ABOUT ME

Hey everyone my name is Glory Delgado. I am a freshman Criminal Justice major with a concentration in Paralegal Studies. I am 18 years old. I like to read, write, draw, sing, dance and have fun. I want to some day become a lawyer. I want to be able to help people. I'm an easy going person I don't like to let things get to me. I like to always look at things both ways not just one. I am from Puerto Rico, I was born there and I came t0 philly when I was 2, so I was raised here.

Introducting Myself!!!!

I finally was able to get onto this... For everyone that doesn't know me... My name is Danielle Nunez and I am 18 years old... I am currently a sociology major and after this semester I will be declaring my second major, which is criminal justice... I have one younger brother, which he is 5 and one younger sister, which she is 15... I just met my sister for the first time during the winter break from college... That was a good experience...

I am currently the first one on my mom's side and the second one on my dad's side of the family to be in college... I take this opportunity very seriously because this is the only way I will be able to provide for both my family and I... My friends would consider me as an outgoing person and someone that speaks her mind... I am the type of person that sets goals and I am always up for a challenge.

Response to Lu and Rose's Essays

In both the stories there are many similarities and differences between them. Education is explained in Rose as a struggle while in Lu's it is important and according to class. Each story talks about education on a cultural level. It depends on the area your from, if your rich, middle class, or poor. Another similarity is how they perceive the poor as different then middle or upper class. In Lu’s essay she is given the best education because of her family background. Lu is smarter than what her teachers think and hiding her knowledge is what she has to do because of her culture and what they believe. The stories explain that having an education is very important not just for a better job and money, but for yourself. In Rose the story is focused on the poor and how they "lack a logical language." In Lu's story she focuses on languages of her home and of school and how that was a struggle for her.

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Min-zhan Lu and Mike Rose's essay's

When I read both of these essyas i found many similarities in each of them. Both discussed the topic of literacy and how it effects different aspects of peoples lives. In Rose's essay he speaks about how his students illiteracy is their downfall economic-wise because people believe that those without an education can not be taught at all and that is just not true. If people are just given direction and time they can accomplish many things to help them get by in life. They can get better jobs and live better lives. Also and education gives them respect. It was said in the essay, " ...literacy, here, is intimately connected with respect, with a sense that they are not beaten, the mastery of print revealing the deepest impulse to survive." His students did not give up on their education because most of all they wanted respect.
In Lu's essay she discusses the same topic but goes more into a social standing within the government and what class you would be considered with what type of education you recieved. Knowing more than one language got you farther in life, but certain ones were frowned upon. She takes us through her years of schooling and shares with us her different struggles she had to endure. Schooling to her family was very important and they wanted their children to get that same education if not better. The subject of becoming literate was and still is important in todays society.

the reading....

on the reading... i think all they are really tring to say is that... it is good to know as many languages as possible depending on your job.. like you could have to work any where in the world... i know that my uncle travels all the time like over to india and china... so he has to know more then one language... so the more languages you know the better off you might be...

Culture is ordinary

When I read Raymond Williams article, I like he started us out with his origin. I believed by him doing so we would better undertstand his viewpoints on the subject of culture. The way that he wrote the entire article was in a very formatted way. First he started with his family origin, than went on to discuss his idea of culture. I also agree with Raymond William's idea of culture being ordinary because the very basis of it is infact "ordinary". There maybe aspects of certain cultures that of course differ from religion and government, to music and fads. William's was brought up in both a poor and rich culture. His family was poor and worked for everything that they got, so he knew what that culture had to offer. William's than moved on to gain an education and sampled what the higher life had to off in its culture. He gained a perspective on each culture and concluded that they are infact the same and ordinary.

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My name is Joe. I am from Bethlehem, PA. I am 21 and a second semester Junior studying percussion performance. Anyone watch 24 tonight?

I feel that Lu's essay and Rose's essay are similar. They both deal with culture, language and social status. In Lu's situation, the lanquage that you speak refers to the type of job you have or which class you come from. In Rose's situation, how much a person understands the English language determines if they can get a job or a decent paying job. In both of the essays, the more languages you know or how well you understand one will determine how far you can go in life.

Lu and Rose's essays..

After reading both essays I believe they are similar in many ways. Both essays talk about how they view literacy and how important it is. They both say that you make up what literacy is yourself. Literacy is what you make of it. Just like Williams said that you make your culture how you want it.
Although the essays are similar in many ways, they are different. Rose was working with many different age groups. These people in Rose’s essay were called “America’s educational underclass.” Rose talks about how your literacy is affected by your economic status. Rose tells us the people whom he was working with lost their jobs because of their illiteracy. But as we learn from the essay, these people are not illiterate. They can figure out problems is they are just given some instruction.
In Lu’s the age group was different. It was based on her school experience with her peers. Lu’s essay concentrated on how Lu struggled to understand all the differences in the many languages she was learning. Lu did not have it easy in life. She was faced with many challenges everyday in school and at home. Although Lu’s life was difficult at times, and she was classified in the lower class because of her English she still followed her beliefs and how she was raised.

Rose, Mike and Lu, Mi-zhan

Both of the essays were extremely humbling. Both authors talked about the importance of literacy but also discussed how it is not the final word on who a person is or what a person is capable of. Both Rose and Lu ask the reader to put themselves in the other person's shoes and try and understand their issue with literacy, whether its difficulty in learning how to read or trying to understand the concepts of language.

Lu's situation is very different from Rose's in that she was struggling try to understand the differences between the three languages of English, Standard Chinese, and Shanghai Chinese. She began very proud of her "family language" of English until she was taught that the US/Britain were enemies of China and that the foreign language of choice was Russian. This caused her problems about her family language and would seperate her from it for a portion of time. Also, knowing English also put her in a lower class than some of her classmates that were of the "Workers" language. Lu had a very hard time growing up in the New China.

Rose was working with groups of people, children to adults, that Rose calls "Americas 'educational underclass." Rose discusses the issue of literacy and economic status. Many of the people that work with Rose could not get jobs or lost jobs due to their illiteracy. The ironic part of the situation was, I am to assume, that they lost jobs due to the employer assuming that they were unintelligent due to their illiteracy. Rose shows us that the people he works with do not lack intelligence at all, actually it is the complete opposite. Many of the people that Rose worked with were able to figure out questions asked to them once they were given direction and the ability to think.

Culture and Language

Hi everyone my name is Bryce and Im from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area. I'm a freshman here at Kutztown where I'm majoring in Elementary Ed./Coaching and I am also on the wrestling team.

The two readings that were assigned to us although are very different I feel that they are sending the same message about culture. Each reading talks about how the culture is obvisouly ordinary to everyone involved in it whether it be the language, or traditions you have but in the same sense it is unique to yourself and separates you and makes you your own person, otherwise we would not even have separate cultures.

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Hello everyone, I'm Becky, I'm 18 and I'm a freshman and I'm a psych major. I'm from Allentown but I'm living here at KU in the honors dorm, which basically means I don't know anyone on campus :-(. I just got a fish for my room and he seems really depressed... and he still needs a name so if anyone has any suggestions of a good name for a fish let me know!

So then, about culture..... I think that when Williams says culture is ordinary, he's not trying to say that culture is the same everywhere or that it never changes, he just means that culture is something that everyone experiences everyday in some way. It isn't necessarily something that's only for the elite of society, it's created by everyone. He writes about people and places he has known i think to illustrate the culture he has experienced personally.

Differences in Language

Well after reading the two assigned essays I would have to say that there is a similarity between the two. That similarity is how a society uses the dialect of language as a basis of ranking one's class inside that culture. According to Min-Zhan he says that depending on what language you speak whether it be English, Standard Chinese or Shanghai will tell a person what class you are from. Mike rose is also trying to say the same thing but in a little different way, what he thinks is that depending on how well you understand your language in this case English will define how much respect you get from other people.

