A modest proposal

A modest proposal
By Jonathan Swift
As this author starts out he has a tone towards which it seems he hates the beggars and he thinks they should be doing something else. He begins by showing the example of a mother with five or six children begging at a certain place and that it really doesn’t matter because what her children are growing up to be is useless thieves, soldiers or even sell themselves as servants. Once that introduction is done I as the reader noticed his sarcasm as he begins to talk about his proposal about making children food. Through his proposal he explains many voluntary abortions will be prevented. He continues to say that he has been told that a child at a year old is most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or broiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in franchise or a ragout. The author really makes his point and usually even adds statistical fact like actually convincing these people eat children. In the end he concludes that he is only trying to do a service for his country and helping the poor, while at the same time giving a little pleasure to the rich. Then he says that he has no child to sell and that wife is no longer of breeding age.

Growing up old

Growing up old
By Richard Rodriguez
The author starts out by explaining that in American the teenagers are taught to be old too early and are taught to live by themselves, to grow apart from their families. As he begins to discuss his topic he uses an example of a city, Los Angeles, as he explains this is the capital of adolescence. After this he uses another supporting example through which he was present. He saw a seventeen year old girl give her mother away, but this was her fourth marriage. He ends this example by saying, “The dry-eye daughter has seen it all before.” Then he changes to talk about the fact that he knows some children who actually carry knives or guns because the walk from and to school is more dangerous than many realize. He also sees how instead of the parents nurturing their children the bigger brother or sister is now taking that role. He explains that he knows a girl who stays home to protect her younger sister, who is being pursued by a teenage stalker. Not telling their parents because they do not know how they will react. As it turns out he makes a valid point, “‘Children grow up too quickly.’ American parents sigh. And yet nothing troubles an American parent so much as the teenager who won’t move out.”He finishes his essay by criticizing American literature which usually has a better beginning than end.

Cultural Baggage

Cultural Baggage
By Barbara Ehrenreich

The author of this essay is really telling the reader that there can be an ethnicity of none. People don’t have to act like their ancestors used to, people can chose to have their own then ethnicity and culture. These are our rights and we as people should embrace them, not hide them by just saying, “Oh, my ancestors did this and this so I will continue to do it that way.” That is not the way to do things, unfortunately that is how it works even our author who has an ethnicity of none still displays an ethnicity because she is fallowing down. She glad her children inherited this way of thinking, but is she really considering the fact that indeed she has just created another ethnicity through which they may have numerous rituals. By rituals I mean Friday is pizza night, or other things that are done as a family groups and bonds that would never be broken. Fortunately for me I admit I have created my own culture through which I included pieces of the two I know about American and Cuban. It is hard to know where to draw the line because every time something is created this other is has a name so it really isn’t changing much.

TheLie Detector

The Lie Detector
By Lewis Thomas
In my point of view lie detectors are useful. Although they should be the last measure because they aren't one hundred percent efficient, they may sometimes or most of the times do their job. In other words, I disagree with Lewis Thomas. People can’t be trusted most of the time, most importantly those who would get penalized for it. Very good examples of this would be rapists, murderers, and those who are unfaithful to their wife or husband. Although this may be considered inhuman, it is sometimes necessary because if people were to always tell the truth and wouldn’t betray a trust, our society would be perfect, but it isn’t. Obviously this is because we are humans bound to lie whether for our own good, to protect someone or to just tell a plain lie to get the rush of it. People lie for all reasons and trust me if their life or their money depends in it they will lie double if they have to in order to save themselves. As I have said before we are selfish little animals and the only things that separates us from those living in the wild is our clothes and coordination. We are humans and as humans we are bound to make mistakes and this is one of our most common one.

Cinematypes

Cinematypes
By Susan Allen Tooth

The writer chose to start the essay with the name of a person and continues to talk about him through the rest of the paragraph. She spoke about Aaron who only takes her to see art films. When they do go to the movie theater they drive separate cars and Aaron is always distant from her. Then she continues to talk about Pete who is very different from Aaron, Pete likes to watch movies that have redeeming social value. Pete and our author usually take turns on driving to the movie theater and they park far away from the theater in order not to pay for parking. If it is raining he offer to leave her at the door, but looks at her as if he didn’t want to be the only one wet, so she usually stays with him. One night she asked Pete to go have a drink with her and he said, “Relationships today, have a tendency to move too quickly.” Lastly she introduces Sam, who she seems to like. Sam pays for everything at the movie theater because he thinks that’s what a man has to do. Throughout the whole movie he plays with her hand and puts his arm around her. By the end of the night, he takes her home and kisses her long and hard. Once they are at the door step he explains he would like to come in, but his steady girlfriend wouldn’t like that. In the end she talks about her own companionship, and the movies she likes. The movies with happy endings, such as love movies. She usually dresses up baggy and eats big chunks of popcorn. In the end she concludes that in all the movies she goes to all the men and the women like each other.

Why we crave horror movies!

