Never Take Anything for Granted

I strongly believe that you should never take anything for granted.
Some people say that everything happens for a reason, for istance. You might feel that you dont have enough or you feel like you deserve more than you can get, forget and let it go. If you are trying your best and things still dont go the way you want you should learn how appreciate what you have around you. Sometimes things can fall apart and feel like it is crashing down, but over time it will start to get better.


When your weak, when things may seem terrible, painful and unfair and every obstacle is being thrown your way you should never doubt your potential, strength, will power or heart.

Splenda

I think its perfectly fine to market splenda. I feel there is a upside and a down side toward using splenda. besides all the alleged hazard and problems that it causes, it is somewhat better for people with diabetes and other sicknesses . I also think that moderation is the key to everything you do.

Inheritance Of Tools

Questions for active reader.

Can you clearly visualize what sanders is doing at each step? no i cannot clearly visualize what sanders is doing in each step.

Is each concept clearly defined? Yes i think that each concept is clearly defined

Why, at the end of essay, does sanders feel the need to describe so clearly each step in the process. I think he does that so that if you didnt understand what he was saying during the essay you could catch it at the end.

How does sanders use chronological order in this essay? he starts from the beginning and works his way down to the end.

What object, images or ideas connect the diffrent periods of time that he describes? He always mention the hammer and the nails as well as the rest of the tools.

DO YOU WANT A WIFE?

Journal Entry #5

This essay was written in 1971. What types of duties does Syfers describe as being performed by wives? In this essay Syfers believe that a wife should do everything for him as well as his children, while he does what he has to do.
To what degree do you believe these are still done primarily by women? I believe that in some household women still believe in and play these roles.
Have these or other things about the husband/wife relationship changed in the last 37 years? Yes I feel that the husband wife relationship have changed significantly in terms that the husband and wife are more equal now.
How would you describe Syfers’ writing style? Does she do things you would typically avoid in your own writing? Yes she does do certain things that I would try to avoid, but I think she did it and got to the point that she wanted to get across.
Syfers was reacting to a social structure that she felt at the time was unfair. What types of injustice or unfairness do you see in the world nowadays that you think should be addressed? I feel that certain jobs go to men that a woman can do better but because of there sex they feel that they can’t do the job as well as a man.
Syfers implies that men benefit from the servile position of women in the family. Who benefits from the injustices you see active in the world today? I think the rich benefits from the injustices I see active in the world today.

In The News #3

TEENAGE CANCER GENE TEST ( YES or NO )

I feel that its okay for you as a teen to want to get tested for the gene because it somewhat allows you to know what you can and cannot do. for example birth control somewhat causes breast cancer. So if you know you have the gene, that should tell you that it would be taking a chanceusing the pills. On the other hand i feel that taking the gene test so early in a childs life can be very detramental because if he or she knows that they have the gene, after worrying about actually getting it and taking step to not getting it. It will start to become a burden as if they already had they cancer. For example in the article when the girl found out that she had the genes of breast and ovarean cancer she wanted to remove them. Doing this would damage her life interm of being breastless and not being able to have any children because of the fact that she might get the cancer. i honestly feel that if you are going to get tested you should see a counselor a couple weeks before and after being tested.

Myths of Creativity

In your own words describe the myths of creativity?Creativity comes from creative types. I think this myth is saying that creativity come from creative people and it runs stronger in people who have a broad imagination. Money is a creativity motivator. I think this myth is saying that when people have an incentive like money or something they really want the creativity will also flow much easier. Time pressure fuels creativity. i think this myth is saying that once you are put under pressure it is hard to let your creativity flow. Fear forces break throughs. I think this myth is saying that when someone feels something on the inside it pushes or encoureges them to put there best into what they are doing. Compitetion beats collaboratio. I think this myth is tryying to say that when u are competeting you do not share your information with other which would inturn prevent the work from being as good as it would be if each personj shared their info to make the project on big succesful one. Streamline organization is creative organization. I think this myth is trying to say that when you down size the company it prohibits the workers from doing there best because all they can think about is if they are next.

How did Teresa Amabile , the Havard business School professor who studies creativity in the work place, design her research? I think she designed her reasearch on creativity by splitting it up into six diffrent parts. what kind of information was she looking for? I think she was looking information on what makes people creative and what prevents them from being creative. What seems especially surprising or interesting about her approach to research? I feel the the way she approach creativity was the most interesting about her research.

Who is the audiencefor Bill Breen's article? How can you tell. I think this article was meant for managers, workers, and regular individuals who wants to be more creative.