Lu's essay was very interesting because it really makes you think about how much language influences the way you are seen or how you see people in day to day life. When looking at how the young girl had to use different types of language dialect depending on the place she was in, well this is how people look at others everyday. What i am trying to say here is that if someone speaks differently then you or has a heavy accent would you say that they are different. That's why i found his reading very interesting, because it really does relate to our daily lives.

With Rose's essay it went into talking about how misunderstanding your own language gauges the amount of respect an individual will receive from others. The prime example given here was when children were misunderstanding what was being asked of them on a test. When they got it wrong they were seen as not being a smart as the others who did. Which is totally wrong to me because as it said in the article that sometimes the children just don't know what is being asked of them, so by just looking at that should not determine which child is going to smart and deserves the more respect.

I really think that both of these articles were trying to show us that literacy is very big determining factor on every one's lives. No matter what language you speak country you live in, literacy is taken as a big factor in determining your life.

hello everyone

Hello everyone I'm Brandon from Troy, PA. I'm a freshman here at KU majoring in business. The past five years I have been all over the world serving in the military. I'm one of the biggest Philly sports teams fans even if they are sucking it up. It has been over 20 years since one of the teams won a championship.

Going on to the essay done in class, I noticed williams talked alot about his past and culture is ordinary. Looking from the angle on his childhood he seem to have good role models like his father and grandfather. His grandfather was your old fashioned bring your lunch box to work and go home afterwards. Williams father was more like a politican in which he was interested in politics.

hey

hey i am craig moose i am 19 and freshman... i play football here at KU... i started this year as a freshman... i am from Dillsburg... a town outside of harrisburg... i live in deatrick hall... i am a huge sports fan... i like the san deigo chargers and the ohio state buckeyes... i dont like the eagles at all... i really dont like any phila team....

Hi Everyone

Hi, my name is Gina. I'm a second semster freshman, who will be hopefully entering a studio art major next year. I enjoy art obviously, seeing as how I want to go into an art major here at Kutztown. I've always been interested in it even at a young age. I haven't made many friends up here at KU, but im trying to change that this semester. All my friends that are close to me are back home. I have two roommates one of which I went to high school with, the other I have become really close to. I have 6 piercings, and one tattoo on my right shoulder blade of my favorite comic book character. My boyfriends name is Brendan, we've been together for 5 months. I love to read horror books and watch horror flick's. I work at a small movie theater back home. I'm easily amused with the stupidest things, and you will usually find me laughing to myself.

Language!

To Min-Zhang Lu, different launguages, like English, Standard Chinese, and the dialect of Singapore represented different groups of people in her life. The words with which people conveyed their thoughts often said more than the words themself. English words meant that the speaker was a member of her family, a loved one. Standard Chinese words were words of the state. They were spoken in school settings with government officials and propoganda. Shanghai dialect was a spoken badge of servants and workers. Languages kept these things seperate for her. When they overlapped, she became confused.
Mike Rose labled people by their language very similarly to the way Lu did. In "Crossing Boundries," different dialects of American English were clues to the level of education recieved by the speaker. His students were not familiar with rules of Standard Written English because they hadn't had the opportunity to learn the rules. Muddled syntax, poor grammar, and incorrect spelling were the marks of a member of the "educational underclass."
Both Lu and Rose realized that launguage was a sign of upbringing and lifestyle, but not thought. It does not reflect intelligence, ability to reason, or thought process. I felt really sorry for all the people in Rose's story who lost a lot of opportunities because of a bad education, not because they weren't smart.

Bracee's response to Lu and Rose's essays

After reading the stories, I have found difference between the two. Lu discusses how she had to use different languages in different environments and surroundings. She spoke different languages for home, school, and the neighborhood. At first it was difficult to her but then she realized that it was the only way that she would not be shunned for knowing so many languages. In Rose's essay she wrote about different experiences she had while teaching others. She took people out of mindsets that was present during learning and made them realize that they were actually thinking a little too hard than they needed to. These authors ask us to take into consideration that we should not take the things that we have learned for granted because other people always have it worse than you. Just imagine having to use three or four different languages in your neighborhood. Lu situates her struggle with literacy by making it comfortable with herself and knowing when and where to use certain languages.

Culture is Ordinary

Well i would have to say that i really thought that Williams essay, contradicted the title he chose for it. Now i am saying this because when hear the word ordinary I atomatically think of something that is same everywhere. Well culture in this case doesn't and he kind of explains that inside the essay, he goes into saying how he could enter a library but a group clergyman went in uncontested. For some reason he was aloud to get in whether because and clothing he wore or just the way looked no one really knows because it was not stated. Well what i getting at here is that he is telling us the culture is different everywhere you go, and culture is learned through the teaching of that specific place. So i don't know about the rest of you but i think that what he was telling through the essay really contradicts with the title he chose.

Hey

Hey everyone whats going on, my name is Howard Splitt, I am Sophomore here at kutztown majoring in clinical psychology. I was born ad raised in Mt. Carmel Pa. it's roughly about one hour from here. I enjoy doing many things such as playing basketball, baseball, football and golf. I also like to play video, my favorite is Halo, and just hanging out with friends. So thats about all i can think of right now but i will keep posted about anything else I think of.

hey hey hey

Hi every one my cale i am a secondary education teacher in the field of history i live in a little town called Lehighton PA its about 25 min away from Allentown. i have a girlfriend who i love to death her nameis laura she is an art major that goes to KU. um i live on campus in Beck hall i have 10 friends that are like brothers and sisters to me andalmost all of them go to school here. which is awesome because we are so close. in the future i want to return and get my PHD and then go to law school it become a lawyer.

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hey.

Hey everyone. My name is Brianna. I come from a small town called Forest City. You've probably never heard of it. Its about 30 minutes away from scranton. I'm majoring in Early Childhood Education. I played softball since i was about 7 years old. I'm not currently playing at Kutztown, but in the future I'd like to try out for the team, or just get on a team for fun.


Culture is Ordinary didn't really grab my interest much. But one thing that caught my attention was how Williams talked about how culture is what the mind makes it. Not everyone's culture will be the same because of their individualism. The mind has its traditional thoughts and creative thoughts about their culture. Also I don't agree with the title all that much. In a way culture can be ordinary, but again it's what the mind makes of it. Culture is different for everyone. There are many different cultures. Thats why I dont think that culture is ordinary in many senses.

I <3 English

Hey I'm Nate. I grew up in East Greenville a little town about 25 minutes from KU. I enjoy things such as listening to easy listening music, backpacking, throwing frisbee and drinking kool-aid. I graduated high school from Upper Perk in 05' and decided to take a year off, after a full year of accomplishing absolutley nothing I decided to give the whole college thing a whirl...so here I am.

Williams paints a great but somewhat unnecessary mental picture in the first part of his life story, but it ties in with his main ideas of what his culture consist of. Culture can be what a person or a society makes it to be. Culture Is Ordinary is mentioned several times making me believe that he stronly believes that all cultures no matter what race or ethnic background are based off the same guidlines.

Hamburg Girl.

Hey, I'm Nikki Bauer. I'm a comuter from Hamburg Pa (20 min. from Kutztown.), Born and raised. I love country music, traveling, Dancing, meeting people, I'm a huge animal lover and most of all I love to talk.

After reading Culture is Ordinary, I have a clear view of Raymond William's idea of culture. He used many vivid words, he painted a picture with his words. He is wrinting about in opinion but the paper comes across in a very polite manner. However I'm not sure if he feels positive or negative about culture.

Hi, I'm Ellen. I'm from Hunterdon County, New Jersey, which is filled with farms, hard drugs, and disaffected teenagers. In class I said I liked art, hitchhiking, and camping. I also like to read and wear sunglasses. I'm sorry if my bare feet offended anyone on Tuesday. Some people said they didn't like feet, but I don't like shoes.

