September 25, 2009 ENG 101 BLOG

This week in class we did several things. We started off Monday by going to the art museum. At the art museum we discovered many things. One of the first things our tour guide discussed with us was Oceana and Africa made artwork. The African art that was shown to us was creative, ancient, and spirtitual. There was a lot of African masks at the museum. We looked and discussed thoroughly this one 3-D helmet mask. Our tour guide told us to walk in a circle so we could see the whole helmet mask together. This helmet mask had 4 balls on his head. We then looked at an 8 person painting. When our tour guide first showed us the 8 person painting I didn't know what to expect. I asked myself several questions about the painting. The first thing out tour guide did when we looked at the 8 person paiting, was she asked for 8 volunteers. As a volunteer, I was assigned to pose in a position exactly as someone was posing in the painting. The other 7 people did the same thing as me. We then looked at a painting that was divided into 2 sections. The first section was red and it displayed someone going up in the painting. The section section was blue and someone was going into a downward spiral. On Wednesday, I was the class observer. 2 girls did a presentation for Beah, and gave us an option of choosing one of the 2 questions. After the questions we sat in a circle and discussed the 2 question more throughly.

ENG 101 BLOG Septmeber 17, 2009

Beahs's presentation was full of many things. When Thomas and I arrived which was 20 minutes early it was packed. We had to sit in the back of emens autorium. When the event first started everyone around me was still talking. That angered me that people would be so rude at a presentation like that. Luckily for me one of the people working at emens autorium that night went down and told everyone around us to be quiet. The presentaion went very well. He made several jokes during the session. One where he was so suprised that hot water would come out of his hotel room when he turned the red nob. Another good joke was when he discussed the walkway at the airport. Then he told a friend about this, and the friend said that the walkway would be very useful during the war. He discussed why he wrote the book. He also discussed why education was so important. And that he used education as part of his life, and that he didn't look and education in any negative fashion. I wish he would of discussed a little more about the book, just giving details of the main points in the book. I enjoyed it when he read his book, because I never have seen an author read there own book in front of me before. I think overall the presentation was a success.

ENG 101 BLOG September 9, 2009

I read several fallacy's on snopes.com. My first article I read said that Starbucks didn't support the war. Some marine supposedely sent a letter to Starbucks asking for free cofee. Starbucks then responded to the letter according to the man. The man said that Starbuck doesn't respect the war. You know that Starbucks would never write a letter saying they don't support the war. The article also pointed out that the marines asked for free coffee and Starbucks refused that. I'm sure starbucks would be proud to give some free coffee or at least coupons to the marines. The marine reported that Starbuck sent them nothing in return and told him that they didn't support him in any way, which is a complete fallacy. Another story was about a girl who was being pulled over by an unmarked car behind her. The story said that she called *77 to call to make sure an officer was behind her. Well she finds out that it was a convicted rapist behind her. The fallacy in the story if you call *77 that doesn't auctomatically connect you to a police agency, depending on your location. The story said that *77 connects you to a police department reguardless of your location, but that is not true, not every state has that feature.

ENG 101 BLOG September 2, 2009

This week in class we discussed numerous things varying from Beah's book to a rubric sheet. On monday we went over the google maps that were assigned on friday. We also discussed how to download ballpoint. We were then assigned to read Beah's first four chapters. On wednesday we went over the first four chapter's of Beah's book. Taylor and Cassidy presented us with a video on youtube called boy soldier. They felt that the video related to the gory details that were presented with the book, and the suffering that occurs during war from the rebels. They then presented us with a question. The question was "how would you feel at age 11 if you had to deal with the rebels". You could either write about the video or write about the book. I chose the book, I discussed that I would be shell shocked and would not be able to handle all that mayhem. I said that I would not be able to sleep at all, and I would be paranoid all day and night. We then discussed the details about when Beah was dreaming about pushing a wheelbarrow with a man. The thing though was that it was actually himself in the white sheets. We then went over the BSU Writing Grading Continuum. We were assigned to highlight where we felt we were on the chart and write a paragraph on why we would grade ourselves the way we did.