Marinda's reading

I'm posting Marinda's reading here:

The Handmaids Tale

The Handmaid's Tale: 

The world of the handmaids tale is a post apocoltic world kind of if it was set back to the 18th century. In the begging you can see the world is similar to the one we have today as the 21century.The World is one where they silence anyone with out power and the ones with the most power being white males and women who are on the right hand, but as the story continues you learn the women are silenced no matter what rank they stand on compared to a man in the world. 

What the shows say about the world we live in is that people don't have remorse and we only live in the small bubble of the world where it's in our perspective.
The protestors across the world in and in the us have showed us with the handmaids costumes is the influence of the media in todays society. It also shoes how power full the main character is in the show the costumes represents their role and Offred goes against this in order to get her freedom.

Reflection

This was my first semester as a college student. I came to QCC bright eyed and bushy tailed, eager to do better being that my grades in high school were very hot and cold. I am the type of person that needs to "play the part" depending on what environment I am in, making it easier and funner for me to learn while I am in a class room, rather than my home. Corona virus completely and utterly destroyed my first semester of college; my grades and mental health have been the last thing on my mind being locked in my house all day, its definitely hard for me and I know its hard for my peers as well being that none of us expected this to happen. I have made the best of this situation trying to prioritize my most important classes out of the six I have, and even just keeping up with the 'more important' classes is a lot of stress for me being that I am struggling because online classes are not my cup of tea. I just hope by the fall everything is okay so I can get my head back into the game.

 Well !! this semester was challenging ,I' am surprising ,Doing very well so far , though a couple classes have me a little worried because I failed some of my the test . I don't feel good at all about this semester. In fact 2020 is one of those years you'll never forget , A year that is going down history.

Heavenly father please be with us.

Reflection

This semester has been chaotic to say the least. I find relish to be one of my most engaging subjects and from the beginning of the semester everything was going fine and I believed I was getting somewhere with it writing. with the transition to corona virus and having to do the rest of the semester online has made my mental health and work ethic go down. Doing the assignments online felt like a chore and there were days where I didn't want to go on my computer . already in the environment of being home it was so easy to slip into bed and school through the never ending pages of social media. The work I created I didn't feel happy with. Now that the semester is over all I can say is that I gave it my all and tired my best to keep up with assignments that I could be proud of.

Common Read

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jt

Reflection

I would say that this semester was challenging for me and the reason why I say this is because I noticed that at the beginning of the semester my writing wasn't all that. I knew that I struggled with trying to get my point across in my essays. But being in this english class opens my eyes to the way I write and that is because i am receiving feedback from my professor and also my classmates. This showed me what I need to improve on my essay and how to do it to make it better. Also reading the Pushcart textbook and looking at how other people write essays really helped me out alot. This experience will affect my reading and writing in the future because now I'm not as afraid to allow other people to view my writing because I know that they are just trying to help and it also affects my reading by understanding essays more better.