Research Paper Topic Freewrite.

The research topic that I am going to be writing about is #4 "Portraying Human Minds in Film". The option that I am going to base my paper off and my research off of is going to be the film Enduring Love. The film highlights people stalking each other and becoming obsessively in love with a person due to a tragic event that they both shared. The illness that is focused on is called Erotomania and this is the act of believing that a stranger is in love with you and this can be caused by having bi-polar disorder or schizophrenia. The person experiencing this will become delusional and feel that they have more than one secret admirer and this is portrayed in the movie Enduring Love where the main character goes through a tragic event with another man and the man becomes obsessed with him and won't let him forget what happened so he begins to stalk him and see follow him everywhere he goes. This topic is interesting to me because I hadn't known that there was an actual condition that is considered "stalking" or being "obsessed" I simply thought they were just terms people used, I had no idea it was an actual mental illness.

ENG 101 Assignment #1 Brainstorming

For the essay that we are going to be doing I think I will most likely being using the technology prompt and if it is changing the human mind. I find this topic to be a bit more interesting and as though there will be more to talk about and research. For right now I'm pretty sure I will be agreeing with the statement because I feel as though the internet is making us think in different ways and it is also in a way making us think LESS. Being that there is a search engine and there is a way to easily find information because it is displayed with one click of the mouse, it causes us to want to use it being that it is a fast and easy way to find information. No one wants to sit at home reading a book or sit at the library for numerous hours searching through books when they can simply sit at home on a computer and find the information in less than 5 seconds. I'll admit that I personally like using google and the internet because being that I am a full time student and I work part time, there's not a lot of time in my schedule to actually sit down and research for x amount of hours so personally for me I like using the internet and I like using google because its more efficient.

ENG 101 Blog Post #1

My name is Christopher Deanne, I'm an 18 year old student at Laguardia Community College studying Liberal Arts-English. I plan to finish college at Laguardia and then transfer out to a school that is away from home. I want to study theater as a major and hopefully move to L.A to pursue a career in either acting or writing. I love theater and acting as well as writing, that is what I want to do further in life after college, hopefully work in the industry of movies, tv, theater or if that fails pursue writing. The types of writing I like to do are short stories, fictional writing as well as writing my own songs. The songs I write are a personal way to express different situations I've been in, struggles I've gone through and over come and sometimes I like to just write fun songs that help put me in better moods. Writing is a way for me to express myself without any limitations. It's the only way I can truly express myself and not be scared of what people have to say or what people will think. Though music is critically judged in today's society, it is also something that can help people that do not fully understand who you are, actually come to understand you better through the words that are written. The more fictional part of my writing is just a fun way to write stories that are enjoyable. I remember writing a short horror story of a girl who is stalked and ultimately lured into a situation in where she has to fight to survive. I've had a poem published into the national poets society and that was also published into a book of poems by the international poetry library. I am a bit of both a science and humanities person because I love English and I love writing but I also find science and the different studies of science to be very interesting. Science such as psychology is something that catches my attention because overcoming a lot of struggles in my life, it's a good way to find out the reason behind my actions and how to prevent them from happening again if I know the way my mind thinks during those situations and why I think the way I do. That's a bit about me, tell me about you. :)

- Chris .