In the News # 5 ( Pitbull Attacks)

I personally never really liked pit bulls , but I have no problem with them if they are in a cage. But based on those recent attacks for example about the 4 month infant getting attacked by the two pit bulls , I think they are dangerous. But it depends on how they are trained and raise it , because many people buy pit bulls because they are intimidating and others have a pit bull and train them to be good dogs. But the rights of dogs V.S. humans is difficult to address because most people think that humans are important and lately the dogs rights have been getting better but it will never be on the same level as humans.

Active Reading PG.233

1. I had a hard time visualizing what he is doing he didn't really explain , but the concept are not clearly defined. I think at the end of the essay Sanders feel the need to describe it step more clearly , so the reader can have a better understanding.
2. His chronological order is the present past and back to the present and he clearly points them out with the date and the stories of his grandfather and his childhood.
3. A dawn stone were the unrocked that served as the earliest hammers. He describe this in this essay because it shows how early tools have been used by human.

Journal # 5 " Why I want A Wife"

1. The types of duties Syfers describe as being performed by a wives are the household chores , taking care of the children and husbands need , cooking and make sure that everyone has all their necessities. To some degrees I believe these are still done by women but it is not as demanding as it use to be back then.Well now today husbands are becoming more involved with taking care of their children and are more understanding because in today's economy both the husbands and wives have to work .
2. Syfers' style is very simply , she gets right to the point and she is able to express her sarcasm , I thought that was very interesting. She was very daring with her word choice and wasn't afraid to be repetitive so she can get her point across. I would typically avoid being repetitive
3. The types of unfairness and injustice that I see in the world nowadays is the double standards and " The Glass Celling." The people that benefits from the injustices I see active in the world today are people have a stable income .

Myspace+ FaceBook= Addiction?

These social sites are a phase , because more and more people are getting hooked and even the younger generations are getting into the trend of social networking. Even though these websites have helped find our childhood friends are helps stay connected with people we are about even if the are away. But it also has a negative side because ANYONE can get one and thats the dangers of social networking because sometimes people don't know who they are talking to or even how old. I believe its a big threat to the younger generation because they devout themselves to it and get so addicted that some put there lives in danger, Cyber bulling has increased ever since those websites have been created and the older generation don't realize how its affect the younger generation unless its on the news that a 13 year girl commited suicide. But there a good and a bad side to it and its just about being careful and most people get over them and just check them once in awhile but others lives revolve around it.

Questions for Active Reading Pg.108

1. The "6 Myths of Creativity" is bassically everything that be assume about overall creativity and how people get creative and the "6 Myths of Creativity is just clarifying what is true and what is not.
2. Teresa Amabile designed her research to see how people asre creative but with telling them what she is really doing and if she is even looking for creativity. She collected 12,000 daily journal entries from 238 people that are working on creative projects in seven companies in the consumer products, hightech and chemical industries.
3. The audience for Bill Breen's article are people that are in bussiness or working for a company. I can tell because the article is giving tips to the people in charge on how to get more creativity out of their workers

Journal # 4

1. Barthlolomae means that the student has to create the university in their own way but by using the language of the academy , inventing the university will help the student be able to learn the skill .
2. Bartholomae suggest that "all writers must imagine for themselves the privilege of being insiders of being both inside an established and powerful discourse and the right to speak."
3. The difference between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines are the first essay about the "White Socks" was not an elegant paper , the student that wrote this essay is saying that he invented the whole style which is not true , If this was handed out to other students they wouldn't believe him , the discourse was entered correctly. In the essay about music the writer is consistently dramatically conscious of herself. She said she was creative but didn't taker all the credit by saying that she didn't purposefully copy the songs but used them as "inspirations." Her essay unlike the first essay relied on quotations marks and parody to set off the language. The style was more difficult.In Bartholomae opinion he believe the second essay was more successful because of the style and level of difficulty

Technology is it a threat?

Technolgy has always been a great advance and a great threat but we as humans always disregard the harm because technology makes life easier for us and in away protects us. For example Nuclear power when it was created was thought to be the greatest Technolgy and sooner or later we realized it is the biggest threat to human life that was ever created . But we never think of the consequences and what might happen. Even though it threatens us we are not going to stop with technology because we are so use to it and most technology is part of our daily lives,

