Final Presentation

Hello Everyone,
      I made a Glog of my final presentation. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoyed the class everyone did an awesome job. Thank to everyone who commented on my page and who let me comment on there work. Hope you all have a great rest of the summer and good luck. Here is the URL to my Glogster page.
http://se41888.glogster.com/shelly-eng-102/

*If you like what I did for my presentation here is the link Glogster: http://www.glogster.com/

http://www.tayfm.co.uk/near-you/schools-out-for-summer/

blog post # 7

1. What skills have you learned in this class and how might you apply them to writing in your career or future college courses?

This class was very interesting and very informative to me. For one I had only done a few other online classes. But I have never been in a class where I had to have a blog page. By having the blog page really helped me be more computer oriented because before this class all that I ever did on the computer was pretty much homework related things. Oh ya and I would use goggle map often. So let’s just say I do not use my computer very often. After this class I will probably go back to my old ways but it is nice to say that I am able to set up a blog page. LOL!

2. How have the readings in the class affected you?

            Before I had signed up for this English class I have never had any interest in reading. Ya I read something’s here in there when I had to for school but I never read a book…Honestly Speaking. I feel as if I would rather be outside being active than sitting down reading a book, but that it just me. When I tell people that I have never read a book have the time they do not believe me and the other half of the time they say” you just haven’t found a good book or the right book.”When I started reading “The things They Carried” I really got into the book. Maybe because I like history and there was a lot of history in the book or simply I just thought that it was a good book. I hear people say all the time when I read a book that I like I have a hard time putting it down well I guess that I can agree with them now. Because when I was reading I noticed that I wanted to just keep reading onto the next story. It was kind of a joy to read something that was interesting to me.

3. How have you met the learning outcomes for the class (which can be found on the syllabus)?

I feel that the biggest and hardest learning outcome that I can relate to is number 10 Interpret and Analyze. Writing does not come easy for me so when I write I have a habit that most people do which is, I summarize more than analyze. I probably have to work harder at this than most people. I have to really take my time and reread and rewrite my papers a lot more than I would have before I was in this class. By writing this way really makes me think of what I will be writing about and makes me be very cautious on what I am writing on and how I write it. For instance I really have to work hard and not put my personal opinion or summarize in my papers.

4. How has your writing or your writing process changed?

I feel that my writing style has changed dramatically. If I am not careful though I notice some of my bad habits come back into my papers. So I have to really pay attention and proof read often. I have never had to analysis when I am writing let alone I had never really known what that was.  But after this class I have a good interpretation of what analysis really is.

5. What were your challenges in the class?  How were you able to overcome them?

The biggest challenge that I had in this English 102 class was the writing portion. I had a hard time with having to analyze and not summarize. Summarizing was easy for me. But because we had had a few assignment that we had to do strictly on analysis I feel that I am better at writing than I was when I had first started. Slowly but surely I am defiantly getting better at writing.

Blogg post # 6

http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tag/papers

Ref # 1

   The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 305. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2011. p248-322. Inside this Volume  |  Inside this Entry COPYRIGHT 2011 Gale, Cengage Learning

Source Citation:

"The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W.

            

         Hunter. Vol. 305. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2011. 280-281 & 318-319 Literature

   

         Criticism Online. Gale. Yavapai College. 5 July 2011. Gale Document Number:

           

          FJ2367150005

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitCrit/yava/FJ2367150005

My findings of this article was through the Literature Criticism Online (LCO) from our library tab on the blackboard page. By choosing this article I will be to use some of the information to write my final paper for our English 102 class. This article talks about the book “The Things They Carried” as well as with the author, Tim O’Brien as well other stories that were in the same book. I am hoping to incorporate some of this information throughout my paper.

Ref # 2

Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes ERIKSON, ROBERT S; STOKER, LAURA. The American Political Science Review 105. 2  (May 2011): 221-237. ...outcomes were randomly assigned, Vietnam draft lottery status has been exploited...Our analysis of how the 1969 Vietnam draft lottery reoriented the political...Have It: The Effect of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on Long-term Career Outcomes

Works Cited

ERIKSON, ROBERT S., and LAURA STOKER. "Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam 

            Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes." The American Political Science Review 

            105.2 (2011): 221,221-237. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 5 July 2011. 

The tab ProQuest Research Library under the library tab has also provided me with some good information. In this particular article I was able to find some information about the Vietnam War, the military draft, as well as what the process of the military draft was about It has a lot of information about the political attitude that was going on during this time. . I have found that this article is very informative and would be a good source for my final paper. I am glad that I was able to come across this article.