Writing #4

What does Bartholomae mean when he says that students must “invent the university” when they write in college? I think that the batholomae meant that when you right you have to write what you feel even if its not the norm.


What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become “insiders” within academic discourse? He suggests to become insiders in academic discourse you must develop you own taste, and feelings for things, an original piece.


Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae’s opinion of these examples. In one of the examples Bartholomae says that the paper was not an elegant paper, but it seems seamless, tidy; here the discourse seems natural, smooth. You could reproduce this paper and hand it out to a class, and it would take a lot of prompting before the student’s sense something fishy. And the second one said. This writer is consistently and dramatically conscious of herself forming something to say out of what has been said and out of what she has been saying in the act of writing this paper. I feel that Bartholomae’s likes or appreciates one essay more than the other, because one meets his writing standards.

In the News #2 "Cloning"

(Yes or No)

In my opinion i feel that stem cell cloning should not be banned. I feel that these scientist are not doing it for fun or recreational use, they are doing it to find a cure for deaseases and other defects. It is also not like they are buying or using stem cells that were created from an individual. They are cloning them on their own. I also strongly believe that if this works they would be able to start cloning actual infants with the intent for esperimental use as well as organ donation. I think the reason why there is not a full force behind of this becuase, everyone is not in the same situation. For example if you child was born and was very sick and was going to die because it needed an organ but the waitng list was to long. Would you aprove of it then?

" The Storm "Revised

When I was about 14 years old it was said that a hurricane name Georges was going to hit the Virgin Islands. This was nothing new or of surprise because we experienced hurricanes all the time. It was all over the news, “Hurricane Georges heading toward the V.I. at a category two”. As usual everyone boarded up all their windows and doors. My family had tripled the work because my father owned apartments so he had to board those up as well. After a long night of waiting patiently for the storm, nothing came. Everyone was inflamed. The same day we took the boards off of all the windows of the apartments as well as the house. After a long days work we turned on the television and heard that the storm had turned around and would hit us in a couple of hours but this time as a category four.
We quickly hurried back outside in fear because we had already packed away the boards. After we got them back out my father decided to do the apartments first because the house was stronger, by this time the wind had already began to get stronger. It was even harder than the first time because the force of the wind shifted the boards making them extremely difficult to screw down. When we got to the last apartment it had already began thunder, lightening, and rain. By the time we got back it was too, late leaving no time to put the boards on our house.My mother with furious but came to the conclusion that it would have been too dangerous to go outside and try to do it.
By this time it was really bad, we were all huddled up in one room waiting for it to be over. After a while of creaking noises we suddenly heard a crash, we ran to see what was happening and realized that a piece of the neighbors’ roof flew straight into one of the windows in the house. A few moments later a gust of wind suddenly came through the window and suddenly peeled the roof off of our house. In fright and discomposure, we took some towels and sheets out of the closet and placed them on the floor sealing the room off preventing water from running all around the house. After that point we all found our self under the dining room table. After a long night of trying to keep calm and warm the storm was finally over. After my parents said it was safe we all went outside to see what it was like. I was shocked there were trees everywhere not to mentions peoples things like televisions, lamps, table, beds, dressing tables, microwaves, and everything you could think of. Shortly after we all got in the truck and drove to see the apartments. As we came closer I could see the fear in my parents eyes because there were trees on peoples car as well as telephone poles on others houses. When we got to the houses we were shocked and surprised to see that nothing happen to them when the house right next to it was practically gone, everyone was devastated. I even remember on the radio someone saying a rhyme that said, “Hurricane Georges came through the back door at a category four”. When we got back to our house my father, brother, and I quickly put a cover over the roof to prevent any further water damage while my mother and my sister got the inside of the house back in order. After a couple hard weeks of labor the roof was back on, and besides no current. Unlike everyone else our home was some what back to normal. This experience thought me never to take anything for granted, always be thankful. If you think you have it bad look at the person next to you and you will see that they will almost always have it worst than you. Also, if the person next to you is doing better than you never be jealous them because you never know what they had to go through to get where they are.

Bush's Fence Faces Trouble

I think they should ask for more in dept information on the topic depending on the information giving they should let him finish the fence. i feel that he has already started, and has almost half of the work done. Eeven if they had their own agenda while building it he is going to be out of office very shortly. So it should be used for its correct purpose.

In my opionion i also feel that the money is not actually going to waste so always theres a strong firm reason or a better place for the money to go. I dont see why they shouldnt aloo the Bush admistration to finish this fence.

