Blog Post 22

The thesis of the paper Eugenics research I think is... The supreme courts decision required several factors to be brought to fruition: the scientific background needed to be established, technology needed to progress and americans had to be convinced of the value of human sterilization.
1- describes what eugenics is and talks about the positive and negative testing done.
2- talks about the father of eugenics and how it came about
3- Galton got ideas from Darwin and the work provided a scientific background for the movement
4- The only starilization known as mutilation was causing hormonal imbalances, this brought the discover of a more humane sterilization.
5- organizations tried to convince the public that is was there obligation to support eugenics
6- Contests took place to give medals of people who were genetically superior.
7- Doctors were performing sterilization before it was okay to do
8- Talks about the case of Buck vs. Bell
9- Talks about how the eugenic movement came to an end

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Blog Post #24

I have learned a lot this semester. It is the first time I have taken classes on line and I really enjoyed it because I was able to work as well as take classes. I have noticed that I am not as afraid to write anymore. The worst paper that I just dreaded was the research paper. I think I will always hate those. I enjoyed writing blog posts because it was a chance for me to just write which I normally don't do. I learned this semester that school is hard work especially if you are working full time. I find myself so tired that the last thing I want to do is homework. I want to to try harder next semester to not procrastinate doing homework. I am so excited for summer to get have a break from school. The hardest class I took this semester was an institutions class. Thank heavens I had my husband to help me out. I am excited to get all of my generals over so that I can really start getting in to my major. I took an FCHD class this semester and I learned a lot of skills that can helped me see what I would like to have as a career when I am done with school.

Well not all the school side of things I have learned how to play the piano this semester. I am really enjoying it and I hope soon to learn how to play the guitar. I have also been learning how to drive a stick shift. I am not very good at it. I hope that I can have it mastered by July. I don't know why driving a stick shift is that difficult for me but I am awful at going up hills and I feel so sorry for the other cars that are around me. Good luck to everyone I hope this semester went well for you.
Word count: 320

Blog Post #23

Babysitting- punctuality, patience, good mother, kind, cook, entertain, make a bottle,
Stocking chips at Frito Lay- organization, punctuality, cleanliness, learned the different kind of chips, flexibility, color coordination, learned how to make displays, learned how to work jacks that pull the boxes of chips.
Waitressing- efficiency, punctuality, memorization, patient, people skills, carry heavy trays, prepare salads, answer phones, multi-task, learned how to make conversation, outgoing, learned how to clean, buss tables, careful, customer satisfaction, training other servers, prices, up sell, thoroughness
Cashier at JC Penny- fold clothes, prices, learned how to work the cash register, learned how to count a till, punctuality, customer satisfaction, bag clothes, up-sell, learned how to bra fit, learned how to measure size of foot, learned different styles of clothing, customer skills, friendly, patience, answering phone calls, clean dressing rooms, computer skills, customer service skills, multi task, outgoing
Nanny- patience, love, organization, cook, clean, creativity, discipline, learned how to comfort a child, learned how to change a diaper, learned how to clean stains off of clothes, learned how to nurture, learned how to get each child down for a nap, learned there schedules, learned how to work a car seat, learned what to feed children, efficient, funny, learned fun activities for children, good skills for a mom
Word Count 220

Blog Post #21

April Fools Day is a really awful holiday. It is full of lies and pranks. Who invented the holiday anyways? The best prank of all time in my books is when my brother-in-law filled my sisters lotion with mayonaise. Gross! She fell for it and lathered it all over her body. She spent many days trying to scrub that oily smell off. April Fools is always celebrated on April first and many countries celebrate it. It is not a proclaimed holiday but many celebrate it including my brother-in-law. If you are gullible then you will most likely be fooled on this day. There are many tricks that one may choose to play on this day. The famous saran wrap on the toilet is a big one. Along with taping the faucet, this will make it so the water sprays out. Whatever you choice of trick, make sure you do your research so that April Fools Day turns out to be a memorable day.

