All I Asking For Is My Body, Part II, Dialogue

Why does Kiyoshi believe Obaban is a substitute for his mom?

Kiyoshi believe Obaban is a substitute for his mom because it was a Japanese superstition that his mother and he believed that when someone got away with doing something bad Bachi was a punishment. Bachi was a punishment that happened to someone else in your family because you did something bad and was getting away with it. When Obaban died Kiyoshi believed it put things back into a natural order. You see Obaban was substituted for his mother and that it saved his mothers life. Know that Obaban dies it took out the bad luck and gave their family good luck or at least put it back in the natural order again because it’s good when people die in the way they are supposed to. The parents die and then the children and so on and so on. Since Obaban was his mothers Hawaii mother she dies in the normal order of things.

I'm not sure that the mother just finally started feeling better or that she too believed that she was saved because Obaban passing. I do believe that people's beliefs can sometime be more powerful then normal cycle of medicine. If people believe they are going to die or something horrible will happen to them it seems to come true. I 'm not sure that their will is just pushing them in that direction or if it’s something else but I know that there are a lot of studies that show people becoming well when there would normally be no hope. I don’t know if it’s because of their belief and that belief is strong so strong that they get better or its just a miracle.

All I Asking For Is My Body, Part I, Dialogue

Who is Makot? Do you feel sorry for him? What are your thoughts about him and the way he copes with his parents?

Makot was a Japanese boy that grew up with his wealth Mother and Father in the Filipino camps Pepelau, Hawaii. Makot was older than the other three boys that he hung around. He didn’t hang around boys his own age because they teased him. Makot’s family wasn’t well liked by the other Japanese’s families and this made it hard on Makot. Makot was alone most of the time and he learned to do things for himself. He cooked and fed his friends. He even bought them treats and took them to the movies. He tried to pay them for their attention because his only family wasn’t around. You see most of the other families couldn’t afford to do this. The other families didn’t have much but they did have each other.

Makot hung around the younger boys because he was respected more and I suspect because they were not persuade easily by society and what others may think. Unfortunately for Makot his best friend’s family was. Kiyoshi mother and father worried that if he hung around Makot that they would look like beggars. Makot had it pretty hard the one thing that he had going for him was the same thing that made him an outcast and that was money. Slow but surely Kiyoshi family had him stay away from Makot.

Essay 3 Rough Draft- Does Arnold have integrity?

When I think of someone that has integrity, Arnold isn’t a person that comes to mind. According to the definitions in order to have integrity one must have a belief system without faltering, no matter how dangerous it is or how unpopular it is with others.  A person must keep one’s word and agreements, honesty, truthfulness, ethics, fairness and justice. According to that definition I do not believe that Arnold has shown much integrity.

One of the first things that happen in the story there is a 4^th of July party and everyone passes out for drinking too much. Arnold thinks that it’s a great idea to light off fireworks in the house which causes a fire where the boys become entangled in this terrible lie that Arnolds almost takes to his grave. Arnold if he wanted to show integrity he would have came forward and stopped worrying about what would happen to him. After all people just died, there was more concern on the family and the son who survived. Arnold was afraid of what people thought and not the consequences of his lack of integrity that he showed and the effect that it would take on his family.

Another proof of Arnold’s lack of integrity was him walking out his wife. Even though I may believe that there is more to a marriage than a contract it is still a contract. Marriage is a contract between two people that links them together for better or worse. Arnold did not honor that contract when he left. There are legal ways to end a marriage but riding off into the sunset because his wife says they are not going to drink anymore because of the effect that it is having on their son is it.

That brings me to Arnold leave his son, the one person that he should have loved unconditionally. Arnold was not only running away from his demons and his remorse for what he did but his family. His son regardless of having a contract or not a parent when they have a child is basically stating that he or she will do everything in their power to provide emotional and financial support for them until they can be able to provide for themselves. Arnold did no such thing he just left.

The fire it was an accident and if Arnold would have taken responsibility for his part in setting the fire and deal with the consequences of his actions he and his family would have came out better for it. Remember your actions or lack of actions have affect not just on you but people around you.

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"This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” Dialogue

The main difference that the movie and the reading had was the reading never spoke of any fire or at least no mention of Victor’s father saving Thomas’s life. For Victor the movie evolved around this knowledge and the fact that his father never saved him. This is what made him feel that he was worth anything. Thomas was looked at by his father as someone special enough to save and yet his own boy wasn’t even worth him staying around for.

