My Topic was Air pollution and how it effects the environment against people. I also wanted to talk about the bad health effects that it can impose on people and cause serious health problems such as lung cancer, heart problems, cognitive brain problems. My position on air pollution is that i agree that it can pose negative health effects to people and poses a serious threat to our society.
Tyray Solomon
English Comp I Week Ten Blog Post In class we had talked about the movie we are going to be watching and how it can affect people’s health. We also talked about getting topics for our research paper and understanding the process of writing and I-search paper. Things at home for me are pretty much the same with my mother. The only thing that is different is that I am moving in at my grandmother’s house so that I can have a fresh start and I need the change in scenery because living at home with my mother has emotionally weighed me down from doing a lot of things. Sometimes I feel like I am depressed when I am there with my mother because of things that I go through by living there. By living with my grandmother I am able to focus much better with finding a job to save up money so that I can move out on my own. Tyray Solomon
03/35/2015 Room for Debate My topic that I chose was about banks charging a lot of fees to consumer and whether or not it be more regulated by the federal government. I chose this topic because I wanted to voice my opinion about why it is important that our government should regulate banks about what fees are appropriate to charge the consumer and what is not to hold banks fully responsible for giving out risky loans to people and families. For example I remember when the housing market was really bad and the banks were giving out risky home mortgage loans to people and families knowing the rate is too high and that more than likely most people are going to be unable to afford it at some point. Eric T Schneiderman- New York State Attorney General I was reading the article about what the New York State Attorney. General about his feelings on more government regulation on banks. In his opinion it should be more regulated because it eliminates the banks from doing shady business deals with the consumers on the fees and services that banks provide it also can protect consumers from different over draft fees and other fees that banks charges its members without notifying people, for example he suggested to eliminate overdraft fees and to have a line of credit to pay for the overdraft costs because the fees would be lower in the long run and stop doing recurring charges for check books without notifying the member. In the mist of the bank financial crisis. President Obama created a consumer protection Bureau division to crack down on banks from doing bad business practices and bad business models. The fees not only hurts the consumers but it can also hurt low income individuals and families. Ever since the crisis and the bailouts of the majority of banks, less than one-third of banks offers free checking accounts and charges monthly maintenance fees if an individual person does not meet the monthly income requirements. That in my opinion should be eliminated because everyone does not have a job that pays a lot bi-weekly to meet that requirement and it targets the low income families. The way I will revise my first draft of my creative non-fiction essay is by re-writing my draft over again and staying on topic of what i am writing about and to incorporate more showing scenes for this essay. Being more descriptive and more detailed of what i am talking about is also an important thing that i need to improve for my writing skills.
I wake up on Sunday morning feeling l had just had a hangover even though I did not have a hangover. My mother barges into my room like she is a soldier reporting for duty to tell me that she wanted to have her space and wanted to move out. My mind is racing like I am driving a formula one car. I am clueless like a child and do not what to say, just like how someone tells you good news and your jaw drops to the floor and have that moment of silence. That is how I felt after she had told me those news because I did not expect to be told that just like when a guy is told by his girlfriend or wife that she is pregnant after four months of not knowing anything.
