One of the first assignments that were giving to us in the beginning of English class was to be able to create a blog and write two posts weekly. The process of writing blog is Incorporated by having favorite and least favorite topics and posts, growing from feedback and responses from others and process of revisions; going from rough draft to a final. Within writing that post, we would have to reflect and respond to someone else’s post. Getting used to writing on a regular basis is a difficult thing. Many people are not accustomed to writing as much as the assignments. However, one of the goals that Mr. Sutherland my school’s English teacher wanted to give us was to be able to get used to writing for a long period of time (timed writing) and writing more often as well.
As I student in middle school, I was never accustomed to writing regularly, but by the assignments that are asked of us I am beginning to get more comfortable and have improved in small ways in my writing. The quick writes are small ways that helped me understand to try to cut back and focus more writing since we have a subject and we have to write for ten minutes without stopping. I have learned to try to structure my writing in ways that are simple but make very important changes in the writing, which help the reader, understand what they are reading.
The feedback from the class/audience has helped me in many ways since its constructive feedback that they may give for me to use. When writing the feedback the audience usually focuses on the subject, and what I have to think and say, but in few cases, they write about a question that was unclear to them and their thoughts that made it hard to understand what they were reading. By seeing some of my mistakes that were apparent in writing, I can reflect on how I should be changing and progressing.
In reviewing the posts on the blog that I have done I noticed that many of the subjects that my writing was relating to were to topics that had no point what so ever to situations that were happening in the moment. Rather I was writing about my thoughts about situations and ideas that are unappealing to the audience, which led to less reviews and responses from others. “The story is about a Native American teenager that lives on a small Spokane reservation, becoming aware of the contrast: favoritism of white people and the low self-esteem of Indians.” A goal that would help to bring my thoughts to be reviewed I will begin to think out of the box and step out of my comfort zone for the topics and ideas in which I write about, to more eye balling subjects.
In reading and responding the posts from other people, I was able to come up with that many people wrote about their person feelings and thoughts about a topic rather than something that happened to them or something that they have see. Those are my favorite types of posts that I enjoy reading. I like to read and get informed about how a person strongly feels about something that they notice. For example, one student had written about how they despise males who decide to sag meaning wear bottoms pants or shorts lower than expected at the waist. When someone is usually sagging, they are showing part of their behind and their underwear to everyone that passes by and notices. The student was wondering why the males had decided to sag and wear their jeans low and they also decided to wear a belt holding the pants at a level down near to their behind. the student also speaks about how peoplet generalize how a certain race should dress.http://aleahbaaqee.blogspot.com/Not only is the topic interesting in a strange way, but also it allows the writer to express their deep feeling about the community and their actions. Another, topic that I came across that was interesting and that many people responded and had thoughts about was that of a story writing about love. The student wrote about how their experiences and my thoughts as well combined to maker her feel and strongly believe something about that strong word people call LOVE. http://karenchavezlife.blogspot.com/2010/09/ilove-you-is-8-letter-word-so-is.htmlThis post was one of my favorites since I was part of a reason that made the student feel and understand the position in which they were writing about. I do not have a least favorite post since everything is unique in a way even though I may disagree with their ideas and thoughts.
One of the major steps in the process in writing that is to be done after the work of thinking of ideas and noting them down, is revision. revisions to a paper are the part that add and help the paper to become better it the ways in which they customize and rewrite parts that mislead the reader. another word for revising a paper is polishing, polishing makes the essay and writing better, bumping it to another level. Throughout the quarter and or year when creating my posts on the blog I did not begin to reread what I had written to check for any mistakes that makes them unclear. Some mistakes that I have now realized that I had done included; spelling, grammar, redundancy, and misleading the audience and making the central point clear within the writing.
