Hello there again and welcome to my blog. For our blog post #5, we have to write about an emotional moment I have shared with someone in my life. We have to use these stories My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou) and Hills Like White Elephants that connect the theme to our narrative scene. Hopefully, you enjoy it. It was a summer night and I was in a year-long relationship at the time I recently just got a job in a cleaning business cleaning up at a fast food place for them at the end of the night with my mother. Truly the only reason I accepted the job was to buy a promise ring for my girlfriend at the time. As I got inside the fast food place you could smell the burning oil from the french fries they have been deep frying. But the kitchen station was all clean for example the grills where they cook the meat of patties were nice and clean that I could see myself. As my mother was with me she said to me “A comenzar le” (“Let’s get started”) and all I did was nod and smiled and started cleaning. As soon as we were finishing cleaning the place I saw a car park close to the exit and as I look more closely I saw my father inside the car waiting for us to finish to take us home. When we were all done my mother and I headed out of the fast-food place and got in straight in the car. I said hello to my father and we drove off to the house and then suddenly I get a text message it was my girlfriend. She said, “Can we talk?” I replied saying “Sure let me get home and we can talk.” She replied saying “No, I need to speak to you right now” At this moment I was nervous because in my past relationships it was never good news when they would tell me they wanted to break up so I braced for the worst. I replied saying “Okay what is it?” As she was replying I was really nervous not knowing what she wanted to speak about then she said: “I think it’s not working out between us and I think we should break up.” At this point, I tried not to make any faces or expressions since I was with my mother and father but inside I felt broken not wanting to just be alone. My window was down from the car and I felt the wind hit my face enjoying the cold summer air trying to think about something else besides the message that drive from the fast food place to my house is usually about 10 mins but it really did feel like an eternity. I didn’t know what to say and not too long ago I was thinking of getting her a promise ring as soon as I saved enough money. To me, if I gave her that ring I would have thought that we would be together for a very long time. Finally, we get to the house and I get out of the car and open my front door. I say “Goodnight” to my parents with a smile in my face but inside I just break down and cry. I finally get ready for bed and then as I lay on my bed I pick my phone up and start typing. I replied with “Okay.” I lock my phone and just fall asleep.
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For our fourth assignment, we had to read three stories and take three quotes from each author. Then we had to create our own story including the three quotes from each author as we are having a conversation with them in person.
Don looks at me and asks me “Do I have a difficult time in just writing in general?” as he pulls out several of my old writings from High School and blog posts that I have recently written. I responded “Yes” explaining to them I was never a good writer and that possibly I never will be but that I have tired but writing it’s for me . Then Don say to me “First by shutting up. When you are talking he isn’t writing. And you don't learn a process by talking about it, but by doing it.” The Mary says to me “Writing is painful --- It’s ‘fun’ only for novices, the very young, and hacks.” Then Anne looks at me and tells “E.L.Doctrow once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your highlights, but you can make the whole trip that destination or everything you will pass along the way.’ You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or, life, I have ever heard. I look at her and say “Wow I have never thought of it that way.” Don then tells me he has 10 implications but he likes this one for me because I may also relate to it “Implication No. 10 The students are individuals who must explore the writing process in their own way, some fast, some slow, whatever it takes for them, within the limits of the course deadlines, to find the own way to their own truth.” Then Mary says “If you are stuck let your mind roam down some alleys that may land in dead ends --- that’s the nature of the process.” Then Anne comes in and tells us a story about her brother stressing about a paper that was due the next day as he was on the verge of tears. Then she says “ I tell this story again because it usually makes a dent in the tremendous sense of being overwhelmed that my students experience. I tell her “I’m always stressed out when I’m writing something or if I have to present or even speak in a classroom.” Don then includes saying “What you do require id a teacher who will respect and respond to his students, not for what they have done, but for what they may do; not for what they have produced, but for what they may produce, if they are given an opportunity to see writing as a process, not a product.” I say “Yeah you are right I have a professor this semester that is giving us that opportunity in his class” and as I said that Don smiled. Mary then says “None of us can ever know the value of our lives or how our separate and silent scribbling may add to the amenity of the world, if only by how radically it changes is, one and by one.” Then Anne says “A writer friend of mine suggests opening the jar and shooting them all in the head. But I think he’s a little angry, and I’m sure nothing like this would ever occur to you. I look at all of them and smile as I shake all their hands say “thank you for all the wonderful advice I really do appreciate it." To understand the theme better we had to read a bit of a story that explained more of our topic and how the writer showing how to write a sort of letter to someone either that is someone is so-called “dead”.