I feel that the movie portrayed two boys having had this experience that would ever tie them together and until they had the experience of needing each other, Victor would never be able to work together and understand that Thomas and Victor completed each other like brothers. The reading told another story. The two boys were joined together for no more reason that they lived on an Indian Reservation. One needed what the other had and regardless on how important and gracious Victor was for Thomas giving him the help, their friendship would end after they came back to the Reservation.

Victor was not going to have enough integrity to stand up against his peers and tell them that he likes Thomas and that it wasn’t right to treat another human being the way that they treat him.

I feel after reading the story it seemed more like what really happened and there was no big ending were the main character discovers this big change. The reading is more like true life. People treat people how theirs peers do and many people do not have the courage to change. I feel that the movie portrayed two boys that started into this world with this big devastating fire and how both came out of it with two different views on life. And that just wasn’t reality.

Writing Topic:Chapter 12 Repair misplaced dangling modifiers.

Modifiers no matter if single words, phrases, or clauses should point clearly to words that they modify. It is important for a sentence to be clear to a reader that there are certain steps that should be taken. One using limited modifiers such as-only, even, almost, nearly, and just appear in front of a verb. Put the limiting modifier in front of the word that it modifies. Even though phrases and clauses can appear I different parts of a sentence it is a good idea that when a reader is reading they know what is being modified.

There are certain things that you can do to prevent awkwardly placed modifiers. Makes sure that sentence go from subject to verb to object, keeping the verb and the object together prevents an awkwardly placed modifier. Next do not split to and a verb to avoid another awkward sentence structure. Repair any dangling modifiers. If you put a modifier in the wrong place it may suggest something other than what you have intended. If you do all these steps you will have put together a clear sentence that will aid the readers to understand what you are trying to tell them.

I have chosen this chapter because I realized that I needed the help to keep my sentence clear. I have to realize that each sentence must be able to stand on its own. Having to keep in mind subject, verb and object will aid me in my future writings. I have realized in past writing that I us dangling modifiers and changed what I was trying to say.  Writing this way only confuses the reader and I then loss what I was trying to say. Now after I have read this I hope to be able to write more clearly.

Smoke Signals, the movie Dialogue

Thomas and Victor were two boys who dealt with the lost of their loved ones in two different ways. Thomas lost both his father and mother in a fire, later we learned that Victor’s father set that fire. Victor grew up without his father because his father wasn’t able to deal with the lost he caused. I guess in a way Victor’s father didn’t want to live with something that he took from someone else, a family.

Victor grew up as an angry boy who was devastated by the father that left him. He went on the next ten years hearing Thomas a boy that was a little mentally handicapped on what a great person Victor’s dad was. Victor’s of course all he remembered was a man that drank, hit him and his mother, and in the end never came back for him. Thomas was a very caring boy who loved telling stories to Victor and remembered things that may have not been very true. However I think that Thomas always just tried to bring Victor to forgive his father and to let Victor see his dad how he saw him.

I feel that Victor and Thomas completed each other. Victor being the one that really never trusted anyone and who know how the world worked. Thomas was the dreamer the one that saw something good in everything especially his hero. Victor’s father after all he did catch him when someone threw him out the window of his burning house. Luckily when Victor was able to find out the reason for his father living he never told Thomas that his hero was a killer. Victor needed Thomas to show him his knder side, just like Victor's mother said she took help from others. She wasn't the only one that made her famous bread so famous she had help from others.

"Happy Endings"

When I was reading “Happy Endings” I actually thought Lovely was an orphan. If I didn’t read all of the stories I believe I would have continued thinking that. Lovely and Jerry weren’t good enough for the kind of love Shirley had every Sunday. (page 4) In that sentence I thought that she was referring to family but she wasn’t it was acceptance. I then realized that Shirley Temple didn’t mean family for Lovely, but more of what she thought was happiness.
 She related Shirley Temple with always having the happiest ending and none of the feeling that she felt growing up.  She never had realized or even paid attention to the story or the heart ache that went on before. She wanted a family to be what she saw and all American family. Not a poor Hawaiian family that didn’t speak proper English and the family that wasn’t going to ever amount to anything because of not being that “All American” family. She saw Shirley Temple as the girl that everyone should be and that was what she seen as a happy ending. Leaving a life that wasn’t hers.
It really got to me when I read “Happy Ending” when your growing up kids wish for things and sometime things that they will never have, but to wish that you could be someone else because you didn’t feel that you were good enough or worth it. That’s just got to me. Sometimes I felt that I didn’t belong but what was always there for me was my family and I hope that she did finally feel that for herself.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers, chapter 48

