They Say I Say Analysis

If you add different characters' view in a story would it be more informative and interesting?

In this week’s journal we were assigned reading in the They Say, I Say book. The assigned reading was to teach us how to write papers in an argumentative form, either agreeing with a statement, disagreeing, or a little of both. As explained in our chapter often writers are afraid to argue a statement, based on the fact that they feel as if they do not have enough knowledge about the information. The question to be answered in this journal is, how do I see myself as an arguer?

How many TV shows a day depict gruesome deaths? How many video games are coming this year where the main goal is to kill? Chances are, a lot. Violence is everywhere in today’s society, and it is ever prevalent in the lives of most adolescents. The book What Are They Thinking by Aaron M. White and Scott Swartzwelder describes how this violence, whether virtual or in real-life, affects the changing adolescent brain. The book is about teenage psychology and brain science, and was released in 2013. In the Violence chapter of the book many studies about how violence affects and desensitizes children and adolescents were referenced. However, nearly all of them were were supporting the bias that any type of violence, including simulated, causes both grade school children and teens to become more violent. More importantly, not everyone is the same, and therefore are not affected the same by violence.

In the article “What Can I Say to Make You to Stop?” written by Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation writes about how a friend/family member can do to help their loved one find help with addiction. It also gives advice regarding how to help them. When I was going through my addiction days this sort of information would have helped my family immensely. It’s hard to have someone you care about have an addiction and not know what to do, or how to help. So, I will be discussing on how the main points the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation talk about in their article could really help others, with friends/family members that have an addiction problem.

Through these rules of thumb within Brown’s What They Don’t Tell You, I am able to gain a safe and secure ay of approaching the Old Testament without becoming overly ambitious or ignorant. Overall I would add to Brown’s discussion the continuation of Biblical Scholarship. And in reading the Old Testament the most important rule of thumb for myself would be the seventh.

Just as Afflitto (2015) says, Coyle believed the better we understand the language of the people, the better we understand the links between race and crime. We cannot understand their problems if we do not understand what they are saying. Coyle (2010) believes the criminal justice system is racially biased because of this disconnection. From what I have seen in my 18 years in law enforcement, the system is not as racially biased, but is socially economically biased because of language. I have seen those with different language skills and dress treated much different regardless of their race.

Journalism and Politics are influential for people to be informed about and what is going on within the United States or internationally. Journalism is a great significant impact to politics, with the all the information from the Presidential Debate or what is going on with the war in Iraq. The audience can also visually see what they are being informed by the photojournalist who are taking photos to tell a story. In the novel, “It’s What I Do”, by Lynsey Addario talks about her personal experience about how being a photojournalist was tough when she traveled around some Latin American countries and the Middle East. In addition, to her being in the Middle East when there was a protest, she got captured along with some male journalists. For

As I grew up in America I recognize so many people spoke differently from others. In America we have so many different people that speaks differently, which can be more noticeable sometimes. In America we have people who have accents that are more hearable. The way people pronounce things is different. Have you ever heard someone say caramel differently than you might say it? I’ve been in that position more than once. My cousin has always been more proper than me so I’m often being corrected. What my cousin fails to realize is I grew up hearing my immediately family pronounce words the way I pronounce words. I believe the way a person pronounces a word, might be the same way they heard it while growing up. A person only knows what they have been taught and some have been taught to say words differently than others. To be honest, some teachers are okay with students pronouncing words the way the student feels more comfortable with.

However, the remedy to this problem consists of two parts. The first is to fix

We all love going around doing stuff without thinking, nevertheless it takes a smart person to do something by first thinking about it. Not everyone likes when someone tells them their things. If someone tells them their wrongs they get mad at the person telling them those things because they know it is the truth in the most part. We all have to be intelligent and think what we are going to say or do towards other people. Not everyone has this mentality they do not even have the heart to think that they are going to hurt other people. It is right, they got hurt, but it is not right for them to do it too they have to have the heart to forgive someone. Only intelligent people know it is not worth getting revenge towards other people that hurt them. Some people do not use their heart and brain together. The heart and the brain always have to go together they could not be apart.

This quotation is from the last chapter of the novel, in which Claudia attempts to tell us what her story means. It describes love as a potentially damaging force, following the suggestion that Cholly was the only person who loved Pecola “enough to touch her.” If love and rape cannot be distinguished, then we have entered a world in which love itself is ambiguous. Against the usual idea that love is inherently healing and redemptive, Claudia suggests that love is only as good as the lover. This is why the broken, warped human beings in this novel fail to love one another well. In fact, Claudia suggests, love may even be damaging, because it locks the loved one in a potentially destructive gaze. Romantic love creates a damaging demand for beauty—the

You talk to yourself all the time, it is estimated that we have an internal dialogue of between 150 and 300 words a minute. And the way that you talk to yourself will have a significant impact upon both your state of mind and the likely outcome of your actions. This inner self talk will determine how you view yourself.

Why should I start thinking? I just want to do what I am told to do, to be what I society wants me to be and just try to not get into too much trouble and have a job, mortgage and everything I need to become a slave of society. Who cares about individuality when we all can be the same! Many of us are already willing to work forty hours a week for forty years and retire off forty percent of our pay! Surprisingly, this is the tragic life of many canadians. It may not be said explicitly, but the fact is still there. From childhood, we are told to learn a certain subject or go down a certain path because our superiors, whom ever they be, believe they know what is best for us.

Ruthless and scheming opportunist Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx) is understandably considered the villain in this story, but in actuality, all of the characters are truly awful people, haha. Birds of a selfish feather flock together. Let's start with Ms. Jones: Deena pretended to resist being lead of The Dreams and in Curtis' bed, but early-on during "Love You I Do," she's too elated to catch his eye while trying on a gown. Guess she made up her mind in that moment to sleep her way to the top, 'round and around. Like the poltroon she was, she continued to play coy when Effie called her out for "stealing her dream and her man." I was like "Bish, whatchu' still lying for?! Might as well own it!" Later, Deena watches her bio-reel and has this disgusting look of pride on her face when her wedding to Curtis is covered. I wanted to slap her so hard. She only tries to right her wrongs with Effie when she's had enough of Curtis' controlling ways. Though it's saying the least that Effie was slighted, she was no bag of sugar herself beforehand. She constantly bossed around and belittled her group-mates, Deena and Lorrell, and was only concerned with what was best for her. Not to mention, she had a horrible attitude: even after falling completely down on her luck, she still needed to be scolded by Marty (Danny Glover) to shape up. C.C. (Keith Robinson; what does C.C. stand for, anyway?) was a gullible,

Coming into this world I am formed within flames of excruciating pain, but ultimately this pain hardened me to become what I am today. First the forming came along with the shaping of me, and how strange of figures are being formed towards the top of me. Ending this pain also leaves me with some birth marks of strange symbols carved into me. Strangely after I have been made to depict strange animals that do not seem to be of this world. When my final decorations are done they seem to strike with with another piece of metal repeatingly. It seems the soothing noise I make might be my purpose in life. When struck at a certain way I seem to only make two types of noises. When I am commissioned into this world it seems my owner is of great