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  1. Nov 2019
    1. In a perfect world, everyone would tell the truth and we could depend upon the credibility of speakers and authors. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. You

      yes in a perfect world but as i recall last time i checked no one is perfect in this world with or without plastic surgery. same thing implies on the world itself. you cant expect to live in a world where there is not lies or conflict. if everyone was honest there will only be ten people left alive here in this earth and those people will probably survive because they mindede theier business and did not try to to butt in other people's businneses.

    2. Some of the above questions may strike you as relevant to an evaluation of logos as well as ethos—questions about the completeness and accuracy of information

      yes some of the quastion were suprising because some people read and they do not ask themselves this type of quastions, but still end up trusting the writers, i call this type of people lazy readers. when i read i always ask myself how is this benefiting me, and should i trust it. where did she get the information from was all this her idea or she is plagering. i ask myself all this type of quastions because i want to make sure i am reading the right thing.

    3. Does her education or experience give her credibility as someone who should be listened to on this issue?

      i mean if is a reaserch project or essay her education experience will give her credibility as someone we should trust and listen too because her information will be accurate because the idea she is talking about is not hers is someon els's i dead she is just using it to make her arguiment strong.

    4. cited

      oh my god i hate citations, i know is okay and fair to tell people where you got the information from, so that the person who came up with the idea can get credit too. but is too much work, i wish i can just put the persone's first and last name and be done with it.

    5. To evaluate whether the evidence is appropriate, apply the STAR criteria: how Sufficient, Typical, Accurate, and Relevant is the evidence? 

      i didnt know this but i just learned something new today

    6. relying on claims of expertise when the claimed expert (a) lacks adequate background/credentials in the relevant field, (b) departs in major ways from the consensus in the field, or (c) is biased, e.g., has a financial stake in the outcome.

      people are easy to trust easly people who seems to know something well then them, like how we belive and trust our teachers when sometimes they can be wrong. but we have no choice but to belive because we have no knowlege to know if they are lieng to us or if they are not

    7. Others have become infamous for claiming academic degrees that they didn’t earn as in the case of Marilee Jones. At the time of discovery, she was Dean of Admissions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After 28 years of employment, it was determined that she never graduated from college (Lewin, 2007). However, on her website (http://www.marileejones.com) she is still promo

      haha this is so cool so she walked in to a job and said she graduated to a college and she has degree in which she dont and everyone belived her for years wow, i wish everyone can have that luck but it can be a crime to what if you lie that you are a doctore and make a mistake on a patient and end up killing them dont you think you can go to jail or prison.

    8. asking yourself what elements of the essay or speech would cause an audience to feel that the author is (or is not) trustworthy and credible.

      this is true because sometimes people fall into traps of buyingh things that they dont need, or even agreeing to things that dont even make sence only because they listend but didnt think about it at first and end up regreating later

    1. to argue persuasively you need to be in dialogue with others, then summarizing others’ arguments is central to your arse

      i feel like that is the idea of a persuasive essay to make someone be on your side or to make someone buy your product, so you always gotta have a point, and you gotta have good examples and proof to back you up

    2. that good writing means making true or smart or logical statements about a given subject with little or no reference to what others say about it.

      i like the confidence here. is better and easy to write what you want with no worries of having to think that someone will like your work or they will dislike it. it end up messing your energy and your writing style.

    3. you explore the issue you are writing about before declaring your own view. In this way, you can use the writing process itself to help you discover where you stand instead of having to commit to a position before you

      yes this work well because my english teacher told us to do a research before writing our 4th project essay and it was really easy because i could write and feel like i know what i am doing instead of doing the research while i write is really hard and you could even pledgeris

    4. self congratulation

      i have always congratulate myself. since middle school till today, i would get a B+ and i would be so happy to achive that so i would run home to show my mom but all she would say is " oh you could have done better" and that will negatively effect me and it discourages me to work hard in school because no matter what i would do i never heard congratulation. so i have always congratulate myself

    5. book lovers.

      i think i was once a book lover, couple years ago i would get a book and be done with it in 4 days i even use to win book prices and the librarian would give me certificate. but after i went to high school i stoped reading books they become boring to me

    6. “No,” I replied. “Absolutely not,” I wanted to yell, and fling my Barnes & Noble bag at his feet. Instead, I mumbled something apologetic and melted into the crowd.

      i can relate with this but in different situantion. sometimes i just say yes to things i do not agree with just because i was afraid that the person asking me may feel bad or disrespected so i tray to avoid that and just go along with whatever even though inside i want to say no or yes.