In chapter 48 there are 3 key steps to evaluating an argument. The first step is the ability to see the difference between reasonable conclusion or hasty generalizing and false arguments. Most misguided arguments are in the form of hasty generalization, stereotyping, or trying to point similarities were there are none. When creating an argument you must be fair and weigh opinions and not make assumptions. Always use deductive reasoning.

Another step is to be fair. It’s oaky to appeal to the audience but do it without bias and unfair remarks. The final step is to judge the writer on how they deal with opposing views. You can do this by either describing the opposition or using direct quotes. Either way one must make sure to quote accurately and do not misrepresent opposing views.

I feel that this helps me to makes sure that just because I might not agree with what someone says I cannot just assume that the conclusions are in correct I need to research the topic and come to an educated and fair reason for my opposition. Another thing that seems to be repeated is to show the opposing view and discuss it. This can only make your argument stronger if you are fair and reasonable when you come to your own conclusion.

Extra Credit:Writing about fiction

In the Purdue OWL it explains on how writing about fictions can be very difficult and gives a person 3 major steps that will aid them when taking on the task. The first step is closely reading the text and avoiding pitfalls. When reading one should highlight key points without over highlighting and missing the points. One should also write notes in the margins like asking questions about the text, comments and dialogue. In this step you should then after you have finished reading it comment on what the Author meant about the story and the characters in it.

How to avoid pitfalls doesn’t just know the plot, but refers to specific text when discussing it. Another area is to avoid focusing on just the text and not what you get out of reading it. The people wants to read what you think about the text and just pull key points to support what you are saying. Developing a thesis is the next step. This is where your closely reading pays off. If you done this right you should be able to draw from your notes a pretty good idea of what thesis and supporting evidence you have to write about.

That brings us to our last step and that is pre-writing and drafting your essay. Out of your notes see what intrigues you and write on it for five to ten minutes. When you have done that go over your notes and evaluate what evidence you have to support what you have written. Then research outside sources that will aid you thesis and views of the fiction. When drafting your easy give examples and provide quotes from the literature. Be sure to put quotes in quotations and state the page you read it on.

I have found out the hard way that skimming something doesn’t aid you at all it just creates more frustrating steps of going back and rereading parts of the story that would have only taken once if you had closely read it. I never really thought about how your notes and highlighting should aid you in creating you thesis and supporting evidence. I always just thought of notes as an aid in remembering what you have already written. I will take that part and the next time I read something I will closely read it and take my thesis from the notes that I have written.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 47

To build a constructive reasonable argument chapter 47 states that there are a few steps that should aid you to do this. The first step is to show that you understand the facts about the subject or the problem that need to be fixed.  You must be informed and do reach on the subject when preparing your argument. Seeing you audience as a jury will aid you to present any evidence to a wider variety of opinions. The chapter states a good tip  is to test you thesis while you draft it and try to imagine a counterargument. If you cannot think of any the chapter advises to rethink your thesis.

You will need to establish credibility by stating your position in thesis statement. Then back your thesis with arguments that support your thesis. You can support your claims in many ways. One way to support your argument is to have facts and statistics that help prove your argument. Examples and illustrations are another way to aid your thesis. Citing opinions from experts that support your argument is just another way to show contribution to your thesis. Any of these by there own doesn't prove your argument, you need to do that.

If you sum up your text you should be able to clearly state your thesis and supporting evidence to this claim. Each claim will have its own set of evidence to support it. Being able to counter opposing view will aid you in support of your argument. Showing the audience that you have looked and researched other argument will only support your argument by showing them that you are fair and reasonable.
One must be able to be persuasive without being too aggressive. Another things that might help is to show the audience that you can meet them half way. Show them that you can be level headed and even might agree with how they could come to their conclusion but show them that yours is better. You do not have to win to present a constructive reasonable argument. Keep that in mind.

