Uploading Essays this week

I will be uploading the work from the last couple of semesters this week if I manage to get my essay written for Coffeen and rework the paper for Wintroub.

Good reading. These papers have not gotten better. In fact, they are of lesser quality. Why? It is my fervent belief that the volume of reading is prohibitive of getting a good grasp of the material and therefore the ideas pull together only after digesting the work.

Meanwhile, I am sure they grade along those lines because I continue to stay at 3.5 overall. Which means Rhetorical skills are better than average but not stellar and conceptually I am exceptional. So what? So these essays can be used as an indicator of the types of material one would engage in a career at Berkeley (if you are in the humanities or social sciences). They can also be used to measure your own work against; the most significant failure of my papers is lack of organization and unsubstantiated claims. I tend to get personally involved with the text and discuss how I see it instead of what the text says. I wouldn't recommend plagiarizing work found on a blogspot. And frankly my grades aren't good enough to promote theft.

Finally, I am preparing for graduate school and I will post the Statement of Purpose written for Stanford and then ultimately report back if I got in or not. I will also discuss the critiques of said letter.

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Coffeen's class for which I am writing a mere two page paper about the above image. It has taken me a week to create the image and at least as long thinking about something clever to say. I am a viewer and artist...multiplicity....Home less feet, homeless feet, home less Feet....what multiplicity implied in the wood stages of each. though they are clearly separate they are joined by the language in the image and by the affect of each juxtaposed. Why are there four inset pictures of the homeless man's feet, well because there are four shoes...regardless they are women's shoes, who cares they are the right shoe only...they are right aren't they? Do you have home less feet. My feet have a home in fact multiple homes. The home changes with the outfit. is that a home ? His feet have no home literally and figuratively. No shoes, no house to hold those shoes and no where to go...I have to go. I feel a paper about feet coming on.