Job Shadowing Experience

For my job shadowing experience I went to Meloite, Morris, Leonatti, and Parker architecture firm.  Along with my fellow classmate Jessie J.  we were privileged to follow Parker around for the day and see what its like to be an architect.  I had felt like I wanted to be an architect for a long time and that it would be a good avenue for me to follow, but this experience set it in concrete.  I had a lot of fun and enjoyed being able to see what its like.  I like the layout of a normal architecture studio and what it looks like.  I noticed that Mr. Parker didn't sit and do one thing for an extended period of time which appeals to me because I get bored when doing one thing for an extended period of time.

I arrived at 8:00am and was allowed to play on their software for a couple hours while he attended a meeting.  It is the same software we use in CAD class so I feel like I am preparing well for my career which excites me.  We then went out to lunch where he talked to us about how we got interested in architecture.  A little later in the day he showed us the blueprints to one of the buildings they designed.  After that he took us to the actual site where this building was being built which was awesome because we got to see drawings turn into an actual built building.  It interest me to be able to design something on paper that you then get to tell people to build.  I like thinking that I will be designing places that people will live in, function in, and protect people from natural disasters.  I can't wait to be an architect.  This job shadowing experience definitely was beneficial to me and helped me secure my ideas that architecture would be a good career path for me.

Modernism Project

Dickinson's writing style

Emily Dickinson's writing style includes different things from many hyphen's (or dashes according to Bloom's) to  times when some of her thoughts come unspoken and the reader has to think about the story in order to figure out what she intended to have there.  In her poems she would put countless dashes, which according to Deirdre Fagan were "quite deliberate" and intended to be there.  To me, when a dash is used it means there is a brief pause in the reading to get yourself caught up on breath.  This also gives the audience time to think about what was just said and get themselves caught up.  I am not meaning pause for like five minutes and give everyone the time to go get refreshments and use the facilities, I just mean like fifteen seconds to get a quick breath of air before continuing on.  I am starting to understand that this is not what Emily intended.  From the sounds of it, she used hyphens like we use commas because they were everywhere.  In the second poem from her series Life, she used a hyphen in the poem.  If I were to say that to someone, they would not be very impressed and quite honestly I wouldn't blame them, but what is impressive about how Emily worked a hyphen into this poem is the fact that this poem was only eight lines long with roughly five words per line.  That gives her only forty words to figure out how and when to use a dash.  Granted she probably was in a habit of using them and it came easy to her like commas are for us, but still that is impressive in my eyes.  She wrote,

"OUR share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.
Here a star, and there a star,	5
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards—day!"

To me, in this poem she used the dash to help in the rhyme scheme because I do not know very many people that use "Afterwards--day!" instead of "tomorrow" in their every day vocabulary.  I know that I personally have never said it that way and do not plan to anytime soon, but that is why it was so easy for me to figure out why she used the dash.  And as I already said, I believe she used the dash in this poem to help with the rhyme scheme and it made what she meant rhyme.  I think that what she meant by those two words separated by a dash was the word tomorrow because the following day after a night time is called tomorrow and after night time comes day so Afterwards day.  This makes sense to me and I hope makes sense to anyone reading this.  As I still stand strong about my theory that Emily Dickinson used dash's to create a brief moment of pause, I did not find one to show and was not what was intended by the dash in this poem.

Dickinson, Emily. "2. “Our Share of Night to Bear." Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Bartleby.com. Web. 01 May 2012.

Fagan, Deirdre. "Emily Dickinson's Unutterable Word." Emily Dickinson Journal 14, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 70–75. Quoted as "Emily Dickinson's Unutterable Word" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Emily Dickinson, New Edition, Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008.Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.

I heard a fly buzz when I died

In this poem, Emily Dickinson acts almost as if she might have ADD because of how random her thoughts are.  In some peoples cases, they can be talking about one thing and get completely side tracked and start talking about something else in an instance.  Like in the move UP, the dog is just talking normally and then he yells "Squirl!" randomly and out of context because he got distracted.  In this poem, Emily is talking about a person lying on their death bed and about to die when a fly distracts this person from dying.  Such a generic and simplistic insect was able to draw this persons attention so much at to bring them out of death, or at least that's how I interpret it.  I figured that this type of ending could be taken two ways in that the person could be very happy about this happening or the person could be very sad about this happening.  If it were to be taken in the way that the person is happy, it would be because the person was stopped from dying and gets to live a little bit longer, but if it is taken in the way that the person or audience is mad or sad about the person dying it would be because the fly stopped this specific individual from completing all of their tasks they needed to before dying or that the person that was dying was prepared and ready to die, but thanks to the fly they didn't.  Both ways seemed reasonable to me, I feel that it is just up to the reader and the way they interpret the poem to choose how they want think and feel about the ending of this poem.  I think that most of the time the poems tend to be interpreted pretty close to the same way every time this happens except for like one little part that could be taken two completely different ways and it depends on the reader and their feelings toward the subject to choose how they want the story to end.