Writing Process
Explain the actual Process: I usually spend about an hour, maybe two and brainstorm of what I am going to write about. I then write down the story and the plot, the main characters and what the story is about. In this case this writing project is about myself. I had to think about what happen to me in the past month because this is a one month memoir about myself. Critique: The first idea that came to my mind was the only thing at the time that I was able to come up with. Sometimes I feel like my idea of what I am writing about that has happen in the past month might work or will not work at all because it is hard for me to write a thousand words and put the “ showing scenes and the “telling scenes” of what has happen to me in the past month. The hardest part is elaborating on something that has happen to me in the past month for about three pages long. When it comes to writing about myself it becomes very vague for me to do because there is so much write. Week Five Reflection Class: In class we had discussed more about our assignments and getting caught up with our work and start writing and revising our creative nonfiction essay. I am looking forward in finishing my non-fiction essay because for me it is an accomplishment for me and for me to share it with the class is also a good experience because the classmates can read about me and what goes on in my life. Home: The things that has been going on at home a pretty much the same thing with my mother. We do not have the best relationship because of what has been going on with me and what I have been going through with her and myself. Week four Reflection
During this week in class we had talked about creating our website and putting our assignments on there and talked about what has been going on in class and outside of class. Our assignments for this week is to read three articles and to summarize them and our thoughts about each reading. A lot things outside of school has been really rough for me because of what I been going through for a long time now. Not being able to find a job can be mentally depressing because you do not how you are going to end up or what is in store yourself. I had graduated last year with my associate’s degree and ever since then I had no luck in finding a job. On top of that, I feel like I am under pressure because my mother wants me to leave her house by a certain time because she wants her space. Pretty soon I will be twenty-seven years old this year and I have to out by then. Every day I try to put one step forward in everything in my life. Picturing the personal essay summary The article seems complex to understand because it was explaining different topics of other essays that was written from other people and how the writing structures are different from. I do like the fact that it was explaining that every essay does not have to be the traditional essay that is linear form that most use when writing an essay. It was also interesting how some of the essays in were article were used as examples to show me how people uses a different approach of writing an essay. It also explains how everyone’s writing process and style of writing is different and that what makes it unique when am individual is doing a writing assignment or project or writing a book. What is creative nonfiction summary This summary is about creating a non-fiction story that includes a memoir, auto biography and other non-fiction literacy. It also talks about how a lot of nonfiction stories are in a big demand for readers and publishers. As I was reading, it explains on how creative non-fiction can be in a form of an essay, journal article, research paper, memoir or a poem. Writing non-fiction is a great way to gain some experience if you are writing for first time or not really good at writing other genres. The building blocks of writing are having good imagery of setting the scenes and filling the gaps between telling and showing in writing. How to write Narrative essays using scenes summary This essay is about writing narrative scenes in essays and how it is important when writing an essay using imagery and using the “showing” technique and making sure that there is a smooth transition from scenes to writing because it is important to keep the reader and the audience on track of what the story or essay is about and not going off topic. Making sure action and story ties in together and descriptive in detail to what the essay is about is very important to the reader and the audience. Keeping the reader intrigue and thinking about what is going to happen next is also important because having some sort of suspense keeps the reader going and thinking the ending of how the story my end up or how they would imagine it. Week three Reflection
During the third week of class my Teacher talked to us about his dissertation project. I thought it was really good to tell us what his project was about and how he presented his argument in front of the board members. He also told the class that his wife was there with supporting his argument about his dissertation. He also explained to us on how it was unorthodox to have someone with you while doing a dissertation debate in front of the board members because it has never been done. I thought it was pretty damn cool to do something different. My teacher is always encouraging us to be ourselves when writing and to find our own way when writing. I have been going through a lot of personal problems outside of school. I am still dealing with the death of my grandmother on my father side of the family three years ago. To this day it still affects me because my grandmother would always encourage me to push myself because she knows that I was diagnosed with a developmental disability and she knew that school was always challenging for me throughout my life. Growing up I did not make a lot of friends, instead I was always made fun of because I was different and hyper active. I also had a hearing disability which I was born deaf in my right ear. When I was a child I would wear a headset unit in class so that I can be more focus in class and not distracted by the outside noise. Kids always made fun of me for what I look like whenever I would wear them to school. My brother always stood up for me when children would make fun of me at school. I always look up to my brother growing up, we are very close. He is like my best friend, I feel blessed to have that kind of brother in my life. We played with each other when we were kids. Every Saturday morning we would play Sega genesis together and wake up early in the mourning opening up our Christmas gifts together. Those were the good old times. For this assignment, my professor asked us to create a fictional scene where three famous authors discuss their writing processes.
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