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

Debate

I AM SO NERVOUS FOR THE DEBATE ON SATURDAY!!! I have never taken a speech class before, so I am just going to get up there in front of the class and do the best I can!!!

TROUBLE, HELP!

I am having troble with looking for old bloggs that I have made. I have made numerous bloggs and responded to many, and when I go to see if there are any comments or to re read what I have entered I cant find it. I click on old bloggs to see them but when they apear there are many other ones but not mine. Is any one experienceing this problemb? If so let me know and if you can help let me know all help is apreciated thanks

In class Excercise III

Everything looked clean, new, and beautiful. I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates. No half-naked children, and bare-footed, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough Easton St. Michaels and Baltimore. The people looked more able, stronger, healthier, and happier than those of Maryland. I was for once made glad, by a view of extreme wealth without being saddened by seeing extreme poverty, but the most astonishing, as well as the most interesting thing to me was the condition of the colored people; a great many of whom, like myself had escaped thither as a refuge from the hunters of men. I found many who had not been seven years out of their chains, living in finer houses and evidentially enjoying more of the comforts of life than those of the average slaveholders in Maryland. I will venture to assert that my friend, Mr. Nathan Johnson, of whom I can say with a grateful heart:
“I was hungry 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, and 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.

Research paper

Has anyone started their research paper yet? I was going to do it on my debate subject, but I thought it was to sad...so I thought I would research about marriage and families. What are you guys writing about?

MLA Format

Byron, Joe. "The Blue Door." Trans. Pamela Ezell. The Online Literary Journal of Chapman University. 18 May 2007. http://www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx//backissues/summer98/thebluedoor.htm.

Cohan, Tony. On Mexican Time. New York: Broadway Books, 2001. 1-304.

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

Secrets of the Ocean Deep. Dir. Howard Hall.Time Warner Home Video. Videocassette.

debates

i believe using the rest of the time we have left, until debates day, helpful to all of us. What do you guys think?

In class cite excercise

Bryon, Joe. "The Blue Door." Online Literary Journal. Ed Pamela Ezell. http://www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/backissues/summer98/theBlueDoor.htm May 19 2007

internet citing

Bryon, Joe. “The Blue Door.” Online literary journal . 05/19/07.

Internet Cite listing

Bryon, Joe. “The Blue Door.” Online Literary Journal. Ed Pamela Ezell 18 May 2007.

Corrected Exercise

Bryon, Joe. "The Blue Door." Online Literary Journal. www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/. Summer 1998, 18 May 2007.

MLA citation exercise

Bryon, Joe. "The Blue Door." Online journal. ed. Pamela Ezell
http://www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/backissues/summer98/theBlueDoor.htm
18 May 2007.

Exercises

This is what I came up with.

Byron, Joe. "The Blue Door". Online Literary Journal. www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/. Summer 1998, 18 May 2007.

Blog posting

Why not post about debate and research projects?

Also, there's nothing wrong with posting about the grammar excercises. There are more than a half-dozen excercizes there.

There are many situations in writing where it works well to hang back and consider an idea thoroughly before doing anything. This blog is probably not one of them.

How can we post, if we do not have anything to post about.

My argument is...at this point in our English class...we no longer have anything to post about because we are all working on our debate projects and we literally have to keep those topics on the down low. I as sure as I am would like to earn credit for blogging…but what about?

Research Paper

Can our research paper be on anything that we are interested about or does it have to be on what we are debating on?

Work cited

After class I was still a little confused about the work sited exercise. In the exercise when we did the work sited for the poem. Why was it not correct to put the title of the poem as a subtitle?

Cecar Chavez

I wanted to write about this article I found it fascinating how the land belongs to Venezuela, but it is controlled by other nations. I did not think I would have had enough time to write a good paper on this topic. How did every one else decide what to write about and how did you (the class) go about writing the paper.

Paragraph Revised in Class

During the Vietnam War, some of the many men and women faced emotional, mental, and physical concerns. The movie Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, portrays a sense of lunacy in certain of the scenes and characters. The boat crew members--Chef, Chief, Lance, and Clean--help guide Willard (the main character, played by Martin Sheen) up the river to complete his classified mission in search of former Green Beret Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

Blog Past Posting

Has any figued out how to review the past posting on the blog? I only can review what is on the first page of the blog. This makes it hard for me to make any comments on the past blogs. Is anyone else having this same problem.

WORK CITED

Today's class sure did help me with the way we need to work cite. It is important to document all the important information.
The last work cited we did, I had some problems with. Now that I see the answer, I reread the problem and now see how it had all the information in it.

hard to keep up with the posting

I have had a little hard time finding things to post in our blog every week. If anyone has any ideas please post

in class work - MLA

William, William Carlos. The Pot of Flowers. Ed. A Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowen. New york:
New Directions, 1991.

Margaret Sanger

I found while doing some research on my debate that Margaret Sanger was a contributer to the" kkk" Who knew? I thought all along that she was some one of great respect. Does any one share my opin. She gave speeches at their gatherings and suported their finances. I feel diferent about her now.

MLA Citing Excercise

Williams, William Carlos. Spring and All: The Pot of Flowers. Collected Poems of Wiliam Carlos Williams. First Ed. A Walton Litz. Christopher MacGowen. New York: New Directions, 1991.

In-Class Blog Exercise

In-Blog exercise

Carlos Williams, William. Spring and all: Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, The Pot of Flowers. Ed. 1. Litz, A Walton & MacGowan, Christopher. New York: New Directions, 1991.

Spring and All

Williams, William Carlos. Spring and All: The Pot of Flowers. 1st paperback Ed. A.Walton Litz and Christopher Mac Gowan. New York: New Directions, 1991

class exercise

Carlos Williams, William. Flowers Which was originally. Spring 1923 v1(184)

In-class Citation Exercise

Williams, William. Spring and All: The Pot of Flowers. Vols 1. Ed A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1991

MLA citation exercise

Williams, Williams. Spring: The Pot of Flowers.Vol1. Ed A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1991.

Class exercise

Williams, William. Collected Poems. Ed A. Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1991.

Citation by Tim Wagner

Williams, William. Spring and All The Pot of Flowers. 1st Vols. 1st Paperback ed. Ed Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1991.

MLA-Style

Carlos Williams, William. Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: The Pot of Flowers. 1st vol. Ed A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1991.

POST ENTRY TO BLOG

Williams, William Carlos,"The Pot of Flowers." Collected Poems.2 vols. A. Wa lton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. eds.New York; New Directions,1991

In class work - MLA

Williams, William Carlos. The Pot of Flowers. Ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MaGowan.
New York: New Direction, 1991.

When I did some research at Mt Sac library, and E-mailed the articles to my self it came with this format citing the work

Page, Randy M., and Jon Hammermeister. "Weapon-carrying and youth violence." Adolescence 32.n127 (Fall 1997): 505(9). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Mount San Antonio College. 6 May. 2007
.
Abstract:

DEBATE QUESTIONS

I AM GOING TO DEBATE ON ABORTION PRO CHOICE, I HAVE ACCESS TO MANY DOCTORS AND HAVE INTERVIEWED NUMEROUS NURSES, MY QUESTION TO ALL IS DOES ANY ONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MEDICALY THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OR ARE EMBARRASED TO ASK? I HAVE FOUND THAT I HAVE ASKED THE SAME QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER AND GET THE SAME ANSWERS. I'D LIKE TO SEE IF ANY ONE OF MY CLASSMATES HAVE A QUESTION THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ASKED BEFORE. PLEASE NO RELIGIOUS OR MORALITY QUESTIONS. IN THE MEDICAL FIELD WE TAKE AN OATH TO BE OPEN MIND AND NOT JUDGE PEOPLE, RESPECT THEIR CHOICE, IF ANY ONE CAN HELP LET ME KNOW

Introspections of a writer....