    7. conversation and therefore need to start with “what others are saying,” as the title of this chapter recommends, and then introduce your own ideas as a response. Specifically, we suggest that you summarize what “they say” as soon as you can in your text, and remind readers of it at strategic points as your text unfolds. Though it’s true that not all texts follow this practice, we think it’s important for

      i raelly like this part because it will help me with my next writing project. and the project is about proving my opinion to be right and other people's oppinion to be wrong. is alot of work but the part that i hate the most is the citation part

    8. writer needs to indicate clearly not only what his or her thesis is, but also what larger conversation that thesis is responding to. Because our speaker failed to mention what others had said about Dr. X’s work, he

      true because you can have a good theses and everything, but if you first body peregraph does not talk about your theses then you outomatically leave your readers confused, so is best you stick with your topic.

    9. Not long ago we attended a talk at an academic conference where the speaker’s central claim seemed to be that a certain sociologist—call him Dr. X—had done very good work in a number of areas of the discipline. The speaker proceeded to illustrate his thesis by referring extensively and in great detail to various books and articles by Dr. X and by quoting long passages from them. The speaker was obviously both learned and impassioned, but as we listened to his talk we found ourselves somewhat puzzled: the argument—that Dr. X’s work was very important—was clear enough, but why did the speaker need to make it in the first place? Did anyone dispute it? Were there commentators in the field who had argued against X’s work or challenged its value? Was the speaker’s interpretation of what X had done somehow novel or revolutionary? Since the speaker gave no hint of an answer to any of these questions, we could only wonder why he was going on and on about X. It was only after the speaker finished and took questions from the  audience that we got a clue: in response to one questioner, he referred to several critics who had vigorously questioned Dr. X’s ideas and convinced many sociologists that Dr. X’s work was unsound.

      i dont know if is just me but i just read the entire peregraph but i didnt understand a thing. maybe the vocabulary are hard for me,

    1. though Google has now scanned many of the world’s books into its database, they won’t give you access to the entire book if the book is still under copyright.

      this is also true because many time i go on googl to search for a book i wouldent get the entire book, i would start reading and then it will stop me in the middle and ask me to pay if i want to keep on reading. so sad

    2. Which is one of the drawbacks of using only Internet search engines. The Internet may have cut down on the physical walking needed to find good sources, but it’s made up for the time savings by pointing you to more places than you

      true internet made it easy for people who have a lot to do in their life. anything we need such as news and information we just go in the internet and search it up and boom is there really easy, now we dont have to walk to the library or drive somwhere just to get information

    3. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to walk on a tightrope—many feet up in the air?” (50) In the first example, the quoter’s

      how can someone walk on a tight rope? you gotta have some good balancing skills.

    4. Therefore, the author warns that a zombie’s vision “are no different than those of a normal human” (Brooks 6).

      okay i know the writer have all the power to say whatever they want to say in their paper. but how does the writer know the different between a human's vision and a walking dead? was he a walking dead before? and can he prove his statement.

    5. things sometimes seem. People are often unreasonably picky, and writers have to deal with that—which they do by trying to anticipate and preemptively fix

      i write to get good grades, i dont write to impress anyone. and to those piccky readers they should go and read a professional's writing because i am not a professional writers.

    6. This judgment, of course, will often be unfair. These readers might completely ignore the merits of your insightful, stylistically beautiful, or revolutionarily important language—just as my anger at another driver makes me fail to admire

      again people have different opinion, some may say that my writing is lame and, and other may love my work. so is all up to the person's test. i would advise people to judge other people's work as if it was their own work.

    7. And it will be a lot harder for readers to take you seriously if they think you’re ignorant or rude.

      haha i am not an ignorent person or a rude one but if that what my writing represent then it is what it is.

    8. You don’t know the generally accepted practices of using sources (especially in academic writing) in the U.S. Or, 2. You know the guidelines but don’t care.

      i been writing for a while but to be honest i hate writing about someone els especially a famouse person. because you gotta recite the sorce, you gotta do this and that and is tiring

    9. She was reading along and then suddenly exclaimed, “What . . . ? But, hey . . . oh come on! ” If you’re lucky, this reader will try to imagine why you typed things the way you did, giving you the benefit of the doubt. But sometimes you’ll

      hello no body is perfect and being a good writer is hard. you gotta graduate with writing degree to be like my professor,and i am not her so if my choice of words and grama didnt match with your test just go somewhere els

    10. One day, you may discover that something you’ve written has just been read by a reader who, unfortunately, was annoyed at some of the ways you integrated sources.

      hahaha but the good thing about this is that i will never know the annoyed reader who read my work. and i wouldent really care because the only person i care about is my professor and her being annoyd is a zero in my grade book so i gotta please her.

    11. They don’t know that the generally accepted practice of high-way driving in the U.S. is to move to the right if an upcoming car wants to pass. Or, They know the guidelines but don’t care.

      i would probably go with option 1 because it says that they dont know the rules on driving in a American high way which there is a Posibility that it can be true so you just got to be patient so you dont ende up cousing accident. because someone in front of you was slow.

