During my English comp summer session class, I was instructed to read several essays and give my feedback on them. In my opinion, the last three writings were probably the most memorable and important. “Hurricane Katrina”, a story on the immediate and after affects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, was first of these three stories. It focused on real life experiences of people who lived through it, victims giving their heartrending testimonies. “It’s Not Just A Bike”, is about Lacey Taylor and her tireless pursuit in her cause to help bring to a halt thieves stealing bikes from off her school campus. Another story I read was “Free The Children”. It gave constructive criticism to parents who would not generally let …show more content…
“Imagine one day waking up to find that your car had been stolen”, Taylor once said, she believes that a bike for a lot of people is no different from any other transportation that a person may rely on. Stating her solution, she suggests posting signs that simply say that the act is against the law and punishable. This would be as an inexpensive way to help. Other solutions were; possibly starting an awareness program or even strategically placing cameras where they have a clear view of the bike racks. I think that Taylor presents an excellent idea. The seriousness and dedication she displays causes me to open my eyes and pay attention to ways I may be able to help make my school campus a better place. The last writing I read was “Free The Children”, a very informative story by author Nancy Gibbs. Gibbs believes that children should enjoy summers that don’t count or place pressure on them. She says that experts have for a long time said that the modern child has more stress than those of earlier generations. I thought that this was an interesting read because I probably would naturally think that preparing my child during the summer, for the upcoming year would give them an advantage. The evidence author Gibbs presents suggests the contrary. She finishes by saying “I wish that I could have that time back to be a youth without the strains of work and school”. I completely agreed with her take.
Feminism is an organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. Feminism has been in society for many years. The story “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and the poem “Paper Matches” by Paulette Jiles are based on how feminism affected women before. These two passages have a similar perspective on how women saw men, both are written in the perspective of a woman, and how women were confined to their homes.
Likewise, bike theft is a huge problem for many metropolitan cities in the U.S.. Literature to support this claim is the 2015 Crime Prevention Program in Portland, Oregon. “Thousands of bicycles are stolen in the City of Portland each year… Places with high concentrations of parked bicycles such as college campuses are especially vulnerable to theft” (Office of Neighborhood Involvement Crime Prevention Program, Bicycle Theft Prevention, 2015). This article also identifies many preventative techniques to make a bike harder to steal; for example, “Proactively register your bike and include its serial number and photos with the bike registration services bikeindex.org and project529.com” (2015). Moving on, it is imperative to attack any problem
In this short artifact “A Tale of Two Summers for Parents” by Belinda Luscombe I was able to get an idea of the different things that parents might be going through that us kids/teens have no idea about. Luscombe shares two stories about the struggles that parents were going through especially during the summer. The summer as we know is the hottest time of the year. For some states summer might just be different but I am aware that climate can be a challenge for some families. Having to change schedules and making sure to know where your children will be spending the day or after school may be your priority and I agree with that. Now a days I see kids walking home when the day is just simply hot. You can’t even go with your car window down because the warmth of the hot air hits you and it makes you so tired and stresses you out so much. No matter how much you try to be fresh the heat just really gets you making you upset and not thinking straight.
The Tell Tale Heart essay in my opinion was one of the best ones. This essay was to to help us understand how to write from different perspectives, not just the main character's perspective. I liked creating basically a fan fiction. We had to write from a different person’s perspective. This essay also taught me how to set the tone of a story.
My ideas and thoughts about Africa had been changed after I listened to Adichie’s speech. The way she described the danger of a single story was very inspiring to me, and I could relate many of the experiences I had to her story. I was born in Pakistan and moved to the U.S. in 2007. When I came to the U.S. I lived in Virginia and went to Freedom Hill Elementary School. On the first day of school I sat next to an Indian kid named Sai and he didn’t want to sit next to me he told the teacher that are countries didn’t like each other so he wanted to sit somewhere else, but are teacher said she didn’t want to hear any of it. So during the year we had to work on many things as partners, and we got along great we had many things in common and at the end of the year we became pretty good friends. At the beginning he probably heard some things about my country and he just assumed that I was the person he heard from those stories, and after meeting me he had a different understanding of it. Soon after the year ended my dad found a better job in California so we moved here. I lived in Alameda and went to wood middle. The school I went to was very diverse and this time I wasn’t the only Muslim
Scheduling, money, and time; these seem to be the most problematic ordeals throughout the summer for parents with an elementary aged child.Belinda Luscombe, writer of “A Tale of Two Summers for Parents”, evaluated and defended parents unprepared to take on the long weeks of summer with their kid. However, as the article continues, readers suggest their might be more than the surface discloses.
