Journal 8

Overall I thought the class was decent. This was completely new to me as far as the blogging and peer critiques went, although I did enjoy them both. I liked being able to see what everyone's thoughts were compared to my own on the subject. I did however feel lost quite a bit when it came to the essays, I feel like there wasn't any guide to follow. The videos gave way to broad of a subject to write on and felt it was hard for me to figure out something to pinpoint and write on. I feel that a better way for the students to communicate besides the blogs would be a good way to improve this class. I also think for the this being a trial it turned out pretty good, there are always ways to improve.

FINAL

Jared Wilson

Professor Kelly Warren

ENC 1102

4 April 30, 2013

                         

Holocaust impacts felt today

            “A single landmark of justice and honor does not make a world of peace.” —Former U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson, January 1947. The holocaust was undoubtedly the most horrific time of the 20^th century and a watershed event in human history. The world’s eyes where opened by the events that took place, the holocaust showed the horror’s that apathy can cause. The impacts from the holocaust shaped the world we live in today; Strict laws were emplaced to prevent genocide from happening again, the creation of Israel, and the Nuremberg trials set a precedent for war crime trials today.  Although this was a very dark time for Jews, these actions the Germans took changed the world in a good way.

 Immediately following the end of World War Two the world was faced with a challenge, how to seek justice for an unimaginable amount of criminal behavior, the annihilation of the European Jewry. The term “Genocide” came from a Polish-Jewish lawyer by the name of Raphael Limpkin in 1944. December 9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” (commonly referred to as the Genocide Convention (Holocaust). Laws now strictly pertaining to genocide that were formed by the Genocide Convention made the crimes of genocide punishable under international law. This set the standard that is in affect today.

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Even after it became known that Hitler was committing unspeakable acts of genocide against the Jews, many countries, including the United States and Britain, still refused to allow unlimited amounts of Jewish refugees into their land. Thus after the war the creation of Israel was mandated. On November 29th, 1947 the UN voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states (as England had initially, but unsuccessfully, attempted to do in 1937), and the vote passed, giving Israel 55% of the country. (Creation of Israel) However, War broke out between the Arabs and Jews soon after. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, established the state of Israel as an independent state, with the rest of the British Mandate of Palestine split into areas controlled by Egypt and Transjordan. The establishment of the state of Israel was seen by Christian Zionists as a sign that God was fulfilling his promises to Abraham and Jacob.  

After the war, some of those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to trial. Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers -- Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States -- presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals.(Nuremberg Trials). Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. Most of the defendants admitted to the crimes of which they were accused, although most claimed that they were simply following the orders of a higher authority. Those individuals directly involved in the killing received the most severe sentences. Other people who played key roles in the Holocaust, including high-level government officials, and business executives who used concentration camp inmates as forced laborers, received short prison sentences or no penalty at all. Adolf Eichmann, who helped carry out the exportation of millions of Jews was found in Argentina and brought to trial in Israel. Eichmann

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was found guilty and hung in 1962. The reality is that in the long perspective of history the present century will not hold an admirable position, unless its second half is to redeem its first. These two-score years in the twentieth century will be recorded in the book of years as one of the most bloody in all annals. Two World Wars have left a legacy of dead which number more than all the armies engaged in any way that made ancient or medieval history. No half-century ever witnessed slaughter on such a scale, such cruelties and inhumanities, such wholesale deportations of peoples into slavery, such annihilations of minorities.(U.S Prosecutor)

            The holocaust has brought forth light to an area that was dark. The suffering that the Jews endured and the wrath that man can create was brought to the attention of the world after the war. It’s hard to imagine being involved in something to that nature on either side of the fence. The tragic acts that conspired during those times impacted the world greatly, even today we see the effects from the holocaust. Before the holocaust genocide wasn’t punishable under international law, Israel was not yet created and the Nuremberg trials set forth the trials of today.

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Work Cited Page

Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, et al. "Surviving The Holocaust: A Meta-Analysis Of The Long-Term Sequelae Of A Genocide." Psychological Bulletin 136.5 (2010): 677-698. PsycARTICLES. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.

"How the past catches up with you." New Statesman [1996] 28 May 2012: 10+. Academic OneFile. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.