    12. I hate slow drivers. When I’m driving in the fast lane, maintaining the speed limit exactly, and I find myself behind someone who thinks the fast lane is for people who drive ten miles per hour below the speed limit, I get an annoyed feeling in my chest like hot water filling a heavy bucket. I wave my arms around and yell, “What . . . ? But, hey . . . oh come on! ” There are at least two explanations for why some slow drivers fail to move out of the way:

      well, you cant expect everyone to have the same driving skills like you. and sometimes threre are new drivers in the road and they are trying to get comfortable with their driving skill, so you have to be patient and wait. is batter to be concern about others befor taking matters itno your own hand. because you never know who is using their phone while driving, or who is just new to driving.

    1. Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus 10,000 times is skill.

      true. even if you know how to serve people in a restaurant, the employer will still ask you if you have skills or experience, and if you don not you are now 50% chance down from getting your job

    2. Her friends and family said she was doing well to have such a good job. But Danielle didn’t feel so well.

      i know family only look at the status and money they do not look at they daughter or son's happiness. i can really relate with this

    3. Every day I feel like I’m going to be fired. Or I’m going to disappoin

      feeling like you are going to get fired is the worst feeling ever. but she should at least know that school life and work life are two different things and they work pretty different

    4. All I could do was smile and sa

      i wouldnt smile i would have goten up and tell her this was not okay and very disrespectful to cut onions while im poring my problemes to you. we wont be having this again thank you. bye

    5. She never once looked my way except at the end of the session to say “Time’s up!” Only then did she notice the tears streaming down my face, mostly because of the onions but probably partly because of how I felt.

      this article is working me out. this are some horrible experiences.

    6. topping by the bank. This year would be different, the clinic director told me. The supervisor was under strict orders not to leave her office during the supervision hour. How bad could it be?

      this is a un healthy working environment. i just feel bad and i wish never to be on her shoes

    7. He would call Danielle at the office and scream into the phone, “Where the hell am I?!” as if Danielle could possibly know, sitting at her desk on the verge of what felt like a panic attack.

      if i was her i would teach him a lesson. i am very polite and respectful but i expect that from everyone around me or far from me whom is Recing my respect. i dont wanna live my life un happy because of a person that i am working for, i can always go and get another job.

    8. Her boss yelled at her almost every day,

      oh no no if my boss yell at me i yell back and then i remind him that i am not his or her child and i am an adult and i should be treated like one. and if he tries to fire me i sue the company period.

    9. When we try to do something new, we don’t know what we’re doing. That’s the biggest challenge.

      true, and i am one hundred percent sure that every body experience this in their life time

    10. Being smart in school is about how well you solve problems that have correct answers and clear time limits.

      and i hate that they would make the other kids who are not so good at problem solving feel like they are shit and useless things that cant do anything. teachers would even send letters home to tell our parents that we need more work in this and that and the look our parents would give us, only the kids with bad grades in school can relate.

    11. Or they feel like fakes because they managed to get good jobs yet cannot calm themselves down at work. Or they can’t figure out how twentysomethings who did not do as well in school are now outpacing them in life. These are different skill sets.

      yeah i hear this talk a lot, but why is that. isn't it suposed to be the opposite that the smarter the kids in school the brighter their future will be.? then i guess i have a chance for my future to be bright.

    12. the frontal lobe does not fully mature until sometime between the ages of twenty and thirty.

      so i am 19 right now. does that mean my frontal lobe is not matured yet. does this mean all the future plans i be making are just kids play. and that i will start making right future plans when i am between twenty something and thirty, wow i am very discourage if this is really true.

    13. They make choices in friends, partners, and activities that go against their own best interests. They find it difficult to see an abstract goal in terms of the concrete steps needed to reach it. They have trouble planning their days and their years.

      that really sad. i cant even wonder seeing my life like this.having to make choices against my own interest i dont consider that living. i just pray that if there is still such Damage in this earth may the blood of Jesus heal everyone who has it.

    14. The area of the brain that processes probability and time, the frontal lobe is also where we tackle uncertainty. This allows us to think not only about the present but also about the future.

      this is really cool i didnt know that we have something in our brain that its job is to allow us to think and have hope for the future, God is really wonderful. this even make me question myself that if we didnt have the frontal lobe we would have only been living the present with no hopes or future plans. well i am glad we have the frontal love and that we are able to think and plane for the future

  2. Oct 2019
    1. The most forward part of the brain—literally and figuratively—is the frontal lobe, located just behind the forehead.

      so the back of our brain and right to left of our brain mature faster and then stop meanwhile the front part of the brain which is called the "frontal lobe" is the one that keeps on evolving throughout human's life and is the last part of the brain to mature till the person dies

    2. The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

      i don't think this is true because i in high school i learned that human beings only use 10 percent of their brain. meaning there is nothing you can do to increes the ten percent so when the author say something like " the more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use" is very promising. like again nothing is impossible in the name of the lord. but things can be impossible in the name of science

    3. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

      how can you understand anything that is backward.? and how came is easy to understand life back ward. we must live it forward, that crazy but interesting. what if i decide to live my life backward can that be possible?