Writing is one of the many things that can never be perfected, to a person’s view and perspective of what they are writing about in a paragraph, post and or essay. As a student writing is a difficult thing that I have to be adjusted to, and being able to do it on a daily basis. A goal that would help me and my writing to improve would be giving the reader more to work with and being straightforward, to be able to understand the main ideas. By taking away unnecessary details and topics that, lead the reader to a different approach on their understanding of the topic. To guide the reader in a way to understand may also include changing what I am choosing as subject, to something that I am more familiar with and that I could able stay consistent. Rather than choosing something that is important and irrelevant t, I will begin to choose more out of the ordinary topics that may provoke the reader to want to read and respond.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Lunch
Lunch today (October 22, 2010) STARBUCKS: It was cold and i wanted to starbucks! Therefore, Colin, Eric and I were like let us go. b then, Eric was like: "i have no money" i said : "oo its cool ill buy you something" were on our way there and Colin was like "you should buy the flavored water its good and its really cheap" Eric "was like oo i guess" we get to starbucks and Colin orders his Venti peppermint chocolate, i order my Grande hot chocolate and my cranberry scone. Colin and I were like "oo Eric orders your drink" he was like "yeah."
So he orders like water with raspberry flavoring which happened to be 50cents. The dude looks at him funny and tells the girl who does the drinks. When the girl who does the drinks saw the order she had the funniest face ever and so she gives me and Colin our drinks and Eric was waiting. She laughed to herself and she decided to ask, “I’m curious why you want water with the flavoring?"
Eric starts to get nervous and red, me and Colin laugh so hard and she kept asking and she saw me and Colin laughing and she asked, "are you guys playing a trick on him?" we responded "no" and she asked “so why did you guys order this? What does it taste like have you gotten it?" Colin responded:"yeah, i have it taste pretty good and its cheap." and she responds "oo so you are going for the cheap. (Laughing while she said it,)" mean while all this happens Eric was in the corner all red and embarrassed and me and Colin were laughing after all the lady decided to hook Eric up with a raspberry lemonade because she felt bad.
Colin and I were laughing so hard and Eric was embarrassed. This is a day to remember, and of course the starbuck's lady will remember since it was the first syrup water she ever TRIED to do! Its so funny how she felt bad and he was so embarrassed!
So he orders like water with raspberry flavoring which happened to be 50cents. The dude looks at him funny and tells the girl who does the drinks. When the girl who does the drinks saw the order she had the funniest face ever and so she gives me and Colin our drinks and Eric was waiting. She laughed to herself and she decided to ask, “I’m curious why you want water with the flavoring?"
Eric starts to get nervous and red, me and Colin laugh so hard and she kept asking and she saw me and Colin laughing and she asked, "are you guys playing a trick on him?" we responded "no" and she asked “so why did you guys order this? What does it taste like have you gotten it?" Colin responded:"yeah, i have it taste pretty good and its cheap." and she responds "oo so you are going for the cheap. (Laughing while she said it,)" mean while all this happens Eric was in the corner all red and embarrassed and me and Colin were laughing after all the lady decided to hook Eric up with a raspberry lemonade because she felt bad.
Colin and I were laughing so hard and Eric was embarrassed. This is a day to remember, and of course the starbuck's lady will remember since it was the first syrup water she ever TRIED to do! Its so funny how she felt bad and he was so embarrassed!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Ivan
Mr. Sutherland
English one
15 Oct. 2010
The central conflict in the realistic fiction Novel, “Of Mice and Men,” by John Steinbeck most of the conflict in the story is based on the society and the ignorance of people. Lennie one of the two main characters in the story is mentally disabled and in many cases has troubles and is need of help from the other character in the story named George. In his early childhood stages, Lennie had an accident with a horse and soon became disabled. Lennie was in the care of his aunt Clara, and when she passed away, George was the only left and by the side of Lennie. George was forced to be the Parent figure for him and to take care of him. There was no other person that Lennie could take turn to and have a similar or equal relation, like with George The society and people have no consideration for people that are mentally disabled and have difficulties. Whose fault is it that no other family member could take an importance for Lennie? Who should be for the blame?
