Good luck "The Unknowns"

I saw this pic and just had to use it. lol

WoW well i can't believe it's the end of the semester already but im so ready for it to be over. i learned a lot this semester. thanks to everyone that was always there to help if i needed you. im sorry that i couldn't do the final project with you guys but hey its all good yall did amazing that was hilarious. well its been fun getting to know you guys this semester and i wish yall the best of luck in the future and with your exams and wherever your schooling takes you. i know next semester i am gonna be focused because its really easy to fall behind. well thanks for being nice and fun. we had some good times.

-Josh

THE END!!!

I am kind of excited I’m done…now I just need 4 more semesters to go!! I’m very close!! Hahaha…but I am happy we all came through at the end. Thanks Allie for letting me go to your house and letting us use your crops and thanks for John with his lines because if it wasn’t for those we would’ve been lost. That day was sooooo progressive until I got home and it didn’t want to work on the computer.

I was literally up from the time I left her house until about 8 in the morning trying to make it work. But it wasn’t happening….Thank god kate understood because if not we would have been screwed…. Well, we presented it on Thursday and everything went good. The video played, kate laughed and people were actually interested in the topic.
It has been a good but long semester…hopefully in enc1102 it’s as good as 1101. Well, good luck to everyone in their finals and everyone did really good in their presentations.(that was just incase someone else besides kate reads this).
-Rosa

Final Project

Soooo... This is probably my second to last blog entry.

I think we did well in our video presentation. Kate laughed, so that was a plus. And considering the fact that I had the flu and was practically dying with how cold it was in Allie's backyard... we did great!

Thanks Rosa for working your ass off on the editing.... I know that we had maybe 30 minutes of stuff taped that you had to go through and then put everything together. And Allie, you pulled off Nancy Pelosi great... and thanks for letting us use your backyard!

I'm kind of sad that it's almost over... okay not that sad, but I'm not looking forward to ENC-1102. I refuse to take online classes, so I don't think I'll be able to take Kate again... I'll probably get some asshole who would rather be doing something other than teaching a class full of kids like myself who didn't get in to UF yet.

Good luck on your final papers everyone!

Cheers,
-John

REUNITED!!!

So....progressive day!!! We gathered at starbucks because it was convienient for Allie(inside joke) and we were talking about our project. We will most likely have an amazing video project....I kinda of dont want to spoil it because then theres no point of the presentation...It just going to WOW kate....But there are definitely going to have many funny puns...

Now the research paper is on the i hope its good but i am going to have to talk to kate and I will on the conference on sunday!!! I am on the iffy side about it like im going to focus on a specific religion!!

Like i said i need to talk to kate!!

-ROSA

PLEASE READ!!!

Okay... so I'm assuming none of us have sent an essay link to Kate so I went ahead and did it. I think I CC'd everyone on it, so check your compclass email so you can read it and have your notes for tomorrow. Here is the link:

http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.sfcollege.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=40735917&site=ehost-live

Here is a video that I think is relevant in a direct yet in-direct way. As we research our topic more, this video and the opinion expressed in it will be important to our arguments on way or another. It's a quick 2 minute video taken from an interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I disagree with about 95 percent of every position he has taken. He is of the academic school of thought that the U.S. Constitution is "dead," meaning it's interpretation should not evolve with changing times and values. I disagree with that point of view, however... he is representative of the conservative populace in this country. BUT, using his view of the constitution, one could argue that freedom from religion is an implied right which is included in this dead constitution.... a view which is at odds with the very conservative groups of voters who believe strongly in Scalia's rulings. This is veryyy complex, but we can talk about it. Watch the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTRe5xDLfXw

Back to the essay link I emailed to Kate... I think you have to be logged on to esantafe to access it. Anyways, we need to start meeting up to plan how we are going to do all of this. We should exchange numbers, email adresses or whatever...

you can hit me up at 305-606-0648 or email me at johne30587@aim.com.

Lets get on this!! I need an A and I'm sure everyone else does too. Can't get in to UF with a 3.0...... and the last thing I need is a C in English if I'm doing anthropology, journalism, international relations, law...!!!! lol.