Ozick, Cynthia. "Life Isn't Beautiful." Newsweek 15 Mar. 2010: 54. Academic OneFile. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.

Miss Represented

In today's society we have a on going saying “Sex Sells” and the media exploits that. Lets face it, a pretty woman dressed in skimpy clothes will prevail in most situations. I don’t agree with the way things are on this topic but its true. I have a perfect example of this, just the other day at work I was talking to a guy that was telling me at his previous job he hired a woman because she was attractive, however this girl had no qualifications for the job while he passed up 10 other candidate’s that were fully qualified for the position. The video wasn’t a eye opener to me as I have seen this type of stuff going on at every place I’ve been.  Women use this to their advantage and to be honest I cant say that I blame them. Everyone is fighting to survive including women and they are just doing what they have to do. However I do not agree with it I understand why woman are so miss represented in our society today.

Society of waste

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Food Waste Essay

Jared Wilson

Professor Kelly Warren

ENC 1102

March 12, 2013

                                                            One’s waste is another’s fuel

            Eating the food found in dumpsters might sound like a terrible way to survive, but is it? Every year in the U.S. roughly 96 billion pounds of food is thrown away. As I saw in the documentary ‘DIVE’, a good portion of that food isn’t spoiled and is very much edible. To me, this is mind blowing that we waste so much food, yet, the there’s a staggering amount of hungry people struggling to find their next meal. These are often hard-working adults, children and seniors who simply cannot make ends meet and are forced to go without food for several meals, or even days. Grocery stores often over stock the perishable items making it nearly impossible for the food to be sold before the ‘best by’ date. It’s not only commercial industry’s that are wasteful; nearly half of the food prepared in the United States goes to waste. We not only have a problem with people going hungry but this amount of waste causing environmental issues as well.

           

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While dumpsters behind grocery stores fill up with food, millions of Americans are

struggling to find a meal. In 2010, 17.2 million households, 14.5 percent of households (approximately one in seven), were food insecure, the highest number ever recorded in the United States 1 (Coleman-Jensen 2011, p. v.)  Why is this? Why wouldn’t they donate this to the food banks or mark it down a few days before it’s out of date?  America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network, a group of more than 200 food banks, reports that donations of food are down 9 percent, but the number of people showing up for food has increased 20 percent. The group distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated and recovered food and consumer products each year. Still an incredible amount is wasted. Such is the volume that according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), if just 5 percent of Americans' food scraps were recovered it would represent one day's worth of food for 4 million people. (CNN. Food left overs) I think a big reason for all of this waste is lack of knowledge.

            Even though grocery stores have a tremendous amount of wasted food, they are not the only contributor to this growing problem. Households also waste a tremendous amount of food. According to a study by the University of Arizona Garbage Project, Americans throw away 1.3 pounds of food every day, or 474.5 pounds per year.(Food Waste) It seems like the old saying “ eyes are bigger than the mouth” is true. I know for my family it’s always easier to make more food than we need because I say I will take the left overs to work. Like most people I end up forgetting them, they spoil in the fridge and end up in the garbage. Nearly half of the food made never gets consumed and ends up at the landfill. It seems if we all did just a little better about

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this, we could make a big difference. Generally speaking, consumers fail to plan their food purchases properly. That means they often throw food away when "best-before" dates expired. 

            In addition to millions of people going hungry, food waste has a very big impact on our environment. Not only is all of this waste cramming up our landfills requiring more land to adequately dispose of it, it’s also creating large amounts of methane gas. Food waste like all other trash ends up in a landfill, however, food starts to rot and decompose creating methane gas which is a potent greenhouse gas. Between the commercial industry and the household food waste we have a growing problem that needs to be addressed. There are ways to fight this ongoing problem. Food waste can be used as fertilizer but yet less than three percent of food waste is recovered for that. Also food waste can be used for production of nature renewable resources, however like recovering it for fertilizer its simply discarded. It’s up to each person to make a difference to keep this food waste out of landfills and use it for something good.