For me the best thing that I have found is to do an outline of my argument. When I have an outline I have to make sure that my thesis is clear and my position it stated. Make sure that I have evidence to support each claim and that will aid me in writing a clear and persuasive argument. Another thing that I want to do is show that I have researched my subject and I have been able to strengthen my argument by showing that I have considered other arguments but have came to another conclusion.

Purdue's Online Writing Lab on writing about Literature .

In the Purdue Owl it covers what makes a good literature topic. When you write about literature there are key topics that need to be presented. In your thesis statement one should present an argument. An argument is your point of interpretation, an evaluative judgment, or a valid point. A thesis statement is something that is supported with examples from the text or secondary sources. You do not just want to use a summary statement but give a point that needs to be supported with evidence throughout the essay. Good examples of a topic are discussion of the characters, a comparison and contractions of different authors, and deconstruction of the particular work.

Then one needs to research support for the topic. You can find it on the internet or in the library. Once you find secondary sources you will need to introduce the evidence either by direct quote or by writing according to…. (102) and explain how it is related to your thesis. At the end of the paper one needs to use MLA format to cite works used. One must be able to explain what creditable sources were used and where to find them.

I have found that it is important not to use a summary thesis for a statement. To simple state something for a fact is something that doesn’t need to be explained and it doesn’t make a good thesis. A thesis statement needs something to support it, it cannot stand alone. After reading this I have realized that I must be able to present something that needs to be supported. I will be able to somehow create an argument and to show support for that argument to provide a good thesis statement.

The Insufficiency of Honesty

What is Carter's definition of integrity?  What does it mean?

Integrity to Carter definitions needs three steps. One discerning of what is right from wrong, two acting on what is discerning to you even at personal cost, and let everyone know that your acting on what you believe is right or wrong. Carter gives example of what is meant by each of these steps and for most part I can agree that just because one person is honest doesn’t mean that you have integrity. Well at least were Carte is concerned. I do feel that some people may act and say thing that are hurtful and feel that they are doing people and themselves justice, but without taking other people feeling into consideration can just be mean. I am a pretty honest person and I feel that most part I am doing some people and injustice without be honest to them, but sometimes it can do more harm than good if you tell the person the truth.

But I do believe that what the writer said in "The Ways We Lie" Dialogue and that the person telling the lie or keeping the truth from someone is the arrogance of the person that is keeping it. How arrogant the person is to feel that they have the power or the ability to know what is better for someone else. I understand that saying something because you believe it to be true isn’t such a great idea. I like the fact that Cater believe that one should not just act on something to be factual but to search for the truth and gain knowledge. Just because one believes something doesn’t make them have integrity if that person acts without thought.

Essay 2 rough draft

As I was reading “Shooting Dad” I was able to relate to Sarah and her life. As I kept reading the more I realized how much of what Sarah wrote reflected my life. I was raised in a home that allowed me to make my own choices just like Sarah. When I was younger I thought my dad and I were on the opposite sides of everything. As Sarah did, I realized that my father and I are so much alike. I too can understand the emotions that see described when she buries her father.

My parents divorced when I was really young. I lived with mom until I was almost sixteen, but was able to come and go from her house to my dad’s house whenever I desired to do so. My parents never got along but they never wanted us children to feel that we didn’t have both parents. My mom however was liberal with how she raised me. I was raised in a house that had very few rules. I went to school did my homework, but was really able to much things that I wouldn’t allow my child to do. But like Sarah we were able to become strong independent females because of it. We had the freedom to choose what we believed in and were encouraged to be a passionate about what we believe in. I believe that was why my dad and I didn’t get along. We had different views on what was best for me.

Sarah started her story of explaining how her family was divided into two. They were divided on everything, Sarah’s father being completely a republican and Sarah being a democrat. They had completely separate views on politics, guns, and art. I too had a fare share of times that were supposed to be discussion with my father which would end up being full blown out yelling arguments. At the end of each of them I would just end up not speaking for a few days. Things got so bad that I moved out. It was such a hard thing to do, but I think that my dad and I turned out better for it. He was more structured then what I was used too and I was just as stubborn has he was that if I didn’t get my way I didn’t want to stay. I honestly had such an open role in my parenting when living with my mom I never really thought about that my father just wanted what was best for me.

