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words enlightenment-the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. neurobiology-the biology of the nervous system. hyper–competitive-extremely or excessively competitive I feel Im doing pretty good on my annotation goals i just need to keep trying to improve. surrounding context Yo Yo Ma wrote this and is a super good musician. circumstantial context– We read this so we are more aware of the education system set in place for us. intentional context– He believes that stem is ustlized to much…

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For my interview I felt it would be best to interview my mother Lisa. I decided on interviewing my mother do to the fact I know she has gone tough alot in her life, and I was interested to hear what moment had one of the biggest impacts on shaping who she is as a woman. I was really happy with the results I got from my mom in this interview. I felt it got a little personal for her…

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I feel as if our life is not meant to be a narrative. Galen Strawson would be some one who agrees with this. As Galen Strawson stated in “I am Not a Story” “false that everyone stories themselves, and false that it’s always a good thing”. What he means when he says this is to many people believe that its a good thing to think of life as a narrative. This is shown many times thought out “I am Not…

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Ben Silva  Reread The essay I decided to reread was “I am not a Story” by Galen Strawson. I decided to reread this due to the fact the first read was somewhat confusing.  As we had the decisions and questions on “I am not a Story” from last class I realized how many points I missed in the reading and how satirical it is. In this essay a majority of it I found to be satirical. A lot of times…

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This blog is a 15 minute free wright so lets start. I somewhat agree with the essay “I’m Not a Story” by Galen Strawson. Strawson goes on about how there is too much in his life to be a story. This point I agree with is my life was one single story it is too much to manage. The story would be all over the place and wouldn’t make much sense to be honest. And that’s what makes life life….

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Julie Beck dives in on a lot of topics in her essay “life stories”. One of the things she talks about is realizing self. She talks about how we all live our own life and in that life we are the main character. And there’s many things around us that shape our character. As we live our life our life our character just continues developing more and more the longer we live, the longer our story. Another point of interest…

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(Is your analysis fresh?) I repeated information a little bit. Im going to have to fix that. 2. (correctly formatted?) i think it is but I should deferentially double check that. 3. (mla) I need to remember all the parts of that and make sure N got them all. 4.( citations) I still need to add these into my paper.

After reading “shitty first drafts” by Anne Lamotts I realized my first draft is pretty shitty. Honestly I did it the night before it was do because im always so busy so my first draft was not the best piece I have written. I also a a couple words short of the word count I need to add a little more beef into the paper. Another thing I have to do is fix up my grammar. Fixing things such as…

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Peer review Austin you did a pretty good job with this paper. You had a lot of good quotes and information in your paper. I would just say make use it is in mla formatting. Also there were some sentences that were worded weirdly or were run ons, but other than a few minor mistakes the paper was pretty solid. Just try to touch up one the little things fix your mla and make sure your in the word count….

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