Thanks!

Thanks to all for your patience, hard work, and imagination throughout the semester.

An Exercise

when my father returned from Milan,he found playing with me
in the hall of our villa a child fairer, than pictured cherub
a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks,and whose form
and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills the apparition
was soon explained with his permission. my mother prevailed
on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her they were fond
of the sweet orphan.Her presence had seemed a blessing to them
but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want
when providence afforded her such powerful protection.
they consulted their village priest and the result was
that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents' house
my more than sisterthe beautiful and adored companion
of all my occupations and my pleasures.

Research Paper

I did my research paper on the history of Ellis Island,what did the immigrants go through, and what happens now in America at the Ellis Island Museum and immigration on both sides of the coast...YOu know what I realized earlier was that I didn't quite really do an intro paragraph! I am totally busted (grade wise)! I was so worried about other things in my paper liker the grammar, and how many pages that I needed..that I think my mind went totally crazy on the intro paragraph. I just started typing...Now I'm really nervous about getting my paper back. I really want to pass the class. Good Luck to all of you guys on the final on Saturday!!! It was nice working with you!

The Debate is no more

I can see that we are all glad that the debate is behind us now. I am honestly surprised that I got as high a grade that I did. I had all the basic issues out lined in my introduction which is probably why I did as well as I did. Unfortunately my presentation was poor. I am curios why the Professor had us do a debate. I do not feel that I got that much out of it as far as learning goes. I do however feel that the research paper taught me allot, both about the subject that I wrote about as well as the process of writing.

FINALLY OVER

WE HAD OUR DEBATE AND I FEEL WE DID WELL, I SURPRISED MY SELF WITH THE RESEARCH THAT WAS EXPECTED OF ME REGAURDING THE MEDICAL SIDE OF THE DEBATE. I READ IN TO BOOKS AND WEB SITES TO GET MY KNOWLEDGE, BUT I FOUND SPEAKING TO NURSES AND DOCTORS DIRECTLY GAVE ME THE MOST BENEFIT. I ALSO HAD THE BENEFIT TO LOOK AT HOSPITAL CENCES ON DAILY BASIS AND SEE THE REASONS PEOPLE ARE CHECKING INTO THE PSYCH WARD I HAD THEIR CHARTS TO MY BENEFIT TO DO RESEARCH ON THE BACKGROUND FOR THAT ONE INDIVIDUAL....I AM SURE GLAD I HAD THAT TO MY BENEFIT. IN ALL I STILL FEEL THAT ABORTION IS UP TO THE ONE INDIVIDUAL AND HER GOD TO LOOK FOR GUIDANCE AND FORGIVENESS, NO ONE HAD HE RIGHT TO IMPOSE THEIR FEELINGS OR BELIEFE ON SOME ONE WHO IS CAPABLE OF MAKING THEIR OWN CHOICE, FOR THOSE WHO NEED DECISIONS MAD FOR THEM THERE ARE PYCH DOCTORS AND COURT APPOINTED DIRECTORS WHO CAN MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.

Class

I want to tell all of you that I have enjoyed beginning and ending this class with you. The debates were very interesting and everyone did a great job.

Debates

I am so glad that the debate it over! I was ready with my facts, but not ready mentally to go up in front of the class. Iam not an agressive person...soon I will be learning how to in a speech class...I am learning from this, I am glad I didn't chiken out on this debate, and did the best I could!

7 page essay

I feel the heat is on, I was going to do my paper on the abortion issue but at the last minute decided that abortion in a persona opinion. it is up to the one individual to make up her decicision for her self and only god has the right to judge her and forgive her no one else, so i am going to do my paper on convicts in Alcatraz

exercise

Ok, this is a good one. Someone else take it on so we can compare.


For a long time I was their only care. My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring. When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of italy, they passed a week on the shores of the lake of como. Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor. This to my mother, was more than a duty it was a necessity, a passion, remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved, for her to act in her turn;the guardian angel to the afflicted. During one of their walks, a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice, as being singularly disconsolate. While the number of half clothed children gathered about, it spoke of penury in its worst shape. One day when my father had gone by himself to milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode. She found a peasant, and his wife ,hard working ,bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes. Among these there was one which attracted my mother, far above all the rest, she appeared of a different stock. The four others were darkeyed hardy little vagrants. This child was thin and very fair; her hair was the brightest living gold and despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample. Her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips, and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species. A being heaven sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.

Punctuation exercise

Ok Bc, tell me what you think.

I am practically industrious, painstaking, a workman, to execute with perseverance and labour, but besides this there is a love for the marvellous. A belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea, and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

In the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our swiss home, the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons tempest and calm, the silence of winter and the life and turbulence of our alpine summers, she found ample scope for admiration and delight.

Excercise III Douglass

I will venture to assert that my friend Mr. Nathan Johnson, of whom I can say with a grateful heart “I was hungry, and he gave me meat. I was thirsty and he gave me drink. I was a stranger, and he took me in lived in a neater house, dined at a better table, read more and better understood the moral, religious, and political character of the nation than nine-tenths of the slaveholders in Talbot County, Maryland.

MLA citations

This is a MLA citation for my research paper. Someone take a look and tell me what you think. The source is the Mount San Antonio College library search engine, or Expanded Academic ASAP.

Lott, John. "Half cocked: why most of what you see in the media about guns is wrong." The American Enterprise 14.5 (July-August 2003): 28(4). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Mount San Antonio College. 6 May. 2007

Excercise V. Mary Shelley's Interjections

Such were the professors words, rather let me say such the words of the fate enounced to destroy me. As he went on, I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy. One by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being. Chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. "So much has been done"; exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein. More far more will I achieve treading in the steps already marked. I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

Excercise V. Mary Shelley's Interjections

I closed not my eyes that night, my internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil. I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it by degrees. After the mornings dawn sleep came. I awoke and my yester nights thoughts were as a dream. There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies, and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.

mla

Fisher, Angela and Carol Beckwith. "The African Roots of Voodoo." National Geographic 2nd ser. 188 (1995). May,18 2007.

