literary studies 11 poetry project

Reflection

A moment in time,

A moment in time when life was normal.

A moment when the trees and birds would sing in harmony,

All until machines came and destroyed it.

Destroyed what we need the most

Now instead of the birds and trees

All you can hear is the hiss and holler from the machine.

The machine that will destroy it all

The machine that will take this world,

And turn it into a nightmare

Without a care in the world.

Then we will think back one day.

And wish,

Wish for the birds and trees.

poem composition

Reflection by Olivia Sykes is a poem based on the way machines are destroying nature and how people are oblivious to the consequences that come with it. Sykes put a theme of repetition throughout the poem, with the first three lines all starting with “A moment in time”. For example lines two and three, “A moment in time where life was normal, A moment in time when the birds and trees would sing in harmony” which is also a metaphor. I believe Sykes was trying to use a worried tone throughout the poem to convey the seriousness of the issue society has caused.

Sykes wrote this poem as a free verse open poem. Her insight into life is the fact that humans would rather kill the beauty around us to make materialistic items. New buildings and factories have now become more important than the nature that was here before us. As Sykes said on lines twelve through fourteen, “Then we will think back one day. And wish, Wish for the birds and the trees”. Society doesn’t realize the consequences that destroying nature will cause until it becomes too late to fix the problem. In conclusion, I believe her poem provides an insight into the way society will end up if we don’t begin to be aware of the damage we are doing to this earth.

Composition on praxis

Praxis by Sharon Thesen is a poem about trying to change or act on the way society is ignoring serious issues that could affect us down the road. The meaning of praxis is to do, to practice and to take action. I believe the title plays an important part in understanding the meaning of the poem. Thesen also goes into detail on how people are too afraid to be the one to attempt to make a change that the world needs as they are scared, they won’t succeed. If you continue to live your life the same way without change you will never fully experience life to the fullest. You must take risks and go beyond the social norms to see a change. Instead of leaving problems alone for future generations to fix It’s important to try.

Thesen uses metaphors for obstacles that occur in the poem. For example, “So stop crying. Get up. Go out. Leap the mossy garden wall”. There is also a use of repetition at the beginning of the poem when These wrote “unable to imagine a future, imagine a future better”. Both examples of figurative language are crucial to the poem.

When looking into praxis and text-to-text connections, the first thing that comes to mind is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Both the poem and novel have the same issue with people disregarding issues going on around them. For example, when Thesen says “weeping in the abattoir” it relates to Mildred as she has walked herself into the abattoir and is unaware, she is just following the rest of society. Whereas Montag tries to take the leap and escape.

In conclusion, the Poem Praxis has a real-life meaning in today’s society and portrays the way many may just stay seated instead of facing the problem that lies ahead.

 

 

humanities blog post

The way humanities can improve our future.

I believe the statement is true to an extent. A study in the humanities can be helpful in many areas although I don’t believe it is needed to create a healthy democracy. In this period of life, we base our direction of post-secondary to what we believe will make us the most money, rather than studying something we love. As Mandy Phiper said in her essay “Our socio-economic systems reward the skills we collectively believe will make real contributions to our lives.” I believe humanities is extremely important the skills it provides you with can be transferred throughout different jobs in your lifetime. As Mandy also mentioned in her essay the way an English degree may help you outside of your workplace or education. “they learn about the complicated interactions between words, personal experience, and truth.” Although I believe an English degree can be useful in many different ways, I don’t think it can necessarily improve democracy. Democracy isn’t based on your intellectual skill set it’s how you interact with your community and fix problems that need change, and understand the concerns of others. Certain skills that humanities provide are important it would be useful to teach everyone the basics of analytical skills. Humanities may not be necessary for a perfect democratic system, but if everyone studied humanities or had a basic understanding of it. Of how to skim past the surface and truly analyze things it could improve the system. Although humanities are something fewer people are studying every year, it can be a crucial skill set in some areas of life. It may be viewed as an invalid study that won’t allow you to get a high-paying job or have many career options. When in reality it can be a crucial skill in some areas of life. As well as gives you a skill set not many have to allow you more freedom when looking for a career path. 

Lit circle final project-The Help

This novel shows a real-life view of how people of coloured lived back In the day and the struggles they went through.” it come in every white child’s life when they start to think the colored folks are not as good as the white.”Said aibleen thinking of Mae Mobley, each maid had a different story to tell with different experiences. Minny had slightly made friends with her employer “she has sat down and eaten lunch with me every day since I started working here”. ANd ms skeeter the most admirable person in the novel for wanting to make a change that wouldn’t directly affect her.” wasn’t that the point of the book for women to realize, we are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I thought.” said ms skeeter. this novel was very empowering and shows a message of strength and courage.

Biotechnology and core competency

Metagenomics

Metagenomics is forever growing with all the studies and work being done with it. One of the newer advancements in metagenomics was combining It with bioremediation. Which is removing pollutants with microbes, metagenomics is simply analyzing microbial communities to view the uncultured microbiota. With new advancement, it shows that microbial communities applying biochemical pathways in degrading toxins could be an alternative to reducing pollution and toxic contaminants from our communities. Another advancement is the Genomic encyclopedia of bacteria and archaea project by JGI in 2007, which gave lots of new valuable information on microbial genomics. It was a pilot project to sequence 250 bacterial and archaea genomes which led to an increased number and diversity of novel proteins. And expanded annotate environmental metagenomic data by nearly 4%.