As I became older I realized what was important to me and family played a big role in that. I wanted my father to be a big part of my life. The older I got I realized like Sarah that we are so much like are fathers. They played such a big role in how and who we are shaped into. My father and I never had a problem with telling each other how we felt but we never really was  concerned with what the other person point was. We have learned to be able to respect one another’s point of view and I believe that comes from age. My father did respect my views when I was younger he just wasn’t going to allow me to do whatever I wanted. I even think that Sarah’s father like the competition and being able to have a critical conversation with Sarah. It isn’t much fun when you have someone that always agrees with you.

I moved into my dad’s house when I was sixteen because my mom died in a car accident. So when Sarah expressed the feeling that she would do like her father asked with his ashes I understood. Sarah would take his ashes and shoot them from his homemade cannon and wouldn’t cover her ears because she wants to feel the pain of laying her father to rest. I can really relate. The feeling of losing a parent or a loved one is something that a person really can’t imagine unless they have experienced it. It is very painful and something that you don’t want to come easy, you want it to hurt. And believe me it does.

You see Sarah and I have been able to come out of or early childhood as a better person. We have been able to take what we have learned and to realize what the most important things are for us. We have grown into independent people that have the willingness to change. We have been able to except people for who they are and what they believe in. We have been able to become critical thinkers and we have are fathers to thank for that.

Building an effective paragraph

There are five main steps to building an effective paragraph. One is to focus on the main point. In this step you should have a topic sentence that will inform the readers what the paragraph is going to about. Each other sentence is going to support that topic sentence. If a sentence doesn’t support the main topic then get rid of it. The next step is to develop the main point. In creating an effective paragraph one must have enough information that will provide what the writer wants to inform the audience about.
The next step the writer must choose a suitable pattern of organization. One could choose example and illustration or narration is another pattern which tells a story or part of a story. Description pattern is another way a writer could describes a scene, person place, or thing with such detail that the reader could imagine it. Process is a pattern that describes things or events in chronological order. There is compare and contrast pattern and analogy, which compare similar things. Cause and effect and classifications and divisions are another pattern and the final pattern is definition.
The forth step is making the paragraph coherent. This is where each sentence flows from one to another. One must be able to link ideas clearly. To do this the writer should keep repeating key words and keep the same structure throughout the essay and each paragraph. The writer must maintain consistency so the reader knows and understands what the writer is trying to say.
The final step after is to adjust paragraph length. Reasons for beginning a new paragraph is of course introduction and conclusions, but signals to shift to a new idea or to emphasize a point.  A writer may need to connect paragraph to clarify an idea or to connect two closely related ideas.
For me I realized the important to not only have a thesis statement but to have a topic sentence in each paragraph to provide the reader what you’re writing about in each paragraph. A topic sentence tells you even what you should maintain on writing about. I found that even if I feel a sentence is good or may have impact if it doesn’t stay on topic it doesn’t belong.

“Shooting Dad”

 The story “Shooting Dad” was about a daughter and a father having totally opposite views on guns. Sarah is an active democrat that believes in the 1^st Amendment right to free speech and she believes that the 2^nd Amendment could be altered. Her father could care less about the 1^st Amendment and feels that every person should support their rights to bear arms. Sarah grew up not understanding her father and his beliefs; she feels that people should not be able to have the control over something so dangerous or the ability to carry something into a convenience store, as she put it, and blow someone’s head off.
Sarah grew up with a very open family that gave her the ability to choose for herself. Sarah’s parents never stopped her from viewing her opinion even if it was different from theirs. Her father however didn’t stop letting her know his views. Throughout her teen years Sarah and her father had fights about what they both felt was right and their relationship was strained because of it.
As she grew up Sarah wanted to have a better understanding of her father and his beliefs so one day after her father made a cannon she wanted to go with him and try to understand his fascination over it with him. Sarah came to discovered that she liked the feeling of the loud painful noise that the canon made when fired and the overly excited feeing that it gave her after it went off. It was good for Sarah to ask her dad to there when he fired the cannon for the first time because she discovered that she and her dad was more alike than not.
The name of the story comes from Sarah realizing that she was going to do what her dad wanted when he passed and takes his ashes and fire them like cannon balls into the mountain on the first day of open session. Sarah likes that idea because she wanted to feel the pain of the sound that the cannon made when she laid him to rest.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers Chapter 3

There are three main steps that are covered in chapter 3.The first step being global revisions. The second step being covered in chapter 3 is revising and editing sentence structure. The final step in chapter 3 is Proof reading. All these steps are important to the writer to have a well written paper. Each step may take many take several times before concluding so be sure to have ample time for each step before you finishing your paper.

