Portfolio

The paper I feel that best repersents my writing ability is the personal anaylsis paper. I have alot of feeling in their and it really is interesting to read. It really shows all the pain and anquish i was trying to put forth. Now wehn people are cirtiquing it all they can say is like personel thingss, they they would change. I really made it readeable for anyone, who wanted to listen.
Then I have my research paper. It is such a long paper, and there is so much going on it. I also have to put in my portfolio, and make it good. I find the information a little bit dry and hard to wrtie about. That is why it is hard to edit. I know the direction I need to go in, but I don't know the road to take to get there. My voice is my stongest in my papers, and the way I take information and spin in to my argument makes everything relate. The weakest part is my grammar and the emphasis to grab the reader. I hope my portfolio turns out ok.

Group E Prompt 2

I have always felt for Chris family. I can't imagine any of my family members running away and never trying to contact me. Especially his sister who did nothing wrong to him, or his mother. Only his father wronged him, and he made all of his family pay for it. The fact that they came up just to riffle through his remains really seem to unjustly his whole experience, and make Chris seem selfish. Chris's family seemed kinda responsible for the whole act of his death.
If I was Chris Family I would want to go and see the bus. There might be something comforting knowing how he lived out his last days, and maybe something that would give me comfort in knowing it wasn't what I did that drove him away. It would be hard to live with the fact that my decisions effected a family member so much that he would have to go and get himself killed. Especially when I had no clue where he was, and I couldn't help him. That would be the reasons to go there, not to experience what he did, living in the wild.

JAWS

The Primary source for my term paper is the hit motion picture JAWS. I actually had a few reasons for choosing it. The first was I wanted to find a movie that a lot of people reacted too. I also wanted to find something that also used something real in life that people could form an opinion about. The last reason I choose this movie was there is tons of information about it, that is easy to get and easy to understand. Being a fan of the movie, when reading peoples reaction to the movie I can understand where they are coming from.
The main part of my argument will be how people perceived sharks, and how they created a so called shark phobia from visual media. I will argue that so many people saw this media that they started to become afraid of sharks. Then people using this fear started over fishing for sharks and putting up shark nets in swimming areas. These nets are harmful to the local marine population but peoples fear of sharks out weigh the cost of the marine life.
That is the argument I will try to make in my paper I just do not know how well it will go...

Research Paper

The topic of my research paper is the movie Jaws and how it used fear in the movie industry to make it a blockbuster hit, and how it just simply scared people from wanting to go into the water. My topic was the first blockbuster summer movie, and now it seems almost all of the best movies come out during the summer. It also shows why zombie movies are failing in society today. Lastly it shows why people are still scared of sharks and why people still kill them for no reason. My topic differs from other because it was truly the first. The first scary movie that was good, the first summer blockbuster movie, and it used something really, not a zombie or a nightmarish figure to scare people. The cultural issues I will be dealing with in my paper are how greatly the use of fear was used in the movie. The scariest things in life are those that are real, just like Sharks. I will also touch on this effected the film industry. However this will mostly deal with sharks and how at the time Little was known of sharks and this movie opened many peoples eye to the way sharks work, and it's not until now that we realize that all sharks are not Jaws, and that they are smart and don't usually attack humans. The author of the book JAWS is now an active shark savior and educates people on how good sharks are and how non scary they actually are. I'm excited to use fear and scare tactics in this paper, and hopefully why there has not been a good horror movie in a long time.

"show don't tell"

Show don't tell is a very old writing technique that was used to guide writers. Patrica disagrees with this and says to show and tell. Like with the te cup in her essay. My writing in school mostly show about what is going on, and in doing this the person can tell what the larger picture is. If it would to subtract away from the credibility of the writing it was not done properly. If you can't show and tell something and then take away it's credibility there is quiet a problem with your writing.
The object in my room is my television. It's a Black JVC 42' LCD television, in HD. It was more unique then the other tv's because it has a IPOD dock on the bottom of it. IT flips down and a blue light lines the ipod dock section whenever the TV is on.It sits on a unique stand that is 2 and a half feet above the ground. I bought this tv while I was in Japan. It was 350 dollars off the original sale price. When I left Japan it was shipped backed to the U.S.A and somehow in transit it got a tiny scratch on it in the upper left hand corner on the top of the TV.
One thing I don't like about her article is she talked about her Grandmother mostly with a little bit of a tea cup. YOu can do that with anything, a pencil and talk about the store you bought it in, or the company that made it. The tea cup had no relevance to the story except where it came from.

Chris lived in the wild, trying to imitate his hereos(Jack London, John Haies). His heores toook very dangerous steps in the wild. Chris's heroes did live more succesfully in the wild then Chris did because they survived. The big diffference between these people is, that the knowleged they possed before living in the wild. CHris read books on it, while these people lived by it daily, until they took a huge leap into the wild. To say that they the heores stayed away from the dangerous side of the wild, is just obsered. That would be saying that there is a safe side in the wild. I do not think however the heroes would of stayed out there till they died of starvastion like Chris did. They could of been killed other ways, or got hurt not been able to travel out like Chris. I honestly do not know enough on this subject to say any other claims.

Group E Prompt

I do not believe that the life at home is why they go into the wild. I mean there are thousands of people who never talk to their family again but they never go into the wild. There has also been people who lover their families who went into the wild, but just loved the outdoors more. Chris really didn't exagerate anything. Krakuer made some leaps their but we really do not know how Chris felt about his family. The only thing we know is that Chris's dad had a seceret family that no-one knew about until later in Chris life. I think that is a reason Chris had resentmentfor his family.