Comments Quarter 4 Week 5

Maia- Hits and Misses

Mary Francis- Anticipating Our Next Book

Anticipating Our Next Book

3. Everyone is capable of lying, betrayal, and violence, which are basic parts o human nature.

I neither agree nor disagree with this statement because I think that most people are capable of these things, but I personally cannot determine the validity of this statement. I know that several people are capable of these traits, even though they may not seem like they could when you initially meet them. Maybe their are people who haven't done any of these things, but I think that most people would be capable of lying, betrayal, and violence. For example, if a straight A student were going to take a very difficult test tomorrow, they might not seem like they would ever do so, but they might look at their friend's paper to help them maintain their A average. I'm not saying that all straight A students would do this given the circumstances, I'm just saying that if everyone was put in a certain situation pertaining to their personality, that certain situation could bring out the worst in them.

6. Sometimes you have to do things that other people consider wrong to get ahead.

I strongly disagree with this statement because I believe that if you do the right thing you will be rewarded. For example, if people want to skip lifts in strength and conditioning, I will tell them that we should do them because we will rewarded by following the rules and becoming more physically fit. Or if someone writes the answers to a test on their hand, they aren't fully understanding the knowledge that is being bestowed upon them and the people who aren't cheating know that they have tried their hardest and will fell better about themselves for not cheating. In all aspects of life, this philosophy is believed by certain people. These people do not have a good moral compass and won't be as happy with themselves as others who do not cheat to get ahead.

Hits and Misses

The piece of writing that I felt most successful with was my research paper. I feel like I completed this paper to the best of my ability and revised it several times to make it my best piece of writing this year. I put a lot of time and effort into this piece of writing, and I also had a lot of time to write this paper so I had time to revise it. I think that my word choice, sentence structure, and in text citation abilities drastically improved over the course of writing my research paper. I also learned how to incorporate many different documents into one academic paper without plagiarizing.

The one piece of writing that I found the difficult to write this year was the literary analysis of Lord of the Flies. I didn't really like this book, which meant I didn't want to spend more time writing a paper about it. I also find that I have trouble analyzing things and giving my honest opinion in a paper. I think that I did improve on stating my opinion and analyzing the book, but it was a struggle to get through the literary analysis. I went to the writing center while writing this paper, and I think that this made my paper much better and made me realize what I needed to work on.

Comments Quarter 4 Week 4

Sutter- Purple Hibiscus
Sydney- How Do I Define 'Family'?

Purple Hibiscus Skills

While reading Purple Hibiscus, I found that just fully understanding the book in general was difficult. Sometimes I would get lost when the author was talking about something that I did not know about. For example, in the beginning of Purple Hibiscus, the author uses the word "missal" and I did not know what that was. This kind of threw me off when trying to understand the rest of the chapter. In-depth discussion in class has really helped me to understand the exact meaning of occurrences in items throughout Purple Hibiscus.

Another thing that I found difficult while reading Purple Hibiscus is understanding the symbolic meaning of things such as a purple hibiscus. I wasn't really sure what to make of the title of the book and how to connect it to the context. Other items in Purple Hibiscus made it hard to understand the overall meaning of the book. In this case, class discussions were also very helpful because we really talked about the symbolic meaning of things like the purple hibiscus throughout the course of the book. I really find in class discussion to be very beneficial to my overall understanding of Purple Hibiscus.

New York Times Prompt

When we were asked to write from a list of 500 prompts, I decided I was going to write about the 500th prompt, even before I saw what it was. Although this was a shot in the dark, I'm glad that I chose 500: What would you wait in line for? I have actually waited in line for a lot of things. My experience with waiting in lines mainly occurs on Black Friday. Black Friday of 2016 was the most invigorating Black Friday of my life. My mom and I began Black Friday shopping at Ulta, which sells mostly perfume and makeup. We waited in line for over an hour, and we eventually got what we wanted. The first store of Black Friday was mainly for my mom. The best deals that I wanted didn't appear until six am the following day.

On the actual Black Friday, my mom and I woke up at 3 am to go to my favorite store, Kinnucans, so that we could get a lot of great deals. First of all, we got up three hours before the store opened because we wanted to be two of the first one hundred people in line, who would get a $25 gift card. Something else that I REALLY wanted was a Patagonia jacket for nearly half of it's original price. I saved nearly seventy dollars at Kinnucans that day. I had so much fun on Black Friday, because I enjoy waited in lines and meeting new people that share common interests.

Comments Quarter 4 Week 2

Jack C- Political Article Response

Laura- political response