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I’m so excited for my birthday coming up this friday. I’m going to be 17! Yay! I’m going to try and get the day off so I can hang out with my boyfriend and family. I hope I can get it off. If not, I’ll be very sad. I’ve always wanted a surprise party but I doubt that’ll happen this year. All in all, I truly am excited for this weekend!

The summary of these nine pages are helpful tips to get one on their way to college. This site gives details about what colleges are out there and if they are right for the person looking at them. They also give what is good about the different colleges under the categories.

Words to Define- Niche, Liberal, Caveats

Questions- Are the classes long? Will there be any tutors?

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“How to Mark a Book”- This text is about the reasons why marking a book is not ruining the book, but making the most out of it. The author is explaining to the audience that the positive side of writing in a book actually helps you to understand fully what you are reading; all of the intimacies  the text has to offer. It also states the reasons why it is good to actively read and how to put that into practice.

 ”Thinking As a Hobby”- This passage is about how to think metacognitively, and having three levels at which people in the world perceive to read. Through all the examples the author has mentioned, he distinctively describes the three levels of thinking and how he was feeling at the time. The third level is the highest level like Plato and Socrates, the second level is the mediocre level is the middle of having something “click” in your mind, and the first level is the lowest level, where people talk about people reside.

 Questions-

1) For the second text, how did someone come up with something like that, the three levels of thinking?

I think that college shopping is good for our knowledge and getting us prepared ahead of time so we can accomplish all the pre-requisites we need in order to get into that specific college. It also is good that the websites have very detailed descriptions so we can look for the college that is right for what we want to achieve. After I looked at three colleges of my choosing, I was very engulfed with what I needed to know about where to go and what the colleges had to offer so I could make my decision on where to go and what to do and if it’s the right college for me. I feel like I’m being challenged enough with my classes and I am glad I signed up for the classes so I can get a better understanding for what the college atmosphere will be like and I will have at least some basic knowledge on the classes that I will take. For the application process, I’m a little worried, with what to say, how to appeal to whomever is reading it and if what I say for the answer to the topic will be written out properly and maturely.

1. I thought it was about good african american people. It did, especially with the con-artist.
2. I laughed because, throughout the whole story, she was rude and finally someone got her back, but I did feel sorry for her.
3. Mrs. Hopewell doesn’t treat Mrs. Freeman as a slave, on the contrary, a friend. Mrs. Hopewell wishes everything is good and well, and as Mrs. Freeman, she is a free woman, because Mrs. Hopewell treats her as one.
4. They believe everyone is different and that everone of them make up the world. Mrs. Freeman thinks that her kids are the best people ever and a little prude, and Mrs. Hopewell is more humble about things.
5.  Hulga learns that, by reading books, doesn’t make her know everything in the world. She needs to experience life to learn from what it gives you.
6. O’Connor admires Hulga at the end of the story. She satirize Hulga.
7. Christianity is evident in the story. It seems as if O’Connor is only doing what he did to make Hulga realize through this experience.

    9.  O’Connor’s use of satire in the story is appearant to make the characters seem what they really aren’t. The use of satire for Hulga made her feel dependent, but in the end, she realized she needed help, from people other than herself, for once. A satire used as a aritsic weapon is to be read as something and then turn the reader in the completely other direction.

In “Professions for Women” by Virginia Woolf, she talks about, “The Angel in the House.” The Angel of the House tormented Virginia while she was writing, that she couldn’t write as much as she wanted to. The “angel” represents women who stay at home while the men did the working. The “angel” was of the old days and Virginia makes reference to it that the new generation does not know of her so they haven’t gone through what she had gone through. By killing the Angel of the House, it no longer bothered her about her writing and she is now free to write about anything, having “a mind of your own, without expressing what you think to be the truth…”"The angel in the house is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations of either women or men.” I believe that everyone had an angel, men and women, but they cast her out of their lives, in order to make their own lives better. If it wasn’t for killing her, the best writers wouldn’t have written their books and wouldn’t move other people. The “angel” wanted everything pure, but she wanted everyone to be the same also. Writers are never the same; they have different ways of thinking and they share it in their writing. In those days, women were not writers and the voice of the angel in the back of her head was constantly making her question herself to do it or not, but in turn she wanted, needed, to kill the voice that was inside her to make her voice heard aloud to other people. 

A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe reflects to me because the dream,desire that he wants, will never be obtained. The dream is an explanation of what he wants, thus pertaining to me because sometimes I dream of what I want, making it feel so real, but if I try and remember what I dreamt about, I cannot retain it in my memory.

Serenade by Edgar Allen Poe reflects to me because it sounds like it’s talking about gods of nature and how it ties together. Then it goes to talking about his love and how the gods are looking down at the things they love and how they treat them, he too wants to treat his love with the same kind of respect.

Some recuring images on the various covers is fire and pages from books, in the form of someone or something, other books, people burning the books and how they burn them. They also show how a person who is made out of pages from  a book being burned and being sad about being burned. They recur because the books is based on burning banned books. The cover that speaks to me the most is the one below because it shows that someone is actually burning books and how the action is being done.  

Making the bed isn’t really hard to do. It’s tedious like no other, but it’s pretty simple. You take off the comforter, then pillows, then sheets and whatever blankets you have. Smooth out the sheet you lay on. Make sure the sides are tucked underneath the mattress. You can use your hands, but I like to use the sheet that goes on top of you to smack the other one in place. Next you lay the sheet down over the mattress cover. Put the blanket on top of that and ffold the sheet over it. Next put the pillows on top of the sheets and fluff them so they will be comfortable when you sleep on them. After that’s done, you put your comforter on, however you like it. Maybe decorate it with some stuffed animals or other pillows. You can smooth out the wrinkles on top if you don’t like them.

Argument:

1)anecdote for traveling in france

2) luxuriousness of naps

3) americans feel the need to be busy

4) naps= sign of laziness

5) counters 34 by using examples of naps: CEO’s winston churchill and cats

6) productivity