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I really had a tough time trying to figure out who has helped me a lot throughout the years that I look up to, essentially. I would have to say, my boyfriend Jerry. He has helped me grow out of my immature state into a maturing young woman. He gives me insight on what I should do and not do, all of his choices, surrounding what would be the best for me. He’s always thinking about me in every situtation and I think that is what most people take for granted. Not realizing how the person will be affected until it’s too late. Jerry has helped me with problems from my parents to even people at work. He knows how to deal with all kinds of people and he lets me know what the best choice is to deal with my hardships. I have this friend who was stuck in her ways and finally didn’t want to have anything to do with him. He was the better person in this situation and wanted to actually become friends with her and solve out the situation. She, in the end, was ecstatic that he wanted to be friends with her; he knew it was the right thing to do. He always amazes me when he is doing something nice for someone else who doesn’t deserve it. He is considerate of others feelings, on occasion. Not saying there are people he would like to have disagreements with, but he keeps his cool, especially around me, because he doesn’t want to get me riled up and stirred by his behavior. All in all, he gives me advice about human beings, when they cause stress upon others; I never really realized that until he pointed it out to me and I have experienced it with a lot of people. But why he is my life line, is because he is considerate to my feelings and everyone elses and that who I’d like to portray.

• The story was about Maya looking up to this “gentlewoman” and wanting to be just like her. She was so embarrased when her grandmother would address her lower than Mrs. Johnson spoke. Maya was so delighted to find out that Mrs. Johnson wanted to talk with her and wanted to have a conversation with her.

• Words-
• Sopped- soaking wet, heavy
• Boggled- overwhelmed
• Wormwood- shrub

• Why did Maya look up to Mrs. Johnson?
• Why couldn’t she talk?
• Why did her grandmother call them “Sister”?

As written in the text, critical thinking is just merely asking questions to further our ability to process different subjects. It’s finding out a topic, researching it, until you can’t research it anymore. Finding the real answers for things no one takes time. Instead of just looking at the outer layer, critical thinking is going skin deep. Also asking other peoples views on a subject and taking it apart and deconstructing the main root of it, you can find out how it started or key points no one has every thought of before. Critical thinking is like a web; it “probes for motives, causes” (p. 2), making it into something deeper and more beautiful.

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.