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Jeffrey Walter May
Dr. David Preston
AP English Literature
9 June 2015
Masterpiece Essay
Marriage is the union of two things (typically man and woman)
that love each other and this can be said about one and learning. Someone can
fall into love with learning and how much that one can take in and process into
their own interpretations. But also one of the biggest burdens with marriage is
the fact that divorce is always an option after it, it is the cause of the love
no longer being there and once again this can also be said about learning.
Someone can no longer feel as strongly as they once did to learn in the first
place and I can say I honestly had a hint of both throughout the year, I would
go in and out of marrying and divorcing my love for learning. I have always
loved to learn and have new ways to figure things out but at times I get
stressed out and break down to the point where I want to divorce learning.
Fiction is my most favored to read, not only because it is
the widest genre of literature but because it allows for so much that CAN fall
into its category and has a huge range of what can be written for it. I enjoy it
because although it is a fictional piece it still holds a lot of information
and truth into it with the many ways that the reader can interpret. As we
studied Brave New World this year I had really enjoyed it as my top 3
reads ever. A new way of
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interpreting the world is something that truly intrigues me a
lot, I like to find new ways that our world can be ran or shown the different
things that could have changed the world and that is one of my favorite (that
is also why I love Harry Potter a lot because it is about wizards and those,
for as far as we know, don’t exist so it’s just something new that intrigues
me). I had also read Catcher in the Rye as a literature analysis book
and I had really enjoyed that one, and not just because I am related to JD
Salinger, but because the book gave a lot of meaning to it. It was packed in
with all of the sarcasm by the main characters and I use sarcasm a lot as my
own thing so I can totally relate to that and that had definitely made me laugh
while I was reading the book.
Although there was quite a few presentations I had missed I still
had the opportunity to see a lot too and there had been a few where I didn’t take
as much in as some of the other presentations. One I had really enjoyed was
Laike’s presentation on art because as she presented I could totally see the
passion she had for drawing and how much it truly inspires her. When she told
us how cool she thought it was that someone had contacted her to buy one of her
pieces, I could totally see that she was really excited her artwork is getting
out there and not just staying in her art books and paintings she had done.
Terry’s presentation on nature was the same and it showed just how much he has
a love for nature and it actually inspired me to get a group of friends
together and plan a backpacking trip for a few days in the summer. Terry truly
has a great passion for what he does and it helps him to be who he really is.
Millie had a great passion for finding out the information about her family
tree and how it could be related
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back to basketball. Although I’m not a huge basketball fan, I
still very much enjoyed learning about everything that she also learned about
with the pairing of day to day and yearly family births and everything else that
had regards to basketball. Megan had a fantastic presentation on journalism and
although I knew she liked it, I didn’t know it was that much of a passion of
hers. She really went up there and blew my mind with how much it inspired her
and how much she truly loves it and I can’t wait until the day I can see her
name on the news or in a popular article and I can reflect on how she once gave
us a presentation that lead her to be where she is. Sean getting into politics
is a great thing for him because I can tell it totally moves him. Once again
with this word, the passion I saw in him (although he presented while feeling
very sick) was still tremendous and he had well thought out, real, straight to the
point but also well rounded topics. He will make a great person in the field of
political science and I can see him going very far with that one day.
As I went through the process of my masterpiece, I ended up
taking in my brother as my mentor because nearly everything I have learned
about computers has been through him, a lot was self-taught with online
tutorials and what not but I truly learn most from him. It had helped me to bond
and get closer to him through my process of completing everything not only on
my masterpiece itself but for anytime I have computer problems I don’t know how
to deal with but any time anyone asks me for help. I am often known to people
as the tech guy because I help a lot of people with the problems they
experience and then my name gets passed around that I
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can help with stuff like that. And honestly I really enjoy
it, I love tinkering with little things and putting in codes to get things to
work and it is something I can wait to do in my future.
All in all, I really took a lot from this course and am
really glad I took it. I had been debating whether to take AP English again
because I didn’t have the greatest year in it during my junior year but I decided
to and am glad I did. The amount of life skills I have to go on into college
and my life with are amazing and I would not want to trade it for anything
else. And in this moment, I would like to thank you Dr. Preston for everything
you have done and I appreciate it a lot.
