Essay #2

1. Title: The Use of Landmines by Alejandra Galindo
2. The approach the author used in the intro paragraph is Descriptive
3. Thesis statement : Antipersonnel landmines do not recognize a cease fire; they continue killing or maiming for many years after the conflict is over.
4. I believe the intro was effective because it was explaining how antipersonnel landmines kill innoncent civilians even after the conflict is over. Antipersonnel landmines were supposed to be used for the war to kill the terrorist and enemies. But instead even years after the conflict was over it is killing innoncent people, terrorizing civilians and transforming agricultual fields into killing fields. And de-mining is a very slow and very slow and very expensive process. Landminds make it very difficult for people to go back to their home cities and villiages.
5. The conclusion it used the method of called to action.
6. The conclusion was effective to me because it explains how we should ban landmines because it makes the recovery process for countries that have suffered a war in their own land extremely difficult to cope with. It is also a very expensive thing to try to remove the landmines putting a econmic burden. It also talks about how the US should sign the Mine Ban Treaty now instead of waiting for more advance weapon technology. They should consider about the civilians as well because they are the ones that are suffering these mines even after the conflict is now over. Innocent people are dying because of this.

Essay #1

1. Title : The desired look : Nothing but bones. Author : Rebecca Patton
2. Intro approach was Description.
3. Thesis Statement : Females are trying diets ts and are exercising like it is a competition to see who can lose the most weight the quickest.
4. I believe the introduction paragraph was effective because it explained how girls are trying to change their lifestyle to become a model. "Females are trying diets and exercising like it is a competition to see who can lose the most weight the quickest." Girls are going to the beyond to try to fit this look as the "models." Now it is a problem to these girls because the ones that have been trying to be "thin" for a while now, has developed an eating disorder to try to deal with their lack of self-esteem or other related problems.
5. Conclusion paragraph used suggestion.
6. The conclusion was effective to me because it summarized up what they talked about in the essay. It talked about eating disorders and what the girls are doing is an major thing that causes it. They are willing to starve themselves to death for a little satisfaction on the outside. All they look forward to is to look thin like the super models that are on TV, and are willing to go to the extreme to try to fit that image.

Class Assignment Pg. 303 #4

Of course every kids dream is to be famous one day when they grow up. It can be doing with anything along the lines of playing sports, playing and instrument, dancing, or maybe be known for being the #1 singer. Of course with ups there are also going to be some downs. If you are famous and rich, you would have tons and tons of people that will look up to you and like you as an artist or a celebrity. And being rich and buying anything you want. From cars to houses, toys, clothes. You would be able to get anything you want.That would be the nice and good part about it, the downside would be that u would have no privacy. Privacy is a big thing for some people, and if you are famous you would have none. The media would always want to know what you have been up to. For example, Britney spears was America's sweetheart, until she got famous and didn't know what to spend the money on. So she turned to drugs and that just messed everything up. It's not always a good thing to be famous and be known.

Class Assignment #3 Pg. 291

I really enjoy playing football and basketball. Sports is not only fun, but it is also very good exercises for people. Me and my buddies would get together on weekends and we would shoot hoops or might even play some football at the local park or school. Football is one of the top sports America watches behind soccer. Millions would sit and watch the game, for example Monday Night Footbal. I enjoy playing sports because its fun while your doing it, and on weekends I would love to sit there and watch sports clips off of ESPN. ESPN is where they update you on the games that had been recently played for example, that week. That is just as fun to me as actual playing the game if I got the chance to just watch it. One time I went skiing in Lake Tahoe and I loved it. It was my family's first time and we all had so much fun. We were all new so we decided to get lessons for it instead of jumping right into it. I really enjoyed it because it was something different from anything I have done before. I was more scared that anything while we were skiing, and we got the chance to play with snow while we were practicing.

Class Assignment #2 Pg. 278

A lot of people probably do not understand the whole concept of wanting and getting a tattoo, especially if they do not have one themselves. There are numerous reasons why one may want to get a tattoo but to be honest every person's reason is unique. I like art such as tattoos and piercings. I have both my ears pierced and two tattoos, one on each of my arm. On the left side of my arm there is a tattoo of 5 cards symbolizing about the game called poker. I have been playing poker for years now, maybe about 5 or 6 years to be exact. I enjoyed it so much now it is a part of me. On my right side of my arm there is a tattoo of a tribal design that I had got the idea off of the Internet. I just like the idea of having a tattoo a while back ago, and i just went out and got it done. My ear piercings had been done a while ago since I was in middle school. People tend to get tattoos or body art because sometimes that's how they express themselves, for example a lot of people like to get a tattoo to remind them of some stage in their life or to help them remember something special or important that has happened to them.

Class assignment Cultural Background #1

My cultural background is from Vietnam. Vietnam occupies approximately 127,243 square miles (329,560 square kilometers), an area roughly equivalent to New Mexico. Both of my parents were born and raised over there. Vietnamese people have lots of stuff they do traditionally that they would follow. Being very family oriented is a major thing, especially for the holidays. We would all get together just to get together. The biggest thing we celebrate would be Tet (Vietnamese New Year). Around that time of year which should fall between late January or early February. It gets really crazy but fun, we would celebrate it by have tons of food, family gatherings, presents, and much more. It is known because of the red envelop that we used to put money into to give to each other. It is usually the adults the ones that are handing the red envelopes out for their little nieces and nephews. I enjoy those time when they come around, because I get to see all my family members I didn't get to see in a while. Vietnamese Culture also have a different tasting for food as well. Our types of food that we have and eat, some are different from others. Takes a little while to get use to eating it because some has an acquire taste for it.

5 new vocabulary words

1. unprecedented - without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
2. coalition - a combination or alliance, esp. a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.
3. intervening - to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
4. subsidies - a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
5. tenuous - thin or slender in form, as a thread.

5 new vocab words

1. sentiment - a mental feeling; emotion: a sentiment of pity.
2. ominous - portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
3. accomplices - An associate in wrongdoing, especially one who aids or abets another in a criminal act, either as a principal or an accessory.
4. blunt - having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
5. repelled - to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).