            We are a society of waste, it’s almost as if we are hardwired for it. With 96 billion pounds of food being trashed every year, we need to stop and think about our actions. We have a growing problem to deal with and eventually we will no longer be able to look the other way. Millions of people go hungry while billions of pounds of edible food are being wasted. In addition to hunger we have the environmental side of this. Throwing away food that can be used to feed the poor also creates large amounts of methane coming from our landfills. It’s time to step up and everyone do their part in curbing this problem.

                                                                                  

                                                           

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Work Cited Page

Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. Print.

U.S. hunger rate still at historic high. The Christian Century. 127.25 (Dec. 14, 2010) p17. Word Count: 380. Reading Level (Lexile): 1310.

Young, Mitchell. Garbage and Recycling. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. Print.

Journal 5 DIVE

The documentary DIVE is simply an eye opener. I like most people were aware to the fact that we as american's waste food but I had no clue exactly how much food is wasted. In 2010 America threw away 96 billion pounds of food most of that being good edible food. That is an enourmous amount of food to waste while people are going hungry. It's hard for me to go to the grocery store and pay four dollars for a pound of hamburger meat knowing that later that night one hundred pounds would be thrown away. The one thing I have a hard time agreeing with on people about hunger issues is other countrys, I feel that all of these places such as Hati should do something to fix the issue for them. I dont think america's waste is the answere to people in other countrys going hungry when we have people in our own country going hungry. I also think that if you cant afford to feed your kids then you need to stop having them, however with the way america is today the more kids you have the better you will eat thanks to the goverment.

Living A Dream

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American Dream Essay

Jared Wilson  

Professor Kelly Warren

ENC 1102

February 26, 2013

                                                                Living A Dream

Everyone has heard the phrase ‘Living the American Dream’ but what does that really mean? To me, that always meant joining the Army Infantry and serving my county. In class we attended a lecture conducted by Mauricio Garcia; Mauricio told us his life story and what it took for him to live the ‘American Dream’. As kids we often dream about what life we want to live and who we want to be when we grow up, but as a kid you don’t know the challenges it takes for one to actually follow a dream and become that person they want to be. More often or not the American Dream becomes just that, a dream. Often it requires you to leave your comfort zone and take a path you feel completely lost on and that is something that is very hard to do, it’s almost as if we are wired to avoid this path and take the easy way out.

November 14, 2006 I took my first step to living my American dream; I left for Army Infantry basic training. Growing up I always wanted to be a soldier, every time I watched a movie about war, I always knew that was my calling. I had to join the army without telling my family or

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friends as every time I talked to them about it I always got a lecture about how that isn’t the life I  

wanted and it isn’t like the movies. “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest,

easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is

the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”(qtd in MAMA’s) When I told my family I joined the army they were upset but also proud in the same

sense, proud of me for stepping out of my comfort zone and leaving everything I knew behind to

follow a dream. It wasn’t until my first day of basic training that I started to realize what it was

going to take in order for me to stay on this path. It was that point in my life that I understood

 why more often or not the American dream is something that most people will never achieve.

            After graduating from basic training I was stationed at FT. Lewis, Washington, until that point I lived in Orange Park, Florida my entire life. Although one step closer to living my dream I was going to have to live this dream without my friends and family and that never crossed my mind. “Any time we open ourselves up to vulnerability, it’s a very uncomfortable mirror,”. (qtd by MS. Brown) While at FT. Lewis I like everyone else was lost, I had to completely start over I didn’t know anyone, I didn’t know where anything was. The weather there was cold and raining all of the time it was just a complete shock to me and I started to second guess myself on if this was really what I wanted in life. Like everything thing after a few weeks I was comfortable with where I was and what I was doing but I still wasn’t sure that was the American dream.

            However two months after arriving at FT. Lewis my unit deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was the middle of the night and I was on a helicopter flying to our base in the middle of Baghdad when we started taking fire from the ground. Once again I thought this isn’t the America dream I thought it would be, I was a 19 year old kid riding in a helicopter that was currently getting shot. It wasn’t until my boots hit the sand at my base that I realized this

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is the dream I wanted. Although I wasn’t sure up to this point I never gave up and it just clicked. I spent fifteen months over there and never once had a change of heart on my dream.