What does it mean to be a good writer? How can one eat, sleep, and breath everyday without having a sincere consciousness about who, what, where, when, why, or how he is? We ask ourselves these questions daily. When we brake through our own barriers - through the challenges that we all face, weather tumultuous or gracious...we still accomplish it within our minds. We strive to continue – hopefully unbiased to each others plights with the sincere mission to understand what danger is ahead. Reading does this for me. It lets me reach out from the bubble that I am in. I can create my own destiny and write it with a passion and a fervor I never thought I’ve had before. If it is a power – then let it be called that. All I know that when it is in my hands, it is put to good use. The power of imagination reaches so many people…as an adult…I’m glad I can still wield it…because life would end without dreams.

WHAT?

I saw this written as a comment:

"I think Bill mention that we need to defend our partners; however, if your group's debate is good, result of the argument won't reduce your point."

This is regarding the debates...what exactly does this mean? Can someone elaborate for me? Bill?

Keats

Wow! In class essays are so daunting! I didn’t know how I should choose from three topics that I was at least somewhat of an expert on. Maybe, some of you guys could shed some light on the experience you’ve had with the last in-class essay?

I do have some minor complaints about it. I did find it somewhat exciting that we were all on a sort of quest of writing…but did not find it particularly enjoyable that I was rushed. I guess it is a downfall from not paying too much attention in elementary school…that I don’t have the rudimentary skills to pace myself. Then, editing was another story all together. If Mr. Crandall didn’t give us enough time to finish…I don’t think I would have survived from that experience in one piece. Anyhow, I wrote on Keats…because it allowed for more creative writing.

I found Keats enjoyable because I was allowed free reign to critique his writing without actually knowing of his work. I love poetry. To me this piece spoke of volumes about ones philosophical experience or the discovery of it. Everybody is either discovering, experiencing, or endowing revelations in mystical magical ways…so that our spirits can be moved beyond our own common understanding of the world.

Keats was writing to his friend, who he is obviously trying to make a grand impression. I believe that Keats was experiencing the omnipresence of God. He was being moved by the splendor & beauty of creation that was indeed flowing through him – as everyone was a sort of conduit to the energy of their environment. This was one mans experience, one mans point of view. I’m sure if everyone were to write how they felt at that particular time, we would have seen some similarities…

Dabate What?

The debate sounds like a good idea. I am not certain that it will be well enough defined to be very effective though. I am on the side of pro gun control. This is a huge subject for a single debate. It is going to be very difficult to try and find counter arguments when the subject matter is so large. It would have been nice if the proffessor helped us narrow it down a little.

I think I am going to write my research paper on the same subject that I am debating. I am debating gun controll. I spoke with the professor about my thesis. I was having a hard time thinking of one. The subject of gun control is so large where do you begin. He helped me narrow it down to whether or not the federal government should be in control. I think this is a more managable subject, even thought you could easily write a book on it. Now I have to start my outline. I am not real sure what I am going to base it on. I guess I will have to start my research so that I will know how to organize my outline.

Punctuating Interjections and Lists

Melroes0914 has kindly contributed a paragraph that has some hard-to-punctuate lists and interjections. I have edited it a little so the class can re-solve some of the issues. Everyone should have a look at this for next week:

During the Vietnam War, some of the many men, and women faced emotional, mental, and or physical concerns. The movie, Apocalypse Now (directed by Francis Ford Coppola) portrays a sense of lunacy in certain of the scenes, and characters throughout the film. The main character, Willard, (Martin Sheen)), and the boat crew members, Chef, Chief, Lance, and Clean, help guild Willard up the river to complete his classified mission. In search of Colonel Kurtz, a former Green Beret, Willard; Chief; Chef; and Lance are always alert, as they travel through the Vietnamese jungle up the Nung River to let Willard complete his mission, execute Kurtz.

Iran and Imperialism

Just FYI for the students who chose to write about imperialism today. This is from http://www.chomsky.info. Click on "Articles," and then choose the top article, "What if Iran Invaded Mexico?"

Doubtless Iran's government merits harsh condemnation, including for its recent actions that have inflamed the crisis. It is, however, useful to ask how we would act if Iran had invaded and occupied Canada and Mexico and was arresting U.S. government representatives there on the grounds that they were resisting the Iranian occupation (called "liberation," of course). Imagine as well that Iran was deploying massive naval forces in the Caribbean and issuing credible threats to launch a wave of attacks against a vast range of sites -- nuclear and otherwise -- in the United States, if the U.S. government did not immediately terminate all its nuclear energy programs (and, naturally, dismantle all its nuclear weapons). Suppose that all of this happened after Iran had overthrown the government of the U.S. and installed a vicious tyrant (as the US did to Iran in 1953), then later supported a Russian invasion of the U.S. that killed millions of people (just as the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran in 1980, killing hundreds of thousands of Iranians, a figure comparable to millions of Americans). Would we watch quietly?

MLA Documentation Excercise

Create an MLA Bibliography from these Statements --

(We may not get ot this until next week)

Last week I finished Sophie Wilkins translation of Robert Musil's book, "The Man Without Qualities." It was published on the eastern seaboard of the United States by Alfred Knopf in New York in 1994. I'm thinking of citing a statement by the character Clarisse on page 1061 of the second volume.

I may refer to an editorial cartoon, copyright 1976 by Eduardo del Rio, who calls himself Rius. I found the cartoon in a book called La trukulenta historia del kapitalismo in the thirteenth edition, published in 1988 by a company called Editorial Posada, which gives its address as La Otra Banda No. 74 in Col. Tizapan San Angel, Deleg. Alvaro Obregon, CP 01090, Mexico, DF, which I know is located in Mexico City, Mexico.

On the one hundred eighty-fourth page of the first volume of the Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, I found a poem called The Pot of Flowers which was originally collected in 1923 in his book Spring and All. Williams himself owns the copyright. I can't find the original publisher of Spring and All, but my edition of C.P. was put out in New York, like so many things, by an establishment called New Directions, and it was edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. The collection was first published in 1986, and my edition is the first paperback edition, published in 1991. Robert Pinsky reviewed the book well, writing for the New York Times Book Review in 1991.

Last night I accessed an online literary journal at http://www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/. I found a strange story with pictures called the blue door. The exact address was

http://www.chapman.edu/comm/english/onyx/backissues/summer98/theBlueDoor.htm

Other information elsewhere on the site lists a Joe Bryon as the sole author of the text. No translator or editor is mentioned, though the site lists itself as having been edited "under the direction of" someone named Pamela Ezell, who is listed as the pro-tem director of a creative writing program at a Chapman University. No specific date is given for the publication of the issue in question. Accessing the site at www.chapman.edu/, I found information that the university itself is in Orange, California.

Tony Cohan reads his book On Mexican Time in three cassettes published by Random House in New York, New York in May of 2000. Random House sells its audiobooks at www.randomhouse.com/audio. The audio version was abridged with the author's approval from a print version published in the same year and available from Broadway Books, also in New York.

