The interesting readings!

humm.. I read The Most Dangerous Game first and it freaked me out. Hunting for people? I was in shock. What would drive someone to really want to hunt a person. Another reason this freaked me out is because it is now hunting season in South Dakota and I sure hope the hunters that come here don't come up with the crazy idea of starting to hunt people. I was not very into this story, mainly because Im not much of a mystery reader.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was very interesting. Although I was surprised I got into it, considering I was so appalled by the first story I read. The ending was a bit of a twist that was very un expected. I was shocked that he was dreaming. The story really makes the readers mind travel.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Reading this story tonight was and eye opener. I could not believe this town would kill a child for their own happiness. At the start of the story the town seemed like a cute perfect paradise like place and so as the story went on it socked me. As i was reading the rest I really thought about how selfish and self centered people can be in the world, this includes me. This story kind of gave me a reality check to think about the fact that I could be very selfish in certain situations and this is defiantly not a good thing.

Research paper

This weekend while writing my research paper, I found it very difficult. My paper seems to be a bit all over the place and needs to be organized. I had a hard time meeting the length requirement. This is the hardest paper I have ever written and needs a lot of work done to it. I also need to work on my citation of my sources. There are so many rules and different ways of doing it. I will need to work really hard on my second draft of this paper.

This Semester!

This semester has been interesting. I feel like we have done so many things in class. But yet the only thing I do not like about this class is that its at eight in the morning. I feel like I am becoming a better writer. All though I do not like writing I feel like i am some what able to write a paper now. I didn't learn anything in my high school english class, so this class is helping me a lot with my writing. This last group project we did was a bit hard but it was okay. I have enjoyed this class and feel like it is well worth my time going.

topic for essay

I have already blogged on my topic last week but ill talk about it again. I found interest in childhood obesity and did a web and seem to have plenty of points i can talk about on this subject. My last essay was on mandating physical education in to all school k-12 so this is something I will be able to add into my essay.

Topic for research essay.

I think I will do my topic on children and obesity. I did my proposal on mandating physical education in grades K-12. I think i could expand this essay and make it into a research essay and add in the rise of children and obesity rates. I am interested in this topic and think that there would be plenty of research on this topic and i would have fun doing it.

Presentations

I thought that doing our presentations helped a lot. I found it easier to learn ways to revise our papers by listening to the ways the other students described them.  My topic was cutting clutter and I learned a lot by reading up on my topic. I now know how important it is to keep my writings clear and to the point. The book gave good examples as to what are some phrases that should not be used in writing. I had fun listening to the presentations and they were well worth our time.