Week 6
6) Life Choice: Is This My Tradition? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please complete the following:
Introduction The Lottery is a story about how silly it can be to keep some traditions going, in the story everyone from the town must pull a piece of paper from a black box, when Mr.Hutchinson pulls the piece with the black dot on it he nominates his family to all pull a paper again, his wife Mrs.Hutchinson pulls the paper and the town in soon upon her, and stone her to death. There are some traditions like this that we still have today that I will be talking about in my blog. Are there any American traditions that share similarities with the lottery tradition in the village? In the lottery the reason for their tradition seemed to be lost. The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago and the replacement box that they currently use is beaten down, splintered, and fading, and stained. This box has been in use longer than the oldest man in town. The box represents how the tradition of the lottery as a whole. It seems that no one knows why they take part in this tradition every year. Except that the older people in the town claim that its a tradition that must continue. Las Vegas Strip massacre, Orlando nightclub massacre, San Bernardino mass shooting, Washington Navy Yard shooting, Newtown school shooting, Aurora theater shooting, Virginia Tech massacre. The list goes on and on. Much like in The Lottery, America has some traditions that aren't necessary such as gun violence. I understand that we United States citizens have the 2nd amendment, and have the right to do so, but maybe it's time to add more regulations to the amendment. The laws for guns in this country could be compared to the box in the The Lottery were at a time they had to use wood chips, but how they changed it to paper, due to the change in population and how the community advanced altogether. we've advanced in our society where we don't need the same laws, and traditions. When have you made an important choice to break away or not break away from a strong cultural tradition you shared with a family, friend, or culture? It's Saturday night! time to drink soda, play video games, or sleep over a friends house, and stay up to till the sun rises. That's how I remember my elementary school years, but it wasn't always like. Saturday nights use to mean it's time to crawl into my little twin bed so that I could be awake by 7:30 AM. Shortly after the sun rises my mother would attempt to wake me and my bother up. After about the third attempt we knew its time to get up and hurry to get ready. Time to find the "nice" shoes that were handed down from my oldest brother Tom, that he handed down to Ryan, that Ryan handed down to will, and then finally Will handed down to me. I had to get to find my pair of khakis, and the same red button down shirt I was forced to wear every week. After my mom tied my tie for me it's was time to leave. All 5 of us crammed into my moms silver Toyota Camry, being the youngest I'm forced to sit in the middle again where my legs are mushed together with no room on either side, after the ride we get to our destination, being late as always we walk through the giant stain glassed doors, and are greeted with a crowd of Singing and everyone turning there heads to see who's walking in late. My mom would have us cram into the first booth that had room for all 5 of us. After sitting and standing for what felt like hours it would finally be time to leave, we all crammed back into the tiny car, and returned back to the house, When we got back to the house I told my mom I do not want to go to church with you anymore. She started raising her voice saying "You HAVE to go!" "but, I don't want to go anymore" This continued for hours, until when next Saturday came, and I decided to sleep out at my friends house for what felt for months until my mom realized what I was doing. She later had a talk with me and told me that it's okay, you don't have to go with us anymore.
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Week 5
5) Life Choice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please complete the following:
Introduction After reading along to the short story Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) I had to decipher the meaning of the story, where a women must choose whether she should go along with getting an abortion or if she will not. I will also be writing a argument if i believe the girl stays with the man, and a narrative of a time I had to make an difficult decision to stay in difficult situation. Does the girl in the story stay in her relationship with the man? The women in the story seems to be unsure if she wants to go through with the abortion, but while the man makes it clear to her that he wants her to abort the baby by stating how it's such a simple procedure. The topic of abortion is a very sensitive situation for everyone and if the man and the girl are not on the same page it will cause arguments that may happen to a couple if they are unsure if they want a child. The man does care about the girl because he says it multiple times in the story like when the women says "I don't care about me" the man quickly reply's "Well I care about you". at this time the girl stood up saw the river through the trees and decided that she is keeping the baby. Her responses quickly change to "No, we can't have everything", and "No we can't have the whole world." Indicating that she wants to keep the "white Elephant" the man tries to persuade her on how simple of an operation it is a few more times the women then tells the man to "please please please please please please please stop talking" the man here realizes that she will not have the abortion anymore but I believe the man and women will stay in the relationship because yes the guy clearly didn't want the kid but, he told the girl "I don't want you to feel that way" when the girl says "I'll do it and then everything will be fine". This to me indicates that the man will stay in the relationship even if the women does have the kid. -white el·e·phant noun 1) a possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of. When have you made a important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation? Probably the most important and one of the most recent decision's that I have ever made was to return to school. I graduated from Interboro high school in 2015 and I decided to work at Chick-Fil-A during the couple of years off school I would drive to work at noon, and wouldn't leave the store until midnight ,and moved from team member, to a trainer, to a team leader, to currently Assistant Manager. If it wasn't for Chick-Fil-A I never would of been able to pay for my education, obviously I don't want my career to be a worker at a quick service restaurant for the rest of my life, so I decided to return to school and receive a higher education, I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with my life, but what fun would life be if I had it all planed out already? I'm aware that I'm not the only person in this difficult situation of working full time and going to school full time, but in order to achieve higher goals with my life, I must stay in the difficult situation and do my best to better my self. One day I know all of this hard work will pay off. I use the idea of leaving this difficult situation as inspiration. Week 4