    4. “The Brain and the Body”

      what about the brain and the body? it sound very interesting. because i love learning about science and fiction things. and body and brain sure do got some science involve in it. let me read more and see what i get to learn today

    1. One of the first big research projects I worked on as a graduate student was a study that followed about a hundred women from their twenties into their seventies. At midlife, each woman was asked to write one page about her most difficult life experience so far. Some stories were about tough bosses or unrequited love. A few were about tragic illnesses. But many of the saddest, most protracted stories were about bad marriages. Some had ended in divorce and others were continuing on.

      really sad beacuse i know some woman who end up staying in that bad marrige just for their kids which sucks

    2. In the twentieth century, it was tempting to minimize the effects of divorce. Some adults in unhappy marriages imagined trickle-down happiness: They would be happier after divorce; therefore, so would their kids.

      this is why sometimes is okay to think about marrige earlier before it happens cause you never know what the futeue holds. and as a parent you should know your kids wouldent want to see their parent go separet way. it ruins kids and end up making them grow up with depress and other mental hillness

    3. Most twentysomethings are painfully aware of the significance of marriage. If “remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience,” then, as researcher Jeffrey

      some of us know about marrige and are scared to get married beacsue of the things they see happening in their own parents's marrige which is really sad. and you can see that people who have their parents who are happpy in their marrige tend to get married early because they think their marrige will be just like their pare's marrige. but on the othere end it dont ende up turning that way which is sad

    4. We seem to believe that relationships are completely out of our control.

      yes relationship are out of oure controle because you cant always be around your partener monetering them on what they are doing , who they are texting or they may end up seeing and end up liking. one one can keep up with that . so this is why i say relationship is only for God to have controle over it because he knows how to deal with it and can see things that humans can not

    5. obsessed with avoiding commitment.

      is not that they avoid commitment is because they are afraid to be hurt again. or they are afraid to trust someone and end up getting lied and betrayed again. that why people get old and dont want to be in a relationship because they may feel like what happend before may happend again. and to my perspective i agree with the idea or avoiding to be commited to only one person because you never know when someone will wake up with a diferent mind set. and tell you that they dont want to be with you anymore and that they like someone els

    6. most twentysomethings—male or female, gay or straight—will be married or partnered or dating their future partner within about ten years’ time.

      this is something i see here in America that is different then Africa, in Africa people date for like a year and propose to each other, sometimes it will take two years or 3 and that is the longest. and they will Automaticaly get married. but here in America is normal for them to be together for 10 to 20 years without marrige and because they already living to gether the man has no presure to think about marrige or proposing because they already have the lady in the house, so there is no need to rush into proposing

    7. marriage is relative. Young Americans do marry later than their parents did—on average about five years later—and this statistic especially

      we end up getting married later then our parents because we start to date early and we go to heart breaks, betryals and more. but our parents are old school they probably started dating when they were little old enough to know what they want and that why they end up getting married earlier.

    8. hooking up is the new relational mediu

      all this dating apps, are for lazy people, or people who are done with school and they dont find their coworkers atractive so they rather go online and look at profiles to find the one that they like, which it can be very dangerous because what if they are cat fishing you, or what if they are criminals you never know because every thing started with a person liking a profile. all this is my opinion so i hope no one take it personal

    9. This time gives many people a chance to live it up before they settle down, and to have fun with friends and lovers while the options

      yes, like i was saying. the new age no one wants to get married early because they think that if they get married early they may end up divorcing because. they would want to do the things they didnt do and that will end up causing problems because their partner may not agree to whatever they are doing or plane to do. so they chose to be single so they can have that freedom to do what they want not having anybody holding them or telling them what to do

    10. Today’s twentysomethings spend more time single than any generation in history.

      yeah, speaking of this why is that in the old age people use to get married when they were in their 18 years old and 20 years old. and now in a new eara people dont even wanna get married unless they are in their middle 20s or middle 30s. which for me i understand why today people rather get married late cause they wanna have fun and they wanna make sure the person they want to spend the rest of their life with is the right person.

