Sunday, March 1, 2009

Realize bitter reality

I read " Serving in florida" by Barbara Ehrenreich and I found this essay based on reality. Barbara has reflected the reality of the people who do minimum wage job and how they survive in their life. It is an eye opening essay for those who think to drop out of college and start a minimum wage job.

In the College , students may think themselves in very difficult and hard working situataton and where thay have to keep up with the tests and assignment and burden to complete everything on time, but if we compare college life with minumum wage job then we could realize
regretfullness and comfortless in life.This essay will be helpful in changing point of view of that person who thinks about droping out of college.

It is true that college life is not easy, but in the long run it turns out as a blessing when students complete education and find decent job with reasonable salaries. I feel blessed and lucky that I am in college and completing my education and then I will start a good salary job. I cannot bear and survive with minimum salary job and cannot imagine to live a miserable life.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

exclamation

I always messed up with excmalation point. The actual rule for exclamation point :Use an exclamation point at the end of sentence, phrase, or word to indicate strong emotion. (Never use more than one exclamation point.).
Example: Wow! I never thought Mom would let us go to the concert!
Unacceptable: Wow!! I never thought Mom would let us go to the concert!!!!!!http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/conventions/punctuation.html#EXCLAMATION%20POINT

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Art

Politics and current affairs influence art in a very imressing way. when some pressing issue come in the light then we start to see them in arts or poems or cartoons that expresses the artist's point of view or thought about that topic. For example, we can see that there were no pictures or cartoons about Obama but he became a part of art work after he joined the race of politics.

There is alot of artwork on issues like civil rights, education, and religion and those poems and pictures delivers messages that really touches heart.
Moreover , I read the poem " money" and it really reflects the truth because money is strength for people because money has power and who has money is powerful, and it changes people completely by making them selfish .
Moreover, the other poem "from seven floors up" is also about very sad and black side of colorful and fantasy world which represent the homeless people.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Adjectives

Sometimes, I fave difficulty with adjectives. and the best explanation is :Adjectives, another part of speech, give us a great deal of terminology. I will share it with you, but all that is really important is that adjectives modify or affect the meaning of nouns and pronouns and tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many about the nouns or pronouns they modify. They generally come before the noun or pronoun they modify, but there are exceptions to that rule. How and why they are different will be explained in later lessons. They still tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many.
Examples: The neighbor girl likes chocolate ice cream. Mr. Johanson is tall, dark and handsome.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/031to035.shtml

Transition expressions

I really find important to use transition expressions in making smooth transitions between paragraphs. The mostly used transition expression are : in contrast, in addition, however, despite that,on the other hand, therefore.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/transitions.htm

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

I Just Wanna be Average

I just wanna be average by Micheal Rose is an wonderful essay. I read about his school experience which was not good enough to make him rise above in life, and I don't like to learn about the way that teachers adopted to teach and handle students.

I am impressed to see the diference in his personality and changes in life. He was not a very hardwoking student and was not interested in studying as he says,"I fooled around in class and read my books indifferently... I did what I had to do to get by, and I did it with half a mind." but I won't blame him for that situation because the behaviors of people around us influence our behavior and sometimes that really hurt and naturally we become careless . But he made himself rise by his own struggle as he has published books and teaching English in UCLA. He has achieved a high status in life which is not so easy.He rose above from a low to high position and he is a self made person. This makes me believe that," where there is a will there is a way."

This essay really tells us that it is not impossible to get high status in life. we should keep confidence in Almighty God and should try hard to get success, We should remember that we can't be perfectionists but we can try and leave the result on God. If we don't become successful in anything then we should think that may be that would not better for us.

Advise vs Advice

I always get confused between advice vs advise. The rule for using advice and advice properly:
Advice is a noun, a thing. You give or receive or take advice. Advice rhymes with nice and mice and dice. Advise is a verb, an action--something you do. To advise is to give advice. Advise rhymes with wise and size and lies.
for example:
Advice:The advice that Shyam gave Vidya was useless.
Advise:The teacher advised the students to take the day off.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_advice_and_advise