Ref #3

1. An Interview with Tim O'Brien An Interview with Tim O'Brien  Martin Naparsteck, Tim O'BrienContemporary Literature, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 1-11Page Scan PDF Summary

Citation:

 An Interview with Tim O'Brien.  Martin Naparsteck and Tim O'Brien Contemporary Literature

Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 1-11 Published by: University of Wisconsin Press 

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1208335

By choosing the tab Language and Literature (JSTOR)which was also under the library tab on black board I was able to find another article. This article is a little different than my others because it is an interview with Tim O’Brien. In the interview he talks about himself and his writing it talks about how he is one of the best Vietnam Veterans who has written about his personal experience with the war. Which, I did not know that the book “The Things They Carried” was his most recent book.

Ref #4

Tim O’Brien (1946-).Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Vol. 123. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009. p82-190. Inside this Volume  |  Inside this Entry  |  Titles Discussed COPYRIGHT 2009 Gale, Cengage Learning

Source Citation:

  

"Tim O’Brien (1946-)." Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Vol. 123. Detroit: Gale, 

            Cengage Learning, 2009. 82-190. Literature Criticism Online. Gale. Yavapai College. 5 

            July 2011 Gale Document Number: FJ1584150003

            <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitCrit/yava/FJ1584150003>

     My last source was found again in Literature Criticism Online (LCO). This source was helpful to me because it talks a little bit more into detail about Tim O’Brien’s life. This will be helpful because it allows me to do some light reading about him. I am hoping that after knowing more about him that it will help me with my idea of my last paper. Also I feel that I might be able to use quotes from the article because it does into detail about his life and some of his accomplishments. 

Here is a link to all of my tabs that I used for my sources:  http://www.yc.edu/webtools/apps/library/subview.asp?sid=21

Blogg # 5

Close reading of a Passage:

“In many causes a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical. It’s a question of credibility. Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn’t, because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness.”(O’Brien pg. 68)

This quote came from the story “How to Tell a True War Story” By Tim O’Brien. When one is listening to a war story how does one know if it is true or not? More often than not it may seem that the teller of the story is making their story up. Tim O’Brien explains that you have to be “skeptical” (O’Brien pg. 68) when listening to a war story. Meaning, to have some kind of doubt or questions to the story that you are listening to because the story may be a little more beefed up than it really was during the actual event of the story. Also you need to keep an open mind when listening to a war story because, as O’Brien writes in this short story, the crazier the story is the most likely it is true. Some story tellers do this simply to keep the story interesting. Some story tellers are just really dramatic and they want their story to sound good and really life like.  Some story tellers may tell you what you want to hear because they do not want to relive the actual event. For whatever the reason how a story is told you will never know the actuality unless you have lived it yourself.  As O’Brien writes “Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn’t” (O’Brien pg. 68).  This makes me as a reader not know the whole truth. Would I believe the craziness? Yes, I would probably believe the craziness because in my own mind war is a place no one knows except for the ones who are actually there. Do I want to hear the truth of what the story teller is saying?  I would probably have to say yes because; being in the medical field that stuff interests me.  Knowing that war is very difficult for all involved; weather it may be, a friend, a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister, or any persons close to the service men and women, who can say what the credibility of a story  teller maybe be. All people deal with war in their own way. As for me I would believe the craziness of any story weather I thought that it was true or not.

http://weaponsandtactics.coolpage.biz/vietnam_war_images.htm 

Here is a cite that I found that gives a little more information about Guang Ngai City. Which was were O'Brien was during part of the war. http://www.pensfans.com/vietnam4.html

Works Cited

O’Brien, Tim. “The Things They Carried.”Mariner Books- Houghton Mufflin Harcourt. Boston

       New York.1990.

