David Foster's Speech Analysis

When I signed up for ENGL 191 I did not know what to expect as I had never token an English class at the college level. The English classes I was used to be taught at the High School Level and they went like this, Teach them grammar rules then hold their hand with worksheets for every possible step of paper writing all the way from idea generation to submitting the final draft. This arbitrarily cookie cutter process frustrated me as I did not want to write down my sources in MLA format on a note card then paraphrase the source over 10 notecards then paraphrase the note cards onto my draft. Because of the way my English Class were I had an expectation of what was done covered and in an English Class. I figured that college would be similar with allot less handholding and when I signed up for 10 to 11:40 Tuesday, Thursday section I thought that it was going to be an hour and forty minutes of tedious discussion of Grammar Rules and the writing process according to the instructor. After six weeks of ENGL 191 my idea of what English is has completely changed. My new idea of what English is totally different then what I came into the class with. I thought English was teadoius

The speech talked about examining your perspective and making adjustments to it to better understand the world around you. One example of this was a “Default Setting” which is the way we are all hard wired as in we tend to see the world thru are own eyes which is a very self-centered way of seeing things. Another good takeaway from the speech was the title “This is Water”. He stared speech with a story about a young fish who meat a old fish the old fish asked ‘How is the water today” the young fish was baffled and replied “What is Water?” what we can draw from this is your perspective matters in life. Which relates back to English as English is about examining and adjusting your