Shitty 1st drafts

Is an article by Anne Lamott, she uses this Shitty Drafts to discuss the need to let go and write those " shitty first drafts" her work leads to good clarity and sometimes brillance in our second and third drafts. She talks about the fact that some of us just need to let go and write about how we feel, sometimes what we write can be really shitty. But sometimes the ideas and clarities that we produce are filled with good information and sources.....

MLA Documentation

1. Burby, Lisa. Better Homes and Gardens.
1. As kids tend to grow up, there personal interest in learning in school begins to get boring. \

2. " its not that our kids don't want to learn in school anymore, they just don't personally understand the purpose of taking some of the classes and information they are taught to learn".

3. [ The sense of fun and school, and aspect of learing new things, beings to open to many new doors bye the time they enter third grade].

Personal Writing

From the 1st day we were told to pick a research topic, i decided to choose the war in Somalia as my research topic. I choose this topic due to my interest in the Wars that our country have taken place in, and the events that many of us have forgotten. Somalia was a war that affected the United Nations, and affected the lives of many people that lived in the United States in 1993. We decided to enter Somalia, and liberate its people to restore food, and order since the government was overthrown and killed. After starting my research i found a lot of good information on many topics that gave me information, and addressed the problems that were exactly taking place in Somalia in 1993. I also found reliable, and many real life accounts of incidents, stories,and clips that were collected by the CNN new journalists that were stationed in Somalia during the war. I decided to use military interviews as my collection of research methodology. I also will look into newspaper articles online that have been collected from 1993. Many of my personal rewards have been a better understanding of the War in Somalia and accounts that many American soldiers had to face while in the city during mission's.

Paraphrase

• Quotations in the final paper are one of the most important things to remember. People tend to plagiarise paper and forget to quote important facts that the authors addresses. Striving to limit yourself within considering the amount of source materials, is always a hard task due to the materials that you always must need to address. Even though 10% of your paper should be quoted, be careful not to include to much information based on the results you gather.

March, 15, 2010

Social epidemics...? To help believe that many ideas, products, messages, and behaviors we find in society can be characterized by their rapid, exponential spread through our population. To allow ourselves to clearly understand the messages that are presented to us in society and learn to cope with a general understanding of the messages. Gladwell throughout his book talks about many different social phenomena's which give a basis for the messages that he was trying to present throughout his book. Secondly, there is a particular moment in time when these epidemics break loose from being contained within a small population and begin to spread. This is what Gladwell calls a tipping point. Gladwell used these spreads of population to lavish his personal ideas and begin social epidemics in society.

Chapter Three, The Stickiness Factor, Discussion Questions
2. The Power of the context seems to build in society in sensitive and stressful ways. People look at the environment different from each other, in the aspects of war, crime, violence, disaster, and events that effect us daily . Social content tries to help explain who we are in society, and the things that we all fight to achieve throughout our lives. We govern ourselves on what we learn is right and wrong, and follow our emotions into ideas in life that we either accept or learn to change. The environment can only change your behavior if you give in. You can stand up for yourself and make decision's that might not always be right, but then again we all learn from our mistakes.
5. I believe that if we in proved the living conditions in prisons it would make things better for our prisoners. But at the same time, there always going to have the down fall of no hope, and the aspect that life will never be the same for them. We have to derive a plan to allow a prisoner, and his mind stable and learn to feel the same in prison, as well as outside the walls.

English poems Conf, 2010

I had the opportunity yesterday to watch an English conference with panel eight in room 105. Two seniors presented there poems to us in which they had written. The 1st poem was written about the young ladies father who recently passed away. The poem caught the rooms attention due to how sad it was, and the usage of words to catch your minds attention. The young lady didn't cry as she read the poem, but you could tell it was a difficult read for her. She wrote the poem to remind herself of her father, and the great memories that she had while he was alive. I noticed the way she phrased words throughout the poem in which she wrote, she included her personal feelings as well as her inner thoughts, and sad memories. The conference was good to learn about different styles of writing, and to see the different aspects of poems that you can trans end. We also held questions at the end, and discussed the different ways in which you can start writing poems, as well as different styles that you can define in writing literature.

Discussion Chapter 3, Paul, Barbato, Dave

1. Another message presented in society daily, is smoking. This message is not beneficial, because it is addressed in a positive way, but with negative adverse health effects. Smoking is portrayed as being cool, and is advertised by celebrities and addressed all over the nation. One good side is advertising has been cut down, because of strict governmental views.

3. Tiger Woods has been in the limelight for a bad reason and it is mostly because of the media. They took something and kept picking at it until everywhere you would look you would hear about his situation. It got so big that the media began to dig deep and tried to say that Woods used steroids. They used Tiger Woods because of how popular he is to the public and knew that they could exploit him. They knew that whatever they would say about him the media would eat up. They use shock tactics alot when you deal with high profile people. Anything shocking that can be said will be said.

