Friday, April 23, 2010

Out of the papers you are putting into your English portfolio, which one do you think shows your best work and which one do you think needs to be edited the most? Explain why. Be specific. Provide examples of your best and weakest areas.

I believe my best paper is the personal analysis paper. I displays my best work because it demonstrates my voice the best. When I am able to tell stories about my life my papers turn out the best because the words just flow onto the paper. I wrote my paper about Michael Jordan so sometimes the paper wanders from the focus and how my life is similar to Jordan's. I think I need better examples in my life to do this and I think I need to use better examples in his life to fully portray what I am trying to say. It is really hard to connect my life to with the best basketball player to ever play the game.

The paper that is my worst paper is probably the epigraph paper. I need to reference the sources a lot better and use close reading to analyse the epigraphs. I didn't really connect the the epigraph with the author that wrote the paper. I also need a focus in the paper and how each epigraph is connected.

Monday, April 19, 2010

I accentually posted this as a comment on Rachael's page. I just realized it now.

I think Chris would have stayed on the road and kept doing what he was doing. I think he would get a job for a couple of month and then move on to some other place. With the risks that Chris took in life I don't think that Chris would have lived a very long life if he would have survived the wild. Chris' personality was not the type to settle down. Not at any point throughout the book did it talk about Chris ever wanting to go back and see his family. He no longer had a connection with his parents and unless his parents ever found him i don't think that he would ever see them again.