Reflection on the class

Professor Brady’s English 102 class this semester has taught me an abundance of important skills that I will be able to take with me all my life. I improved upon my writing in this class as well as expanded my vocabulary. I learned how to incorporate different words and analysis techniques due to the in depth published writing pieces we were required to do. Between the first published writing piece to the very last I feel that I accomplished great improvement in grammar and the development of my ideas. I hope to take these writing skills and apply them to life by using these techniques in other classes.

The most favorable part of Professor Brady’s class was the fish bowls. These fish bowls brought me out of my quiet comfort zone and into a realm of what other students were thinking about the short stories, dramas and poems we were reading in the class. I also enjoyed how our class became  a big group of friends, everyone enjoyed each other company. I gained a tremendous amount of confidence in myself in this class because we were all allowed to voice out opinions without being told we are wrong. In five years I see myself with a degree in Psychology with a specialty in Art Therapy or Animal Therapy helping people to cope with feelings and stress. Something I always had a hard time with before I realized how vital art and animals can be to relieving pain or pressures in life.

The idea that will stick with me most is the idea “Literature is a product of it’s time period”. This quote was said by Professor Brady during one of our class lectures. I never truly realized how important time period was in works of literature til we read many short stories such as The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour. The woman in these stories are being truly oppressed by their husbands not because their husbands are doing it on purpose or because their husbands are cruel. They are being oppressed because they are woman and during the time these stores were produced, women were not supposed to have a say, be alone or do anything the man did not approve of.