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So we're back from Thanksgiving break and I am very sad about it.. I did not want to come back after that great break! I cannot wait until Christmas break because then I don't have to come back again. I miss home so much and my boyfriend is back home too so I am ready to get back!! I am ready to get back home, get my gen eds done at the tech college and then get a job.. It just sucks that I have to come back these last three weeks but atleast thats all it is!!

Pg. 244 Question #3

I feel like the most important scene in a rose for emily was when she bought the poison and then poisoned Homer.. To me, that was when everything got super weird, it was a weird story all around, but that just did it. Because after that she was sleeping with him, when he was dead, and it was just very disturbing. At that point it got the people to wonder if its really all of her fault or if the towns people play some part in what happened. I still dont know where i'm going to go on my paper with doing this story though...

Goodman Brown

I was kind of confused in this story becuase of all of the weird launguage they used, it was just hard to understand. I didnt really get into it that much but it just seemed like it was pretty much saying that there is no one who is like better than anyone else, and no one is perfect... but I didn't really get much else out of it.. I thought this story was pretty boring and it didn't catch my attention really at all..

A Rose for Emily

This was kind of a weird story and we read it in high school and I just thought it was kind of creepy. But I do like it though, it wasn't a long boring story that didn't really go anywhere. I felt like it kind of had you guessing for a while, and then it was just a different ending that you don't read in many books. I still think the town has some part to blame for what happened!

Sleep Hallow

I am only a school teacher who happened to fall inlove with a student who has quite the bank account. But I mean, of course that is not why I love her..... I know she gets distracted by my big nose, but one day I know I will be able to get her to see past it. I wish this wasn't such a big deal for me to be attracted to my student who has a lot of money, I mean, who is as beautiful as she is. Well goodbye!

Buffy

The halloween episode of Buffy that we watched in class Thursday was pretty corny. It was a lot different from what is on TV today, with the clothes and just a lot of other things. Buffy was the bad ass who could beat anyone up if she needed to, her guy friend was a whimp and one time when he was about to get beat up by a guy who had a crush on Buffy, Buffy stopped him and her guy friend lost his manly image. Then her friend was a quiet more shy girl. Then in the show they all turn into their costume and Buffy becomes a not very bright princess, her guy friend becomes this tough army guy, and her friend becomes more open.

Favorite Book

My favorite book would have to be Odd Girl Out. I read it during middle school when I was getting bullied by a group of girls that were my friends. I really liked this book at the time because it was about a girl who was going through a lot of the same things I was going through at the time. I remember feeling like I could really connect to the character and it was a good thing for me to read at the time.

This past week

This past week has been hell and I can already tell this week is going to be just as bad. I have had so much homework and so many tests I want to cry. And now I am having another week just like it. I am in History and I have always struggled in that class but I have been trying so so hard this year, but I cannot pass a test. I literally have cried every test we've had. I have never put this much effort into a class so it just makes me really upset that I am putting this much time into it and I am not getting anything out of it. I just need a break from school so I cannot wait until Thanksgiving break, so I better not have homework!! Hopefully this week gets better soon though and I start getting some sleep because I am probably going to go crazy.

Alcohol paper

Thesis: Alcohol is considered a drug, several people have lost their lives because of it and have put many other peoples’ lives in danger too; therefore, alcohol needs to be taken more seriously and have stricter punishments and rules just like all of the other drugs.
or
Because alcohol is a drug, and puts people's life in danger, it should have stricter punishments

Ethos: I can research information and statistics and stuff of alcohol related problems/tragedies.

Pathos: Find interviews or stories of people who have experienced tragic events from alcohol abuse.

Logos- I'll find sources from doctors and experts on alcoholism.

Alcoholism Brainstorm

Paper Topic: Alcoholism

Topic: Alcohol and its effect on the drinker
Question #1- Is alcoholism really a disease or is it just a self control thing?
Question #2- Why do people become so selfish when they have drinking problems?
Question #3- How don't drinkers realize that they have a problem with drinking?

Topic: How being an Alcoholic can effect the people around you.
Question #1- How can't an alcoholic parent not feel bad when they hurt someone they love?
Question #2- How can't a drinker quit drinking for the one that they love?
Question #3- How can a drinker not care when they are constantly letting their loved ones down?

Topic: Alcohol being legal
Question #1- How is alcohol legal but not marijuana, when there have been several deaths from overdosing on alcohol but there has never been one from overdosing on marijuana?
Question #2- How can it stay legal when so many people die from drunk driving accidents?
Question #3- How can it stay legal when there have been so many rapes, abuses, and accidents because of being intoxicated.

Tuesdays Class

    I did not like how Tuesdays class was set up. I don't like that we have to teach these lessons and then take tests over them. I know our group didn't do that great of a job, and because of that the class probably ended up confused and didn't understand it. I still don't completely understand how to use semicolons and colons, and I didn't know how to use them in the first place. I don't like that us students are having the responsibility put on us to teach the others how to do these things.. Hopefully the other groups do better than we did, but I feel like we should be getting taught properly by the teacher.

English Experience

So far I really like our English class. It reminds me of how my senior year english class was and that was one of my favorite classes. I like that it is a small class so everyone knows who everyone is, maybe not by name, but they know who they are. I like how the students feel comfortable with the teacher and how everyone is included in discussions and we dont just have to sit there and listen to a teacher and take notes. English class hasn't been the way I thought it was going to be, and that is a really good thing! I have enjoyed it a lot and I hope I continue to enjoy it!

