College Reading and Writing

College Reading and Writing

Question A:   What’s the significance of Shirley Temple?  What meaning does she hold for Lovey?

In The 3 short stories we read we learn about a young girl named lovey who feels unloved and sad in my own views. Every day she goes home and watches Shirley temple with her perfect little curly hair and red blushed cheeks. Every day she watches Shirley have a perfect ending to every one of her shows and imagines that her life could have a perfect ending as well. So lovey and her best friend jerry imagine if their days have perfect endings as well. The significance of Shirley temple in the stories is that it lets a little girl escaped from reality to feel loved and happy every now and then.

In these stories the meaning that Shirley temple brings to lovey is that everything works out in the end. So don’t let life get you down because when you least expect it, it will lift back up. So when she learns and watches it on TV it gives the young girl hope.

March 31 6:50pm

Chapter 48: Evaluating Arguments

Tuesday March 29:

In this Chapter we overlook the stucture of arguments to see if they are facicious, or resonable. We first foucus on steotyping or gerneralizing. That most of us draw a conclution to fast on sometimes unrelivent facts and material."From a spoonfull of soup, we conclude just how salty the whole bowl will be after numerous bad experiences with an airline, we decide to book future flights with a competitor."pg 372. Also sterotyping. "Women are bad bosses."pg 372. both examples are unreasonable facts and they jump to concultions.

We then foucus on making assumptions. The deffintion is a claim that is taken to be true. In my own personal oppinion we do this all the time, and i know i do. Somone states a claim and their agrument behind it and we foucus so much on what they have to say that we dont even think about it being a real fact. somtimes we take this fact and hold on to it assuming its true for a later argument.A exellent example is " Vilent crime in increasing. Therefore, we should vigorously enforce the death penalty."pg 375.
Also when we are making claims and creating an argument we have to take into consideration of others emotions. We can hurt and move alot of people with so little words, and thats somthing to watchout for.

This chapter i learned alot about creating arguments, and what to watchout for. The one thing i will defidently take from this chapter is when people are making a statment and turning it into an argument watch for if they are really talking about fact, or if it is just a claim. Also i will watch just how i will state my words so that others will not only get offended and hurt but they may see another side of a situation.

Thursday 3/17/11 12:02pm

Rules for Writers Chapter 47:

In this chapter we learn how to write a valuable essay about an opinionated situation while trying to convince the reader of your side. You are writing to gain their attention and keep in their long enough to give them an open mind about your writing. One very important rule with writing an essay like this is that you cannot always assume that the reader is on your side and values your opinion. You have to ease your way into the concept because it could be a really touchy subject.

You also need to be assure that you as well are being opened minded. When reading about facts you never know who reading and they could know allot more than yourself. So make sure when you’re defending this topic you over look everything and make sure you can strongly back it up. You need to write about something that you can grasp easily and know allot about.

When reading this chapter one thing that i can take from it is to not assume the reader agrees with you. Make sure you have an open mind supporting both side of the situation but clearly backing up your plot and to finish strong.

Essay two

Essay number 2

Coming home again

When reading stories and having to pick a topic for them never comes easy for me. Although this week things have changed for the better. Knowing I wanted to write about the story “Coming Home Again”. It automatically made me realize how much this young man’s mother had such an impact on who he has become today. It made me think about how much my parent have a impact on who I am today, and did they have that much of an impact on me? Think about when people say “you are just like your mother/father”. Do you agree with them or do you believe that you have devolved your own unique personality all on your own?

When reading this story from start to finish you feel welcomed in to this family’s home. To me hearing about warm family cooked food and good ol’ family made tradition dishes makes me feel at home. Mostly because I have them passed down in my family and we always have a girl in the kitchen cooking. I love cooking all kinds of things perfected dishes and homemade recipes. I’m sure that this boy felt the same way with his family.

In this story I would like to believe that this son had developed a personality from his parents but also being sent away for so long he has developed a lot without his family and mostly without his mother. So coming home again to spend some of the last moment his mother has with her. Bonding and being able to relate with her on a level that he was never able to do. So I would like to image that he took up learning and sharing her recipes to relate with her. So she will be eternally remembered by her family.