    11. [Society]

      wait. so you mean society is " structured to distract people from the decisions that have a huge impact on happiness". why? and what does society has to do with with someone's hapiness, and how is it a distraction? i would say people chose to be distracted, is up to a person to chose if their action will effect them positvely or negatively

    1. feel like I’m in the middle of the ocean. Like I could swim in any direction but I can’t see land on any side so I don’t know which way to go.

      i feel like that sometimes too. like when i feel like i am not going anywhere in life. or when my grads are starting to drop. or even when things dont go the way i planed to happen

    2. o Erik Erikson, meaning “Erik, son of himself.”

      i like the idea of it. so what if i wanted to name myself like that so my name would me mariam mariamdaughter, does that make me as my own daughter? that would be cool but i know here i came from and who was my dad and my mom so i wouldent shange my name

    3. Parents like Kate’s are so intent on protecting their kids from their brand of the midlife crisis—their regret over settling down too soon—that these parents fail to

      see this is the problem. some parents try to raise their kids a way they were never raised like so that their kids wont repeat the mistake they did in their young adult life. this works sometimes and other times it don't work and you end up seeing your kids lost because you wanted them to live the life that you din't when you were young and is not fair. so parents should be blamed for it sometimes

    4. When a lot has been left to do, there is enormous thirtysomething pressure to get ahead, get married, pick a city, make money, buy a house, enjoy life, go to graduate school, start a business, get a promotion, save for college and retirement, and have two or three children in a much shorter period of time.

      there is nothing wrong with this plane, but the thing is some of us don't end up achiving things in this order and end up being disappointed on themselves. my advice would be to live your life and write your own unique story. is okay to have a different story then the rest of the people living on earth.

    5. I didn’t know I’d be crying in the bathroom at work every day.

      i know this is not funny. but when i read this line i laughed a little, because it reminded me of my mom. when she is tired at work she would call me and start crying and that will make me feel so bad and miserable. but i always tell my mom that. to stay strong once im done with school she wont have to worry about money because i am going to have her back

    6. I don’t even know what I’m doing in this town.

      i can relate with her tone or feelings here. when i am broke or i am falling my clases. i always think that i could do better in another country or state.

    7. the average twenty-one-year-old was married and caring for a new baby. School ended with high school or maybe college, and young parents focused on making money and keeping house. Because

      this is so true because in the 70s,80s, and 90s people would get married at such young age like 18,19,20 or 21 and at that time it was normal to get married at that age. even my mom was married to my dad when she was only 18. but is funny how in this era you will be judged or laughed at for getting married at such young age

    8. Not long after these conversations, Kate dropped onto the couch in my office. Uncharacteristically teary and agitated, she stared out the window and bounced her legs nervously as she told me about Sunday brunch with four friends from college. Two were in town for a conference. One had just returned from recording lullabies in Greece for her dissertation research. Another brought along her fiancé. As the group sat at their table, Kate looked around and felt behind. She

      if i was Kate i would have felt the same way too. but i am curious about the thing that people created that if you graduated from college you should have a job and be something in life. sometimes life after college does nit go the way people plane it to go. some times people dont even get the job they spend years studying for. and those people shouldnt feel miserable about it. but what they can do is ignore their frinds who wanna show off their gains in their face.

    9. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.  

      there is always someone in a person's life who help them with a little advice on how to run, plus your parents are always there to push you to a right path so you don't get the shock in the future. as we all know some of us don't like being told what to do and end up westing time in their lifetime.

    10. and there is time to kill today

      no there is no time to kill, because we are not promised tomorrow, i have read the entire bible and there is not a single page that talks about waste your time today because you are promised tomorrow. and i know some people believe in scientist and they also have never proven that a human should waste their time today because they are promised tomorrow. my advice is to do what you want today because you are not promised tomorrow.

    11. You are young and life is long,

      yes i agree, but at the same time i disagree. because being young does not mean your life is long, and being old does not mean your life is short. there are new borns, teenagers, and young adult who are dying everyday. and on the other hand old people end up being alive till they are 105 or more

    12. Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain

      i like his metaphor or simile. but how would you be laying down in the sunshine? would that ruined your eyes, and get you sick. and why would someone stay home to just watch the rain?. i feel like people do better things then just watching the rain or laying down in the sunshine as wasting time.

  3. Sep 2019
    1. when I want to do a music video, I can’t use a male model and do crazy things.” The same goes for Offset, though: “He knows better than to do certain things in music videos. I’ll beat his ass.”

      hahaha as expected. he cheated on her and she wanted to divorce him. i think it was like 3 month ago. but i like how she has organized how they will live well with no problems

    2. She and Offset plan to raise Kulture in Atlanta, his home base, where he has a house and they keep their matching Lamborghinis, plus Cardi’s new Lamborghini SUV, though the New York City girl that she is, Cardi has never learned to drive.

      wow what an amaizing life. i wish i had a matching limbo with my boyfriend or husband. and living in atlanta has been my dream since i was 14.

    3. But today, Cardi’s face was makeup free, and her short tousled black wig a touch askew. She was dressed in a striped T-shirt halter dress and appeared delicate and

      wait so she coulden't wear make up to show that she was struggling finishing her song. or im just miss understanding.

