalysis helped me to get some kind of psychological ideas that perhaps drove the narrator to go insane such as him denying that he is a mad crazy person. He is in self denial. The fact that he can be able to tell a story openly to his audience through the story and being able to describe every action is indeed quite insane. I think I will consider to study psychology since it seems to me a very interesting topic to learn from seeing that it is also still a new field to science.
My overall experience here in this class was indeed fun and i had met many interesting people that came with their own ideas.
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