Capstone: Limitation of Success
Success is the accomplishment of personal achievement, but society’s definition is the balanced achievement of wealth. When we were younger we had the unknowing intention to better ourselves in everything we did, but how did we know when our betterment is enough? In middle school, we try to find passions and build our human capital to prepare for the different things that we imagined high school was going to throw at us. Then once we get to high school we are taught to go by the system of learning and achieve excellent grades as well as excel in our extracurricular activities. So how can we create someone who has a successful mindset with outside influences? How are people like Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates successful? Is it their background story that influenced them to create their passion? Is there a thing known as too young or old to be successful? I believe this topic is important because success is something that I and people with a conscious want to maintain. Success is a concept that seems to be flamboyant but can it be something that is confined? In this essay I am finding my definition and roadmap to success. At first I was going to use adults as my source of knowledge, but now I am starting to use the stories of known celebrities and relatable stories to draw a connection to my audience, because it’s nice to hear facts but it’s enticing to learn from some of our successful idols. I hope you enjoy!
Paradise Lost: The Consequences Of Creation
“Creation” was used in Paradise Lost to explain Man’s ability to create their self based on their chosen authority. I asked myself why did God create man? Why was Satan created? Does Satan want to alter the creation? Does the creation want to control themselves? God created his creation and it caused the audience to understand the consequences of the creation. Milton derives his argument of creation on the definition of creation being: something created by the divine or natural agency(n.1). In this writing, you will read my argument of how Milton made creation the necessity of Paradise Lost through showing Man’s first disappointment, Satan’s want for the destruction of God’s creation, and creation creating the idea of self-fashioning. During my peer review Emma Halaburt gave me the idea of explaining a little more on how creation in Milton's story can cause a reassessment of humans' authority. I took on this idea and I believe it enhanced my paper. Overall, this paper made me think on the necessity of creation and the consequences that have come from it.
Midterm Cover: The Creation Of Self
“The Creation of Self” was prominent in both ”Renaissance Self-Fashioning” and “Better Living Through Criticism” because they explained the steps of creating who you are. Throughout the experience of learning A.O. Scott and Greenblatt, I was deeply confused about the concepts of both. I thought that Greenblatt was specifically set in the 1600s and it was about how your family, religion, and literature. Greenblatt was saying it would actually be the exact opposite of the fact because you are continuously fashioned due to the belief of your authority. For A.O. Scott, I believed that your self is formed by solely your culture, but it is created by your criticism and curiosity. Overall, writing this was actually eye-opening of their arguments and it made it possible to put my thoughts into words.
Summer Cover: Concept Map of Maria Popova’s Pieces
“The Never Ending Cycle of Knowledge” was written to help the audience understand the human’s thinking process to build a passion to want to learn knowledge. Throughout the summer reading there were multiple characteristics and rhetorical strategies that were compelling for the audience from pictures to quotes to videos. Not only did this add an informative tone, but it also helped create an inviting layout to help appeal to a larger audience. I tried to incorporate these attributes in different styles when I explained the cycle of knowledge.
I used 3 of the majority impactful articles to incorporate each aspect of the knowledge cycle. Primarily, I used Rene Descartes’ breakdown of wonderment from his quotes shared in The Passions of the Soul. Wonder has been infused into my reading to help explain the start of interests in your mind and this was also explained in Ian Leslie’s book Curious. I used the format of Popova’s remixes of Curious and The Passions of the Soul to create an entertaining flow of verbiage that flowed with visual representations of the context. For example, when I explain the brain’s path of creating wonder from being surprised, I added a picture of someone's mind revolving around a string of knowledge. This picture helped explain the effect of your surroundings on your brain and it also connected my rhetorical questions to a visual picture that connected wonder to curiosity. While I used rhetorical questions and imagery to create a relationship through my words and the concept of wonder leading to curiosity, I also used quotes from writers and philosophers to explain the importance of passion leading to knowledge and metaphors to help guide the leaders understanding throughout the cycle.
I hoped to use a logical flow of how each concept led to each other by using rhetorical questions, metaphors, quotes, images, and visual animation. During Popova’s pieces, I noticed she continuously tried to connect with her audience on her piece about Curiosity, when she was explaining the negative connotation the world has on being curious from using stories of the bible to popular phrases that would pertain to the elderly as well as the youth. Then, in Popova’s piece about Einstein’s Ideas and Opinions she used his quote to make the audience question themselves, and I tried to incorporate this with my rhetorical questions when I asked "What leads someone to a hunger to g out of their way to learn about something?". While I included some of those aspects that Popova, Warren Berger, and Alan Lightman's historical examples, I did not include historical evidence in my writing. I believe I have successfully used different methods from authors like Warren Berger to Maria Popova's works that helped create a persuasive concept map of the path to knowledge.
I used 3 of the majority impactful articles to incorporate each aspect of the knowledge cycle. Primarily, I used Rene Descartes’ breakdown of wonderment from his quotes shared in The Passions of the Soul. Wonder has been infused into my reading to help explain the start of interests in your mind and this was also explained in Ian Leslie’s book Curious. I used the format of Popova’s remixes of Curious and The Passions of the Soul to create an entertaining flow of verbiage that flowed with visual representations of the context. For example, when I explain the brain’s path of creating wonder from being surprised, I added a picture of someone's mind revolving around a string of knowledge. This picture helped explain the effect of your surroundings on your brain and it also connected my rhetorical questions to a visual picture that connected wonder to curiosity. While I used rhetorical questions and imagery to create a relationship through my words and the concept of wonder leading to curiosity, I also used quotes from writers and philosophers to explain the importance of passion leading to knowledge and metaphors to help guide the leaders understanding throughout the cycle.
I hoped to use a logical flow of how each concept led to each other by using rhetorical questions, metaphors, quotes, images, and visual animation. During Popova’s pieces, I noticed she continuously tried to connect with her audience on her piece about Curiosity, when she was explaining the negative connotation the world has on being curious from using stories of the bible to popular phrases that would pertain to the elderly as well as the youth. Then, in Popova’s piece about Einstein’s Ideas and Opinions she used his quote to make the audience question themselves, and I tried to incorporate this with my rhetorical questions when I asked "What leads someone to a hunger to g out of their way to learn about something?". While I included some of those aspects that Popova, Warren Berger, and Alan Lightman's historical examples, I did not include historical evidence in my writing. I believe I have successfully used different methods from authors like Warren Berger to Maria Popova's works that helped create a persuasive concept map of the path to knowledge.