I am working on expanding on my statements and comment on the text. I have started to notice how authors introduce the text, I still however, need to work on commenting on other writing choices that the author made.
This essay was written by Yo-Yo Ma, who is a cellist and a songwriter. This essay, “Necessary Edges” was first published in January of 2014, on the World-Post, a site created by a liberal writer and nonpartisan think tank. He bio emphasizes his accomplishments, and involvement with arts and music in particular. He has a strong foundation on which his has built platform for promoting STEAM education. In my life, I have heard a lot about art budgets being cut. Whether it is in the news, or television shows, recently a lot of attention has been drawn to it. With that said, I have always been more STEM focused. I have excelled in math and science, and am interested in both subjects, arts on the other hand have always been less intriguing to me. I love photography, and I playing the flute throughout middle school, but I have no taken an arts class since sophomore year in high school. Yo-Yo Ma wrote this piece because I am one of many, who have not spent much time studying arts throughout high school, and college so far. He wants to emphasize the importance of music, drawing, dancing and all difference kinds of arts. Yo-Yo doesn’t want these courses to be seen as an elective or be cut from school funding. Instead, he believes that these subjects are critical to education, and should become part of the core focus in education. He wants it to be acknowledged to be just as important as math and science.
Throughout reading this essay, in order to increase my understanding, I looked up who Descartes was. He was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, who according to Ma and Damasio, overlooking the power of arts on thinking and reasoning. I also learned that lemmings are small, mouse like rodents. Furthermore, I looked up what meridians were. I don’t understand it fully, but they are circles of the Earth passing through the poles and a point on the Earth’s surface, however in different contexts, this word has a few meanings.
Your annotations look amazing. Your sentences remain crystal clear. I think you were wise to articulate the context that you bring to the piece, as well.