Here is an excerpt from JC's paper. What are its strengths? How could he empower it?
"In Coreggio Jones by Victor G Daley, cultural identity is put into questions because of colonization. Colonization can have a heavy burden on the native people, especially the view that they have of themselves. When colonists come to Aboriginal land and say that they're better while also proving it by suppressing Aboriginal people and values, it's only natural to have several Aborigines start to feel the same way. As Victor G. Daley writes in Coreggio Jones, 'Coreggio Jones an artist was, O pure Australian race, But native subjects scorned because, / They were too commonplace.' Coreggio himself thought of his homeland as something that was effectively boring. Colonization destroyed his cultural sense of identity and replaced it with a new one in their image. This creates strong conflict not only between the native Aborigines who still believe in their values but also now between the Aborigines themselves and those who stay loyal to their land and those who do not. Again as Victor G. Daley writes in Coreggio Jones, 'He will not see that our sky-hue, Old Italy's outvies, but still goes yearning for the blue, of far Ausonian skies ... He is yet painting at full bat, You'll say, if him you see, 'His body dwells on Gander Flats, His soul's in Italy.' While Coreggio is of the Aboriginal people, he at heart believes himself Italian and this is because of colonization. Colonization creates the idea of inadequacy among the native people such as the Aborigines and makes an already hard fight harder."
Jason makes great points while I feel his delivery could be made a little bit better. He repeats the phrase "writes in" a bit too much and I feel he could have made smoother transitions into his quotes and in reference to the author and passage. Besides that though, I thought his content was great along with his use of examples. It just needed to be connected better.
ReplyDeleteJason writes a very strong piece here. He connects his ideas before and after quotes without simply repeating them and his quotes were effective. However, I feel as the first line is the most important in any body paragraph, and Jason's could have been improved. It was broad enough but did not indicate the direction Jason wanted to go with the piece.
ReplyDeleteJason has strong points here but i feel like he has many grammatical errors that kinda annoy me while i read and also he repeats himself a lot. Repetition can be used as a powerful rhetorical tool but here it is just not used correctly and it greatly weakens the argument.
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