    4. “When I got pregnant, I was fucking freaking out,”

      i was expecting to read this type of sentences in this Cardi b article. and i would have freak out too

    5. ” whom she calls her “literary ancestors.”

      i can relate cause god always bless me with the best literary teachers who knows their writing and they love what they are teaching. teachers who avoid giving packets instead they want their student to learn something from them. i have had them and presently i have one which is making me freshman year in college easy. i just wanna say thank you

    6. “It’s hard to imagine navigating our world today without her stories and her voice guiding us toward much needed reclamation and endurance,” they wrote.

      is funny to say this. but i have been living in this world for 19 years. and i been navigating this world just fine. the article says " it is hard to imagine navigating our world today without her stories and her voice guiding us toward much needed reclamation and endurance" i disagree with this part because i grew up just fine not knowing her or using her methods of life. i am not hating i actually love her. i hope yall understand what i am trying to say

    7. In 2015 she published a memoir, “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life,” which she said she completed after moving to her family’s ancestral Mexico after living in San Antonio for 30 years.

      Do all writers make a story of what happens in their life? and why she titled the book" house of my own" when she went to live with her family in central Mexico. and what made her move to Mexico after living in San Antonio for 30 years.

    8. While she now makes a living with her pen, it was not always so easy for her or her Latino/Chicano contemporaries.

      i could understand because writing is not easy, i know is creative and fun but sometimes you get super tired from typing and getting those ideas off the back of your head. and your brain would run out of ideas and then you start to struggle, on getting new idea to finish your book. sometimes you are not promised to make a fotun on the work you put in on your books. but that is something only god knows

    9. He has it locked up with a key in a safe somewhere. It will probably help pay for my nephew’s tuition,” she laughs.

      hahah this is funny. her brother is smart because he knew old book are worth a furtun in the future. and could help him earn money to help his kids go to school and pay for their books. which is a smart thing to do i would have done the same thing if i was him.

    10. “I used to sell that book for a dollar a copy out my backpack while I was still studying for my MFA,” she recalls. “I never thought I’d make money writing.”

      damn selling one book for a dollar. does not sound right or fair. in my opinion i feel like is a lat of work for it to be worth a dollar a copy. but i understand maybe it was the situation she was in back in the days

    11. “The idea of writing a best-seller was not on my mind when I wrote ‘The House on Mango Street,’” she said. “I wrote it to stop the swelling in my heart from the stories that I was hearing and witnessing.”

      i have not read the book yet. and what stories she was hearing that made her heart swell? did she feel better after writing the book? and were the owners of the stories okay with her telling their strories?

    12. the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.” Writing for her is not just a political act but also a spiritual one.

      i like her used of simile here" the word we live in is a house on fire and people we love are burning" this is really deep and even today some of our love once are still being killed , hurt innocently. is really scary but i am glad she used her writing to make the world a better place

    13. “With money and fame comes responsibility, and the amount is exactly what they need,” she said in a phone interview from her home in San Miguel de Allende, 

      why having money and fame comes Responsibility? and what happens if you have money and fam but have no responsibility. if i could get a chance i would like to know the answers to this quastions.

    1. Your ethical duty to the person being interviewed is to present his position accurately. If he carefully weighed two sides of an issue and you only quote his views of one side, making him seem to favor that position, you will misrepresent what he told you. Or you might misrepresent him by quoting him out of context, or by choosing only some flashy remark without adding the serious afterthought. You are dealing with a person’s honor and reputation—and also with your own.

      and you have to make sure you weigh two side of the issue equally because you do not want to make the spoke person look bad or misrepresent him or her on what he or her said

    2. Taking notes, however, has one big problem: the person you’re interviewing often starts talking faster than you can write. You are still scribbling Sentence A when he zooms into Sentence B. You drop Sentence A and pursue him into Sentence B, meanwhile trying to hold the rest of Sentence A in your inner ear and hoping Sentence C will be a dud that you can skip altogether, using the time to catch up. Unfortunately, you now have your subject going at high speed. He is finally saying all the things you have been trying to cajole out of him for an hour, and saying them with what seems to be Churchillian eloquence. Your inner ear is clogging up with sentences you want to grab before they slip away.

      when taking note the person you are interviewing may start to speak fast and you may get behind you can always tell him to repeat. being a news writer is a lot of work. i just realized that right now.

    3. But my main reasons for warning you off it are practical. One hazard is that you don’t usually have a tape recorder with you; you are more likely to have a pencil. Another is that tape recorders malfunction. Few moments in journalism are as glum as the return of a reporter with “a really great story,” followed by his pushing of the PLAY button and silence. But above all, a writer should be able to see his materials. If your interview is on tape you become a listener, forever fussing with the machine, running it backward to find the brilliant remark you can never quite find, running it forward, stopping, starting, driving yourself crazy. Be a

      sometimes the tap recorder can Malfunction. so is always better to write because you will all have them there on your little book or paper.

