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Up until the last few months, the DRC has always just been "that other country in Africa" to me. I knew nothing about it, I knew none of its everyday struggles, and I knew extremely little about all this third world country has experienced and was currently experiencing. This all changed when one day in my first period American History class, we had a lesson pertaining to the war occuring in the DRC and how it was similar to our current unit's war at the time. I learned of the rampant violence throughout the country and how dangerous it was to walk the streets at night. I remember sitting in class imagining what my life would look like if simple freedoms such as walking at night were taken away from me. I remember sitting in my desk while horrific visions played through my mind of constantly being fearful to step out of my house. Usually I am interested in what I learn in school, but this particular lesson had me intrigued.
I went throughout my day per usual, until I got to my AP Environmental Science class. Coincidentally, our unit was on environmental degradation, and the vicious toll it takes on a country. The prime example my teacher used to better describe the term? You guessed it, the DRC. Her lecture spoke to all aspects of how the terror in the region has brought upon a multitude of lasting impacts, none that were beneficial. We learned that because of the war, sanitation levels were low, clean water was difficult to find, and open wounds were common. This all gave way to the country falling to a disease: Ebola.
I think it was a stroke of luck that all of this information was thrown at me, because that same day, I saw I needed to revise my research question. I went home that day and spent hours, hours that I probably should have been studying for my vocabulary quizzes, but nevertheless hours, researching all about Ebola, the DRC, and the war in the country. My original question focused more on the environmental aspect of the outbreak, but as I began to dive deeper and deeper into the topic at hand, my question shifted more towards the war aspect of the outbreak instead, for most of the articles I found had information correlating with the terror as well.
I went throughout my day per usual, until I got to my AP Environmental Science class. Coincidentally, our unit was on environmental degradation, and the vicious toll it takes on a country. The prime example my teacher used to better describe the term? You guessed it, the DRC. Her lecture spoke to all aspects of how the terror in the region has brought upon a multitude of lasting impacts, none that were beneficial. We learned that because of the war, sanitation levels were low, clean water was difficult to find, and open wounds were common. This all gave way to the country falling to a disease: Ebola.
I think it was a stroke of luck that all of this information was thrown at me, because that same day, I saw I needed to revise my research question. I went home that day and spent hours, hours that I probably should have been studying for my vocabulary quizzes, but nevertheless hours, researching all about Ebola, the DRC, and the war in the country. My original question focused more on the environmental aspect of the outbreak, but as I began to dive deeper and deeper into the topic at hand, my question shifted more towards the war aspect of the outbreak instead, for most of the articles I found had information correlating with the terror as well.
timed writing four
In “The Emperor of Ice cream”, Wallace Stevens use of harsh diction and repetition to show the reader, through two contrasting images portrayed as stanzas, how human desire presides over people. In the beginning of the poem, the first image presented to the reader is a flash of young children eating ice cream in what the reader can assume is during summer time. The latter half of the poem, however, brutally juxtaposes that of the first, when the setting flashs to reveal a dead corpse in a torn apart bedroom. This vulgar image that is so harshly opposed from the ones evoked at the beginning leave the reader with a sense of disgust and shock. As the poem develops completely, we come to learn that the dead corpse is expected, for it is a funeral. Yet, the poem does not lessen its repulsiveness, for there are people using an upstairs bedroom at the funeral to attend to their sexual desires. Stevens almost justifies their actions by saying “let the lamp affix its beam”, meaning to shine a light on human normalities metaphorically. The title given to the poem includes the word “emperor” and I believe that with this in mind, it is Stevens way of communicating to the audience that humans have no control over their tendencies, for humans rule themselves that way, similar to ways of an emperor.