Why we crave horror movies!
By Stephen king

To begin the story Stephen King chose a very good starting sentence through which he tells the reader that we are all mentally ill, the only difference is that some of us are better at hiding it, or are we? He carries on by telling the reader about scary movies and how we feel better about watching others get tortured or killed. He compares scary movies to a roller coaster with double twists and 360 degree loops. Through this he introduces an age groups people over 40 who no longer get a jolly out of riding roller coaster and chose instead the ride of their life scary movies. He says, “Our emotions and our fears form their own body and we recognize that it demands its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone.” He says it is all in order to maintain the status quo of civilization. Mr. King also uses a metaphor through which he explains that the bad side of people, the one that does or thinks the nasty things, is a gator and it has to be kept fed and best way to throw a raw piece of meat is by watching a horror movie. I believe this may be true, but I as an individual do not like watching horror movies and I am doing fine without them, it is something I like to keep out of my life.

Slice Of Life

Slice of Life
By Russel Baker
This essay talk about the process of how to carve a turkey, as the writer explains the process he throws in some jokes in order to make the reading entertaining to the reader. He makes remarks all through his essay beginning with the first on where he tells the reader that if he/she notices that the knife is not cutting right, to give up and ask someone in the house why their knives are not kept in better carving conditions. Mr. Baker continuous speaks in sarcastic ways like when he tell the carver, that other options to rather than sharpening the knife is going around the neighborhood looking for one which is unlikely buy through this action the person may gain certain amount of things. First he says that the carver may indeed get to watch a football game at a neighbor TV set, as this creates the probably of someone back home getting tired of waiting and actually doing it him/her self. He then sarcastically talks about how badly cut the meat must be once the person arrived, if indeed the people got tired and cut it themselves. This was a very good essay through which a person can really enjoy the sarcasm as soeme things are learned through the process.

Why don’t we complain?

Why don’t we complain?
By Wiliam F. Buckley, Jr.

This essay begin in a train where a man is sweating and has to take off not only his overcoat, but his jacket while the temperature outside is below freezing. As he is thinking about this the train conductor comes in and starts to ask for tickets. He notices how everyone just quietly gives him the ticket without even speaking to him. He then becomes very decided to complain about the situation, but once he is about to he changes his question to what time they would arrive because of how people where looking at him. As it turns out he continues to discuss how it is not only in the train, but at the movie theater where the screen is out of focus. Then he explains that as Americans we have now decided to let the complaining to others and as it did in the train and the movie theater everyone was expecting for someone else to complain and that is why everyone sat through that huge oven and how everyone watched a movie uncomfortably. We are scared of portraying our views and people thinking they are unjust or vague. Mr. Buckley also talks about other occasion where he has not given his opinion or exercised his ability to complain and instead conformed. This essay is very true although I am not like the author I do complain when I think it is needed, but sometime like him I hold back because all eyes are on me and it is uncomfortable as people make me seem like an alien.

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action: The price of preference

by Shelby Steele

Affirmative action is an argumentative essay through which I have seen the process of a good argumentation. The writer first started by introducing what lead him to write about affirmative action, which was the fact that his children will soon go off to college and they will be asked to mark on their applications what their ethnicity is. Then he continues to tell the reader about his father who worked his whole life driving a truck for ninety dollars a week, even when he was a literate person. He then explain that to him it is crucial that America recognizes its past sins and wishes to corrects them, but he mentions that we are doing it imperfectly. As I read this story I became confused because many of the things Shelby explain are true, things like the fact that people do get preference by stating their ethnicity in a college application, and this is what this professor and also father is talking about. As he speaks about affirmative action he tells us that he is against it because it harms not only blacks but others. It is another way of characterizing people. I quote, “I think affirmative action has shown itself to be more bad than good and that blacks—whom I will focus on this essay—now stand to lose more from it than they gain.” This is through which I have not only learned but gathered very good information.

College Pressures! Very true

As I read this essay I identified with it because everything that is expressed through it are the real hardship an actual college student goes through. I have also learned that these are only the basics there are many more which come in with every different individual. Mr. William Zinsser started his essay out in a way that makes the reader crave about what he is going to talk about next. The expected audience is actual college students, parents and basically all the people affected by this “epidemic.”I call it an epidemic because every student goes through at least one of the hardships mentioned, most go through most. After he talks about the messages he introduces the man who the messages were left for, Carlos Hortas, who is a dean at Branford College. Amazing how people get so desperate they need someone to talk to, the last comment was very impacting, “Hey Carlos, good news! I’ve got mononucleosis.” The author of this essay wishes students could be able to pay more attention to little things rather than thinking that, “every step is a grim preparation for the next step.”He talked about the pressure put upon students by their professors, by their parents, and of course the economical pressure. Unfortunately economical pressure is the one that hit students harder and if their parents are paying for it then it is parental pressure. If parents pay for school they want a say in what their son or daughter are going to study, most likely they are going ask for high titles such as doctors or architects. These are only some of the hardship students, including me, go by every day. Always hoping for everything to miraculously disappear, but it doesn’t.