Dear Martin, “A thorn in someone's side.” I would say this is a good metaphor to express our relationship between my author-self and me. The reason is that I have never really used or had the reason to use my author’s side unless it’s for school. So it’s just a thorn in my side and I don’t know if I will use much but I’m not sure yet. After starting this class and finding a new world as a blogger and not much of my grammar is important I’m enjoying it which is a new feeling for me. I’m not a big fan of writing or reading in general but blogging is something interesting that could be for me for this class and maybe after it too. I would like to apologize to my author-self because I usually keep you in the dark and never let you out at all or even acknowledge you at all. The reason is that I’m never was good at writing or reading if I received a bad grade or something between does lines I just never thought you existed. I ignored you all my life honestly I could say you never crossed my mind unless I just needed you for an assignment. I still want to try to bring you out more to see if I would enjoy writing more maybe it is just a little who knows. Well, I hope you can forgive me for just leaving you there and just use you for my own benefit. To be honest I really don’t know how to bring you out instantly and not just when I need you to write and assignment. Maybe my first step would be to listen to music and block everyone out just for the time period. That way it would just be you taking over and not to get in your way while you write. Secondly, if I can’t do step one then I would try to find a quiet place because you usually say it out loud what you want to write and to you it makes sense. Thirdly, you ask for help with this because normally I don’t but you do because you wanna pass this class no matter what. But really I’m not too sure that these are the steps to bring you out more probably the music mostly though. Hopefully, I can figure it out while I am in this class and try to be a better writer and ready for the next challenge after this class. Even if it’s just to get into the next English class. I just want to say thanks for keeping up with my nonsense and hope you can forgive me once again. Sincerely, Samuel Ascencio For me, I would say that the blog posts are mainly focused on this class but looking into it I would like to use it more in the future. But we used these four readings to come up with these responses.
How to Create a Weebly Website (Video Tutorial) All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton) It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners) Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University) 1. Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? Well, I’m gonna say the general answer which is that we need to create a website for our English Composition I course because it’s part of the assignments we have to do. But the more creative answer would be to express ourselves you can say freely. 2. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Ball and Charlton define “multimodel” writing multiple and mode which for them mode means many things for them as well. For them, as they say, “in contemporary writing studies, they refer to it as a way of meaning-making or communicating.”. Also from The New London Group (NLG) (1996), they say “outlines five modes through which meaning is made: Linguistic, Aural, Gestural, and Spatial.”. 3. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I would say I don’t know for sure if I agree or disagree because people express their writing in their own way. Some writers don’t have to make meaning to their story as long as the reader enjoys it and connects with it their own way. Then there are some writers that use their words to communicate to their reader and some reader get interested in the first sentence. 4. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. Technically it would be our writer self if you have one but mostly it’ll be our ideas to express and develop our writing. In my opinion, I would rank the importance of the five modes from a scale of 1-5 I would choose a 4. For linguistic I would say you can communicate in different ways like writing a story or a blog in a different language. For aural you don’t have to read but now in days, we can just listen to a story with the technology now. For visual writers can use pictures to express themselves just like photographers they can show many emotions from a single picture. Then we got gestural many people we can tell a story and them we use hand motions to emphasize how serious something has gotten. Lastly spatial as a writer or a blogger they can try to relate to there audience either in there daily life or something on a personal level and that is how they connect more to a writer. 5. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? C.R.A.P are four principles of design C stands for Contrast, R stands for Repetition, A stands for Alignment, and for P it stands for Proximity. 6. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking. For this method I would say your imagination because it mostly how you wanna make the story or even a website because it is just yours. For contrast, if you wanna make something just pop to emphasize how important it is to you. As for repetition, it could also mean something in importance or can explain something in more depth like having a topic and using dashes to explain it more. For alignment, you wanna have everything in the right place if not something with the slightest little thing that is out of position and can cause you to have to do it all over again, for example, a poster or a flyer. Lastly, for proximity everything has to make sense and have a meaning for everything in a poster or a flyer. As we saw on the website that explains this method is shows a soldier holding four fingers up and tells we need theses in whatever we write or more importantly create something. 7. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? The seven sample criteria that Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodel composition is, purpose, audience, tone, organized, transitions, synthesizes and detailed. 8. Do the Borton-and-Huot criteria seem similar or different from the criteria we would use to assess a traditional print essay? Why or why not? I believe the sample criteria are similar criteria we would use to assess a traditional essay because we have to use every single one, purpose to write essay, we have to attract the audience and keep them engaged, the tone would be how you the reader will think you would be saying a sentence either if you are angry and say it loudly and fiercely. Then we have organization in what comes first and right to the end. The transition will show how you got from place to the other and there is where detail will come in and show specific detail into where and what the reader sees as if the reader is in the story as well. Hey there! Well, this is my first blog for my English Composition class. The first blog assignment we have to do is answer The Proust Questionnaire. This questionnaire is made up of thirty-five questions and it basically is for whoever is reading this gets to know me a bit more. Hopefully, it helps to get to know me better.