            In addition to my first deployment I was deployed again and spent another 12 months in Iraq. After my second deployment I decided that it was time for me to hang up my boots and come back home to Florida where I could continue to live the American dream. Only now I had a family so my idea of a perfect life was spending time with them and being home at night to sleep in my bed. My life to that point had taken me to parts of the world and seen things I could have never been involved in. I was very happy that I followed my dream and was able to do the things I always wanted. Achieving the American Dream remains very important to those who have yet to achieve it, especially the younger generations. However, the study reveals that Americans no longer place importance on traditional elements of the Dream: 70% say you don’t have to be wealthy to achieve the Dream; 65% say you don’t need a college degree; 71% and 70%, respectively, say marriage and children aren’t essential; 59% percent say you don’t have to own a home.(‘DO-IT-YOURSELF)

            Everyone is capable of living the American dream the only question is how bad do they want it. I was able to live my American dream because I didn’t give up, it wasn’t the easy road but it was the road I wanted. The biggest problem I see with people is the ability to step out of the comfort zone they have barricaded themselves in. This is a major obstacle for us as people to overcome and it takes a lot of work but the reward can be great. The reward of doing this just might be LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM.

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                                                         Work Cited

Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Soldiers

 Article by Cindy Sheehan CO founder of Gold Star Families for Peace

July 13, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/sheehan/sheehan39.html

Tiptoeing Out of One’s Comfort Zone

New York Times by Alina Tugend Author for NY Times

Feb 11, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/your-money/12shortcuts.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

THE AMERICAN DREAM IS NOW DO-IT-YOURSELF

Fifth Annual MetLife Study

https://www.metlife.com/about/press-room/index.html?compID=72458

Journal 4 American Dream

February 19 2013 I listened to a man’s story about his life, his American dream.  Mauricio Garcia’s lecture focused on the area’s we all have trouble with in our life.  Mr. MO is just an ordinary person like me and you, however unlike most people MO followed his dream and did whatever it took for him to live the life he thought he wanted.  He was on the path to being a veterinarian until he met his maker, a class he had to pass for that degree. MO took the class two times failing it both times before he realized that his dream of being a veterinarian was going to have to be just that, a dream. This is where his story really got interesting to me because most people would simply give up and settle for the next thing that came up. MO realized at that point he had to make a change, a change that he wasn’t comfortable making he had to step out of his comfort zone something that we are hardwired not to do. He got more involved in school and the opportunities seemed to be endless at every turn he had another door to open and with every door he opened and walked through something better came from it. Mauricio Garcia is now a very successful person doing something he loves to do and getting paid for it. His story is very inspirational as every obstacle he faced are the same obstacles we all face while going through life. Most of us take the easy way and end up with a job we hate living a life that we don’t want to live, as MO said it takes more than just the minimum if you really want to have the life you dreamed of. MO gave me a lot of things to think about and was very helpful , it’s not every day you meet someone who is actually doing the things they want to be doing but when you do it’s nice to be reminded by them that the life you want is closer then you think. 

Digital Media Essay

Digital Media: A problem in our youth.

            Every day millions of people around the world log onto a computer as there day starts.

Some of these people are logging on to start their day at work while others are using them to log

 on to start there day of school. Many of our schools have turned to the use of digital media as a

 tool for teaching rather than text books. Some educators believe that using a computer rather

than a book helps keep the students more connected and interested in what they are learning and

they are starting to introduce students to computers at a very early age. This might sound like a

good idea as everything in today’s society is digital related, but educators should reevaluate this

and think about the problems the come along with it. Personally I think putting students in front

 of computers with access to the internet is a very poor way to keep their attention as you can’t

monitor everything each one of them are doing at the same time. Rather than doing their work

they have the tendancy to wonder off of their work and start doing other things. Studies have

shown that it also takes more brain power to do school work using a computer over using a book

and I also think it gives students the ability to take short cuts on there school work. It also

teaches them how to navigate there way around the computer which gives them the ability to see

things they shouldn’t see at that age. I think its becoming a problem of our youth.

            To me a part that I don’t like is that the teachers are not able to see what the students are

doing while tucked behind a computer screen. It is human nature to abuse things and take a mile

when given an inch, allowing students to do their work on computers does not exclude this.