While watching a PBS video last Sunday, I was surprised to hear yet another relevant comment. The video series is called Secrets of the Ocean Realm, and the comment was made during a section entitled Filming Secrets. It was produced by Howard Hall Productions and directed by Howard Hall himself. It lasts sixty minutes and has been published on Time Warner Home Video in New York City. I checked it out of the Santa Ana Library last week, but I can't seem to find an author of text, an editor, or a publication date anywhere on this worn and water-damaged package.

A Website I checked out referred to an old national geographic, and I looked up the article in question in Volume 188, No. 2, published in August of 1995 by the National Geographic Society in Washington DC. The article was titled The African Roots of Voodoo, lists Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith as both authors and photographers, though I suspect they must have divided the labor somehow.

Chavez Gets Control of Oil Companies in Venezuela

PUERTO PIRITU, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela stripped the world's biggest oil companies of operational control over massive Orinoco Belt crude projects on Tuesday, a vital move in President Hugo Chavez's nationalization drive.

The May Day takeover came exactly a year after Bolivian President Evo Morales, a leftist ally of Chavez, startled investors by ordering troops to seize his country's gas fields, accelerating Latin America's struggle to reclaim resources.

"The importance of this is that we are taking back control of the Orinoco Belt which the president rightly calls the world's biggest crude reserve," said Marco Ojeda, an oil union leader before a planned rally to mark the transfer.

The four projects are valued at more than $30 billion and can convert about 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) of heavy, tarry crude into valuable synthetic oil.

U.S. companies ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Britain's BP, Norway's Statoil and France's Total agreed to obey a decree to transfer operational control on Tuesday, although the OPEC nation complained ConocoPhillips was somewhat resistant.

In Puerto Piritu, near the facilities that refine Orinoco crude, workers prepared early on Tuesday to celebrate the takeovers, displaying Venezuelan red, blue and yellow flags and daubing a wall with Chavez's slogan: "Homeland, Socialism or Death."
The anti-American leader was also in a festive mood before a rally marking what he called the end of an era of U.S.-prescribed policies that opened up the largest oil reserves in the hemisphere to foreign investment.

"Open investment will never return," he said on Monday to thousands of cheering workers dressed in the signature red of his self-styled leftist revolution at a rally for workers rights.

"We are sealing up that open investment era and burying it deep down in the Orinoco oil reserve," he added.

(The whole article is at http://commienews.blogspot.com/2007/05/venezuela-siezes-big-oil-companies.html.)

Debate sequence

The order of events in our debates will be like so:

In a 3 vs 3 debate:

1. First pro speaker speaks 5 minutes and presents the debate proposition from the Pro POV, and supports it as well as possible.

2. Cross-Examination -- One speaker from the con side stands with the first pro speaker and asks questions, and only asks questions. The pro speaker only answers questions. Typically, the questioner's strategy is to attempt to pin the speaker down to specific statements that can later be attacked. The speaker, of course, whats to be sure to properly qualify his or her opinion.

3. First Con Speech -- the first con speaker states the con disagreement with the pro position and supports that, rebutting the pro arguments, and adding whatever other arguments the con side may find useful.

4. A pro speaker cross-examines the con speaker just as a con speaker cross-examined the first pro speaker.

5. The second pro speaker defends the first pro speaker's positions insofar as they have been attacked, attacks the first con speaker's arguments insofar as that may be done, points out where the con team has failed to answer or adequately answer the pro argument, and introduces any new arguments that the first speakers may have failed to mention.

6. Cross examination.

7. The second con speaker rebutts the second pro speaker, defending the first con argument and attacking the pro arguments.

8. Another cross examination.

9. The third pro speaker gives the concluding pro speech, hopefully wrapping up all arguments into a convincing conclusion for the pro side.

10. The third con speaker gives the concluding speech, hopefully wrapping up all arguments into a convincign conclusion for the con side.

As you can probably tell by the format, it makes no sense to try to divide a topic into various aspects in order to have individual speakers specialize in different aspects of the topic. For instance, an abortion debate may have moral, social, and medical aspects, to name only a few; a speaker who prepares to deal with only moral issues may be poorly prepared to defend the arguments of a first speaker who presented social or medical issues. Likewise, a speaker who opens the debate by addressing only one small part of the overall question has probably not made a very effective argument, since any informed decision regarding the topics you have decided to debate would involve the weighing of many factors.

John Keats' to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination -- What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth -- whether it existed before or not -- for I have the same idea of all our passions as of love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential beauty -- in a word, you may know my favorite speculation by my first book and the little song I sent in my last -- which is a representation from the fancy of the provable mode of operating in these matters -- The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream [in Paradise Lost VIII 460-490] -- he awoke and found it truth. I am the more zealous in this affair, because I have never yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning -- and yet it must be -- Can it be that even the greatest philosopher ever arrived at his goal without putting aside numerous objections -- However it may be, O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts! It is 'a vision in the form of youth' a shadow of reality to come . . . "

The "Adam" Keats refers to is a character in John Milton's Paradise Lost, The passages dealing with his dream are in VIII 460-490.

Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself 6

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green
stuff woven.

Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see
and remark, and say Whose?

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.

Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I
receive them the same.

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out
of their mothers' laps,
And here you are the mothers' laps.

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.

O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.

I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken
soon out of their laps.

What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and children?

They are alive and well somewhere,
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the
end to arrest it,
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

4th Essay???

Sorry I missed class last Saturday....What will our fourth essay consist off???

DEBATE

I AM REAL EXCITED ABOUT OR DEBATE TEAMS. I'M NOT SURE I WANT TO STATE MY OPINION OPENLY. ABORTION IS SUTCH A HOT TOPIC THAT EVERY ONE FEELS THEIR CHOICE TO BE PRO OR CON IS THE CORRECT CHOICE FOR EVERY ONE TO FOLLOW. WHAT I MEAN IS EVERY INDIVIDUAL FEELS HE KNOWS THE CORRECT ANSWER. SOME ARE TO INTO GETTING INVOLVED IN OTHER PEOPLES BUSINESS THAT IT UPSETS ME TO MUCH. THERE MAY BE A TIME IN CLASS WHEN WE ARE DEBATING WHERE I MAY HAVE TO STEP OUT OF CLASS SO I DONT SAY SOMETHING RUDE OR MAKE SOME ONE CRY WITH MY SARCASM. AT THE SAME TIME I FEEL IT IS A GREAT OPPERTUNITY TO SEE WHAT EVERY ONE ELSE THINKS, JUST AS LONG AS NO ONE PUSHES THEIR DEBATE FEELINGS ON ONE ANOTHER.

SECOND TIME AROUND

AFTER OUR DISCUSSION IN CLASS I WENT HOME AND WATCHED THE MOVIE "APOCOLYPS NOW" A SECOND TIME. I PAYED CLOSE ATENTION TO THE DETAILS WE DISCUSSED IN CLASS. I FELT DSCUSSING IT WAS MORE HELPFUL TO GET ME TO DISTINGUISH THE NECESSARY AND CLUTTER SO I CAN GET MY ESSAY READY. I ALSO TOOK NOTES. I GOT CONFUSED ON THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS THE FIRST TIME AROUND. I ALL I FEEL THE MOVIE WAS MORE REALISTIC AND MORE DETAILED THAN THE BOOK. I FELT THE BOOK WAS BOARING AND I COULDNT CONCENTRATE FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.