Williams's essay was very effective in convincing me of his idea of "culture." I thought the phrase, "I was born and grew up halfway along that bus journey," was a great way to tie the anecdotal introduction to his theme. It emphasized that we are submerged in culture. The repetition of the title throughout the piece also reinforced the patterns of culture being repetitive and ordinary. Words that describe big pieces of our lives are usually the hardest to define, such as culture, love, and God. I also thought of the phrase "We don't know who discovered water, but we know that it wasn't a fish." It's difficult to think about something that is so much a part of an ordinary day.

Hey all / Culture is Ordinary

Hey everyone, the name is Marc Perniciaro. I'm from Madison, New Jersey. That's up in north Jersey. I'm a junior, but have only been at KU since spring '06. Like I said in class on Tuesday, I'm a big time sports fan and I'm very excited about the upcoming Mets season.

Culture is Ordinary. The reading was very interesting. Even though it started off very basic with his background and sets up his facts. I especially liked the part where he pointed out that at one place that he stood he could see farms and cathedrals and then if he turned around he would see smoke from industrial buildings. This isn't exactly true from where I live but I can clearly imagine this situation. Another one of my favorite lines was "Every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings." I like this, even though I might not quite completely understand, but the reason I like it is it kind of reminds me of my own family. My father, being an Italian, kept all of his traditions and my mother is Irish and also kept the traditions of her family. When I see the two clash you can clearly see that they both have their own purposes to doing something and each of these also have their own meanings. The essay is a very informative one and one I agree with.

Here I go...blogity, blog, blog

Did you see what I wrote...yup, I wrote it. What? Nothing. Tell me!

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What am i gonna do????

Through the course of my years in schooling I have encountered many different teachers, methods of teaching, class material and curriculum. There has always been a similarity in all of this, every note and class and teacher was a stepping stone to the next level. The next level might be from 5th to 6th grade, middle to highschool, or a prerequisite to the next class in college. This is the education system I am accustomed to. What is the the next step for me now? It seems to be reading my self for the real world, for years outside of class rooms and text books where hard work pays in cash and not letter grades. So as for my research paper i want to look back on american education systems as a whole. I want to know the what knowledge was essential to the students of the past. I want to compare and contrast today's educated societies to those who came before. Incomes and educations will be corrilated and be determined to be causes of one another in my research.

Language is TOUGH

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  Language. What is language? Language if you ask me is something that everybody has, and everybody learns. Some people might learn 2 or 3 different languages but we all use it everyday. Language can be incorporated into work, social life, and everything else that we do during our everyday life.
• Some languages
• -French-Spanish-German-Italian-English

I am going to put stories of people dealing with language, I am going to share my story, and i am going to get statistics about language and how much one language is being used somewhere.I will also talk about some tools of language.

I forgot, so sue me...

For my final paper.. I'm thinking about writing about students. Like, the difficulties of being a kid, and the stress we have. What society and adults put on us. How we're affected. Something along those lines.
As far as actually getting information, I'm thinking about starting with talking to one of the Ed Psych professors, and getting information from the multicultural center.

Something totally random, but I wanted to share:
I got a Creative Zen Vision: M over the weekend. And it's freaking awesome. It has lots of cool features. I just wanted to share my excitement with you.

Ok so...

This College Composition class given to me by Kutztown University is by far my favorite class this semester. I enjoy the lack of actual work that we do and I like that this class is mostly interacting with eachother and talking. I liked the first paper topic, but not the second one. It was quite confusing and I know I just rambled on and on about random stuff. Oh well, we'll see what happens with this research!
So, I've been thinking more about what I am going to write for this "research blog" paper, and I have come to the conclusion that I am sort of stumped. I want to do immigration and the work ethics/values that go along with it, however, I'm not sure where to start.. HELP!

"College" Comp Class

"College" Comp class has been so fun!I say "college" because when we are in class, it doesnt seem like a traditional college class. In fact, it is just the opposite - untraditional. We sit in a circle, speak when not spoken to, and instead of answering the quetions of the professor, we answer questions of each other. Not to mention that we basically pick our own topics for our papers, of which we only had 2 this semester (with 1 pending). I WILL BE SAD WHEN ITS OVER :-(
As far as the researarch of this next paper, i am sort of confused b/c it doesnt really seem like a research paper...when i think of research i think of finding information about something that i am 100% oblivious about. But if this is what i have to do, then i guess i shall start by searching for statistics about work and education...???

Circle it up!

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  When I hear English 023 the first thing that comes to my mind is CIRCLE IT UP! The very first day of class we were all shocked (and some what disgusted) to hear that we had to sit in a circle. The first few class periods after that we walked in to the room sat in rows, and prayed that those three little words wouldn't be uttered again... but they were... Now everyone walks into class, sits in the circle, and gets ready to talk....
  
  
  
• My favorite topic of discussion in this class was language. Especially June Jordan's essay on Black English. I guess I felt connected to this essay because I had a similar reaction the first time I tried reading "The Color Purple" . I think language interests me so much because people are able to use so many different forms of it, and can change the form they are using in the blink of an eye.

I hate it when I don't know what to write...

So here's the deal or no deal, which ever you prefer. I feel pretty cluless when it comes to writing this post. I really can't remember what we talked about in class so far this semester. I know of some general ideas

• work
• immigration
• culture
• values
• literacy
• teaching

We read articles on teaching...on Black English....on High School...so maybe one of the things "we" could look at is the range of theories of teaching.

but I can't think os something specific. This is probably also due to the fact that I'm really hungry and tired right now. I think the rain factor killed my mood. But don't worry somehow I will prevail.

What an interesting class its been

Every Modays and Wednesdays I wake up and say to myself... I wonder what we are going to talk about in English today. Starting with culture then going to immigration and somehow ending up talking about Mahoney's 10 year. :) But that huge argument about self-grading was the icing on the cake of a great semester! I've honestly never had a class that had so many group discussions. I think I speak for everyone when I say that it helps us pay attention a lot more when we aren't being lectured the ENTIRE 80 minutes! However, writing a paper on the value of work kind of sucked but other than that, your doing a wonderful job Mahoney!!

Well, I don't quite understand this assignment yet but after reading some of the others I got sort of the idea. College Composition is nothing like what I was expecting coming into Kutztown. I depicted it as being an average english class, even sitting in rows. Here we have group discussions and are in a big circle. It's cool, but alittle out of the norm. Even the amount of writing is less then expected but more then hoped. Although, when I go to comp class, I never have a full idea on what to expect in the class until after it all happens and the confusion slowly drains away. I hope I did this correct and if not...at least I did it at all.

Looking Back

Looking back on class this semester so far, we've discussed a variety of topics. Some of these include: different cultures, different languages, the struggle of writing, what goes on in school, work experiences, the struggle with work, and immigration. I've found all these topics to be interesting, and the papers we have been required to write according to these topics were also. I enjoy the methods we use, as far as class discussions compared to lecturing and note taking. It keeps the class attention and interest going. Good Job, Mahoney.

Probably writing? Cause "I'm" interested in it. Our papers were relevant to everything we discussed. English major...and writing is my favorite part.

• link: traits of effective writing
• different types of writing
• different reasons why one writes
• different authors and writers--look at the different writing styles
  

What comes to mind

When I think about the class and the unique things we did this year, immigration and are past job experiences comes to mind. This made me realize how a past work experience helps determine the career I wanted to pursue in. I had learned through this class is the different cultures and teaching techniques. The unique things in this class is how we share opinions with each other rather than just listening to the professor and taking notes.