In chapter 3 it covers revising your rough draft. When you first start this process you start at the global revision. First you look at the purpose of the paper and your audience. Does it inform your readers or is it appropriate for your readers. Then you look at the focus. Does it stay focused on the thesis and is it clear. You look at the organization and the paragraphing. Is it in chronological order? Are the paragraphs too long or too short? Look at content. Is the material supporting and are there any ideas that need to be developed. The final step in global revisions is the point of view.  Does your paper stay with the same point of view and not shifting back and further from I to you?

Revising and editing sentencing comes next. Revising deals with effectiveness of each sentence. When editing a sentence you must check for correctness and accuracy. Clean up any over worded sentences and typos. After you have done all this you must then proofread. Reading out loud can help you find mistakes, but having another person to proofread can aid you find mistakes that you may overlook. Sometimes it hard for an author to find mistakes in their own paper.

There are two things that I have learned is to focus on what the purpose. Even if I feel that there is something important to state if it doesn’t support the thesis it doesn’t belong. Another thing is that the overall flow of the paper. Does each paragraph seem to lead to the next paragraph? Sometimes it is important to remove or rearrange the structure of the paper to be clearer and the stay focused on the thesis.

“Coming Home Again”

In the story “Coming Home Again” I feel food plays an important role in the story because it is shows the author‘s belief that his mother was such an amazing cook. Her ability to take something and create such amazing things was what he cherished about his mother. He not only cherishes his mother’s cooking but was envious of it. The way that the mother kept all her recipes a secret kept the author like a student and her still like a teacher, someone to look up too and admire.   Has a child growing up he wanted nothing more than to be in the kitchen cooking with her, were she said he didn’t belong.  His mother was from Korea and living in a traditional home so she did all the raising of the children and caring for the home and family. The mother in the story did everything around the house and this caused problems for her to adapt to America living, but even though she didn’t have the knowledge and seemed meek in most circumstances she strived in the kitchen.

I feel that the story showed food as an important part because it brought everyone in the family together. The mother was able to strive in any situation and bring her and her son relationship closer. The writer thought it was kind of a bad joke that she had stomach cancer, but I feel that food to the mother was so much more than something that she ate. It played such important part in her relationship with her son that even if she couldn’t eat it, it was something that they could do together.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 2

Writing a rough draft-

Before you begin to write a rough draft you must gather your prewriting materials. Prewriting materials are made of lists, diagrams, outlines, freewrites, and etc. Do not worry about sentence structure or word choice in your rough draft. First start with your introduction and include a thesis statement. Your thesis statement should hook your readers. To aid in this one may us a startling statistic or startling fact, vivid example, a quote, a question. You cannot assume the reader is interest in the topic that you’re writing about.

Your thesis statement should be supported with supporting facts within the body of the essay. If you have created an outline it will aid you in creating paragraphs for each supporting points of you thesis. If you haven’t you should do one it will keep you on track. Don’t worry if you weren’t able to create an introduction as long as you have a thesis you’ll be able to write the body.

After you have completed these steps you should attempt to do a conclusion. A conclusion paragraph will remind the reader of what you essay was about. You do not want to rewrite it word for word, but come up with a creative way to make your paper come full circle. The conclusion should be just a memorable as the opening.

One thing that I will take away from this chapter is not to get too hung up on what I’m writing about. I feel that have a thesis may aid me better if I start with the body. This may help me develop my thesis statement. I have to remember that it is a rough draft and not worry myself about something that can be added or changed later.

I will also create an outline. I feel that a freewrite or preliminary writing materials are key to a well written paper, but an outline will aid me on staying within the subject of my thesis. An outline will also give me supporting information that will aid me on every support paragraph of my essay’s body.

"The Ways We Lie" Dialogue

For me I wanted to write about the “little white lie”. Everyone as told one or another over time. Of course we all believe the “little white lie” does less harm than telling the truth. But I was shocked that the author stated this” Ultimately it is the vote of no confidence. It’s an act of arrogance for anyone to decide what is best for someone else.” If you really think about that statement it is really true. We don’t tell a truth because we want to we are afraid of the consequence if we don’t. We feel that the outcome of telling the truth is going to be worst for us, not necessarily of the receiver. Because if we tell someone something that they don’t want to hear we are going to pay for it not the person that we tell the truth to.