I did not pull any pranks this April Fools Day. I wish that I would have because it makes the day more fun, as long as you are not the one being fooled. In the past I have pulled some pretty good pranks. When I was in Middle School I ripped up my drew red marker over me, messed my hair and put little rock all over my body. I looked like I had been in a serious accident. I went to the elementary school that my mom teaches at and my friends carried me in. I made myself cry and my mom fell for this trick. She was ready to call the hospital and she was seriously worried about me. I didn't want to take the april fools joke too far so after a few minutes I jumped up and said "April Fools!" My mom was shocked and angry. The next April fools joke I pulled was last year. I had gotten a pregnancy test and colored it red. I showed my husband and family that I was pregnant. They all believed me so I must be a pretty good actress.

When I wrote the first paragraph with out using the word I it was hard. Evert sentence I thought of had I in it. I had to look at the encyclopedia for some ideas. I don't remember the last time I wrote a research paper. I don't know if I ever have written one. This will be a new experience for me. I did not know that some teachers don't like you using the word I but I could see how that could be useful to a research paper.

Word Count: 448

Blog Post #20

I absolutely hate public speaking! The last time I spoke in public was two weeks ago. I am a sunday school teacher for my church and I teach every other week. The last time I spoke there was only three people in my class. I enjoyed not having many people to teach. I have always been intimidating by public speaking especially when it is in front of a lot of people. My hands and body get all sweaty and I loose my breath a lot from talking. I have to always take big deep breaths. I have taught sunday school for the past two years and I have gotten quite used to it. The nice thing is that I get to teach with my husband. When I have to speak in large crowds or in front of people that intimidate me I get really bad stomach aches.

I like to practice over and over what I have to speak about in public so that I am prepared. I always have to have a paper lined out of what I am going to say because if I get to nervous I forget what I was planning on saying. I also like to pretend like I am not in front of a lot of people. I have always gone by the saying 'Fake It Tell You Make It' and that is exactly what I try to do. I would like to think that teaching Sunday School has helped me with my fear of speaking in public but, it hasn't. I am always just as nervous. When I listen to other people speak I like it when they are confident and I like it when they make what they are speaking about entertaining. I am glad we don't have to get up in front of each other in this class but if we would of had too, I would have.

Word Count: 317

Blog Post #19

I admire my grandma. I knew exactly who I wanted to write about when we got this blog post. I have looked up to my grandma ever since I was a little girl. She plays the roll of a grandma very well. I have always felt welcome at her house and you can rarely go over there with out there being other relatives over visiting. There is always food cooking in the stove and my most favorite is her homemade bread with raspberry jam. My grandma has not missed one of my birthdays and she always gives me a thoughtful card. I hope when I become a grandma

I can have these strengths that she has. I can tell that she really cares about me and she wants me to be happy. I know that I could go to her if I ever needed anything.

My grandma knows everybody at least it feels like it. I always have people telling me how much they love my grandma. She is always sending cards or giving a phone call to somebody who needs it. I would love to be more like this. I want to make other people happy. I love my grandmas big bear hugs and I feel so loved when she puts those arms around me.

I look up to how dedicated my grandma is to her religion and family. She has been a great example to me. She is a great homemaker. I lack in this area of my life. I am a great cook and I cant sew for the life of me. My grandma has taught me some skills and my most favorite was when she taught me how to make scones. Sewing and cooking are all great things but what I love most about my grandma is how welcoming she is to all of her family and friends. She makes me feel loved.

Blog Post #18

I feel like my hobbies are always changing. I have been taking piano lessons for the last couple months and I love taking the time out of the day to play it. I feel accomplished when I can play a song with out mistakes. Playing the piano calms me down and helps me too not be so stressed out. I love making time out of my schedule to sit down and play. My husband enjoys my playing as well. Once every week I have lessons and I look forward to getting new songs to practice.

Another hobby I have is long boarding. I enjoy the rush of going down a hill with the air rushing past my face. My favorite place to long board is in parking lots. It is hard to do this hobby in the winter so I enjoy when summer comes around. My husband likes to long board with me so it is fun to enjoy long boarding together. I like to listen to my i-pod as well while I long board. It is hard for me to have many hobbies when I am going full time to school and am working full time so it is nice to have a little break in the day when I can long board.

I also love to play volleyball. My husband and I have a volleyball net in our backyard and we love inviting other couples over to play volleyball all night. I am not super great at volleyball but I love to play for fun. It is nice to be outside in the sun because then I can get a tan while doing something I love. It is also a good excuse to have other couples over because it is hard to play volleyball with just my husband and I. In the winter I like to play ping pong. I like to win, especially when I play my husband!

