ANTHONY GOODMAN
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.
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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 The Proust Questionnaire9/5/2017
In this post I will provide answers to the Proust Questionnaire nI hope readers will get my sense of my identity and views on the world __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness?Fishing in the reservoir on a sunday catching fat bass. __2.__What is your greatest fear? Falling off of something more than a thousand feet __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I have a very insecure mind __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? How people are judgemental __5.__Which living person do you most admire? My father __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? My jui jitsu class __7.__What is your current state of mind? Having the perseverance to complete college __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? __9.__On what occasion do you lie?Over small fairly stupid subjects __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? I'm pretty fat __11.__Which living person do you most despise? My old political issues high school teacher __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? A firm handshake __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Having a personality __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? A very dramatic “whaaaaaat” and “says you” __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? Pamela Anderson __16.__When and where were you happiest? At the springton reservoir between the past 3 years __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? Being able to be very accurate with a bow __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would change my hair __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement?Placing 1st at wrestling tournaments for the central league and my district __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?I would want to be an eagle __21.__Where would you most like to live? Lake house in a preferably warm state __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My car is my most prized possession __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Just when someone is genuinely depressed and is not mentally ok __24.__What is your favorite occupation? My past occupation as a mason's assistant __25.__What is your most marked characteristic?Probably how weird and funny I am but only around people I know __26.__What do you most value in your friends? That we are actual friends and not some fake social group __27.__Who are your favorite writers?JRR Tolkien __28.__Who is your hero of fiction?Batman __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? I identify with General George S Patton __30.__Who are your heroes in real life?My father, my grandfathers, and my uncle dave __31.__What are your favorite names? Anthony and julio __32.__What is it that you most dislike? I dislike vegans __33.__What is your greatest regret? Not playing baseball in high school __34.__How would you like to die? So i'm on my deathbed and all my friends and family send me off on a viking ship with all my personal belongings and shoot the boat while at sea with flaming arrows and the boat is also filled with explosives, as i'm drifting off on fire it explodes into fireworks of my name and date of birth and death __35.__What is your motto? Gotta risk it to get the biscuit Anthony GoodmanThis blog will be about my English Comp assignments and my life Archives
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