MLA Fomat for Work Cited

To get a list of MLA Styles for Bibliographic Citation, you can go to the Mt. San Antonio College,
go to the right of the site and you will see: Find Help, go to Library handouts,
then go to: Modern Language Association (MLA) Citation Sheet. (Print it out for your records).
This should help you with any questions you may have. Good Luck!
FYI, they update this sheet about once or twice a year.

Online MLA Style Guides...

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR EVERYONE...Good News!

In completing your research papers...I thought this might help in the process. All of this information can be found on one comprehensive website offered by Perdue University. Look it up or think it up and find it on this online english guide.
Try it out...Cut & Paste.

Find Everything Here...
http://owl.english.purdue.edu (has everything)

Guide to electronic citations:
www.bedfordsmartins.com/online/citex.html

Showing how to cite from other sources (film in particular):
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/cite/index.html

Have Fun Guys!!!

Mary Ann
Enlgish 1A

Debate

I think the debates will be simple enough. Do some research there is plenty of information, pro and con avialble through various sources. The library at Cal Poly Pomona has a section were you can look up old news paper articles to support you stand. Maybe even some presidential debates have covered both topics.

Debate

Have any of you had the opportunity to debate before? In my Speech class we had debated a few times.

Essay's

Has anyone had problems sending or receiving their papers from Bill. I still have not received my grade for the first paper. Maybe I'm sending it wrong.

Debate

I can only speak for myself when i say this, I feel it will be hard to argue a topic I am not passionate about.....does anyone agree with me?

Debate

Since we are in teams for the debates, do teams go up against teams?

Mark Twain

h-h, Rogers is like I used to be, when I was married. There were times, when I was careless, careless in my dress. When I got older, you know, how uncomfortable your wife canget, when you are going away without her superintendence. once when my wife could not go with me she always went with me, when she could. I always did meet that kind of luck.I was going to Washington once a long time ago in Mr. Cleveland's first administration and she could not go but in her anxiety, that i should not desecrate the house, she made preparation. She knew that there was to be a reception of those authors at the white house at seven o'clock in the evening. She said," if I should tell you now, what I want to ask of you". You would forget it before you get to Washington and therefore, I have written it on a card and you will find it in your dress vest pocket, when you are dressing at the Arlington. When you are dressing to see the president, I never thought of it again until I was dressing and I felt in that pocket and took it out and it said in a kind of imploring way" dont wear your arctics in the white house".

Posted by BC at 8:53 PM

An Excercise Corrected

The slide was shot back. The penitent emerged from the side of the box; the farther side was drawn. A woman entered quietly and deftly where the first penitent had knelt. The faint murmur began again.

He could still leave the chapel. He could stand up, put one foot before the other, and walk out softly, and then run-run-run swiftly through the dark streets. He could still escape from the shame. Had it been any terrible crime but that one sin, had it been murder--little fiery flakes fell and touched him at all points: shameful thoughts, shameful words, shameful acts. Shame covered him wholly, like fine glowing ashes falling continually. To say it in words, his soul stifling and helpless would cease to be.

The slide was shot back. A penitent emerged from the farther side of the box. The near side was drawn. A penitent entered where the other penitent had come out. A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box./; It was the woman, soft whispering cloudlets, soft whispering vapor, whispering and vanishing.

teachers comments for essay

there are some reviews on the movie. look on the right hand side and click on apocalypse now and there a good explanation on it

Apocalypse Now / Heart of Darkness

I decided to write about the ambitions that we can see in some people's character in the movie Apocalypse Now and the book on Heart of Darkness. I will compare these two and explain how some people or som ideas can take the other people's lives

reflection of movie

I went home after last weeks discusin on the movie and saw it again. This time I looked for the details that were discussed in class like the description of the hotel and what was seen left on the desk,a picture of his wife, passport, etc. I payed attention to the whole picture not just the charictors talking in the plot. If you look in the background while the charictors are speaking you'll see the great detail in the back drop; that helps to open your imagination and thought of the horrific torture these people endoured on both sides, the soldiers and the vietnamiese. You almost can't help but feel for the poor vietnamies who lost so much and for the soldiers who went in on a mission and had to kill or be killed.

info on apocalypse now review

I was absent when the professor gave the movie review. Can somebody pleassse give me a feedback, I would greatly appreciated.

Excercise VI Mary Shelley Again

More spare parts from Frankenstein. Proceed in the interests of science!

it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony i collected the instruments of life around me that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet it was already one in the morning the rain pattered dismally against the panes and my candle was nearly burnt out when by the glimmer of the half extinguished light i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs

how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavoured to form his limbs were in roportion and i had selected his features as beautiful beautiful great god his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing his teeth of a pearly whiteness but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips

Excercise V. Mary Shelley's Interjections

Interjections from Frankenstein, by Mary Wollestonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

These are unpunctuated passages that involve interjections -- that is, the narrator interrupts himself. You may find some of them somewhat awkward even after punctuation.

i will not lead you on unguarded and ardent as i then was
to your destruction and infallible misery


i did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves sights
which before always yielded me supreme delight so deeply
was i engrossed in my occupation.

there for with your leave my sister i will put some trust in preceding navigators snow and frost are banished

the cold is not excessive if you are wrapped in furs a dress which i have already adopted for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in the veins

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

chance or rather the evil influence the angel of destruction which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment i turned my reluctant steps from my fathers door led me first to m krempe professor of natural philosophy

such were the professors words rather let me say such the words
of the devil of the fate enounced to destroy me.

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


Paragraph - 137 words.

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

Paragraph 185 words

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

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 yesternights 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

Excercise IV Mark Twain & the Railroad Men

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Twain Without Punctuation

Adapted from ROGERS AND RAILROADS

Banquet speech for H. H. ROGERS BY THE BUSINESS MEN OF
NORFOLK, VA., CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF THE VIRGINIAN RAILWAY,
APRIL, 3, 1909

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h h rogers is like i used to be when i was married there were times when i was careless careless in my dress when i got older you know how uncomfortable your wife can
get when you are going away without her superintendence once when my
wife could not go with me she always went with me when she could
i always did meet that kind of luck i was going to washington once a
long time ago in mr clevelands first administration and she could not
go but in her anxiety that i should not desecrate the house she made
preparation she knew that there was to be a reception of those authors
at the white house at seven o clock in the evening she said if i
should tell you now what i want to ask of you you would forget it before
you get to washington and therefore i have written it on a card and
you will find it in your dress vest pocket when you are dressing at the
arlington when you are dressing to see the president i never thought
of it again until i was dressing and i felt in that pocket and took it
out and it said in a kind of imploring way dont wear your arctics in
the white house

Excercise III Douglass

This is a single paragraph from Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It's an account of a man's escape from slavery and his struggle to enlighten and free others. But here it's missing punctuation.

Watch this one. It starts slow, but the end is pretty darn complex.

everything looked clean new and beautiful i saw few or no dilapidated houses with poverty-stricken inmates no half-naked children and bare-footed women such as i had been accustomed to see in hillsborough easton st michaels and baltimore the people looked more able stronger healthier and happier than those of maryland i was for once made glad by a view of extreme wealth without being saddened by seeing extreme poverty but the most astonishing as well as the most interesting thing to me was the condition of the colored people a great many of whom like myself had escaped thither as a refuge from the hunters of men i found many who had not been seven years out of their chains living in finer houses and evidently enjoying more of the comforts of life than those of the average slaveholders in maryland 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

Excercise II, Hemingway

Here are a few paragraphs out of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Of course, I've butchered them by taking out all of the punctuation. Try any or all of them.