    4. Strictly, however, this isn’t writing. It’s a process of asking questions and then pruning and splicing and editing the transcribed answers, and it takes a tremendous amount of time and labor. Educated people who you think have been talking into your tape recorder with linear precision turn out to have been stumbling so aimlessly over the sands of language that they haven’t completed a single decent sentence. The ear makes allowances for missing grammar, syntax and transitions that the eye wouldn’t tolerate in print. The seemingly simple use of a tape recorder isn’t simple; infinite stitchery is required.

      wow. i did not know about this. so maybe sometimes i miss things that my teachers, or professors are teaching me. maybe is a good idea to start recording my lectures that way i can re listen at it when i get home

    5. talk about their work to an outsider who seems eager to listen.

      i would have done the same, because sometimes the people you love and want them to listen to your achivements or your daown falls tennd to ignore you. but strangers that you dont know tende to give you there full attetion and ears so they can hear you out.

    6. prodigious

      prodigious means: remarkably or impressively great in extra size or digree. but what had caused such success to go to waste by the wind?

    7. nobody wants to see himself in print using words or phrases he would never use. But if the speaker’s conversation is ragged—if his sentences trail off, if his

      okay so to be a better interviewer is to make sure to write what our person was saying instead of making our own words, because no one wants to see themeselves on print they never said. and i understand this part

    8. used to believe in eating pokeweed shoots, the old Southern women. They said it renewed your blood. My mother believed it. Every spring she used to send me out in the woods to pick pokeweed shoots. And I believe it. So every spring, if I think about it, I go pick some and cook them. It’s not that I like them so much—in fact, they give me gas—but they remind me of the days

      haha this is funny, it reminds me of back home on the things my grandparent would make an entire family drink or sometimes eat had me dead laughing. and the part where she say"s it gives her gas" i can relate to this

    9. In the spring, when it first comes up, the young shoots above the root are good to eat. They taste like asparagus.

      i like the way the writer discribe the vegetables here. never in my life have i ever eat asparagus. but the way the writer dicribe the green i can imagin hou it would test like. which is amaizing .

    10. perpetual motion.

      perpetual motion. a state in which movement or action is or appears to be continuous and unceasing: "the planet is in perpetual motion"

    11. drab.

      Drab means:lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull: "the landscape was drab and gray" so the article is telling me politicians, a widow can tell my story better then me?

    12. You’ll find the solution if you look for the human element.

      this is promising. human element means :Human Element was an online multiplayer video game under development by Robotoki for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Development was halted when the studio was closed.. so if i need solution to this type of matters, i have to look itno human element

    13. As soon as a writer steps in, everyone else’s experience becomes secondhand.

      i do not understand this part where the author says" as soon as a writer steps in everyone's els's experience becomes secondhand" isn't this a good thing . because i have learned that when a writer has been through things the reader has been it outomaticaly make them connected

    14. regionalisms

      regionalisms means:the theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation: "a strong expression of regionalism". i thought it had to do with church, or religeons but i guess i was wrong.

    15. idiosyncrasies

      it was hard for me to read , nor pronounce it . but the meaning of the word means :a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual:. the word looks and sound strong to have such a weak meaning.

    16. inflection

      inflection means: a change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender: "a set of word forms differing only in respect of inflections"

    1. , or we’ve never been so good at explaining what’s going on when we’re worried. It’s these sort of issues that – over decades – create

      i am like this, whenever i am worried or sad i just start to cry because the words i am about to say are chocking me so i stay quite and not do anything

    2. It isn’t that such desires are wrong, they are just not remotely precise enough in their understanding of what we in particular are going to require in order to stand

      this is a true advice it just touched me, and made me follow this prosedure so i can become a betterr person in the futere.

    3. really want to find someone who is ‘kind’ or ‘fun to be with’, ‘attractive’ or ‘up for adventure…’

      that true but not evryone is like this some people like un fun person, like quite type of people . or ugly looking it all depends on different people

    4. Without self-knowledge, all sorts of problems may occur:

      so you mean to avoid all sort of problems is best to have a higher degree of self knowledge?. wow impressive, im actually learning something from this

    5. A lack of self-knowledge leaves you open to accident and mistaken ambitions. 

      wow this is deep i didnt know that it could have such a postive and negative influence on people. now i know

    6. – can you distinguish between your passing bodily-based emotions and your more rational thoughts

      i wouldnt do it because, first of all i dontnt get this quastion probably because my english still progressing

    7. – how are you about feedback

      not so good, i like positive feedback at the sametime i like to hear some negative feedback from time to time because they help me fix who i am

    8. – what are your talents at work

      i am a very fast worker and i learn fast, when it comes to work i like satisfyin g my customers and my bosses because they pay me to do it and it wouldent be fair if i wasnt satisfying them

    9. – what kind of person are you characteristically attracted to in love

      im a sunny type of persone because i feel like when i talk to people they tell me they are happy talking to me. im also very carring i like making sure every one around me is okay and happy.