Word Count: 322

Blog Post #16

While working at JC Penny I worked with a guy who was a lot of fun, but I felt like his ego was way to big for my taste. There was always a new story about some hot chick that found him irresistible. I would always roll my eyes when he was not looking. I could never figure out if he really was all that and more. Well, this guy kept asking me when I was going to break up with my boy friend so he could take me out. I did not want to date him, I thought he was conceited. We did have some fun times working together but I couldn't get over how high on himself he was.

One day I was working and mr. hot shot had the day off. To my surprise he came walking in with four pretty girls on his arm. I couldn't believe it. All this time he probably was telling the truth, I started to find him a little bit more attractive. I know this sounds shallow, but it's true. I still could not handle his bragging and I was in love with my boyfriend. To my dismay my boyfriend broke my heart and I knew just the guy that would take me out to get my mind off of my love interest. I called Mr. hot shot up and he agreed to take me out.

Surprisingly, it was the best date I had ever been on! He was the sweetest and most thoughtful guy I had ever met. I couldn't believe how harshly I had judged him. I started to like him as a person and the like grew to love and the love grew to couldn't live with out. We are now married and have grown deeper in love every day. I tease him now about pretending to be Mr. hot shot and he claims that he was so in love me that he wanted to make me jealous. The three pretty girls turns out were his sisters, funny I know.

Word Count: 342

Blog Post #15

I asked my husband to tell me about a movie he had recently seen. He decided to talk to me about the movie Thor because it is his favorite movie. He likes movies that have special effects, humor, good acting, creativity, action and memorable tag lines that you can quote. He likes movies that are exciting that you can not predict what is going to happen next. He also likes looking for movies with sequels because then he can look forward to when the next one will come out. My husband John, decided that the movie Thor met all of these expectations. The warrior type atmosphere drew him in during this movie and he loved the battle of good versus evil.

His favorite part of the movie is when Thor went to the frost giants and fought them alone and he showed his strength and manliness. He also liked how the main character was sent to earth to learn humility and compassion. The ending of the movie added up to meet all of his expectations. He enjoyed how it left you a little bit hanging, wondering if the main character would ever see his girlfriend on earth again. After watching the movie he left remembering a lot of funny quotes and his favorite one was "You can't stop the mighty Thore" but to his surprise they injected him with a shot that knocked him out. John is super excited to see The Advengers because all of his favorite characters will be in it.

I found it interesting that he chose this movie to talk about because it is definitely a guy movie. I enjoyed it, but I don't know how many times I could watch it. I don't know if men feel macho while watching this movie or if it is all of the action that draws them in but I think lots of males would like this movie. (women too if you like the super hero movie kind of thing.)

Word Count: 331

Blog post 14

I liked the painting number seven the most. I felt like it was a birthday party for a young girl with some friends. The coloring was brighter then all of the rest of the paintings. I liked seeing the balloons and the birthday cake. I am a big fan of birthdays and parties so I could relate to this one the most. I loved the color pink in the painting I felt like it brought out happiness. I also that the dresses the girls were wearing were fun and fascinating to look at. It looks like she got a lot of presents including a dog but I don't understand why the birthday girl doesn't have a smile on her face. It seems like everyone is trying to get her to have a good time but she is not smiling. I like how this piece of art makes you really sit and analyze what could be going on. I felt like all of the other paintings were a bit disturbing. I didn't love them, but when I came to this one I felt like there was better color and happier things going on in the picture. Maybe if I were in a sad depressing mood then I would have liked the other paintings.

In the first art piece it is the same picture but with out the birthday decorations and the color pink. I didn't mind this piece of art but it was a bit boring to me because nothing was going on in the picture. I did not like the fourth art piece. I thought the colors were dark and there was too much going on in the scene. It was disturbing and I didn't like the looks on all of their faces. I feel like young kids would like the last painting as well because it would relate to them the most. I have never been huge in to looking at art pieces that are like this, so it was hard for me to really sit and analyze what I thought of them.

Word Count: 344

Blog Post 13

The movie Validation had a good message to send to others. It made me realize how little things can help make a persons day. When the movie started I thought it was going to be about shopping and getting validations so that you do not have to pay for parking. As the movie progressed I came to see that this was not the case. The main character would validate the customers by telling them a compliment. The garage started to get packed everyone wanted to feel good and get validated. He could make even the grumpiest people smile until he meets the girl of his dreams who does not smile. How is he going to bring that smile out? The movie made me laugh because it was really cheezy. The acting was mediocre, but I felt like the actors were able to get the point across they were trying to make. If a well known actor like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Gardner were in this movie, I would have enjoyed it more.The movie was in black and white and so it didn't grab my attention as much as it would have with color.