I might not believe that a “little white lie” is a statement made with intent to deceive. That just sounds too harsh of words. Deceive with intent doesn’t that just sound so harsh? It sounds as if a person went out of their way to tell something that is truly dishonest. But I do believe that is anything that gives or is meant to give a false impression.

Can a person tell a lie even “a white lie” and still be any honest person may not be something that I could say is true. I’m a person that tends to be more honest than I say most, but I believe that I tend to lose friends or come off to harsh because I’m a person that believes to tell it like it is. That isn’t something that wins a lot of people over. I have a lot of people that love this about me, but I have a few that they would say why you can’t just tell me what I wanted to hear. Not every person wants to hear the truth. Then again I tell them if you wanted a lie you wouldn’t have asked me.

Gabriel's First

As I look at this picture of my son and myself I think of all the many things that are to come, many firsts. This picture is of my 3 ½ year old son Gabriel and me, my husband Donavan is the camera man. We went up to Lake Tahoe for the day so Gabriel can see the snow, it was his first time.. Watch children having fun and seeing how they interact with everything is also amazing, but to see a child see something or do something for the first time is one of the best experiences a parent can have or anyone can have. I’m not sure if you have ever experienced that feeling of joy from watching a child see something or do something for the first time but if you have you know exactly what I’m talking about.

As I look at this picture I remember all of the things that he has accomplish, his first word, his first step, his first laugh. Boy oh what a great laugh he has, that deep down belly shaking on the verge of crying infectious laugh. Of course being his mother I want to do everything in my power to ensure that I will always hear it. This picture reminds me of how lucky I am to have Gabriel. The joy and a miracle it is to give life.

Gabriel is my miracle baby. You see I wasn’t able to have kids on my own. I went through a procedure called IVF which is short for In vitro fertilization. My husband and I had to have a doctor aid us to be able to conceive. I had everything to carry a healthy baby but could get the eggs to where they needed to become a baby. With the aid of my parents to help us finance the procedure we took a leap of faith that it would work and ten months later Gabriel a 7lb 7oz baby boy was born.

I look at this picture and see as simple as it was for Donavan, my husband to take the day off to drive to Lake Tahoe to play in the snow and for us to capture another first of many too come. You see when I look at this picture I not only see Gabriel firsts but I see mine as well, the first time someone called me mommy, the first time he held my hand, the first time we all had a family.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 1

Chapter One “the Writing Process” it gives the reader basic steps to follow to aid them in writing. The first step it explains how to assess the writing situation. In this step it aids you to create a check list on the subject, source of the information, the purpose of the paper, the length and the deadlines. The next step it gives you ways to explore the subject and techniques to create a draft. I this step it covers listing, clustering, freewriting you ideas on the subject. It goes over the importance of keeping a journal and to ask questions. Formulating a tentative thesis is the next step. In this step you’ll the more information that is gathered you will be able to generate questions about your subject. Your thesis sentence will give boundaries to your paper. The final step is sketch a plan. Crate a formal or informal outline will aid in the structure of topic and help in generating a working order of your topic.
In my future writing I like the idea of freewriting and seeing were my mind leads me, but I also like the idea of clustering. The ability to take something that I’m going to write about and creating clusters of things that are related to that subject might give me enough thoughts to give me supporting subtopics.
I first would need to create a plan. I need to find out what is my purpose of writing about the subject,what I want the audience to know, what the length that it needs to be,and the source of the information. I would also need to have the ability to ask question and to have enough information to answer the questions that I come up with. I believe that I need to give myself enough time and opportunity to create a rough draft or outline of my topic. This outline will keep me focused on the subject and aid me in writing a well written paper.

