DeanaKubat

Bye Bye Birdie!

2008-05-05T05:21:46Z

This is the last part of the class and i feel that everything is coming to an end and my mental processes are compiling and expanding into a brillant masterpiece. The final project of the reflection paper really made me expand my horizon to a more brillant spark of interesting thoughts that actually express intilictual thoughts. i feel that i have broadened my horizon into something sparkling and spectacular.

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Even Penguins Have Problems

Bye Bye Birdie!

2008-05-05T05:21:46Z

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Even Penguins Have Problems

Concentration, concentration....ohh look...A CHICKEN!

2008-04-16T02:20:13Z

Avoid Distractions

Stay On Topic

If you are like most students writing a short paper, you will stare at the computer screen for a while until you come up with a title. Then you will pick your way through your topic, offering an extremely broad introduction (see Glittering Generalities, below). You might also type in a few long quotations that you like. After writing fluff for a page or two, you will eventually hit on a fairly good idea. You will pursue it for a paragraph or two, perhaps throwing in another quotation.

By then, you'll realize that you've got almost three pages written, so you will tack on a hasty conclusion. Hooray, you've finished your paper! Well, not quite. At the very least, you ought to rewrite your title and introduction to match your conclusion, so it looks like the place you ended up was where you were intending to go all along. You probably won't get an A, because you're still submitting two pages of fluff; but you will get credit for recognizing whatever you actually did accomplish.

To get an A, you should delete all that fluff, use the "good idea" that you stumbled across as your new starting point, and keep going. If you want the "A", you have to work for it. Even "good writers" have to work hard (in my class, anyway).

See: Sally Slacker Writes a Paper, and Sally's Professor Responds

I'm a bad stickler for this one. i always some how get side tracked on making another point apart from the one i started out talking about. its not that a train of thought is lost, it just pops up and like a spastic child with ADD you can't help but just switch and your off of a different track.

Whod'a Thunk It

2008-04-11T04:50:23Z

boshing

The act of throwing snowballs at cars. The term was coined by Michael DeRobertis of Scarsdale, New York, in the early 1980s. The word comes from the sound made when a snowball is thrown at a car, moving or parked. The term stems from the sound created when a snowball makes a direct hit with one of these "drum-like", hollow panels - "BOSH!!!"

Let's go Boshing - Throwing hard showballs, or iceballs and hitting the "drum-like", quarter panels of cars. "Bosh!!!!"

I choose this word because I always hear about kids from my area doing this but I never knew that there was an actual name to it. I was amazed when I found this entry on the Urban Dictionary website.

chicklit

Books that are normally written by and for young women that are usually humorous.

I love Confessions of a Shopaholic. I can relate so much

I felt that this was very sexiest because what do you call literature that is written by a man? A book? I just felt that this entry was interesting.

Dueces

Similar to "peace" or "peace out" taken from the hand siginal that means "peace"

I'm outta here, man, see you later, deuces

My friend in the service always says deuces before he leaves and I never knew what he meant by that phrase until I found out the it’s the same thing as saying peace. I’m learning so much.

Shatner

Toilet paper. So named because it goes around Uranus wiping out Klingons.

"Hand me the Shatner, will ya?"

This entry was just funny. I never knew that there was another name for toilet paper. I was amazed when I saw this. It just made me laugh and I had to pick it.

shut-eye

Sleep,rest, or time when the body is restored

Have you gotten some shut-eye recently?
Nah, been working 24/7.

I choose this word because I did not know if it was a Pennsylvania thing or if another people in different states say it. But I know that there are lots of different phrases that different people use in different areas.

Even penguins have problems

2008-04-09T05:44:16Z

Fluffy little birds that live where its cold

Flightless birds prowling the seas not skies

To feed their spouse and one day their own spawn

Just like married couples problems they'll have

With wings they'll beat and with screeches they yell

Sharp beeks can hurt but be glad it ain't you

They'll peck and nag, screech and squack to eachother

Yet still in love as the sun breaks the dawn.

Tomorrow shall be no different, still in love

They found eachother they won't ev'r let go

They'll soon hatch an egg they call their own

A perfect family of penguins, thats all.

I think it's finally starting to sink in.

2008-04-07T01:30:14Z

Over the last half of the class, I feel that I'm starting to learn more and more and that things are becoming not so difficult for me to personally understand. I have been more able to express my opinon on how I've read things and interpreted them. Everything seems to have a purpose and meaning and it feels great to have the sense of accomplishment.

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Computers are running the world!! Its like AI all over again

How history has changed.

2008-03-31T00:28:01Z

"You find not the apostrashas, and so miss the accent"? Well, no, of course you don't, nobody remembers anything said by that frightful bore, and we certainly shan't detain ourselves bothering to work out what he was driving at. All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare's time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: "Fie on't! O fie!"; "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd"; and even, "I am too much i' the sun"-the latter, incidentally, a clear case of a writer employing a new-fangled punctuation mark entirely for the sake of it, and condemning countless generations of serious long-haired actors to adopt a knowing expression and say i'- as if this actually added anything to the meaning." (Truss 37-38)

I thought this was interesting because over time, it defined who the apostrophe should be used. like it stated, it was first just to put in the place of unused letters. and now, its used for possessions pretty much. wow how things have changed, they are not even similiar uses.

