Dear Class,
For your new blog post, read This I Believe II, pp. 32-55. Then choose one of the essays you read and write a reflection here. Your reflection can discuss what impression the essay made on you, your reactions to it, what you think of the writer, what you agree/disagree with, etc. Be sure to include the title and author at the beginning of your reflection.
Due: Before our next class
Length: At least one well-developed paragraph
Note: No need to print out your reflection this time.
Reminder: Don't forget to do your typed, 2-page drafts!
Special reminder: Reem, Moises, Chanel, Aaron, Rogelio--don't forget to e-mail me your drafts by noon on Monday if you want extra credit. Thanks!
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I really liked the essay "Failure is a good thing" by Jon Carroll. I totally agree with what he writes. Failing at something isn't necessarily a bad thing. You can always learn from your mistakes so if you fail that means your knowledge is growing and you're less likely to fail at the same thing again. Besides if you're always succeding at whatever you do it will eventually become boring so failing isn't something totally bad.
ReplyDeleteI think the essay "Making it up as i go along" makes alot of important points. The writer describes how she went in head first in opening her own resturant bussiness without any knowledge. And even though her bussiness failed she didnt. She points out that she gained alot out of having her resturant even though she didnt gain much money. I think she is a very positive person. She saw what good there was in a bad situtation.She walked away proud of her failed bussiness and started right back up with something else. She is happy with going day by day and sometimes thats a good thing. For myself i know i always look ahead and stress over things that are in the future. But by reading this essay it made me realize that its not a bad thing to live in the present.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading a bad dog new tricks by David Buetow. I liked how he compared his life to his dog's and how his dog's life is so much easier. i though the point he made about his dog's appreciation and excitement for whatever is placed in his food bowl, how he's never happy with what he has in his cupboard. i like how caring for his dog softened him as a person and taught him how to care for other and change his bachelor ways.
ReplyDeleteI thought "the person i want to bring into this world" by Laura Chico was really interesting. Her question to her husband about what three personality traits they could choose in their child really made me think. I wonder if i would choose the sae ones. Honesty is definitely on the list, and i thought caring was a good one as well. I'm sure everyone that has a child wonders what type of person they will be when they grow up. I know I will wonder that whenever I have a child of my own.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the essay "Making it up as I go Along", by Alice Brock. In her essay she basically talks about making the best of bad situations, and the fact that there is no right way to live life. In her essay she talked about her experiences from when she had dinner party's with little to no silver war. Her restaurant that went bankrupt and how she still made the best of it, took from it learned and moved on. I like her positive way of thinking, i try myself to be that way, although it is very difficult at time.
ReplyDeleteI loved the essay "The Faith That Brings Me Peace", by Betsy Chalmers. Chalmers really showed what marriage is all about, love and faithfulness. Her faithfulness to her incarcerated husband was admirable. I am a strong believer in the covenant of marriage, and reading this article has encouraged me to stay strong in my belief. If Betsy Chalmers and her husband are still going strong after 28 years I am pretty sure that when I marry I can too. Like Betsy Chalmers I do belive in faithfulness.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading "Teaching a Bad Dog New Tricks" by David Buetow. It made me realize that my dog does the same thing when ever he see's me. My dog's name is Marley and he isn't living with me because i live in an apartment. When i do go visit him hes always happy to see me. He leaves every thing boring during his day behind him and just wants to have fun with me while I'm there.I think that this essay really gave me a different perspective and i think that we should try and be happy with what we have.