4) Life Choice: To Tell the Truth? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please complete the following:
Introduction In the story What You Don't Know Lulu Wang is faced with a devastating choice of telling her Nainai she has stage four lung cancer where she will live her expected last few months of life in a hospital or not to tell her Nainai that she does not have stage 4 lung cancer, So that she can enjoy her last few months. They then are forced to fake a marriage to all say their goodbyes for Nainai. I will also be writing an argument about if I agree with the option of not telling Nainai, and a narrative of when I once lied to make a major impact on someone's else life. Did you agree with the family's choice to deceive Wang's grandmother? I did not agree with the the family's opinion to not tell Nainai what was happening to her. If I was diagnosed with something terminally ill I believe I have the right to know. I would want to be able to say my goodbyes to my family and I would like to do the things that I have never done before, I would not like to spend my last few expected months in a hospital or not knowing. I would like the spend my last few expected months adventuring the world. I would want to do all the things that I never did with my life such as travel, tell a few people off, and say good bye to my loved ones. You can also tell that Uncle Hai Bin did not believe with the idea that not telling her was the right thing to do, I felt as if Uncle Hai Bin spoke for the entire family in how they all want to tell Nainai, knowing that the should tell Nainai but cant work up the courage to tell Nainai. I also believe want my family to be able to tell me so that they wouldn't all have to be guilty feeling I want want to let them know it's okay. Nainai also could feel the grief of her son just by looking at her son's face I would not want to be able to see that in my sons face I would want to be able to talk to him and from him to even be able to tell me anything before I left. When have you made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or you made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on you and/or someone else? When I was a about 5 My brother got a new Gameboy and Pokemon game. He wouldn't let me play his game boy, nor would he even let me touch the Gameboy. A few weeks later he left his game boy on the kitchen table and I took it without asking him. I want to my neighbor's house and played the game. I played the game the entire day, I took the game with us to grocery store with us when his mom went shopping. While we were walking around the Acme I was so into the game and I ran into someone's shopping cart and I dropped the Gameboy. I went to pickup the Gameboy and it turned off I remember being so upset because I haven't saved the game in over a few hours. A few minutes passed and I decided to play the game again, but this time the Gameboy wouldn't turn back on. I started to panic I was so nervous. When we got back to my house I tried throwing out the Gameboy but my mom was in the kitchen cooking so, I ran all the way upstairs and hide the Gameboy under my bed. the second I walked back downstairs my brother asked me if I saw his Gameboy I quickly Answered no, but then I saw my brother continue to look for the Gameboy, for what felt like an hour. I then told him I would help him look for the Gameboy I quickly ran up to my room grabbed the Gameboy and then I went down stairs ran tot he couch and acted like i found it in the couch that he searched 50 times. When he went to play the Gameboy it would turn on. He was furious and then I said hey put new batteries in it acting like that could be the issue but when he did the Gameboy turned right back on! I then thought back and was thinking I was just going to throw up the Gameboy and act like nothing happened. 3) Life Choice: The Powers That Be? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please copy and paste the following bullet points into your blog post and complete the following:
Introduction After reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou), I will be writing about whether or not I support Margaret's choice in breaking the casserole dish along with the two green cups, for being oppressed by her racist boss Mrs. Cullinan. I will also write about a time I chose to not be oppressed. Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? In the reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou), the main character has to deal with many factors of being oppressed, listening to authority figures who belittle her. Margaret was treated with little to no respect by her authoritative figure, who was her boss. At first Margaret tried to not resist with being oppressed by being called Mary. She tried to laugh it off but, after a week of Mrs. Cullinan’s calling her Mary she was getting to her breaking point. Margaret's breaking point was when Mrs. Cullinan’s SCREAMED MARY! at that point Margaret has had it and dropped the food tray and! let the Casserole dish along with the two green cups fall to the ground and shattered. This was what Margaret had to do to stop working there she did not want to end up being treated with no respect anymore. When have you made an important choice to either resist or not resist oppression, challenge the status quo, or refuse to obey an authority figure? When I was in the fourth grade I moved from Sharon Hill to Prospect Park, in the fourth grade, I quickly made some a few friends that were in my class and in the first week at being at this new school a kid decided to push my friend and tried to bully him during recess. Growing up in Sharon Hill as a fourth grader i knew these