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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.
The poem "My Father in the Navy" and the story "Araby" both share two narration qualities collectively. They both share chronological flashbacks in their writing. "My Father in the Navy" is a person remembering back to expect his father’s arrival. "Araby" is a person remembering back to living in a small town and admiring a young girl. Both the poem and the story are first person and writing from experiences.
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.
The main character had to leave a man on the 52nd floor and then sent rescuers up to rescue him. After he got out of danger he found out that the man and the rescuers were killed. He felt terrible for not bringing the man down and for sending the rescuers up to face their death.
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.
Employers, I am writing this to explain how I came to choose Business Management as my career path. One reason I have chosen Business Management is because I understand and have empathy for employees needs. Another reason I have chosen Business Management is because I have good communication skills when dealing with employees and accomplishing tasks. Finally, I have chosen Business Management because I give effective directions on how to accomplish tasks productively.
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
There is a light gray background on the 8 x 101/2 sheet with off white silk sheer curtains swinging through a open balcony door with a light breeze. At the left hand side of sheeet is a gray oval shape bottle, half covering the sheet, leaving from backbone to face, with 1 ½ inch space from top of bottle to the head of the sheet and 1 ½ inch space from the bottom of bottle to the foot of the sheet. There is a 1x1 square scent pack in the center of the page right beside the bottle. There is a Black banner across the head of the sheet in the 1 ½ inch space ahead of the bottle. The banner is running from the backbone to the face of the sheet. The color of the banner is black with bold white type inside. At the bottom of the page across the bottom starting with the backbone side typed out across the page toward the face stopping about ¾ across the sheet is names and dates. On the bottom right hand side corner of the sheet is a number.
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 the background of my Ad, there is rocket fire that covers almost the entire page. In front of the rocket fire, ¾ of the size, is a huge part for an automobile. Across the top of the page is bold letters in grey that reads “STAINLESS STEEL”. Above the bold letters on top is small black type which says “BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF PERFORMANCE DIESEL TURBOS”. Across the bottom of the page are big bold grey shaded type “HIGH TECH TURBO” with lightning bolts and a web site in lower case letters under the type. I think you should put something extra on the Ad so woman or man could tell what the Ad was for. Maybe you should make the part smaller and add a fast race care in the background burning out. Or you could add someone looking at a motor of a car in the background.
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 entire Ad is all in black and white except for the red missing pieces of each puzzle. The Ad has eight snap shots on it. Four of the snap shots are large pictures cover ¾ of the size of the Ad. The other 4 pictures are side by side at the bottom of the Ad, backbone to face on the bottom ¼ size of the page. In the first snap shot on the upper left hand corner of the page is a picture of someone holding a slide hard plastic puzzle with their left hand and working the puzzle with their right hand. The puzzle is all mixed up, not yet solved. The snapshot on the right, which is the same size as the one on the left, is also a picture of the same slide hard plastic puzzle. This puzzle is being held by both hands and has already been solved. The image on the puzzle is of a little foreign boy about 18 months old wearing an old dirty gown sitting in dried cracked up dirt. One of the pieces of the puzzle is missing. The background of the missing puzzle is bright red with small white type inside that you can not read. The third picture is at the left hand side of the page under the first picture. This picture has the same content and picture has the second one. The picture is a little more close up and with more lighting in the picture. You can really see the dirt all over the little foreign boy. The fourth picture on the Ad, placed right under the second picture is a close up of the puzzle’s missing pieces. In the background all you can see is the little boy’s dirty hands, feet and legs. The dirt is all cracked up from looks to not enough water. The type inside the bright red missing piece reads “Missing a Piece?”The first picture on the bottom row of the Ad has a picture of the same puzzle solved but with a picture of a little boy about eight years of age sitting in the middle of an empty bowl out in a river. The second small picture on the bottom is solid black with white type on the bottom half of the page with information on how to donate money for these children. The third picture at the bottom is another picture of the hard plastic puzzle solved missing one of the pieces. The picture on this puzzle has a little girl about three sitting real still with a dirty white dress on looking very sad. She is sitting on a stone step of an old stone building. The last small picture on the right hand side of the page is exactly like the second picture at the bottom. It has a black background with some type that covers the bottom half of the Ad that gives information on how you can donate pennies a day to help feed these children.
Journal Prompt 7. What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para
Social behavior: maturing quickly; 8-12 year old children behaving like teenagers Ex: 1.Children changing wall posters from adorable puppies to airbrushed faces of Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet; music change to LeAnn Rimes and Paula Cole; reading teen magazines featuring glowing movie and rock n roll hunks 2.The Nickelodeon – Yonklovich Youth Monitor found that by the time they are 12, children describe themselves as “flirtatious, sexy, trendy, athletic, and cool. 3.Teachers complain of ten or 11 year old girls arriving to school looking like madams, in full cosmetic regalia, with streaked hair, platform shoes, and midriff-revealing shirts.
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 story "The Lottery" the entire town engaged in group thinking when they all went to the town square to engage in the lottery drawing. The entire town all went to the drawing and they all drew peaces of paper with names to see who would get stoned. The entire town engaged in the stoneing of poor Ms. Tessie.
Journal Prompt 9.
Both “Araby” and “The Lottery” are both stories that flashbacks to the past. The settings were the same as they were both towns with old traditions many years in the past.The young man in the story “Araby” and Mrs. Hutchinson in the story “The Lottery” are rushing to get to an event that happens every year.I would compare the young man in “Araby” and Mrs. Hutchinson in “The Lottery” because they both rush to get to the town events to be on time and they were both disappointed with the results at the end of the story.
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 very out going and confident little girl. When Walker was 2 ½ years of age her momma dressed all the kids for the day to possibly go to the fair for the day 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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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 bottom 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.