    10. Most of us would recognise that questions 3 and 4 are ones worth knowing; the others, not so much.

      true because the first two quastion were little tough because i didnt know what i was doing when i was 5 month and the only way to find out is if my mom would tell me

    11. What kind of picnic person are you: morning or evening? River-bank, park or hill?

      i am more of an evening person because whenever i wake up at 10 am im more happy and less grampy . but when i wake up at 7or 8 am im grampy and i dont wanna listen to anybody talk. because i feel like they are annoying me

    12. How does your relationship with your father influence your career ambitions?

      idont have any relationship with my dad because we are just no that close. i guess he raise me that way, but im cvool with it im not sad

    13. Are you more an introvert or an extrovert?

      i dont think i am entirely a shy person, i would say i am half both, because i get shy depending on what situation i am in or what i am doing if i am comfortable with it or not. im not a shy person when it comes to communicating with new people, or eating on first dates

    14. Were you able to pick up a raisin between your fore-finger and thumb when you were five months old?

      how would i be able to recall about the things i did when i was 5 month when i cant even remembare what i did when i was two years old.

    15. alluding

      alluding means( suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.) i didn't know you can use another word to express things that has to do with attentiion

    16. commandments

      the word "commandments" reminds me of the ten biblical commandments.'' I am the LORD thy God. No other gods before me. No graven images or likenesses. Not take the LORD's name in vain. Remember the sabbath day. Honour thy father and thy mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery.''

    17. prestige

      prestige : widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or something on the basis of a perception of their achievements or quality.

    18. School of Life

      I didn't know there was such thing as'' school of life''. i am just curios about what it teaches, is it how to live healthy, and happy with your neighbors? or it teaches how to live longer and follow god's rules

    1. when we have a wound in our body, the nearby muscles cramp around it to protect it from any more violation and from infection, and that I would need to

      wow i did not have a knowledge about this, so having cramps is okay?. when we have it it just means our body is protecting itself from any more violation or infection. which is cool.

    2. oppressor

      oppressor means a person or a group that oppresses people. which that dose not sound very nice. now i Understand why the author said it was'' the enemy of the people .

    3. “Perfectionism”

      it means ''refusal to accept any standard short of perfection''. i was expecting something beautiful about perfection but i guess i was wrong

    4. only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

      i actually just learned something from this, i usually make a mistake and think hard on my first raft draft , now i know what to do and not do when i start writing my first draft

    5. Dictaphone

      is a small cassette recorder used to record speeches. which is cool i wish i could have one so i can always record my teachers teach and use it to understand the little things that i miss in class

    6. From: Bird by Bird

      from bird by bird is hilarious because it has to be only from bird for the other bird to understand.. i know damn sure there is no class that teaches bird language

    7. second drafts and terrific third, drafts. People tend to look at successful writers who are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially, and think that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell; that they take in a few deep breaths, push back their sleeves, roll their necks a few times to get all the cricks out, and dive in, typing fully formed passages as fast as a court reporter. But this is just the fantasy of the uninitiated. I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts.

      what people think about writers is not true, because like how the story teller says'' very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it''. which is true because nothing come easy hard work pays

    8. mounds

      mounds is a rounded mass projecting around a surface. is funny how the words in this story look simple but has biger meaning behind them.

    9. Hemingway

      is a person, word war 1 ambulance driver, journalist, and an ex Patriate in Paris during the 1920s he would write shorte stories and novels

  4. Aug 2019
    1. He is wearing a hat that tips over one eye, a suit that fits him good, and baggy pants.

      hahaha the fashion is imaginable. the baggy pants made me laugh

    2. This is a statue of a famous general who lost an arm, And this is me with my head cut off.

      wow her mom most have been really bad with taking pictures. i can actually relate

    3. This is the pond, and these are my feet. This is the rooster, and this is more of my feet.

      wow this is cute. is she saying that her feet are long or i just dont understand it

    4. I am from that suspicious minority

      why is it suspicious. is it because they move every day, and that makes them look like they are running away from something or what ?

    5. where people moved every other year.

      it never matters if a person moves every hour what matter is where and what hour you were brought into this beautiful world

    6. where are you from?”

      i really dont mind people asking me where i am from. there is nothing wrong with it. what matters is how a person takes things

    7. I have guarded my name as people in other times kept their own clipped hair, believing the soul could be scattered if they were careless.

      i never knew people guarded their hair clipped.that hard

    8. which is supposed to be bad luck if you’re born female–but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chi

      i dont believe in things like Chinese years, where people get to be categorized as blessed because they were born in a certain month or year.