My reading History.

So, my reading habits are similar but different from my writing. I don’t hate reading, but I don’t do it on my own. I have to be required to read. Once I read something though I almost always love it. I especially enjoy sci-fi. I looooved Dracula, and Time Machine, and Fahrenheit 451, I enjoy most western novels, but I have to be in a mood for them. One thing I’ve noticed about myself and reading is that I can’t read something when I’m annoyed by a main character and their decisions, or if something is just too wordy too many times. I hate over explaining. Pride and Prejudice..favorite movie, can’t stand the book I’ve tried to read it 4 times.. can get past 50 or so. I love the Harry Potter movies. I read the first book in a week. Sadly I’ve attempted to read the second honestly 7 times. Its that Dobby character that always messes with Harry, he drives me nuts and I just close the book.
I do read my bible though. I try to everyday. Its probably the book I’m most faithful to. No one tells me to or requires me to. I do it for myself and the big man up there.
I also love reading articles on psychology, why we do what we do. I’s say I google about 3-5 articles about people behaviors a week.
When I was younger I loved reading because I knew when we read we were going to have to do a book report and I always made like 3D reports. I loved The Adventures of the Bailey School kids and in one of them they snow board out of trouble or something so I made a mountain and little characters and tied them to a string and they slid down the mountain on their snowboards. It was really cool and I was really proud because it was exactly like I pictured in the book.
I can read music. I played the clarinet for 4 years and piano for 3, so when You have to guess which tube it is by looking at the notes in the game Cranium I’m pretty good. I hate reading directions, for like cooking or making something.. drives me crazy, the font is so small and I just want to do it all at once I’ve screw up quite a few carrot cakes because of that.
But whats weird is I really enjoy reading cosmetic bottles. I’ve read all of my shampoos and face washes.. Their descriptions just make them sounds so great, its fun. Herbal essences even puts riddles on the backs of their bottles.. but you have to buy the matching condition for the shampoo to find the answer.. other wise you’d have no clue that more than 50% of women admit to throwing a show at their significant other. I’m guilty.

I’m going to make a symbolic collage about relationships. I know the probably sounds really “high school”, but I’m not just talking about couple relationships. And it seems like that is what my friends and I talk the most about. How were affected by family, friends, and boyfriends/ girlfriends (whether they have one or not).
A lot of it comes down to trust. Friends have had bad relationships with their fathers and it in turn leads to them not trusting any guy, and not being able to have a real relationship with a guy.
Other friends have been hurt so badly by their “ex’s” they’re too afraid to let anyone in again. Or if they do let someone in, they freeze or shut down as soon as they get to a point to where they feel vulnerable or care what they believe is “too much” because they are afraid they’ll be hurt.
Everyone is constantly being affected by relationships, and I think they are interesting, and therefore will make a good topic for my paper
I don’t think with my paper I’ll really need a collage but I enjoy doing artsy things.. so that will be my relief when I’m sick of writing.
I don’t know if this is a great proposal but I think it’ll work.. it’s the actual project that’s important anyway. right?

In Just walk on by racism and idenity seems to be a big issue. Racism is something I didn't even understnad until I was probably in the thrid grade when we leanred about the underground railroad and slavery. I was raised to believe all men (and women) were created equal and my parents never did or said anything to make me believe them to be lieing. I remember feeling really quilty though that my certain black friends family had probably gone thru much more pain than mine. If we bring the issue here to Miami today.. I do think this school is not diverse. Whether that is because of the students attracted to go here or because if the schools addmitting of students I am not sure, but I do know that Miami seems to be culture wise very limited. Which also makes me sad.

Our world is full of judgement and pre-conceived views though. The writer in Just walk on by experiecnes this in the beginning when the woman runs from him. He had done nothing wrong or given her the feeling that he would hurt her and yet because of the color of his skin she felt like he could harm her, and he in turn felt judged. I think we can all sympathise with this feeling, maybe not to the extent but I know we have all had moments where someone has judged or been awkward or something of the sort simply because they didn't know you and believed you to be different from your true self. My very best friend and my boyfriend both if they would have listened to preconceived views of me would have lost me in relationships. Apparently my sarcasm tends to make people believe I feel superior than others. HA!... They both know me and my heart now though and know I'm not like that, I'm glad they did give me a chance too. I enjoy them in my life. :). I believe judging and preconcieved views are always going to be a factor in life, someone is always going to remind you of another person you've already met. its whether or not you choose to let that view control you and your actions towards that person that really matter.

The End.

I lied I'm doing Gore's Testimony on Global Warming :)

I'm going to rhetorically analyze The Wicked Witch of the West: 'What a world; what a world' speech.
I'm choosing this specific speech because not only did I watch The Wizard of Oz every day when I was a young child, and was extrememly terrified of the witch.
I feel like thats a movie almost everyone has seen or defintiely at least heard of.
The speech is humorous and entertainging ang I think it will be interesting to listen to in a different way.

AXE

Of course the Axe commercials are almsot all fallacies of false cause or false analagy. Just because a guy sprays axe cologne on does not mean girls will instantly flock to him. Although with the right amount he probably will smell good. Axe can totally be overwhelming though and have the opposite effect if not used properly.

Anyway the specific Axe commercial I've chosen is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDsLcl72Ss where apparently two people just had sex. Through out the commercial they are constantly picking up articles of clothing all over the city until they are completely dressed in the super market where they met. The end of the commercial says "because you never know". Like you never know when I "chance" could arrise so you better keep your axe on you at all times. Oh well it was funny and was definitely a fallacy.

dorm life?

McCormick was definitely way too bias, and obviously had a bad experience with dorm life. Although I don’t find the dorms a vacation resort I find my dorm on western campus quite content. The food does make my stomach hurt, and it does take a while to walk to come of my classes, but I’m also not on the main part of campus so that is expected. She talks a lot about the brochure but doesn’t go into great detail about anything and complains about the vagueness of the brochure it’s self. (how ironic lol) Her argument was that dorm life wasn’t all it was perked up to be into a brochure but she totally doesn’t explain anything about living in a dorm besides matching bed spreads and personalizing your room. If she would have described actual living in the dorm such as showering, and eating , not in the cafeterias, and sleeping with roommates her argument would have been much more valid, but she didn’t go into any detail on any of those topics other than food, but the cafeterias don’t have a whole lot to do with living on campus, at least not a whole lot.
Why did she choose to argue about the brochure? She could have made a better argument by stating her experience as a freshman and that she didn’t like it. I did enjoy that she pointed out that the brochure was aimed more towards incoming freshmen because its true once and upper classman has lived outside the dorm and compare the two experiences living in a house or an apartment probably does seem worlds better but as for me I am not despising the life in a dorm. It’s not as cushy as home but I don’t hate it. She simply just didn’t give enough detail to support her case and the body of her writing didn’t fit with her chosen topic well enough.