Week 6: Plagiarism Response

I thought i knew all there was to know about plagiarism, I was wrong. I knew that you had to put quotes around words that are being spoken or were written by another person. But i didn't know that you had to give credit to information that is not "common knowledge."

Week 4:Grammer Girl Response

The Grammar Girl's suggestions were interesting to hear although some of them seemed unnecessary to me, to elaborate on that the one where she suggests reading backwards from finish to start. I tried it for a little while but then things just got out of wack, it started to get a little confusing. The "print" suggestion is a fair proof reading tip. That way you can get a chance to see your work up close and make notes or mark on it if you need to. But that's not always an option, sometimes the work has to be rushed or a printer might not be available the particular time.
I put two together and found that it was the most effective. The reading out loud suggestion worked in my favor mostly because that;s how I read. When I read in my head for some reason my mouth says the words but my mind doesn't it's like it wonders off thinking of other things while I'm still saying the words. The fresh start suggestion I'm sure most of my classmates used because it's recommended we try the four suggestions on our first un-graded assignment and I haven't read that in forever. I found a number of errors in my assignment one of which was in the title of my work, making errors right away, imagine that. But most if those errors were minor but still counts.

Week 5: LEAD SENTENCE

Shelly sat up paralyzed with fear. www.geocities.com


Jane Lebchenco, the Oregon marine biologist President Obama picked to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA.)

These lead sentences are both summary leads. The first one caught my attention because it sounds like it's about to be a scary story in which i happen to love scary stories. I favor the second one because i want to be a biologist and almost anything dealing with science is interesting to me.

Week 5:Reading Response 3

The multiple audiences for "i am my anti-drug" are the ones who stereotypes, as well as the ones who are being stereotyped against. The advertisement is addressing the audience who judge people. Everyday people mostly young teenagers or young adults are being judged just by how they dress and the way they look, as well as the way they talk. The people doing the stereotyping don't care about who they judge and they don't care if they were wrong, well for about ten minutes they do, but it doesn't take them long to go back to judging. The invoked audience are the ones who are being stereotyped against. Everyday they have to worry about it, they get up and stress about what to wear, how to do their hair a certain way, and speak a certain way. After what feels to be an eternity of trying to please those who judge they still fall victim to it to them there's no escaping it. Then they think "well if they think i do it I might as well do it." They think if they look at them that way no matter what they do then they should be that way.
All three ads focus on illegal drug use, but there are three different types of audience that are being targeted. The first ad "He might dump me" targets people who have either family,friends,spouses, or couples who are using illegal drugs and that they should step up to the plate and say something, it could change alot . The second ad about "regret" targets the ones who uses drugs but have not gotten caught or into serious trouble yet. The last three are about people who are being stereotyped.
The "I am My Anti-Drug' is the most effective because the other two when faced in those situations are a lot harder to deal with it's a lot harder to act upon it. It also lets people know that it's okay to dress and look a certain way and still be successful, and also the people who judge that they may look like they use illegal drugs but that's not always the case. It is a general effective way because there are people who do take advice and put it to good use.

Week 5:Reading Response2

To politicize religion means to say that religion is choosing a side. You have Democrats and then you have Republicans. Ex-President George W. Bush is a republican, so if he had spoke at Calvin College he basically would have been choosing a side for religion when the actual odds of religion choosing a side are against him. For instance, everyone at the Calvin College might not be a christian, so they might be enraged or might not care at all. And to extend on that everyone at Calvin College might not be a Republican. You can always have a christian who is a Democrat as well as a Republican who doesn't believe in religion at all or they just might not be a christian.
The ones that signed "An Open Letter to the President" most likely had no intentions of politicizing religion. Because like John Zwier they probably looked at the other aspects of the situation. What they could have been looking at is someone with power who shares the same beliefs as they do. Or they also could have been looking at the fact that the president was coming to speak at the school which can give them an opportunity.
It is possible not to politicize religion in American society just because of the many combinations that you have. As mentioned before you can have Democrats who are Christians, you can have Republicans who doesn't believe religion, and Republicans who aren't Christians. So in actuality the only group of people who would agree with with the ex-president would have been Republicans who are Christians. It definitely doesn't benefit any society to politicize religion because how would you satisfy those who don't share the same beliefs as you things could get out of hand.