Changes in my literacy narrative

    On my literacy narrative I still have several changes to do. I need a lot of work on my punctuation, mostly with commas. And some of my sentences are way too long. I am also going to try broadening my vocabulary and try to use different words besides real, very and a lot, just to make it not so boring. I'm also going to try and work on tying my paper all together. It is a little bit scattered, so the paragraph change doesn't really flow. Hopefully that will make it better!

Colbert Report

I watched the video about Migrant Workers. In his videos he talks about problems but makes jokes about them. He approaches them in a funny way and they are really funny to watch too. In the migrant worker video he goes on a farm and works with the farmers. He does funny things and it also shows that what they are doing isn't very exciting and isn't something that many people love to do.

Fallback Position - Migrant Worker Pt. 2

Media making people think that being extremely thin is "beautiful"

Many teenage girls are very concerned about their appearance. They want to have the best clothes, nicest hair, prettiest faces, and they want to have nice skinny bodies. Its okay to not want to be overweight, and want to exercise and eat healthy. But many girls go way to far with the dieting and everything that they just end up starving themselves. What is making these girls think that to be pretty they need to be unnaturally skinny? And the answer to that is, models. Teen girls love to look at magazines. In these magazines there are tons of girls modeling clothes, swimwear and under garments, and it just so happens to be that all of these girls are super skinny. So when girls are reading these magazines and they are seeing all of these photos of what these magazine editors consider "beautiful women", the young girls want to look like that too. The other sad thing though is that some of these models actually don't have the perfect bodies that you are seeing in the pictures. A lot of it is just editing. Many of the girls dont have the perfect smooth skin, the tight tummies, the golden bronze skin, or the stick thin legs. The editors use a thing called airbrushing, and they could make anybodys body look that perfect. But they are sending out the message that this is what beautiful is, so it is causing the young girls who dont look that way, to hurt themselves to become a beautiful that isn't really all that beautiful.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-25-thin-models_x.htm

Events that have changed me

1. One night when I was over at my aunts house my aunt asked if I would watch my 3 year old cousin while her and my mom went out to dinner. It was only for a couple hours but they wanted to see if I would be able to handle it. I had so much fun playing with him and my aunt thought I did a really good job and she had me babysit every now and then. Then after about a year of just babysitting for a couple hours every now and then she asked me if I would want to watch him and two of his friends every day for the summer. I did and it was so much fun and I realized how much I enjoyed being around kids! I did that for two summers and then I had to move. Once we moved my mom got a teaching job at the Catholic elementary school and mentioned to some of the parents that I babysat. A couple families called me and had me babysit every now and then and then one family asked me to be a nanny for their daughter over the summer, and I did it for two years. I have enjoyed becoming close to all of the kids that I have babysat and from all of the experiences I have had it has really made me want to become a teacher.


2. When you're a teenage girl at one point in time you will experience a mean girl situation. I was the "victim" of one when I was in seventh grade. There were two girls and then a few followers who just tried to tear me apart, and sadly one of them was a girl who had been my best friend since we were really little and she just completely, all of a sudden, turned against me. These girls would try do anything to make me upset. They would make up rumors about me and then would try turn people against me. It was really hard because the girl that I was friends with was pretty much the only person I hung out with so when all of this was happening I was alone and had no one to talk to. Eventually it got to the point where it was so bad that the assistant principal asked if I wanted to press charges but I didn't want to because I thought it would just make it worse for me. So instead I thought about switching middle schools. After a while I started becoming friends with other girls, and even though the mean girls were still going after me it didn't seem to bother me anymore and I decided not to switch schools because I didn't want them to think that they won. Ever since then I feel that I am a lot stronger and to not let stupid girls and rumors get to me.

3.  When I was a freshman in high school my parents broke the news to me that our family was moving. When they told me I was extremely sad and I did not want to leave. I was loving high school because I had a bad middle school experience and I was finally away from those girls and all of it, so I wasn't very happy that I was going to have to start all over again! The first couple weeks at my new school were extremely tough. I cried a lot, faked sick all the time, my grades were the worst they have ever been, and I was just really homesick. But then I decided if I wanted to make friends and make the best of it the easiest thing to do was to go out for a sport. I ended up going out for soccer and that was the best thing for me. I met a lot of girls that I really liked and after about a month I felt really comfortable. From the move I learned to be more outgoing and try to be involved with things because then you will meet more people. Now I love Sioux City and I am very happy that I moved. I still keep in touch with a few people back home but not many.

What defines me?

  The things that I like to do, and the people who I surround myself with is what defines me. I love working with kids and I have always wanted to be a teacher. I interned at an elementary school this past year and I have been a nanny for the past 5 summers and I enjoy it very much. I am also very into art. I love to draw and do artistic things, but unfortunately I cannot take any art classes at USD because its too time consuming and I am not going to be majoring in it.
  I love to have fun and hang out with friends. I spend most of time with my boyfriend and I have a lot of fun spending time with him. He's going to Morningside in Sioux City so I still get to spend time with him even though we are both away at college. My family is another thing that defines me. We aren't the kind of family that spends a lot of time together or that gets along all the time, but we still love each other very much and would be there for one another no matter what happens.