Final Project

I like our topic. Some people are pretty hardcore about their beliefs about the seperation of church and state... one way or another... and a few are somewhere in the middle. BUT, unlike the abortion issue... I've found that with this discussion you can sometimes find middle ground with others.

Anyways... I'd have to say I'm agnostic, leaning towards atheism. I believe that there MIGHT be a god... but I'm not too fond of religion. All religion does is start wars and devides human beings, when we should all be united. Now, I don't feel that my beliefs should be imposed on other people... the same way that I'm not going to force someone else to question the existance of a "higher power."

One can be spiritual without being religious, per-se. Few things piss me off in the world more than people who come up to you and talk to you and tell you that you have to be "born again," and "baptized with the spirit." Now I understand that some religions call for people to "spread the word of god" ...but I think thats extremely annoying and offensive. I hate being preached to. My issue with this is... this is a country unlike any other in the world. We don't have 2 or 3 ethnic groups, we have HUNDREDS of different cultures... all on one land... and you can't possibly be tollerant of every perspective without removing religion from public spaces.

Okay... I could go on more, as usual, but I wont.

I'm at the public library and can't save a picture to the desktop to post it here... so I have a Wikipedia link about the history of the seperation of church and state in the United States. Wiki itself isn't credible, BUT... at the bottom of the page there are a bunch of citations where you can find the original sources of information.

-John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

Good/Bad News

Im going to definitely start with the bad news...except now thinking about it i realize that some is bad but at the same time good and the news thats good is at the same time bad.... So bad news... there was no class today... last thursday the readings were able to be read so we post poned it to thursday and now we had no class and I was definitely ready for that quiz... I needed the "A". The good news would be that we all decided what topic to write about. Its about religion and if it should be included and school and what not but im kind of unsure about the whole topic. Like first i dnt know what topic to choose, second dont know if religion and arguments are good idea but im willing to try it. So this was suppose to be discussed in class today but i guess we will have to talk to kate about it another day. :(


BY THE WAY..I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYTIME I POST A PICTURE IT COMES OUT SOOOOO BIG...I PUT THE SIZE SMALL SO SORRY IF UR READING THIS AND THERES A BIG ANNOYING PICTURE IN THE WAY....

-Rosa :)

surprise!!!

NO CLASS!!!?!?!?!?! and when I read every single reading and I read them more the three times I believe! Well anyways, our topic for our final paper is pretty sweeeet! I'm really passionate about God, so i'm excited to be able to talk about how it should be in schools and that it's not just something that is in schools. God is in everything and definitely in America. It all goes back to the beginning of time. I'm interested on how the video thing plays into it all. I'm looking forward to see how it all turns out. Anyways this is completely off topic but can ya'll believe it's freaking November!?! I feel like it's still Sep. it's crazy how fast this semester is going. It's kind of sad. I have always hated writing and english, but now i really enjoy it. Going to this english class has been one of my fav classes by far and as weird as it might sound i'm going to miss this class and kate. Well on that note I hope every one has an awesome weekend! I will see you all Tuesday! :)

-allie g

Okay, I'm on a PC... I can't figure out how to get a picture up here for the life of me. I'm tired and in a bit of pain... so I'm not going to lie, I don't even want to bother figuring out how to get one up here.

Anyways, I think its important that we all talk about ideas for our final project before we get to class on Tuesday. Anyone have ideas?? I'm sure we all want to hear about them... talk about them... etc.

Lets do something original, and if its not original lets try to make it really interesting.

Well, see everyone Tuesday!

-John

Disappointed!!!

So.... I haven’t written a blog in forever and i am disappointed in myself but I have good reason. It’s just kind of personal and don’t want need the whole world to know. So…today in class it was a really good time. We had to make an argumentive topic and we came up with really good ideas. I am really excited for this project because we are probably going to choose something really interesting and our visual and auditory context are going to kick some butt. I am really good at those things because I use to do videos and things for my high school tv production class.

By the way…. I really hope John gets better and that money starts coming in after that taking the companies money. You can probably get yourself a new scooter. :)

-Rosa Taveras

the next essay coming up!