Instead of doing what they are suppose to be doing they can be on face book or sending emails to

each other or even watching videos on you tube. I understand that these computers are monitored

 by someone and that they have settings which block most of these sites, however kids of today

know how to get around these blocks and restrictions without being caught and they are able to

 browse the net freely as if they were at home. It also gives them the mind set that since they are

on a computer all day at school why not be on one while at home especially when they have

homework that’s done on them. To me this takes away the teacher being in control of the class

and what the students are doing, this allows teachers to sit back and browse the internet as well

while the class is suppose to be working instead of teaching.

In addition to students doing things they are not suppose to do, computers in the

class room also requires the students to multitask while working. Studies have

shown that while searching the internet your using more brain power than while reading a

book.The studies have concluded that students who study the traditional way are getting more

from it then those using the computer and internet to study. In the film ‘Digital Nation’ they take

a group of college students who consider them selves to be excellent at multitasking and conduct

 a study of brain activity. Those students were far slower at it then they thought, they also

concluded in the study that it is affecting the students ability’s of rational thoughts.

Furthermore the digital era that we are in has enabled students to take short cuts

on work and they are getting far less from school then those a decade ago.

Students attending college are finding them selves not ready and unprepared and I

think that a lot of this comes from them using computers and other media devices

to learn. There are websites such as ‘SparkNotes’ that allow students to read a

book in a matter of pages rather than a few days if they were to read the book.

This takes away from the student in the aspect that they no longer have to

remember important things they can just look them up and by being able to read

the book in a matter or minutes they seem to put off the work until the last minute.

Although using computers in our schools allows students to do many other things

than their work. Educators still promote this by saying that schools with

computers instead of books have students that learn more. However I still think

that allowing computers in the class needs to be re assed as in my opinion it has

more negative values to the students then positive. I do agree that in todays

society everyone needs to know how to use a computer but I don’t think they

should be using them in normal K-12 schools.

Digital Nation

After watching the film ‘Digital Nation’ you realize just how much the digital era in compasses everything we do. In the film they go from teaching kids in the second grade how to use a computer the same time a kid is learning, the addiction of online gaming to even training the military. To me I think a kid in the second grade using a computer in school is completely unacceptable, I think having a computer instead of a text book encourages kids to take short cuts and just look up answeres instead of having to read and search for them. Then they also go into the problems of the youth getting addicted to online games and the health issuses it can cause. I was blown away watching this part of the film, it’s hard to believe that kids can get this wrapped up in a virtual world and completely forget the real world ( the one that matters). I understand that these types of virtual worlds allow people to escape their real life and be whoever they want to be and do whatever they want, however instead of it being a hobby it becomes them and how they actually live their life. People get so tied to this stuff that their real life suffers from school grades to performance at work. As for the part of the film they discuss using a virtual world to train the army for combat is a complete joke, I spent two deployments in Iraq I was army infantry. I actually used that program to train before both deployments and it does absolutely nothing to train you for the real thing, if anything that simulator gives you a false sense because there is no adrenalin rush you get when your actually getting shot at or having to shoot someone. Although I think the combat portion of the army simulator is a joke, the ability for them to use UAV has helped out tremendously and saved countless lives including my own. As stated in the video the pilots of these UAV aircrafts are not physically there so they do not see what the bomb they drop actually does so the mental part of war is not the same as the infantry on the ground. I am not completely against the digital era as there has been a lot of good come from it.  Medical treatment has advance because of this, training for jobs and even school. To me the ability to take online classes is the only way im able to further my education as I work sixty plus hours a week and have a wife and two kids. Without online classes I would never be able to attend college and get my degree. There are pros and cons to the virtual worlds the digital era has made and even though I have been sucked into this world just as the rest of us, I think we as parents can see the negative and positive effects of it and try our best to steer our kids in the right direction, whatever direction that may be.

