Paper Bag Records

This is the last set, this is the last set. I stand in the blistering sun with the rest of the marching band on the last day of band camp. Everyone is hot and sweaty as a beaming ray of sun hits our skin. We all have shorts, a tank top, a hat, and a pinning on. I stare at everybody and see them slouched over and eyes drooping like a beagles ears. My sneaker softly touch the concrete ground of the parking lot football field. I snap into focus when I hear a shout at the top of a metal structure.…

As a person ties their boots, they start by pulling their laces and tightening their boot, around their foot. Before going around each hook, they pull the laces tight, maker the boot tighter and tighter all the way up. Once all the hooks have been laced, you finish by tying a bow at the top to keep the boot snug all the way down to the top of the foot. A relationship is similar to this, it starts off loose at the beginning, but with time, as the laces are pulled, the two become closer and closer…

A Legacy in Fairy Tales Many scientists believe in the long term value of talking to your children as they develop. Children who are read to develop language and reading skills much faster than their peers, and every mother of a restless child knows that the best way to get a child to be agreeable at bedtime is with a story. I’d like to explore how family stories and fairy tale traditions shape each following generation. For me, my mother raised me on books. When I was very young, I was…

This quarter my goal is to be able to revise an essay efficiently and effectively while following a concrete plan that provides the materials to compose an essay to the best of my abilities. To complete this goal, I have devised a plan based upon recommended steps to improve the process of one's writing in Hjortshoj’s The Transition of College Writing. He explains that writers often undergo ‘’phases of planning, revising, and editing ‘’that ‘’ are therefore interwoven with composing a draft’’…

When I submitted the article to the editor at Valnet Inc, I had hoped that my time had not been wasted; instead of eating dinners with my family for a few days, I had incessantly sifted through numerous sources for content. What I could not foresee was that in six days, on February 29th, 2016, I would log into my account and perceive an exponential view trend approaching 400,000 reads of my work. At the end of thirty days - I had accumulated nearly two million views - which in turn - earned me…

The author mentions that in college where he teaches has a policy regarding sentence-structure. He also mentions that if the paragraph or essay of any student contains one error, such as comma splice or a fragment, that paper cannot receive a grade higher than a C, two such erros give the student a D, and three or more errors will automatically end in a F. Klinck, Anne L. “Coming to Terms: Unraveling the Comma Splice”. The English Journal 87.3 (1998): 96-98. Web. 1 Mar…

I personally do not believe you need to know any information before reading this novel. Although I may be saying this because the information I needed to know I already knew. You tend to figure out things in this novel pretty quickly. Even though at the beginning of this novel many things happened they all were pretty spaced out you had time to figure out what you needed too. And there are things that happen before the novel that are mentioned that you have to figure out. Such as Scout’s mother…

more detail about the issue sooner. When writing this paper, I started off really vague about the issue talking about how in general things break. However, it should be mentioned earlier that the things that are broken are property at a university that needs to be fixed. Going through my proposal, caused me to quickly realize that this paper doesn’t flow very well. The ideas need to be more organized and more concise. This also cause the paper to seem all over the place and disorganized. The…

Hello Fellow Scholars! With one week further into the quarter, we have expanded our portfolio and with that, given the opportunity to grow as writers. This has been a very eventful week filled with presentations, analyses, and reading. Overall, it has been a good week. A particular triumph this week was the presentation our group hasd to put together and present. It was not to difficult to find information on zombies considering they have a grand role the horror genre for a while now.…

During the semester I learned a lot about myself as a writer. I learned new techniques and new approaches in my writing. As the semester comes to an end, I am given a chance to reflect about all the things that I have learned. During the semester I was able to develop my writing avoid including unnecessary information. I was able to analyze poetry and stories and expand on my thoughts. I got a chance to explore critical theory, narrative elements, and dramatic expressions. In my final portfolio…