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Weekly Review Week 7

 How did the reading go for you this week? What struck you the most in this week's reading? Were there ideas you struggled with?     Readings this week were interesting. I remember reading The Wizard of Oz to my daughter when she was younger and we both love Wicked now so reading about Baum was fun. I enjoyed reading about Langston Hughes as well. I had heard the name before but didn’t know anything about him.    Where did you do your best writing this week — in this class? In another class?  Have you discovered some good strategies for helping yourself focus on writing for this class?    My favorite writing this week was actually for my Theatre class regarding the connection of hip hop and Shakespeare.  Did you read something excellent written by someone else in the class? What made it stand out to you?       I read several posts from classmates this week and commented on several either for project plan...

Taking Stock Week 7

This week I had 2 exams and 2 essays due in other classes so I primarily focused on those and fit in smaller projects around them.  Working full time on top of the 5 classes I'm taking is getting somewhat overwhelming so I'm trying to just take it all in stride and focus on one thing at a time.

Reading Notes A Week7

Gertrude Atherton 1857-1948 Wrote 50 books between 1888 and 1946 18 volume chronicle of Northern California life from 1840 to WWII best works were novels hat captured privileged and middle class life in SF in 1890-1910 San Francisco "a fool's paradise' The Californians ch 6 "It was the first time she had seen poverty; she had barely heard of its existence; it had never occurred to her that great romanticists condescended to borrow from life."  314 "Even in that awful moment, it was her father she feared, not the law" 315 "The sergeant recognized the great I AM of the American maiden; he also recognized her social altitude." "She hated her father and she hated life with an intensity which added to her misery, and she decided that she had made her last confession to any one but the priest, who always forgave her," 320 Edith Maud Eaton "Sui Sin Far" 1865-1914 1890-1914 articles and stories in national magazi...