I never knew that!

2008-03-31T00:17:32Z

"We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else- yet we see it all the time. No one understands us seventh-sense people." (Truss 3-4)

its weird to think that someone could actually put a name to people who are grammar nazies. but most people who write any more are if you think about it. you either put so much punctuation in that its ridiculous or you don't put enough and then it sounds bland. but to actually say that its a seventh-sense makes it seem like we're all freaks. but if you are a fictional writer or even not, aren't we all freaks because of the things we think of to write about? so it does fit!!

I'd be freaking out....

2008-03-26T01:42:40Z

i would just like to make a general claim about the whole entire first entire paragraph to the O'Connor reading. if i were being stalked by a peacock i think i would be freaked out ane probabley run from it not just admire it. i've had a few encounters with peacocks and they are not the nicest animals. but hey at least some people can keep their cool and just look at the good side of things. whatever works...

Keep it flowing!

2008-03-14T00:11:44Z

"An extreme form of the third-person limited point of view is the stream of consciousness technique, which is used to replicate the thought processes of a character, with little or no intervention by the narrator." (Hamiliton 118)

i love when you can read into the thoughts of the characters in a story. you have like the 6th sense and can hear what they are saying. it makes things more interesting when reading some times to know a little more than what is given.

True Life, true things.

2008-03-13T23:59:49Z

"Nothing is perfect. This is one of Mrs. Hopewell's favorite sayings. Another was: that is life! And still another, the most important, was: well, other people have opinions too" (O'Connor 169)

i really liked this line because these are sayings that we heard almost everyday in one way or another. maybe not the same words, but something similar. How much more true could have these words been. isn't this how we live out life? Nothing is perfect, there is always a flaw somewhere; That's life, yeah if something bad happens but there is always a brighter side, thats just life; and well, other people have opinions too....i dont think that i need say any more. its just real life but in a different time when the book was first written. crazy huh?

It takes just a little bit of skill

2008-03-07T04:40:15Z

"Advertising is one component of marketing: It involves the development of the ad itself (for print, broadcast, etc.), the positioning of the ad, the consideration of how the ad fits in with a larger ad campaign. You see all around you the manifold ways in which ads are presented and positioned: It's not just developing a five-by-seven spot in a newspaper" (Lemire 188)

when i was going my job interview for high school, i actually went to a local TV station and stayed with people there all day. i got bounced around and found out just what everyone did. the people that i had the best time with and the most interest in were the people down in the basement who make the commercials. as soon as we had got acquanted though, they gave me my first task. they wanted to see what i was all about and challenged me to write dialogue for a commercial that they had already made. it was for a local pizza place. i sat and work down my ideas and when they read it they told me that maybe i was cut out for writing. there job really does have a lot to do with writing and how to writing something to intrigue the viewers interest. i thought it was soo interesting. i think that it i cannot make it was a free lance writer, i would go into making commercials or maybe even do that on the side. its a great way to learn about how to play on words and intrigue the views to catch their attention.

When World's Collide!

2008-03-07T04:24:04Z

"If you had asked me the difference between writers and communicators when I was an undergraduate English major, i would have said that writers major in English and communicators major in communication. Not so. To parse the difference between writing and communicating, consider:

Writers know a lot of words. Communicators know which word to use when, how, and why.
Writers know what to write. Communicators put value on how written content is relayed, the manner in which it is presented, in what format, and how frequently.
Writers express themselves through words. Communicators may express themselves through words accompanied by pictures, music, charts and diagrams, and interactive media." (Lemire 156)

i thought that this was interesting even though i disagree with it. i mean Lemire makes a good point, but aren't writers also communicators? writers write to communicate with the world around them. we, as writers, just do it in a different way. we may use words in different context then a communicator would, but its still all the same thing! writting is communicating!

Stop repeating me!!

2008-03-05T03:49:41Z

"the repetition of Wednesday makes the days seem like a prison sentence, monotonous in their dreariness and isolation." (Hamiliton 102)

repetition does not always make things monotonous and dreadful, sometimes its a keyword that will point out something later in the story and you'll be like ohh my god! now i see it! but not everyone looks at words like that. it all depends on the context of the writing and how you use it. try it out sometime. haha

Nothing to be Embarrassed about....

2008-03-05T03:30:50Z

"I probabley shouldn't have done this and you're going to think it's really silly...." but she's brought me a sandwich for lunch. this is because i'd told her i was living in a motel almost entirely on fast food, and she felt sorry for me. Now I'm embarrassed, and beyond that overwhelmed to discover a covert stream of generosity running counter to the dominant corporate miserliness." (Ehrenreich 163)

why would she have been embarrassed? there are some people who literally live in hotels/motels because thats all they can afford. i mean sometimes it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to actually just have an apartment or what now, but still. there is no reason for her to be embarrassed because someone is helping out. did she not mention early about going to church to find people from WIC? thats still someone giving stuff to those who need it. she makes no sense!