William´s english blog

Recently we have completed a topic focusing on William Shakespeares works and the contemporary time around him. Here we focused on what made shakespeare so special at his time and why he stood out from his peers. We learned that it was his incredible ability to compose and structure his stories and his lyrical genius of his poetry that left its imprint history. But... I found that Shakespeare was quite hard to assimilate. I do not doubt the genius of shakespeare but i felt as if there was quite the language barriere between the english and this "ancient" english that shakespeare was accustomed to. This barrier made it hard to understand what Shakespeare is trying to convey in his works. He also uses a lot of metafores and and smilies which does not make it any easier. I think it can be summed up as english on hard mode. But when you finally decipher what it is that he is trying to convey you feel some sort of that you have made some sort of accomplishment. During this t...

At the end of the year 2017, we in our English class, looked into the genre of modernismen. Modernismen has its origins in the very end and early start of the 19th and 20th centuries, where it at the time was unlike any other literary period seen before, and it changed literature forever. In modernised there is focus on how the there is no concrete truth and that desires rule. We read some text from Ernest Hemingway, who is a key figure in american modernismen which we mainly focused on. Some of these text were " Hills Like White Elephants " and " Cat in the Rain ". A writing style that prevailed under modernismen were the "iceberg principle" where not much is shown but much is told, what is also something that these stories are prime examples of.  I found that the short stories that followed this "Iceberg Principle" to be very interesting. The fact that only the minimal is show, that we as reader must piece the story together from the scarc...

Essay on the founding fathers relation with keeping slaves By William Skriver Schmidt. November 8, 2017 Breaking apart and rising above your time or class´ social norms is something that can be incredibly difficult. It requires a great insight in the society that you live in and what might need to change. You nearly need to be clairvoyant because what might seem normal today can be considered unacceptable tomorrow or in the next decade. This is something that has been and always will be hard to glance trough when view history in hindsight. The founding fathers of America are not unknown to this matter and are now more than ever feeling the backlash of what must have been natural to them. This is something that Stephen E. Ambrose touches and reflects on in his article " The Founding Fathers and Slaveholders " brought in Smithsonian Magazine in november of 2002. In his article Ambrose evaluates how the two founding fathers Jefferson and Washington were both diffrent in behav...

Earlier this year in our English class we studied the genre of crime fiction, all the way from very first texts that would fall under the genre, to the newest trends in the crime fiction and looked at how the genre had evolved though out time. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the topic of "crime fiction" both in the general sense but also in the educational context. I personally find the genre to be very intriguing and alluring due to its secretive nature, the mysteries and the race at guessing who the real killer is before it is unveiled, only to chock us that it was "that" person that did it. Sometimes even the perplexity that the stories root in the reader has its own charm due to the misleading and deceiving clues that help stir the rather similar stories up. I find it, that it can, as a reader be exciting to try and glance through into the core of the mystery since they can be very hard to determine who the killer is, and who might seem shady on the outside but...

Since its birth in the 1800s, crime fiction has become a dominant and permanent genre, in almost all different types of literature and related medias. The genre has through out the time undergone a variety of makeovers and reshapements, from the early pioneers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie, to the hard boiled “noir” fiction writers,  has  the genre shape shifted and adopted to the times and the change of readers; and this constant everlasting adaptation does not seem to stop.  Sarah Hughes is a journalist that examines and analyzes this fairly resent change in the genre and has recently released an article concerning this topic. Her article is from the 3 July 2016 called “ After Agatha Christie… female crime writers delve deep into women worst fears ”. In her article Hughes argues and that the genre in the recent past has changed from a genre dominated by masculinity into becoming a genre lead by women writing stories that are more focused on the psy...

A tradition in the last year high School here in Denmark is to go on a studying trip to another country. So since I'm in my last year of high school I went on such a trip with my class. As you probably guessed by now, the jaunt went to Berlin in Germany. The journey spanned over five days where we took off from the city Esbjerg where I live on a early Sunday morning with train towards destination. We arrived nearly on time seven hours later at Berliner Hauptbahnhof where we took the Metro to the station near our Hotel. We lived in close proximity the  gedächtniskirche  on Kurfurstendamm were there last year around was a terrorist attack on a Christmas marked.  Kurfurstendamm is one of the most visited places in Berlin since it has a very high concentration of your familiar well known large shopping chains. If you however are searching for something a bit more experimental and the shops that follow the current fasiontrends precisely I would recommend the area around Ale...