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William Wordsworth was a poet with quite a few notable works but one in particular that peaked my interest was the poem “We Are Seven” in which he details a meeting he had with a little girl he met in a cottage. Essentialy he asks this girl how many brothers and sisters she has and she says seven despite two of her siblings having passed away. They almost have a debate about it, with Wordsworth saying she has five siblings since two of them passed away but the little girl insisted, that it did not matter they were still her siblings and she had seven siblings. The reason this was interesting for me was firstly because Wordsworth chose to entertain the conversation. It shows to me that he was genuinly curious about what this little girl had to say, where as most adults would hear something like that and dismiss it Wordsworth decided to explore her thinking. Even though he doesn’t really understand her line of thinking, he tried to. Another reason this was interesting was because you can see a similar kind of thinking in a lot of people today and even in the past. Maybe not exactly the same thinking but what I’m talking about is people who keep good friends closer than most of their own family. Some may say those people aren’t your real family but to them they are and this is something I agree with. It is said that blood is thicker than water and while this is literally true it is not always figurativly true. You don’t get to choose your family and sometimes people are born into a situation where their family members are toxic people, but if they can find truly good friends who are good people that they relate to and can count on, then why would they not consider them family? Although the text is not making this direct correlation, that little girl is saying that even though her siblings may be dead they are still around and they are still family. She goes outside to play and even eat supper by the tree they are buried near and she sings to them. Despite them not being alive, they are still there with her just like despite someone not being family they are still there with you.

Hello my name is Jeremy Acevedo and I’m a Marketing major. I may be the youngest one in the class, i’m 18 years old and i’m a transfer student from Kingsborough College. I’m from New York, Brooklyn more specifically but I moved around a lot in my life and now I reside in Staten Island. Right now I work at a movie theatre that’s close to my house. Been working there for a little over a year now, but I don’t plan on staying much longer. The biggest interest in my life right now is music, I’ve been writing for about three years maybe a little longer and it is easily the most enjoable and fruitful activity I’m apart of. I’ve only performed twice on stage thus far, the first at a small music festival in New Jersey and the second time for a school event in New Jersey over the summer. But that will change this year, with more shows already in the works. I chose to go to school for marketing to further this interest and also because my mother wants me to go to college. I figured if I was gonna go to college I might a well learn more about how to navigate and understand markets, because being able to sell anything is a valuable skill. Besides that however my life is a bit of a bore. If I’m not at school or work I try to be in the gym and I’m in none of those places I’m with some friends working on music and hanging out. In case you’re wondering I mainly rap but that’s not the only music I’m interested in. I’ll listen to anything from Jay-z to Marvine Gaye really. I just like music and the challenge of always trying to make something better than my last. That being said I’m only 18 so the room for improvment is immeasurable and hopefully this takes me to places I can only dream of, and allows me to meet and work with all the people I idolize. Then I won’t have to go to college, but I still may I’m undecided.