BLOG #7

The Vietnam War occurred from 1959- 1975. When I think of the Vietnam War, I picture hippies, since that is what people were and acted like during that time period. The main slogans were Make Peace Not War and Make Love Not War. The similarity between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is that not everyone was for the wars. For both wars, we thought our soldiers should be sent home from war a long time ago. I asked my Grandma Mary who is 91 how she felt about both wars, since she lived through them. She explained that the Vietnam War felt like it was never going to end, and so does the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also people argue that the United States should never have gotten into these wars in the first place. Our soldiers should be brought home to their families!

Blog #6

•             In today’s society we are able to break free from our cultural heritage. The reason we are able to do this is because everyone has the freedom to live life the way they want! Everyone has to follow laws, but for the most part you can do what you want to do. If you want to spend your life traveling the world, do it, no one is stopping you from living your dreams. If you want to be a homeless bum, that is your choice. Society tries to keep us in line by having laws that everyone must follow. If you break a law, there will be consequences, like prison. The reason we have laws is to keep everyone in order. If we did not have laws, people could just run around killing others, and the world would be chaotic.  

BLOG #5

I was completely shocked by the outcome of “The Love of My Life.” In the beginning Jeremy and China were both so in love with each other and seemed extremely happy together. Then China got pregnant and they did not want to deal with the situation they were in. They decided to ignore it by not telling anyone, and China refused to see any doctors. I could not believe how irresponsible they both acted and how they did not even care about their baby. I would never even think about throwing my baby in a dumpster to die! China and Jeremy are both equally to blame for their daughter’s death.

Situations like this happen everyday. We cannot believe that people are capable of doing such terrible things, especially to a newborn. I feel that events like this happen because people are careless and in situations like this, they panic. Jeremy and China did not realize at the time how serious the consequences would be if they were caught. Because of them an innocent baby was killed before it even got the chance to live.

Blog #4 Peer Editing

Revising and editing my peer’s essays helped me to improve my paper. Reading their papers gave me more ideas that I could add to my essay. Also, this showed me different point of views on how people feel about drinking. Both of my peer’s had very well written essays. I found some errors but nothing too major. I feel that criterion definitely helped because it made us find the little mistakes we did not realize we made. Criterion also showed me that I overused certain words. I also liked how criterion grades your paper and shows where your mistakes are and how you can fix them. My peers told me that my essay was very good, but they still found a few mistakes that I need to correct. Then I just have to shorten my essay, and I will be all done!