Colleen's+Wiki

=January 21=

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On Monday our class was to go to two different presentations that where done by the Artist Garth Hines. I liked how while he was waiting for people to get seated he entertained himself and his audience in both of his lectures with an illustration although I was more intrigued by the second one he created using the computer. I have never seen anyone illustrate that way other than just using the painting tool on normal computer. Garth made it look very easy.=====

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During the 11 o'clock lecture he spoke mainly about Beowulf which benefitted me because he was actually explaining things from the text that I found difficult to understand while reading. He went into some details that he included in his drawings that I hadn’t noticed while reading. By recognizing the smaller details that he pointed out the story became more intriguing. Everything that he included in his illustrations had a purpose or a reason behind each element representing various things such as death, time period or even setting. I enjoyed listening to him talk about his job working in video games. I never made the connection between video games in art but now I can see where it is not just composed of graphics and things created only with computers or other technology but its underlying components really serve as a form of art. The author of this depiction of Beowulf obviously loves and is very good at what he does. ===== =Febuary 3= Hi everyone, I'm Colleen Leary and am from Tyngsboro MA. I’m going to Fitchburg State to get my license in Special Education with severe disorders and elementary education. My minor is in Literature, which is the reason I am taking this course. I enjoyed my other two English courses here at FSU and hope to like this one as well. I have never really read any British literature that I know of but hopefully I’ll learn to understand the different texts as we read them.

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There were a few lines in the Exeter Book elegies that I liked alot. One of the pieces from The //Wanderer// that i really felt was meaningful was lines 65-72 which says, " A wise man must be patient, neither too hot-hearted not too hasty with words, nor too weak in wat not too unwise in thoughts, wealth never eager for boasting before he truely understands; a man must wait, when he makes boast, until the brave spirit understands truly whither the thoughts of his heart will turn. " As I continued to read the next poem The Seafarer, I felt as if I was reading the bible or listening to a sermon. ======