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YoYoMa, cellist and songwriter, claims that STEM are important subjects to learn in school, but we need to add “empathetic reasoning of the arts” in our education system. People who support his opinion of STEAM believe that art is just as essential as the subjects in STEM, moreover, art allows creative thinking which could be …
Barclay: Although the idea of art has been ignored overtime, art and science have the ability to work together, to discover new possibilities and answers. Throughout his essay, Jonah Lehrer, author of “The Future of science…Is Art?” talks about how science and art influence on another. He states, “My answer is simple: Science needs the …
I feel like I definitely improved on my annotations since the beginning of the year. I never liked annotating in high school, so I felt forced while doing annotations and did it just to get it done. Now, I actually engage with the text and I like the articles we read, it shows different meanings/perspective …
Do you see any patterns? I noticed that I used many repetition of words like “I agree,” “They,” “That,” “This,” and “I think.” I automatically assume the reader reading my essay knows who or what I’m talking about. I also realized that in body paragraphs, if I’m talking about a specific subject, I use that …
I’m making sure my paper is organized and my points/ideas are clear. I’m working on to make sure my quotes and interview sayings work well with my points as well. I want my sentences to not be choppy and unclear. My paper needs to be more opinionated and less formal. My revision goals are that …
While rereading “I am not a Story” by Galan Strawson, I had a different experience reading the second time. The first time reading this essay, I was completely lost with his explanations and quotes that he used throughout the paper. Strawson says, “Consideration of the sequence – the ‘narrative’… might be important for some people …
While reading Galen’s argument about the idea of Narratives and a life story, I was sometimes confused as to where the argument was going throughout the article. Some of the points he made that I understood more were interesting and words I agreed and disagreed with. He mentioned the American novelist John Updike who stated, …