The Future

When I think about the class and the things we did this year, what comes to mind is the thought of jobs. When we were talking about work it made me think of all the great things that happened duiring my experiences as a young worker. But now I have to admit that I am addicted to shopping. So going to college and being a marketing major will help me start a career that I will enjoy and love. I am addicted to shopping and I would love to work at Aeropostale corporation in the future. My mother knows that once we step in to the stores that I will not be coming out for a long time.

The Reflection of Class so far

During the past classes for College Composition I've noticed that we discuss a lot of things that happen today or what happened in the past. For example, Black English and the value of work and how it is taken for granted. I have related to both these issues to the point that I actually liked talking about it in class. As we all discussed these issue during the pass classes we all saw that the time passed. I also noticed that I also had my own point of view of things that we did in class.

This Class

This class is certainly very different. Some of the time I forget that we are in an English class when we are talking about immigration ,past jobs,and the value of work but we also talk about english relevant things like literacy. Its an ok class because the people there are pretty down to earth. It also helps that the professor isnt on a high horse , oh and what happened to the first paper we did?

the B L O G.. not to be confused with THE BLOB

Its hard to think that we are now down to the last few weeks of our class. From the begining of this class untill now it has been nothing less than a interesting experience. Our topics that we have spoken about have been rather unique, ect. formatting our own paper. Even the set up of our room stands untraditional with desks set up in a circle. I enjoy most about this class that we discuss amoungest eachother. We are not narrowed to just answering questions from our professor, but can even question eachother. When we talked about immigration we intergrated all of our first hand views and even other views of people outside of the classroom to see an overall look at a topic.

So I've been thinking a lot about reality lately. Its difficult to think about it, being such a abstract concept. I s'pose the most important thing to do when addressing abstract concepts is to define them. So I figure, not in any textbook official sense, that reality is simply anything that is real. Reality is anything that exists. the whole difficulty with reality is that to understand anything we must rely on our individual perceptions. Obviously no one's perceptions are exactly the same, thus reality is relative. subject to change. But is there a true reality.
what happens to reality in time. is the past fiction? (certainly the future is) but how can we rest our reality on memories, when we know how faulty they can be.
so if something is constantly changing, and relative to each person, does it even exist? is reality real?


ok cool. i have some direction now. in reference to reality i want to know what the status of global warming is. i want to know if its a real threat, or a political scam. I want to know if it has a human origin, or if its a natural occurrence. I want to get to the bottom line. My coworker/ 6th grade teacher recently read a well researched book outlining global warming as a scam. In opposition, i heard al gore just put out a movie called "an inconvenient truth" about the reality of global warming. I intend to use that book and movie, as well as conversations with geography professors and internet research to get to the bottom of the debacle.

English 023

When I think of this class I think of the mess that was the second paper assignment. Then I think back on the self grading dilemma but I did learn some useful revising techniques so far this semester. This being said, I'm happy with how things are going, but then again we didn't start the research paper yet.

We talked a lot about work this semester and since I'm a business major I was most interested in this particular topic. I would like to do my research on finance and how people spend their money or something like that.... I can't wait until Christmas...

Possible Topic

• Technology Is Good for Finance
• Technology In Finance is good in forms of online banking, online ordering, and selection.

K 9 Handling

So my major starting next fall is going to be Criminal Justice. I'm do not have large amounts of mucle and I don't have huge body mass like a lot of cops have nowadays, but I'm certainly not the laziest. I want to be a police officer, but also a K9 Handler. I love dogs, Police K9 Training, and that whole bit. It's hard to get the K9 handling position so I have to work hard, but I think my chances are pretty good. I got bitten over the summer by one, and it was everything I wished for. ---By the way---I was bitten at a training camp.---It wasn't like I was running from the cops or anything. Don't worry about that. I guess you can say I am a dog freak, but oh well.

...THESE ARE THE DAYS...

These Are The Days, The Time is now...There is no past, There is only future...There is only here, There is only now.

-culture
-musical theatre
-society/views
-grading??
-Jordan's Essay on Black English.. {the color purple}
-culture's effect on musical theatre!!??

Throughout the semester we have discussed many topics, one that comes to mind is my brilliant idea of self-grading. I will talk about this later...because we all know we never want to talk about this issue ever. again.

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

Ok, so the doctor's on Grey's Anatomy don't save all lives, but they do know how to. This tv show is my addiction. Everybody knows not to call or distract me Thursday nights at 9:00. I am a Grey's Anatomy FREAK and I'm not afraid to admit it!

Here I sit, broken hearted...ooops, they painted the bathrooms in LYTLE

Ok, not really broken hearted, but maybe a little preocupied. You see, I am a political junkie. I love election time. I get all excited about things like CSPAN. This year...the political rhetoric of campaign ads is crazy. This makes me think about audience and rhetoric.

immigrants

Immigrants do not have the best reputation in America today. They are most often strereotyped. They have been said to be job stealers and low class. People often talk as if elligal aliens and legal immigrants are the same. On the news most information about immigration has to do with the boarder between U.S and Mexico. The attitude towards most immigrants seems to be a over
all negitive one.

Immigrants

I think that 99% of the thoughts on immigration are usually negative. Immigrants are generally viewed as invasive. I think our country forgets about our promise of "all people are created equal" , "equal opportunity", "land of the free" etc. It's comparative to High School : New people come in. They form cliques to their own kind. They don't let "outsiders" in. They have something against the outsiders for no reason. The situation is similar, in my eyes.

Immigrants

I think that immigration is okay here in the UNited Stated. You have to think of it in being a good way because they want to come here and have a better life. Altough some of them are illegal it shouldn't make such a big of a deal. They want to come over to this country and make a better living for themselves and for thier children.

Immigrants

I think that immigration is okay here in the UNited Stated. You have to think of it in being a good way because they want to come here and have a better life. Altough some of them are illegal it shouldn't make such a big of a deal. They want to come over to this country and make a better living for themselves and for thier children.

Immigrants

I think the immigrants to the United States have been stereotyped in an unfair way. Yes, there are a lot of immigrants here illegally, but there are also immigrants who come here on legal grounds for many reasons, jobs, family, etc. Unfortunatly, an ugly picture has been painted towards all immigrants, because of those people who choose to work the system. The government is now trying to do something about illegal immigration, and the only thing it's doing is making all immigrants legal and illegal look worse in the eyes of the public. This is because the main points displayed in the media are mostly negative, making legal immigrants look just as bad as illegal immigrants.

Immigrantion

Immigrantion has caused problems in the United States. They cause crimes and have a low-wage jobs. This makes the Amercia's get lower-wage jobs because the immigrantion lowers the rate since they would work basicly for nothing. I feel it's not the Immigrantion fault for doing this, because the government doesn't stop them from doing it. Who wouldn't want to live a better life.

Immigrants

Well here's what I think and I'm not sure that a lot of people are going to agree but that's ok. I think that we need immigration, illegal and legal. I feel though that legal immigration should monitored, like how many people are allowed to immigrate here in a year. I know this sounds very conceited and probably insensitive but I don't mean it to be. There more people that come into this country, the more populated we become therefore increasing many other problems related to over population. As for illegal immigration it obviously cannot be monitored but I'm not that sure how I feel about it. It's going to sounds like I’m contradicting myself here and I'm all right with that. Most illegal immigrants do jobs that most Americans wouldn't do for much less pay and in most cases better work is done. I don't necessarily agree with illegal immigration but the issue is definitely not number one on my list to fix if I'm in a political position to do something about it. I think there are bigger issues we should worry about. I don't think I got my point across real well here because it would be much easier to verbal explain my position then try to type it.
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Immigrants

Personally I know what it's like to be an immigrant in the United States, because I am one. It is very hard to come into the United States, because you have to go through alot of procedures, to be allowed to live here. I think that Americans think very low of immigrants. Immigrants do not just come here to get a better life, they normally come here because of their job. The reason why we were allowed to move in the United States, was because my dad had a job offer, and they knew that no one else in the United States could do that job in order for my dad to get it. I know it's a better life here, but coming from Canada, it isn't that bad. It is more for the money I think.

