ANTHONY GOODMAN
Research Paper Reflection11/30/2017
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Annotated Bibliography11/16/2017
In the video they analyze the statistics of the norway prison compared to the united states and united kingdom. They criticize and opinionate ways that can make their systems work better and why the system wouldn't work in other countries This video shows some evidence of why this prison system would not work in our American society. The video explains how it would be to expensive and would not work with our population.The video works well with my arguement.
This text has some very good points in how the Norway system works, but for Norway. The system also has some flaws put into it because of their problem with immigrants coming in and getting arrested to get the good treatment that the prisoners get. This article also shows how the norway prison system would not work because of what a large population we have, with more criminals and more people who are not in an equal economic system we can not afford to make such prisons. This research article is relevant for my article because I would like to talk about how this system would not work in America for many reasons. This article helps to find some reasons on how the Norway prison system would fail in America.
This text makes good points on how the Norway prison system works, but that still doesn't show how it would work in the American society. The Norway Prisoners are treated as normal people and I would even say they are treated better than most. The prisoners live in luxury doing hobbies exercising and taking classes all day just like any other normal person but with less stress. These prisoners don't deserve to have a better life than someone who struggles to just attempt to live a good life and follows all the laws in his life. This text could help me show how this system works in Norway. This article can also let me get a better understanding of this system and how it works in deep thorough description. The article shows how successful the prison system is working butr this is with the economic situation and style the Norwegian people are in and helps them succeed, this is different with America's economic system. 4. The Guardian,Erwin James,February 25, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people This article explains the main idea of the prison, and also explain the ways this prison system would not work in another country. This article talks a little more about the personal lives of the prisoners.It shows how the prisoners are trusted with daily normal life tasks. This text goes into depth about the actual life of the prisoners and how they are trusted people and shows the prisoners opinions on the prison. The prisoners go into depth about why they think the prison system works. The constant reminder in this paper is that it would be a lot different in other countries. This would help me with disagreeing on how this would work in America. This would give me some evidence to show how this would not work in other countries.This is the resource I need. Where to Invade Next? An Argument11/7/2017
Topic: Health care in America.
Summary of Where to Invade Next11/7/2017
Life-Choice Memoir Reflection10/16/2017 1.Who did you work with to compose your life-choice memoir? Was this a good approach?
2.What rhetorical mode and genre are you using? 3. When did you write this project? Good approach? 4. Where did you write this project? Good approach? 5. Why did you choose to write about your chosen topic? Good choice? 6. How did it feel to write this narrative ("during, after, and since")? Do you have any "if only" moments that can help you revise the draft? 7. How will you revise your narrative? 1. I worked with our ALP class to compose this paper, It was a good approach with some great words and revisions from everyone in the class to show me how to make this writing better than it is. 2. The genre I am using for this paper is the life choice memoir 3. I started this essay in our ALP class about a week before we started the assignment because we wrote a scene before then, and the scene I chose was a life choice I could continue to write with, I continued to work on this essay about every other day or two since it was assigned and added about a thousand words since the original scene creation. The approach I made with this essay was fair I think I could have started in a better way but for the most part I think that I took this on well. 4.I wrote this project in the classroom for only probably a couple of hours of our class time and spent probably the same amount to a little more time at my home in my living room. 5.I chose to write about this topic because it is a topic that has changed my life heavily and a very interesting topic to me in which I can write about and not bore or force myself to write it, it actually is fun to write about this topic to me. 6.Yes there are many parts or moments I can think back to that need to be revised, I most likely would not be able to revise this as well if it were not for our ALP class being able to get together and revise our papers together. 7. I will revise my narrative through information that was given in our ALP class about what we need to change in it, like adding in more informational pieces of the paper so the reader is not lost while reading the paper, or to not add as much description in subjects that do not matter to the actual story, or completely cutting out those scenes that do not really support the story as much as I though they did. Is This My Tradition?10/4/2017
