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, SAVEYOUR 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"). 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.
All narration has a purpose to share with the audience that uses flashback or flash-forward and sensory details. In the short story “Araby” the narrator uses first person flashes back to his childhood. He uses sensory details to describe how, as a child, he admired a girl at all times of the day and wanted to go to the bazaar but in the end got to the bazaar too late. In “My Father in the Navy” the narrator tells the story in first person. He flashes back to when he was a child and uses sensory details to describe how he longed to see his father return home to him.
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.
In Mayblum’s “The Price We Pay”, the story exemplifies both man vs. man and man vs. self, in my opinion. It exemplifies man vs. man because Mayblum has to survive against what another man has done. He does not let the terrorist, who crashed into the Twin Towers, let him lose hope at surviving the devastating event or it will tear the nation apart. The story also exemplifies man vs. self because he has to fight to try to survive and escape from the building. He also blames himself for some of the deaths because he feels he caused them by urging rescuers to hurry to rescue his friends who were left behind.
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.
The Dangers of Drugs
Many young adults do not realize the affects that drugs can have. I, on the other hand, do. As a child, growing up in a house where drugs were distributed and bought often, I saw the affects it had on people in the worst ways possible. It destroyed my mother’s body in the most grotesque ways. My own father was a high school dropout who merely lost sight of his future due to yearning for drugs at all times of the day. I even had a time when I was offered drugs and left with a decision to make. That’s I why I am writing this journal for you, my son, so that you may take the higher road that will lead you to the path of success and so you will steer clear of the dangers of drugs.
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
The target audience for this advertisement is for business men or women. The advertisement has a white background with the object displayed largely on it. It says that it is the "runs better on America's largest and most reliable 3g network". It also shows where you can buy this item and who makes this item. The purpose of this advertisement is to persuade business workers to buy this new and improved, sleek phone.
This advertisement has a bright green background. It also has dark green with the product it is advertising on the page multiple times. At the bottom of advertisement it reads “Bachelor Party”. The audience it would be for is for those who like to party and those who are of age. Lastly it had the product displayed with the label off of it so that you can see what’s stored in the container. The product advertised in Tuborg. It is a type of alcoholic beverage. I believe that the advertisement is effective. The bright color it displays in the advertisement is appealing to the eyes. Also the words at the bottom indicate that this beverage would be ideal for those who like to party or are of age. The decoration of the advertisement is the most effective feature of it. It grabs people’s attention. Also the pretty designs of it and the way that they display the drink makes people want to buy it. The advertisement is effective.
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
I recently saw an advertisement in a magazine that was advertised poorly. The page has a model fairly close up on it. The advertisement reads "SOCIAL TRENDS: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HERE AND NOW". The model is dressed in the clothes you can purchase. Also it says the name of the place where what i being advertised, can be purchased.
I believe this ad is advertised poorly. The advertisement does not display enough information about what they are trying to sell. Also it does not tell where you can purchase their items from. They should go into dept about what they sell there. they should also show the products you can purchase there or list them.
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
This advertisement has a bright green background. It also has dark green with the product it is advertising on the page multiple times. At the bottom of advertisement it reads “Bachelor Party”. The audience it would be for is for those who like to party and those who are of age. Lastly it had the product displayed with the label off of it so that you can see what’s stored in the container. The product advertised in Tuborg. It is a type of alcoholic beverage. I believe that the advertisement is effective. The bright color it displays in the advertisement is appealing to the eyes. Also the words at the bottom indicate that this beverage would be ideal for those who like to party or are of age. The decoration of the advertisement is the most effective feature of it. It grabs people’s attention. Also the pretty designs of it and the way that they display the drink makes people want to buy it. The advertisement is effective.
Journal Prompt 7. What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para
The Tweens demonstrate behaviors such as feeling that they are not allowed to be interested in as a child. An example that she uses is when she tells about how girls will put sheets over the dolls so that no one will see them. Another social behavior of tweens is that they become obsessed with whichever celebrity is popular at that time such as when she says girls will have posters hung in their rooms of Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet. The last tween social behavior she discusses is that they become very obsessive about they way they look and how they dress. Tweens merely try to grow up "too fast".
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
In the lottery the community engages in drawing names every now and then to determine who will be stoned and killed in there community. Often times today's society will engage in certain behaviors where they will all engage in group think. One area where individuals engage in group think is drugs. Although it is not right, if others are engaging in it then so will they. Another way individuals engage in group think is in gangs. People will kill others with a group of people. The examples are dangerous, but they are group think that people engage in.
