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These are both descriptive accounts of a child's love. One child talks of her father, describing his absence and awaiting his arrival. The young boy describes his crush on a young girl. Both are stories to entertain, containing vivid sensory details and emotion. 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. One example is man vs. self. Mayblum speaks of being calm as this tragedy happens, yet nervousbecause no one knew what was really going on. Mayblum was focused on making it home to his family, but fearful of others fate, he offered his ideas and help for those injured. Once the attack became evident Mayblum felt guilty for sending the rescue team for his friend, even though that was the job they came to do. 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. My career path came about due to life experiences. I plan to become a social worker because of the opportunity to change lives. Working with children is very important to me, due to the lack of guidance in my life. As a social worker the employment spectrum is broad, I hope to service many agencies to mentor our youth.
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 Obey your thirst. This ad should contain many people that are having fun in the sun. The setting should be at the beach or an outside event. The actors should be very active and appear slightly fatigued. The target audience should be everyone, this is a soft drink and the purpose is to sell the drink to consumers. The background colors of the scene should be very bright as the actors are drinking this product, as to imply the drink is refreshing.
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 Overstock.com advertised Christmas in a box. The model in the ad is sitting at a computer viewing overstock items on the internet. The items started to appear in her home and arrange themselves. All the items that the model appeared to be viewing were not clear as being Christmas items. The Christmas tree and gifts appeared later in the ad, after the items had begun to furnish the home.
This was a very bad advertisement because there was no indication the model was shopping for Christmas, just a young lady shopping on-line for home furnishings and clothes.The ad needed to have more Christmas scenery. The tree and the idea of shopping for Christmas should have been in the beginning of the ad. This ad looked to be informing consumers on the many products overstock carries, not on the purpose, Christmas in a box. 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 Ped Egg is advertised as an easy to use, hand held dead skin remover. The ad has models rubbing the Ped Egg across the bottom of their feet. The models in this add have very dry and calloused feet and once they’re done with the product their feet are smooth and beautiful. The models appeared to be unhappy and embarrassed of their dry and nasty feet.
After each model used the Ped Egg they were happy and showing off their smooth feet.This product targets all consumers as a foot care product to repair dry and rough feet. This advertisement is good because it shows the bad condition the feet were in before the product was used and the beautiful feet after using the product. The feet are shown the entire time the models are using the product, to prove it’s effective, as to sell the consumer on the fact that the Ped Egg really works.
Journal Prompt 7. What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para Tweens are getting older younger. Some examples are: they no longer play with dolls and children’s toys, tweens are now wearing the trendy fashions, listening to more mature music and putting up posters of adult celebrities. Tweens are leaning more toward teen styles, attitudes and behavior: provocative clothing, wearing make-up, reaching puberty early and sexual activity, some are even behaving as delinquents. Tweens are also more impressionable than teens because they want social acceptance.
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 One example is the town’s people wanting to keep the lottery because of tradition and another is the actual lottery and stoning once the lottery had been drawn. Many villages had done away with the lottery but the older village people kept the tradition going and tried to keep as much of the original ritual going as possible. The stoning is the dangerous act that the villagers engage in.
Journal Prompt 9. Discuss one poem and one short story similarity concerning characters, plots, settings, conflicts, or themes. 2 paragraphs In two short stories, Araby an How far she went, there was a young boy and girl. Both were determined and head strong. In Araby the young boy had a crush on a girl and she didn’t know he wanted to get her a gift from the bazaar. The young man made it to the bazaar late and was unable to buy the gift. The boy felt defeated because he didn’t buy the girl a gift and he really wanted to meet the girl.
In How far she went the girl was defiant and determined to disobey her grandmother. The girl got mixed up with hoodlums as a result of defiance. She wanted to do everything but what her grandmother told her to do. The grandmother had to save the girl from the hoodlums because they were shooting at them. Once they got away the girl realized her grandmother cared for her and there was no need for the bad behavior.
Journal Prompt 10. In Walker's Beauty, discuss the issues that caused Walker to lose her self-esteem. 2 paragraphs When Alice was shot in the eye with a pellet gun as a child it caused her to lose sight and have a disfigured eye. The scar tissue in her eye was an awful sight in her opinion and she was stared at and confronted about what had happened to her eye. The white glob of scar tissue caused her to lose her self-esteem; she no longer thought she was the cutest. As a child Alice was always referred to as the cutest and now she wouldn’t lift her head. The scar tissue was so ugly she felt that when she stared at people they stared back at her ugly eye. She felt that she had changed after her accident, she felt she was no longer a whiz, she moved to another county and school and she had to make new friends. She was afraid of the new school and was picked on; life was unbearable for her after the accident.
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1. Practice clicking Home: Composition 1010 J02 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.
