Carbine 1

Jessica Carbine

Adam Burningham

English 1010- Section 026

Sept/29/2015

Don't Just stand There Journal entry

In the assignment it says to write about a time when you have overhead a racial, sexist, or ethnic slur and what you could have done about it.
It's not that I don't have experience with theses problems, just growing up in a school full of hicks has taught me more sexist jokes than I care to admit. The thing is I feel like theses subjects are already acknowledged and in some cases over acknowledged to the point where we feel as though it's "being shoved down our throats" sometimes. The point I'm trying to make is, we know those things are wrong, we know those things are offensive, and steps are already being taken to correct the problem. There are plenty of programs against sexism, racism and other things like that to make people aware that what they are saying or doing is wrong. The problem I feel isn't being addressed is the prejudices against people with mental anomaly's or "Disorders".

I hear people say things like "Oh I'm having a dyslexic day" when they do something stupid, or "Oh your so OCD" when you have to organize something, or If you think you see something they say "Oh you're such a schizo". Jokes like that are just as derogatory and can be just as offensive as racist, ethnic or sexist jokes, they hurt just as much.

When I hear people say "I'm having a Dyslexic day" I just want to go up to them and say "Oh yeah well I'm having a dyslexic life and you have no idea what that's like". I know that wouldn't fix the problem though because it's become such a social norm, no one ever dose anything about those jokes or even acknowledges that they're hurtful.

You might say well that's not the same thing as being racist or sexist but in many ways it is. When someone who is a different race or sexuality is being scrutinized the first thing they always say is "I can't help it if I was born this way" its the same for people with mental anomaly's. Many of the same steps listed in the chapter can be taken to help others understand that mental anomaly's are not to be taken lightly. To help them realize its not okay to say things like "I'm so OCD" because they have no idea what it's like. That's the whole point of this that's why we get so offended by derogatory terms or jokes because the average person has no idea what that's like. Honestly if people say things like that (unless it was a direct insult) they probably didn't realize they were being offensive and you should just take them aside and politely, respectfully tell them how you feel with a little luck they'll understand and hopeful teach others that those things can hurt.

"Patterns For A Purpose"

Carbine 1

Jessica Carbine

Adam Burningham 

English 1010-Section 026

Sept/15/2015

Questions in fifth edition "Patterns for a Purpose"

Page: 266, 1-4 

1."According to Kozol, what are the prevailing attributes towards the Homeless?"

• The Homeless people in this article are seen as a blight on society, a carrier for disease, and a warning of what could happen to you. In most the examples he uses the homeless are homeless because of too many things happening at once . Its not really their fault they just couldn't handle it financially and so they lost their homes . He see both sides of the story fairly well and his examples are easy to follow. He gives examples of what its like to be homeless, it's about survival mostly and the outsiders view of homeless lifestyle.

2. "To what extent are government officials and the general public part of the problem of homelessness?"

• They are running away form the problem instead of facing it. They seem to think that if they can't see the homeless people than they must not exist. They sweep homeless people under the rug and close their eyes to them instead of giving them the help they need. The author even stated that homeless people are sometimes given a one night stay but in exchange they are given one way ticket out of town. His example is in Wyoming but there is another incident where that happened, in Utah during the 2002 winter Olympics. The Olympics were being held in Salt lake city that year so in order to "clean up the city" they gave all the homeless people a one way ticket out of town.  

3. "In paragraph 38, Kozol says that we are afraid of homeless children. What are we afraid of ?"

In the article the author states that he doesn't know why we are afraid of homeless children, he then goes on to say, maybe we are afraid of disease or the adolescents they'll become. I thin it's more psychological than that though, I think that we see homelessness as a disease. When we see a homeless child we think he or she is going to grow up to be homeless just like their parents and therefore they are just one more person to catch the disease from. To them us it's only a matter of time before the whole world is infested with this "disease" and they see no cure. 

4. "Are any examples particularly moving? Which ones? why do they affect you in the way they do?

• I really like the last line " So from pity we graduate from weariness; from weariness to impatience; from impatiences to annoyance to dislike and sometimes contempt."                       I felt like I related to the statement in paragraph four  "Most people are permitted to make more than one mistake. Not when you're poor" because it seems to be true in most financial situations. I was also really saddened bye some of the stories of homeless people being Beaten, Murdered, or even set on fire. I just don't understand mindless acts of violence like that.  

chapters 4-5

Blog # 2

Jessica Carbine
Adam Burningham
English 1010-026
Aug/31/2015

Chapters 4-5

Chapter 4

Chapter four was about description which is an incredibly important thing to learn as a writer because it can literally make or break a piece. The book used some essays that were very good examples, but I think I would rather like to post a passages that I think has good description and talk about the way it pulls you in, just so I can properly apply this and give you an example.
" The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This sentence is a good example of description because it's different, it's not how one would normally describe a sunset so that pulls you in by making you wonder what it is that causes the main character "Tally" to think that way and it goes on to say. 
"Any other summer, a sunset like this would have been beautiful. But nothing had been beautiful since Peris turned pretty. Losing your best friend sucks, even if it's only for three months and two days." 
So you see she no longer thinks of the sunset as pretty because she misses her friend.
 You see in this book before you turn sixteen you are an "uglie" then on your sixteenth birthday you under go what is essentially plastic surgery and move to another part of the city where the "pretties" live.

Chapter 5

Chapter five talks about narration and how important to keep the details, characters and/or events in your story or essay in order and not to get side tracked by tangents. When I think of narration I always think of narrators in movies or books. In particular the ones that interact with the main character by breaking the forth wall so to speak. One of my favorite examples is in a movie called stranger than fiction. In this movie the main character can hear the narrator but the narrator has no idea the main character is real but the narrator changes the life of the main character forever with one sentence. 
" Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death". Stranger than fiction. Karen Eiffel.

Jessica carbine

Adam Burningham

english1010

august/26/2015

My experience with reading and writing

Reading 

I love reading I love submersing  myself into a world that is not my own the world of the author.
when I imagine the world that the author is trying to portray it feels like a collaborative effort I am making with the author it may be their world but there is a million different ways to imagine it.  I find this to be true when ever I read a book after a friend recommends it or after I recommend it to them. after reading a the same book from a friend or family member I love to compare and contrast how they imagined the world in the book with how I imagined it. I may have imagined a certain character with long black hair and a raspy voice while they may have imagined that same character with short brown hair and a smooth voice. What ever the author doesn't describe thoroughly is left up to the readers imagination and then some. I read all kinds of things from big thick fantasy books to reference books, but my favorite genres are fantasy, steam punk, and art. there are so many different books if anyone says they don't like reading I firmly believe that it's because they haven't read the right one yet.

Writing

I think I like to write because I love to read so much I also like  to draw so I like to illustrate my own stories. I like to write but I don't think I'm to good at writing assignments. I usually just write what is needed on assignments even though I'd like to add more of my own style. when I hear the word peer review it often makes cringe. I don't like the idea of other people in my class reading my paper but that logic is strange because I could care less about the teacher reading it, that doesn't bother me. I know how ever that peer reviews are an important because I often make mistakes in my own writing that I won't notice upon reading it a second time but others will. It also helps expand on ideas and what you could improve your writing as a whole. If used correctly it can be a very beneficial experience but used poorly and it can shatter the writers self-steam.