{"id":3983,"date":"2016-04-14T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2016-04-14T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:51:16","slug":"end-of-week-4-and-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2016\/04\/14\/end-of-week-4-and-the-block\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Week 4 and the Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy block break everyone! I definitely meant to write this post either last night or this morning, but found that I needed to give myself a little bit of a break before writing this! Although our final paper for this class was fairly short (especially since my last block ended with me writing my thesis), the idea of writing yet another something right after I finished my paper was more than I really wanted to do! Anywho, I hope you\u2019ve all made it through the end of the block and can take some time to relax and rejuvenate before jumping into the last block of this school year!
\nWe spent all of this week work\"4\"ing on our final papers, so I don\u2019t have much to talk about on the reading side of life! Over the weekend, we were originally supposed to read a novel called Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties<\/em>, but our professor decided to make that an extra credit assignment (read it and write a reflection) because we wouldn\u2019t have\u00a0the time to do the novel justice. I (along with quite a few of my classmates it sounds like) decided to read the book, mostly because I\u2019ve quite enjoyed the readings for this class, but also in part because I was already part way through it! I can\u2019t say it was my favorite thing we\u2019ve read this block (that award probably has to go to Brando Skyhorse\u2019s The Madonnas of Echo Park<\/em>), but it was still an interesting read! Of all the books we read, this book and the collection of comics, The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S<\/em> dealt the most explicitly with sexuality. I didn\u2019t spend any time comparing how the two works grapple with the issue, but it would definitely be a good thought experiment! They\u2019re both somewhat gritty representations, but beyond that I don\u2019t really have anything to say!<\/p>\n

Our final day of class was a peer editing day. Whether intentional or not, I was partnered with another senior (not an English major though) and we\u2019d both written our papers on the same short story. For all that it was a peer editing exercise, it was kind of exciting reading another paper about this particular short story. It\u2019s all of ten pages, yet our papers went in two completely different directions! Although that can sometimes be a bit disconcerting, I think we both felt pretty good about it because we knew that at the very least, we\u2019d picked a somewhat controversial, but definitely arguable thesis, which is kind of the whole point of those kinds of papers!<\/p>\n

I hope you all have a wonderful week! With the class over, this is my last blog post, so thank you to everyone who has read it! I hope it\u2019s been enjoyable and informative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy block break everyone! I definitely meant to write this post either last night or this morning, but found that I needed to give myself a little bit of a break before writing this! Although our final paper for this class was fairly short (especially since my last block ended with me writing my thesis), … <\/p>\n

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