pre-writing blog #3

For this essay i am going to respond to the second prompt. I completely agree with Luther Standing Bear when he states “man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard . . . lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for human too”. I believe that everything in life happens in cycles and that everything comes full circle. I also believe that when nature, spirituality, and family aren't part of your day to day life that you do lose sight of what's "close" to nature. What you do becomes who you are and if you are all business and work them that's what you will become. First you begin to lose sight of natural and humanistic things and then eventually you can become just a machine. In respect to FFN, I think that the leaders in the fast food industry have lost sight of that and have become just people looking to make a fast buck and then take over the world. And they already have. So hopefully everything will come first circle and we won't have a world dominated by Fast Food.

Reading Blog #5

I would sadly have to say that fast food does play a big role in my life. It actually is more apart of my life now than when I was little. When I was younger my mom was a full time mom so my family mainly ate homemade foods. But as I got older and as my parents started their own business it seems like as a family we eat fast food at least once a week. Because its fast, affordable , and easy it just seems like the obvious choice.
My memories of fast food always go back to McDonald's. All I can remember was thinking about getting that Happy Meal. That was one of the few fast food places my family ate at as a kid. The Play Place also holds some fond memories for me. The ball pit was my favorite. But now that I know just how unsanitary they were it kind of makes me cringe.

Self-Evaluation Blog #1

1. My paper did not have any numbers to correct grammar. The thing I needed to work on was syntax in my writing. I learned to make sure to not write like I talk. To fix my wording if it sounds a little awkward. And one way to fix that is to read the essay out loud a couple of times.
2. What worked well for me was how we write the first draft. It helps me out a lot because it forces me to say everything I can think of to get the 1,200 words and then I have a lot of information to work with. The only thing that is still awkward to me is not writing in the five paragraph essay style just because it’s been so ingrained.
3. I think that my view has changed because I can see how much of a difference it makes in creating the voice in my essay and doing it in an intelligent way. The writing process has made it easier to deal with grammar because you give us direct references, examples, and you show us how to fix them in our own essays.
4. The lecture that I liked and helped me for my next essay is the PIE lecture. It was helpful to understand that the point is the claim you’re trying to make, information is the research and sources that we get, and the explanations are the connections that you make from one source to another. It lays it out and give you room to do your own thing but also makes it well structured.