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Friday, June 5, 2009
CONLUSION
I am thankful I took this class to get a different perspective on English, but overall I did not enjoy this class. I am not big on blogging or anything of that sort. I thinkThat I would have benefited better from taking English on campus, but with my work schedule it is very hard to do that. Thank you to all the teachers who took their time to answer all the questions that we had I am very thankful. I am hoping that I can take the things I learned from this English class and apply it to life.
MY WALLET
If one were to find my wallet they would know that I am an energetic, caring person. My wallet is zebra stripped red and black. I love patterns and color! You would also find concert tickets to Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed in my wallet, so you would know that I love music. Another thing that you would find in my wallet is coffee stamp cards. I love coffee!!! I drink it all the time! You would also find gift cards to Zumiez and Macy’s, I love to shop! The items in my wallet don’t really show exactly who I am. It only shows that I love coffee, shopping, and music, but I’m so much more than that. The assumption you would get from my wallet is that I go to go concerts, shop and drink coffee all the time, which is the proof of a traditional teenager. People wouldn’t know from my wallet that I am a church going Christian girl who works in her church’s nursery. I love children and I hope to have a lot someday. I am getting married in June of 2010 and I’m marrying my best friend from high school. There is a lot you wouldn’t know about me if all you knew were the things you found in my wallet.
CRITICAL THINKING
I chose this as my critical thinking piece because I think that searching through my wallet and trying to describe who I am from that takes a lot of critical thinking.
DISCIPLINE
Discipline has changed drastically throughout the years. Using physical means as a method of discipline in the past has now turned into using verbal discipline. The community these days advocates that striking a child in any way is a form of abusive, even light spanking is considered abuse. Twenty plus years ago the community all agreed that spanking and even using a wooden paddle to discipline was ok, and now we have switched over to our words. From my mother’s point of view, discipline has drastically changed since she was a child.
When interviewing my mother it was obvious that she was disciplined physically as a child. When I asked her views on spanking she answered, “I believe that spanking is perfectly ok as long as the parent doesn’t strike the child too hard. I think that parents should keep their hand open and only spank them on their behind and hand lightly. Parents should only spank their children hard enough to scare them, but not physically hurt them. If a parent spanks them so hard that it leaves a mark then the parent is way out of line and I would consider that to be abuse.” My mother’s views are a mix of what parents did as discipline in the past and what parents do now for discipline. So where does she fit in the community? There is a whole community of mother’s who believe that spanking is ok as long as it doesn’t turn into abuse.
I also asked my mother how teachers disciplined the students when she was a child. My mother’s response was, “I went to a Catholic school, and they were very strict. If a student would disobey a teacher, the teacher would get out her wooden paddle and spank the child.” Given that this is a Catholic school and usually they are way more strict then public schools, but given in the 1960’s discipline was still stricter and more physical then it is today. “Teachers would also make the students write sentences for hours, even if our hands were cramping so bad from writing so much, we still had to keep going.” Even though that may not seem as physical discipline it really is from all the strain the hand goes through into writing so much. Nowadays teachers will not make their students write any sentences. They would rather make their students go into detention and sit and listen to the teacher lecture about how not to act. Back in my mom’s day she would be sent to detention to write sentences either on the board or on paper. Now students are forced to sit and listen to someone verbally discipline them.
When I asked my mother if she thought that using verbal discipline is a far better method then using physical discipline like spanking, and time out, she answered, “Sometimes.” “It really depends on how the child reacts to the way a parent disciplines. For example when I was disciplining my son he would listen right away without any physical discipline. With my daughter, (me), she would not listen to anything I would say. I would threaten to take her toys away, make her stay in her room with no TV, or make her go to bed early, but nothing would work. So I eventually started spanking her, and she finally started to listen. She would obey the first time, because she hated being spanked and knew that was the consequence for not listening to her mother.” Some children are different whether they take their parents seriously by their verbal discipline or physical discipline. The community of parents and discipline varies.
I also asked my mother if she had ever been confronted about the way she disciplined her children and she said, “Yes, I have been confronted. I was in a grocery store and my son was touching everything, even when I told him not to he still did. So I put him in the shopping cart and I slapped his hand lightly and told him “NO TOUCHING”. Some woman came up to me and told me that I was wrong and that I shouldn’t abuse my child. I was extremely offended by this woman whom I didn’t even know! She had no right to tell me how to discipline my children and neither does the government.”
My mother makes a good argument that other people shouldn’t have a say in how we should raise our children. The community is shifting in the direction of not physically touching your child in the form of discipline, but some parents still believe that it is the correct form of discipline.
The last question I asked my mom was if she thought that the concept of discipline has changed drastically throughout the years. “I think that the concept of discipline has changed very drastically throughout the years. Back when I was a child no one would tell a parent how to discipline their child. Not even the government would get involved with a parent’s methods. Now the government is regulating what we can do as a form of discipline, its outrages! I think that the government should stay out of our business when it comes to how to raise our children.”
