Since the start of the so called "ebola epidemic" I have read articles on Facebook, read what my Facebook friends have written on their statuses, watched the news and read in newspapers what is happening where in the United States regarding Ebola. You would think from everyone's responses of a handful of cases of ebola victims that it was the next plague. I believe that it is getting dramatized my the media for their own personal benefits. Newspapers and news channels will continue to write articles and follow stories of ebola if they know that there are readers or viewers. The only way there will be readers or viewers is if they make the stories interesting. I believe that is what Jon Stewart is explaining on The Daily Show. Stewart plays a video of a man in court asking a doctor if a person can catch ebola if they were on a train and someone threw up on them. Then it turns back to Stewart and he says " Doctor let me ask you this. What if you're yawning, guy runs up, throws ebola in your mouth? What do you do then?" He even continues to say how a news reporter in Ghana, just a couple towns over from "ebola land" is more brave than we are. Overall, United States if safe from an actual ebola epidemic and everyone needs to stop overreacting.
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For English Composition I, I have to create a Found Poem using my Creative Nonfiction Essay.
long five months since seeing Stef result of a falling out The window was cracked and gave me a chance to breathe she was fiddling with her nails driving to our destination, I felt nervous Sitting on the cold, metal chair brisk wind rubbing against my cheeks Knowing that she was uneasy I tried to lighten the mood always know how to make each other feel better even though her and I have our disagreements take the long way around town to the car walk past the Barnaby’s scurry down a back alley Doc Magrogans on our right laughing about our past memories exciting rush of emotions At first nerves got the best of me things will never change between Stef and I For my English Course, each student met with Professor Mangini individually to go over their progress so far in class. My meeting went as expected. I was prepared to hear unexpected news about my work that I did not assume already, but most of what I was told I had a feeling about.
1.These blogs need more work which I knew already. I need to give myself more time and focus into completing each one. I have been inconsistent on my work for the blogs, some will be good and I'll be proud of them, but then there's other blogs where I can't think of anything to write about which ends up causing me to write a half-ass blog. 2.My website had my pictures of Vegas randomly on my home page, so instead of Vegas pictures I replaced them with pictures of quotes. I do love quotes and searching for new quotes that mean something to me, like I said in my bio paragraph on my About Me page. After I put the pictures of quotes up on the Home page, I added a quote to my About Me page hoping the quotes would make my website have more of a flow to it. 3.As for my Creative Nonfiction Essay, I was happy with my outcome, but I'll have to include more to some parts involving my theme about my relationship with Stef. My theme is about remembrance on past obstacles in our friendship and about "cracks" in the friendship and fixing them. I will also need to include more about our falling out and the reason for it. My writing process for my essay took some time. I couldn't entirely remember the event in which was writing about so, to stay fresh, I would write a paragraph or two and then take a break until later that day or even the next day. Just like Hemingway "tracked his progress, so as to "not kid himself" stated in 6 Ways to Be a Hemingway-Level Productive Badass.
To revise my essays, 1.) I read and reread it first to make sure everything flows appropriately. To make sure my essay goes step by step. After that, 2.) I made sure I had enough imagery. I'm very nit-picky when it comes to grammar, I like to make sure the words are spelled correctly and the punctuation is where it should be. The essay has to be interesting and has to catch the reader's attention. 3.) Besides from me rereading my paper, I have another person read it to see if they have any pointers. 4.) I always find a nice place to write and a good time to write. Usually my house is empty on the weekend because my sister stays over her boyfriend's house from Friday-Monday and my mom also is at her boyfriends. This is when I find time to write at my house. During the week if I need to write, I occasionally go to Starbucks. 5.) I don't write my essays all at once. Sometimes, I get too overwhelmed to write the whole paper at once. I write a paragraph at a time and might take a 15 minute or longer in between. 6.) I write my essays on paper first instead of typing it out on a computer. A truth to me is the same thing as one person's opinion compared to another person. Or could even be a stereotype. There are many truths of my own that I believe in and truths of others that I disagree with. One truth is the stereotype that if someone is raised around cigarette smoking, doing drugs or drinking that person is going to grow up with the same focus on smoking and drinking. My childhood was filled with cigarette smokers. Going from school, home or to a friends house I would be in vehicle with my mom or dad and they both would smoke with me around. At home, they smoked in the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, you name it. My sister grew up to be a cigarette smoker. But in my 23 years of living, I have never even tried a cigarette and would never have the urge to try it. My mom would take me and my sister to our Aunt's house every Saturday where my mom and my Aunt would sit around and drink beer or wine while my and my sister played. Also, being in high school there are a lot of underage drinkers. My sister grew up drinking starting in 10th grade. I myself maybe had a couple sips here and there, but didn't officially drink alcohol until I turned 21.
I believe that a truth for one person is specifically that. The truth for that one person. Doesn't mean that it's the truth for everyone. Just because one person believes that someone being around certain activities will make that person the same way, doesn't mean that 1. it's true or that 2. everyone believes it. The truth in my Creative Nonfiction Essay for me is that having a falling out with someone close to you doesn't mean that you can't mend the problem and be close again with that person. Others might have an argument against that saying that once a relationship is over, it's over. Home: I just recieved my first ever spray tan. It feels weird because it wasn't a machine that did it but one of the workers that did.
There was a food and crafts festival in Media today on State Street with a variety of food vendors and a cute vendor with paintings and other knick knacks. I had some of the best yummy penne vodka and a cannoli I have ever tasted. My boyfriend got a few cute kitchen plaques for his future kitchen. I think the kitchen is the only room in a house that he cares about decorating for. Class: We learned about juxtaposition this week which is when two objects come together to contradict one another. There there were vignettes and that's a story that goes from one scene to another scene, but still flowing at the same time. I can comprehend vignettes a little while reading them. However, I think if I was forced into writing one, I would have trouble. Anger
"You call me babe because of the movie, don't you? Babe the pig." "WTF dumbest robbers ever. I hate that they did that but how dumb they were about it. It's an epic fail." "You could just answer the question you know, instead of making the matter worse." Happy "Thanks for being such a great tech and friend!" "I miss you too! We need to get together soon!" "I can't wait until we hang out again, so needed. I was telling Rob how we use to die laughing about really not so funny things." |
Alana PArenti.
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