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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Final Essay Plans, on the site Brandon Taylor 3 weeks, 5 days ago
I’ll be choosing to revise my second essay in which I wrote about “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro. Of the few scholarly sources I found to draw from that interested me (that were in English), I found one […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Friday 4/22 Susan VanZanten reply, on the site Brandon Taylor 1 month ago
On a quick aside, I wish I had known about the MLA Internatioanl Bibliography before, it’s a pretty helpful resource. To get to the point though, VanZanten’s arguement seems to be that Adichie utilizes […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, comment for reading journal (4/10/22), on the site Brandon Taylor 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I commented on Cecily’s post because I liked and agreed with her comment about the narration styles in each story being relevant to the point being made in our discussion about privelege and opression of minority groups.
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Brandon Taylor commented on the post, Luster and The Thing Around Your Neck, on the site Cecily's Rampage 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I totally agree about the points of view in each story being relevant to the discussion of relation between them as well. I enjoyed your points as well about how Edie and Akunna experience different points or […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Reading Journal (April 3), on the site Brandon Taylor 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I think that at the end (which I was partly satifsied with and partly left a bit forlorn by) the two characters Edie and Rebecca understand each other now on a deeper level especially after the painting is […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Character's Instagram Post (Friday, March 18), on the site Brandon Taylor 2 months, 1 week ago
Jimbo seems like his first instagram post would be asking everyone who reads the post on Instagram the same question he asked the other character’s which is, “If you could be another race, which would you […]
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Brandon Taylor commented on the post, Самара, on the site RUSSIAN2@VCU 2 months, 2 weeks ago
(attached are a video of a walking tour of Samara showing some of its streets and sights and the job offer I found is also linked).
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Самара, on the site RUSSIAN2@VCU 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Я выбрал город Самара. Самара — восьмой по величине город России. Это к востоку от реки Волги. Это старый город с большой историей. Самара — большой город, в котором много людей и есть чем заняться. Я выб […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, My continued comments (Reading journal, Feb 27th), on the site Brandon Taylor 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I commented on Riley’s post about my curiousness concerning the AF’s, the underdeveloped or rather understated characters in Klara and the Sun and I wanted to further on that by saying, with how little Sal and […]
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Brandon Taylor commented on the post, Friday: Question about "Klara and the Sun", on the site ENGL-301 SITE 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I was equally fascinated by the characters especially characters not much talked about like Josie’s sister Sal and Melania houskeeper. The questions coming up being, Was Sal lifted and did it cause her equal […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Question about Klara and the Sun (Friday, 25th Feb), on the site Brandon Taylor 3 months ago
My question that I originally had during Klara and the Sun before I got to the later parts of the book was what the whole divide between Rick and Josie’s friends/family was about and it seemed kind of like a […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Friday (feb 18), on the site Brandon Taylor 3 months ago
After finishing, “Deluge,” by Leila Chatti, I felt very forlorn. The last line of the last poem says, “I could go back to being who I was.” The whole book she is comparing herself to the Virgin Mary and to the […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, week 5 Levis Reading Prize, on the site Brandon Taylor 3 months ago
To start off with some things that surprised me, I didn’t know that her illness was still ongoing and chronic. I thought the book was like a farewell to that illness and it’s unfortunate that she still is […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Week 4 (Feb 16) Form analysis, on the site Brandon Taylor 3 months ago
The poem I wanted to analyze for this assignment this week was, “Intake Form.” To me, this poem strikes me as an example of concrete poem as looking straight at the form of the poem, it looks like an intake form […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Villanelle analysis (week 3), on the site Brandon Taylor 3 months, 2 weeks ago
In the first stanza, Bishop talks about losing being an art not hard to master because items and things are filled with the intent to be lost in the first place so that losing them isn’t something to be troubled […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Everyday life poetic terms (week 2), on the site Brandon Taylor 3 months, 3 weeks ago
(Most of mine came from songs I was listening to at the time sorry if that’s kind of cheating, I listen to a ton of music)
Anapest: was listening to a song and the lyrics, “All I wanted was you” seems anapestic […]
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Brandon Taylor wrote a new post, Week 1 Text Message Poem, on the site Brandon Taylor 4 months ago
Fugitive
I mostly pirate them, but don’t tell the CIA.
Too late, I am the CIA!
Ah, dang! You caught me, now I gotta go
on the lamb.
It’s okay, I won’t tell anyone.
It’ll be the greatest lo […]
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