Immigrants in American Society

Today, in American society the social norm of immigrants is a negative one. Many Americans believe that immigrants bring crime to America, while others believe that they gain from having immigrants work for them. Thereofore this issue is a two sided issue. People beleive that immigrants bring crime, yet those same people will hire an immigrant for there work place because they are willing to work for extremely low wages. So What is right here? Many say that immigrants cause crime, yet those same people are looking for immigrants to work for them. It is kind of an ironic situtaion that America has come to. Throghout all of the immigration talk I have personally not heard any positive information on the issue. Almost everything I heard was negative, stating that immigrants are only hurting American Soceity. Personally, I have no comment on the issue. I don't feel like I know enough about the issue to make a formal opinion about it. All i know is that the overall opinion of America is that immigrants are not welcome here now, and probably for forever.

Immigrants Today

Immigrant today are everywhere everywhere you look their working in the grocery store, convience store, clhothing store, food resturants, and fast food resturants. But the problem that some American have is why did they come here? Well I can answer that one for sure they came here because they know its better living conditions better work conditions and just their knowledge of how we are in America. Immigrants came up from nothing when they started and now they are something ever since they came to the United States. For example I hear people I know say negative things about immigrants today saying,"They make more money then we do",or "Immigrants trying to run everything". I think immigrant can be here in America if they can show they are worth being here by learning our language, learning bout the goverment, and etc.

Immigrants

I think people's opinion of immigrants are distorted because it isn't the immigrants fault that they are coming over here it is the governments. If they are allowed to come to the United States of corse they are going to for the better living conditions. A lot of people don't like immigrants today because they will work for next to nothing 24 hours a day unlike Americans who complain after 8 hours. A lot of people believe today that immigrants are the cause for a lot of the crime. They also believe that they live an unkempt lifestyle.

Work Story

I don't really have a specific work story, just a lot of memorable moments/memorable people and acquired knowledge and skills from working.

I've worked: as a server in an ice cream parlor, an associate in claire's, an associate at hickory farms, a waitress at an Italian restaurant/bar,

I'll never forget: serving 20 banana splits to people from the psych center every week [crazy], the old man who came for ice cream everyday and always made me smile, one hundred little kids running around the store wanting everything and being terrified to get their ears peierced, getting fired along with my room mate after being accused of stealing cheese [CHEESE?!], seeing an epilectic seize right in front of me for the first time, and the old lady who came for lunch everyday and always made me smile too.


Work will always involve a lot of experience [old & new]


...to be continued.

I really don't have a work story because I work a very boring job. I work at the smoothie place in the student rec center. We hardly get any business and the hours seem to just go on forever. Sometimes I get so bored that I count the bananas in the baskets to keep myself from falling asleep. The sad thing is that its like that almost everyday. The nice thing about this job is that it is a very free and easy atmosphere. All in all it isn't that bad there and i could do alot worse.

Work Story

I became a life gaurd at 15 making $7.50 an hour, and received a $.25 raise each summer I worked there, so when I left I was making $8.oo an hour. The money was great especially when the weather was good and we could stay open, but when the weather was bad and we closed I didn't get paid. Right now you are probably thinking that I was making good money when all I had to do was go sit in the sun and get a tan. There is
definately more to it then sitting around. As a life guard you are responsible for the lives of the people around you, which is a BIG responsibility. There are also a lot of side jobs you have to do like cleaning the locker rooms, setting up equipment, cleaning the pool etc. Life guarding may seem like a piece of cake, but it really takes a dedicated person to do it. Both nickle and dimed and the cocktail waitress showed that it takes dedication and hard work no matter what job it is your doing.

work story

Well, I started working when I was fourteen years old and don't think there has been a month since that first job that I have gone without work. So therefore I have many work stories, so narrowing it down would be the hardest. I've done it all from retail to waitressing but the one job that will forever have changed my life was the one I had this summer. I was a camp counselor at a co ed overnight sports/activities camp. I lived in a cabin with eleven and twelve year olds and one other counselor my age. The pay was not well at all, but i learned so much, I was given responsibility for groups of children 24 hours a day, I met people all over the world from Australia to South Africa and also was lucky enough to meet my boyfriend who I consider the best person I have ever met in my life. I learned what it was like to live in the great outdoors .. a wooden cabin with a bed that was a cot. I was able to run around like a kid again. I lived off of caffteria food which somtimes was composed of eggs in the morning which wern't always the color yellow, somtimes blue. This same food soppositly started a stomach virus that attacked 80% of camp, it was a guessing game trying to figure out who would be sick next. I lived there for nine weeks, the whole experience deffinatly had its ups and downs but I left feeling I knew so much more and would do it all over again.

Work Story

My work story is pretty plain and everything but I started working at Rite Aid Pharmacy around Febuary of this year. It was a relatively small store but we had a lot of work to do. It taught me a lot, about working with the public and getting a sense of what the retail business was all about. If I could choose to work there again, I would. Not only because I had so much fun there, but because it came easy to me. I quit that job, because I was going to college, and did not want to be rushed around with a job and school work. I learned a lot there and I am grateful for that.

work story

I never had a real job until this past summer. I was an advanced-sales rep for a marketing company. For the most part, it was a good experience. On paper it looks good. I made my own schedule/ hours, so I basically controlled how much money I made. Base pay was $17.50, and you usually didn't even have to use that. Not too bad of a summer job, right? In that sense, it was great. But I had beef with the people I worked for. They were master salesmen and would try to manipulate you into doing whatever they wanted. It was frustrating to say the least. I learned those types of skills to be a salesperson, but when I wasn't working, I became a regular person and didn't use those skills just for the heck of it, trying to manipulate people and tell them what they wanted/ needed. It seemed morally wrong or something to me. My "bosses" weren't very understanding of my health issues, and that was something I needed flexibility with, and that turned into something they held against me. So by the end of summer I was ready to leave and move on with my life.

work story

I have been painting apartments for the last four years. I started out at age 14 painting the closets and things that didn't need to be perfect. I started out at $7.50 an hour, and every year that would go up .50 cents, up until this year. I was placed as a foreman for one of the groups. I enjoyed that since there were a lot of responisble on you. Their were headsache to that too, if I didn't finish the apartment in the time that was given, it would come back on me. I would have to put in extra hours on the weekend or have late nights to get it done by the deadline.

Work Story

Well where to begin, I have been working at Top Star Express (Mobil version of WAWA) for almost a year and a half. Theres plenty of the usual stories about the people that come in for lottery that you absolutly hate and the other people that get coffee and cigarettes and treat you like a human being but this is an intresting story. I work with an older lady named Gloria that is dedicated like no other. The store opens at 530 and she is there at 3 every morning. Anyway lets get to it, there is a regular customer that comes in usually three to four times a week and he had been in a car accident and was forced into a motorized cart. So as long as i had been working there he had always drove this thing in and was very nice until recently where he had began walking again. So one day he "strolls" in and grabs a 12 pack of pepsi and lays it on the counter for Gloria to tend to. As shes ringing him up she notices that he's making odd faces and she begins to smell an odor. When she's telling me this story she says she thought it was just body odor, she referred to it as "how fat people smell". So the transaction is done and hes out the door with his pepsi, until Gloria realizes the smell is still there. So she walks around the counter to find out what this horrible odor is and before she can put it all together the regular lottery lady comes running over asking,"Is that chilli?"

