. Spend 30 minutes doing the following writing exercise:
Post your passage reference, list, and written observations.
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Abby Paternoster
1/22/2018 08:39:05 pm
-Passage: “Ah, our tea has arrived…but there you have it” (Hamid 11)
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Saeed Yahya Mohanna
1/23/2018 02:53:46 am
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Jiwon Shin
1/23/2018 04:43:44 pm
Passage: "I fell silent. I am, as you can see, normally quite..." (Hamid 7).
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Katrina Gonzales
1/23/2018 05:35:35 pm
“Like Manhattan?... I would later depart” (32-33)
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Lizeth
1/23/2018 09:43:47 pm
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Valeria Gonzalez
1/23/2018 09:54:41 pm
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Sean Grieshop
1/24/2018 10:45:19 am
Passage: I would like to think that I was, in that moment, outwardly calm, but inside I was panicking. How does one value a fictitious, fantastic company such as the one he had just described? Where does one even begin? I had no idea. I looked at Jim, but he did not seem to be joking. So I inhaled and shut my eyes. There was a mental state I used to attain when I was playing soccer: myself would disappear, and I would be free, free of doubts and limits, free to focus on nothing but the game. When I entered this state I felt unstoppable. Sufi mystics and Zen masters would, I suspect, understand the feeling. Possibly, ancient warriors did something similar before they went into battle, ritualistically accepting their impending death so they could function unencumbered by fear. (Hamid 13)
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Antara Jha
1/24/2018 11:36:57 am
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Melissa Regalado
1/24/2018 11:38:05 am
-Passage: “This was, as I have … good thing in my book.’” (Hamid 8-9)
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Kaitlyn Chieh
1/24/2018 12:09:18 pm
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Samir Patel
1/24/2018 12:24:35 pm
Passage: "When my turn came, I said I hoped to one day be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the others appeared shocked, and I was forced to explain that I had been joking." (Hamid 26)
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Alexa Kideys
1/24/2018 01:00:43 pm
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Paola Perez Duran
1/24/2018 01:30:07 pm
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Christina To
1/24/2018 02:39:23 pm
Passage: "I was, I must confess, I was caught off balance..." (Hamid, 9)
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Marwat Al-Olefi
1/24/2018 03:10:55 pm
On page 4, I was fascinated on how he articulated his words to fit the description of being an international student. His choice of words to describe the process of an international student being accepted and given full financial aid was right to point. For example, when he states, “ We international students were sourced from around the globe, sifted not only by well-honed standardized test but by painstakingly customized evaluations- interview, essays, recommendations- until the best and the brightest of us had been identified” (Hamid, 4). What was interesting in this statement, was how he used a physical like words such as “sourced” “sifted” “well-honed” as to emphasize that this selection process was more to it than just submitting an application. Those choice of words showed the intensity of this process and at least for me, I became more well aware of what international students have to go through and and felt more empathy for them.
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Sasha Zelenski
1/24/2018 03:27:16 pm
PASSAGE (Hamid 4-5)
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Katie Suzuki
1/24/2018 04:00:29 pm
Passage: “But it may be that I am inclined… than to that of Spears” (Hamid 21-22)
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Sai Wignarajah
1/24/2018 04:29:24 pm
Passage: “Yes, I was happy in that moment… put the present into much better perspective” (Hamid 45)
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1/24/2018 04:35:09 pm
Passage: “It is remarkable, I must say, how being in Pakistan heightens one’s sensitivity to the sight of a woman’s body...” (Hamid 26).
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1/24/2018 04:40:36 pm
Passage: “It is remarkable, I must say, how being in Pakistan heightens one’s sensitivity to the sight of a woman’s body...” (Hamid 26).
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