Story telling is a uniquely human attribute. It is an imaginative process between the composer and responder that invites us, as the audience to engage vicariously with the experience of others. Stories or narratives have been shared in all culture as a mean of education, entertainment and also to notify the audience of the values and belief systems of our culture. The texts of ‘Through the tunnel’ and ‘Green tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe’ conspicuously highlight the ability of storytelling to empower the individual and outline storytelling as a device to inform us of values and people’s transmission is able to transcend time.
This semester, I choose to take English Composition 101 and 124. It is a combined class that include credits for both human values and English composition. This class was about the trauma underlie of books and movies. For this class, the students mostly wrote papers to prove the facts of trauma. The teacher was Dr. Danielle Glassmeyer and the class was taken at Bradley University. I believe that I have improved my essays in three places: knowledge of Constriction, self reflections and organization, unity and coherence.
Throughout the course this semester I have learned a lot about writing and my personal writing process and skills. The assignments that stand out and helped me the most were the literacy narrative and the Fine Art essay. I think that these two were the most influential to my writing practice because they both involved topics and styles that I really enjoy writing about. The Literacy Narrative forced me to write in new ways and a new thinking practices that I didn't use before. And the Fine Art of essay was something that I enjoyed writing about and composing it in more of a poetic form and I liked being able to have the option of making my own.
In "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, an older person, who perhaps appears to be the young girl's mother, starts to demonstrate to a young girl how to do certain tasks and then later seems to be scolding the girl because she, the mother, believes that the child is growing up to be a "slut" (355). In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, the author writes about how a repressed Mrs. Louise Mallard, who learns about the alleged death of her husband, finally breaks free from being controlled by him, but at the end, her husband comes back home unharmed and Louise dies along with her relinquished freedom. Both texts revolve around the loss of sense of freedom of Mrs. Louise Mallard and the girl. Although the characters come from different cultures and are
The three essays that I wrote for this class really challenged me to improve my writing.
The second essay we wrote in this class was a Family History Report. This was my favorite assignment of the entire semester. It allowed me to dig deep and learn more information about my family, while also learning how to do a proper report and use different sources—like databases. From this report, I developed better citation skills and learned how to integrate interviews into an essay. I feel like this assignment particularly opened my eyes to how much I actually like writing, especially about real-world
What is the real meaning of marriage? Living in the 21st century to me marriage is when two souls that are meant to be together find each other, It is when one will do anything to be with the one they love. When getting married you are making a commitment to care for one another and love each other in happiness, health, sickness or any situation that might come up. When married one should have the feeling of not being able to live without their other half. One should feel free when being with their loved. While some view Ms. Mallard's perspective to be disrespectful, it is clear that Ms. Mallard views her husbands death as her only opportunity to freedom, due to the pressures of society in the 1800’s.
This included the narrative essay in crots, the investigative narrative essay, and the mini poetry manuscript. They all offered different perspectives on writing, such as the importance of research in the investigative narrative piece. I learned how difficult of a task it is to hunt for information on the internet. You cannot simply pick the first result on Google, but rather find a credible source embedded deeper within in your topic. This is how I included information in my essay that was shocking to my reader, because it was even new to me. Also, I discovered the significance of context throughout this class. For example, I could change a couple words in my mini poetry manuscript and it would change its entire meaning. In the same respect, I realized what types of things, such as clichés, to take out of my poems so they stay concise, thus enhancing meaning and promoting
Many people tell stories to inform others about themselves. Throughout my life people in my family have told me many stories, and behind each story there is a purpose. The stories I was told growing up were about experiences that people in my family have had or things that I have done. These stories mean a lot to me because through these stories different family members reveal many things about themselves. They want me to understand their ideas, beliefs, or feelings about a certain subject. They want people to praise or admire what they have done or accomplished. Funny stories are told to humor or embarrass someone, usually me. Other stories express that we are not alone in the world, and there are other people,