Many people were not as aware and considerate on how to be able to live and be with someone that has some mental disability, and the great depression added to that and was a factor. Not only were people not willing to share and have lives with people because they were in a hole where they did not have sufficient materials and money for people to support each other. “Well, I never seen one guy takes so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.” George said, “He’s my . . . cousin. I told his old lady id take care of him. he got kicked in the head by a horse he was a kid. He’s awright. just ain't bright. but he can do anything you tell him.” Of Mice and Men, page 22. During the time and era that they lived in the people were not used to seeing someone take care of others for no apparent reason. in this situation and case George was the person that was in the care of Lennie, and that was only because Lennie could not take care of himself and there was no other person that Lennie could count on. In order not to look and stand out, George had to make the decision of making a lie and explaining that he was Lennie's cousin. People could not understand what was the reason for someone to want to have someone beside them to aid and help the.
People’s reaction and interactions with people with disabilities change and they are unable to comprehend that they are different in some ways, including on how they think and may react. “That big son-of-a bitch done it. I know he done it. why-ever’body else was out there playin’ horseshoes.” After Lennie had made a mistake and had take someone’s life and people had found out they were unable to understand what could have happened and reacted in a way instead of coming to a conclusion and learning more about the situation and react in a way that made things worse for everybody. Curly reacted by cursing and not being able understand. In addition, the people had not take the proper care and precaution that was needed to be able to understand what would happen and could happen in a situation similar to that of which happened. The people and the group had no way to understand and know what to do with the situation.
In the final pages of the book, there was a crowd of people chasing after Lennie after the incident with the death of Curly’s wives death. They wanted to punish and kill Lennie since he had taken the life of somebody. People had no other way or thoughts on how to be able to solve the situation. “He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again.” There was someone that was going to take the life of Lennie, and it was his friend who had decided to take it for him. He believed that it would be better for him to kill than for someone to just decide to kill him. He wanted his friend to peacefully die.
John Steinbeck 1937 "of mice and men" the struggle had finally come to a but not in the way that they were hoping and wanted to and planned. They had planned that George and Lennie would be able to free of people the money and any other issues by being able to reach an amount of money and buying and or having a farm and being separated from the rest of the other people. The struggles and discrimination that was coming from and towards the people with mental disabilities has not changed and not gone forward in many steps.
Mr. Sutherland
English one
15 Oct. 2010
The Central Conflict in the Story
The central conflict in the realistic fiction Novel, “Of Mice and Men,” by John Steinbeck most of the conflict in the story is based on the society and the ignorance of people. Lennie one of the two main characters in the story is mentally disabled and in many cases has troubles and is need of help from the other character in the story named George. In his early childhood stages, Lennie had an accident with a horse and soon became disabled. Lennie was in the care of his aunt Clara, and when she passed away, George was the only left and by the side of Lennie. George was forced to be the Parent figure for him and to take care of him. There was no other person that Lennie could take turn to and have a similar or equal relation, like with George The society and people have no consideration for people that are mentally disabled and have difficulties. Whose fault is it that no other family member could take an importance for Lennie? Who should be for the blame?
Many people were not as aware and considerate on how to be able to live and be with someone that has some mental disability, and the great depression added to that and was a factor. Not only were people not willing to share and have lives with people because they were in a hole where they did not have sufficient materials and money for people to support each other. “Well, I never seen one guy takes so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.” George said, “He’s my . . . cousin. I told his old lady id take care of him. he got kicked in the head by a horse he was a kid. He’s awright. just ain't bright. but he can do anything you tell him.” Of Mice and Men, page 22. During the time and era that they lived in the people were not used to seeing someone take care of others for no apparent reason. in this situation and case George was the person that was in the care of Lennie, and that was only because Lennie could not take care of himself and there was no other person that Lennie could count on. In order not to look and stand out, George had to make the decision of making a lie and explaining that he was Lennie's cousin. People could not understand what was the reason for someone to want to have someone beside them to aid and help the.