I'm super excited about our next paper we have to write. I'm also a little nervous as well having to write using ethos and all that jazz, but I think once I get my notes and everything ready before class tuesday everything will be fine. Other then that I'm really excited! I think it's going to be a lot of fun! The whole Orwell thing has me a little confused still. It really stresses me out! I understand about what Orwell was saying in the paper he wrote, but I have a hard time picking up on all the meaningless word when we hear or read things. It's super hard for me to see through all that and to see that whoever is talking "pretty" is really saying a bunch of bs or using fullers. I guess it just takes practice....? Anyways, other then that I'm still excited about the next paper coming up. I'm planning on reading all the essay tomorrow and pick whichever grabs my attention more, but they all sound really good! Well, I will see you all next week! Have an awesome weekend! :)


-allie

So, last class was interesting. God, that's cliche, I'm going to stop saying that. Anyways... I didn't read the article the night before like I was supposed to... but I got a chance to read it while in class. The discussion about language and George Orwell's emphasis on its importance was fascinating. 1984 is bar FAR my favorite book. It had a huge impact on me when I read it for the first time as a sophomore in high school. 9/11 had happened about a year or two before and our country was going through a massive change and a restructuring of the role of our government. I saw the country going down the road that Orwell had described in his book and it scared the crap out of me. That was the book that opened my eyes back in early highschool. Some people have one event that they can point to in their lives and say "that's what made me who I am today." Reading that book was one of those events for me. Anyways, 1984 puts a ton on emphasis on how language can be manipulated and used to destroy individual thought. The essay we read was so interesting because we saw how language was so important to Orwell... it put a lot of things in context, we were able to see just how essential language was in Orwell's writing and the role it played in his narrative structure.

I could go on and make a book about last class and why it was so interesting, but I'll stop myself. I've written enough. See everyone tomorrow!

-John

i know its late.

well i know that this is late but i just arrived in louisiana late last night and was way too tired to write it last night so i just remember and i am doing it now hope kate dont take off. well class thursday was ejoyable. the videos and breaking them down helped me somewhat with learning ethos pathos and logos but i am still confused because some can be 2 of them and that confuses me which one it is. i love how Kate helps with what we are talking about by breaks it down so that everyone has a better understanding. By the way Kate is pretty hialrious at times and i really like that quality in a teacher. that reminds me of this one time back in high school i had this teacher and we called him mr c well he was the funniest teacher ever he taught us but we also had fun like for example we could online and listen to funny prank calls and shit like that and it was so cool. but then some ass told on him and he got fired so tha sucked ass. but thats what i like about college and im glad i am out of high school.

It's 1:30 AM...

...on Thursday night... and I'm writing a blog entry for my English class. Okay... I don't want EVERYONE all at once to tell me how cool I am... that would just be overwhelming. I was going to go do something since it's the start of homecoming weekend... but I made a promise to my liver that I would give him a rest... so I stayed home and read parts of a book from Carl Jung about the Collective Unconscious... told you I was awesome. And if THAT is not cool enough for you... I've got the Fonz to help me out. (I think everyone knows who he is... if you've watched Family Guy or Happy Days...)

I just totally wrote in a paragraph full of filler and am totally admitting it. So I guess that would justify my doing so, correct? Thanks for allowing me to validate!

I enjoyed class today... it was nice having a visual medium from which to compare ethos, pathos, logos. I found some of the arguments supporting the repealing of the city ordinance to be pretty pathetic.

If ethos, pathos, logos is confusing anyone... remember root words in the english language and connect them accordingly... like I've written out below.

I'm far from being a pro... I'm just a student... so this might be wrong, Kate please correct me if I am.

Ethos - ETHical appeal. Based on credibility of the writer.
Pathos - PATHOlogical appeal. Emotional appeal.
Logos - LOGical appeal.

Well, that helped me... hopefully it'll help you.

Cheers! and happy weekend.

-John

mhmm...?

I feel terrible, I haven't wrote one of these blogs in a while. Anyways, those videos of the amendment one thing were both very weird and confusing. In my opinion they both seemed to be voting for no. The judge from the actual no vote kept saying "no" like a bunch of times and the other one freaked you out with the creepy guy following the little girl. Then asking if we we wanted that in our city...Are you crazy? I would hope no one would want that! It was just very confusing, I thought. Anyways, that ethos, pathos, and logos thing was pretty confusing as while, but today helped a lot when kate was showing us threw the videos and the fear factor article. I still will need more understanding on how we have to write like that, and the difference from how we write now to that. I'm pretty sure she'll explain more though she never leaves my thoughts hanging.