Week 5:Reading Response 1

The challenges of polling minority communities are that minority groups make up a smaller proportion of the population, which results in the difficulties that interviewers have when trying to reach them. Even when finding a group a group of minorities they have to be suitable for polling, and if they're not suitable then the call is wasted which is a significant expensive factor. Another challenge of polling minority communities is if the respondents do not speak English then the interview protocols have to be converted, so that the minorities are interviewed by people who are fluent in their language. It's also a good idea to match the interviewers' with the race of the minority communities.
These types of problems arise because the polls for the minority communities have to be as precise as possible and it seems the only way of achieving that goal is by interviewing the right minority groups with the right interviewers, and because they are minorities they are difficult to track down, and so finding the right minority to be interviewed is even more difficult. Polling minority communities is important because the minority views contrast with whites as well as others among other minorities. If not done than the margin of error in the general population is plus or minus 3% points at a confidence level of 95%. By not doing so than the minority groups most likely will feel left out thus feeling stereotyped against.

Week 4: Final Draft Hesitation

Although hesitation is instinctively thought to be a bad action, it can be the best thing we do because of money reasons, the risks that come with actions without thinking, and things that will affect us permanently in the long run.
When you plan to go to the mall most of the time people have what they are going to buy already in their minds, but somehow somewhere along the line of walking into a mall and trying to get what you came for you get distracted by that one store that always has something that makes you buy it as soon as you see it. Okay so now you have walked in that store picked up the item that caught your eye but then you realize you can't have that item without this item to go with it so you get that too. Now you're on your way to the cash register all of a sudden more items just so happen to fall in your hands and you think "well it's here I might as well get it."
This is called impulse buying, and a good business knows that if they display something people will but it, we all do it. Do you know how much money you would save if you hesitated a little bit before you actually bought something. If you stopped and actually thought about it, all sorts of reasons will pass through your mind like the cell phone bill that was due two days ago, or some money that you owe someone who just so happens to be the cashier that rings you up. So stop, hesitate and go home and sleep on it because 80 percent of the time when you wake up you're not going to have interest in it, however if you still have the desire to get it then you know you really wanted it and by all means buy it.
How often do you think before doing something, not very many times I'm guessing, after all why should you have to think before going up or down the stairs or eat a bowl of cereal. Our bodies are so use to doing things without thinking that we just do it. It's Friday night your phone has been ringing off the hook everyone is texting you telling you to go to the concert every one's going to be there. You get up to go ask your parents to borrow the car and let them know what time you will be back, you go in and pop the question, and the answer is no. So now your parents are sleep and the keys are on the counter, you think to yourself I'll just be gone a few hours, however you don't think about the risks that follow so you snatch the keys, stuff your bed to make it look like you're sleeping and leave. The concert is nearly over everyone heads out to their cars and tries to leave all at once, common sense would tell people to wait a few minutes, let it clear out some but do we think about that no. So as you're pulling out you see some one's headlights coming at you your first reaction is to step on the breaks which causes you to stop right in front of them which makes the crash look like a capital "T." All kinds of thoughts are passing through your head the two main thoughts are "what if I had sped up instead of pressing the breaks I might have gotten out of their way," also the one thought that rings over and over, "what if I hadn't have taken the car in the first place." Imagine if we hesitated and examined both sides of a situation before doing something, picture how much grief you would save yourself and others.
Different people have different opinions on tattoos, some hate them, some like them, and others say they like them but it's not for them. People get tattoos for many reasons like to represent where they are from, to portray who they are, because a family member or someone close to them has past away, for tradition and culture, and believe it or not there are people who get a tattoo just because they can, those are the tattoos that make no sense. For those who just get them for no reason do you stop to think how it might affect you permanently in the future. When you have a scar like a burn on some part of your body sometimes you think, "I wonder what my skin looked like before that." That's how it is with a tattoo, people get them and then wonder what their body parts looked like before the tattoo, by that time it's too late. There is a way to remove a tattoo but that leaves a nasty scar that looks worse than having the tattoo, in which both are permanently on you for ever. The worst part is tattoos don't look as good when you get older as they do when you are young. Smaller tattoos look alright when you get old it's the bigger ones that you have to stretch out just to see what it is. young men often make the mistake of getting their girlfriend's name tattooed on them and most of those relationships don't last but the name is stuck there. If we hesitated before spending money on things we don't need, before acting on impulse, and before getting tattoos that will affect us permanently we can save ourselves a lot of headaches and embarrassing moments in the mirror in the future.