Metagenomics is best used for many different things such as analyzing microbial diversity, new proteins, enzymes, and new biochemical pathways. It can also be used to identify new genes in the environment, enzymes that degrade pollutants, enzymes that can reduce the effect of toxic oils. Metagenomics has become one of the most revolutionary ways in microbial ecology and is more so project-based, it initially started in cloning environmental DNA but has now developed to so much more. Metagenomics is now being used with other methods to find more information such as bioremediation and metagenomics, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, and more.

The amount of studies on metagenomics has risen drastically over the past few years. It’s said In the future to come metagenomics will be used the same way as Rna gene fingerprinting to describe the different microbial communities. It is also thought that it will be a standard tool in most laboratories in the future. Sequencing technology has shifted from shotgun sequencing to classic sanger technology it has also shown it may be a large part of our future due to its low error rate. The rate of virus found by metagenomics is higher than all other methods combined there have been many studies done in the past decade on metagenomics and viruses. The future ahead for metagenomics and the things it can do is huge the possibilities are endless.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351745/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/metagenomics#:~:text=Using%20metagenomics%2C%20researchers%20can%20analyze,enzymes%20that%20make%20novel%20products.

https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-bioremediation-of-wastewater-and-polluted-soil/metagenomics-a-technological-drift-in-bioremediation

core competency reflection

HCE 9-english write

This photo shows inclusivity and also a lack thereof. As you start on the left side of the picture, it starts with everyone dressed in a uniform all looking the same and the art is in black and white. The colour of this art really shows meaning on how they all feel as they start completely black and white as they slowly gain their culture back become happier and feel more included you can see the colour brighten in their skin and all their beautiful bright clothing. You can also see the gaze change from the people as the picture moves from one side to another. On the left side, they all seem to have very unpleasant facial expressions most look angry and very upset even as you begin to see colour in their skin they still seem very unhappy as they still are in uniforms. And on the right side, they all appear to be smiling seem happy and can express themselves. I think this art shows that not everyone is always wanted or included by others. On the left, you can see they do not have any of their cultural clothing or hairstyles because they could not be included looking like that. In the middle, you can see they are slowly starting to be accepted for who they are and included all the female’s hair has grown back to some extent and their expressions look slightly less gloomy. In the last part of the picture, you can see that residential schools are no longer taking away their culture and everyone has learned to include all cultures instead of being fixated on their own. They have happy facial expressions and can wear their cultural clothing and their skin becomes bright again. To me, this image shows no matter the past we can learn to include all.

monologue video- Ty’s feelings towards school

“Ya know Ion really understand why my mom wants me to stay in school so bad.. get a job do all this stuff with my life, I mean after all ain’t it my life anyways like why waste away all that precious time of mine learning stuff I ain’t never gonna use. And a job would just be another huge waste of time for me cause I can make what you make in a day in about 10 minutes its called business my man. Being a top hustler like me ain’t all as hard as it looks if you keep your eye on the prize and work for that money you can accomplish anything. I don’t see why I would eva need another job in the future if I keep making money the way I do its easy quick and fast the simple rule is just don’t get caught. Not only that, I gotta keep that family business together while my dad is locked up n I already know I got that red flag on my back with the police cause of him but I’ve worked around their system n I’m sneakier than any other of you ain’t nobody catching me. At the end of the day, I think being a hustler is what’s meant for me don’t think ill ever end up somewhere else but if I do oh well for now imma just stay on that grind and hustle because that’s what I know how to do. That other life just ain’t meant for me.”

 

monologue reflection:

For my monologue, I decided to choose ty because he plays the main role in the book and also seems to get a lot of action in it. I decided to use a scene of ty when his mom gets frustrated at him for not going to school and him trying to come back with reasoning as to why he thought the family business was more important. I also chose this scene as school has been something very controversial throughout the book at some points he was more interested than others in school and kept going back and forthFor ty, it was his way of saying he wanted to carry his dad’s business rather than live a normal life like his mom wanted for him and tried to make sure he would get it.I tried to bring ty to life by using some of the slang and language he would normally seem to use and add a bit of his carefree and cocky attitude to it as well. I also mentioned some of the stuff ty does such as hustling (drug dealing) to kind of show what type of person he is.

Silver lining A

During this really hard time while being able to do limited things I have found something to do that I really enjoy. I have always enjoyed art and drawing and right now is the best time to do it since i can’t go out. Over this time so far I have worked a lot of my artwork and completed quite a few drawings which are all put up on one of my walls. I find drawing to be a nice silver lining because its very relaxing and time killing when you find you have nothing else to do. Throughout working on my art I have worked on my painting skills a lot and have improved and painted a few cool things. I am also in art class which is nice because I get lots of weekly art assignments and projects which just add to all my personal artwork. During this time I think I’ve noticed that you can take a lot of small things for granted and once you aren’t able to do much you figure out the small things in life that are enjoyable even during hard times. I think in a sense the pandemic has changed me slightly in a good way by giving me more time to focus on the things I want to do and has shown me how to make the best out of a bad situation…