-Allie

Peer review

ok well since i didnt do my rough draft for my narrative essay this was my first peer review and that in a way frightened me because i didnt really know what to do so i just followed the paper and answered all the question. when i was reading my comments i realived that i used some weak ass openers and closers and i know i have to work on that but other than that i think i did a pretty good job. and today in class we found out about our next essay and now that one definatly frightens me. i mean we dont know what its about so its all going to be so new and i dont write very well like that because i get nervous and think im gonna screw up so i might need a little extra time on my essay. i think kate was pretty proud of me today because i did my reading and participated in class and i like that feeling of knowing what and the hell is going on so from now on im going to tryu and read all my stuff every week. that amendment 1 thing confused me really bad i dont get why they have to be so complicating??? oh well i guess they have to seem very educated and try to confuse everyone else.
well good luck to all my band members on their final drafts for the comparison and contrast essays. i love our band. we are the best
well i keep trying to add a picture but its not working so i guess im gonna give up??? hope you guys dont have the same problem


-Josh Fortson

2nd Peer Review!!

In class, we did the peer review for the compare and contrast essay and unlike last time I didn’t feel like I did a horrible job. I actually thought it was a decent paper (English is not my greatest subject). So I went into class feeling pretty good. I read someone else’s paper and we did this practically the whole time in class and at the end I went to go see how many comments he had given me and there were 23 comments and let me tell you I freaked out… but when I went t go read them some of them or actually most of them were just comments that he was suggesting I took out and words that should be replaced. There were other comments but not a big deal they need to comment in anyways.

FOOD INC.

So, I went today to watch food inc. and I saw that food is nasty. It reminded me of what my history teacher was talking about....there was this guy names Upton Sinclair who went undercover into meat packaging because he wanted to see what was really in the meat. Then when he went he found rats and rats poo and all that good stuff was getting packaged. So then that was when they created the pure food and drug act in which they have to put label on their packages and state everything that is in their meat or drinks. The movie made me realized how much I hate looking at food movies that talk about whats in it and where it came from. I don’t think I’ll be eating out for a while or maybe even at home since I buy packaged meat from publix. Really frustrated now!!!

-Rosa Taveras

Awesome Day

The weather is amazing today. Its nice and cool outside... I'm only coming back inside to write a blog entry.

I'm not used to this kind of weather, this is a typical mid January day in Miami. Amazing what a difference being inland and only 350 miles away makes. January in Miami is my favorite time of year. Drop below 50 and you've lost me though, I can't deal with that. My blood isn't made for that. Some people like cold - up north type weather though, as Hunter S. Thompson says about those types of people "my blood is too thick for California. I've never been able to properly explain myself here." Okay, okay, I just had to find an excuse for a Thompson quote, crucify me. ANYWAYS...

Kate!!!!- I really, really, REALLY hope you have another outdoors class. That was TOTALLY awesome. It kept my ADD at bay and kept me kind of focused.

And as for what we were talking about fair trade (in reference to the essay on consumerism) you guys should DEFFINITELY go to the farmers market. I go every Wednesday, its freggin awesome. I reccomened you guys try the fresh hummus... and there is a stand that sells awesome fresh bread. And they sometimes have pretty good music there too. Support your local business! Okay, yes I'm an urban hippie... but seriously, check it out.

See everyone next week. Cheers!!

-John

titans vs lights

well i think im gonna compare the covers of remember the titans and friday night lights. i really dont know how to compare them. i mean kate helped alot today but im still pretty confused on how to compare mine. well i better start tomorrow on it so i dont procrastinate and then dont do it. its a start to fight my procrastination problem. wish me luck. well i just wanna say i am extremly glad we have john in out band. He is really good at taking what we all say and expanding it and making it sound alot smarter then how we say it, So i just wannna say thanks john. Well the main reason i wanted to compare the two covers i picked was the fact that i love football and both movies and pretty muvh forgot that we were only comparing the covers but its all good i know i can do it. well i will see you guys on tuesday. good luck on your papers and have a safe weekend. if you need me you know how to reach me.