Quiting my addiction to dairy products wasn’t all that hard as I thought it’d be. It was a bit difficult at first but other than that I was pretty successful. I actually had fun doing this little project because it also helped me with personal health issues so I enjoyed every part. The only time it was a little hard was avoiding to eat ice-cream but I decided there are other great snacks out there without milk in them that I can enjoy.
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Transcendent Kingdom Project entry #1
A small addiction I decided to give up is dairy products. I noticed that I eat a lot of things that carry milk so I’ve decided to lay off for a while especially since I want to get into shape (eating dairy products makes it a little harder for certain goals.) My Trainor told me that in order to get to that body goal- I’ll need to fix up my diet and dairy products was one that had to go.
So far I’m doing an okay job. I slip here and there but for the most part I’ve been okay. It hasn’t been too hard or extremely stressful. I’ve noticed lots of positive changes in my health since then too. It’s been okay.
Blog post #3
- One idea from “Literature, Meaning and Interpretation” strikes me as interesting, important or significant regarding language and meaning is the theory of Saussure that ” That it is one rather than the other” Jonathan gave an example that he was sitting on a chair but it could be called anything else. Culler also said how certain objects he may see may be said a certain way in his language but differ in someone else’s. This interests me because for some reason i’ve always thought about that- The idea that we could have called certain objects anything else but we stuck with a certain name, and how they are called other things in different languages. To think about that is just interesting to me.
- In “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen he says “Inscrutable His ways are, and immune to catechism by a mind too strewn.” From this we can say that one of the poetic techniques that he uses from Jonathan Cullers ‘Literary Theory’ is rhythmic words by Cullen rhyming words such as “Immune” and “strewn” he’s creating a rhythmical pattern and the reason why I find that interesting is because of the rhythmical pattern you create when rhyming words.
Blog post #2
In Culler’s “What is Literature and Does it Matter?” The section titled ” The nature of literature” He defines literature from several angles. The angle I find most interesting is “Literature as aesthetic object.” Jonathan Culler talks about the debates of beauty being an objective property in works of art or a subjective response of viewers. He talks about Immanuel Kant (the primary theorist of modern Western) theory of literary work being and aesthetic object because it shows urges readers to tell the similarities between form and content. This really interest me because of the theory because beauty can be an objective property but sometimes I feel (especially with thr internet giving you so much access to personally opinions) could be a subjective response of the viewers so the artist or creator may fix what they made. This also makes me think about aesthetics and beauty in literature- I’ve never actually thought too much about it but when we read and the writers tell us what’s there we imagine the setting in our mind and they might tell us the objects in our surroundings or use certain words that make the setting seem beautiful.
Blog Post #1 “I Sing the Body Electric” by Walt Whitman
In this poem, Whitman explores the physicality of the human body and how it does just as much as the soul. He talks about how his version of a well-made man does not only express himself through facial expression but in the way he carries himself in whole. The way he walks, the flex of his waist and knees and the way he may talk. Whitman talks about how his clothes can’t hide him and he can still see who is through the clothing. Whitman then describes women- their shapes, styles, the contour of their shapes and other people and what those people do and how they do it-the narrator is explaining in detail the beauty of the body. The narrator talks about a farmer he knew, he describes what he looked like and how tall he was and he talks about the farmers sons and daughters and how they loved him with personal love he talked about how his grandsons loved him and that if you knew him you’d love him to and would wish to sit by him. Whitman was expressing the thoughts of being surrounded by beautiful bodies and how he takes in the details of men, women, babies. The narrator discusses how the female body is a gate for the soul touching on the topic of reproduction and the female form, Whitman talks about the beauty in the male form and how he takes his part in “power and action” saying that both female and male bodies are holy. Whitman talks about the a man being sold at a slave auction and a auctioneer who doesn’t know what he is doing and the people at the auction who can’t afford the males body because its worth more than money, Whitman describes how this man has dreams and aspirations, how he has senses, arms and legs, and that he has the same blood as everyone else and that he’s not just one man. He talks about a woman being sold in auction and how she’s not just one woman and how she is a mother and she will have daughters who will be mothers. Whitman talks about how the human bodies are all connected in one way or another using a christian belief.
