English 101 helped me realize that I did have skills in critical thinking; unfortunately I didn’t know how to correctly write my thoughts down. I love to analyze why things happen, what might have made it happen and why a person might feel the way they do, but it has always been difficult for me to write complete thoughts down in correct grammar. Even though I feel that I still struggle with it, I know that I have come a long way after taking English 101 this quarter. There were many opportunities this quarter that the class would read essays and then had to submerge their selves into the meaning of the essay by taking our thoughts and discussing it with others on the board. It really helped me look at how others thought and received information differently from the same passages in the book. I really learned to respect differences and opinions and how who we are, where we come from and what we have been through shapes our critical thinking skills.
I decided to do my Critical Thinking Skills assignment on the discussion we did online with classmates from English 101. Lucy Grealy, THE MASK. Remix - reading + composing culture (Catherine Latterell) 2006. This was about a young lady who had been diagnosed with a form of cancer, in which she lost nearly 1/2 of her jaw. She talks about the different type of pain she went through that wasn't physical. She called it, "deep bottomless grief...called ugliness." Alienation, humilation, etc.
"I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: If there was more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated."
Lucy always seemed to look at the less fortunate. I think she felt that if she could find someone that was worse off then her, then her problems were less valued. She didn't want to give herself permission to suffer. Although deep down, she was suffering.
"I breathed in the condensing, plastic-tainted air behind the mask and thought that I was breathing in normalcy, that freedom and ease were what the world consisted of, that other people felt it all the time."
When she hid behind the masks at Halloween, she experienced a sense of freedom and joy, she figured others felt daily. She wanted to feel it all the time, and she figured the only way she could experience that was to "hide" her scars. When indeed she couldn't hide the scars that lie beneath the surface, deep down.
"I wanted nothing to do with the world of love; I thought wanting love was a weakness to be overcome. And besides, I thought to myself, the world of love wanted nothing to do with me."
I decided to do my Critical Thinking Skills assignment on the discussion we did online with classmates from English 101. Lucy Grealy, THE MASK. Remix - reading + composing culture (Catherine Latterell) 2006. This was about a young lady who had been diagnosed with a form of cancer, in which she lost nearly 1/2 of her jaw. She talks about the different type of pain she went through that wasn't physical. She called it, "deep bottomless grief...called ugliness." Alienation, humilation, etc.
"I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: If there was more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated."
Lucy always seemed to look at the less fortunate. I think she felt that if she could find someone that was worse off then her, then her problems were less valued. She didn't want to give herself permission to suffer. Although deep down, she was suffering.
"I breathed in the condensing, plastic-tainted air behind the mask and thought that I was breathing in normalcy, that freedom and ease were what the world consisted of, that other people felt it all the time."
When she hid behind the masks at Halloween, she experienced a sense of freedom and joy, she figured others felt daily. She wanted to feel it all the time, and she figured the only way she could experience that was to "hide" her scars. When indeed she couldn't hide the scars that lie beneath the surface, deep down.
"I wanted nothing to do with the world of love; I thought wanting love was a weakness to be overcome. And besides, I thought to myself, the world of love wanted nothing to do with me."
Lucy didn't feel as if she deserved love. If she "needed" it, it would be considered a weakness; something else she would have to defeat. As far as she was concerned the love of the world didn't want her either.
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