Assignment #12

1.     What tone will you take with your essay? I will use both a melancholy and a joyous tone. 

2.    What narrative perspective will you use?  First-person? Second-person?  Third-person?  Will you switch between perspectives?  Why or why not? I plan on using first person and second person because I think it would make my essay flow better.

3.    What point-of-view will you use in your essay? I will use my point of view for this essay.

4.    How much psychic distance will you create between you and your subject? I’m not exactly sure what this means.

5.    How will you weave story and idea?  In other words, how will you shift between summary and dramatic narrative? I’m not sure yet. However, I hope to have a couple transitional sentences that will make me catch the reader’s attention.

6.    How will you begin your essay? I will give a description of the characters and in small detail how I encounter the problem of finding myself.

7.    How will you structure your essay's middle? I will describe in more detail how and the times I encounter this problem.

8.    How will you end your essay? I will also describe how I found myself and everything I had to overcome.

Assignment #11

Assignment 11 is to list the rhetorical modes you plan on using in your "Lost" essay and provide a brief explanation as to how you will develop those modes.

In my "Lost" essay I plan to use these rhetorical modes..

Description: I would use literal descriptions and visual details to make my essay flow, to make it more understanding and better.

Exemplification: This rhetorical mode will help better and make more vivid my description.

Compare/Contrast: Describing the difference between being lost and being found.

Narration: I would narrate my story in order to get my point across.

I'm not sure if I would be using more rhetorical modes or if I'm going to take some away. I'm still debating if I should write about being lost and then finding myself, or about a specific place that makes me loose myself.

Assignment #10

I choose to answer this question..
 4.  What does it mean to say "I once was lost but now am found"?

I believe it means that a person didn't know himself. He didn't know what he wanted or what he believed in. But after soul searching he found himself. This is common with religion. A person seeks religion to find themselves, to be able to know what is there meaning in life. With the help of religion, people find themselves and know what is there purpose in life. They find a reason to why they should be here, a reason to why God put them in this world.

Assignment #9

For Assignment 9, I choose this metaphor..

“You were the wind and I the sea.” (From “After Love” by Sara Teasdale)

I believe Sara Teasdale was trying to compare herself with someone else. After reading the whole poem, it seems like the author is talking about a person and not about the sea and the wind itself. The wind represents a significant other and as she states it, she represents the sea. She states that they are close to each other but yet far. She was probably in love with a person but her love faded away and now she sees him as any other person.

Assignment 8

The best sentence out of my Profile Essay I think was...
"It was late at night, the blinds on the window were opened and you could see people coming in and out of the hospital."

Assignment #7

1.  What will be the subject of your profile essay?  What place will you profile?

I will profile Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC).

2.  What will be the dominant impression your essay will evoke?

It will describe how they treated my mom and me at the hospital.

3.  What narrative perspective will you choose?  
First-person ("I" or "we")? The first-person perspective provides a sense of intimacy. 

4.  What will be your "Beginning"?

The beginning will say why my mom and me where at TRMC

5.  How will you structure your "Middle"?
The middle will just go in order. I will just describe her stay and describe everything that happened to her.

6.  What will you use in your "Conclusion"?

The conclusion will be just a summary of my stay.

7.  How will you use dialogue?

8.  What "Characters" will your essay feature?
This essay’s characters will be my mom, dad, sister, baby brother and I.

9.  What "Illuminating Details and Anecdotes" will you use?

10.  How will you use all (or most of) the senses?  What visual images will you use?  What auditory images?  What tactile images?  What gustatory images (tastes)?  What olfactory images (smells)?
I will be using visual, auditory, tactile images.

11. What verb tense will you use? 

I will be using past tense.

Assignment #6

Streets of Sorrow (about Hollywood)
by David Rakoff 


For this blog, I read Streets of Sorrow (about Hollywood) written by David Rakoff. By just reading the title of this essay, I knew that it was going to be a negative article. As I read it, I was right. Author Rakoff did an excellent job in describing the city of Hollywood. This author main descriptions were very well done. As you read it, it seemed like you were right next to him. The way he would describe the other tourist was in a negative way. He also mentioned how several stars were forgotten even after they had their spot in the Walk of Fame. He also described his stay in the Hollywood Roosevelt wasn't that great. The hotel had been portrayed quite different than how it was. He didn't know if the hotel had half of the stuff it said it had. He described how he felt that many of the hotel attendants were more focused on more important, younger guest. Rakoff was a guest that didn't receive the attention that was suppose to be provided to him.