Journal Prompt 9. Discuss one poem and one short story similarity concerning characters, plots, settings, conflicts, or themes. 2 paragraphs
Contrast and Comparison In the short story “A Rose for Emily” and the short story “The Lottery” they have conflicts. The conflicts are different in the manner that they happen in but they are the same in the end result.Both of the short stories involve the death of a person but they differ in the manner that the person dies in. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, Emily reserves herself from society after the passing of her beloved father. She remains kept to herself and isn’t seen much in society until she marries. After she marries she goes out more to the grocery store and such. Then after her husband passes she goes to a store to get arsenic. She takes the poison and dies. In the short story “The Lottery” the town gathers once a year for a tradition they call the lottery. At the beginning of the story it seems as if something good is going to come from this gathering despite a few foreshadowing events such as when the children are gathering small pebbles. Then we the town is gathered together they draw pieces of paper. Whoever has the paper with the dot on it is the one who gets stoned. In the end, Mrs. Dunbar is the one who gets stoned and killed. Both short stories are similar in the manner of which the person dies but they are the same in that they do die and even though society sees it coming they do not attempt to prevent it. The townspeople knew that when Ms. Emily purchased the arsenic that she was purchasing it with the intentions of killing herself. Though they knew this they did not attempt to stop her, in fact, they thought it was best for her to just die. Just as in “The Lottery” they knew that at the end of the event that one of them would be dead yet they go about it carelessly and not caring who dies, as long as it is not them. Both of the short stories are similar and different.They are similar in that in the end of the story have a death in the end and the townspeople do not attempt to stop it. They did not attempt to prevent Ms. Emily from killing herself and they did not prevent Mrs. Dunbar from getting stoned even though both societies saw it coming. The manner they died in were different though. Ms. Emily died from suicide and Mrs. Dunbar died from being stones. Both short stories have their similarities and their contrast.
Journal Prompt 10. In Walker's Beauty, discuss the issues that caused Walker to lose her self-esteem. 2 paragraphs Beauty Within In the short story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Walker she struggles with the way she looks. As a child she describes herself as a beautiful girl with remarkable beauty. She gives her Easter poems on Sundays with confidence and people always talk about how pretty she is. Her father chooses her of the 8 children to go to the fair. Her sister Ruth makes her pretty dresses which only enhance her beauty further. She is always very confident about her beauty until one day her brother accidentally strikes her in the eye with a BB gun. She then becomes scarred in that eye and has a hard time seeing out of it. Shortly after becoming practically blind in that eye she begins to lose her confidence. She begins to fail in school and other children begin to pick on her for being different. She doesn’t feel beautiful anymore. She struggles with this problem day to day and prays that she will be beautiful again. She faces this problem until one day her greatest fear comes true when her daughter asks her about her eye. Instead of making fun of her eye though she asks where her mother got the world in her eye. Walker then no longer feels self conscious about it anymore and has found happiness again with herself.
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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").
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.
All narration has a purpose to share with the audience that uses flashback or flash-forward and sensory details. In the short story “Araby” the narrator uses first person flashes back to his childhood. He uses sensory details to describe how, as a child, he admired a girl at all times of the day and wanted to go to the bazaar but in the end got to the bazaar too late. In “My Father in the Navy” the narrator tells the story in first person. He flashes back to when he was a child and uses sensory details to describe how he longed to see his father return home to him.
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.
In Mayblum’s “The Price We Pay”, the story exemplifies both man vs. man and man vs. self, in my opinion. It exemplifies man vs. man because Mayblum has to survive against what another man has done. He does not let the terrorist, who crashed into the Twin Towers, let him lose hope at surviving the devastating event or it will tear the nation apart. The story also exemplifies man vs. self because he has to fight to try to survive and escape from the building. He also blames himself for some of the deaths because he feels he caused them by urging rescuers to hurry to rescue his friends who were left behind.
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.
The Dangers of Drugs
Many young adults do not realize the affects that drugs can have. I, on the other hand, do. As a child, growing up in a house where drugs were distributed and bought often, I saw the affects it had on people in the worst ways possible. It destroyed my mother’s body in the most grotesque ways. My own father was a high school dropout who merely lost sight of his future due to yearning for drugs at all times of the day. I even had a time when I was offered drugs and left with a decision to make. That’s I why I am writing this journal for you, my son, so that you may take the higher road that will lead you to the path of success and so you will steer clear of the dangers of drugs.
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
The target audience for this advertisement is for business men or women. The advertisement has a white background with the object displayed largely on it. It says that it is the "runs better on America's largest and most reliable 3g network". It also shows where you can buy this item and who makes this item. The purpose of this advertisement is to persuade business workers to buy this new and improved, sleek phone.
This advertisement has a bright green background. It also has dark green with the product it is advertising on the page multiple times. At the bottom of advertisement it reads “Bachelor Party”. The audience it would be for is for those who like to party and those who are of age. Lastly it had the product displayed with the label off of it so that you can see what’s stored in the container.
The product advertised in Tuborg. It is a type of alcoholic beverage. I believe that the advertisement is effective. The bright color it displays in the advertisement is appealing to the eyes. Also the words at the bottom indicate that this beverage would be ideal for those who like to party or are of age. The decoration of the advertisement is the most effective feature of it. It grabs people’s attention. Also the pretty designs of it and the way that they display the drink makes people want to buy it. The advertisement is effective.