The community is divided into two separate categories; Parents who discipline their children in the “now times,” and parents who discipline their children in the “Past times.” My mother is a firm believer in both categories. As one read in the interview she believes in spanking, but also believes that in some cases the use of verbal discipline can be very effective. I also agree with my mother’s point of views. I think that her parenting skills were very effective and her method discipline was a good method.
The community has changed throughout the years. What it was then was more physical discipline and what it is now is more verbal discipline. It has changed drastically in such a short period of time. So what will discipline look like in the next twenty years? Will parents get more lenient with their children or will the community turn back to the way discipline was in the past? Who knows what will happen, because only time will tell.
When interviewing my mother it was obvious that she was disciplined physically as a child. When I asked her views on spanking she answered, “I believe that spanking is perfectly ok as long as the parent doesn’t strike the child too hard. I think that parents should keep their hand open and only spank them on their behind and hand lightly. Parents should only spank their children hard enough to scare them, but not physically hurt them. If a parent spanks them so hard that it leaves a mark then the parent is way out of line and I would consider that to be abuse.” My mother’s views are a mix of what parents did as discipline in the past and what parents do now for discipline. So where does she fit in the community? There is a whole community of mother’s who believe that spanking is ok as long as it doesn’t turn into abuse.
I also asked my mother how teachers disciplined the students when she was a child. My mother’s response was, “I went to a Catholic school, and they were very strict. If a student would disobey a teacher, the teacher would get out her wooden paddle and spank the child.” Given that this is a Catholic school and usually they are way more strict then public schools, but given in the 1960’s discipline was still stricter and more physical then it is today. “Teachers would also make the students write sentences for hours, even if our hands were cramping so bad from writing so much, we still had to keep going.” Even though that may not seem as physical discipline it really is from all the strain the hand goes through into writing so much. Nowadays teachers will not make their students write any sentences. They would rather make their students go into detention and sit and listen to the teacher lecture about how not to act. Back in my mom’s day she would be sent to detention to write sentences either on the board or on paper. Now students are forced to sit and listen to someone verbally discipline them.
When I asked my mother if she thought that using verbal discipline is a far better method then using physical discipline like spanking, and time out, she answered, “Sometimes.” “It really depends on how the child reacts to the way a parent disciplines. For example when I was disciplining my son he would listen right away without any physical discipline. With my daughter, (me), she would not listen to anything I would say. I would threaten to take her toys away, make her stay in her room with no TV, or make her go to bed early, but nothing would work. So I eventually started spanking her, and she finally started to listen. She would obey the first time, because she hated being spanked and knew that was the consequence for not listening to her mother.” Some children are different whether they take their parents seriously by their verbal discipline or physical discipline. The community of parents and discipline varies.
I also asked my mother if she had ever been confronted about the way she disciplined her children and she said, “Yes, I have been confronted. I was in a grocery store and my son was touching everything, even when I told him not to he still did. So I put him in the shopping cart and I slapped his hand lightly and told him “NO TOUCHING”. Some woman came up to me and told me that I was wrong and that I shouldn’t abuse my child. I was extremely offended by this woman whom I didn’t even know! She had no right to tell me how to discipline my children and neither does the government.”
My mother makes a good argument that other people shouldn’t have a say in how we should raise our children. The community is shifting in the direction of not physically touching your child in the form of discipline, but some parents still believe that it is the correct form of discipline.
The last question I asked my mom was if she thought that the concept of discipline has changed drastically throughout the years. “I think that the concept of discipline has changed very drastically throughout the years. Back when I was a child no one would tell a parent how to discipline their child. Not even the government would get involved with a parent’s methods. Now the government is regulating what we can do as a form of discipline, its outrages! I think that the government should stay out of our business when it comes to how to raise our children.”
The community is divided into two separate categories; Parents who discipline their children in the “now times,” and parents who discipline their children in the “Past times.” My mother is a firm believer in both categories. As one read in the interview she believes in spanking, but also believes that in some cases the use of verbal discipline can be very effective. I also agree with my mother’s point of views. I think that her parenting skills were very effective and her method discipline was a good method.
The community has changed throughout the years. What it was then was more physical discipline and what it is now is more verbal discipline. It has changed drastically in such a short period of time. So what will discipline look like in the next twenty years? Will parents get more lenient with their children or will the community turn back to the way discipline was in the past? Who knows what will happen, because only time will tell.
RE-WRITE
I chose this because this was my favorite paper to write. Even though it was the worst grade I think that it is a very good paper and I changed some things like punctuation in stuff, but I think it sounds great the way it is.