I enjoyed the underlying message of validating others to make them feel happy and smile. I feel like now days we could use somebody in a parking garage that would give us compliments. I think that compliments can go a long way and I believe that this movie showed that. Over all I thought the acting was a bit corny. The movie gave me a good laugh though and I felt like I learned a good message from the movie. I feel that people who are angry and don't smile would benefit well from watching this movie, and maybe put a smile on there face and that smile would rub off on others around.

Word Count: 309

Blog Post #12

The book I am going to recommend is called One Tuesday Morning. The novel is Fiction. It is written by Karen Kingsbury. It was one of those books that I just couldn't put down. It is an emotionally gripping story of two men, one a firefighter the other a business worker. They were both in the Twin Towers on the day of 9/11. Only one of them will survive. Having lost his memory he has to try and remember who he once was. The only problem is he does not like who he used to be. He will have to reach deep down inside himself to find faith and love. I loved the characters in this novel I became emotionally attached to all of them . I felt the pain of the families who lost their loved ones. If you are looking for a nice romance book to sit and cuddle up by the fire this is the book for you. I could read this book over and over again. I feel that if you are struggling to find faith or are trying to change some things about yourself this would be a book that you might relate to.

I loved how the author always kept me interested. I am one that has a hard time staying with a book if it doesn't hook me. This book is a tear jerker and I love books that bring out emotion in me. The book took me to a different place away from all of my day to day worries and cares. I couldn't get my husband to read this book so it may just be a ladies book. One of my favorite scenes in the book is when the daughter and mom who had lost their dad and husband took bloones outside to fly away up to their beloved one. All in all I loved this novel and I would suggest it if you are looking for a good easy read.

Word count: 330

Cliche

1. Silent as a sleepy newborn baby taking a nap

2. Clean as my bedroom

3. Hungry as a vampire thirsting for blood

4. Pretty as a princess

5. Fit as a model walking down the runway

6. Easy as buying some shoes

7. Cold as a popsicle on a hot summer day

8. Smooth as my legs after a shower

9. Blind as a beggar

10. Strong as Dwayne Johnson lifting weights

Word Count: 73

How to bathe my dog

First thing is first, you will need to grab a towel, a large cup and some hyper allergenic dog shampoo. You can purchase these at Wal-Mart or any pet store. Second you need to place them by the tub so that they are in close reach. Now comes the hard part, you have to corner my dog because for some reason he always knows when his baths are coming and he hates his baths. Once you have my dog cornered you have to pick him up and carry him to the tub. Now you place him in the tub and make sure you tell him to stay by holding out your hand and saying "STAY'. If this is not done then he will jump out of the tub and run as fast as he can. Turn the faucet to the left and turn the knob until you reach a mildly warm temperature. Not to hot and not to cold or it will hurt his skin. Once you have the right temperature, grab your cup and fill it to the top with the water. Pour over his bum and move towards his neck. Once his body is completely wet, you put about three pee size drops of shampoo and lather all over his body. Once he is completely lather you fill the cup back up with water and rinse over his fur. The next step is near impossible but you have to show my dog that are the boss. Fill the cup with water and then cover his eyes with your hand and pour the water over his face. He will wiggle and wiggle but you have to hold his head steal to get it wet. Once his face is wet you put one pee size drop of shampoo in your hands and lather the hair on his face but do not get close to the eyes. When his face is lathered you then fill the cup back up with water and slowly pour it over his face while covering his eyes.

Now that he is clean and soaking wet, grab the towel and cover him like a baby and lift him out of the tub. Before he runs away hold him and rub the towel over his body. This will only last a few seconds because he will run. Let him run around the house for a bit shaking until he has calmed a bit down. Grab a blow dryer and call him over to you before you turn it on. Once he is sitting by you then you can turn it on, but do not turn it on hot. You have to keep the temperature on warm. Only blow dry his body he does not like his face blow dried. Now that his body is dry you can brush his hair with a dog brush. He only lasts a few minutes before he runs off so brush as fast as you can. Now comes the final touches, spray dog with pet spritz caramel apple scent. Only spray on his body. Now you have one clean mildly sad puppy. He hates baths.