actions cannot be tolerated. I asked my friend what that was about and he told me that he danced with his girlfriend at the Fire House Dance. My friend wanted to punch the kid and his friends at recess but I told him he can't do that because he would get into a lot of trouble, so we revised the situation and decided that it would be best to confront him the next time we weren't in school, sure enough his friends went to the same playground we decided to go to. we decided to play them in basket ball 2 vs 2 after about the first 5 minutes the other kids decided to push us and play rough we didn't stop yet though. About 10 minutes into the game the kid punched my friend! so I decided to help my friend and we ended up having a 2 vs 2 fight on the basketball court until some dad walking his dog ran over and stopped us. 2) Writing Process Quote Collage [Categories: Writing Process, Reflection]: Please copy and paste the following bullet points into blog post and complete the following:
Introduction
Today I'm going to talk about a few quotes from the readings The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova), Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) and Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury). The quotes are going to explain how the writer's writing process goes. Provide 3 quotes about the writing process from each reading. 1)In the writing The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers E.B White said "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper" This shows prewriting because E.B. White will just start writing what comes to his mind. 2)After a long day of Writing Jack Kerouac says "I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day" This is clearing how Jack Kerouac revises the work that he has accomplished in his day. 3)Maya Angelou revises her work when after dinner is cleaned up she says "I read what i wrote that morning. And more often than not if I've done nine pages I may be able to save Two and a half or three" 1)In the writing Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life E. L. Doctorow says "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way". This is how E. L. Doctorow Prewrites. 2)Anne Lamott says "the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them". This shows how Anne Lamott writes drafts, and edits them. 3)Anne Lamott says "when someone reliable gives you this kind of feedback, you now have some true sense of your work's effect on people, and you may now know how to approach your final draft. If you are getting ready to send your work to a potential agent for the first time, you don't want to risk burning that bridge by sending something that's just not ready" this shows how Anne Lamott is getting ready to start the publishing process. 1) In the writing Zen in the Art of Writing Ray Bradbury says "Almost every Writer I've ever known has been able to find someone who could be both a friend and a critic" this shows that most writers edit because a critic will show them mistakes for them to make Improvements 2)Ray Bradbury writes "You stumble into it, mostly. you don't know what you're doing, and suddenly, it's done. This shows how Ray Bradbury prewrites by just starting to write ideas of his life and then he finds the path he needs to complete his work 3)Ray Bradbury wrote down " THE LAKE. THE NIGHT. THE CRICKETS. THE RAVINE. THE ATTIC. THE BASEMENT. THE TRAP DOOR. THE BABY." This is a form of prewriting and it gave him ideas and even made him learn more about himself to become a better writer. Personal writing processes
Week 1 1) The Proust Questionnaire [Category: Proust Questionnaire]: Please copy and paste the following bullet points into your blog post and complete the following:
Introduction Welcome to my first blog, here I will be answering questions to the The Proust Questionnaire for my English 100 course. I believe reading this blog will help you better understand who I am, and my views of the world. Answer the questions. Feel free to skip any questions you consider too personal to share with the public. __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? a)85 and sunny on the beach with a beer in my hand __2.__What is your greatest fear? a)Being broke and lonely __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? a) being very impatient __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? a) Selfeishness __5.__Which living person do you most admire? a) Bill Gates __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? a) Week vacation down at the beach with friends __7.__What is your current state of mind? a)Overall happy __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? a)Faith __9.__On what occasion do you lie? a) When I believe it will benefit me __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? a) My nose __11.__Which living person do you most despise? a) Kim Jong Un __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? a) Being relaxed __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? a) Being kind __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? a) Relax __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? a) Relaxing with friends __16.__When and where were you happiest? a) OBX __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? to be able to Box __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? a) Parents __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? a)Getting promoted at work __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? a)Bill Gates __21.__Where would you most like to live? a)Miami __22.__What is your most treasured possession? a) debt card __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? a) alone, broke, and in pain __24.__What is your favorite occupation? a) I'm hoping to figure that out __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? a) easy going __26.__What do you most value in your friends? a) trust and fun __27.__Who are your favorite writers? a) F.Scott Fitzgerald __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? a) Spiderman __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? a)Abraham Lincoln __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? a) The U.S. Military __31.__What are your favorite names? a) Jake __32.__What is it that you most dislike? a) complaining about something you can control __33.__What is your greatest regret? a)Not going to college right out of highschool __34.__How would you like to die? a) I'd perfer not to __35.__What is your motto? a) 10 seconds |
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