Reading about what this young boy did was really courageous. Not only was he there for his mother but he also was there for her when she went him away for so long. Some people never forgive even with family. Though even though he was upset he never got to cherish an extra ten years with his mother, he saw that she was upset that she thought she would have had more time with her family. To be put in that situation would be very hard for me to handle and see my mother or father on that position but it’s a part of life, and has a strong person for going about it the way he had.

In Addition, this story has made me reflect on myself as a individual and where I have developed my own unique traits. I can tell exactly some of my key traits from both of my parents. My mother is very stubborn and that maybe just a little bit has been rubbed off on me. Also my father is very giving and kind. I like to think that I got my ability to relate to people from my dad and my ability to always be smiling. I have devoted hobbies of my own likening from my unique personality I like to think. To me everyone developed who they are by whom they are raised by and their lifestyle. We all have a little bit of the people we love in us.

posted thursday 10:58pm

“The Insufficiency of Honesty”

Question A:
Choose one of the examples Carter provides.  Do you agree with Carter's reasoning?

Reading this essay a very good thing carter does for the readers better understanding is he gives us good examples. Without them i really would have been lost with alot of the examples of honesty and integrity. The Example i chose to talk about is "

. A man who has been married for fifty years confesses to his wife on his deathbed that he was unfaithful thirty-five years earlier. The dishonesty was killing his spirit, he says. Now he has cleared his conscience and is able to die in peace." I thought that this was such a good example to help me understand what the writer was trying to grasp. He made you look out side the box. I hear stories like that all the time and never image myself in that situation,but reading this made me feel for the wife and what i would do if it was me. I never thought about it slowly eating away at the wife till she died i just felt releif for the husband, but doing that is such a selfish act and couardly also.

I agree with Carter completly it is such a strong quote. The husband in the story not only cheeted he lied to his wife for 35 years. And on his death bed knowing their will be not consiquences for his actions just relieife from his guilt. His wife will want to forgive him as well because she wants to die in peace not holding a grudge with her lover.This quote really makes you think about true honesty in life.

Rules for writers chapter 4:

In this chapter we reflect on buliding effective paragraphs. We first start by stating that we need to foucus on the main point, it sound be clear and have readers able to relate. The main poin should be in our topic sentence. Our topic sentence should be supported by the whole essay so it comes together equaly. A good feature about writing an essay is that short paragraphs are good if they state your point nice and clear but to the visual eye short paragraphs dont hold a readers attention like long ones do. You have to remeber to be organized at all times and so you have to pick one narration. You need to have a process and analogy.A process is a stucture in chronologic order. A analogy is a comparasson between items that are in common so you can start a new paragraph relating to the last.
Furthermore make sure you compare and contrast, draw attention to similarites in your writing. Make your paragraphs coherent, you need to have your sentences flow so the reader will follow you. You can do this by stenghening ties between old information and new. Also repeat key words so the reader know what you are tying to direct.Overall rule is to maintain consistency so the reader will know what you are trying to direct towards them and they willingly want to follow your story.
This chapter i learned how to structure and stong paragraph and it broke it down for me in key parts to think about in my writing. I think for me the most important part it to tie everything together and compare and contrast. I get lost in my writing and i forget what i started with.

"Shooting dad"

Question E:
Do you think Sarah is scared of guns for any other reason?

In this story we read about a young girl growing up feeling like she can not relate to her father because of his life hobbie. She was intruduced to firearms at such a young age that she felt like they over powered her. I think ever seince the say that she fired of her first gun and it flug her back not knowing the power of the firearm she has never truley been open to trying it again.
I also think another huge factor was when kids grow up they try to differ from the siblings and once her sister was getting all the attention from "loving" their dads hobbie she decided to step back and be in the background. Feeling alone of the subject she grew to be a diffrent indivdual than her sister or father. I think a stong factor of that also had to do with Sarah's mother and father were very open to letting her make her own dections and be who she wanted to be. Which i think was very cool.
Then as she grew up relizing that time was running out with bonding with her father she knew that his hobbie dident have to keep them so seperated. So she learned to respect his feelings even though she was agenst firearms. So as they bonded she found out he bulit a small canon all on his own and took her with him to go shoot it. When they did it together she relized the bond that her sister had with him all these years and i think thats why she liked the canon so much. Otherwise that is just hipocritical of her to hate guns and shoot canons? They ending of this story was so briliantly brought together i really enjoyed it.