American traditions that can relate to the “lottery” is the actual lottery, the ;lottery in America is like the opposite cultural tradition but the same way the tradition is made or how it actually works. The lotter in both the story and in America are traditions where everyone in one day picks a random ticket that will change their life forever but in this case the outcomes of their very different in the story and in our American tradition. In the story the lottery the outcome is horrible by someone being stoned to death which is obviously an awful outcome, but in our American culture we have a good outcome where you become rich.Even though our lottery is “good” I believe that the lottery in our culture I believe it can also destroy people's lives like in the story, I believe this because money changes people and can make them lose their morals and destroy their life as easily as a person with a stone can ruin someone's life. In the end these two traditions are negative positions to be in even though you become rich from our tradition. A time in my life when I decided to break away from a cultural tradition is when I had work the day my family was having our annual family reunion. It was the week of the family reunion and I had completely forgotten that it was that weekend, and I told my work that I was available that day. The whole day I was questioning if I should skip work for the family reunion or disappoint my parents and most my family and tell them I wouldn't be able to see them for another year. I knew I couldn't disappoint my family that traveled from around the country just to see our whole family together. I decided to not show up to work to see my family and not break our family tradition because it is morally right in my eyes to put family over work or money. In the end of this situation I was pretty confident that I made the right choice because I got to see all the people I love in my family once again and did not really have any repercussions from my work for skipping that day, I believe that the tradition my family made is stronger and worth dealing with any problem to see them. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?9/27/2017
The girl in the story is at a bar with her partner in Spain in 1927 and is talking over drinks whether she should get an abortion or not.Well the girl in the story seems unsure about everything she is doing, it seems like she was dependent on the man in the beginning of the story somewhat waiting for him to decide to do something and asks how he feel and then when he asks the same she replies with it doesn't matter. Later on she starts to say things that would make her seem more independent and strong like calling out how they always do the same things and how the man never pays attention to her. The girl also seems to be in love witht the man even though he really tries to push her to get an abortion without telling her to get an abortion. She has to make a choice because the man somewhat implies that if she keeps the baby he is going to leave her so she is stuck in a hard situation. The way the girl acts at the end of the story makes the reader think that she starts to think in her way and decides to keep the baby. A time in my life where I had to make a choice to stay or leave a difficult situation was when my friend and I were walking home from a party one weekend and my friend may have been a lot more drunk than I was on this fine walk home on a cool summers night. After about half way through our voyage of Marple Township he decided to pass out on a nice green, and lively patch of grass. I was very intoxicated and did not know what to do in this situation I slapped him and shook his body but he was in a very deep sleep. I thought to myself should I leave my good friend here to wake up at ten in the morning to thirty missed calls from his mom and be in lots of trouble or carry him to his house. As the great friend I am I chose to pick my friend off the ground and carry him home in the middle of the night on my shoulders sneak into his house drop him off to his bed then get the hell out of his house and go home. As I entered my friends home everything I decided to do seemed a lot more loud than it was. The doors creaking and when I dropped my friend on his bed it seemed to be a hundred times louder than usual. As I ran out of my friends house my footsteps sounded like huge thuds, like my feet became heavier or decided to become bricks. To Tell the Truth?9/21/2017
In the perspective of this family they made the right choice to not tell Nai Nai, because of their cultural values and how they grew up. In the chinese culture it is disrespectful to tell someone they have a terminal illness and that they are going to die, the doctor does not even tell the person who is dying that they are going to die they tell the family of the person first. This was a good decision by the Wang family because the choices they made were applying to their culture and most likely what the grandmother believes. The Wang family made the right choice because of their cultural view. Why is that the right decision: because the culture says so or because that's what Nai Nai would want to hear? In this family it seems that they lie because the culture says so.Another reason they made the right choice is because Nai Nai did not die from her illness in those next three months, if Nai Nai died who knows maybe the Wang family would've regretted not telling her so she could have gotten medical treatment and lived. In the end of this situation I believe that the choices made are all about the situation and perspective happening in the events, but the Wang family made the right decision in this situation. In my own point of view, if I was dying I would want to know. I would probably want to know because the way I was raised and maybe because of my cultural perspective and being raised in America and how we are always about test results medicine and finding out and solving problems and not just covering