Word Count: 523

Poetry Packet

I really enjoyed the uniqueness of the poems that were in the poetry packet. My favorite poems are the ones I can comprehend easy. The World Is to Much With Us by James Wright was a bit over my head but I really like the poem When We Two Parted, I connected with the poem because I have lost people I have been close to. I think writing poems is a good way for somebody to express how their emotions. I have always struggled when it has come to writing poems but I like reading them. I feel that everyone interprets poems differently depending on the emotions they are feeling themselves. I feel like many could interpret the Barbie Doll poem differently. I felt like the poem was about how the world views women now days. We are all supposed to look like a barbie doll and if we don't then we are not pretty but I feel that the poem expresses that many women try to change there looks to look like the image of a barbie doll.

I felt the poem To My Dear Loving Husband was really sweet. My husband wrote me a poem once and it meant a lot to me that he would take the time to write the poem for me. I like the line My love is such that rivers cannot quench. It puts good imagery in your mind of how much move the writer has for her husband. I have noticed that after reading these poems many of them have lots of imagery. The poem Resume was really simple and it felt like a darker poem.

The last time I wrote a poem was when I was in High School. I enjoyed these poems and they made me really think about what the deeper meaning was.

Word Count: 304

What am I doing this weekend?

I am not excited for the weekend. I have to work Friday night and a double shift on Saturday. I hate working on the weekends because the restaurant gets so busy and I am running around trying to meat everybody's needs but my own. I have so much homework that I have to get done by Sunday and I do not know how I am going to get that all done when I am working all the time. I bet I won't even make that good of money.

ARGH MATY, I have to go tell da capn I am sorin over sees to da island of deads man land. Capn Joe boot leg is gonna be wantin his um treasure of gold but I gonna get there first, steal that there treasure. I gonna take some purty women with me to keep me company. I bring alung sum liqur as well to satisfy these here taste buds. woh ho woh ho a pirates life for me.

I am so excited for the weekend!! I am going to the basketball game with my friends and we are going to meet up with some cute boys that we met at the mall last week. What am I going to wear? I need to go shopping! Hopefully, I can convince my mom to let me stay the night at Allies house on Friday. She always uses the excuse that she is out of gas but I saw her tank and it is full, so she will for sure have enough gas.

Mom, this weekend I want to go to Chuky Cheeze to eat some pizza and ice cream! Please!!! mom please!!! I picked up my toys from off of the floor like you asked me. I will be a really good kid!! Please mom!

Friday night and Saturday day I am scheduled to work. I am really stoked because I have Saturday night off! My husband and I are going to have our friends over to play games and eat dinner. I need to get the house all clean and the dishes done before this weekend. I hope that I can make some money this weekend in tips so that I can go buy a new shirt this weekend.

Word Count: 367

When I was a child..

I was a very happy child, which is why it is weird that I don't recall a lot of memories from when I was little. I know that I would always make people laugh and people enjoyed being around me. One of the memories that does stick out for me is when I was about three. I loved candy and I wanted to get the vitamin gummy bears that were up on the top shelf in the kitchen, so I figured out a way, I got the tallest chair in the kitchen and climbed like a monkey, opened the top shelf and pulled out the flinstone vitamins. I went in to my bedroom shut the door and locked it. I remember that after about the first ten vitamins they started to not taste so good, but I kept eating them anyways. That is the last I remember of the story, but i have been told that my parents had to find the key to the room open it up and they immediately took me to the hospital. They had to pump my stomach to get me to throw all of them up. I know that now I should probably hate candy or any kind of gummys, but I think I love them even more.

Now I can not think of what to write. I really have a hard time remembering any memories. I wish my parents had video taped me as a child so that I could see what I was like. I still can not think of anything. As I got older around five years of age, I remember hanging out with a lot of my neighbor friends. I was super shy and I wanted everybody to really like me. The timer is up! Yuppy!

Word Count:296

When I wrote this I had a hard time recalling any memories other then the one story I have been told many times. I don't know if I have a bad memory or what has happened to the details of my childhood over the years. I did better then I thought I would do, I would stop to think and remember that I need to keep writing.