“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Dialogue

I can understand the meaning that the author stated about a “smart Indian” is one to be feared or is thought of as dangerous. People that are smart are feared because with knowledge one is aware of the power they hold and the ability to change their fate. I’m glad that the author didn’t except his fate. With knowledge people are aware of the many injustices that are going on within their society and can do something about it. If he accepted his fate like all the other Indian boys there wouldn’t be any to aid his society and to push the boundaries that he did.
Not only “smart Indian” dangerous to Non-Indianans but to Indians too. That is because it would mean that they would have to change. If they had knowledge their safe average life would exist any longer. Some people become compliant because they don’t want the burden or the problem that might come from being noticed or different from the norm. Alexie stirred the pot he made people aware that Indians aren’t dumb and could make it in the outside world and that meant people were just choosing to be poor and obedient.
My best part of what Alexie wrote about Superman and how even before he knew how to read he’d imagine Superman busting down the door. He himself changed his life because he became educated and wasn’t afraid to bust through his own barriers and become something that would never be expected from him or any other person from the Indian Reservation.
Alexie continues to change lives because he goes back to the reservation to aid other children and change their life by giving them the knowledge and the ability to give them a dream so they can do something about their own fate. Being someone that they can admire and to aspire to be like when they grow up. Alexie has become a child advocate to aid others in Indian Reservations. He goes back and shows the children that someone just like them can succeed, which was something that he was lacking when he was boy.
I’m actually wondering a little more about Alexie father. He seemed not to accept his own fate, but did nothing with it. He was educated by Christian society and loved to read and owned a lot of books, but I was wondering what became of him or what he lacked to change his family’s fate.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 46

The main idea of Chapter 46 "Writing in the text" is to aid the reader to summarize text or pictures. Summarizing is the ability to point out the main thesis and key points simply and accurately as possible. According to the author “summarizing a text one must be able to pick out the thesis divide the whole piece into major and minor ideas and analyze what the author is trying to say” While summarizing what you just read is being able to doing it in a none judging way and helps to shows that you understood what the author was trying to state. The ability to be an active reader you must use critical thinking. Taking notes in the margins and rereading the text over again may aid you in this ability. Analyzing what your reading or what you see is another key point and asking questions like what is the author trying to argue or what is he/she trying to point out?
The two ways that I plan on aiding myself in future reading is to annotating the text, I plan on using a pencil in the margin instead of a highlighter because the ability to change what I write is just as important as what you’re reading. Like the authors says you might find something that interests you, but later you might change your mind and a pencil lets you do that. I will right question to aid me to find key points and underling interesting facts or statement throughout the piece.
I will also outline the texts to aid my in memorizing what I have read and to have a better understand of what I just read.

"Freewriting Exercises" Dialogue

Freewrite is just what it sounds like, the ability to write without the editing and the ability of not worrying about what you are writing. Freewriting gives you ability to have a free range of your thoughts without having the discouraging views or editing of a red pen by an editor. This allows your thought process to follow more freely without closing yourself off with intruding thoughts that your ideas or words may not be good enough or may not even make sense to the reader.

I like the idea of just writing without stopping, proofing and making any changes, there will be time after you read what you have written to go back and make those kinds of changes. Why stop the creative follow by worrying about all the editing before you have written anything.  Doesn’t that really make sense? I was surprised on how one may think that writing and you are really focusing not on what you’re writing but how you’re editing it. The writer pointed out “editing doesn’t just make writing harder, it makes writing dead. Your voice is damped out by all the interruptions, changes and hesitation.” Think about that really does make sense when you’re writing a paper for class your trying to get your point our but how many times do you change what you’re about to say because you’re worried on how it’s going to sound instead of waiting until the end and going back and maybe cleaning it up. When you don’t wait till the end you have changed your thoughts you voice usually because you’re more worried about what someone else is thinking and not what you’re trying to tell them.

I hope that I can remember this every time I am trying to write. I really think that this may actually help me start something and really free up what I’m trying to say. I tend to over analyze what I think I’m going to write about without just writing about something and see where it leads.

Michelle

Introduction / week 1

Hi my name is Michelle. I am a returning student for about two years. I have been working on finishing my A.S. degree with a major in Administration of Justice and a variety of certificates from business to child development. I have been a full time student, but it hasn’t been easy because I work full time, I’m married and I have a 3 ½ year old son, which each one of these can be very demanding.

As one can imagine there never seems to be enough time, so this semester I have chosen to take it a little easier. Not because of the stress that I have been through but because I am taking English and Math this semester. I am not about to fail either of these classes and taking them both in a semester will almost feel that I am taking a full load.  I have promised myself that I will study hard and take the time that each class needs and not become too overwhelmed. And still have time for my family.

Thank you for reading and I hope that this class is as fun as it a great learning experience.