Paper Towns

Hi, everyone, I am Keri Inman. I am a Sales Engineer for The Welbilt Company. I am a wife and a mother of two high-spirited girls, two and four. I love my career and my life. There is never a dull moment, however, there is also never a moment of rest. I love doing yard work and organizing, both make me feel I have completed something. In a life of uncompleted tasks, completing the little things like yard work feels very refreshing. I will be honest, I have never really had an interest in…

During this week, our class has went to the African Burial Ground and to Governors Island to learn about our city’s history. Before going to the African Burial Ground, we were able to read an article about it, which that was able to help me understand what this place was about and what their message was. At this place, I was able to have a better understanding of the lives of the African Americans, but more importantly I understood about the lives of them. On this trip, we were given a video to…

My strength as a writer is to be able to include my life experience in my writing. A good writer draws a person into their story or makes a story relatable to others. My challenges are being able to grammatically correct the sentence in order for them to flow. However, If I slowdown, I can make sure, that I am telling the story in its entirety, precise and to the point. This will help me tremendously. Based on the feedback I received from prior assignments turned in, the first assignment was…

Rhetta takes her book and turns around, not talking for the rest of the class, leaving Marylin to take facts upon appearance. Marylin wishes she could have said yes but writing a book with Rhetta Mayes didn't seem like a good idea. She shooed the idea out of her head and walked to her locker with Mazie. Since getting her quitar, Kate was having a hard time writing songs. She wanted to be a guitar player who wrote about a boy named Dallas. Within just a short period of days, Kate had made five…

Today I gave the speech of presentation. Awarding my father with the best dad award. I think it was one of the easies speech we ever done. Not only was it quick and simple, but we had the choice between a formal outline and anything else we were comfortable with. I choose to do the formal outline because it seemed to work for me. Not to mentation I was writing from experience, it came naturally. I noticed I started low, so I tried to rise my voice throughout the speech. My goal for this speech…

something that I hold so dear to my heart, I was still rather confident in my piece and hopeful for a 100%. I felt the strength of this paper was specific to the topic I chose to write, a bit risky but, something unique; not a typical cookie-cutter approach. Additionally, I considered my choice of strong vocabulary words an improvement, resulting in another strength of the paper. Unfortunately, the weakness of mine, which holds true to most of my writings, comes with the improper use of grammar…

We can’t deny the fact that everyone is part of a discourse wherever they go ranging from their home, job, school and the people they surround themselves with. Since Alexie was from a town where people of his race were constrained on what they were able to accomplish, it made hard for him not be a part of an already long going discourse community. The discourse community Alexie’s in gives insight of his struggle when he said “We were…

Wrong, and after writing a handful of essays and short papers which required research, my opinion of error has evolved and matured throughout the course. At the beginning of the course (and even before then), I looked at errors with disdain, because I focused on the negative consequences instead of the positive consequences. Essentially, I was a perfectionist, and I could not stand errors. But now, I am much more welcoming of errors,…

Watching The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything, gave me a new motivation for me to continue to learn how to speak and read in Korean. Josh Kaufman emphasized the 4 steps in learning anything and listening that I need “20 hours” of practice and the motivation, I realize that it’s true. For the past few years, I’ve been teaching myself the Korean language and the “20 hours” of learning, I applied it to learning the new language. This essay will describe the details of what I applied to…

improve my punctuation, as well as, some other characteristics of my writing; however, I feel I have made incredible strides since the beginning of the year. My main goal with writing in college is to look back on freshman year and put side by side the papers to how I am writing senior year and to be able to see how far I have come, and how much I have developed as a writer. I want to leave Alvin College going into the world as a confident writer, one that has accomplished the goals on my to-do…