Grades

I will be in my office from 12-5 on Monday if you want to come talk to me about your grade. If you can't come in (or don't want to), just email me, and I will let you know your scores. I can also make arrangements to return your papers to you after the break if you would like.

Thanks again for a great semester.

DONE.

omg.
so who else is so glad that the semester is over!? MEEE! this semester had gona by so freakin SLOW, but im finally doen with finals and its california time (: looking forward to the warm sun, the beach and that amazing skyline that i miss so much. why cant our break be longer!? 2 and a hald weeks just isnt enough. i should be given like two months break for living in autah for a WHOLE third semester, not to mention its snowing now. it feels good to sit here and have absolutly nothing to do... aaahhhh this is the life(:

Laat post

Two minutes to midnight and i jsut wanted to be crazy and post at midnight! Just because I'm crazy and I want to. English was enjoyable this year. I learned alot about rethorical strategies and analyzing. An-a-lyze Must Analyze. *ahem*

I'm not ssure reallywhat to say though. Everything i wanted to say kinda disappeared and I'm sure that as soonas i post again....it'll disappear. I have no idea why I like to type short pargraphs. maybe it's cause I do not like looong paragraphs because it's hard to read so I avoid them.

IT'S MIDNIGHT!!!!!!

Christmas time!

Since Christmas time is here, and classes are ending I want to say merry Christmas to everyone that was in English this semester. This has been one of the most fun and hardest English classes that I have ever taken. I wish I could have gotten to know all of you better. I think this has been the most diverse English class I have been in before, and it had the most points of view, which was very interesting for me. I think that this has been the English class I have learned the most in, and my writing has improved so much. I hope you all enjoy your holiday breaks. As I have been in this class and talking with others I have learned even more. This time of year always brings me so much joy! Y joy comes from the presents to the snow, to the time with your family. Remember what ever you do over the break have a “Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.”

Short story to practice details and pathos!

The shivering little girl rapped on the hard wooden door that sat in front of her... No answer, she knocked again... A few seconds later the swung open she walked in. There stood a fat man in front of her who rudely asked what she wanted. "To cone in from the cold and get warm for a few minutes" the girl said her teeth chattering, as she rubbed the sleeves of her tattered jacket. The man thought hard for a few seconds with a scowl on his face. Looking back at the couch stationed in front of the television he was watching deciding the show was to mature for a little girl said "no, but my next door neighbor is a good person, try him." Tears filled her eyes as the door slammed close and the sensation of warmth was gone.
She walked next door as instructed and knocked... Almost immanently the door swung open, this man was taller, and wore a nice bright smile. He asked in a very sweet voice "how may I help you little girl?" May I come in and get warm?" She asked for the second time that day. "As the man was about to answer he heard a popping noise from his computer to see that he had a red box in the corner of his screen indicating he had a new message. Instantly the door slammed shut.
As the night started to grow longer and the little girl got more and more worried she began to wonder why the world hated her so much she curled up in a ball under the tall tree covered in a glistening white snow. She could now feel all consciousness leaving her.
She awoke the next morning to her surprise warm, toasty in fact, and comfortable. She was in a bed. She smelt breakfast wafting up from down stairs. She ran down the stars to find a family sitting around the table waiting for her to come down.
The little girl with tears in her eyes thanked the family. They asked her what happened to her family, her eyes filled with tears as she retold the story about how the fire had burnt her house down last week, she was the only one who made it out of he house, and had gone house to house to get warm, no one ever letting her in for more than a minute or two or a piece of bread. The family let her live with them. There she lived the rest of her days happily ever after.

Sorry if you thought this was weird, I needed another blog post, and this story just kind of drifted out of no where, and I figured it out as I went along.

Other people's presentations

I really enjoyed all the presentations today. Sadly, it seems to be slipping my mind. :( It'll come to me. I really enjoyed the capital punishment presentation. The abused baby really got to me. If I didn't believe in the death penatly before; I would know. Thomas was right,, where is the justice for the baby? I think it's appaling that these jerks only get 18 months in jail. Wanna know something interesting? In the book of Mormon; there's mention of a death penalty. If ou murdered, you get the death penalty and so forth. Justice after all must be served right?

Let's see what else, I really liked the poem about Sexual abuse. It's an awesome poem. I can't explain why, just that i liked it. some of the videos were pretty funny. Like that person with 'blood' on her arms and so forth. I just had to laugh. Sorry!
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I'm really sorry that I didn't particpate and get to know ya'll more. If there is one thing i havelearned this semester that i hope take with me next semester is to speak up and get involved more. I think nxt time, I will talk to my teacher about concerns of particpating. After all it is hard, and embarrassing to me, to sit there and wait for my typist to say something making mygroup wait a minute.

Also, there were so many things i wanted to say in class but by the time its been typed up, the conversations had moved on to something else. I can never figure out when or how to get a word in because i'm concentrating on the computer and well....it's not the typists fault really. I should've taked to Daniel about it a long time ago. But, next semester I will talk to the teachers on the first day.

I don't think i'll ever get used to calling a teacher by his/her first name. it jsut seems weird.

Genera Translations

I can hardly believe that the end of the semester is here. I have been so busy with assignments that I have barely had time to breathe. I agree with what Thilia said this being a harder semester. I also agree that the break should be longer. I had fun getting to know everyone. This is the first class that I have had to do a blog for, and it has been a very interesting experience for me. I think that everyone did a really good job on their genera translations. I saw some very good use of pathos with the one about the death sentence being fair or not, the one about depression (there were other one that I liked too). I liked some of the logos I saw in some like Emily's on health care, and they all thought me something new. I think that all of them had an element of ethos in them. If for nothing else when people were explaining them I saw why they chose what ever they chose. I also liked how some of them were kind of more laid back and just made the class (or at least me) laugh. I have really enjoyed having class with all of you and getting to know you guys.