Week 3:Reading Response

When Lamott says "the fantasy of the uninitiated," she means the people who aren't writers. After all if your not a writer how can you truly understand how it is to have to write something that will be published and made available to the world. Lamott says "more or less" because while she trust the whole process of the "shitty first draft" she still had the fear of someone somehow finding and reading her first draft before she got the chance to fix it up. Some parts of her wariness is personal because that's how SHE! feels, and all writers don't feel the same way she does, however she is speaking for all writers because all writers go through a difficult time when writing. All writers are worried about how the public views something they have written. Writing a first draft is more about the process, I agree to an extent but you have to have a little bit of writing about the product in the first draft otherwise you would just have a lot of things that come to mind on your paper.
Lamott's writing style helps her make her point by writing about examples and past experiences as well as feelings. Reading an essay that doesn't have any feelings or past experience in it is boring to read, you can be Reading it and by the time your done reading you wouldn't even remember what it was your were reading. she also puts thoughts about what other people would think about her work if they were to read her first draft.
Lamott writes about how difficult it is to begin writing, that's how it is with most writers difficult to get started, that's how I write it takes me a minute to get an introduction but once I get that down I'm good to go. I agree with the suggestions. If you write more than you have to once you do all the editing your essay will still meet the required length. I also agree with the fact that she says you should write childish feelings and words because it might just fit right in and if it doesn't then you can always cross it out.

Week 4:Reading Response Part 2 America's Aspects

Every single one of those photographs represent some part of our American culture that we are or want to share with other countries. Some are good American cultures in which I am proud to share it while the others represent how disgusting and cruel America can be. There are also some that portray both the good and as well as the bad culture of America. But that is America as we know it we love it and we hate it.
The photograph by Les Stone, Advertisement for Metropolitan Life Insurance sends out a positive aspect. Metropolitan Life Insurance is commonly known in America which means that America wants Taipei to have good and reliable life insurance. And because Snoopy doesn't really talk he is neutral, Snoopy can be advertised speaking in any language.
The Corbis Sygma poster of the film "Titanic" is in the middle. The aspect that i feel is being exported is mixed because while it is the story of how two Americans fall in love it also shows how we can be selfish and think only about our selves when facing a crisis.
Tatiana Markow's McDonald's in Shanghai photo sends a positive aspect as well. McDonald's is inexpensive and very delicious. Some even show favoritism it says America is thinking about Shanghai's wallets as well as their bellies. Koren Ziv's Nike in Jerusalem photo graph sends a positive aspect of America. Nike can be a bit costly at times but you have to spend money to save money. Their footwear as well as their clothing line is durable and comfortable for the many many people that do alot of walking in Jerusalem.
Alcohol is a door to America;s ugliest problems. The photo by John Van Hasselt, Advertising Budweiser is a negative aspect of America. There are very few people however they do exist who drink for great taste. Alot of America's population who drinks alcohol are teenagers who can't or don't know who to handle it. The message I get from this photo is beer makes America do some insane things lets make China do some ignorant things along with us. America is trying to relay positive aspects to other countries so that we can get along, however we sometimes relay negative ones because we export the wrong things.