These are both descriptive accounts of a child's love. One child talks of her father, describing his absence and awaiting his arrival. The young boy describes his crush on a young girl. Both are stories to entertain, containing vivid sensory details and emotion.
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.
One example is man vs. self. Mayblum speaks of being calm as this tragedy happens, yet nervous because no one knew what was really going on. Mayblum was focused on making it home to his family, but fearful of others fate, he offered his ideas and help for those injured. Once the attack became evident Mayblum felt guilty for sending the rescue team for his friend, even though that was the job they came to do.
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.
My career path came about due to life experiences. I plan to become a social worker because of the opportunity to change lives. Working with children is very important to me, due to the lack of guidance in my life. As a social worker the employment spectrum is broad, I hope to service many agencies to mentor our youth.
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
Obey your thirst. This ad should contain many people that are having fun in the sun. The setting should be at the beach or an outside event. The actors should be very active and appear slightly fatigued. The target audience should be everyone, this is a soft drink and the purpose is to sell the drink to consumers. The background colors of the scene should be very bright as the actors are drinking this product, as to imply the drink is refreshing.
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
Overstock.com advertised Christmas in a box. The model in the ad is sitting at a computer viewing overstock items on the internet. The items started to appear in her home and arrange themselves. All the items that the model appeared to be viewing were not clear as being Christmas items. The Christmas tree and gifts appeared later in the ad, after the items had begun to furnish the home.
This was a very bad advertisement because there was no indication the model was shopping for Christmas, just a young lady shopping on-line for home furnishings and clothes.The ad needed to have more Christmas scenery. The tree and the idea of shopping for Christmas should have been in the beginning of the ad. This ad looked to be informing consumers on the many products overstock carries, not on the purpose, Christmas in a box.
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
Ped Egg is advertised as an easy to use, hand held dead skin remover. The ad has models rubbing the Ped Egg across the bottom of their feet. The models in this add have very dry and calloused feet and once they’re done with the product their feet are smooth and beautiful. The models appeared to be unhappy and embarrassed of their dry and nasty feet.
After each model used the Ped Egg they were happy and showing off their smooth feet.This product targets all consumers as a foot care product to repair dry and rough feet. This advertisement is good because it shows the bad condition the feet were in before the product was used and the beautiful feet after using the product. The feet are shown the entire time the models are using the product, to prove it’s effective, as to sell the consumer on the fact that the Ped Egg really works.
Journal Prompt 7. What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para
Tweens are getting older younger. Some examples are: they no longer play with dolls and children’s toys, tweens are now wearing the trendy fashions, listening to more mature music and putting up posters of adult celebrities. Tweens are leaning more toward teen styles, attitudes and behavior: provocative clothing, wearing make-up, reaching puberty early and sexual activity, some are even behaving as delinquents. Tweens are also more impressionable than teens because they want social acceptance.
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
One example is the town’s people wanting to keep the lottery because of tradition and another is the actual lottery and stoning once the lottery had been drawn. Many villages had done away with the lottery but the older village people kept the tradition going and tried to keep as much of the original ritual going as possible. The stoning is the dangerous act that the villagers engage in.
Journal Prompt 9. Discuss one poem and one short story similarity concerning characters, plots, settings, conflicts, or themes. 2 paragraphs
In two short stories, Araby an How far she went, there was a young boy and girl. Both were determined and head strong. In Araby the young boy had a crush on a girl and she didn’t know he wanted to get her a gift from the bazaar. The young man made it to the bazaar late and was unable to buy the gift. The boy felt defeated because he didn’t buy the girl a gift and he really wanted to meet the girl.
In How far she went the girl was defiant and determined to disobey her grandmother. The girl got mixed up with hoodlums as a result of defiance. She wanted to do everything but what her grandmother told her to do. The grandmother had to save the girl from the hoodlums because they were shooting at them. Once they got away the girl realized her grandmother cared for her and there was no need for the bad behavior.
Journal Prompt 10. In Walker's Beauty, discuss the issues that caused Walker to lose her self-esteem. 2 paragraphs
When Alice was shot in the eye with a pellet gun as a child it caused her to lose sight and have a disfigured eye. The scar tissue in her eye was an awful sight in her opinion and she was stared at and confronted about what had happened to her eye. The white glob of scar tissue caused her to lose her self-esteem; she no longer thought she was the cutest. As a child Alice was always referred to as the cutest and now she wouldn’t lift her head.
The scar tissue was so ugly she felt that when she stared at people they stared back at her ugly eye. She felt that she had changed after her accident, she felt she was no longer a whiz, she moved to another county and school and she had to make new friends. She was afraid of the new school and was picked on; life was unbearable for her after the accident.
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