Walk This Way

This week our self-awareness papers were over chapter 4 and 5. They were about how to take notes, different ways to write notes, and how to study effectively for a test. My topic I chose to write about is how to take notes; and different ways to take notes. I learned the three steps to taking notes, how to prepare yourself before class so you’re focused and ready to take notes. All these are important for each student to know. The way I have always taken notes is The Outlining Method. Using the method made reading and studying my notes easier than any other method. I learned how to write my notes this way during early elementary. Writing notes can effect on how we do on a quiz or test; therefore, it is important to always to write down good…

Between 1965 and 1914, realism was the prominent way of writing in America, and was largely read and published. There were many famous authors in this time period who began to help form this genre, and to pave the way for future American authors and their creativity. Some prominent figures of this time were, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Dean Howells, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, and many other writers. Each of these individuals added their own flair to the mix and constructed a many tales…

Think Before You Eat Chocolate “At 6 a.m., 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes and readies himself for a day of labor in the cocoa fields. Along the way, he watches as other kids walk in the opposite direction - toward school. He reaches the fields at sunrise and uses his machete to slice ripe cocoa pods from the tree. Later, he carries the cocoa pods he’s harvested from the field, hacks them open and gathers the beans, which will later be used to make chocolate.” Kids in Ghana have to wake up every day…

Warped Thinking Humans are prone to having unusual thinking; this way of thinking has created so much! Unusual ways of thinking are what have brought humans to great milestones like landing on the moon, creating airplanes and cars, and tiny computers that can fit in the palm of someone’s hand. Sadly, the odd ways of thinking are not always good; sometimes it can be a very warped way of thinking. Thoughts and ideas and can be contorted and twisted, even be used to be cruel to others. Having this…

Those next few weeks I had worked on my colored drawing any chance I could. I would become enraged when I had to erase a mistake, I despised mistakes, it only took up time. I knew this was a level up from the fair I have known and conquered, it had to be perfect, it had to be my best. I used water color for my base, next I drew a black and white grandfather clock onto the washed over page. Once the most difficult part was out of the way I put all my focus on the wave of numbers and modern clocks…

By using those words, the reader senses the depth of the hatred Judee has for the corrupt authority in the prison. Her story begins by an announcement coming over the intercom demanding for her to obtain a pass and go to the captain’s office immediately. She shows no reaction; in fact her fellow inmates have to ask her if she heard the announcement. Her response to them was, “Who the fuck knows” (3491). The emotions she displays in front of her inmates’ mask the emotional and mental pain she is…

A student who struggles to read and understand poetry struggles all the way through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, just to find a few tidbits of information. This process requires the reading of each Canto two to three times just to find a tidbit of imagery to even get a glimpse of what is happening in three different books. “Why do you let pretension sore so high, Being as it were but larvae – grubs that lack The finished form that shall be by and by?”2 (pp 146) Why is the student who is a…

Today’s world is surrounded by ever-changing technological advances. The way in which we utilize them includes; hobbies, recreational activities, career reasons and social reasons. In the passage presented in class we discussed how Paumgarten believed that the GoPro, such as other technologies, were truly taking away from personal experience and causing a strong sense of narcissism. Personally, I believe that, much like many of our technologies, these advances are a positive outcome of what we…

Each morning we wake up to a future that is about to happen but yet is out of reach by default, unpredictable by nature. Are we ever ready for what’s ahead? We try to keep up but are clumsy at best in being present with all that comes our way. A while back we buried a friend. He had been sick, but his death came sooner than expected. We were barely able to keep up with the harsh pace of his illness and still struggle with his passing. Around the same time, I found a little kitten on the street,…

Waylon Park I’m an investigative journalist from Denver, Colorado. I have received an email from Miles Upshur a software engineer who works at the Mount Massive Asylum he has been telling me about inhumane experiments being conducted at the asylum. Well that’s why I am here to expose the Murkoff Corporation patients are being hurt and Murkoff is making money off of it this needs to stop. I’m in front of the gates that lead to the Asylum I grab my camcorder and slowly step out of my JEEP…