Critique of Reig's Poem

Sitting and Thinking is a poem about Reig sitting and thinking, making for a perfect title. Reig starts off by describing his surroundings, and ends with an abstract thought process. Unfortunately, I find this hard to critique, because I find that it’s unable to come across as a poem, and is instead a short prose.

How this poem is too close to a prose is through several means. For one, there are no sentence fragments. Every sentence is grammatically correct. It also includes punctuation in all the right cases, as well as capitals. Even the style in wich Reig writes is in prose. It’s difficult for me to call this a poem. If I were to make any critique at all, it would be simply that this is too much a prose.

My only other criticism is that Reig falls out of his consistency. First, he describes concrete images around him, but the second half of the poem, he enters abstract territory. This makes the second half seem weak and vauge, especially in comparison to his concrete passages.

I would focus on that consistency throughout the whole work and also remove punctuation and prose writing. If anything else, if this were a prose piece, I could have given it higher marks! Good work on that!

Marrying Absurd

Specific details Didion uses in her essay include: The state of Nevada does not include a premarital blood test, or a waiting period before or after the marriage. People in Nevada expect more when they are getting married. Las Vegas has girls and ladies as room attendants, with nitrite poppers in the uniform pocket. There is no "logical sense" of where anyone is, therefore they do not have a connection with "real life". There are 19 wedding chapels in Las Vegas, they are all competitive and each offers better and faster service. Honeymoon accomidations, wedding ceremony on record, free transportation, flowers, rings, dressing rooms, and parking. All of which are offered 24 hours a day. Las Vegas Strip chapels have wishing well's and stained glass paper windows as their artificial bouvardia. Las Vegas offers niceness and shows you how to make your wedding ceremony "right"

What I think kobe bryants frame is to let everyone know his love for basketball and how much of a star he is.

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1) Why does Kobe Bryant working on commericals to show his talant, when everyone knows he is good?
2) Why does he stress so much to be fit? Ex: stresses over the ingredients in food and also HOW it is cooked.
3) Why did he think it was that necessary to have a design with a special alloy band inside the arch of his tennis shoe?
4) Why does his facial expressions matter for photo shoots?
5) Why is he always about winning?

Westbury Court

What I think the author's point is in this story is since she never dreamed of leaving the westbury court until the year of the fire happened, the fire may have ruined all of the memories there. Because that is the one thing that is the one memory that stuck out the most to her. Examples from the story would be when the mother said "see, this is what happens to children who play with matches. Sometimes it is too late to say, I shouldn't have" Another example is, when the family moved away 3 years after the fire happened

War Stories

Ah the War Stories, how do I even begin. It was by far one of the most compelling things I have seen in a very long time. I was very intrigued with each individual scene and how it was portrayed. I even had goosebumps during a few of them because you were really able to imagine what was happening. I wish I could have stayed longer for the Q&A as well as to meet the individuals that were the real characters. Overall, I enjoyed it very much and I hope many others will be able to see these reenactments.

War Stories

The play War Stories was a class of students performing in their own way, interviews that they had with people around the world that have experienced war. They start by announcing who they interviewed and where the person is from while other members help set up the stage behind the person speaking. They then reenact their interviews and I think they did a good job doing it. Overall, I thought the play was good and was a good experience to see.