CLASS!!

Ohh what should I even blog about class? I liked this peer review worksheet better than the last one we did, I feel like the questions helped the reviewer give more feedback on the layout of the paper. I thought the grammer lesson was alittle pointless, who doesn't know how to use commas? On the other hand, maybe I'm being biased, maybe I flunked my comma quiz...I don't know. Anyway, class was just another class nothing stuck out to me. So this blog was kind of pointless today. Have a great night everyone!!

Product Testing: What is it Worth to You?

Thesis: Product testing on animals is unnecessary and inhumane.

Point 1: Immorality of the way labanimals are treated.

Point 2: Product testing on animals produces invalid results.

Point 3: There are many alternatives to product testing on animals.

Jesse Jackson

I loved the chapter in this excerpt about how Jesse Jackson is one of the people screwing up America. I completely agree that minorities should be treated fairly and everything but when you run down other groups of people doesn't that make you kind of hypocritical? If I was searching for equality I would use the old saying "treat others as you want to be treated", in myopinion you have to give respect to gain repsect. I know that the civil rights movement was a igger deal than this but still at least some of the same concepts should have been involved. Martin Luther King Jr. was a respectable man and he made positive impact on America without singling out certain groups and comparing them to the Nazi' Party. All in all Jesse Jackson went just a little overboard in his search for equality.

Peer Review

I really enjoyed the chance to read Terrance's paper in class today. He is a realy good writer and his paper really caught my attention. It also gave me a look inti the life of someone else and made me realize al the struggles others go through too. I think that the Peer Review was a useful and entertaining way to get others opinions and give yours on the paper. It really helped me with my question about my intorduction, I decided now to take pieces out of my first paragraph to make an introduction and also to work more with expanding my ideas.

You are going nowhere in life.

Where am I going to be in 10 years? Who am i going to be? These are the questions I don't have the answer to, but that's ok. I know where I am right now and I am happy with me. I have been to the point where I thought I was going nowhere in life and that it was ridiculous for me to even be alive but my path has taken a turn for the better. During that "rough patch" I had no idea where to turn, I was so unhappy because I didn't have a path, didn't know where I was going. I learned while getting through all of this that I don't need a plan. I am who I am and my family loves me and my friends love me and most importantly I love myself. I know wherever or whoever I turn out to be down the road as long as I have the solid support system I do now and as long as I stay true to myself I will be happy. So when I hear the words "you will go nowhere in life" I laugh because you have no idea how far I've come and neither of us have any idea how far I will go, and I wouldn;t have it any other way.

Battle of the Sexes.

In class the other day I think we described the opposite sex fairly well, but only the stereotype of the opposite sex. People are completely unique, boy or girl and they all don't fit the stereotypical form we made. If I was to live a day as a guy I can't even imagine how I would be. Maybe, I would try to fit that stereotype because I think some men think they don't need an excuse to be gross becasue it's just assumed. I would take advantage of that assumption for a day because I would want to see the reactions it would get from other people. I don't feel that being a male would be any harder or easier than being a female, we all face the same societal issues that form us although we may see them, or deal with them differently.

The Notebook pg. 2

"The romantics would call it a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both.", Nicholas Sparks writes on page 2 of "The Notebook". This really stands out to me because it makes me think of my view of the story, I personally think it's a love story so I guess I'm a romantic. I think that it is really great that one thing, even the smallest thing, can mean so many different things to different people. Without this concept life would be completely boring, there would be no conflict and to differences among people. It blows my mind how such little ideas like this make the world what it is.

Curious Writer pg. 11

"There are no boring topics, only boring questions." This quote from a section of "The Curious Writer" really made me think. The paragraph continued to tell me to think of familiar things in new ways, and to always have a sense of wonder and curiosity. All of this advice from a book really hits home, it makes me wonder about all the new and exciting things I am missing out on in the everyday things I see. I want to question more things now and to explore all the old and boring things I've done in a new way. This lesson also goes along with writing, it tells me to start with questions, not answers and to make the familiar strange. It expands my writing on certain topics and can really make me think more about what it really is I am writing about.