Chores ( YES or NO)

1. what experience did smiley have that changed her beliefs about chores?
- i think that smiley had the experience of not doing chores to be able to know how important doing chores really is.
*At what point in her essay does she describe this experience?
- She states that she herself wasn't responsible for doing chores, she would leave the house and mess and come back and found it spotless.
*What would the impact of that experience be on you. as a reader, if she had described it some place else in the essay?
-The experience had an impact on me because smiley was not just talking as a parent who did chores when she was young, but an adult who knows that chores makes you a better person.

2. What kinds of reasons and evidence does smiley offer to support her argument?
- She shows that she is not just speaking from what she thinks but what she went through while being young.
*Do you think these reasons and evidence to be authoritative?
- No i don't i think her reasons and evidence comes from experience.
*What does her choice of reason and evidence reveal about smiley's intended audience?
-i think smiley's audience were especially for children but for adults as well.

3. How does smiley use rhetorical questions to appeal to her readers?
- I think she does this so the readers can answer the questions for themselves so it doesnt seem as if she is just preaching on the topic of chores.

Journal #2

For this journal entry I chose “Living Life to the Fullest”. I feel this essay was very interesting and compelling because it brought up points that would have never crossed my mind. The tone of this poem in my opinion was directly placed between serious and reflective, because the author wrote about her feelings on death as well as life. Compared to the other essays they were somewhat all different in terms of the tone. I also recognized how the writing guidelines were followed in this essay. They also spoke about the belief of death. If I were to write about beliefs it would be about fear, courage, love or morality.

Journal 1

I decided to do my meta-analysis on a flyer I made. When my dog had puppies I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to keep all of them, but they weren’t the type of puppies that you would just give away. So I decided to make a flyer to advertize that I had Chows for sale. I came to the realization that if I did not do anything to sell these puppies I would have to keep them. I then designed a flyer with an exaggerating photo of the puppies making it hard to ignore it. I then contemplated on where I would place the flyer to get the best results, especially from kids and adults that cared for animals and loved fluffy cute puppies. After a week or so I then sold five of the seven puppies for $350.00 each. I think thinking about my writing in responding to a rhetorical situation is different from my usual ways of thinking because this easily came out rather than the hard thought crunching process.

Question #1

Page13:

1) What purpose or purposes do you think Powell had in mind while writing?
List two specific examples from the reading to support your answer?

- I think Powell was trying to show that even though there was segregation and racism going on around him. He was not going to let it get the best of him, and stop him from succeeding in what he want6ed to achieve
- “I wanted above all to succeed in my army career, I did not intend to give away to self destructive behavior or rage no matter how I was provoked”. “If I was to be confined to one end of the playing field I was going to be a star on that part of the field.

2 What audience do you think Powell had in mind while writing?
Identify a specific audience, either one person or a group that you recommend reading this?

- I feel that Powell had audiences of both races because he not only wrote about
staying strong through adversity, but also about the unfairness of the white community.
- I believe that every individual especially African Americans should read this not because of the whole racism effect but, to read the way Powell viewed and dealt with situations.

3 Describe the writer as specifically as you can. What is your attitude toward him now that you have read this?
Does this represent any change in your attitude toward Powel?

- I feel that Powell is strong willed and knows what he wants, and realizes he has to do what he has to get there
- No this does not change my attitude toward him. I agree with his thought and applaud his determination

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1) What purpose or purposes do you think Goldberg had in mind while writing?
Specify any one thing in the reading that helps you to identify your purpose?

- I feel that Goldberg was trying to show that writing is as hard as you make it and once you let go and relax the words would just pour out unto the paper.
- Let go everything when you write, begin with simple words to express what you have inside.

2) What audience do you think she had in mind while writing
Identify a specific audience either one person or a group that you recommend reading this?
What audiences might not benefit?

- I feel she catered to the people who often have a lot to say but find it very hard to put the words down on paper
- Their ideas on paper will benefit the most from reading this should read this not because of the whole racism effect, but the way to look and deal with situations.
- Audiences that are okay putting words on paper will probably not benefit as much as one that doesn’t.

3) What is her subject?
What is her attitude toward the subject?

- I feel that her subject is writing and writing is not as difficult as some may make it to be.
- I think her attitude was genuinely kind and open to sharing her thoughts and concepts to her readers.

In The News #1

Is it fair,

I feel that the beta blockers in the olympics should not be considered cheating. They have no side effects, and no risk of addiction. In my opinion i feel that the beta blockers does not enhance or able your ablity to do more. It simply just reduces anxiety and fright of doing what you have to. Unlike stearoids with enhances muscles strenght and gives you an advantage over the other player.