People’s reaction and interactions with people with disabilities change and they are unable to comprehend that they are different in some ways, including on how they think and may react. “That big son-of-a bitch done it. I know he done it. why-ever’body else was out there playin’ horseshoes.” After Lennie had made a mistake and had take someone’s life and people had found out they were unable to understand what could have happened and reacted in a way instead of coming to a conclusion and learning more about the situation and react in a way that made things worse for everybody. Curly reacted by cursing and not being able understand. In addition, the people had not take the proper care and precaution that was needed to be able to understand what would happen and could happen in a situation similar to that of which happened. The people and the group had no way to understand and know what to do with the situation.
In the final pages of the book, there was a crowd of people chasing after Lennie after the incident with the death of Curly’s wives death. They wanted to punish and kill Lennie since he had taken the life of somebody. People had no other way or thoughts on how to be able to solve the situation. “He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again.” There was someone that was going to take the life of Lennie, and it was his friend who had decided to take it for him. He believed that it would be better for him to kill than for someone to just decide to kill him. He wanted his friend to peacefully die.
John Steinbeck 1937 "of mice and men" the struggle had finally come to a but not in the way that they were hoping and wanted to and planned. They had planned that George and Lennie would be able to free of people the money and any other issues by being able to reach an amount of money and buying and or having a farm and being separated from the rest of the other people. The struggles and discrimination that was coming from and towards the people with mental disabilities has not changed and not gone forward in many steps.
Ivan
Sutherland
English 1
Sept. 28 2010
¶’s
Like many people Qfwfq, is not of those people that forget things in a very simple manner having no need for time to get over anything. They do not forget the bad things that happen to them. Lll had just gone and met with Qfwfq’s uncle; N’ba N’ga and spending together having fun. “Instead we went on seeing each other going together and lagoon episode was never mentioned. I was still uneasy: it was no use my trying to persuade myself she had forgotten; every no and then I suspected she was remaining silent ...” (The Aquatic Uncle, by Italo Calvino Page 77) this explains and demonstrates that Qfwfq is very judgmental and finds himself thinking the worse and thinking that people are always after someone and that things always end up being bad and reflecting towards someone.
People set their mind to something and forget about many other things and do not care or give importance of the other things that reflect around the world they are in anyway. “ That was about the time that u fell in love with Lll and I spent our days together chasing each other; no one as quick as she had ever been before; in the ferns, which were as tall as trees in those days…”...”(The Aquatic Uncle, by Italo Calvino Page 74). This demonstrates that Qfwfq is the type of person that dedicates everything to a specific subject that dedicates his time and effort into what he is doing and or loves to do. He does not care or sees what else may be important to them, they have set their mind to think and care much about the other things around anything are in this time.
Lll and Qfwfq were struggling and having some troubles in how they were relating and in who they were talking to and how they were also talking to each other. They have them become separate in a way having someone else in the relationship that was already in the family. Lll and Qfwfq where coming to a strong and big breaking point were Lll had decided not only move on but also build and make a relationship with Lll’s uncle N’ba N’ga. They all had something, I know that made them somehow superior to me, in a sublime something that made me compared to them mediocre. (The Aquatic Uncle, by Italo Calvino Page 82). The situation hurt and moved Qfwfq in a weird way but Qfwfq could not do
Sutherland
English 1
Sept. 28 2010
¶’s
Like many people Qfwfq, is not of those people that forget things in a very simple manner having no need for time to get over anything. They do not forget the bad things that happen to them. Lll had just gone and met with Qfwfq’s uncle; N’ba N’ga and spending together having fun. “Instead we went on seeing each other going together and lagoon episode was never mentioned. I was still uneasy: it was no use my trying to persuade myself she had forgotten; every no and then I suspected she was remaining silent ...” (The Aquatic Uncle, by Italo Calvino Page 77) this explains and demonstrates that Qfwfq is very judgmental and finds himself thinking the worse and thinking that people are always after someone and that things always end up being bad and reflecting towards someone.
