I am very, very excited about the classical assignment and the Presentation. It's going to be AWESOME! Its going to be the BEST! It's going to be the best presentation I hae ever done as it involves two of my passions in life! And no, I am not going to tell you what it is cause then it'd spoil the surprise! That's how excited I am about it! Oh, and I think you'll be able to figure out my favorite shows too.
I hope I have been able to argue my points well. This is something that I feel passionate about. And NO, I'm STILL not going to tell say what it is. I'm going to say very tightlipped but yet express my excitemment towards my project. And hopefully make someone laugh.
I am also lookin' forward to what all of you are going to be doing for your projects. I think this is my favorite English class...kinda.
I do have a tiny problem though. What do I do if a member of my group hasn't sent her paper to me and I dont have her e-mail????? *scratches head*
Oh well, I'm going to bed. After my raspberries are ready to harvest on Farmtown. heh
GOOD NIGHT ALL!!!!!!
Hm, 208 words. Do I have to have 250 or is this good? Or should I just keep typing til I hit 250. I have no idea how many posts I've made. I know I missed some of those assigned blog posts. Why? I havve no idea.. Perhaps cause i wait til the last minute and then boom something happens. it always does!
The interesting thing is, I was working on my paper to the very last minute. Wed morning, I woke up with a different and hopefully better idea to present my paper. So I worked on it until 1 and hurry to add a few finishing touches and print it out. Of course, I forgot a few important details like my name, the teacher's name, date and English 1010-71. And I think i even messed up on the page number.
Note to self: Do those things first. I have a tendency to get ideas to better something at the last minute.
All right, now I'm REALLY going to go to bed! Hm, I wonder how many inthe class is at wolverine crossing. :)
Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Reflecting about the Classical Arguement Papers
After reading the essays that I was suppose to critique and respond to, I realized that it was a helpful idea to do the groups. In all my others years in school, I never had the chance to have my peers read my essays. We did have maybe one other person read the essay, but other times it was just people reading them if we asked them to; there never was any set person that read it or any time set aside to critique. When we meet as a group and discuss our papers, it is a useful tool for all of us to help improve our papers. Everyone critiques differently and having many different suggestions from more than one person gives me a wide variety of ways to change my paper to make it fit the guidelines. I have never been much of a huge fan of writing, so having people help give me suggestions to improve my papers makes it a lot less stressful. It makes me be able to know what I'm doing wrong and what needs to be fixed to be able to have a well written paper. I also am not a big fan of correcting papers because most the papers I have corrected in the past years are already pretty well written and there has never been any huge changes needed. I never seem to know what I should fix in papers. Correcting these papers allowed me to try my hardest to critique to the best of my ability, so I could give valid suggestions to help my groups paper. It was also interesting reading the topics and the way each person writes their papers. All writers have different unique styles in which they construct their ideas about a subject.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Balancing Act of Writing
What makes good literature? What are the biggest factors that play into making a good piece, ethos, pathos, logos, kairos? I think at even the most boring topic can be made interesting based on the skill of the writer. What makes a classic book? This is something that I've been trying to understand for years after reading so called "classics" such as: The Great Gatsby, Ethan Frome, Farewell to Arms, Things Fall Apart, Red Badge of Courage, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, and the list goes on. What is it about these books that make them classics, because to me they're absolutely horrible and I hate them with a wonderful passion!
What creates a poem. What takes meaningless words and turns them into beautiful imagery. How can an author use words to make you cry, laugh, and empathize for a character in a book?! Words are amazing!
What appeals to you most in a paper or article? Ethos, pathos, logos? I think pathos can almost always catch your interest. (Except, in my case, when people start going on about the polar bear population dying off.) We are emotional creatures...or I should say I think that most of us are. If we see someone huddled over crying then you feel for them. Well I guess I should say I feel for them. Or a child who's crying over an injury. Emotions appeal to us. They're not something that we can simply be rid of as much as we would like to be at times.
Ethos is less appealing to me, depending on the subject, because someone can be a brain surgeon and lack common sense. For example, I work at Alysse's Bridal. We had a bride come in to try on dresses. She had a bachelor's or master's degree is some high tech science thing, but when she was done trying on dresses she would just throw them on the floor. These are $300-$1000 dresses. She lacked the common sense to take care of something that is nice and expensive. You can have a degree and still be a moron or lack the ability to think things through. But if the topic is very specific to their expertise I'm more likely to listen to other cures a doctor would suggest for something rather than a doctor's professional opinion on what should be done with health care, or about some other topic where their expertise is helpful, but it's more of a "What's your personal opinion" question.
Something I've also been wondering about in writing, is how do authors, in books give a better sense of time periods or passing time? I'm a hopeful author and I barely finished writing a fifteen page prologue to one of my stories. The entire thing flowed wonderfully as I wrote it, but once I finished and let it sit for a week and came back and reread it, the writing felt so choppy. Has anyone else had that happen? You feel so inspired and everything is just coming together perfectly in whatever you're writing and then you reread it later and it's absolutely horrible. Or it's choppy and broken up or there's no sense of a steady time flow shown in your writing. Anyways, interesting thought, I'd like to learn more about how author's use words to make everything so well connected in space and time and descriptions.
What creates a poem. What takes meaningless words and turns them into beautiful imagery. How can an author use words to make you cry, laugh, and empathize for a character in a book?! Words are amazing!
What appeals to you most in a paper or article? Ethos, pathos, logos? I think pathos can almost always catch your interest. (Except, in my case, when people start going on about the polar bear population dying off.) We are emotional creatures...or I should say I think that most of us are. If we see someone huddled over crying then you feel for them. Well I guess I should say I feel for them. Or a child who's crying over an injury. Emotions appeal to us. They're not something that we can simply be rid of as much as we would like to be at times.