A sound I hate

Wide awake, I lay on my bed staring in to the black darkness of my bedroom, tick tock tick tock is all I can here. The noise getting louder and louder, how do people deal with these clocks in their bedroom? I pull my pillow over my head to cover my ears. Panting for air, a couple minutes later I realize that covering my face is not going to work. I here the sound again, tick tock! I feel like I am stuck in the middle of a Peter Pan movie, is there a crocodile nearby? The feel of the warm covers over me, makes it especially hard to get out of bed to destroy that annoying sound. I decide to ignore it, I have to be up in three hours anyways, but there is no ignoring the sound of a ticking clock.

I pull my warm covers off of my body and step out of my bed. I stumble over the laundry basket and stub my toe. My toe feels as though it has been smashed by a hammer. Crying in pain, I venture to find the light switch. Reaching and feeling everything around me I finally find the light switch, I flip it on. "Turn off the light," my husband yells. I ignore his request, and continue on to rid my ears of this wretched sound. I yank the clock of the wall and stuff it in a cabinet under the towels in our bathroom. Satisfied, I turn of the light and crawl back in to bed.

Dozing my eyes, I start to drift away, when I hear the faint sound of a tick tock, tick tock.

Ripping my covers off I head straight to the bathroom, pull open the drawer, lift up the towels and pull out my clock. I walk outside, open the smelly garbage can and throw the clock in harder then I had planned. Finally the sound stops, peace and quiet. I crawl back in to bed for the last time. Closing my eyes I sigh with relief. I lay awake again, my husband is snoring. I put a pillow over his head and fall back asleep, five minutes later my alarm clock goes off. What a night!

Word Count:371

My First Job

When I look back on the memories of my very first job, many of them are pleasant. I was fifteen years old and I was ready for a job, at least I thought I was. There was only one problem, most employers were looking for people to hire with experience. Unfortunately, the only experience I had was babysitting and cleaning. After many failed attempts of getting a job, I decided I was going to try one more place, El Sol Mexican Restaurant. A few days later, I had come to the conclusion that I was just not employee material. To my surprise I got a phone call from the manager of El Sol, he wanted to schedule an interview with me! My nerves kept building until I felt like I was going to throw up, then it came time for the interview. Steve, the manger, asked me many odd questions that I was not prepared for. I was sure I had blown my only chance at getting a job. The interview ended and Steve offered me the job right after the interview and he wanted me to start as soon as possible. I couldn't believe it!!

Day one of work I was more nervous then I was for the interview. I walked in all dressed and ready for my first day. I was being trained as a hostess, and then later would be trained as a waitress. I had no idea that people could be so demeaningly rude! With in one day of work I learned that people do not like to wait for food, and when people are hungry they are grumpy and inpatient. Training ended and after a few months I got trained as a waitress. My first day of waitressing consisted of spilling a Diet Coke all over an old man, messing up a few of my orders, and crying all the way home. As I started to get the hang of things, I really liked waitressing. There were some days when I wanted to hang up my apron and walk away, but those were few compared to the good days I had. I felt on top of the world coming home with a bundle of money in my pocket. If I could make this good of money every day then waitressing was worth it.

Word Count: 380 words

My First Kiss

Sitting in the passenger seat, my stomach started churning. I have never felt like this before, my palms were getting sweaty and my heart was racing. How could this be happening? I have never even looked at a guy before, let alone gone on a date with one. What am I doing anyways? I am only fifteen, my parents would be furious if they knew I was here. On the other hand I can't deny how good it feels to have somebody like me, especially somebody so attractive and popular. I am in love, I think.
"Ashlee.. are you okay?" Suddenly I realized that his car was parked and everybody was out of the car but Jess and I. I wanted to get out, I could see some different kind of look in his eye that I had never seen before. Reaching over for the door handle, Jess grabbed my hand. My heart started thumping harder and harder, I looked in his eyes and I started to melt. I liked feeling this way.
"Where did everybody go?" I asked.
"Everyone went inside to get some ice cream, I wanted to be alone with you." he boldly stated.
I was craving ice cream, but not as much as I was craving his attention. How long could we just sit here and stare at each other? I couldn't imagine not too much longer. Then he took the plunge, closed eyes and purged lips, he started coming towards me. My instincts kicked in and I purged my lips and started tilting my head to the right. Our lips met and I started to see fireworks going off!! I never knew kissing could be this enjoyable. I started thinking that I was pretty dang good at this kissing thing. I started to pull away to make sure nobody was watching this once in a lifetime moment. No one was watching, I then knew that this was the guy I was going to marry.
Word Count: 327

Evil In Fiction

Respond to Card's conclusion that literature's moral value is determined by "the character of the person writing it and his skill in writing, and the character of the person reading it and his skill in reading." How does a work reflect, in some way, the character and skill of both the writer and reader?

