2/28/11

Evalve

The course so far is going pretty good. I like the discussions we have after we read a story. That helps me understand them better because I have a hard time understanding stories when I read them. I wish that you would check grammar lessons more often so we know for sure if they are right or not. And maybe possible going over the vocab every day at the beginning of the class. The peer review last time was something that was not working for me. I believe that peer review works if people contribute to it. I think we should take a whole day for that. That way all of our paper would be extremely better.

2/25/11

"The Little Mermaid"

Setting
The setting starts out in the ocean, goes to land, and ends in the sky. Most of the story is very dark.

POV
I believe that the point of view is third-person limited omniscent narrator.

2/23/11

1) The characters in "The Birthmark" and the characters in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" are same in a way because each character has different parts and in each story there are static and dynamic characters. They are different because in "The Birthmark" they wer plausible, and in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" were not.

The plot of the two stories are similar because they both use in medias res, and they are different because "The Birthmark" was based more on being controlling, and "Bartleby, The Scrivener" was based on being useful.

2) The relationship between the two stories is that we learn it is not good to be controlling in your life and that being useful will end up helping you out in the long run.

2/18/11

I am going to write on the dicussion we had in class about racism.
In 11th grade I did a paper on the KKK and all the information I found out about it surprised me. I had no idea that there was still groups around that treat black people so bad. I grew up in a small town and either my freshman year or sophomore year my school receive a African American and a Mexican in the same year. My school accepted them but we were more exciting that we had someone that would be good at basketball (another big stereotype) and turns out he wasn't very good. I try not to be racist towards African Americans but I do know that sometimes I am.
South Dakota is really racist towards Native Americans. Most white people in South Dakota have a nickname for them that is not school appropriate. Growing up in a small town, for sports we played reservations and whenever we did we had to be escorted by the police in and out of the building. During sports our coaches would always say "we are playing Indians are next game so todays practice will be slack" I have grown up around racism towards Native Americans and that is all I know. But, my brother recently married a Native American and I can tell that the racism has gone down some but not much.
I do believe that in South Dakota the reason we dislike Native Americans so much is because our tax money goes towards them. That is one of the main reasons many white people do not like Indians. In South Dakota the racism towards Native Americans is related to the racism towards African Americans in the south.

Extra Credit 2/16/11

College

This article is true. I do feel that I have not learn much more than I did in high school so far. It seems like most students do not focus on these general classes because they just want to get to their degrees. I know I am one of those students. I am trying  to fly by these classes so I can get to my accounting classes and be in something that interest me. Overall this article is a good article and maybe this is something that we should be concered about. We should be achieving more in school and receiving more knowledge ever year instead of slaking off and just squeezing by the classes.

2/16/11

Fake Twitter Accounts
I do not think that fake twitter accounts are a good idea. What if people do not get that it is a fake person and not the real one? If I was a celebrity or a famour person there is no way I would appreciate this or allow this. From this article it seems like twitter know about these fake accounts and allow them as long as they are labeled. These could easily get people in trouble. They are a bad idea.

2/14/11

I feel that the first paper was hard to do. I am not good at literary analysis especially when I do not understand the story. I wish we could have had more of a revision process instead of only 10 minutes. Revisions help out a ton and I did not have much feedback so it was hard to revise for my second draft. I do think that the time alloted for the paper was perfect it was not to short and not to long. If it gets to long then students tend to forget about it. Overall I believe I did an ok job on my paper. I hope I end up with a good grade on it!

2/11/11

The Metamorphosis was an interesting story. I found it strange though that Gregor was worried the whole time about going to work and having to make money for his family. Did his parents not work? Once Gregor turned into a bug, his sister (Grete I believe was her name) took care of everything. His parents were lazy. Why did he turn into a bug? Was it because he was to stressed? Even though he turned into a bug, if Gregor was my son I would go talked to him about it and try to figure out a way to turned him back to normal. One of the first things I would do is call a doctor. I am not sure if this actually happened, but when Gregor died I took it as the "maid" just kind've through him out the window and his family did not care.
Overall I liked this short story a lot better the We. It was easier to read and was not has confusing.

Citations

Source A
Amey, Michael D. "Living under the Bell Jar: Surveillance and Resistance in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."
             Critical Survey 17.1 (2005): 22-39 MLA International Bibliography. Web. 29 January 2011

Source B
Brenkert, George G. "Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Autonomy." The Journal of Ethics 2/1 (1998):
               22-55 JSTOR. Web. 29 January 2011

Source C
Randall, Natasha, tans. We. By Yevgeny Zamyatin. 2006. Print


I have no idea if the book is cited right.