Have you ever had your blood pumping or heart racing while reading a book? If not then Peter Benchley’s book will make that happen. Peter Benchley was born May 08, 1940 in New York, he has written many books and many of them have been made into movies. But his most famous book is “Jaws”, yes it was a book before Steven Spielberg made it into a movie. “Jaws” the book was very famous it sold about 20 million copies, this famous book is about a killer shark in a seaside resort in Long Island in…
When I started my search I actually started my paper I first decide that I would do Fort Hall but I wasn’t having much luck finding anything on that so I decided to change up my subject. I thought up my new subject I decided to do my paper on Abraham Lincoln’s presidency because I thought that I would find a lot more with that topic so I switched up and I went down to the library to find a book that I could borrow to help me with my research and sure enough as soon as I started looking I found a…
I feel as if I’ve grown a lot while taking english 3 and having Mrs. Stigger as my teacher. I do know I have got many more ideas while writing now and I know a write more clear and presentable. Rhetorical devices is something I can say I have learned so much more about this year. I have learned to understand them more by using them in my writing by applying them when I need to use them. I have got more familiar with using them more because of poetry, I believe that we mostly use them in poetry…
1. What is the book you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? Due to my teacher assigning the class a list of book to choose from for our assignment, I was introduced to “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Despite it being set in the 1600s in a Puritan colony in Massachusetts, it had topics that I enjoyed reading about and could resonate with. Having a female main character, like Hester Prynne, was talented of Hawthorne…
to understand from the start of the school year, not only that, but also just me trying to throughly write an explanation of what I have thought of in mind. Sometimes it doesn’t come out on the paper as I have, have in my thoughts. Which in return create flaws in my level one, two, or three writing paper that affect my writing skills. The flaws that I have slightly improve on my writing: create a clear and stronger thesis statement, subject- verb agreement, and transitioning. Constructing a firm…
Denver University Pioneer Application Essay In this essay I will be sharing with you one of the most horrific, traumatic and probably the most definitive moments of my life. Here I will explain what happened and how it affected my life - The Aurora shooting at the Century 16 Movie Theater. So there I was sitting in my seat, talking to my friend, Spenser and her boyfriend Austin and our moms. So I am sitting there waiting for the movie to start. I had just bout myself a new Batman t-shirt.…
The writing assignments that I’ve had throughout my years at CJ fell into two camps. The first being assignments in which the prompt and how to go about expanding on the prompt were explicitly laid out. For me these were the research papers, and the literary analysis and argument essays. These comprised of the majority of things that I’ve written in my academic career. The next camp of assignments fall under the category of minimal explicit prompting and more “choose-your-own-prompt” assignments…
have grown in. I have grown in my use of rhetorical knowledge. Under rhetorical knowledge, it states that you will understand writing as a knowledge-creating activity. I would definitely have to say that every writing we have done in this class, from papers to in-class writings, has grown…
In the beginning of the semester I was unfamiliar with the many numbers of business report there are, and how important it is to properly prepare your documents. However, upon the final days of class I am proud to share how much I have learned. I now have the confidence to excel in my writing. Our textbook “Writing That Works”, became such a larger impact on my success in this class. After the countless research and assignments, I have found there two units I found most informative.…
1. Read the pages listed above. Begin your writing by asking 2 specific ‘types’ of questions about the content of the reading. Write down the ‘type’ of questions (below) you are asking AND write down the questions themselves. a. The book states that art collecting “attracted those who used art as a status symbol, proclaiming their wealth and social prestige and personal taste” Linda, Weintraub. In The Making: Creative options for contemporary Art, pg. 11. Today art is still used by some as…