I agree with Card on this conclusion, I believe that the moral value is determined by the reader and the writer. For example in the book Harry Potter, many readers perceptions of the moral value in this book are different. I have heard many say that the witchcraft and evil wizards is too dark for readers; when others feel that it is an uplifting book of good outweighing evil. J.K. Rowling was very skilled in the way she wrote these series because she did not drowned the book with negative things always happening. I feel that there were many good things going on at the same time. If the reader would look past the dark and realize that relationships are forming and Harry is becoming a better person from the trials he phases. The characters face challenges just as we all face challenges in our lives.

I have noticed that at times when I am down and depressed, I like reading down and depressing books so I can relate them to my life. When I am in a happier mood I like reading more uplifting books. Everybody's perception of good and bad is different, even the writers view of good and bad is different then the readers view. I have been trying to think of how skill is involved in writing and reading and the only thing I can think of is readers need to look for the deeper meaning in the book. I had a really hard time with this, when I read The Hunger Games. There were many times I almost just put the book down because it was too violent for me to read. When I tried to think of the deeper meanings of the book and what the writer was trying to convey, I was able to keep reading. I also thought any writer has to be skilled to write a book to keep everyone interested. I love reading and I enjoy how writers open up on their emotions about different things.

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English History

I have had a lot of experiences that have molded how I feel about writing. The problem is I am having a hard time remembering them. I do remember when I was in second grade and I just loved to write short stories. I always looked forward to writing workshop because it was something I really enjoyed doing. My thoughts towards writing changed dramatically as I went through grade school. I had a hard time brainstorming things to write about. I hated writing essays and I did not like doing the research for research papers. I took a novel writing class when I was a senior in high school. I don't remember quite how long the novel had to be, I just remember that I had to write like fifteen pages a day, it was pretty intense. I enjoyed not having any restrictions on what to write about. I like everything to be perfect so it was really hard for me to write such a big novel with such little time. I felt like this class was extrememly stressfull.

I have a journal but I do not write in it. I always buy one with the intent of writing in it, but I never do. I don't think that what I write is very interesting. I read my husbands journal and I enjoy reading it because he is entertaining, then I will read something I write and feel like it is boring. I am intimidated to write many things for example, I don't like posting a status on Facebook because I feel like I can't come up with anything clever. I know this is silly but I have a really hard time not comparing my writing with others. The only thing I am comfortable writing is when I text others, but occasionally I will get intimidated by this as well.

I have had quite a few English teachers but the one that stands out the most was my second grade teacher, I felt like she thought I was a creative writer. I have a really hard time not getting down on myself over bad grades. I had a class last semester where we had to write a family application paper and I got a D on it. I took that D to heart and I hated writing even more then I had before.
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About Me

My name is Ashlee Hauber and I am a freshman this year. I have been married for two in a half years and don't have any children at the moment. I guess you could say my child is my dog Chewy. He is a yorkie shitzu mixture and is very cute! My husband and I live in Logan, Utah and are both going to school and working.

This is my second semester at Utah State. I have decided to go in to Family and Child Development but am still contemplating changing my major to a Vet Tech. I love animals and I love children so I am having a hard time deciding what I would like to do. I graduated from high school in 2008. I went to a dental assisting program at Bridgerland and then decided I would like to further my education and get a degree in Family and Child Development. I wish I would have started college right after I graduated, but here I am, 21, starting right from the beginning.

I am taking English 1010 because it is a required course. It has been a while since I have taken any English classes and I have to say, English is not one of my stronger subjects. Hopefully that will change after taking this class. I love to read and I love finding a good book that I just can't put down. I have never felt like I am that great of a writer and have always been a little intimidated when it comes to writing.

I am really excited for this class and hope to be able to learn more about what it takes to be a good writer, and hopefully gain some knowledge in the grammar department. Again, not one of my strengths.

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