Life.

My favorite Whitman poem is Life.  This poem talks about going through life facing the different challenges it may throw at us and how we need to keep on pushing on.  This was what I thought it meant at first at least.  I thought that it was just a little piece of wording that was there to help encourage someone to keep on keeping on.  I liked that this poem was short because I get distracted from things easily and long things of text tend to overwhelm me and this poem did not.

As I read this poem a second time I realized that it could actually be taken a whole different way.  It could be about a soldier who gave his life or a soldier that  is returning home from a war.  Whitman uses different words in his poem to make me think both ways.  It makes me think that whatever has happened or might happen is alright because it is out of our control and is life and we have to live with it and learn to deal with it and move on.

Journal 29? maybe?

For this blog, I am being asked to figure out who I am.  At first I thought that this would be very difficult, but after thinking more, I realized that I actually already know who I am; I just haven’t written it down before. 

I am Casey Michael Young. I am the son of Debbie and Curt Trampe and the late Michael Young.  I enjoy spending my time with my family and friends.  If I’m not spending my time doing either of those two things, I am probably out meeting new people.  I love to meet new people because then I never get bored of the same people.  I work at Springfield Christian School watching little kids for their extended care program after school.  It is just like Passage at Pleasant Plains, but for SCS.  I love my job because I enjoy making little kids laugh and happy.  The one thing that I never enjoy doing, which is normal for any high school student, is doing my homework.  Although it is boring and it feels like there is no point in doing it at some times, I know that if I want to be successful in life and go to a good college to get a good education, I need to work hard in high school.  I find it ironic that I am talking about college and what it takes in order to go because tomorrow morning I am going on a college visit to Judson University up near Chicago.  Before I start rambling I am going to end this blog, but this is just a little bit of who I am.

Chanting the Square Deific

Chanting the Square Deific by Walt Whitman was an interesting piece of literature because Whitman claims there is a fourth being in the accepted Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Whitman believes that the fourth is called the Soul, or at least that is what I gathered from the poem.  Although the whole idea that there is four members of the once known Trinity did not make sense to me because I am so fixed on the three since that is what I grew up believing and always have, I did understand that Whitman thought highly of himself.  So highly that in this poem he related himself to God.  The first time I read the poem it made no sense to me actually because I was unable to make the connection that Whitman was referring to himself as God.  Another thing that I noticed about this poem is Whitman has four stanza's in the poem and there are four different figures that he is talking about.  Each stanza talks about a different one of these figures and each stanza goes into detail about it.

To me, if someone were to relate themselves to God, I would say blasphemy because no one is good enough to be related to God. This is exactly what Walt Whitman did though in this poem. Whitman said, "Relentless I forgive no man, whoever sins dies, I will have that man’s life; Therefore let none expect mercy, have the season, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? No more have I" which shows that when he says I, he is inferring that this is something God would say, but that he is saying it because he is God which is false.(Whitman) According to Christianity, God was the one who created the universe and everything in it and God is the one who knows everything about everyone and God is the one that can strike you dead for saying your as good as Him.  The only person that I would say is worthy of being like God is Jesus and Jesus didn't even say he was like his Father.  Jesus is the only human to never cuss and the only human to never sin.  Every single person on this earth has sinned before because we were born into a sinful world and it is unavoidable.  If you claim to have never sinned you are wrong and until I find someone that has never sinned, no one is worthy of claiming to be as close to God as Walt Whitman did in his poem "Chanting the Square Deific".

Whitman, Walt. "Chanting The Square Deific." The Walt Whitman Archive. Web. 03 Apr. 2012

Since my internet was not working when I wrote this blog and I finally got it to work now, I decided that before I post this blog online I would look up a literary criticism since I was able to now.  I didn't have it factored in in my blog, but after reading this criticism the poem does make a lot more sense.

Oliver, Charles M. "'Chanting the Square Deific'." Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work, Critical Companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.