write a final (Final: Why I Write)

I write to escape:

I write to escape from the heart breaking reality of the evening news. I write to escape the looming sadness of family dying. I write to escape from the chaos of change. I write to escape reality and go into a different plane where I can deal with those things. I write to escape consequences. I write to escape interaction and poor decisions. I write to escape the stark boldness of the present. I write to escape my nightmares. I write to escape my failures.

I write to learn:

I write to learn about the world. I write to learn through journalism. I write to learn about voting. I write to learn all the sides of a story. I write to learn how to understand things. I write to learn why I behave as I do. I write to learn from my mistakes and the mistakes of others. I write to learn about Gandhi and Child Brides in Yemen and why Henry VIII had six wives. I write to learn the motives behind Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work and to dissect Oedipus. I write to learn about literature. I write to learn why this or that is important.

I write:

I write to say thank you. I write to unleash the multitude of ideas in my head. I write to soothe my worries. I write to acknowledge my fears. I write to solve my problems before they become tangible. I write to change the world. I write to decide. I write to not decide. I write to procrastinate. I write to be better. I write for the sole sake of my own fickle god complex. I write to be happy. I write because I'm sad. I write change even though it is impossible. I write out of stagnation. I write to change. I write because I read. I write to find the end of the sentence. I write the truth. I write because... Pirates! I write to satisfy the voice in my head. I write for praise. I write to avoid the answer and to arrive at one I never imagined.

Multigenre Project - Psychology

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B70Kz4_dwj3McGpialdCRjdDVGc/edit?usp=sharing

write a well thought out post (Reading Response #6)



Ah, the Internet. "Helping" with homework since we've started school. It's hard to avoid simply Google-ing the information from a phone or computer. The act of physically turning a page and reading information is going the way of stone tablets (replaced with digital tablets) and cave writing. Is it an upgrade? Or is it just laziness?

"But these cases — typical ones, according to writing tutors and officials responsible for discipline at the three schools who described the plagiarism — suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed."

Because it's so easy to copy and paste, to Google and get the perfectly-worded answer, it's easy to think it's okay. We get constant streams of regurgitated information through the news (every channel with the same story) through twitter (copying someone's funny post) and other places around us, it becomes commonplace to "borrow" and "take" the "fair play" information around us.

Without an author or "property of" pasted blatantly across any information on any given website, it is taken as public knowledge or free for the taking.

“Because you’re not walking into a library, you’re not physically holding the article, which takes you closer to ‘this doesn’t belong to me,’ ” she said. Online, “everything can belong to you really easily.”

Illegally streaming movies or downloading music (please, we've all done it) without any consequences is just a stepping stone to downloading and essay or copying a few paragraphs here and there.

The ideal of original ideas and simple work has disappeared in a maelstrom of free information online. The lesson here is damage control and prevention. Don't do it, you'll get caught if you do. This is something you get online that has actual consequences.

In San Antonio last fall, I attended a lesson about Copyright Laws. Dull, you would think, but I learned a lot and the presenter kept our attention. Once anyone writes or creates anything - it becomes their intellectual and personal property. You can't legally take it without A) their express permission B) giving them credit and/or compensation C) it coming from a legal source with built in permission.

Watch what you copy,
Cheers,
Michelle

look at other projects

What is the project topic? 

 Mythology to Reality

What are the genres and how effective are they?  Why?  How many different pieces and genres did the author include?

 Scene, poem, inner thoughts, visuals,  fact boxes, short story, and some were repeated.
The project looks like it goes together. The several genres diplay wide viewpoints.

Which of the genres incorporates research?

 The facts, thescene and poem.

Which of the genres are purely the author's artistic license or imagination? 

Visuals, inner thoughts, story

How does the author transition between pieces?

Straight transition

How effective are the transitions and why?

There weren't any noticible ones

Overall, what are your impressions of the author's style, voice, creativity, depth of information?  Did you learn any new information?

I knew most of it but I think the inner thoughts ad story were interesting.

What do you notice about formatting, font, page layout, page elements, style, and appeal?

It looked very neat.

What ideas can you take away for your project?

To be neat, concise and to the point.

article response #who cares I want to graduate

"...repeating something 3 times has 90% of the persuasive value of 3 different people saying it once." BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

This article so far is particularly boring. Yes, it's important for advertising to be memorable for it to work. I really liked how this guy spent several paragraphs to say that.

Okay, repeat stuff to make it memorable. Fantastic - something I never knew befor- wait a second!

This was the most pointless article ever. If this guy can drag out these points for a whole book and people actually buy it, I weep more for humanity.

cynicism (Reading Response #4)





Snaps to this guy- he knows what's going on. I agree with his summation of math and chemistry. They're not my thing. I'm a thinker, an imaginer- not a retainer of facts. English and Psychology FTW (for the win).

The thousands of hours learning things I will never actualy use in real  life is a downside of general education and teaching to the test. The "fun" classes I'm involved in are relevant to my interests (while making me  insanely stressed out of my mind, but more on that later). I do not, however, see myself "solving the problem using matrices without a calculator" in my day-to-day adult life. I know how to use a calculator and add 2 and 2 - I'm set for EBay transactions. Bam.

As for Moby Dick, the whale doesn't represent the Republic of Ireland. I believe it embodies the fatal flaw of mankind in reation to the common slice of key lime pie. (Someone please give me an A now.) This is exactly what we're doing in English now - interpreting our author's books using research and such. Apparently, the moor in The Hound of the Baskervilles represents not only foriegn land, but Hell itself.

Exciting stuff.

Anywho, I will close with a list of things that suck.


*curls up into a ball of feels*



-English paper due in a week and a half

-History project due not long after

-This giant project soon

-General graduation stress - including but not limited to senior activities

-The fact that an entire issue of The Parkviewer has to be started and finished in a matter of three weeks
-Family crap
-Money crap
-What is sleep
-What is food
-Just about everything else ever

Have a happy day,
Michelle

rules are meant to be REALLY broken -see what I did there?- (Response #3)

Ms. James,

Justin is not lying- the creepy sub is creepily creeping on your belongings. Then he walks to a random point in the room and stares. Like an undertaker.

Anyway, lets ignore that creepy guy and get to the good stuff.

 

1. Don't split infinitives
I agree with his argument. As a trekkie, I also appreciate the Star Trek shou out: "to boldly go where no man has gone before." I think that splitting an infinitive makes the sentence more descriptive and exciting.

2. Don't end a sentence with a preposition
I hate it when I notice sentences ending with a preposition- but just because I have grown up hearing ths rule.  I've never thought too much about this but I don't think it's a big deal unless you use it too frequently.

3. Which vs That - again, I don't think it's a big deal either. It's a choice of style.

4. Starting a sentence with a conjunction
Until very recently, due to this class, I never started a sentence with And. It just SCREAMS wrong to me. And I probably won't be using it much. (see what I did there?)

5. Don't use the passive voice
Just don't. Unless you're being intentionally vague.

6. Singular verb things
Yeah. Do that.

7.Word choice
"What are you reading?"
"Words, words, words."
Use the right one.

Cheers,
Michelle