ReplyDeleteIn “this I believe II”, the passage “Making it up as I go along” by Alice Brock mentions how life shouldn’t be made plan. Although this may not be true to some of us this really reminds me of when I’m with my friends. Just improvising here and there one never knows. Although it might be better to have a plan it really isn’t that bad to just go with the flow and see what happen in the future. That may be true with certain things, but those other things that aren’t plan and goes right you might say if it wasn’t for that impulsive decision it wouldn’t have never happen. So I like to compare myself and Alice in being that taking impulsive decision is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteTHE ESSAY THAT I ENJOYED THE MOST WAS "TEACHING A BAD DOG NEW TRICKS" BY DAVID BUETOW. THE WRITER HAS AN INTERESTING COMPARISON BETWEEN HIS DOGS LIFE AND HIS OWN. THE THING THAT I ENJOYED THE MOST OUT OF THIS ESSAY WAS THAT THE HE LEARNED SO MUCH FROM A DOG BUT HE WOULD OF NEVER LEARNED ALL OF THIS IF HAD NOT GOTTEN THE DOG IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND GIVEN THE DOG AT LEAST ENOUGH TIME TO NOTICE WHAT HE NOTICED. IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT WE COULD LEARN FROM ANYONE AND ANYTHING AND THIS ESSAY WAS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading all the essays but the one that i really enjoyed was "making it up as I go along" by Alice Brock. I love how she demonstrates to us that life shouldn't be planned and you should just do whatever comes to mind.Trying something new without knowing anything about it isn't going to hurt, even if u fail u learn from your mistakes. Alice seems like a really down to earth person. I enjoyed reading her essay it was somewhat humorous to me as well it was really spontaneous.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the "Teaching a Bad Dog New Tricks" by David Buetow essay was a good one. I have a dog myself, so that a lone made me like this essay as well. Usually it's the owner thats suppose to teach the pet dog all the tricks. Not the case in this essay. The guys pet dog ends up showing him a thing or to. Just goes to show that you can learn or more clearly understand things through anything at any given time.
ReplyDeleteThe essay i liked the most was "Teaching a bad dog new tricks",by David Beutow. I liked how he said his life was boring,he did the same thing every day and nothing was ever different, but when he decided to get a dog everything changed . He had some relying on him to feed him, walk him, and play with him. And it even made him more of a people person . i really liked how much he learned from the dog , and how he now has a girl friend.
ReplyDeleteThe essay that I read was “Making it up as I go Along”, by Alice Brock, was the essay that I really liked about. Where she feels that people should live life as it is, with no stress and you shouldn’t be worried about your life. Why, because there isn’t any right or wrong way to live the way you do, you should just be happy. Like in some situations she takes herself in, is where she doesn’t prepare herself when she has a party with the silverware and stuff. Also where she becomes a restaurant owner, then later it gets bankrupt, but she doesn’t sob over it. She thinks in a positive way and just heads on with her head held up high, and move on to the next best thing. I really liked her essay, and I think it can help people think in a better way to move on in their life, when going through bad situations.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the essay i read really stood out to me. It was hard to pick just one to talk about, but i would have to say that the one that really got a reaction out of me was the one about the lady who believed in improvisation. Ugh! How can somebody live like that?! Reading this essay made me feel really agitated, and annoyed. Just making things (important things) up as she goes along with her life... I could never live in that way. It may make me seem "unadventurous" i guess; living this way just doesn't seem smart to me. I feel like you should always be well-prepared, or at least try to be well-prepared, into striving in your life. She just seems like a she puts zero effort in her life, and everything that has happened to her is just pure luck
ReplyDeleteThe essay that I chose was "The Person That I'm Suppose to Be", by Andy Blowers. He seems like the type of person that doesn't put his burdens on other people. He deals with what he was dealt. Many people have hurdles in life and some people try to blame other people for what they don't have, but the author mans up and takes it everyday and try's to enjoy life to fullest. It was humorous how he compared himself to Neo from the movie The Matrix, and how he gets beat up by agents and soon transforms him into a warrior comes to understand his powers and confronts his enemies peacefully. I also really enjoyed how he talked about the struggles you go threw that will eventually toughen you up and will make you into the person your suppose to be.
ReplyDelete"Teaching a bad dog new tricks"by David Beutow was my favorite essay to read this week. I grew up with a lot of animals as a child and i agree with a lot of the things he said. Sometimes its amazing what you can learn from an animal, and how much they can change your life. He did a good job at showing how things changed so much with his life before and after.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Faith That Brings Me Peace" by Betsy Chalmers, i thought her story was very sad. In her story she says it's her life and that it she wants to be faithful to her husband even though he has been in prison two years after they got married. I know she means when she says she doesn't recommend it for anyone, because deep down she knows she wants out. However, it is sweet now that she is fifty something and still with him even when she is only allowed to see him on the weekends for very little. I think she really does love him because thirty years has passed and they don't even have children, but she still wants to be with him. Whatever his reasonings for being in jail, i don't think it was such a bad crime if his wife is willing to forgive him.
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