People set their mind to something and forget about many other things and do not care or give importance of the other things that reflect around the world they are in anyway. “ That was about the time that u fell in love with Lll and I spent our days together chasing each other; no one as quick as she had ever been before; in the ferns, which were as tall as trees in those days…”...”(The Aquatic Uncle, by Italo Calvino Page 74). This demonstrates that Qfwfq is the type of person that dedicates everything to a specific subject that dedicates his time and effort into what he is doing and or loves to do. He does not care or sees what else may be important to them, they have set their mind to think and care much about the other things around anything are in this time.
Lll and Qfwfq were struggling and having some troubles in how they were relating and in who they were talking to and how they were also talking to each other. They have them become separate in a way having someone else in the relationship that was already in the family. Lll and Qfwfq where coming to a strong and big breaking point were Lll had decided not only move on but also build and make a relationship with Lll’s uncle N’ba N’ga. They all had something, I know that made them somehow superior to me, in a sublime something that made me compared to them mediocre. (The Aquatic Uncle, by Italo Calvino Page 82). The situation hurt and moved Qfwfq in a weird way but Qfwfq could not do
Friday, October 8, 2010
The absoloute Diary of a part Time Indian
In the book, The Absolute True Diary of a Partime Indian, the author Sherman Alexie believes that the society gives more importance to whites than any other race, leading to many problems in the society. The story is about a Native American teenager that lives on a small Spokane reservation, becoming aware of the contrast: favoritism of white people and the low self-esteem of Indians. The event takes place between junior and his friend Gordy at Reardan High School, a small town near Spokane. Students at Reardan are provided with the recourses while upholding and having the goal of succeeding, unlike the Native Tribal School, which Junior attended in the past. Students at Wellpinit are not giving the materials to succeed in school, while also being put down and compared to whites. They have internalized the appalling stereotypes and lost hope.
Gordy discussed the flaws and how corrupt people are to those that are not American. For example, when an American young woman had gone missing in a Mexican forest, The United States spent thousands of dollars trying to find her. “Well this article said that over two hundred Mexican girls have disappeared in the last three years in that same part of the country. And nobody says much about that. And that’s racist. The guy who wrote this says people care more about beautiful white girls than they do about everybody else in the planet. White girls are privileged.” – Gordy the quote illustrated the point because it proved that it is ware event some of those that have not yet experienced, being put down, humiliated or forgotten because of their ethnicity. There is a major imperfection in the way that people are treated and it needs to be resolved. There should be no excuse, this country is known for giving equal rights and treating everybody equally, and we are not upholding that.
The problem affects people internally leaving people traumatized, and losing self-confidence. They believe that they are worth nothing and questioning why they should go college if they are incapable to succeeding in life. It may also lead to worse and serious consequences. For example, Juniors Grandmother was ran over and killed by a drunk driver who was drinking away his problems covering them and making them worse. Another example, Eugene one of Juniors friend was shot in the face and killed while intoxicated. Juniors Grandmother had never drank before, Eugene had been sober and straitening his life, but I little slip up of a person drinking away their problems caused those deaths. The problem has led to addictions of alcohol and of illegal substances, leaving them unaware and less likely to know what action they are committing, either suicide, murder or vulnerable to health diseases. There are several consequences leading from the favoritism and racism that are aware to the author. No life should be thought less of because of who their personality and ethnic background.
Gordy discussed the flaws and how corrupt people are to those that are not American. For example, when an American young woman had gone missing in a Mexican forest, The United States spent thousands of dollars trying to find her. “Well this article said that over two hundred Mexican girls have disappeared in the last three years in that same part of the country. And nobody says much about that. And that’s racist. The guy who wrote this says people care more about beautiful white girls than they do about everybody else in the planet. White girls are privileged.” – Gordy the quote illustrated the point because it proved that it is ware event some of those that have not yet experienced, being put down, humiliated or forgotten because of their ethnicity. There is a major imperfection in the way that people are treated and it needs to be resolved. There should be no excuse, this country is known for giving equal rights and treating everybody equally, and we are not upholding that.
