After the IO practice, I found that the main issue was the organization of my speech. This is why I repeated a lot of things and made it way more confusing then it should’ve been. I also felt that my ideas didn’t connect as much as I thought they did, which added to the confusion. …

As I was thinking of comparisons for my IO, I came across a lot of similarities between Fragment 94 and a few panels from fun home. One of the ideas that I found really interesting that I just want to talk about (as I didn’t end up talking about in my io as it just…

Gradual Impact (by Alison Bechdel) 1. what is the conflict? Although it might at first seem that the conflict is between Tamar and Alison, the story actually focuses on Alison’s inner conflict. Alison struggles to separate the physical aspect and emotional aspect of their relationship. She uses Tamar’s outfits (jewelry, deep neck shirt, skirt) to…

Married Love In every book my husband’s written, a character named Colin suffers a horrible death. This is because my boyfriend before I met my husband was named Colin. In addition to being named Colin, he was Scottish, and an architect. So you understand my husband’s feelings of inadequacy. My husband cannot build a tall…

Essay writing I always struggle with the structure of the essay when I have a time limit. I usually end up making points that aren’t related to the topic statement. Next time, I should create a plan in the first ten minutes or so that includes my topic statements and sentences as well as the…