Chapter 2 Tipping Point

Chapter2, Tipping Point

The Law of the Few, talks about "connectors, mavens and salesman", or three types of people who help spread ideas. Gladwell is in awe of all these people, and his prose is energetic. Yet when he describes the focus groups of pre-schoolers watching Sesame Street, it just gets overcomplicated. He expresses ideas of boring coming into play.
" The Law of the Few, which Gladwell discussed in earlier chapters talked about critical factor in epidemics is the " Nature of the Messenger."(MEANING TO INFECTION).
I feel that Gladwell used this idea to support his background research, bringing a message to children. He wanted to focus on there learning aspects as well as the infection that it could have on young children. He used the TV as his needle and injected the poison into in a child's mind.
Gladwell approaches the dramatic fall in crime in New York as a "tipping point", but tries to discount the drop in crime rate: increased police presence, tougher sentencing, and, above all, a vibrant economy that lowered unemployment drastically among the underclass, those who commit crimes. His views in chapter 2 allow you to focus on what he believes in, and the sides that he begins to take throughout the chapter.

Reflective Writing, Chapter 2, Paul

Gladwells chapter 2 opened a new door, for a general understanding of new ideas of life. He summarized that The Tipping Point as a way of making sense of the world, because I'm not sure that it always makes sense to what we would like it to. He showed me a new Epidemics, from many history lessons to historical things that i never had the chance to learn about. Gladwells discussion in chapter 2 allowed me to learn how people meet people in life, and the growth of simple knowledge of friends and people skills. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us in life.

The Tipping Point, 2010

The Tipping Points are the "levels at which momentum for change becomes unstoppable". Gladwell the author describes a tipping point as a sociological term. Tipping point can be referred to the boiling point, the glass that about to tip, the climax about to explode. This book begins by explaining the mysterious sides of life, the sides that are hidden in the shadows as well as the sides that we never really hear much about. It also explains the sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states " Ideas and products are messages and behaviors that spread like viruses do." Gladwell also states in the 1st chapter the three rules of the Tipping Point- The Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context. These rules give us a general understanding of the events of life and a shadowing of the what the book will cover in the further chapters.

Diversity and the New World

Diversity, still today plays a major factor in the today's society, and events that continue to take place daily. We experience diversity in school, home, news and many other daily activities that we take part in. A major change, is that diversity is continuing to make great changes in society. Look at our new president, finally in society we have begun to accept the color change, and allowed ourselves to have a new president of different skin color. Something we have been striving for a great deal of time. One other great accomplishment is just waking up in the morning, and walking around school. Being able to finally notice the many different types of ethical groups and skin colors that we are finally surrounded by. Even though their are still many things we can say we still need to work on, from police abuse to events in the news that highlight colored people. We have finally slowly begun to accept a great change in America, and overtime hopefully things will continue to become better for us all.

War and if the end will ever equal PEACE

I want to research in this course the Wars that have affected our country in the last few years. This motivation of war has made me really think about what has been occurring in the different parts of the world, and the number of lives we lost in this country for what real reason? I personally feel we have engaged in many different wars, and have lost numbers of American lives for no acceptable reason. The media and government says that we are making this world better for our future kids? I don't understand how that's true our economy is falling under and our people are becoming poorer as each day go's on. I would like to research the inside of the government and get some solid answers to why we have been at war for the last many years, and will we ever as a nation be able to accept peace.

English 202 Research Writing, Jan 25

My name is Paul Coccia, i currently am studying Criminology at IUP. Growing up as a young kid, i looked at life in many different ways from things that inspired me to write about as well as stories that i had the chance to read. I always found myself reading books based on war and action events that occured in life. I always preferred writing and drawing pictures of war stories that i read about. Most of the writing that i completed as a younger kid was in Middle school. My seventh grade English teacher Mrs. Simmons, would allow us to write about events and life focuses that affected us or drew the most attention to us. As i began to continue to write during the year, i clearly become focused on news events and found myself writing about mysteries of life, and civil wars that broke out over the world. When i got into high school my writing changed from free writing, to reading poems and short stories. I learned how to write poetry, based on just about anything that came to my mind at the time being. I learned then to complete 10 page papers on simple topics that took place in history, or events that were occurring in the news daily.

English 202, Activity One Blog

The Purpose, I am writing to express the feelings of something that i am trying to define. As i look at myself as a writer, i definitly can look back to many of my childhood memories. I find myself writing not only for stories and poems, but for many different people and ages of audiences to view my feelings of english.
The audience, that I normally tend to write for can be covered generally on any age and any type of person. I usually tend to get my audience's attention bye, using chatchy phrases and general open discussion topics.
The types of writings, the types of writing that i would choose to do. Would definitly be poems or short stories, i tend to like poetry more than everything due to the ways some authors discuss certain topics and cover certain meanings of life.