Kylie Cacao

SDSU ENGL 220 acc

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

And just like that, the class is over. I thoroughly enjoyed taking this short but sweet course. I feel like "This is Water" was the perfect way to wrap up everything we have learned thus far these past six weeks. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

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[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

When driving, I've changed my outlook to think things like "maybe they just have to use the bathroom really badly" when someone cuts me off. Driving has become a lot more peaceful. I thought it was funny when Wallace described situations like this in "This is Water." #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

Before this unit, the only visual poetry author I could recall was Shel Silverstein. Now that we have some tools to analyze it, I am eager to crack open some of his books again. It will be fun to see some poetry from my childhood as an adult with new eyes. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

When Lawson says in his afterword, "Language has become for us like water: a tasteless, odourless, colorless medium" (Lawson 87), it reminds me of Stephen Fry's take on language from module 1. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

At first I was a little intimidated because I was not seeing Katie Walrath's vision in "A Visual Analysis of Maus: The Impact of the “Real” Vladek Spiegelman." However, I liked the free reign we had when it came to analyzing Maus in this week's discussion. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

In high school I read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. I couldn't help but draw similarities between Elie's experiences and Vladek's experiences with the holocaust. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

Once I started reading Maus, I couldn't put it down until I finished. I even read the sequel: And Here My Troubles Begin. Here is the link for anyone interested #ECL220 https://t.co/OtcGBOlzPW

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

I enjoyed reading along to "Marriage" as Corso performed it. I looked up "Persimmons" to see if there was a reading that went along with it. Instead, I found a video of Li-Young Lee performing other works. I hope you enjoy hearing as much as I did https://t.co/0Z2q0YbWgm #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

Sharon Olds has another poem that is themed around sex. Here is a TED talk of Olds discussing the subjects of this poem: the breasts and the hymen. https://t.co/eMSWbTV4oz #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

I was never a big fan of poetry simply because I never understood it. After this lesson, I am glad that I now have the tools to begin to explicate a poem. Norton's "Responding to Poetry" and the "How to Read a Poem" pdf really came in handy for this week's discussion. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

I have a persimmon tree in my front yard. It's true that you need to eat persimmons the moment they become ripe. Wait one day later and it's too mushy. One day too early and it's too acerbic. At least with overripe persimmons, you could make delicious persimmon bread 🤤 #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

I wanted to see if there were any American Streamlined Moderne aesthetics in San Diego and found this webpage. It's pretty cool to compare the descriptions from "The Gernsback Continuum" to actual buildings in our own backyard. #ECL220 https://t.co/dNJ9pOIE1u

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

@valeriesdsu Wow! Great job making that connection! I'm going to try re-reading the story with this theory in mind and see if it changes anything 👀

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

I have never related more to a main character when Jing-mei goes on her journey to find out what it "means to be Chinese." As a Chinese-American myself whose family immigrated to American many generations ago, I too am finding more about what it means to be Chinese. #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

Madame Loisel's reaction when Madame Forestier told her the necklace was only worth five hundred francs #ECL220

[Kylie Cacao @cacaosdsu]

IBM's description of Watson, the supercomputer that beat Ken Jennings. At the end of the article, John Kelly hopes that Watson will evolve to eventually make decisions for humans. This is something Jennings fears. https://t.co/WV8cCEVIk9 #ECL220