Mr. Crandall,

Just wanted to give you an idea for your next class blog entries. Try having a question of the week, this might make it easier for some students. Sometimes its easier to write about a set theme vs. nothing at all.

Works Cited

Someone take a look at these MLA citations and tell me if they are correct. I could not underline the titles.

"Gun Politics in Switzerland." Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. On-Line. Apr 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

Open Society Institute's Center on Crime Communities & Culture and the Founder'Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention. Gun Control in the United States. On-line. Apr 2000.
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/articles_publications/publications/gun_report_20000401

When Is It Due?

Can the research papers be due on the last day? I'm stressed about the debate and I am over researching structure. If I knew we were going to implement debate in an English class...I would have armed myself with the fundamentals before having to do the assignment. A bit confusing! Can we divide our focus & efforts into two weeks instead of one? I think this will be very useful.

For those who are learning on doing their research paper...kudos! I want to learn to...but I don't know if I can over this speech anxiety I'm building up right now. It is really tough for those of us who actually have this problem. If one can psychologically prepare for this endeavor...we should at least meditate on it...instead of having the burden of writing a 7page research paper + bibliography looming over our heads. I don't know about anybody else...but the rewards I'd like to reap from this experience is a well balanced mind.

I would definitely be much more comfortable this way...does anybody else agree?

Not for nothing...I don't want to elude anybody into thinking that I have not been doing my homework, because I have. With the exception of Thursday and Friday, where I have been duly obtained to participate in the obligatory job interview, time is not on my side between the impediments of scholastic fantasy vs. life’s reality.


Mary Ann

In class exercise

Bryon.Joe. "The blue Door." Ed. Pamela Ezell. Online Journal. http://www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/backissues/summer98/theBlueDoor.htm. 18 May 2007.

Debates

I am ready for the debates, or at least I think I am. I have been preparing and writing my reasearch paper on the same topic so I feel prepared. I wish or rivals luck and everyone else as well. Our debate is on gun control and should be a good one.

I am actually learning from my research!

I am doing research on the cuurent Guset Worker bill that is going through congress. In my research I realized that I am learnig about the current problem not only from the U.S. citizen point of veiw, but also from the point of veiw of a Mexican citizen. I am also learnig that the problem is much bigger than a single U.S. law will solve. I am haveing a hard time keeping my paper from growing to large. If i was more motivated I could easily write a book on this subject.

Debate

I want to mention our group is ready for debate. We will try to learn, understand, and how to listent to the opposite of our idea.

MLA

Such were the professors’ words; rather let me say such were the words of the devil that fate enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy. One by one, the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being. Chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. “So much has been done” exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein, “more, far more will I achieve treading in the steps already marked.” I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest, mysteries of creation.

topic final

Is it possible to have several essay prompts one week before the final, in order to better prepare for the exam? Can more be explained about the final and topic in order to conduct a little research before the final?

DEBATE NEXT WEEK/ GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

I AM SO GLAD WERE ALMOST DONE WITH THIS DEBATE. I AM NERVOUS BUT YET I AM EAGER TO GET IT DONE WITH. WE AS A CLASS IN WHAT EVER SUBJECT WE CHOSE TO BE A PART OF WILL BE TOUCHING ON A NERVE WITH EACHOTHER. WE WILL BE STRONG TO PRESENT OUR POINT AND YET QUICK TO DEFEND OUR POINT. WE NEED TO REMEMBER THIS IS JUST A CLASS AND OUR OPINION IS JUST THAT "OUR OPINION" I NEED TO APOLOGISE NOW IF I AFFEND ANY ONE OR STEP ON ANY ONES TOES. THIS IS A CLASS I NEED TO PASS AND I WILL DO WHAT I HAVE TO DO TO A DEGREE. I HOPE WE ALL FEEL THE SAME AND NOT INTENTIALLY DEMEAN ANY ONE OR MAKE THEM FEEL BAD FOR HAVING A OPINION OR BELIEFE. GOOD LUCK TO ALL AND MAY WE ALL PASS..........

DEBATE

Outlines

I really do believe that outlines are effective tools in writing essays. In the past, I thought of outlines as energy unnecessarily expended. I've come to find out that they are extremely useful in writing effective essays. I recommend to everyone that they use this helpful tool in writing their up coming research paper.

Debate

I truly beieve that our debate group is well informed on the topic of abortion, and will persuade any fence straddlers that will be in attendance that abortion is morally wrong.

The Dash

1. Use the dash to set off words or phrases that might warrant the use of comma but in case when the writer desires to make a point clear or introduce dramatic effect.

The Colon

1. It's a mark of introduction that allows the writer to consolidate information that would normally take more than one sentence to state.
2. Use the colon at the end of a sentence to do the following: introduce a list, introduce a long quotation, or introduce an explanation.

The Semicolon

1. Use semicolon to join complete thoughts that aren't already connected by a comma or conjunction. Such sentences must be related to each other in content
2. Use the semicolon to join two complete thoughts that include transitional words such as "however," "otherwise," "moreover," "furthermore," "therefore," or "consequently"
3. A semicolon may be used to mark off items or phrases in a series when the items themselves contain many commas that may become confusing

The Comma

1. Separates 3 or more similar items in a series
2. Sets off introductory material
3. Isolates words or phrases that interrupt the flow of thought in a sentence
4. Joins two sentences together with a coordinating conjunction
5. Separates a direct quotation from the rest of the sentence
6. Is used for certain everyday material: dates and addresses, openings and closing of a letter