"The Big Two-Hearted River," Part II. Complete Short Stories. New York: Scribners, 1962.

175 words

while the water was heating in the pot he took an empty bottle and went down over the edge of the high ground to the meadow the meadow was wet with dew and nick wanted to catch grasshoppers for bait before the sun dried the grass he found plenty of good grasshoppers they were at the base of the grass stems sometimes they clung to a grass stem they were cold and wet with the dew and could not jump until the sun warmed them nick picked them up taking only the medium sized brown ones and put them into the bottle he turned over a log and just under the shelter of the edge were several hundred hoppers it was a grasshopper lodging house nick put about fifty of the medium browns into the bottle while he was picking up the hoppers the others warmed in the sun and commenced to hop away they flew when they hopped at first they made one flight and stayed stiff when they landed as though they were dead

(222)

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p 209. 309 words. This is his 3 paragraphs.
Big-Hearted River: Part I.


the train went on up the track out of sight around one of the hills of burnt timber nick sat down on the bundler of canvas and bedding the baggage man had pitched out of the door of th baggage car there was no town nothing but the rails and the burned over country the thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of seney had not left a trace the foundations of the mansion house hotel stuck up above the ground the stone was chipped and split by the fire it was all that was left of the town of seney even the surface had been burned off the ground

Nick looked at the burned over stretch of hillside where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad to the bridge over the river the river was there it swirled against the log spiles of the bridges nick looked down into the clear brown water colored form the pebbly bottom and watched the trout keeping themselves steady in the current with wavering fins as he watched them they changed their positions by quick angles only to hold steady in the fast water again. Nick watched them a long time

he watched them holding themselves with their noses into the current many trout in deep fast moving water slightly distorted as he watched far down through the glassy convex surface of the pool, its surface pushing and swelling smooth against the resistance of the log driven piles of the bridge at the bottom of the pool were the big trout nick did not see them at first then he saw them at the bottom of the pool big trout looking to hold themselves on the gravel bottom in a varying mist of gravel and sand raised in spurts by the current

Punctuation Excercises

For those who don't feel comfortable blogging about readings, here's another option. I have started to upload punctuation excercises. They're paragraphs or sentences that are not punctuated. The way to an entry is as follows:

1) Have a look at the excercise and see if you can work out how all of it or part of it should be punctuated. Bear in mind that you're not to change the wording on these, just the punctuation.

2) Write how to resolve one or more punctuation decision in the excercise. Your explanation should include several things:
a) The punctuated passage. Go ahead and give enough of the text, with punctuation, to show what you mean.
b) Any standard rules that were involved in your decision
c) Any references you used. (Copy and paste helpful URL's!)
d) Why your decision is right. Don't just cite the correct, rule, though that's a good start. Explain why the text works better, why it's clearer with that particular piece of punctuation.

Apocalypse Now & Heart of Darkness themes

There are many themes one might pick out of Heart of Darkness or Apocalypse Now. The following suggestions by no means cover everything. It's also possible to start with a topic or theme you find interesting and work backward -- if you want to write about race, murder, dying, class distinctions, US foreign policy, disabilities in veterans, covert operations, insanity, or many other things, you can probably find scenes and characters to illustrate whatever points you want to make. Otherwise, you might begin by picking a particularly interesting passage or scene, and analyzing it closely to unfold its rich message and to make a particular point. Or you could write about the busines of filmaking, writing, acting, or editing that went into this movie or into Heart of Darkness: why does Willard keep explaining what's happening? How does the movie relate to the book? Why does Coppola decide to show such horrible scenes and keep them in the background, like Willard casually complaining about having to track down Air Cavalry while bloody families pass by the camara, and the camara doesn't even bother to focus on them. Or you might do something similar by following a particular character or concentrate on a particular type of activity, like killing or loyalty or relations between men and women. The key in all cases is to find the point you want to make, and to pick a moment, character, or other focus that gives you the information to properly illustrate and discuss what you want to say.

As an example of a moment that one might write about, in class we returned several times to the moment when Willard slaughters the wounded vietnamese woman in the sampan. Our discussion involved various impressions of the relative value of a military objective and military discipline, and the moral injunctions against murder. Even though that scene only lasted a few moments in the film, one could write many pages about it because the characters' reactions relate to complex factors that drive important personal and political decisions. By making an observation about some general principle in the scene, one gets focus and relevance, and also gives oneself enough latitude to write a whole essay, or even more. If one just describes the scene, there might not be much to write about. But if one starts to discuss the issues of morals in a wartime situation, things get tough, and one has a chance to make a real statement. At that point, it's possible also to use historical examples or current events that relate to the point as well.

Here are a few other key moments that occur to me:

1. Williard in the hotel, the evidence of his problems, and his relation to his wife and to his mission.

2. Intelligence at Na Trang, the layers of secrecy and the motivations for the mission. Murder charges during wartime, like, say, the My Lai Massacre under Lt. Calley in Vietnam.

3. Air Cav, Kilgore's obsession with surfing, the destruction of the two Vietnamese villages, the use of Wagner and of airstrikes.

4. The USO show and bargaining the fuel for the women.

5. The bridge and the edge of actual combat.

6. The photojournalist and the reception at Kurtz's compound. What's involved in being a follower?

7. Kurtz himself -- his theories; his appraisal of war; his sanity or insanity as opposed to the sanity or insanity of Willard, Kilgore, or the folks at Na Trang.

And there are others. One might start with a current event and look for connections too.

Next Essay

After our dicussion in class, I wondered what I could write about. I thought about taking a scene from the movie, focus on a character,the symbolisims,tones, etc. We didn't get a chance to talk about some themes...so does anybody have any thoughts on any themes? Since I came in a little late, what did Mr. Crandall mention about the essay format? I know it has to be I think 4-6 pgs. I can't remember, so if anybody knows can you let me know...Thank you!

Apocalypse Now

I agree with most people in class about rather writing about Apocalypse Now than to write about Heart of Darkness. They are both very similar but because of Apocalypse Now, I can better understand the story since the reading was quite rough. The problem I have though, is that I can only focus on the military side to it. So, I guess I will write about how I feel about this mission. Is that ok? or do I still have to compare them both? is just hard to think of Heart of Darkness since I got lost in the reading at times, and dozed off a couple of times. Any better ideas?

Posts For Credit

By the way Mr. Crandall, these are my initial published posts. I couldn't have done it earlier due to lack of knowledge on how to post and not being able to log in. We have discussed this in class...and I hope you can accept these initial posts as credit...for however you grade us on your grading criteria. Anyhow, I'm sure it's just a formality.

I look forward to contributing more posts for the remainder of the semester...Thanks.

Reality Dou jour

We could not have been served with a plate of reality as well as this movie has served it to us! When we watched the movie in class...it was as if we were looking into the windows of someone elses life. From frame to frame we were given critical glimpses into the various decision making issues army men have to face within themselves...it's so bold! The emotional impact of the movie is so believable that it blows me away! It just goes to proove how much deeper human existance is for some people.

I am glad that we as a class can experience this together. We can all be witness to an experience beyond our own simple life. Assuredly, if we can educate ourselves...and learn to be more empathetic to eachothers struggles or causes...then assuredly this can become a better world.