Work Story

I only began to really work last year in the month of November at a retail store named Circuit City. All I can say is that it was a great expierience to start my first job at. I loved it there it did get a little hectic sometimes because of the season but I still had fun in the process. My employer were pretty nice. The only thing that got me is that they only trained me for about a few days and I began on the cash register ; which to me was hard at first. I had to learn how to do things on the cash register that involved checks, cash, gift cards and bank cards. The hardest part was doing the checks but after a while I got it. Also another thing I had to break out of in this form of work was to speak loudly and clearly to each customer and to greet them when they came to the register. They also had us to ask each customer that had a item(s) that had warranties to ask if they wanted out companies warranties as well. Upon that we were able to gain points for our company. I stop working there at the end of December and if I had the choose I would work there again.

Work Story

I really don't have one specific workstory. Rather, I have many small instances that described the craziness of a busy restaurant named Cosgrove's Clubhouse. I started working at Cosgrove's when I was about fifteen years old, I also thought that it would be a good idea getting a job this early in life. I started out as a busboy, and later moved onto being a waiter. I learned more in those 4-5 years than I felt i learned in my whole life. I saw so many things, some good and some bad. I witnessed at a very young age the drug deals that happened behind Cosgroves, I witnessed a "friend" steal money out of other waiter's tip jars, and I have had to deal with many unhappy, and sometimes terribly mean customers. I never knew that this stuff ever existed in a restaurant setting. Now it wasnt all bad, but a lot of times it was. To this day im not sure the experiences I learned, good or bad, have made me a better person in any way, but I learned at a very young age what some people don't learn till later in life.

work story

I really don't have a work story because I have a very boring job. I work at the smoothie place in the student rec center. We hardly get any business and the hours seem to just go on forever. Sometimes I get so bored that I count the bananas in the baskets to keep myself from falling asleep. The sad thing is that its like that almost every day. The nice thing about this job is that it has a very free and easy atmosphere. All in all it isn't that bad and I could probably do alot worse.

Work Story

I thought that it would be good to go out and get a job at the age of 14. The only reason why I wanted to make this step was because I wanted to have my own money and be independent. I started working at hershey park at age 14, at a restuarant, working there for 4 years during the summer. I began as a food clerk, working at $6.00 an hour. I cooked and served food, cleaned, and help make the guests happy. After the first year and the start of the second I moved up in the ranking as an assistant team leader. Being an assistant team leader I was in trainging to be a supervisor. My pay raised too. Now that it was my fourth year working I am now supervisor for my restaurant making $8.50 an hour. I think that is pretty good money for my age and being only seasonal. Every year I go back my pay gets higher and higher. I've tried other jobs during the school year working at Finish Line, Target, and Giants but I realised that no one pays as good as hershey park. Its a fun experience because you are working with all you friends and you are in charge. The Hershery Park Happy Experience

A Work Story

A work story. Well this is pretty tricky. I've been working since I was fourteen and can't think of a single good story, especially one that relates to the reading. (sorry this is so stream of consciousness-y)
Well I mentioned in class how I liked the Cocktail Waitress because I could relate to the social structure thing that Spradley and Mann were describing. When I was 16 I got my first REAL (not under the table) job. Cooking (more like assembling) at Phut. I started at $5.65.
So my first day at work, and I'm on dishes. There's an entire hierarchy you have no clue about. Start at dishes, if you're cool you can help on "make" if you're good at "make" you get bumped to the front of the "make table", and if you're really good, and fast, they put you on "cut."
Not that it matters if you're good or not. Not that it matters what you do at all. In fact I realized within an hour of working there that the entire staff, managers and all, were stoners. And I've since noticed that this trend was not limited just to my store, or even just to Pizza Hut, but applies to every pizza shop.
where am I going with this? Oh yea, I was trying to set the stage for a close-nit crew. So we have all these underpaid, under-motivated, pimply adolescents just teeming with angst, frustrated with life and making pizzas. We became the best of friends. In fact we had a Frat, called the BC (Brotherhood of the Crust.) which met multiple times every evening to plan all sorts of community oriented activities and events. (that's sarcastic)
So perhaps we weren't the quintessence of diligence, but we did look out for each other, get in dough fights, talk trash, play games, tease, tickle, laugh, spray each other with the sink nozzle, wrap people in cling wrap, tie up, x lax, party, prank call, and work together. We had an inside crew. And it didn't matter if you got fired, or quit, you were still part of the crew.
there were about 30 of us that came and went in the two years I worked there. That was two years ago, and we still all hang out, we're still all friends. We were united in an immortal era. The Pizza Era.

Nickel -and- Dimed & The Cocktail Waitress

I enjoyed and understood both of these stories simultaneously...

Before I came to school, 3 of my friends and I lived in an apt. for a year. And... it sucked.

My girlfriend and I were both waitresses, while our boyfriends were working out of town each week. As a waitress in a restaruant/bar, I was aware of the set up of it and the people that came in. Everything/Everyone was ultimately labled, and certain connections were made between them.Also, when bills were due each month, and you had to go grocery shopping every week, plus gas, etc --> it all added up! By the end of each paycheck, we had $0 to our name to have fun with. We were living paycheck to paycheck just to be able to live.

Sooo... that's when I made the decision to come BACK to school.
I realized, it is not easy to make a living on a low-wage income...

So both of these stories held true in my opinion.

Nickels and Dimes / Cocktail Waitress

I actually for the first time enjoyed reading both stories because its actually something you understand because its talked about all the time. I like the way Einrech went and experienced how to live on minimum wage. It doesn't make sense how people get paid so much little when doing these jobs instead of at least getting paid so that they can afford to live healthy and not struggle pay check to pay check. How can you possibly get by in america when everything is so expensive?? Going to the next story I liked the way both Spradly and Mann explained the life of a cocktail waitress. It relates to the first story because being a cocktail waitress is a minimum wage job and the examples that she gave of the other help to explain in depth. I liked the way it pointed out the social structure of the bar and also th networking of the people whom she serves.

Nickel-and Dimed/The cocktail Waitress

I enjoyed reading both of these stories. I feel that "Nickel-and-Dimed" story really tells how it is. I liked how the author experiences it all instead of just thinking what it would be like. With a low-wage job in today's world, it is hard to surive with the needs that are essentail. The standards on living in American is so high, and will prolly continue to rise. In "The Cocktail Waitress" I feel they make a good point on how you repond to people differently, by knowing what they're about. Once your around people for a period of time, you don't look at them as just people, but family. I could relate to this, since i had the same job for 4 years.

Nickel and Dimed vs. The Cocktail Waitress

I also liked both of these essays. I like how in the essay Nickel and Dimed, she puts herself in the position as the low-wage worker rather than trying to explain it without living it. It shows how hard it is to live like that and what your life would actually be like if that was how you had to live. I liked The Cocktail Waitress because I've been working as a waitress for three years now at the same restaurant so I could relate to what the story was about. I like how they talk about ways to talk and get to know the customers, and gaining better tips along the way.

Nickel and Dimed/The Cocktail Waitress

I'll start off by saying I liked both of these essays. I liked "Nickel and Dimed" the most because I like how the author put herself into the low-wage workforce and had the experience rather than reporting on it like she knew everything. Because I am a business major these stories appealed to me more than the others we read this year. The way the economy is going with outsourcing and globalization, I believe we are heading in a direction where the rich will become richer and the poor poorer and Ehrenreich pointed this out nicely. "The Cocktail Waitress" described what it is like starting off as a waitress in a bar where the regular customers are very "close" to the workers. It described that it is important for the waitress to pin-point what social class the customers are from, so she can talk to them and then get better tips. It was an interesting story but I enjoyed "Nickel and Dimed" more because the author put you in the situation.

Paper Requirements Report Back

1. 2-6 pages typed. generally correct grammar or spelling--except dialogue or examples. get your point across with some kind of flow. should use proper english when telling a story, but not in dialogue. should be informal--can use I and YOU. you should title it. it can be non-fiction or fiction.