up. An important time in my life where I had to chose to tell someone a difficult truth or a lie was the summer of junior year for my high school. Me and my friends were out late at night at gable field when we were playing football. We started to walk back to my friends house and we saw some people from our school carrying a case of beer, so my friend who had a white car blasted police sirens through his speakers and the people we saw dropped the case and ran. My friends then took the beer and returned to the field we were hanging out at. Later that night some kids came and asked if we had seen any people had been carrying around their beer they wanted to know because, the one friend in their group stole it from their friends dad and his dad had noticed and told them to return it. The kid was very worried and said his dad was going to beat the snot out of him except he didn't use snot. My friends and I chose to lie to the group of people and say we did not see any people with beer because we wanted to keep it. That kid most likely had a rough night because we chose to lie to him and that affected his life at that period of time in a negative way. The Powers That Be?9/13/2017
In this blog post, I will explore Margaret's choices when she works a job as a servant for a very racist woman named Ms. Cullinan. In the reading, we witness the experiences that Margaret has at her work where she is treated harshly for the color of her skin. The choice that Margaret made was probably not a right choice for her as an employee, but it was a great choice for her as a person with good morals and is not ready to be treated differently because of race or color. This is a bad choice as an employee because she will most likely be punished and the people who she works for might make it more difficult for her at her work environment because those cups and the casserole dish had a lot of value to the people in the house; these dishes were passed down through the generations of the family. Margaret's act of rebellion broke what Mrs. Cullinan considered priceless heirlooms. After that, Margaret angered the people she works for from her actions. On the other side of this topic where you can look at Margaret smashing the cups and dish as a good thing is that she has made a statement that she is not going to put up with the racism and mistreatment in the house and look at her smashing those plates as a huge moral victory for Margaret not just because she pissed her employer's off and had the satisfaction of looking at them cry but she also got them to call her by her real name and not Mary. After all this I side with the decision to break the dish because she showed the employers she's not just going to sit by and let them treat her as if she is less than a real person. A personal time in my life when I had either resist or not resist a challenge is when my wrestling coach told me I had to move down a weight class to to wrestle the future state champion at 220 pounds for that year; it seemed like I really didn't have a choice. I could make my coach angry and let up six points for the team or step up and go out there and get embarrassed by a future state champion. It was a very nervous time in my life it seemed like an hour of sitting there deciding if I should because I would most likely be embarrassed in front of a huge crowd of people by the future state champion, but I took the challenge, because if I didn't our team would forfeit at that weight and give up six team points. After an hour of waiting and warming up it was finally time and I cannot think of a time in my life where my heart was racing faster and I didn't have a million scenarios of what could happen in my head, after all this time of me messing with my own brain I went out and actually put up a fight, don't get me wrong he beat me pretty bad but I also messed with his head as a nobody who got a good amount of points on him and then almost pinned him in the last period, but he called an injury time out and there was lots of controversy that my coach was freaking out about on the side of the mat. In the end I lost but I earned a lot of respect that night from the wrestling community. Writing Process Quote Collage9/5/2017
The Daily Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) “My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life” (Ray Bradbury) “I never listen to music when I’m working. I haven’t that kind of attentiveness, and I wouldn’t like it at all.” (E.B White) “I will tell people not to call in the morning, or not answer the phone.” (Susan Sontag) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. (Anne Lamott) “I always send my work Federal Express, because I am too impatient to wait for the mail to deliver” (Anne Lamott) “writing a novel is like driving a car at night you can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” (E.L. Doctrow) “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.” (Anne Lamott) Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury) “I began to put down brief notes and descriptions of loves and hates.” (Ray Bradbury) “Once I hit on this idea, the story finished itself in a single afternoon. (Ray Bradbury) “I wrote a series of stories about the Red Planet. One day, I looked up and the book was finished,”( Ray Bradbury) Co Authored Quotes “Good writing ethic starts with a good breakfast.” “A good writing isn’t really a good writing until you’ve written it more than once.” “You haven’t learned how to write until you’ve taken an English Composition I class with Sabatino Mangini” This blog was co authored with Patrick McFillin,Jacqueline Heidin,Mohnad Soliman, and Damian Puglia Anthony GoodmanThis blog will be about my English Comp assignments and my life Archives
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