Week 4:reading response Part1 Cartoon arguments

The cartoon that I find the most successful is "An excerpt from Men Are from Belgium Women Are from New Brunswick, by Roz Chast." I feel this one is the best because to me it has the primary definition of a visual argument. It also has both the male and female language where as the others don't. Most of the other visual arguments only show or stress the male language in a dull way while Roz Chast's visual argument has both and was humorous. I find it interesting how the female visual argument would out do all the males, you would think that the male visual arguments would have been better, after all it's four against one, Roz was out numbered and yet she emerged victorious. Roz visual argument has a better understanding of the communication separation.
The visual argument that I thought was the least successful was "And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about, by Peter Steiner." My reason for voting this one as the least successful is because the visual argument doesn't really say much, we can gain a lot of Information by looking at a picture that doesn't even have words but when you look at that one it says little to nothing at all, it's like a whisper in your ear that you can't even hear. In this argument you would have to look at the facial expression of the woman after the question has been asked. The only problem with that is not everyone can read facial expressions especially in a cartoon. However i do understand her facial expression, the expression i get from her is "who him, no not really." But not everyone is going to understand that from the cartoon.

English 111: Week 2 Reading Response

In Sea's argument he's trying to say a few things. One of those points being women aren't the only ones who have to worry about sexism, that it takes place in both genders. He's also trying to let us know that it's not good to portray men doing things he feel a woman should be doing and that with every commercial to comes out portraying men as feminist it's actually going to have the opposite affect on men and that when publicly portraying men that way they risk an ever more degrating response on women so that we can prove our masculinity. He claims "that the television's portrayal of men does just as much to hurt their cause as a women." Sea also claims that they should stop advertising " men should act like men," because of the fact that "they show men acting inappropriately."
Sea claims that if feminists were to stop advertising men acting inappropriately or stop advertising men should act like men then the less men would stop try to prove our dominance over women. Sea also claims that if such commercials are to advertised to reveal both sides of the gender in that situation to have less outrage from one or the others side of things. His claims sounds good however sexism has been around for countless days and if they were to abide by his claim they would have to change six billion people's minds, my guess is only a small fraction of that would change.

English 111:Evaluation Essay

Although hesitation is instinctively thought to be a bad action, it can be the best thing we do because of money reasons, the risks that come with actions without thinking, and things that will affect us permanently in the long run.
When you plan to go to the mall most people have what they are going to buy already in their minds, but somehow somewhere along the line of walking into a mall and trying to get what you came for you get distracted by that one store that always has something that makes you buy it as soon as you see it. Ok so now you have walked in that store picked up that item that caught your eye but then you realize you can't have that item without this item to go with it so you get that too. Now you're on your way to the cash register all of a sudden more items just so happen to fall in your hands and you think well it's here I might as well get it.
This is called impulse buying, and a good business knows that if they display something people will buy it, we all do it. Do you know how much money you would save if you hesitated a little bit before you actually buy something. If you stopped and you stopped and actually thought about it all sorts of reasons will pass through your mind like the cell phone bill that was due two days ago , or some money that you owe someone who just so happens to be the cashier that rings you up. So stop and hesitate and go home and sleep on it because 80 percent of the time when you wake up you're not going to have the desire to get it, however if you still have intrest in it then you know you really wanted it.
How often do you think before doing something, not very many times I'm guessing after all why should you have to think before going up or down the the stairs, or eat a bowl of cereal. Our bodies are so use to doing actions without thinking that we just do them. It's Friday night your phone has been ringing off the hook everyone is texting you telling you togo to the concert everyone is going to be there. You get up to go ask your parents to borrow the car and let them know what time you will be back, you go in and pop the question, and the answer is no. So now your parents are sleep and the keys are on the counter, you think to yourself I'll just be gone a few hours, however you don't think about the riks that follow so you snatch the keys, stuff your bed to make it look like you're in your bed sleeping and leave. The concert is nearly over everyone heads out to their cars and try to leave all at once, common sense would tell people to wait a few let it clear out some but do we think about that no, so as you're pulling out you see someones headlights coming at you, your first reaction is to step on the breaks which causes you to stop right in front of the them like a capital "T." All sorts of thoughts are going through your head the two main thoguhts are "what if I had sped up instead of pressing the breaks I might have gotten out of their way," also the one thought that rings over over "what if I hadn't have taken the car in the first place." Imagine if we hesitated and examined both sides of a situation before doing it, picture how much grief you would save yourself.
Different people have different opinions on tattoos, some hate them, some like them and others say they like them but it's not for them. People get tattoos for many reason like to represent where they are from, to portray who they, because a family member or someone close to them has past away, for tradition and culture, and believe it or not there are people who get a tattoo just because they can. For those who like tattoos do you stop to think how it might affect you permanetly in the future. When you have a scar like a burn on some part of your body sometimes you think "I wonder what what my skin looked like before that. That's how it is with a tattoo, people get them and then wonder what their body parts looked like before the tattoo.By that time it's too late, there is a way to remove a tattoo but that leaves a nasty scar that looks worst than having the tattoo, in which both are permanetly on you for ever. Also tattoos don't look as good when you get older as they do when you are young. Smaller tattoos look alright when you get old it's the bigger one that you have to stretch out to see what it is. Young men often make the mistake of getting their girlfriend's name tattooed on them and most of those relationships don't last but the name is there permanetly. If we hesitated before spending money on things we don't need, before acting on impluse, and before getting things that will affect us permanetly we can save ourselves alot of headaches in the future.

