How I Studied American Poetry

     After spending three months in the Contemporary Poetry class, I've studied about many American poets, like Walt Whitman or Amiri Baraka, different types of poems, such as unusual typography and parallelismus membrorum, and different poetry movements, like the Black Arts Movement or the Beat Movement, as well. There were poems that associated with music, in which Bob Dylan and Public Enemy made this connection possible. Even some Black Arts Movement artists like Quincy Troupe read his poems with some jazz music in the background.

     And of course, I wrote some poems, which resulted from my imagination and my perspective of the world.

     Moreover, I got to learn how to write a blog post properly, and practiced my skill of writing blog every week. Each week, we discussed poets living in each decades, from the end of 1800s to the most recent poets, who are still alive like Sherman Alexie. We had to write our blog posts focusing on anything that occurred during these time periods, and connect them to what our class talked about during the week.

     Through this blog project, I had learnt a lot about the context in which poems were written, and how they connected to the meaning of each poem we read in class. I understood the meaning of the poems thoroughly, and I could clearly see the difference in the way of storytelling between poems and lengthy novels.

     I'm going to miss this class so much next term!!! :(       

POETRY class:)

7th Bell Poetry Class with my AWESOME teacher and Creative classmates

I decided to take this poetry class because I like writing about myself and I was interested in poetry. We learnt different poets almost everyday. We had to write reflections to what we read everyday. It was not too hard or too much homework but it was hard to catch up with all the homework "everyday". However, I actually enjoyed reading about a lot of poets. They are very creative and some of their lives are very complicated. I figured out that their lives influence the ways they write poems. My favorite poet is Anne Sexton. I feel her strength as a woman from her poem and I like her dark poems.

Also, I figured out that I am not a bad poet! My poems are about sad love stories most of the time. I feel so great after writing them! I feel happier and I want others to read them. We had a group project that we had to make a poem with a couple of people. People in my group had the similar views about love and relationships so that we all loved the poem we wrote together. 

We also had this blog post project once a week. It took a lot of time for me to write one even though it wasn't a great blog post but I learnt a lot from it. I had to actually search about the topic I was writing about but it wasn't hard because I had the opportunity to write about something I am interested in. I have written about the Disney World, Hippies, and so on. There were many interesting discoveries. 

But! The best thing in our class is that my teacher, Mrs. Lewis is just awesome. She is such a clever woman who knows about everything. We all enjoyed our poetry class with her. She has made the cookies and brownies I have ever eaten in my life and she taught us a lot. 

I thank her for making our 7th bell such a great period everyday and I will miss this class so much next term!:(

Hubble Space Telescope

     

     Since our poetry class was discussing about  Sherman Alexie's poem "Defending Walt Whitman,"which was written in the 1990s, I followed my passion in astronomy and search on Google for something interesting to write my blogpost about that happened around that time period. Then, I found out that there was a space telescope called the "Hubble Space Telescope" sent into orbit in 1990. It is still operating today, and it has provided astronomers with many new and interesting facts about the universe.

     The Hubble Space Telescope was named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble, and it helped Adam Riess, a professor at John Hopskin University, and his team to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011.  It serves as the "astronomer's eyes to the universe." The telescope's position in the outer space allows it to take pictures of the galaxies years away from Earth. It has expanded the knowledge of the universe for astronomers, particularly the discovery of "dark energy." The Science Magazine called this "The Breakthrough Discovery of the Year" in 1998. 

     NASA said that the telescope spotted a supernovae burst of explosion 10 billions light-years away from Earth. It supported the concept of "dark energy" prevading the cosmos. Astronomers believed that this energy could shove galaxies away at an increasing speed; this idea was firstly introduced by Edwin Hubble and later discarded by Albert Einstein. Riess explained that this supernovae showed how the expansion of the universe changing over time.  

Some trivia about Hubble Telescope: 

• Hubbles twirls around the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour and takes pictures of the stars and galaxies. 
• In 20 years of working, it has made more than 930,000 observations, and snapped 570,000 images of 30,000 objects. 
• The data that it collects after 20 years accumulates up to 45 terabytes, which could filled nearly 5,800 DVD movies. 

An image of 30 Dolarus, home of the most massive stars, taken by Hubble Telescope.

The place where your dreams come true

DISNEY WORLD

The Walt Disney World was opened in 1971 in Lake Buena Vista, in Florida with just one park and two resort hotels. 

It was dedicated by Roy E. Disney and he declared "May Walt Disney World bring Joy and Inspiration and New Knowledge to all who come to this happy place...a Magic Kingdom where the young at heart of all ages can laugh and play and learn -- together".

Ever since the opening day, Disney World expanded gradually. Today, it consists of four major Disney theme parks, two water parks, six golf courses and the Downtown Disney places. 

Today, I want to introduce 10 FUN FACTS about the Disney World!

1.Cinderella's Castle is made out of fiberglass, and it is 189 feet tall.

2. Mickey has more than 290 outfits, from a scuba suit to a lighted tuxedo. Minnie has more than 200 outfits, from cheerleading attire to evening gowns.

3. Inside the upper levels of Cinderella's Castle is an apartment that Walt Disney intended to use when he and his family were in Florida. It was left unfinished when he died, until Disney announced in 2006 that it would be turned into a deluxe suite, which is awarded randomly to a family every day. It comes complete with 24-karat gold tile floors and a "magic mirror" that turns into a television.

4.  It takes 68 years to stay in a different room every night at the Disney World resorts

5. Disney World decorates more than 1,500 Christmas trees at holiday time.

6.  When Disney World opened, adult admission to the Magic Kingdom cost $3.50. Today it costs $85.

7. Disney World flew its flags at half-staff on the day Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died. Jobs was Disney's largest single shareholder (7 percent), and he was on the board of directors.

8. The first film made at Disney's Hollywood Studios was "Ernest Saves Christmas."

9.  Disney World has closed only three times because of of hurricanes: Sept. 15, 1999, for Floyd; Sept. 4-5, 2004, for Frances; and Sept. 26 of that same year for Jeanne.

10. Disney's infrastructure has more than 270 buses