__1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? My idea is perfect happiness is everyone helping one another for example the bushfires in Australia. Many people from different countries are helping in their own way American firefighters are traveling to Australia to help the other firefighters to stop the fires. Another is since I watch a lot of streaming channels on twitch, they are helping raise money for the animals over in Australia as well. __2.__What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear is living in this world all alone in the future not being able to have a partner to share an adventure with. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My laziness is what mostly I deplore about myself. I don’t really cook for myself I would rather buy something outside than cook. I most likely just stay in my bedroom and rarely leave from it unless I’m hungry. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? Probably would say backstabbers if I trust you and tell you things and tell you not to tell someone else than keep it just to me and you. Don’t tell it to someone else like your boyfriend/girlfriend or one of your friends. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? I would say my father because he immigrated from a different country at a very young age and decided to leave his own mother and father for a better life and give his children a better future. He has worked his entire life just for his family and his family in Mexico to send money to his parents or to his brothers and sisters that need it. Now that I have started working I help him with sending money for them too and for the house. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? It would either be stuff for my bedroom which is either a TV or other accessories for my bedroom or food because I have a nice car that I’m still paying off and usually when I don’t feel like cooking my brother and I go out to get food. Usually, we are spending about $40 or more on just food and some junk food included. __7.__What is your current state of mind? Right now my state of mind is focused well at least trying to be because usually English classes end up boring me. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Well, I think there is an overrated virtue because everyone is unique in their own special way. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I don’t really lie as much just tell innocent white lies occasionally when I don’t want to go out with my friends if they invite other people I don’t mess with or just want to stay home. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? My skin condition I have eczema if anyone doesn’t know what that is it basically is super dry skin and it’s around my mouth wish I can get rid of that. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? Well, currently I despise is a current political figure that has threatened a certain race and has threatened to build a certain structure to divide them. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? --- __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? I believe a woman should have a good personality or how people say a good vibe because they can connect with me or someone easily and comfortably. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I really don’t overuse phrases or words but I really can’t remember if I do or not. But at the moment I usually do football (soccer) players’ celebrations. Usually, I do a celebration from a player named Dele Alli he plays in England for a team named Tottenham. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? I have a great love for someone still from my last relationship which was about 7 years ago but we have gone different ways but I have a great amount of love for her. __16.__When and where were you happiest? Right now when and where I am happiest when I am on the football (soccer) field I forget about the problems and stress I am having and just focus on the game. It feels amazing just closing the world around me and playing the sport I really enjoy. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? There are several talents I would like to have but my top 2 are learning so many different languages and playing the guitar. Right now I’m trying to learn how to play the guitar when I have some time and I still want to try to learn a different language soon well I hope. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would like to change how unorganized I am like time management I really don’t plan out on when and what I’m going to do for example homework most of the time. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? What I believe to be my greatest achievement even though it wasn’t first place it was an indoor football (soccer) tournament. It was the last game and the team I was apart of were winning in the beginning but we let it slip and lost so we got second place but it was still a great tournament and a great game. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would like to come back as probably a bird to enjoy the ability to fly and also because I can travel the world. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I would like to live in Europe mostly either in England or Spain because they have beautiful cities and beautiful locations to visit mostly likely I would love to live in the main city. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? I would like to that the most treasured possession would be the medallions I get from Mexico I usually get. I get the Aztec calendar I don’t know why but I really like getting them in different colors as well. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? I would say probably my last relationship and girl I was with had broken up with me while when I just got off work and the reason I got the job was to buy a promise ring for her. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? I would say the job I have right now they understand my situation of having school and they are flexible at times though but overall it’s funny each time I’m at work. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? Well, when I was living in New York some of my friends over there would say that I was really nice. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? I guess I would say kindness because there are many people that say they are so-called your friend and just start talking shit behind your back. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? I don’t really have a favorite writer because I really don’t read books at all they really don’t interest me. But if you consider Manga writing then that would be one and before I would read poetry. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? I have so many but if I have to choose one it would be Goku from an anime called Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z he’s an alien with superpowers that enjoys fighting to get stronger. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? To be honest I wouldn't be able to tell you because I don’t think I can relate to anyone. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? My heroes in real life would football (soccer) players because the things they do outside of the field some players have their own charity organizations to help children mostly. __31.__What are your favorite names? My favorite names are Martin which is my grandfather's name, and the other is Giovani, which is my favorite football (soccer) player and I have decided to name my son one of those names. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? I would say my allergies to pollen and dust because they are the most annoying thing especially when I am at work because I am a server in an Italian restaurant and I have to speak with people and having an itchy nose the entire time. __33.__What is your greatest regret? I would say my greatest regret would be the decisions I made in my last relationship. __34.__How would you like to die? I don’t know for sure how I would like to die but I guess old age hopefully I lived a great life. __35.__What is your motto? I guess I would say “Go with the flow” because I’ve been going with the flow for some time now and it’s been okay for me right now. |
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