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According to the reflection writing video the one stage talks about timeline. In the life choice memoir, I first did a timeline on all important conversation I had with certain individuals. All those people had a huge impact on how I made my decision. On my life choice memoir, I work by myself since it was the biggest decision I made in life. That approach was excellent since I knew how I was feeling. Until this day I remember I felt and everything I went through. The rhetorical mode I was using is narration and description on my process. I wrote this project starting in the beginning of the semester and I was able to adjust and revise throughout the course. Mostly at home in a quiet room with no distraction. Even though my daughter interrupts me very often to see what I am doing. It was a terrific approach because she gave me the chance to step away and gather more thoughts. Then I came back to my paper and revise or edit or add things that needed to be done. I choose to write about my decision because I never put it on to paper or talk about. I don't want others to see me as a bad mom for the debate on keeping my child or not. Everyone judges in the world and things are better left unsaid. It was a good approach because it allows me to feel and revisit the past and why I made the decision then and still would do the same thing over again. If I had more time, I would move past the pregnancy and into the first year with her. Also would add more scenes and more of my own process and thinking on a day to day basis.
Watched a movie called Where to Invade Next by Michael Moore. Where he travel to different countries and shows what he wants to bring back to the United States. My link to blog post 8. Topic 1: Free Healthcare Question: How would free health care in a America impact the economy? Free health care would impact the economy trendmously
Writing About Our Course Stories [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Re-Genre]: Please complete the following:
6) Writing About A Good Man is Hard To Find [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Re-Genre]: Please complete the following:
Dooms Day Well then, why don't you pray? dragging a yellow shirt shirt came flying landed on his shoulder grandmother couldn't name shirt reminded her of the crime don't matter if you do one thing or another kill a man or take a tire off his car sooner or later you're going to forget what you done and just be punished for it. pistol shot from the woods hitting the ground not to shoot a lady Lady there never was a body Bailey Boy, Bailey Boy Jesus only One ever raised the dead enjoy the few minutes got left the best way Why you're one of my babies reached out, touched on the shoulder sprang back, snake had bitten him shot three times through chest red-rimmed and pale and defenseless 5) Writing About Bullet in the Brain [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Re-Genre]: Please complete the following:
Introduction: The Bullet in the Brain was about a man that couldn't face society and his self conflict through his everyday life. He had to analysis everything that came into his path with words and choice from others. Which eventually got him killed because he could not control his opinion to himself, in away that was antagonizing someone. In today's story a man was shot inside a bank when a robbery was being held by three gunman which are not yet identify yet.
It was summer afternoon where all the villagers got together to draw names for what they called The Lottery. The outcome in the end was astonishing to the reader because the expectation is dark and unexpected.Literary Analysis: Write a 50-word list that identifies one or more of the following components of subtext: themes, motifs, symbols, conflicts. The black box was a motifs in the story with how old and used it was every year for a long time. The villagers did not want to break tradition that has been going on for as long as the could remember. Another theme in the story other than tradition was life choices, since other villages were changing and demolishing the lottery has time goes on. Most human being are afraid of change and the outcome of the change that's why they keep things the same most of the time.
Argumentation: Write a 200-word argument that responds to this question: What current American tradition shares similarities with the lottery tradition in the village? Please provide a hyperlink to a current digital newspaper article that shows the connection. Narration: My friend and I grew up together since we were five years old. In the summer days we went to the pool all day everyday unless we were at our sporting events. We played soccer,softball and basketball together, we even slept over each other houses every weekend and all summer long. In 1998 we both had tragic situation in our life, my father passed away from a heart attack and her mother passed away from cancer. You would think this would grow us closer together since both experiencing the loss of a parent so close to us. Unforntaully she took another path with other friends into a direction I didn't see myself following. Of course I could of kept hanging out with her and doing the same stuff she did, which was not good things at all. I made the choice at young age to keep going to school, staying involved with sports and choosing other friends to hang out with. Through the years I would think of her and wonder how she was doing with her life since we just cut all ties to each other and went into different directions. Now in our grown adult lives we did reconnect a year ago and found out we both had a kid around the same time. It is so nice having her in my life now since she was big part of my childhood, We thank each other that we didn't give up on trying to reconnect and finially coming together because we both were ready. The Yellow Wallpaper was about a women that just gave birth to a child and was not mental stable and had depression, this took place in the 1892. Her husband was a doctor and diagnosed her and believe when he took her to a house and put her in a room that would be a consider a cure to her diagnosed depression stage she was in. Context: Charlotte Perkins Stetson, January 1892, setting was 19th century. Subtext: Depression,mental instability, journal, women rights to choose.
