More Position Paper Ideas...

If anyone has any ideas or know what their doing for the paper we have due next week let me know! I have no idea what topic i want to chose yet because there are so many different things to write on. I mean we can write anywhere from texting and driving to forest fires! I think it will get more and more interesting as we all finally figure out what we want to write about! Peer review should be pretty interesting coming up since we get to take positions in our papers this time. Well i am thinking of writing about something happening in Australia, but i just dont know yet! I will definitely have all week to think about it which will be very nice!

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Today is monday and i am not ready for this week to start. I keep asking myself is it friday yet? I have two test friday and i am not looking forward to them at all! I wish thanksgiving break was here already and these next 3 weeks would hurry up and fly bye already! I am super sick right now and am tired of blowing my nose! It is rubbed raw from blowing it so much and its not even winter yet! Although i love this weather, i think i am ready for the snow! I love the winter and it relaxes me looking outside my window and seeing all the snow. Its so pretty how could someone not enjoy winter! I guess we all have our favorite seasons! Well hopefully this week goes by fast along with these next few weeks!

Fall Break!

Fall break should probably hurry up and get here now! I am so excited even though we only get one day off. I only have one class thursday so if you think about it i guess i could consider it almost two days long! Well i have tons of homework to do over break, but i love working on it during the weekends instead of craming on the week days. Knowing you have all weekend is relaxing, instead of worrying about what is due all week. I try and get things done for the week over the weekend, but i dont know how that will go this weekend! Its so pretty out and i love fall so we will see what this fall break has in store for me!

Position Paper

I dont know about anyone else, but i think i am going to like the position paper the best out of any of the paper we have wrote! I think its neat we get to pick our own international topic and express how we feel about it. I know it will be hard giving a good topic sentence in each paragraph, but at least its about something we get to chose! I have no idea what i want to write about yet, there are so many different articles out there. I have found international articles ranging anywhere from drought in Australia to texting while driving. Crazy right! This is crazy we are half way through with writing in english class. I was never a huge fan of english back in high school, but i am starting to like it. I am not a very good writer but i think i am getting better hopefully!

Going Home For the Weekend

I am so excited right now! I am going home this thursday night and can not wait. My family is going home too and we are carving pumpkins and making candy corn. I love spending time with my family, especially all my baby cousins. I'm upset my twin wont we home for the weekend but hopefully i see her soon. My sister goes to The University of Cincinnati so she is so far from me! One thing im not looking forward to when i go home is going to court on friday. I have to go to court for getting in a car accident with a lady going about 4 mph! Ridiculous right?!? I know thats what i am thinking too. I have never been to court so i am kind of nervous. I have no idea what i am suppost to say and barely even remember the accident it was so long ago! Wish me luck!

Fires Take Over in Australia

On EBSCO I searched Australia just looking for all different types of things to find. One thing that showed up over and over was the fires that have been appearing throughout different areas of Australia. The death rate has rose to above 200 from weekend bush fires in southeast Australia, making it the worst natural disaster on the continent in 110 years. The fires that have been appearing are said to be caused from global warming and the raising of temperatures. As the fires become more and more severe, i am wondering why many people are still living in the area? If this was happening where i lived i would be sure to get out of the area as soon as possible. In the article it talks about costs raising so much for firefighters due to so many fires lately. The fires are so unpredictable too described in the articles. They appear and start out of nowhere. Why arent people doing more to help this situation in Australia?What is exactly the answer to fixing this? Global warming is going to start effecting people everywhere, and not just in Australia. Are people not concerned about global warming because it is not effecting our generation? In generations from now, global warming will have a huge impact on where people live, and the activities the can do. These fires in Australia are becoming know ass "Mass Murders" because of the effect they have been having on the population.

Arkley, Lindsey "Arsonist fires devastate parched Australia." Christian Science Monitor 10 Feb. 2009: 7. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2009.

Looking for articles!

Last week i found some of my articles i am going to use for the upcoming classes we need them for. While looking through the websites and finding topics that were similar, one i came across was nuclear discussions in Iraq. I found tons of articles that had recently been posted about this and decided i would print off quite a few of them. They are all pretty interesting and talk about basically the same thing. This is random, but another one i found was texting and driving! That seems to be a huge concern for everyone now a days, not just teenagers anymore! It was a story line on most of the web pages i went to. Thats pretty scary that its becoming that big of a deal!

A Helpful Question on the Peer Review

I would have to say that when reading through the peer review there were a lot of questions i read and thought to myself, Oh no i don't know if i did that! I think i did a better job at analyzing my song then i did with the whole synthesis part of my paper. I found it really hard to connect my song lyrics with the book Ishmael Beah, but eventually figured it out. I think the most helpful questions would be "How is the thesis surprising, original, and deep? That is, do you consider the insight even after the paper is over? Describe below what is original, surprising, and or deep. If it’s not yet, how might it become more original?"

When answering these questions about my own paper, i knew right away i might need to focus in on my two thesis a little bit more. I plan on going to the writing center again before our paper is due, and am going to bring my peer reviews with me. Hopefully they will help me out with my thesis!

Favorite Holiday

I am so excited for thanksgiving although it is still very far away! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because i love the atmosphere of it and all the yummy food! Thanksgiving and christmas are definitely the best holidays to me. My favorite thing at both these holidays is the delicious mash potatoes and desserts. Its fun having all my family over and seeing all the babies and cousins. Its a time where we can all get together and enjoy ourselves. I am soooooo excited for both!

Favorite Music!

I enjoy all different kinds of music but LOVE country. Every summer my friends and i go to this huge concert called country concert. Its four days long and amazing! We camp out for 4 days straight and it gets kind of irritating by the fourth day. This past year it rained 2 days straight which made everything really awful and muddy! I love country because its so relaxing to listen to. I love slow country and faster country. My favorite country singer would definitely be keith Urban or Jason Aldean. I love them and they were amazing in concert!