This video is the final product of the second mid term in ENGL 212 — a video challenging a modern-day dogma. I chose to challenge credit. This section of the class was meant to reflect the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Category: BYU ENGL 212
Paper or Plastic?
For ENGL 212, we’ve been asked to address a modern-day dogma in true Enlightenment style. This is what I came up with:
Buying things now days has been made pretty easy; you don’t even need money! With the amount of consumption on the American credit card the question must be answered: Who’s paying for that? (more…)
I’m Gonna Kick Your [Trash]
In this assignment blog post for ENGL 212, we were asked to talk about a time that we experienced a lack of authority or chaos. I decided to write about middle school sports.
Sometime near the end of the season, he let me know how he really felt. During our warm up stretches, he looked at me and said,
“After the season’s over, I’m gonna kick your [trash]” (trash wasn’t what he really said).
The Grind
In ENGL 212 class (Rhetoric and Civilization) at BYU we talked about Francisco Petrarch and his climb up Mount Ventoux which lead him to do many of the great works that he accomplished. Our blog post assignment had us share our personal climb up “Mount Ventoux.”
After returning from my mission in Mexico, I was a walking bag of ignorant optimism…