Sunday, March 21, 2004

Response to Other Blogs

After reading Austin's blog on religion, I told myself "I couldn't agree more!" It was great to see someone with the same opinions that I have.  After have that taboo discussion in class, it made me realized that that was what i could write for my risk paper.  I feel that out of all the papers that we had to write, the risk paper is the best one.  We really got to write down our opinions, and the more risky it was, the higher grade we would get.  Other topics for our other essays is what I had always written about all throughout school. There has probably been a total of 2 times where i got to write what i want without guidlines. Posted by Christina Santamaria on 3/21/04; 10:31:31 PM from the dept. Discuss

Text for the Day -The Essay

a. A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author. Posted by Christina Santamaria on 3/21/04; 10:12:23 PM from the dept. Discuss

My Old Man-Hemingway

"When they get started, they don't leave a guy nothing."   Writing the summary paper for this story was quite hard.  Hemmingway's style of writing is quite difficult to comprehend.  Because I couldn't fully understand what went on in the story, I didn't like it.  I read it so many times and still didn't get it.  Mr. Lovas said that everytime there was an a pause of conversation between two characters, it was significant.  I caught all the pauses, but I had NO idea what it symbolized or why it was significant.  Back to why I chose this quote.  I believe it means that once a person gets caught up in doing something whether it was good or bad, there will be bad consequences.  That person will be left nothing. Posted by Christina Santamaria on 3/21/04; 9:38:12 PM from the dept. Discuss

Browsing Tour

Today in class, we took a little trip to the Learning Center for our research project. Mr Lovas showed us around the library to get us familiar with the place so we can easily look for books on our research topic. I thought it was somewhat useful. I already knew about where the periodicals were and where the microfilm was. I knew where the encyclopedias were because I have researched for topics in the library before. The only thing I thought was useful was the....now that I think of it, there wasn't anything new that I learned. If I were to have any questions on researching my topic, I would ask the librarian, that's what they're there for.  I didn't think the tour was a good use of time. We could have spent more time talking to our groups about our topic, because the topics were confusing from the start. Posted by Christina Santamaria on 3/21/04; 9:35:57 PM from the dept. Discuss