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Samikshya Acharya commented on the post, Blog post #6, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:22:22 -0500

I agree with you. No one deserve sympathy in this story. In my view, Delano was thinking something else instead of helping the captain and spanierd who were in danger.

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:19:44 -0500

Benito Cereno is often cited as a powerful statement on enslavement in the U.S. Now that you have finished the novella, what are your thoughts about how Herman Melville depicted this practice? Does the novella […]

Samikshya Acharya commented on the post, Blog Post #5, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:30:49 -0400

I agree with you. “Narrative” stories are the main way to sense the thing considering of our lives as a movement driving to some places or telling ourself whats happening in the world.

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:04:33 -0400

In chapter 6, Jonathan culler, “Narrative” stories are the main way to sense the thing considering of our lives as a movement driving to some places or telling ourself whats happening in the world. He said that […]

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:53:07 -0400

In the chapter Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry, Poetry is closely associated to rhetoric, the consider of the persuasive and expressive resources of language. Culler points to characterize both poetry and rhetoric, […]

Samikshya Acharya commented on the post, Blog #3. (Meaning, intention, and context.), on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:28:05 -0400

I agree with you. Language doesn’t provide labels for pre-existing categories as it generates its own categories speakers and we can be brought to see through and around the settings of their language, in order t […]

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:32:07 -0400

After reading the chapter 4, Jonathan mention that literature has three dimensions of meaning, the meaning of word that comes from the things they might do in utterances, the meaning of an utterance which is an […]

Samikshya Acharya commented on the post, Literature as an aesthetic object, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:49:55 -0400

Yes, I agree too. Literature can also be aesthetically pleasing, people often debate about the beauty of the written word.

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:22:15 -0400

After reading the nature of literature by Jonathan Culler, I found he mention literature as the ‘foregrounding’ of language, literature as the integration of language, literature as fiction, literature as […]

Samikshya Acharya commented on the post, Blog post #1, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:01:33 -0400

You are right. Literature is very difficult to define. I have the same feeling. I believe literature is a form of human expression. Literature has its own ability to build on itself.

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:29:37 -0400

After reading the chapter 2, What is literature and does it matter? Jonathan Culler define literature in various ways. He says literature isn’t as it were the composed word, but it has a certain quality which m […]

Samikshya Acharya commented on the post, Hi my name is Chaewon Lee, on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:44:59 -0400

Hi, Chaewon, welcome to the class.

Samikshya Acharya wrote a new post on the site ENG 102:Composition II (Fall 20)

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:24:21 -0400

Hello professor and all my dear friends. My name is Samikshya Acharya. I am here in New York since 4 years. I live with my husband in queens. I am a student at Laguardia Community College and My major is […]

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