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
I recently saw an advertisement in a magazine that was advertised poorly. The page has a model fairly close up on it. The advertisement reads "SOCIAL TRENDS: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HERE AND NOW". The model is dressed in the clothes you can purchase. Also it says the name of the place where what i being advertised, can be purchased.
I believe this ad is advertised poorly. The advertisement does not display enough information about what they are trying to sell. Also it does not tell where you can purchase their items from. They should go into dept about what they sell there. they should also show the products you can purchase there or list them.
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
This advertisement has a bright green background. It also has dark green with the product it is advertising on the page multiple times. At the bottom of advertisement it reads “Bachelor Party”. The audience it would be for is for those who like to party and those who are of age. Lastly it had the product displayed with the label off of it so that you can see what’s stored in the container.
The product advertised in Tuborg. It is a type of alcoholic beverage. I believe that the advertisement is effective. The bright color it displays in the advertisement is appealing to the eyes. Also the words at the bottom indicate that this beverage would be ideal for those who like to party or are of age. The decoration of the advertisement is the most effective feature of it. It grabs people’s attention. Also the pretty designs of it and the way that they display the drink makes people want to buy it. The advertisement is effective.
Journal Prompt 7. What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para
The Tweens demonstrate behaviors such as feeling that they are not allowed to be interested in as a child. An example that she uses is when she tells about how girls will put sheets over the dolls so that no one will see them. Another social behavior of tweens is that they become obsessed with whichever celebrity is popular at that time such as when she says girls will have posters hung in their rooms of Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet. The last tween social behavior she discusses is that they become very obsessive about they way they look and how they dress. Tweens merely try to grow up "too fast".
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
In the lottery the community engages in drawing names every now and then to determine who will be stoned and killed in there community. Often times today's society will engage in certain behaviors where they will all engage in group think. One area where individuals engage in group think is drugs. Although it is not right, if others are engaging in it then so will they. Another way individuals engage in group think is in gangs. People will kill others with a group of people. The examples are dangerous, but they are group think that people engage in.
Journal Prompt 9. Discuss one poem and one short story similarity concerning characters, plots, settings, conflicts, or themes. 2 paragraphs
Contrast and Comparison
In the short story “A Rose for Emily” and the short story “The Lottery” they have conflicts. The conflicts are different in the manner that they happen in but they are the same in the end result. Both of the short stories involve the death of a person but they differ in the manner that the person dies in.
In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, Emily reserves herself from society after the passing of her beloved father. She remains kept to herself and isn’t seen much in society until she marries. After she marries she goes out more to the grocery store and such. Then after her husband passes she goes to a store to get arsenic. She takes the poison and dies.
In the short story “The Lottery” the town gathers once a year for a tradition they call the lottery. At the beginning of the story it seems as if something good is going to come from this gathering despite a few foreshadowing events such as when the children are gathering small pebbles. Then we the town is gathered together they draw pieces of paper. Whoever has the paper with the dot on it is the one who gets stoned. In the end, Mrs. Dunbar is the one who gets stoned and killed.
Both short stories are similar in the manner of which the person dies but they are the same in that they do die and even though society sees it coming they do not attempt to prevent it. The townspeople knew that when Ms. Emily purchased the arsenic that she was purchasing it with the intentions of killing herself. Though they knew this they did not attempt to stop her, in fact, they thought it was best for her to just die. Just as in “The Lottery” they knew that at the end of the event that one of them would be dead yet they go about it carelessly and not caring who dies, as long as it is not them.
Both of the short stories are similar and different. They are similar in that in the end of the story have a death in the end and the townspeople do not attempt to stop it. They did not attempt to prevent Ms. Emily from killing herself and they did not prevent Mrs. Dunbar from getting stoned even though both societies saw it coming. The manner they died in were different though. Ms. Emily died from suicide and Mrs. Dunbar died from being stones. Both short stories have their similarities and their contrast.
Journal Prompt 10. In Walker's Beauty, discuss the issues that caused Walker to lose her self-esteem. 2 paragraphs
Beauty Within
In the short story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Walker she struggles with the way she looks. As a child she describes herself as a beautiful girl with remarkable beauty. She gives her Easter poems on Sundays with confidence and people always talk about how pretty she is. Her father chooses her of the 8 children to go to the fair. Her sister Ruth makes her pretty dresses which only enhance her beauty further.
She is always very confident about her beauty until one day her brother accidentally strikes her in the eye with a BB gun. She then becomes scarred in that eye and has a hard time seeing out of it. Shortly after becoming practically blind in that eye she begins to lose her confidence. She begins to fail in school and other children begin to pick on her for being different. She doesn’t feel beautiful anymore. She struggles with this problem day to day and prays that she will be beautiful again. She faces this problem until one day her greatest fear comes true when her daughter asks her about her eye. Instead of making fun of her eye though she asks where her mother got the world in her eye. Walker then no longer feels self conscious about it anymore and has found happiness again with herself.
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