BLOG POST 7

SEASON FINALE

I title this post season finale, because it is the end to an journalistic adventure with my Professor

Dragan in ENG 274, but the beginning to a wonderful series that I have yet to continue as my

ambition for writing takes me to new journalistic heights. I've learned that detail was an effective

instrument in enhancing your piece of writing, and was a way to seduce your reader into wanting to

know the man or woman behind the pen. Professor Dragan truly emphasized in providing life and

vitality to your piece of writing allowing for the words written on the piece of paper to flow like a

stream of water, but, and, to never fall into a pit of a en-trapping and hallow cave, thus continuing

into a fully functioning body of literary work. Because of this insightful class, I was able to discover

the many unique forms of writing that journalist, and writers have been able to establish, and set

themselves in a legendary ward that can not be touched but only emulated. I've learned through

making blog post, how it has the ability to enhance your skill to free write, and write without any

conceptual limitations, and feel comfortable doing it without any literary limits.

Blog 6  "The Lady at the Piano"

  

Kindness, and generosity are humanistic qualities that are finely interwoven into Judy 

Gascon's elderly heart, whom is a sixty-six year old Woman who volunteers once a week at a 

hospitable to provide entertainment through her musical ability/talent to play the piano. 

Gascon has been taking the liberty to volunteer at this particular hospital for the past 10 years, 

and in order to achieve a very meticulous appearance, she wakes up as early as 5:30 in the 

morning on a Tuesday just to do so. In trivia, and in part of what reflects her desire to help out 

(musically speaking), at this hospitable containing elderly vets, is when she was inspired by 

detailed, personal, and intimate letters from her father, written during his time, and service 

spent in World War II as a Army Air Corp. Because Gascon's appeal is so spot on in achieving 

the look of actual female veteran from the way her hair is styled, and her attire, she 

unintentionally fooled the vets into believing she was a veteran which is a

success worth mentioning.The journalist found her to be a woman with a heart of gold in her

lending a helping a hand to vet patients at a hospitable because generally speaking, people 

forget to think or apply entertainment with and in conjunction to old age vets in a hospitable, 

so the journalist feels that because Gascon's possesses this element in considering old age vets 

still need love, Gascon is a wonderful candidate to pay honorable tribute to from his point of 

view. Lastly in summary, Gascon plays an arrangement of music from the 19th and 20th 

centuries. One line that is amazingly written is "Every Tuesday she is there at the piano, 

serving those who have served with her own brand of healthcare" which entails her good deed 

of entertaining these vets at the hospitable has acted like, and become like a kind of healthcare. 

Andrew sisters who was a popular singing group, and I found this to be a important piece of 

information because before, reading this literary profile, I had no idea this group existed, and 

made me do a bit of research on this group. This profile is resourceful because it identifies, and 

brings to light that humanistic qualities still exist in this world even in the elderly(Judy 

Gascon), and can inspire someone to do research about WW II.

Direct Link: narrative-ly/portland-1/the-lady-at-the-piano/

BLOG POST #5
Preparing For and Embarking on a Journey to Creating a Literary Profile

    For my upcoming piece of work which is an literary profile, 

which will require, and give me the liberty to explore, and gather 

insightful information on another individual other than myself, it would

reveal, and bring to me a plethora of knowledge of what 

it is like to be someone else. 

 
     My second oldest brother has quite a knack 

for writing, and two years ago he began to set on a journey of 

writing films, and series which he wants, and feels could one day be 

recognized, and developed in Hollywood, California. What makes 

my second oldest brother a possible candidate for my literary 

profile is that he carries this nostalgia to him that he can be 

productive, produce, create, and re-create to his own rhythm, and 

beat without having to go through , and complete school, or work 

really hard in a ordinary job in order to be someone/something 

eventually/one day. What makes his nostalgia rare, and unique for 

me is that it embodies both of this fairy tale-like element to life 

that in this competitive world we live in today, to make it "big" without 

having gone through a institution or earning some kind of degree 

for a knack turned profession, or career, he feels it can be this way. 

On the other side to this theory of his is that its more or less 

unlikely to be this easy or non-challenging to be discovered. 

    Secondly my Father is someone of a established stature having 

immigrated here in the late 1970's to Brooklyn, NY from Ghana, 

and was from nothing nut a green card among the many 

other credentials he carried with him, he was able to build from the 

ground up a 5-borough distribution business  that has lasted to 

today, and has been taking care of me from the very day I was 

born. Whats contradictory is that he left school very soon 

after receiving his associates to start this business, and sometimes I 

feel I should do the same, (leave school after my associates, 

and become self made someway, somehow) but he shuns that idea,

and is strict about me completing school. and i feel its not all that 

fair or reasonable when thinking about the decision he made but at 

least cam find out why exactly he went in the direction he went 

after possibly interviewing him.

RESPONDING TO A PERSONAL MEMOIR
BLOG POST #4

        Toure in 'What's Inside You, Brother," is phenomenally written in the sense that he 

effectively creates, and establishes a detaching element by embodying the role of a narrator in 

order to describe, and acknowledge the pros, and cons of his real self. In conjunction with 

becoming a a narrator to realize, and identify issues, and problems of his self, Toure utilizes 

a split alter, not the kind of alter that is usually deemed as a mental disorder by diagnosis or 

perceivable means, but rather as an effective instrument in his piece of writing. Throughout 

Toure's memoir, the reader can fairly become familiar with where Toure is now as an 

individual having matured and escaped from the social-like, and self identifiable prism of 

embracing his ethnic creed (which is of African American blood), and how he formerly 

struggled with identifying with what ethnic group he belonged to, and where he best fitted in 

with. Toure makes it easy for the reader, [including I of course], to see this changing element 

from Toure's past to present. To sum this up, Toure makes it clear, and comprehensible that 

being African American in America is complicated, and can be overwhelming, and that the 

African American group in particular has many obstacles to face.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

        What grabs me about Toure's writing is his symbolic, and in part realistic description of 

his struggles as an individual is by putting himself in a boxing ring, and correlating all of 

boxing's components thus using and representing it in place for his own obstacles. "Iv'e known 

Toure a long, long time, you could say we grew up together"(725), is an example of 

him becoming another individual in order to explain about himself or at least make it that he's 

been friends with Toure, (again himself), and that he knows Toure well enough to know his 

pluses, and as well his flaws. Secondly in Toure's writing, we have "More of the silly chauvinist-

negrovinist?- joking that we waste time with instead of thinking of ways to get ahead"(726), 

which this line emphasizes, and puts into perspective a source of criticism, and belittlement 

towards the schema of African Americans, and thus bringing to light the sort of 

prejudice existence that surrounds whether African Americans value life, and 

handle responsibilities, which even from having evaluated the theory behind this line, I 

disagree with what this line may entail about African Americans. Lastly in Toure's writing 

which shows that even with taking on the role of an alter to perhaps identify himself once and 

for all, a line in his memoir shows that he still may have not reached total fruition with this 

problem that hes facing in completely identifying with himself on pg 729, where he states 

"Since we've known each other so long, I felt I could be completely honest, I was wrong," 

which shows a bit of growth but burdened with subtle doubt.                                                                              

         Toure's memoir may have been published particularly for Men of 

African American race to read, and perhaps reflect with, and then seek growth from within 

themselves, perhaps using Toure as a role model  to look up to as an African American man, 

and to not give up as a black man in America's society. Toure's memoir is a success because of 

it's innovative formula, and blueprint style of writing where he tells of, and entails of his life of 

problems he faced, and how he eventually became a victor of it all.