In this week’s English Composition classes, we analyzed poems that related to the subject alive at the end of the world. The poem my group and I analyzed was “Alive at the End of the World”. In the poem, it was set at an LGBTQ+ nightclub, and the comfort of being at the nightclub brought you. Afterwards, it changes to not feeling heard, and how people outside the nightclub viewed them with curiosity or hatred. My group related this to the idea alive at the end of the world by suggesting that people who want to expose their sexuality feel as though coming out is the end of the world…

In English Composition, we read the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” and had an argumentative discussion about whether Montresor’s murder was justified or not. My group had to find reasons why Montresor’s murder was not justified. We found a lot of reasons why killing his friend wasn’t justified, such as being manipulative by telling his friend he has wine at his home, knowing his friend loves wine. We also suggested that he has sociopathic tendencies, like showing no empathy, being impulsive, and manipulative. He showed no empathy after leaving his friend to die and was very impulsive by not caring after that day if his friend was starving to…

In English Composition classes, we discussed in groups what labor we work on that isn’t a job. For instance, I said family labor because my family and I are close, but it will only stay that way if we spend more time with each other. My family and I eat dinner together, watch a TV show together, and spend most weekends together. We also built up poems of the text “Letter From Home”. Poems made up from the same text were all very different and expressed different messages.  In Ethnographic Methods at Work, we discussed a school without grades. And how beneficial it can be for students’ learning drive. Instead…