The problem affects people internally leaving people traumatized, and losing self-confidence. They believe that they are worth nothing and questioning why they should go college if they are incapable to succeeding in life. It may also lead to worse and serious consequences. For example, Juniors Grandmother was ran over and killed by a drunk driver who was drinking away his problems covering them and making them worse. Another example, Eugene one of Juniors friend was shot in the face and killed while intoxicated. Juniors Grandmother had never drank before, Eugene had been sober and straitening his life, but I little slip up of a person drinking away their problems caused those deaths. The problem has led to addictions of alcohol and of illegal substances, leaving them unaware and less likely to know what action they are committing, either suicide, murder or vulnerable to health diseases. There are several consequences leading from the favoritism and racism that are aware to the author. No life should be thought less of because of who their personality and ethnic background.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Infanticide
Infanticide
Unnecessary and cruel things are happening in societies related to the killing of young children. In China, there is a law that prohibits people from having more than one child. The government decided to make that law because of the population of people increasing in the world. 1/5 of the population increasing in the world is just from China.
If people make the decision to have more than one child, the government will tax and fine them. Some people, even though they are going to be fined, they have made the choice to have more than one child. Their decision to have a boy and a girl sometimes does not turn out and they have two girls. People in China prefer to have a boy instead of a girl because they will have to give their fortune not to their daughter but to their husband. When they have two girls, they decide to commit an unnecessary and cruel crime they, kill one of them. Murder is a bad crime that is should not justified for anyone. If murder is not justified for adults, why should it be justifiable for infants who cannot defend themselves? Murder is usually committed by ruthless people of whom they do not trust. Murder also should not be committed by their own parents, doctors or anyone. Just because people decide that, they want to have a boy when having a baby does not mean it will happen. There is only a 50% chance that a boy might be born. If people do decide to have a baby they should take, responsibility and take care for the child not kill it even though it is not the gender they choose. It is not the child’s fault so why should they be punished? When people murder other people, they are arrested for what they did. If any parent kills their baby, they should be punished for what they did and should suffer a punishment. Infanticide should not be treated lightly it is a major problem that the world suffers; an attempt to resolve it will make a better world for us.
Friday, October 1, 2010
For guys. Things are not very sunny either. Girls are constantly breaking guy's hearts. We feel it is a way to get back at them. Alternatively, most of the time, they are not up to your standards. It is a horrible thing for guys to find out but they are better at covering their feeling then girls are. So therefore, you just want to love someone without having feelings because if you do, then you know you will most likely end up broken hearted.
- RokhsorWell Karen, and I had started this conversation about a while ago, so I would basically would like to my full on perspective to it and talk about what Rokhsor wrote about the original Quote/post.
At that moment that i gave my opinion and thought to Karen, I had been in a weird and difficult position. where i had "seen /and was seeing” how difficult a relationship could be and i was reflecting on the actual meaning and the feelings of that mysterious and "DUMB" word called LOVE. When being in the middle and seeing how a relation of people could turn out and reflecting on what has happened in the past with people and also the conversation i had in the past, I believed that it would be the best thing to be able to connect and help Karen understand my position. and everyone can and will have their position and will be in their place where they stand. everything depends on who a person is and who they meet and are in a relationship with.
Their many things that people do that damage many people and in many ways. for example, people getting back at each other as Rokhsor explained. that is a great example of how people intentionally hurt and damage other for a reason, a reason that makes no sense. that is an action that is not necessary but is always bound to happen and it always does in many places and in relationships; between friends, people dating ect.
Why is it that many decide to hurt somebody rather than taking a more reasonable approach instead of taking a route where a friendship gets involved, where people get hurt and something always goes wrong in any little way that later results in bigger damage? CAN PEOPLE CONTROL THEIR ACTIONS BEFORE DOING SOMETHING AND LATER REGRETTING THE BIG AND HORRIBLE MISTAKE THAT THEY JUST COMMITTED? WHY IS SO DIFFICULT TO THINK BEFORE ACTING AND SPEAKING?! Many people do not have that in control and can’t think before they act. Proof of this is all the mistakes that someone has int heir life, that they later regret and find it to be a mistake that they could have avoided!
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