"A fable for tomorrow"(it could happen today!)

This story is very eye catchy because the author uses caparison and contrast to show us the difference of these two worlds she imagines. She is trying to demonstrate what danger human can do to their environment. As she begins she talks about this wonderful world where everyone lives in harmony, “The town lay in the midst of a checkboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.” Then once she has completely described the wonderful world, she talks about what that world became and says, “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of the new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.” She later proceeds to talk about how the actual town she has described didn’t go through everything she mentioned, but everywhere around the world communities have suffered at least one of all the results brought on to people because of people. In my opinion she is telling us to be aware of the world that surrounds us and not to let things slide by just because they are not happening to us. Awareness is the key factor of this essay, learn to care for other especially nature, that is the one that helps us survive.

Neat People vs. Sloppy People

Well here's a good essay! I pretty much loved this essay because even when it is going to the extremes it tells a lot of characteristics that do apply to both certain types of people. It was entertaining and at the same time informative. From the reading I found out that the author favors sloppy people and puts neat people as to having no feelings. Although it's not true because most of us are neat, but at the same time sloppy. Like my friend Luis said, "I have an organized mess." This is true most people do have everything organized but in their own way. That is why I think they shouldn't be criticized because of it. We live in a world where there is a lot of variety and everyone doesn't have the same point of view. By reading this essay, I also gained some sort of writing knowledge. The way it was written makes people want to read it again, this is a good way of writing because obviously the more people like it the more they buy it, the more appealing it is the more publicity it's going to get. The author did a great job and I admire her for it. In truth I would love to read some more about her and see how consistent is this system of writing in her.

Why get Married in Vegas?

At the beginning this reading starts out very cold, the author starts out by informing us about what the price is, and all the things you need. At the same time the author is ironical to what Mr. James A Brennan says, "I could have married them en masse, but they're people, not cattle. People expect more when they get married." In my opinion this is totally ironical because they only had 3 to 5 minutes in the altar and the one bride lent her veil to 6 other. And you say people aren't been treated like cattle here? It is a less expensive wedding to those who like close by. Because as a Floridian for me that would be vacation place, not the sort of place you get married at. Am not saying it would be nice to there and get married and have that little funny experience but that would never count as a wedding for me. The other bad thing about it is that people that this affects people in a way. Let me explain two people who haven't seen each other in a really long time meet up in Vegas get very drunk and then they decided to get married the next day they are getting a divorce. In a way this is good but at the same time is bad. She lets us know that in her opinion a Vegas wedding is not the way to go. She sees this as inhuman and uses irony throughout the whole essay.

The moth and it's tricky author...

Although it's a nice day outside and everything seems sort of lazy, there something happening in the inside of a writer's office. A moth is trapped in the author's office trying to get out through the window. At the same time it's hurting itself, because it keeps throwing it's body towards the window. Although it's kind of ironical the fact that the author doesn't just get up to open the window for the moth to get out. Brings us to the point that the author may be writing in a metaphysical way. At the same time the author shows admiration towards the moth, " What he could do he did. Watching him, it seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body." As i read this i came to a conclusion she may not only be talking about the moth at this time, but about everyone who at sometime in life has gone through a troubles and although they have had to hit the glass many times they reach outside. Also for those who try really hard but never have the chance to make, like the moth. The author keeps trying to get to the reader throughout the whole writing showing us how we aren't very different from the moth, most of us always trying to reach a certain place and some not even reaching it. At the end she shocks us because as she sees the moth kind of dying, she touches the moth with a pencil. Who then responds by flipping itself up, using the last bit of of energy it had. Having a kind of dignified death, who in the reading is her opponent, although at the end she is accepts death. The author is also talking about herself, since we have background to her committing suicide.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

This descriptive essay called my attention because, How many of us have left our cultures behind and started new one? Well in my opinion is a new culture because we don't completely comply with the culture that we have arrived to which is the American, but we don't keep doing the same things we used to do while we were in our own country. This essay is written in way that the reader can familiarize with it and at the same time the person can feel everything he is writing because he is describing everything he wants you to feel.

Note: This is just someting i wanted to write, not for credit.

Why i liked the chase!

In class we read three narrations. The Chase, Salvation, and The hanging, all of them teaching different things about different stages in life. Although the hanging called my attention since it's more in depth than the other two, I preferred The Chase. This narration shows two very different stages of human growth, but demonstrates that in the end either young or old we all certainly have a hunger to fulfill goals. In this story the man chasing the kids sets one goal to catch them, which also brings out his kid side. Then there's also the controversy that women or the girl in the case is as competitive as the boy and the man. This taking us back to what she demonstrates throughout the whole story, "It's all or nothing." Setting high expectations is one of the most dominant themes in the narration because not only was the man determined not to lose the kids, the kids were determined to escape from him by jumping fences, going through thorny hedges, between houses, and around garbage cans. The man continued to fallow the kids, silently surpassing every obstacle put in his way. I liked this story because it teaches not to give up, no matter what position you are in.

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