Sam Hamill and Carolyn Forche VS Poetry Blog Post # 3

After reading the two different articles  I have to say that I agree with Sam Hamill more than Carolyn Forche when it come to comparing the two authors to the poem I wrote about which was “Photographs from September 11^th.” I agree that the authors can write in a poetical or a personal style. It just depends on what the author is going to be writing about. I kind of disagree that they say that you cannot be both that the writers have to be either one or the other.  I can really relate to Hamill’s way of writing because he talks about his experiences and about imagery in his writing.  Which really helped me with the ideas of writing my paper especially my thesis sentence.  His article talks about creative writing and writing off of emotion and experience and how that will capture the reader’s attention when they are reading the poems. He also uses his way of writing to teach men and women in jail how to write. I think that that is pretty awesome. My favorite thing that I got out of reading Hamills article is when he said “because writing creates emotion in the audience, the writer’s responsibility  is enormous, arousing passion, exploring the grief of loss, making another laugh, showing someone how to care- these are the concerns of the writer, and they do not come free of responsibility.”(Hamill pg. 547). I feel that I can take that information and out it to a lot of use especially in this class. However The poem that I use for my essay was not very political and that is why Forche‘s article does not really relate to my essay very well. Forche’s idea about writing seems to be mainly about political ways of writing not about emotion or experience.  Don’t get me wrong writing about political issues can be very interesting at times but, when you use that in writing poem it can seem to get a little boring. That is why I feel that I would have to agree with Sam Hamill more than Carolyn Forche.

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/733

Here is a web cite that you can use if you would like to read more about Sam Hamill.

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/733

Blog Post #3

 http://blackicezone.blogspot.com/2010/09/ground-zero.html

After reading through all of the poems there are two that I could relate to in some kind of way. The two poems that I really enjoyed the most were "Photographs from September 11" by Wiskawa Szymbroska and "Song of Napalm" by Bruce Weigl. I can relate "Photographs from September 11" because I have been to ground Zero. On the other hand I feel that I can relate to "Song of Napalm" because the writer talks about horses and pastures which brings me back to the good memories from when I was a child when because I was raised around horses.

When I was in the eleventh grade I took a trip to see where the Twin Towers had originally been built. As I was reading the poem "Photographs from September 11" I could see my self back at ground Zero and I could imagine every little detail as I  were there on that tragic day. As I read the first line "They jumped from the burning floors" (Szymbroska line 1). I can close my eyes and just imagine what these people were feeling at that very moment.

When I am reading the first part of the poem "Song of Napalm" "We Stood in the door way watching horses" and "Walk off lazily across the pasture's hill". (Weigl lines 2 and 3). It makes me remember the time when I was younger and we use to go to the ranch every summer in New Mexico. We use to ride every day and would switch out horses often to give them a break. I use to love to climb to the top of the barn and just watch the horses run and play in the pastures. This poem seems so peaceful to me as I was reading it, and that time on the ranch was a peaceful and fun time in my life.

http://www.davisonfarms.com/sale.htm

If your having trouble reading poems maybe you can check out this cite.http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html

Works cited

Symborska, Wislawa.  “Photograph of September 11.” Poetryfoundation.org. Poetry.

            Monologue of a Dog. Copyright 2005

Weigl, Bruce. "Song of Napalm." Poetry foundation, Poetry. Archaeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems. Copyright 1999.

Blog Post #2, Summary and Analysis

http://www.collegefashion.net/inspiration/fashion-inspiration-walt-disneys-cinderella/

 http://childcoloring.blogspot.com/2011/05/drawing-coloring-cinderella.html
If I am being completely honest with you and with my self I have to tell you that I have never read a book willing for my enjoyment. I know I had to read a few books in High School but I really have no idea what the books were as of today. So I went ahead and used Cinderella as my image examples because everyone can relate to her story. I chose this black and white illustration of Cinderella to show an example of a summary. By looking at this photo you can get the point that it is very bland and you can see the definition of her job. I picked the illustration of Cinderella in color to resemble analysis. By this photo you can be much more descriptive and choose certain areas to talk about instead of your subject being just black and white you can have a lot of gray areas in between to relate to.

 Summary versus Analysis

Do you remember when you were in elementary or middle school when you had to do all of those book reports? It seems like that is all our teachers wanted us to do, was to summarize current events or to write book reports. I was taught  that when you summarize you are suppose to give a description of the arrangements of the actions in the order in which the actual events had appeared in the story such as begging middle and ending. We were supposed to be very descriptive and informative about what was going. So that if the reader had never read the book or current event we were talking about, that they would be  able to get a good grasp of what was going on. Sounds simple enough but really it was kind of boring. I have recently been taught that there is more to writing than just a summary. To summarize may be to explain to the reader about what is happening but really we should try to analysis what is going on for the reader.

To analysis a book or a current event we should be able to explain to the reader what events and why they are happening throughout our report. An analysis is a form of literary criticism in which that a structure of writing is analyzed. Like Mrs. Cline said we need to” take something apart into pieces and then examine the elements”. When you’re analyzing a text you should be able to have an argument for a particular interpretation of the text so that the reader can relate to it and maybe be able to argue your point of view from there’s.

Here is a link that may help you with Analysis.http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl0310/analysis1.htm