An occurance at Owl Creek Bridge

This story piqued my interest. I was trying to put myself in the setting since the author was so descriptive about the surroundings. The things that the man went through, really made him look at his life. After his first near death expereince, he woke up to find a world that was so vivid. I have had an experience like that and I believe that is what connected me to this story. At the end when he see's his family, I thought that he had make it back against all odds. At least when he did die, he went down fighting.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

When I started to read this passage, I didn't understand where it was going. It was describing this perfect place in real detail. I thought that the whole story was going to be like that. I am one for detail but sometimes it's just to much. About two thirds of the way through, it got really interesting and pulled me in. I wonder what the people who are doing this think. What make them do what they do and how it came to be. These people think that they are torturing for the common welfare of everyone. No one needs to be sacrificed at the expense of someone else. Everyone see's this going on and nobody does anything about it. The ones who are so affected by just leave and never come back. I wonder where they go and what becomes of them. It makes me mad in this book and in real life when people see things that are clearly wrong and do nothing. I have done this and after reading this passage, I want to make a point to step up when the time comes. Not be afraid and follow the paths of everyone else. I want to go upstream while everyone else is heading down.

Evaluation of the course so far

The course right now for English is pretty much what I expected it to be. It is a lot harder than high school and it is really testing me. I like the class discussions that we have and the debates. Today I really liked how we all got involved and backed up what we found instead of what we believed to see all parts of a topic. One thing that really messes me up, is that we have three essays at work right now. I am so used to working on one and then finishing it, then starting another essay. So this is definitely a change. I like blogging but hate the sentence level corrections. Hopefully this new way works better. I had a book very similar to the QAC in high school, so that has been very helpful for me. The library literacy quizzes were really tricky and I used each of the tries and did good on some and bad on the others. Well that is all I think I can think of at the moment and will add if I think of anything else. Thanks for listening.

RBAA

For my next paper I am thinking of writing about Alzheimer's. I work with patients that have the disease and would like to know more about it. When it was discovered, causes and if there are any treatments for it. Also in class we brought up another subject that I think would be interesting to write about. Since religion is such a big topic in our class, I thought I might talk about the science behind religion. I have had the science behind religion taught to me for years and want to expand on it. So many people are doubtful and I want to find the proof for myself. They have made valid points and its important to me to rectify in myself my beliefs.

Class today!!!!!!!!!

I loved class today. So many ideas came to me and I feel strongly about the Alzheimer's subject. Although I work with it firsthand, I don't know all of the effects of it or the background information on it. I had a few other ideas that really interested me, but since I have a personal stake in this idea, I thought I would go for it.  Some of the ideas from today were fun and others were serious. I am glad to know that other people have the same opinions than me and it is also good to know that other people have different opinions and have sound reasoning for why they feel that way. Today was great and I got a lot of great ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!