The poem "My Father in the Navy" and the story "Araby" both share two narration qualities collectively. They both share chronological flashbacks in their writing. "My Father in the Navy" is a person remembering back to expect his father’s arrival. "Araby" is a person remembering back to living in a small town and admiring a young girl. Both the poem and the story are first person and writing from experiences.
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.
The main character had to leave a man on the 52nd floor and then sent rescuers up to rescue him. After he got out of danger he found out that the man and the rescuers were killed. He felt terrible for not bringing the man down and for sending the rescuers up to face their death.
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.
Employers, I am writing this to explain how I came to choose Business Management as my career path. One reason I have chosen Business Management is because I understand and have empathy for employees needs. Another reason I have chosen Business Management is because I have good communication skills when dealing with employees and accomplishing tasks. Finally, I have chosen Business Management because I give effective directions on how to accomplish tasks productively.
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
There is a light gray background on the 8 x 101/2 sheet with off white silk sheer curtains swinging through a open balcony door with a light breeze. At the left hand side of sheeet is a gray oval shape bottle, half covering the sheet, leaving from backbone to face, with 1 ½ inch space from top of bottle to the head of the sheet and 1 ½ inch space from the bottom of bottle to the foot of the sheet. There is a 1x1 square scent pack in the center of the page right beside the bottle. There is a Black banner across the head of the sheet in the 1 ½ inch space ahead of the bottle. The banner is running from the backbone to the face of the sheet. The color of the banner is black with bold white type inside. At the bottom of the page across the bottom starting with the backbone side typed out across the page toward the face stopping about ¾ across the sheet is names and dates. On the bottom right hand side corner of the sheet is a number.
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 the background of my Ad, there is rocket fire that covers almost the entire page. In front of the rocket fire, ¾ of the size, is a huge part for an automobile. Across the top of the page is bold letters in grey that reads “STAINLESS STEEL”. Above the bold letters on top is small black type which says “BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF PERFORMANCE DIESEL TURBOS”. Across the bottom of the page are big bold grey shaded type “HIGH TECH TURBO” with lightning bolts and a web site in lower case letters under the type.
I think you should put something extra on the Ad so woman or man could tell what the Ad was for. Maybe you should make the part smaller and add a fast race care in the background burning out. Or you could add someone looking at a motor of a car in the background.
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 entire Ad is all in black and white except for the red missing pieces of each puzzle. The Ad has eight snap shots on it. Four of the snap shots are large pictures cover ¾ of the size of the Ad. The other 4 pictures are side by side at the bottom of the Ad, backbone to face on the bottom ¼ size of the page. In the first snap shot on the upper left hand corner of the page is a picture of someone holding a slide hard plastic puzzle with their left hand and working the puzzle with their right hand. The puzzle is all mixed up, not yet solved. The snapshot on the right, which is the same size as the one on the left, is also a picture of the same slide hard plastic puzzle. This puzzle is being held by both hands and has already been solved. The image on the puzzle is of a little foreign boy about 18 months old wearing an old dirty gown sitting in dried cracked up dirt. One of the pieces of the puzzle is missing. The background of the missing puzzle is bright red with small white type inside that you can not read. The third picture is at the left hand side of the page under the first picture. This picture has the same content and picture has the second one. The picture is a little more close up and with more lighting in the picture. You can really see the dirt all over the little foreign boy. The fourth picture on the Ad, placed right under the second picture is a close up of the puzzle’s missing pieces. In the background all you can see is the little boy’s dirty hands, feet and legs. The dirt is all cracked up from looks to not enough water. The type inside the bright red missing piece reads “Missing a Piece?” The first picture on the bottom row of the Ad has a picture of the same puzzle solved but with a picture of a little boy about eight years of age sitting in the middle of an empty bowl out in a river. The second small picture on the bottom is solid black with white type on the bottom half of the page with information on how to donate money for these children. The third picture at the bottom is another picture of the hard plastic puzzle solved missing one of the pieces. The picture on this puzzle has a little girl about three sitting real still with a dirty white dress on looking very sad. She is sitting on a stone step of an old stone building. The last small picture on the right hand side of the page is exactly like the second picture at the bottom. It has a black background with some type that covers the bottom half of the Ad that gives information on how you can donate pennies a day to help feed these children.
Journal Prompt 7. What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para
Social behavior: maturing quickly; 8-12 year old children behaving like teenagers
Ex:
1. Children changing wall posters from adorable puppies to airbrushed faces of Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet; music change to LeAnn Rimes and Paula Cole; reading teen magazines featuring glowing movie and rock n roll hunks
2. The Nickelodeon – Yonklovich Youth Monitor found that by the time they are 12, children describe themselves as “flirtatious, sexy, trendy, athletic, and cool.
3. Teachers complain of ten or 11 year old girls arriving to school looking like madams, in full cosmetic regalia, with streaked hair, platform shoes, and midriff-revealing shirts.
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 story "The Lottery" the entire town engaged in group thinking when they all went to the town square to engage in the lottery drawing. The entire town all went to the drawing and they all drew peaces of paper with names to see who would get stoned. The entire town engaged in the stoneing of poor Ms. Tessie.
Journal Prompt 9.
Both “Araby” and “The Lottery” are both stories that flashbacks to the past. The settings were the same as they were both towns with old traditions many years in the past. The young man in the story “Araby” and Mrs. Hutchinson in the story “The Lottery” are rushing to get to an event that happens every year. I would compare the young man in “Araby” and Mrs. Hutchinson in “The Lottery” because they both rush to get to the town events to be on time and they were both disappointed with the results at the end of the story.
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 very out going and confident little girl. When Walker was 2 ½ years of age her momma dressed all the kids for the day to possibly go to the fair for the day 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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