Reality TV

Reality TV is yet another drain on society and in my opinion one of the biggest ones. Millions of viewers turn on their TV every night to watch these shows we call reality TV, to me there is nothing real about any of these shows as they all have scripts and their days planned for them. They play it off as that is their life and they do what they want to do but nothing in those shows is actually real. These shows do nothing but fool people mostly the younger kids of our society into thinking they themselves can have a life like this. If you go and look back and look at some of the shows that were the founders of the reality tv such as Jackass, you can see how much things have changed since then. However that show im sure sent more kids to the ER from trying to do the stuff they see than any other show out there. Then you go onto shows such as Jersey Shore which in my opinion is just a complete joke. They do nothing but promote going out and getting drunk and making a complete fool of themselves every time they step foot in front of the camera. To me its shows like Jersey Shore that hinder our youth and give them a complete false sense of being an adult, not to mention the show Teen Mom and how that show promotes teen pregnancy. There is always two ways to look at something and just by their ratings it shows that more people like this kind of television than don’t but these are my views on the subject.

Essay 1

Jared Wilson
ENC1102
The thoughts through a picture

Pictures are worth a thousand words. I attended the opening of the 2013 ary gallery last week at
class and was able to view pictures taken by colleege students for a contest. Everyone of the
pictures in the gallery ment something differnt to each person who saw them. Each picture
 someone who looks at it will be able to relate a part of their life to the photographer.  I chose the
 three pictures that caught my eye as well as got my mind thinking about them and how I can relate
 to the person who took that picture. The first one that stuck out to me was "Behind the Dark
 There Was Light" taken by Hailey Morris, The next picture i liked was "McGurts Train" taken by
 Trevor Runyon and the last was a taken by Susan Tassin called "Not Such A Big Man Now.


The first one I chose to write about was the picture named "Behind the dark there was
 light", this picture was taken by Hailey Morris. To me this picture is full of everything and nothing
 all in the same. I instantly think back to hurrican Katrina and how many people's life were forever
 changed by that storm and how fast it came and went. I often drive down River Road and see all
of the docks out there that are still to this day mangled and torn apart but still they stand and it
shows the strengh of not only mother nature but of people, it also shows the weakness of mother
 nature and man. This picture can be expressed in millions of ways just depending on who looks at
 it, it brings saddness and hurt those who lost something in the days of katrina, but to someone else
 it might bring happiness and strenght. We have the tendacy to take life forgrated and pictures like
this one make you stop and think about all of the things that happen.

"Mcgurts Train" is a picture of an amtrak train going over a very old bridge. To me this
picture goes to show how technology has advanced by a new age train still operating on a bridge
built for steam engines. I like how this photo shows the strenght of something made by man and
 how it has been able to stand up to its expectations. To me a picture like this gets my mind going
 and I start to think about other things that we have in our society that are able to do the job like
 this bridge. It shows how different times were in the days when this bridge was built, things built
 then were built to last and endure the hardships, they were simpily built to last. We as people have
 got away from that mind set and now we are looking for what is the cheapest and quickest way to
 do the job forgetting and leaving out the part that its build to last. I relate this to the way America
 has started to fail us as a country, the reason we now have to pay four dollars a gallon for gas and
 why everything has doubled and trippled in price since the times when this bridge was built. For me
 this picture has both love and hate but as all pictures its worth a thousand words.

Not such a big man now is the last picture I chose to write about mainly because this picture has so
many emotions. The woman in the picture could be described a thousand ways both good and bad.
To me I see a woman who has been abused by a man and she has taken matters into her own
hands to fix the problem. I cant say I completly agree with this picture but can say i dont blame
 her. This shows what the out come is when someone has been pushed over the edge and feels like
 there is no where else to turn. Desperation is a very strong emotion and when people get
desperate they take extreme measures. To me this picture yet again shows strenght and weakness
 as all of the other pictures did

Journal 1

I took ENC 1101 last semester at south campus, it was my first semester back in school since before I joined the army so I was really looking forward to getting back in and remember the proper way to write as I had forgot most of the rules.  I expected the class to be completely different from what the class was, it was an 8 week class once a week and we only had 5 assignments all of which were essays. I figured being a entry level class it would consist of going over all of the rules in english and essentially teaching us how to write a paper the correct way. Instead we were assigned a topic and told to write about an essay that was about the extent of my ENC 1101. After writing the first essay it started to come back to me and I was able to pass the class with a 94 percent. I still feel that a good once through of all of the basic rules in writing would be nice as I felt my essays needed help with that. I am excited to get in and actually take a full semester class hoping we will have more time to get down to the basics again and build from there.