THIS I BELIEVE ESSAY

Patience is a Virture, and those who have it can say it's a gift and a curse. All my life I felt that my patience has been tested and is still is Today. Its like I am in an endless season of a T.v. show or Game show were your pain our peoples pleasure For example Boiling Points and Punk'd. But someone never comes out and tell me that I was in boiling Point and I just won one hundred dollars or Ashton Kutcher doesn't pop out and say " Hey Stacy you just been Punk'd!". Those two shows all at once, that pretty crazy.
I didn't really know what that saying mean't , but people always said that to me , Like the lovely costumers that I have at the shoe store that always make me run back and forth to get shows and the either take one thing out of 50 shoes or nothing at all but leave a big nice mess for me to clean up. But everytime the are leaving the always said " Thank you for being so Patience with me and I wish I had your patience!", I thought the were just being nice but know I realized if I wasn't patient working there I would have lost my mind. Its hard sometimes to keep your patience esspecially if you just want to take all those feelings you have bottled up and just let them out. I honestly don't know how it work. I have been tested in so many diffrent situations in my life physically and mentally , big and small. For example when some one took my art work cause the thought is was theirs and ruining by painting it over with diffrent colors, My ride forgetting about me , my little brother breaking my laptop, even these small things tested my patience.
Life maybe is a rollercoaster and even though you can't get off until the ride is over. Make the best of it that is what I am trying to do and I understand why people in a way envy patience because paitence is protecting from most of life cruel ways and disease.Too many americans are being Diangnosed with High blood pressure and my mother told me with my patience I will be able to be healthy and enjoy life. Sometimes I do feel like why do I have to always receive the bad news or why do I have to be tested. But I feel that if I keep my patience the good news will just being popping out of nowhere just like Ashton Kutcher.

In the News: Politics

In politics does the canidates families make or break them when It comes to winning this election? I believe that this is true as Americans we are very family oriented some more than others, and it would make sense to have a president that is also. They people view our president and their families is they way they view America. When it comes to representing our country or us a one , our society is always going to want the person nad their families is close too perfect and even though its impossible . Its just part of our society and for years we have sterotyped what an All "American Family" should be and canidates have to show that they have that all American family and for years thats how society made it to be. If we had a candiate that was a single parent or divorced , I think our society would be a little spectacle about chosen that candidate because thay are thinking about how will other countries view america and how it will affect our society.

Chapter 3 questions

1. The experience that Smiley had that change her beliefs about chores , was when she  started working  at the stable , she did all the housework that children were normally forced to do but the difference was she wasn't doing it because her parent told her to do but because she really loved her horse and knew that take care of it was her responsibility. She describes her experience after she explain her opinion about chores and how she doesn't agree with the way it is brought upon a child. I think if she had placed it somewhere else It wouldn't have a great impact on me because I wouldn't really understand the reason behind the story.
2. The reason and evidence Smiley offers are all from personally experience and what she had seen throughout her life when it came to the chores topic.I don't rally think her reason and evidence are authoritative because she is just talking about her opinion and she is not really telling the reader that you should do this it is just a suggestion.
3. Smiley use of rhetorical questions appeal to her readers because she makes you think about it and  your able to make up your mind about the topic. My reaction to those questions are " Wow I never thought it about that way!" I was able to view the topic differently.

Journal # 2

"Finding the Flexibility to survive" was an essay written by Brighton Earley this essay was compelling because she wrote about a difficult time in her life and how she cope with it.

"A little silence is just the thing" was written by Sadie, was compelling because there was more meaning behind the title.

• Both essay use personal experience to showcase their beliefs.
  

"Finding the flexibility to survive" tone was more hopeful and that was achieved by the way the writer explained the story and how in the end she was trying to look at the bright side of things that are going on with her life.

"A Little silence is just the thing " had a reflective tone and that was achieved by the way the writer judge what she has been doing and her attitude.

These essays are both similar because in the end the send out a valuable message that relate to life and they both talk about viewing things life differently could be a good thing. Both essays are differently written and the message in the end of the essays were different even though it dealt with life's obstacles.

I believe both essays follow the writing guideline.

• For Project 1 I am not sure what belief I would like to write about , because there are many different beliefs that are interesting and would be great to talk about. Right now I am undecided but hopefully something pops up and catches my eyes.

• http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=31840&topessays=2&start=0
• http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=7650&topessays=3

Journal #1

1. Describe the situation that made you feel a need to respond in writing ? 

   I wrote that poem after my brother had to go to the emergency room because his blood sugar was low.

2. Why did you decide to respond in writing , instead of taking some other action or not responding at all ? I decide to respond in writing because I felt that it was the only I could have express my feelings and explain the situation by being more in depth.

3. What type or genre of writing did you use to communicate your purpose , and why did you choose this genre? I choose to do a poem but in free write style because i felt that it would be the best way to express myself.

4. Who was your audience and what kind of relationship did you want to establish with your readers? My audience were my classmates and my AP english teacher, I wanted them to be touched by the poem and relate it to an incident that they may have experience.

5. What was your purpose in writing? Did you feel you accomplished this purpose ?  My purpose  was to make others be able to relate with my incident and express my  love for my brother.

6. What knowledge of the context and culture did you draw on to guide your writing?

 I did everything from personal experience.

7. How is thinking about your writing as responding to a rhetorical situation different from other ways to think about the writing you do? When you write, most of the time you don't think about rhetorical situations, you just think about putting your point across.

Enhancements that are acceptable in Human activites.

In my opinion it really depends on the situation and how are the enhancement are being used and the reason behind it. As Humans we always find a tendency to want to improve are skills and performance , but sometimes we tend to get a little obsess with the idea of something that is helping you advance your skills and begin to abuse it . Many enhancement I believe are acceptable in human activities are acceptable but when it becomes an addiction and it is being abused then we have a problem. It works both ways , but it should be to an extent.