Sanger

I totally agree with most of the posts for Margaret Sanger...she was a woman ahead of her time...but not in the totality of the depression she was in. She did make further advancements with the impeding issues of birth control that's for sure! For most women, who were SUFFERING from giving birth in general...there wasn't enough preventive measures women can take in this arena at the time. Women's lifestyles were spiraling downwards in society and in the economy respectively. All of these private issues were pressing for women...pretty much nobody stepped up to the plate until her. She underwent lots of harsh criticisms in her time. Demonstrative failures even lead to sub-issues...such as sterilization, racism, eugenics, and all matters SEXUAL!

We couldn't ask for a better leader...a better mentor to model ourselves after.

A woman who understood the dynamics of the position she was in given all of the hardships she has had to dispel from a micro point-of-view into a marco point-of-view.

Today's class discussion

Today in class, we had a discussion in regards to our troops being in war for, according to some people, no excused reason and I feel that I disagree with some of the things that were being pointed at and want to get them out of my chest. Feel free to put your personal input if you have something to say. Am sure everyone has an opinion on this.
First of all, I don't feel that we are there just to "kill" people. I think, we at times get so blinded with all the confusing media that rather goes to get their information with some people other than those ordinary people that have actually had interacted with the soldiers; and, forget our original purpose for going after this war. I am no way in favor of George Bush's decisions, but now that we (our troops, that is) are there, we might as well do what we need to do. In addition to that, I think that by being there, Americans are also setting an example of freedom to those Iraqi people that have been exposed to a very cruel treatment due to the regime in which they lived. Believe me, we are not worse than what they have experienced in their lifetime, our country is making them free.
Having said that, maybe instead of saying something so unacceptable as being there to "kill" people, we should at a minimum try to understand the other reasons why we are still there, realize that most of the countries we have fought against are either prosperous or just better (take Kuwait for instance) and that if wasn't because of our soldiers you wouldn't even have the freedom of speech you currently enjoy of. Also, if some countries such as Belgium have so much appreciation for our military (check d-day history, Bastogne historical center,)why do we disrespect our military or our country by calling it "world police" and even dare asking why aren't we looking after some other country. Our country is the country with the highest defense budget and does its best to help out the world yes, at our expense; however, if it is criticized already as it is, imagine if our troops were in every single country's business!

Reminder, Version II

No outline will be required for the essay due next week, despite what the class outline does say. Any outlines completed will be gratefully accepted and returned with comments, but the professor will base grades on the essay only.

Excercise PS

Just to be clear, the recent post with the unpunctuated paragraphs is NOT intended as homework. We're going to have a look at punctuating it in class next week, so you can work on punctuating it in the meantime or not, as you prefer.

Reminder

In writing the coming essay, I have to remind everyone that an outline has to be turned in along with the completed essay. I have not heard the professor bring it up in class, but it is written in the syllabus that we do so.

choice

I am glad Crandal gave us many choices to do our essay on, Am I correct we can choose from the speach,Heart of Darkness or the Birthcontrol. I feel I'd do a better job if I could write on the movie instead. It is a more current event, and some more detail was paid attention to the descrptive narraration. It was not so boaring as the book was. I just could not get into the book. The more I read it over and over and over, I could not comprehend what I was reading. I was just going threw the motion of word by word.

THIRD ESSAY???

Overall, the movie was very similar to the novel Heart of Darkness. However, I am having a hard time trying to decide on various topics for the third essay. I am thinking of writing my third essay on the idea of prejudiced behavior by the author of Heart of Darkness, towards the African Americans based on the author's selected language and demeaning portrayal of the African Americans.

book vs movie

I found that I was able to understand the movie alot better vs the book. I feel the movie gave me a more realistic view on what was happening. It was more clear to describe the tragic things that were going on, by viewing the movie now I some what understand the book. My personal feeling to the real vietnam war is we went in with no plan or any sence of direction. The orders were just kill,kill, kill. It's funny that in todays war, we went in for a mission to get a few main induviduals, and so far we have. We have made a great deal of accomplishments. It also seems that we are no longer in sight where our mission is now. The orders are still kill,kill,kill but in the same aspect we are getting ourself killed... We are kind of repeating history over and over again with hopes to get it right one day. Please dont get me wrong. I really do appreciate the troops giving up there life for us. That is why we inlist in the millitary. In the same light, looking back my question is "Have we really made a difference in some way in all the wars in general? WW1, WW2, Civle war, Vietnam, Desert storm, and todays war. Or have we exhausted ourselfs into thinking we still have a mission? Any one understand me? I come form a proud millitary family line and I have seen the good and the bad when we return. I myself was talked out of going into the army, I would have went to Desert Storm...

Excercise

Try punctuating these paragraphs adapted from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.

the slide was shot back the penitent emerged from the side of the bos the farther side was drawn a woman entered quietly and deftly where the first penitent had knelt the faint murmur began again

he could still leave the chapel he could stand up put one foot before the other and walk out softly and then run run run swiftly through the dark streets he could still escape from the shame had it been any terrible crime but that one sin had it been murder little fiery flakes fell and touched him at all points shameful thoughts shameful words shameful acts shame covered him wholly like fine glowing ashes falling continually to say it in words his soul stiflin and helpless would cease to be

the slide was shot back a penitent emerged from the farther side of the box the near side was drawn a penitent entered where the other penitent had come out a soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box it was the woman soft whispering cloudlets soft whispering vapour whispering and vanishing

Apocaypse Now

I watched the movie today, since I wasn't there Saturday. I thought it was interesting how one man said, to the Captian while eating Roast Beef,that good does not always triumph over evil. If you think about it, its really sad.Knowing that there is evil in the world,but there is also a balance of good which gives me hope. That statement that he said just made me ponder about today's standards. I also think, that Kurtz started to become crazy over the years; he became like a savage just as the people who worshiped him in the movie. In the movie, I didn't mention ivory though...did it?

Heart of Darness

Lets start throwing some essay topics around for the book and the movie. I am having a hard time trying to come up with something I can form a good thesis statement for. I am thinking of comparing Marrow with his corresponding character in Apocalypse Now.

Posting

The posts are looking good. Keep it up, and chime in some more. So far we have 52 posts total -- about the number we should have per week.

heart of darkness

Can anyone tell me what krutz meant when he said the "Horror! the Horror!" Was he talking about his experience and how the quest for ivory and power over came him, or just things he had seen while in Africa? Also when he said desroy them all, who was he talking about, was this supposed to make scense or had he just gone crazy?

Heart of Darkness

I was told that there is a movie by the name of Heart of Darkness, can anyone tell me how is this movie?
I believe that after watching Apocalypse Now, it will be easier to write on Apocalypse Now rather than Heart of Darkness. I can see many differences between the two.

Apocalypse Now

It was interesting how the movie "Apocalypse Now" was made from the novel "Heart of Darkness". As I watched the movie I saw everything that was in the story of "Heart of Darkness". The only difference from the book to the movie was the ending of the story in the book and that the movie was set in Vietnam. Watching the movie brought the book to life for me. It gave me a broader picture of all that was going on in the book. Did it help all of you get a better picture of the story in the book?

margaret sanger

I was really amazed after reading material on Margaret Sanger. She was a woman who was way before her time. Taking such a dramatic stance on the topic of birth control, made a huge impact in the 1920s'. I feel if it wasn't for woman like her, we as woman would probably all still be housewives.

