Owl Creek Bridge, Dangerous Game

As soon as it started i knew it was going to be a sad story. Any story starting off with someone getting hung cant be good. I found it very weird that the man would rather be hung and drowned then be shot. I also found it weird that his brain and his body were almost to different things his hands were saving him yet he was telling them not it. It is amazing that he was able to get out of the situation too. But then when he got up out of the water he ended up getting shot at but they all missed him. he traveled all night to get back to his wife and children and right before he gets to his wife he dies! i couldnt believe it. it made me sad, that was not the ending i had hoped for i thought he was going to be free but at the last minute hes died.

I have read this story before in middle school. I dont remember the details but i remember what happens in general but reading it again i got the details and knew what was going to happen and it was disturbing listening to him talk about how he sticks the island and has the biggest game since i already knew it was humans.at first i thought they were going to go out hunting together but the general wanted to play the game with him it was a close call the first night i agree that the general knew he was there. He played the game very well and he won. this story was an ending that i hoped for. It was very intense at times, wondering if the general was going to catch him but he outsmarted him.

The Ones Who Wlk Away from Omelas

This is a very distrubing story. The first couple pages were hard to follow and somewhat boring, i would forget what i read and have to go back and read it a couple times to actually comperhend what they just said but then out of no where, theres a kid in a celler. its messed up it doesnt make sense that the city can only be so wonderful if theres a child that is miserable. It is unethical and mean and wrong.

Hurricane Katrina

Im glad i choose the topic that i did. It is something that really interets me so i like doing the research on it(besides that its taking up a lot of time) but i understand research papers are time consuming. I have found a tom of great facts on how the hurricane happened how it affected the people and how it affected the world and what we did to help fix it and clean up. I found a really good book. I like getting information from books more than from the internet i know the sources we use on the internet are scholarly but i like to actually have it in front of me in a book. This is my first time writing a research paper so we'll see how the first draft turns out.

Semester so far

English has always been one of my favorite classes. I feel like i am learning a lot of new techniques that are helping improve my writing. I like when we put our tables into a rectangle and have class that way, i also like powerpoint or writing things on the board i think visuals help a lot. The literacy tests sucked so i try to go to those extra credit speakers every wednesday to help make up for those. Tests have always been a weak spot for me. I like how we do three drafts of our papers so we get the option to inprove each time. I like the blog way better than a journal. All  in all i think it is going very well and i hope to keep it that way.

Research Paper topic

I had no idea what i wanted to write my research paper about. The things we do in class really help. You told me to just think about something that im interested in. I am interested in natural disasters and how they change the world. I didnt know how i was going to turn that into a usable topic but i just needed to pick a disaster and i could write about that. Sam suggested hurrican katrina in class and i really like that i idea and that is most likely what im going to write my paper about. I was really excited to have a topic picked out after class last thursday.

Topics For Research Paper

Today in class we wrote down three things that we thought were unfair. My top choice was cancer ( unless caused by your own actions. for example lung cancer caused by smoking. you did it to yourself so no sympathy there.) My second choice was racism and reverse racism because some african americans are just as racist towards whits as some whites are towards blacks. My thrid choice was toll roads just because of their inconvience. We also wrote down three thing we dislike about living in vermillion. My top thing is that there is no tacobell, taco johns just doesnt make the cut. Next i put living in the dorms. i like that i live on the first floor but people on my floor are SO loud! its really annoying and stacie and whitney both know what im talking about because were all on the same floor. For my last one i put that theres no good place to shop here. As of right now i have no idea what to do for a topic for my research paper.