This week we started a new project on tragedy. We focused on figuring out what a tragedy is by reading about it online and reading a short essay. After defining tragedy in our own words, we made our first blog post. My blog was about how tragedy is different in real life than portrayed in literature. I wrote about how tragedy is a dramatic story revolving around human suffering, and how human suffering is often different in the real world. I also wrote about the different forms tragedies can come in and how they are used to provoke emotional responses in the reader or listener. At the end of our “What is Tragedy?” projects we will be writing a philosophical, opinion essay on tragedy. One activity we did this week was on forming an opinion on the Dakota Access Pipeline. This activity was to prepare us to be able to back up our opinions with facts, instead of just a ‘because” anwser. I had a lot of fun with this activity. Although I didn’t say much, it was interesting to see how other people felt about the situation and how their opinions differed from mine. I feel like there are environmental hazards to take into consideration about the pipeline, but overall this protest is about how the U.S. government continually infringes upon native american rights and does not respect them at all. Overall, I think this was a good activity because it’s on a topic we were all somewhat familiar with and could easily form an opinion on.
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