Ethos is less appealing to me, depending on the subject, because someone can be a brain surgeon and lack common sense. For example, I work at Alysse's Bridal. We had a bride come in to try on dresses. She had a bachelor's or master's degree is some high tech science thing, but when she was done trying on dresses she would just throw them on the floor. These are $300-$1000 dresses. She lacked the common sense to take care of something that is nice and expensive. You can have a degree and still be a moron or lack the ability to think things through. But if the topic is very specific to their expertise I'm more likely to listen to other cures a doctor would suggest for something rather than a doctor's professional opinion on what should be done with health care, or about some other topic where their expertise is helpful, but it's more of a "What's your personal opinion" question.
Something I've also been wondering about in writing, is how do authors, in books give a better sense of time periods or passing time? I'm a hopeful author and I barely finished writing a fifteen page prologue to one of my stories. The entire thing flowed wonderfully as I wrote it, but once I finished and let it sit for a week and came back and reread it, the writing felt so choppy. Has anyone else had that happen? You feel so inspired and everything is just coming together perfectly in whatever you're writing and then you reread it later and it's absolutely horrible. Or it's choppy and broken up or there's no sense of a steady time flow shown in your writing. Anyways, interesting thought, I'd like to learn more about how author's use words to make everything so well connected in space and time and descriptions.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
i NEED your help!!!
For my Classical Argument I am writing on the effects of marijuana and why it is harmful. I was going to write on why it shouldn't be legalized but there is a lot I want to say about it so I decided to touch on legalization in the paper.
ANYWAYS...
I am now having trouble on what my thesis should be? I want an interesting thesis not, "marijuana is bad for you." Does any of have ideas?
Also, I love catchy, cheesy titles.. these are some I came up with:
Marijuana: Good or Bad?
Mary Jane: A Name to Some; An Escape to Others
The Harmful Effects of Marijuana
okay thats all I have right now but which one do you like? do you have any other ideas?
I am going to interview some friends who have overcome the usage of weed. I have some questions I am going to ask them but I am interested if you guys have any ideas of questions that I haven't thought of.
I would love it if you helped and also I would like to know what you guys think about marijuana?!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Persuasive Writing
As my thoughts were wandering today about the papers we right and the beliefs that we stand for I was wondering, when we put these down on paper, does it really persuade? Does it really make a difference? Are words so powerful? I do believe that words are. Words can change anything and everything, if, and only if they are used correctly. Thinking about my classical argument I was considering changing my topic because of what I saw this morning. I drive from Mapleton to school every day and for those of you who take the freeway and take the exit that's right by UVU and walmart to get to UVU, you'll understand the issue I see. You come off the freeway and the off ramp is quite long until it turns and flows into traffic going east. Now as many of you know, and perhaps you are the ones doing this, people will stop in the middle of the road. They'll just stop. And block traffic because they need to cross over three lanes to get over and turn left into UVU. And I'm pretty sure these drivers are morons if they think they can do this and not cause serious consequences. They stop traffic and that traffic backs up quickly until eventually it backs up to the freeway.
Today I turned onto the exit and immediately slammed on my brakes and was lucky enough not to hit the car in front of me that was completely stopped and luckily I likewise wasn't hit. Unfortunately a few drivers weren't so lucky. Looking in my side mirror I watched as a car hit or was hit and a chunk of what looked like their front light went flying, spraying the road with flecks of glass. They immediately came to a halt. and I watched as traffic began to stop in the slow lane of the freeway and that same car that just caused an accident was almost smashed by an oncoming van. As I pulled into UVU I wondered how many other cars were just piling up and causing a giant traffic jam or if that same car was still sitting in the middle of the freeway, or what. I knew that there was bound to be a wreck sooner or later because of the idiots who stop the traffic flow because they think it's their one and only chance to get over and turn into UVU. In case someone in this class is one of those people. There is an alternative. You can turn right, and flip a U-turn right by the first turn into the Walmart parking lot! Or you can turn left one more light up. It's pretty simple, if you stop traffic, then wrecks will happen.
As I was considering writing about bad driving I wondered really, if I was to publish an article at some point about reckless driving, would anyone really change their driving habits? Would I be persuasive enough to change at least one driver for better?
How often are opinion changed from reading an article? I probably wouldn't change many drivers if I called them idiots, even if that is how I think of them. But how often do you guys read an article and find your opinion changed either a small change or a major one? How powerful is the written language really?
Today I turned onto the exit and immediately slammed on my brakes and was lucky enough not to hit the car in front of me that was completely stopped and luckily I likewise wasn't hit. Unfortunately a few drivers weren't so lucky. Looking in my side mirror I watched as a car hit or was hit and a chunk of what looked like their front light went flying, spraying the road with flecks of glass. They immediately came to a halt. and I watched as traffic began to stop in the slow lane of the freeway and that same car that just caused an accident was almost smashed by an oncoming van. As I pulled into UVU I wondered how many other cars were just piling up and causing a giant traffic jam or if that same car was still sitting in the middle of the freeway, or what. I knew that there was bound to be a wreck sooner or later because of the idiots who stop the traffic flow because they think it's their one and only chance to get over and turn into UVU. In case someone in this class is one of those people. There is an alternative. You can turn right, and flip a U-turn right by the first turn into the Walmart parking lot! Or you can turn left one more light up. It's pretty simple, if you stop traffic, then wrecks will happen.
As I was considering writing about bad driving I wondered really, if I was to publish an article at some point about reckless driving, would anyone really change their driving habits? Would I be persuasive enough to change at least one driver for better?
How often are opinion changed from reading an article? I probably wouldn't change many drivers if I called them idiots, even if that is how I think of them. But how often do you guys read an article and find your opinion changed either a small change or a major one? How powerful is the written language really?
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