Introduction

Curtis Watkins, born on August 2, 1989. Originally I was born in Roanoke Virginia but I only lived there for the boring half of my life. For the more interesting half of my life I lived in Killeen Texas. I played football for one year in Texas and one year in Alaska. I enjoy going to the gym on my spare time which isn't ofthen if I may add, I'm not a big fan on running though so i only lift weights. I have two other brothers and one sister.
I love to watch movies, I prefer not to go to the theater I just buy or rent them. My favorite shoe is Jordan 23's, I own 14 pair of them and most of them are the exact same shoe just different colors which to me is an entirely different shoe. I alos happen to enjoy the one thing that i am denied often which is sleep. I also listen to music, I'm not the type to limit my ears to a certain style if it sounds good to me I listen. I'm currently trying to learn how to play the piano, I'v mastered two songs already, "Easy" and "Heart and Soul." I'm looking foward to working as well as having a great semester with you all.

Writing Assignment #1 English 111 The Balanced and the Unblanced3

This will be my first semester in college thus being my very first web-based course, it's not that difficult so for but I'm still nervous because I think about the fact that we still have several more weeks to go so anything can happen between now and then. I live in Alaska and have been for about a year and a few months. I am taking two other classes and also have a full-time job. My job takes up most of my time and when I'm not working I'm either doing school work or trying to get some sleep. However, on the bright side having this online course helps me out because I do have timw at my place-of-business to pull out a pen and paper to brainstorm or jot down a couple of lines or notes, however that's not enough time to sit in class.
Being a dependent of the military has its ups and downs. Some of those ups are you do get to travel often, you get to see so much. On the reverse side of thingsif your not the type who enjoys traveling or seeing new things then it can be hard. The process of moving from location to location and trying to settle in while getting use to your new surroundings can be a bit overwhelming.I blelieve the most difficult thing for me in english is actually coming up with something interesting to work around, but once I get passed that it just flows like a down hill river.
I'm the middle child in my family which means I have responsibilities. They expect me to set examples in life to follow such as going to college. My job gives me two consecutive days off in which thats when the majority of my school work will be completed. To keep from getting over overwhelmed and consumed by work I split my week up, so on Monday and Tuesday I work on things from one class, Wednesday and Thursday it's work from another class, Friday and Saturday it's my web-based class time and finally Sunday is the day I use to play catch up.