The Most Dangerous Game

This is a great story, it really gets and keeps my attention. I read this story in high school but I didn't remember it until the General was brought into the story. I think that is because he is the character that really intrigues me and I want to know more about him. He is such an interesting man in a really strange way but those are the kind of characters in stories that I like. The end of this story has to be my favorite part, as weird as it may be I think it is hilarious, well at least the way I interpret it it is. In my idea of the ending, the general dies, I don't know of that is the way everybody sees it or not but it adds some humor to the story for me.

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Wow, this short story is amazing, the way the author writes keeps my interested and the moral of the story makes me think. In the beginning Le Guin makes this place sound like a utopia of some sorts, where nobody is judged and hapiness is seen everyday in the faces of everybody. As the story goes on and they all head to The Festival of Summer it just makes the communityof Omelas seem well put together and gives you the picture of a "perfect" community. Le Guin says guilt means nothing in this town but I think he is mistaken. Guilt is the look on all the faces ofter they see what the young child goes through in the cellar so that they may all live in this utopia. Guilt is what runs through the minds of the people who walk away from Omelas and go to the undescribable place because they know that staying will only cause more harm to the young child in the cellar. To me, this story makes me think alot about other people's suffering. We live our lives day to day and try to make things as "perfect" as they can be for us, but what we don't think about is what we could be doing for the "young children locked in a cellar" of our society. If we could take time out of our search fpr perfection and "leave Omelas" we could be helping an uncountable number of people in the world that need us.

Writing Process

My writing process for my RBAA paper has been going well so far. In order to even start writing I have to have an outline of how I am even going to layout my paper. For the RBAA paper I am using the Toulimin Model and it has been working out so far. My first draft is not my full essay so my later drafts wil be much longer and explain things more in depth.

Evaluation of the Semester

So far this semester has been very productive in English 101. Lindsey has a no tolerance attitude and it makes me do my papes right the first time and have them ready to turn in on time, I think this is a great quality of the class. Also, I find it really helpful when we blog about our topics and Lindsey comments on them and answers our questions, the same thing goes for our second draft papers that Lindsey goes over. I really enjoy and come out ahead of the class periods when we just sit in a circle and discuss topics, it really helps me brainstorm what I want to write about. Recently when we went over a powerpoint presentation in class I found out that I understand what I read alot better when we go over it as a group. There are few, if any, things I dislike about this class. Lindsey has a very strong personality and sometimes she can come off as intimidating, whic I think is why we sometimes don't speak up in class. But other than that small detail this course is very helpful and I wil come out of it as a better writer.

RBAA Topic

I'm still not quite sure but I think I am going to write about depression in teens. I'm not sure how to focus in on the topic though, maybe how some people overlook it and the suicide rate, or treatments. Some of the questions I asked when I was blitz writing were: Is it a problem? Treatments? Who is affected? What is th ebackground like of teens with depression, and do they have some common ground? What brings on depression?
I'm just looking for a litt le input on how to narrow it down and write a good report because this topic interests me and I wouldn't get bored writing about it.

Discussion Topics

Thursday's class period was not only entertaining but very helpful. The class discussions really got me thinking about what other people find important and how passionate someone can be about their beliefs. I left class Thursday with two very interesting ideas to write my next paper about, either depression in teens and how it is not regarded as a problem or the different types of religion and how they conflict each other. Each of these issues are important to me and I would be very interested in researching them, but I can't choose.

Thursday's Class

Thursday's class was interesting. I enjoyed seeing all of the revision strategies and how everybody used  them in there papers. Alot of them gave me ideas on what to do with the second draft of  my proposal paper. The aspect of group work was a nice change for once also, we had to meet out of class but it was still a break from the same old same old. My group divided the owrk equally and I feel that we did a good job bringing the information together and we conveyed it ti the class well.