2. should use quote and examples from the text. 5 paragraph essay. 2-6 pages, double-spaced. casual writing. favorite paragraph class--could use that as an example. you should use your opinion rather than just facts.

3. want to give ourselves our own grade. we should choose our own grade and will tell you why we deserve the grade. 2 page minimum and 5 page maximum. if you choose to write your own story that is connected to one of the stories in the book, then you need to be specific about which story you are writing about. correct grammar unless you are using dialogue. [need other people to read in class to judge...group? others?]

4. approximately 3 pages to get your point across. personal, but you should use a works cited page if citing examples from the text. use your own experiences in the text. informal.

5. include your own opinion and life experiences. good conclusing. catches readers' attention. powerful thesis statement. stay on topic. support your thesis. no less than 2 pages.

6. 2 or more pages. opinionated. be informal can use I. stay on topic, don't drift on to another topic. .

Both

Both essays had much meaning behind them. The way in which the they were written may have made readers skip over the importance of Tame a Wild Tongue. In "tame" there are many parts of the text in which the author rattles of whole sentences in spanish and sometimes a paragraph. This makes reading the paper hard and the audience might not know what she is talking about. But that is the point. This language barrier is how she lives everyday of her life and by throwing in a language most of us can not understand is shows us the difficulty. The second essay about highschool is more to the point about being well rounded. The way in which it was written allows most readers to comprehend easily and that may make us gravitate towards the conclusion that this was a more well written essay.

i liked the highschool article more probably because i was just stuck in that life. i loved highschool because i learned alot about myself and life in general. to read about others highschool day and to relate it to issues me and others have experienced was crazy.the wild tongue article was not that interesting to me. i just didnt understand the point the writing was trying to get across.

June and Delpit

Both June and Delpit both talk about education and the differences between a white student and a black student. June speaks of two forms of English, the first being standard English and the second as Black English. Black English is what Junes students speak in class bout can not understand when reading out the book "The color purple". What June says about these two languages is that even though they sound so different both can express the same ideas with the same effectiveness but only if people are willing to accept both are languages. June and the student come to this acceptance but they realize most of the world will not. The true story they write together of a fallen peer goes unheard as the society around them will not tolerate this Black Language.
As for Delpit she focuses more on the learning differences between black children and white. It is not the just language they speak but the culture they are raised in. White teacher's believe black children have no fluency when they speak. This is not true the speak in different ways says Delpit. White children have the skills for "correct speech" so fluency is what is stressed. White families teach this at home in everyday life. The black culture is fluent if you are to listen to it says Delpit but most do not. Black children need to be taught the skills of literacy because that is what they miss at home. White teachers create the standard for teaching but do not see how smart these black children are. The difference is cultures creates a need for differences in teaching.

Both Essays

Reading the first essay about high school i could relate to it because it basically reffered to a teenagers typical highschool life. The essay basically mentioned of how the highschool life prepares you for the real world. It helps to round you as a person testing to see if you can handle and prepare yourself for the obstacles ahead. The wild tongue i couldn't really understand because she kept going back and forth from english to spanish and that really ticked me off. But I felt that the message that she was trying to get across was that she felt as though noone respected her and her cultural language.

Both the Essays

In my opinion both the essays were both non-informal at all because it didn't serve a purpose to anything I would actually read about. Like the High school essays I mean what was that all about it didn't really spark any vibes on a average day of school. On some part I may say did seem like he was just bored himself so it bored me even more. But the spanish essay was getting on my nerves with all the spanish she was speaking so it made me skip over the words even more. The only good thing I got out of the spanish essay really was all she had to go through with the different setting and languages she had to speak to certain people.

Wild tongue/High School

I really liked the High School essay one because not only did it interest me in reading about that students day, it also made me want to read more. In High School there is alot of stupid stuff that we used to do, but some of it was really important. Why would teacher makes us do that if it wasnt for our benifit? The wild tongue essay, I did not really like. Not only because of all the spanish in there but because it was hard to follow and understand. Even though I can relate to it and doing the same things sometimes, it was hard for me to follow all the ideas in it.

Brainstorming ideas for paper #1

1. paper about the main topic--the clash of languages or cultures in some way...and how about how it should be very like opinionated--everythng we have read has been the opinion of the author or their story. We should be able to use I...connect all these stories about language and culture together.

2. take one of the essays and make it your own...tell your own stories...choose one of the ideas and make it your own...say how you connect to it.

3. likes it that i like just said...the main topic--clash of languages the struggle for what you think is right.

4. identifying yourself as someone...different personalities/backgrounds...standing for what you think is right...

5. two topics: a. discrimination in the past and the world today. b. traditional roles of education and their effectiveness in the classroom.

6. what form and what different styles are most effective...how important the reader response is for the audience you are writing for.

wild tongue/what highschool is

To be totally honest I didn't care for either of the essays. If I had to pick one that I liked better it would be What High School Is. Anzaldua's essay jumped from one language to another, which made it very hard to follow. She was trying to get across a point about the way different languages are viewed. I don't feel that it was worth while explaining that with some words they get rid of certain letters to make it sound different. If I didn't have some knowledge of spanish it wouldn't have made any difference to me about what they changed because I wouldn't know how to pronounce the words in the first place. Over all Anzaldua's essay didn't interest or make a lot of sence to me. What High School Is was a little bit more interesting, but it was also easier to read and follow which was nice. The highschool day was similar to mine but not exactly the same. I agree with the points that were made at the end of this essay. I just don't understand why we had to have such a detailed view of Mark's day to get to those points.

Wild Tongue/High School

Both of these essays I didn't care too much about. I felt that in the High School essay I thought it had a lot of information that was pointless. Although I felt the author was correct on the seven things they only teach you in high school. The high school day that was decribed in this essay was similar to the day that I had experienced in high school. The "Wild Tongue" confused me by them throwing in spanish words or phases, which I had know idea what they were talking about. I felt I missed a lot of this essay by them comfusing me with the spanish words. That is pretty amazing to be able to speack seven different languages. I felt that these essays weren't as detailed and interesting as the last few we read.

high school/ spanish

Yeah, reading through Marks day of High school brought back alot of memories because I was so easily related to almost everything that happened. For instance, I even had 11th grade english in room 304 (i thought that was kind of odd). But i guess what that dude was trying to say was that high school is more then just learning how to read write and do math and more of building yourself to get ready for everything in the real world. Getting a job, going to college, all that kind of stuff. it was alright

Now the Spanish thing was ok... i didnt get through it all but it reminded me alot of black english but in spanish. Instead of using Black or English they used Chicano and Spanish. But yeah i had a difficult time reading that, because i cant read spanish except like hola and stuff but not any of the things they said. They probably had and made a good point or moral or whatever though.

Tongue/High School

I liked the Anzaldua essay because I can relate to her. I am half spanish and i know what she is talking about when she speaks of the differences in the way different hispanics speak. I also liked the old spanish sayings because I hear them around where I live. I did not like the Sizer essay because it was somewhat drawn out and boring, though i can relate with Mark because it sounds like a day in my highschool.

High school/Wild toungue

Ok where should I begin. I started to read Wild Toungue and I didn't really care for it. I know that sounds a little harsh but how can I understand the point when half of the story is in Spanish. I took two semesters of high school spanish, and thats it! I guess I did understand what she wanted to say but switching back from English to Spanish got too confusing to follow.

As for the High School essay, it was a little hard to pick up on the message. It was just basically your average day at a high school. I noticed that most of the begining of the article was about someone's day at school, so I skipped around to the better parts. Once I got there, I came to find myself agreeing with what was being said. I like how the author says "School is to be like a job; you start in the morning and end in the afternoon, five days a week." I think that this statement is very true. Kids have to go to school like adults would have to go to work, everyday, every week until its done.