Argumentation: The author did not have any choice in her own life story since that time women's rights did not exist. Women were treated like children, do what they were suppose to and told to her by there spouse. Since she had a husband that was a doctor and was caring for her, he had treatments in place and it seems like she had no decision making for her own health. Narration: I am very lucky that I have not experienced this in my life. Everything I have done up to now has been my decision and no one else's. There have been many influences in my life and some I agree with and some I don't. For instance, when I was pregnant and very young in my life. I was not sure on what my decision would be if I kept the child or give it up for adoption. My mom told me it would be better for me to give it up so my life could move on and not be such a struggle because I was not ready. I knew in my heart I could not do that, it would be very difficult and I don't think I would be able to live with that decision. Obviously my decision was not to and raise my child to best of my ability and have been doing good so far with the help of my mother. Interpret and annotate What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang). Lulu Wang's website: The entire podcast talks about how different cultures react. Context: Lulu Wang, Biography, April 22nd 2016, Recorded in the United States. Text: It’s a podcast which is talking about her grandmother that developed lung cancer, Her sister little Nini made the decision to not tell her about the disease she needs to fight and made the family agree to lie. It’s emotional due to all the lying and not expressing how they really feel about there loved one. It is serious since someone;s health should never be a mystery to them. Subtext: Is not telling Nini that she was sick in hopes she would recovery and beat the disease she was fighting and live her normal lifestyle.
Argumentation: I strongly disagree with the family’s decision on not telling her grandmother that she had a serious illness and could possibly not survive. She has the power to make her decision on her life and maybe say her last goodbyes and spend more time with the family and the ones she loves and care about. Wang’s grandmother could also have some business to take care of. For example she may want to plan her own funeral, where she would want to take her belongs. Some people knowing they are sick could put the fight of there life and survive the disease they are fighting. You never know someone’s will to live for the loved ones and themselves. Therefore it would not be fair for the individual not to know what is going on mental with there own health. The individual that is sick will eventually find out since the body would take a toll and give symptoms of different signs on what the body is going through. Then it would be to late for that individual to make any decision for themselves. Being one of the family members and lying makes you feel awkward and uncomfortable around the one that is sick. You are the one saying your last goodbyes and talking to the person that has no idea what is going on. You have every right as individual no matter how old you are, to know what is going on with your health and how you want to proceed and live your life. Narration: I have had to decision to make that were really tough in my life. One was my grandmother that was diagnosed with liver cancer. Since I was young, the details of her illness was not discussed with me. Since her husband did not disclose her illness to her because he thought she couldn't handle it. I believe if she knew of her illness she would of spent her last days entirely different instead of laying down and in the house all the time. When my mother told her when it was close because she asked, she seemed so disappointed. My grandmother was not able to say goodbye because the next day after my mother told her she went into the hospital and was on a breathing tube and tied down because she tried to take the tube out of her mouth. Secondly, my aunt was disgnosed with small cell lung cancer, which there is no cure but you can live for awhile with treatment. I believe my aunt shouldn't of known the full extent of her illness because as soon as she found out she gave up on life. Even though she was already going through tough times with selling her house and losing her job, knowing she has cancer kind of took the last straw on her. |
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