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There are two things to keep in mind when you are doing a peer review. Separate yourself from you friend when reading his or hers paper, and use constructive criticism. It is very important when you are reading your friends writing to put aside your friendship. You want your friend to do his or her best. Sometimes thats going to come at a cost on our end when we are looking over a friends paper. We are not going to just be able to read through it and say this is great. We need to really sit down and read it with and open mind and write down what we are really thinking. If you want your friend to do well this is the time to point out their flaws or what they should do better. Ultimately this will bring what both people want. The friend an amazing paper, and the peer reader the friends success in writing a paper.

In Woolf’s piece she is observing life at a campus. She is going through all the motions and emotions of going back to campus life. She compares life before and after the war. She also put her own ideas into whatever she saw that day. One part that stood out was her saying of “… woman must have money and a room of her own if she issue to write fiction…”. This idea was spoken about in the beginning of the chapter but was addressed throughout it. Women before the war were not looked upon society as societal members. They were the people that would take care of the kids and all the household chores. Even further if a woman did earn her own money it would be given to her husband. The man was the dominant figure in this time. Women in Woolf’s time still didn’t have equal power to man, it isn’t until the start of our generation that we see women have and equal and more important role in society to men. But for a women to get her ideas down, for her voice to be heard and her ideas respected she had to earn respect. The only way to do this though was for a women to have money. Through her money and her use of the english language in writing she can voice her opinion.  The room also has significance because it is the area where the women could think with her won thoughts and not be disturbed by and distractions. Without this a women would not be able to do what she wants. She would be stuck with the household chores and not be able to do what she may truly want (in this example, write fiction).

The theme of home in Gertrude Stein’s piece was always changing. The literal word in the piece they would use to describe home after they came back for a lengthy amount of time was “changed”. Gertrude and Alice during the war were always moving. They first started off in Paris remembering it a certain way. But everyone of their adventures or vacations turned out to be much longer then they expected. Every single time they would come home it wasn’t the same for them. One of the reasons this is the case is because during the war many things change. Stores close, the city is destroyed from bombings and, people are out fighting. Society seems to take a break. But then after the war when they came home it was also different. They saw more people on the streets in Paris after the war then they did before. “An awful lot of people were killed in the war but it seems to me and extraordinary large number of grown men and women have suddenly been born”. In the day and age we live in society is always changing. But a city that is undergoing or went through war, also goes through dramatic changes. So home was always changing in Paris for Gertrude and Alice.

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