Apocalypse Now

I was told that Apocalypse now is a very good movie. Im thinking of writting my 3rd essay on the movie.

Saturday class

On Saturday, we are only watching the movie right? Are we going to discuss it,or save that for next week? I wonder since it's Spring Break,and people are traveling that many people are going to be there on Saturday. I hope I am there on Saturday...

ESSAY # 3 ?

So has anyone thought of what they might write for the next essay? I was thinking maybe a scene in the movie that will be watching...and how it somehow connects to Heart Of Darkness...Im not so sure though.

Heart of Darkness

I had seen the movie "Apocolypse Now" many years ago. I am looking forward to watching the movie on Saturday. I am really interested in seeing how Mr. Crandall states that this movie is like the story "Heart of Darkness". I think discussing the movie with the class is going to open a whole new way of interpeting the movie. Has anyone who remembers the movie, Apocolypse Now, see the similarity of the story "Heart of Darkness"?

Morality of Birth Control

I think that in todays society, compared in the 1920's when Margaret Sanger wrote this article, that Morality is not taken seriously as it once was in the past. Immorality is everwhere we look, with the technology, and entertainment that has grown throughout the years.

Sanger's "The Morality of Birth Control."

Of all the readings that we have up to date, I believe that Margaret Sanger's speech is the most interesting topic to write our second essay on. For some, it can be a very conterversial topic to write write on. I believe that one is either for or against the right to manage the size of their families.

Heart of Darkness

In Heart of Darkness it takes places during the Vietnam War? I am having a hard time picturing what I read, so If I have the idea of a time period I will be able to grasp the book better.

The Heart of Darkness is a hard book for me to understand. I am trying to understand the book from the narrator's view, but it is hard for me to develop a picture in my mind.

Contribution to Birth Control

Considering the time in which Margaret Sanger wrote her morality of birth control, the information she provided was not only accurate but useful up to today, am sure it gave some women and men an early start on birth control from that time on. The only thing that is of my concern when it comes to contraceptives, is the poor education that exists out there for women who are thinking of doing it because from what I have read, the procedure itself and its outcome are simply horrible; however, there were 46 million women in 1995 that had an abortion (legal and illegal) in the world! Am sure that if some of these women knew the truth behind abortions, many of them would of kept from doing it. I also, understand that that would defeat the purpose of birth control but when those women who had abortions keep having them year by year, are we really improving? I believe that contraceptives (before conception) will be the solution to the problem.

Blog Entries

How many blog entries are recommended we make through out the semester??

Margaret Sanger

I am doing my essay on Margaret Sanger. I am surprised that this was a topic in 1921. Wow, if Margaret Sanger could have made an impression on churches in 1921, I would imagine that the United States would have a small population of human beings.

How to post

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TRYING THIS OUT

JUST WANNA SEE IF I CAN ACTUALLY GET THIS RIGHT THIS TIME.

I HONESTLY DON'T LIKE THIS SYSTEM WE USE, BUT OH WELL!

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Birth Control

Margaret Singer seemed to contradict herself in her writing on birth control. In the begining she states that every woman should have the right to choose, but later on she states that the procreation of low income or the pauper element of socitey should be stopped. This does not sound like she is willing to give them a choice. what do you think?

Birthcontrol

After reading Margaret Sanger s writing on the birthcontrol isssue, I still feel that one can't be judged on the form of birthcontrol they use. Morality has become sutch a issue with family, that parents have chosen to not be open with their children about the facts of unsafe sex because of religion or their own fear of speaking so bluntly about real life issues

FYI History of Birth Control

Those interested in the history of birth control might want to check out the book Sex and Destiny by Germaine Greer. It came out in the 80's, but can probably still be found in most libraries.

COMMENT

I just wanted to hello to my classmates and ask how are they doing with the Heart of Darkness?

Birth Control

After reading Margaret Sanger’s “Birth control”; it made me imaging what organized religion could be. If it does not like what they hear they say we are committing a sin. She also mentions the youth and the fact that they might lower their morality, but if they are raised with a strong sense of moral right from their parents that should not even be a issue.

Imperialism

After reading William Jennings Bryan’s “Imperialism” I thought it interesting how easily people are persuaded to act against what they stand for just to make a profit. When he stated that; “Republicans who formerly abhorred a trust now beguile themselves with the delusion that there are good trusts, and bad trust, while in their minds, the line between the two is becoming more and more obscure. It really made be wonder of what the out government has done to make a quick buck.

GREAT ACHIEVER

I definitely agree with the idea that Margaret Sanger had on Birth Control, based on her time period she was a very magnificent achiever....I am choosing her speech to write my 2nd Essay...

Margaret Sanger

I am in the process of writing about Margaret Sanger's contribution to birth-control.

The Morality of Birth Control

It seems that everyone is writing there next essay on Heart of darkness, I am going with Margaret Sanger's "The Morality of Birth Control". Has anyone read this? I think it is brilliant, she was ahead of her time...........Does anyone agree?

Essay Length

The prof expects essays to be approximately 4 pages. That's figuring the pages are in Times New Roman 12 point font (or something similar) with 1-inch margins, double-spaced, on 8.5 x 11" sheets of paper, or some equivalent.

Missed class

Sorry I am kind of lost for our next essay are we suppose to choose to write on Heart of Darkness or any of the essays we've read????? How long does our essay have to be???

I think im getting it.

After we discussed Harlem in class, I got a better understanding of where this story is going. I now understand it takes place on a boat, I was starting to get sea sick waiting for the boat to dock. I now understand the boat was going up with a mix of people not just slaves who were treated very bad, and these bad things happened on the boat not only on the land

new interest

I tried to understand what I was reading about the heart of darkness, but I could not understand what it is that I was trying to comprehend, thre are tomany words that are beeing used to describe something so simple. Is there any one who can relate to me, am I making any sence?

class review

the teacher definitely gave light to heart of darkness and created interest from my part, nevertheless; I will be writing my essay on Imperialism.

HEART OF DARKNESS

I AM SO LOST READING THIS BOOK. ONLY AFTER HE TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE CLASS I UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT.

heart of darkness

as I started reading this story I like the challenge of the writing and wanted to do my 2nd essay on it after several intentions in trying to understand it I decided to do it on the Imperialism. I will read Heart of Darkness a couple of more time for my own satisfaction

Heart of Darkness

I am personally confused with Heart of Darkness, I mean, after reading Achebe's debate, it helped me understand some things I wasn't sure I had read correctly, but, am still trying to figure out what the main goal of the writer was. Also, I find the writing very intense and a very good work of art even with the critics. :)

Reading Heart of Darkness

I finished reading Heart of Darkness last night. I am looking forward to the class discussion on this. It was a lot to read. I still feel like I am not sure what the story is telling me. I can picture the grusome scenes of violence and the way people were treated. However, I still question what the story is about. I personally don't read novels or stories like this. This is all new to me. It will be interesting to know what you all feel about it. See you all in class.

JNHampton/

I have selected Margaret Sanger's speech on abortion to write my second essay. The
debate over abortion has been in existence for a long period of time.

Reading Heart of Darkness

I started reading Heart of Darkness. It is some intense reading. After I read about 8 pages it started to keep my attention. At times, I feel lost just by the way it is written. At the moment it seems like a very sad story.

good small poem

This small poem has made me think more than other bigger poems. For me it gives me several conclusions to what he was trying to express. one is about our dreams in life, second physical death compare to a dream that never fullfil.