REFLECTION LETTER
My name is Lauren Coyle. I am 19 years old and I am engaged to my High School Sweetheart. We are getting married on June 19th, 2010. I wanted to wait until next year so I finished college with an associate’s degree. I plan on majoring in Criminal Justice. I am hoping that I can take my Criminal Justice degree and use it towards social work or become a victim’s advocate. I chose to take English 101D because it is a diversity credit and also I wanted to experience a different kind of English than what I am use to. The last English class I took was English 98, but it was an everyday class. I think that this class was really hard because it was online. I think that I would have done better taking this class in person.
Taking this English class has been such a struggle with me. I have realized that I am horrible at writing papers. In high school I was the same way but I was excellent at writing poems. I’ve realized that I love reading Shakespeare and different plays and writing poems. I really do not enjoy writing papers or essays. I think that I need to take a class that revolves around Shakespeare and poems. I have learned a lot in this class though. I am grateful that I took this class to see where my faults lay. I really hope that my writing skills will improve, and that I can succeed in a different English class, because I really didn’t succeed in this one. I have learned that my calling is not English, but I am hoping to take something from this English class and apply it to whatever my calling may be.
Taking this English class has been such a struggle with me. I have realized that I am horrible at writing papers. In high school I was the same way but I was excellent at writing poems. I’ve realized that I love reading Shakespeare and different plays and writing poems. I really do not enjoy writing papers or essays. I think that I need to take a class that revolves around Shakespeare and poems. I have learned a lot in this class though. I am grateful that I took this class to see where my faults lay. I really hope that my writing skills will improve, and that I can succeed in a different English class, because I really didn’t succeed in this one. I have learned that my calling is not English, but I am hoping to take something from this English class and apply it to whatever my calling may be.
FIGHT CLUB
Everybody is different. They have different morals and different beliefs. Do them some things may be crossing the line, but to others it may be perfectly fine. What is non-conformity? Nonconformism is the refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, customs, traditions, norms, or laws. In the movie "Fight Club" Edward Norton's character did not conform to the normal rules, and common standards. He was portrayed as a non- conformist.Edward Norton's character is a automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. When he goes to the doctors he asks for a prescription for sleeping pills. The doctor refuses to give him drugs and tells him to go to a group for testicular cancer patients and understand real suffering. He then goes to this group and discovers that their suffering puts him to sleep at night. At this point he is definitely crossing the line. It is not normal for a person to go to support groups that he himself as no part of. It is also not normal to sleep knowing that people are suffering worse than him. He is not conforming to the ethical moral standards that most people uphold.Edward Norton's character then meets "Tyler Durden" who then introduces him to Fight Club. This is the next part of the movie where it was crossing the line. Fighting illegally is disobeying society's rules and it also is morally wrong. Their typical fighting is pretty much beating the crap out of each until near death. Edward Norton's character didn't want to conform to society's rules and expectations. He wanted to be his own person free of rules and responsibility.The next moment of crossing the line in the movie was "Project Mayhem." The fight club gang would go out and vandalize the city. This portrayed the anti-capitalist mind set of the movie. This crossed the line because it disregarded the laws of the United States. This was also another example of Edward Norton's character's unwillingness to conform to society and rules.The last example of non-conforming was Tyler Durden's realization that he had an alter ego. He thought that he wasn't Tyler Durden, but it turned out he was. He didn't want to realize that he was the master mind of fight club and project mayhem. He didn't want to take responsibility for his actions and he didn't want to conform to what society would make him out to be as "crazy." The movie Fight Club crossed the line in so many ways. Whether it be the establishing of Fight Club, or Project Mayhem, it portrayed non- conformity in Edward Norton's character. The fact that he didn't want to obey society's rules, or he took pleasure out of other people's pain demonstrates his non-conformity.
WRITER'S CHOICE
WRITER’S CHOICE
I chose this for my writer’s choice because this is the one assignment I enjoyed most. I loved the movie Fight Club and I loved having to write about the movie and what it represented.
I chose this for my writer’s choice because this is the one assignment I enjoyed most. I loved the movie Fight Club and I loved having to write about the movie and what it represented.
WHO'S YOUR COMMUNITY
Voting for a candidate is a community. Voting let’s say Republican is a community. What makes it a community is that it brings people together who share the same issues, interests, and concerns. Some interests include; advocating against gay marriage, pro life, fewer taxes, and smaller government. Most Republicans have a lot of morals. Some Republicans do have different views on some things. For instance, gay marriage, some Republicans are actually for gay marriage, but most aren’t and it can create a lot of tension within the community. I fit into this group because I consider myself a Republican. I don’t believe in gay marriage, I am pro life, I believe in fewer taxes, and a smaller government. I want to be part of this community because I believe that this is the right political party to be in.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
VOICE
VOICE
I chose this piece because I think that this represents awareness and voice extremely well. I think that sharing my opinion with others represents my voice and my awareness of the world.
I chose this piece because I think that this represents awareness and voice extremely well. I think that sharing my opinion with others represents my voice and my awareness of the world.
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