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What I have learned from English 102

         There are many things that I learned in English 102. I learned how to take readings more deeply. I never did that in middle school. I never really liked to read back in high school. Now, taking the course I can understand poems way better than I could back in High school. I always struggled with those and never understood what I read in high school. I have read the Cask of Amontillado over about three or four times. I never really understood it until I read it again in college. It had a theme of revenge and death for Fortunado. I can improve from what I used to be and be better than that now on. I always struggled but from this class I can definitely do better.

         The class overall changed how I view literature. I never really liked it before. Now, I can improve and do better when it comes to writing essays. I thought my essays were good enough but now the class should I need a whole lots of improvement in my writing. I need to revise and go to the writing center often so I can be a better writer when it comes to writing essays. I liked all the poems that we read in class and that means a lot because I never really liked poems back in high school. I thought I would never understand any of these poems but I just need to take it line by line. Hopefully, I can do better in the future.

          I do not really know where I see myself in the future but I'll figure it out before next semester. I know I can do great things but I need to work harder and better for my future. I do not see myself as a writer but who knows what happen in the future. I can take reading would definitely be doing more often in my spare time. I never liked to read but the class had open my eyes to new meanings and I thought I could never be the person to read a book at all.

Losing A Long Time Bestfriend

        My long time friend I knew since the fifth grade. His name was Jesse and he was my basketball mate. I known him for the longest of time. We would always hang out and went to many parties together. One of the honest people I met. I remember back in middle school, He had challenged me to a Basketball game and I would only agree if I could get his Chicago Bulls cap. I won and the score was 16-4 points. I was completely joking about the cap but he gave it to me any way. To this day I still have that cap. We would always play ball together and on the same team. Even when I moved to Houston, he was still a close friend to me. I came back and It was like I never left. The friendship was still there. The day before he died, he had asked me if I could hang out with him. I said no and he said "alright man, Ill see you whenever". The next day, I came home and I got a phone call from my ex. She told me that Jesse had got into a car accident and died in the hospital. I was in complete shock and whole week was unbelievable. I had wore the green bracelet to represent the friendship I had with him. I never took it off ever since then. 

      It relates to Edgar Allan Poe because he lost many people that meant a whole lot to him. I understood how that felt and I thought that would never happen to me. It had made me able to appreciate the people I have in my life because you do not know when they will leave.

About Me

       My family is my mother and my step father. I only have one sibling and he is younger than me. My real father had left me when I was only three years old and I never heard of him ever since. My family would move every other few years. I grew up in Brooklyn up until I was ten and then I moved to Elmont which I stayed there for a few years until I moved to Farmingdale. I stayed there until seventh grade because my family got divorced. My mother and I moved to Houston which we spend there for a whole year until they got back together. I had moved back to Farmingdale and we never moved since. I always made new friends and I never really had a problem with any one. I always found a way to adjust to my situation because I am a laid-back or chill person. I have always played basketball to release the stress or go away from it. It was something I relied on and it had never failed me.

Houston

It relates to Edgar Allan Poe when he was younger. he never really stayed at one place and his own father leaving him at a young age.
I thought that it was pretty interesting that I could somewhat relate to what Poe when he was younger.

Video Games

                                                                                    

                   When I was not able to play Basketball, I would play video games. These video games create a great story for people to follow. Especially Fallout 4, which takes place in a completely devastated version of Boston or the Commonwealth. 2k16 is just an extension to my love and passion for basketball but, I do like playing games that have a story to share. The most interesting part of Fallout 4 which relates to Edgar Allan Poe. They showed a reference to the Cask of the Amontillado during one of the missions. 

        The reference was pretty cool since I did not expect to see that in a video game. It was pretty epic when I found out while playing the game. I went into the bottom of a castle and found bottles of Amontillado on the floor. I followed it and it brought me to the skeleton that is tied up in the wall. Finding these in video games are awesome because people would never expect that from the game. I never knew reading The Cask Of The Amontillado would appear in one of the many things that I like to do on my spare time.

Basketball

                   Basketball for me is something I've been doing since I was born. It something that has never changed about me. I play basketball almost every day and is definitely my passion. To other people its just a sport but for me, it is something that means a lot for me. It can be a great stress reliever or something I can always do on my spare time. People have always doubted me over the years but proving them wrong is the best part of the sport for me. From never being picked to being picked first is one of most favorite things about the sport. People would focus on looks or how a person would dress to play the sport but in the end. I always love proving them wrong and seeing the look on a person's face when you hit twelve out of fourteen shot attempts is definitely an amazing feeling. Overall, nothing can change how view the sport I grew up playing my whole life and I would ignore the negative comments just to prove them wrong. It all adds to the motivation I have for this sport.

Eulalie

I dwelt alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

Ah, less- less bright
The stars of the night
Than the eyes of the radiant girl!
That the vapor can make
With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,
Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl-
Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless
curl.

Now Doubt- now Pain
Come never again,
For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,
And all day long
Shines, bright and strong,
Astarte within the sky,
While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye-
While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye. 

           Edgar Allan Poe was completely in love and he wrote this to describe his lovely wife Virginia. A young man marries a lady named Eulalie and he describes her as the star that outshines other stars. They were happy together and she was love of his life. The man used to walk in darkness until she came along and changed his life. The poem represented Edgar Allan Poe before his wife died in 1947. He was a very happy man until then. Everything after was severely depressing and he would never recover from it.