Sunday, February 6, 2011
links and visual Sam Hamill
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Sam Hamill
Hamill/ The necessity to speak
Sam Hamill perhaps a great person in some people’s eyes and others can see him as the bad person. He was born in 1942 and abandoned in northern Utah where he spent his years in an orphanage during world war two. He was later adopted by a farm family of Utah where he spent his adolescent years that don’t mark a good history on him. Those bad years he was in and out of jails till he decided to join the Marine Corps. He joined the marines not too be a war fighter but too teach of what he knew best. He also taught at schools and different kinds of people and prisons where he shared what he had lived and the meaning of life.
The necessity to speak was a great story of his that talks about life in being the necessity to speak out. He talks about life and his life in his writing as being something that is an everyday job on whatever we do or happens. Life as he talks in his own words that it’s the meaning of making other people laugh, enjoy of what life is all about. But he also talks about life being a harsh environment and most of the time not being fair to us. There are very many bad people that live out in the world that don’t have a sense of humor or just don’t care about people or stuff. Killing is an everyday process that happens and many human beings get killed.
As Mr. Hamill talks in his life story this world is full of bad people and cells are getting overcrowded. He can relate to this in many ways because of actually spending time in jail and now being a teacher at prisons. He also that there are pleasantly fifteen hundred people alone in the united states awaiting death row which is a great amount. He talks about this world being full of violence and us society paying the price for it with the tax paying for jails which costs much money to run them. Mr. Hamill being a poet, writer and a teacher talks about a little of his own experience and what this world is which many of us can say it’s a catastrophe.
Sam Hamill perhaps a great person in some people’s eyes and others can see him as the bad person. He was born in 1942 and abandoned in northern Utah where he spent his years in an orphanage during world war two. He was later adopted by a farm family of Utah where he spent his adolescent years that don’t mark a good history on him. Those bad years he was in and out of jails till he decided to join the Marine Corps. He joined the marines not too be a war fighter but too teach of what he knew best. He also taught at schools and different kinds of people and prisons where he shared what he had lived and the meaning of life.
The necessity to speak was a great story of his that talks about life in being the necessity to speak out. He talks about life and his life in his writing as being something that is an everyday job on whatever we do or happens. Life as he talks in his own words that it’s the meaning of making other people laugh, enjoy of what life is all about. But he also talks about life being a harsh environment and most of the time not being fair to us. There are very many bad people that live out in the world that don’t have a sense of humor or just don’t care about people or stuff. Killing is an everyday process that happens and many human beings get killed.
As Mr. Hamill talks in his life story this world is full of bad people and cells are getting overcrowded. He can relate to this in many ways because of actually spending time in jail and now being a teacher at prisons. He also that there are pleasantly fifteen hundred people alone in the united states awaiting death row which is a great amount. He talks about this world being full of violence and us society paying the price for it with the tax paying for jails which costs much money to run them. Mr. Hamill being a poet, writer and a teacher talks about a little of his own experience and what this world is which many of us can say it’s a catastrophe.
Friday, January 28, 2011
good readers and Good writers
Good readers and good writers
Many readers are readers but it doesn’t mean that they are good readers or writers. According to Vladimir Nabokov the good reader has all of these working for him, a good imagination, memory, a mind of a dictionary, and some artistic sense. Those are some of the many that Vladimir Nabokov talked about in his article of what good readers and writers are. Not only having these good characteristics help us become good but, being able to have a patience and time has to do with whether we master the art of reading and writing.
Being a good reader and writer is something that is not easy in my opinion. It takes time and dedication to be able to become somewhat successful. Yeah I say somewhat successful because I feel that becoming a master of this has to do with a little bit of how much gifted you are. Some people in my mind are born smart and others like me have to work at it. I can say that I can agree with Nabokov with most of his point of view. For example the reader should be part of a book club in order to help our reading skills I can agree with, but having an imagination or having a mind like a dictionary I will have to go against. Not many people are that gifted and can memorize stuff like that. I believe that the characteristics that are talked about in this article are what a good reader needs in order to be successful. In my mind I consider myself a below average reader and writer especially English being my second language. I will admit that I have gotten better but I am far from where I would like to be at.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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