Bonus post. Emblem

"Per Aspera, Ad Astra" 

This image is the cover for the record "The Dark Side of the Moon" from the world famous rock band, and one of my personal favorites, Pink Floyd. Often using many Gothic themes within their music, Pink Floyd has cemented themselves into a psychedelic persona. The single beam of light coming into contact with the prism is bent in a way to create the basic spectrum of light. I believe that this simple yet quite majestic emblem represents my writing process, as well as my life, very well. Imagine my writing skills before this class were that single stream of light, bland and boring. However, once it makes contacts with the prism (ENC 1101), it is shaped and configured into a beautiful ray of color. My writing has, and probably always will have, some sort of Gothic characteristics within it. 

My motto underneath the image is a common Latin phrase that translates to "Through Hardships, to the Stars." Meaning, to achieve any goal one must always go through adversity. 

Check in #3

When I first started this class I had a vague idea about what the Gothic genre was. After completing these challenges and blog posts I definitely have a better understanding. The popular belief of Gothic culture is that it always has something to do with horror. While the majority of  "Gothic" popular culture is quite dark, it is also very historical and full of many different perspectives. Being a history major, I often found myself getting lost within these aspects while writing the assignments and evaluating the Gothic texts. I didn't really have any problems while completing the challenge, simply because I enjoyed the topic that I chose and was able to display the information that I had absorbed.

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Blog Post #4

This is my family's lakeside cabin in the small Northern California town of Arnold. Ever since my grandfather and his brother built this two story country side home in the 1960s, there has never been a year that anyone in the family hasnt spent at least a week there. Situated on the bank of small Lake Mont, this place seems as if it just came from a water color painting. The huge Redwood trees and fresh forest air really helps me feel at home. I have always loved staying here and sometimes never want to leave. Whenever my imidiate family goes up we are never alone, there is always someone else from the family there ready to have fun. Yet, probably the best thing about being here is the fact that there is no cell phone reception. This makes it a great lace to slow down and not care about anything else in the world besides yourself and your family.