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1. Practice clicking **Home: Composition 1010 J01** and your name to make sure the links work. 2. Click **"edit"** to type in this white space. 3. Notice each journal prompt numbered from 1 to 10. Type your response below each prompt. Be sure to leave two spaces between your answer and the prompt. 4. When you have finished typing your answer, **SAVE** **YOUR WORK** by clicking the **"save"** button at the top of the page. 5. You should also keep a backup of your work by highlighting each entry (click and drag over the sentences). Then copy (hold down the **ctrl button on your keyboard and then "C"** ). Open up a **Word** document. The paste onto that document (hold down the **ctrl button on your keyboard and then "V"**).

In both the poem and short stories, the authors use both first person qualities and sensory details. It is important to use first person qualities in order to tell the story exactly how you want it told. Also, it is important to use sensory details in order to grab the reader's attention.
 * Journal Prompt 1.** Cofer's "My Father in the Navy" and Joyce's short story "Araby" are autobiographical or narrative in nature. Review the chapter in the Longman concerning the rhetorical mode Narration (pgs. 109-116). Discuss two narration qualities you see in the poem and the short story collectively. 1 para.


 * Journal Prompt 2.** Conflict and conflict resolution are narration qualities. Conflicts can be man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self. Describe one example from Mayblum's "The Price We Pay" that exemplifies one of the aforementioned areas of conflict. 1 para.

Adam Mayblum was faced with man vs. man conflict in "The Price We Pay". This is because he had to deal with the emotions and the people in Tower 1 along with trying to understand what his parents were tryin to tell him. He had to deal with the struggles of trying to get out of the tower. He had to face the obsticles that came up on the way down the stairs and the obsticles once he got out of the building. Therefore, he was dealing with man vs. man conflict.


 * Journal Prompt 3.** Use this journal to build your introductory paragraph for Narrative Paper Assignment 1. Remember your introductory paragraph must consist of a clear thesis statement and clear supporting advanced organizers. 1 para.

Keeping simple mottos in mind will always remind you to never give up in life. Growing up, I struggled through many hard times during my teenage years. While I talk to you today, I want you to realize three important mottos that I learned, and that helped me during my struggles. The first one being that during life’s toughest battles, stay strong in what you believe is true. Second, never let anyone tell you that you can not achieve what you have already set your mind to achieving. Third, no matter how many friends may come and go, learn that there will always be one friend that you can count on for everything. If you keep these things in mind, it will be an easy reminder to never give up when you feel as if life has failed you.

For this slogan, you're target audience should be parents, and possibly children who have the dream of growing up and being champions. The sensory details you could use could be to the effect of having something look like it's a chanpionship race, and the winner of that race had eaten a bowl of Wheaties right before the race. With this, you are giving the audience a chance to actually see what the slogan represents. The purpose of this slogan is to confience those who eat Wheaties for breakfast that they will be champions.
 * Journal Prompt 4.** Find an [|advertising slogan] and write a descriptive paragraph about what an ad for that slogan should contain: discuss target audience, sensory details, and purpose. 1 para
 * Breakfast of Champions*

This advertisement has a young, or middle aged man, who looks very umgroomed. He is walking through the airport and notices a billboard that reads "So easy a Caveman can do it". This, apparently, offends this guy. He begins to shake his head in shame. I believe this is bad advertisement, because i don't fully understand the concept of selling car insurance by saying "so easy a caveman can do it". To me, it doesn't add up, nor does it make sense.
 * Journal Prompt 5.** Read this [|article] about bad advertisement. Discuss one advertisement you've seen or heard that you believe is poor advertisement--describe the ad so that a person reading your discription could visualize the ad without seeing it. Then discuss why you believe the ad is bad. 2 para

In this advertisement, a women has a pair of socks on a board, one that has been washed with an off-brand product, and the other that has been washed with this name brand product. The lady walks around the park asking different people which one is brighter. Everyone points out that the sock on the right is the brightest one. Towards the end of the advertisement, a dog comes to the board and pulls the same sock off and runs with it. The sock that was cleaned with this cetain product was the sock everyone has mentioned was brighter. This is a good advertisement, because it not only shows the difference in how the two seperate products clean an item, it also shows that most people will notice the difference.
 * Journal Prompt 6.** Search the internet or a magazing to find a "good" advertisement. Describe the ad so that a reader may visualize it without seeing the ad. Discuss why you believe the advertisement is good. 2 para


 * Journal Prompt 7.** What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para

The teens in tweens are demonstrating the social behaviors of being sexually active, wearing suductive clothing, and listening to expilicit music. These tweens are trying to act older than their actual age says they are. They want to try to fit in with the "in" crowd, and want to express thay they also can be "cool". However, if we, as a society, actually looked at the behavior of everyone we would be able to see that every person has a way of acting different from their age to fit in.


 * Journal Prompt 8.** In Jackson's "The Lottery," one social behavior that the town engages in is group think, which can be loosely defined as individuals in a group refusing to go against the group. What other examples (at least 2) can you think of where individuals engage in group think in a dangerous manner? 1 para

Two other examples of dangerous group think are gangs. Gangs have initiations to invite other members in. These initiations tend to have some act of violence in them in order for the existing members of the gang to apprieciate what they have done. However, it goes both ways; if the existing member has done something wrong, the new members can control what they do also. Therefore, gangs can act as two different examples because violence goes both ways.


 * Journal Prompt 9.** Discuss one poem and one short story similarity concerning characters, plots, settings, conflicts, or themes. 2 paragraphs

In the short stories "A Rose for Emily" and "Araby", both narrators are similar in their infatuation with a person in their life. Both narrators are usually very calm and recluse, but their love for a certain person in their lives causes them to act in unusual ways. Both narrators have very recluse lifestyles, but this person of interest causes them to step out and take a chance. Another way that the narrators in both "A Rose for Emily" and "Araby" are similar is in their conflicts. They do not both have the exact same conflict, but they do both experience conflict while performing the same task. Both narrators wanted to buy a gift from the store for their special someone, but when the narrator of "Araby" arrived at the store it was closed. In "A Rose for Emily", character of Miss Emily had conflict between people rumoring about her because she actually went to the store. These are ways that the characters in "Araby" and "A Rose for Emily" are similar.


 * Journal Prompt 10.** In Walker's //Beauty//, discuss the issues that caused Walker to lose her self-esteem. 2 paragraphs

In the story of Walker’s Beauty, Walker lost her self esteem due to a tragic accident with a bb gun. When Walker was a little girl up to the age of 8 she was a out going and confident. When Walker was 2 ½ years of age her momma dressed all the kids for the day to possibly go to the fair with their daddy and the woman he worked for. Walker was very confident that she was the prettiest of all the children and she deserved to go to the fair with their daddy. When Walker was 5 years old she had a speech at the Easter program. When Walker said her speech all the people in the church stop rustling their new crinoline and held their breath as she spoke. Walker new she looked pretty and all the people in the church applauded. When Walker was eight years old her brother shot her in the eye with a bb gun. Her eye started shooting with pain and she watched a tree fade as she starting loosing the sight in her right eye. In Walker’s right eye she not only lost her sight but a hideous cataract covered her eye. For the first time when Walker was eight she began to do poor in school, before the accident Walker had been something of a whiz. Finally when Walker was fourteen years old her favorite brother and his wife took her to a local hospital and had the big glob removed from her eye. Almost immediately she became a different person. Now that she raised her head and was no longer ashamed of how she look she had plenty of friends. Now that she has raised her head her class work comes from her lips as faulty as the Easter speeches when she was 5 years old. Walker leaves high school as valedictorian, most popular student, and queen.


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