High school/Wild toungue

Ok where should I begin. I started to read Wild Toungue and I didn't really care for it. I know that sounds a little harsh but how can I understand the point when half of the story is in Spanish. I took two semesters of high school spanish, and thats it! I guess I did understand what she wanted to say but switching back from English to Spanish got too confusing to follow.

As for the High School essay, it was a little hard to pick up on the message. It was just basically your average day at a high school. I noticed that most of the begining of the article was about someone's day at school, so I skipped around to the better parts. Once I got there, I came to find myself agreeing with what was being said. I like how the author says "School is to be like a job; you start in the morning and end in the afternoon, five days a week." I think that this statement is very true. Kids have to go to school like adults would have to go to work, everyday, every week until its done.

I am posting my reading on Delpit's writing. Even though I wasn't completely taken away by the writing I did find it quite easy to read. It was nice to see the perspective of teaching in the classroom from a teacher's view. Through our grade school, highschool lives we get the impression teachers just teach us what we need to know we don't ever think about how they actually feel about teaching themselves. This writting shows a teacher actually debating the different types of the education process 2nd handed. Even though I know this writting mentions race as one of her main concerns I tryed to not look at the two teaching styles as a white and black issue,just two different teaching methods. I think it had more to do with the locations of the places where she was and how the environments had impact on the teaching styles and how the students corresponded with them. Even though I didn't feel I could completely relate to her I did like the reading over all.

Late, I konw

Both of the Black English essays were ok. However I did enjoy Jordan's article more. She used examples that gets you captured in her message. I thought it was really funny how her students who actually speak the way the book "The Color Purple" was written and they couldn't understand it. Her story at the end of her article really bothered me, how they wouldn't print the letter just because of how it was written. It just goes to show how racist people can be still. I guess in a way they proved a point. But if I was in that situation, I would be pretty pissed.

Ah... High School

I will have to say I actually somewhat enjoyed both article, to some extent. I like Sizer's article more only because I could totally relate to a day in the life of Mark. His day was almost exactly the same as mine was in high school. Because this was so easy to relate to it made me much more interested in the writing. I'll have to admit though towards the end I didn't become bored with it. This is where Anzaldua's article was much more interesting. The way she wrote the article made it much easier and more fun to read. I have only a little background in Spanish but I ejoyed reading the Spanish that was in the article. It added character to the writting.

Wild Tongue/High School

I started reading the "Wild Tongue" essay first and didn't finish it because I couldn't relate,nor did I care about the seven dialects of Spanish. Everytime he was trying to explain a point he did it using Spanish. I didn't like how he jumped around and I didn't care to learn Spanish words. I began reading the second essay, and was guided through an average school day much like a day in my high school. After the description of the school day was over, I was waiting to here the main point and be ready to say," wow good point," but this never came. It was just boring to read. I did agree with how the author descibed high school. I liked the basis for the seven things they try to teach you in high school. I thought that was right on.

What High School Is/How To Tame A Wild Tongue

To be honest, I really did not care for either of these essays. I was confused for most of it. I understood the basic meaning the author was trying to convey to their audience, but I didn't really follow the way the authors chose to write their essays. For example, in "...Wild Toungue" Anzaldua switches back and forth from Spanish to English. Having taken three years of Spanish I somewhat understood what was being said, but it was still difficult to understand why she chose to do this. Also, she chose to talk about so many differnt forms of Spanish it was hard to follow what language she was talking about. One minute she was talking about Chicano Spanish, and the next she was talking about using TexMex with her siblings. I found this to be extremely confusing. Overall, I didn't hate the essay, but had a hard time reading it . It definately was not one of my favorites.

The next essay, "What High School is" i found to be somewhat interesting. Although, I wasn't completely sure why this essay was chosen only because we all lived this. We each have our own version of what "our high school was" good or bad, we all have our own story. Personally that's why I think we were assigned to read this essay- to read about anothers high school story. In this case we learned the story of Mark. Overall, I didnt mind this essay as much as I did the essay on the "wild toungue."

What High School Is/How To Tame A Wild Tongue

To be honest, I really did not care for either of these essays. I was confused for most of it. I understood the basic meaning the author was trying to convey to their audience, but I didn't really follow the way the authors chose to write their essays. For example, in "...Wild Toungue" Anzaldua switches back and forth from Spanish to English. Having taken three years of Spanish I somewhat understood what was being said, but it was still difficult to understand why she chose to do this. Also, she chose to talk about so many differnt forms of Spanish it was hard to follow what language she was talking about. One minute she was talking about Chicano Spanish, and the next she was talking about using TexMex with her siblings. I found this to be extremely confusing. Overall, I didn't hate the essay, but had a hard time reading it . It definately was not one of my favorites.

The next essay, "What High School is" i found to be somewhat interesting. Although, I wasn't completely sure why this essay was chosen only because we all lived this. We each have our own version of what "our high school was" good or bad, we all have our own story. Personally that's why I think we were assigned to read this essay- to read about anothers high school story. In this case we learned the story of Mark. Overall, I didnt mind this essay as much as I did the essay on the "wild toungue."

I loved the high school essay. It was a critical view of the education system by an educator. We've all heard teachers gripe about class time, funding, and NCLB, but Sizer seems to cover a huge unmentioned critical problem with education. Its impersonal. It doesn't allow growth. Subjects don't coincide, students are never prompted to think, or meditate on issues, and there's so much useless bullshit thrown at you in a day. This contradicts a previous reading we did about fluency and skills, but makes an excellent point and bring to mind serious issues. As a future teacher I feel stuck at a cross roads. Do I say, "fuck the system" and teach alternatively...personally knowing my students, making sure deep lessons and values are learned? Or, do I provide them with the skills they need to get into college and get a job. Do I assign enriching projects that touch on philosophy and values, or do I throw at them the same sort of tests they've been seeing and will continue to see throughout their lives? Progressive or practical. I think every educator would prefer true educating to the traditional force feeding of cut down simplified fact. Sadly there's no infrastructure for progressive education. While alternative schools do exist, the post secondary setup of things disables students from utilizing any sort of unique information. The problem of tradition over invention lies not quarantined in our schools, but encompasses all of society.
I digress. I think my response is taking my own direction, and not really a reflection of the assignment.
Sizer made excellent points and observations. I like how he retold an occurrence that most of us are familiar with, in such an enlightening way. He didn't "tell" us that teachers don't have time, he "showed" us the multitude of daily interruption. He showed us impersonal classrooms, lack of interest, character and values. Sizer's style of using examples really drove home his point.

What High School Is/ How To Tame A Wild Tongue

I wasn't too pleased with this essay. I didn't understand from the beginning what the essay was going to be about, and when it finally got to the factual part, I felt that the entire beginning was unnecessary. While it could have made the article more interesting, it didn't. I didn't like this essay because it was boring and told me things that I already knew. I know what high school is about, and although I agreed with everything said, it still didn't teach me anything I hadn't already known.

I also did not like this essay. Truthfully I did not finish it because I didn't care to learn about all the different forms of Spanish language. It was confusing because it was mostly English, but the author would throw in spanish sentences and I had no clue what they meant.

Neither of these essays were a good pick, sorry :)

The June Jordan essay

I like this essay the best out of everyone we have read in class so far. I l ike how June Jordan put into perspective how Black English and standard English are the same, but yet they are different. When one speaks in Black English, one that speaks standard English would be able to understand what they are saying and what the meaning is. I like how June shows how Black English is used in schools, when one is around their friends and at home, but once the news or media gets a hold of it, it is not acceptable anymore. They feel as though it is not the correct way to speak. For example, when the class decides to right their article in Black English, the way that Willie Jordan's brother spoke, the newspaper would not publish it unless it was written in standard English. I really enjoyed this essay!