Getting started on BLOG

I thought I already had made my first blog this past week, but I had created my own account. I hope I am able to review all the blogs now. The poem "Harlem" was very interesting and I had a very different view from what the class had. After reading more on Langston Hughes, I have a better understanding of what he was saying.

Blog usage

Sorry! i thought i was making blog entries when in fact i was making comments. so i guess this is my first blog entry. i worte my first essay on how Langston Hughes effects us today when peoples dreams are not realized. my comments are probably attached to someones blog and will never be looked at.

in my essay i attempted to compare Langstons Hughe's headings in his poem Harlem to events that have occurred in history and effect use in our day-to-day lives. hope it worked. i have to get started reading Heart of Darkness anyone know what it is about.

HARLEM JNHAMPTON

Having a dream deferred that can be of service to yourself as well as other people
can be a heart breaking eperience. In analyzing the poem "Harlem" brings realization to that emotion.

~Beauty-full~

Harlem is such an exciting poem, I love it. Although Harlem is short, is crude, profound, real and gets to the point. After briefly, reading Langston Hughes' profile, I can see the anger he had against society because of the time in which he was living, the lack of acceptance towards the black community and therefore opportunities for someone like him. He as the educated, and open-minded man he was, couldn't fit in as a black person, and that made him feel very discouraged at times, I realize. However, he supported his people and wanted to prove the rest of the society that the only thing that set us aside is our color (as when he refers to having rhythm, which he had not bothered thinking about), but that just as whites, blacks have dreams too.
His poetry clearly reflects among other things, his dreams, anger and perhaps bitterness towards life. What do you guys think about Harlem or how do you interpret it?

Looking for ideas.

I have been considering writing this essay on how I feel that this poem "Harlem" indicates that people, places, and/or things often obscure and for some kills their dreams. Does anyone suggest a better route? I am open to suggestions.

Poetry is not my strong point.

I started to write my paper. It took me a while, but I finally realized the the poem applies to me. I have been putting off college for years, and I have felt the festering sore as I look back and realize that I could have graduated already if I started sooner. It took alot of thinking for me to realize this. I'm sure this poem applies to everyone in some respect.

WagWagDude

Help me here please~~

I missed last saturday class.

I don't really know what to do with the poem by Langston Hughes.

Can anyone give me some idea please?

I really appreciate it.

Harlem

I felt the poem was about the death of a loved one, perhaps a son or daughter.

HARLEM

I think this poem is about what could happen if you dwell in a old dream.

Harlem/JNHampton

According to Hughes' autobiography, he used his environment to inspire his work. To
get a clear understanding to what influenced his work, the Harlem Renissance Era willhave to be researched as well.

How to Comment

The second kind of blog entry is a comment. That's an entry specifically in response to someone else's blog post. You may not that it's displayed differently. It won't be displayed with the general entries in the blog, so to read the comments, you'll have to scroll down to the end of the article and click on the comments link.

If you do, you'll see the previous comments on the left and a text-field you can enter text into on the right. Go ahead and enter your comment, hit PUBLISH THE TEXT, and it should be listed with the rest of the comments.

How to Post

Since this is a forum for students, the instructor will not generally post here unless there's some administrative thing to broadcast between classes. However, those who have not blogged before may appreciate some brief instructions.

So, there are two types of entries that will be credited. One is a post; one is a comment. To post, or to edit a post, one has to sign in. (At the top right of the denim-blue field you have a link that reads "Sign in" or "Sign out." If it reads "Sign in," you will need to click on it and provide your email address and your password before you can post.)

Once you're signed in, you can click the link that says "New Post."

You should get a text-box with a field at the top left that says "Title:" and a field at the lower-right that says "Labels for this post:". You should use both.

The title of the post provides the large colored letters that mark each separate post. They make it easy for readers to spot your post, to have some kind of idea what you're writing about, and to tell where posts stop and start.

The Labels field classifies your post, probably by topic. Labelling may become VERY useful for you and your colleagues as the semester progresses. On the opening screen of the blog, you may notice that there is a list of labels to the right of the column for blog entries. As the semester progresses, these will be listed most-common label towards the top. As the semester progresses, you will be able to get progressively more information by topic just be clicking on the proper label in the labels-list: this will call up the entire list of blog entries for that particular label. So, for everyone's ease and efficiency, please label each post.

A couple of optional hints:

1) You can edit your posts directly onto the text field, or you can edit them in a word processor or text editor. Editing onto a word processor or text editor and saving the file back somewhere else means you have less risk of losing your work, which can happen in the text field either by server communication problems or just by clicking on the wrong icon at the wrong time.

2) The preview link by the upper right of the editing window should prove useful.

I have not yet tested how much play we are allowed in the Edit HTML link, but those tempted to edit their own raw code are encouraged to experiment at will.

Happy blogging!

testing/jnhampton

How to Use the Blog

Welcome students!

Students should make about two blog entries per week, starting this week.

To start making entries, first give the instructor an email address and a username that does not suggest your own name. Then

1. The instructor will register all email addresses on the blog site
2. Blogger.com will email you with an invitation to join. The email will have a link.
3. You will follow the link to set up a Google account, setting yourself up a username and password.
4. That done, you may open the blog page on your browser and begin making entries.

Class Outline 1A Spring '07

Outline - MtSAC 1A # 097357 Freshman Composition 8-12:15 Saturday

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• 3/3 - Procedures, parameters, overviews, signups.
  READ - "Harlem" at http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=640
  READ OR HEAR - William Jennings Bryant - http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wjbryanimperialism.htm
  START READING Heart of Darkness (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219.txt or pick up a copy at the library or bookstore).
  
• 3/10 - Statements, sentences. Discuss readings, critical reading, idea generation. Pre-Write Essay 1.
  Continue Heart of Darkness.
  Read Margaret Sanger: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretsangermoralityofbirthcontrol.htm
  
• 3/17 - Essay #1 Due with pre-writing. Proofreading. Punctuation handouts. Modifiers vs statements; commas vs semicolons.
  Sources (View Nukes in Iraq montage). Discuss readings. Search critical sources. Thesis development for Essay 2.
  Continue Heart of Darkness.
  
• 3/24 - Commas & Semicolons, reprise. Bring 5 Theses. Thesis revision.
  FINISH READING Heart of Darkness.
  Read Achebe : http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/achcon.htm
  
• 3/31 - Essay 2 due, complete. Pronouns, paragraphs, outlines, transition.
  
• 4/7 - View Apocalypse Now
  
• 4/14 - Discuss Apocalypse Now.
  Interjections, dashes and parentheses. Outline.
  
• 4/21 - Due Essay 3, complete with outlines.
  Parallels, time, research documentation. |
• 4/28 - Debate topics, teams, discuss research project propositions
  
• 5/5. . Research propositions. Documentation basics. ESSAY 4 DUE - TO BE WRITTEN IN CLASS.
  
• 5/12.Conferences, debate prep
  
• 5/19. Conferences, debate prep.
  
• 5/26 Group conferences. MLA Excercises.
  
• 6/2 Debates. LAST BLOG ENTRIES!!
  
• 6/9 Debates. DUE: Research Projects, completed, with MLA Works Cited.
  
• 6/16 Final Test - REQUIRED!!