When I was watching the movie Saint Elmo’s Fire, I was kind of suprized. I thought that this movie was going to be more about the struggle to get a career after graduating from college. What I got from the movie was the struggle with relationships and drugs more than a career. This is a quote from the movie that shows that it is somehow about career ideas but more about relationships.  wordCount(’“I wouldn’t say my father’s trying to bribe me, but he did offer me a Chrysler Lebaron convertible if I get engaged to Howie.” ‘)“I wouldn’t say my father’s trying to bribe me, but he did offer me a Chrysler Lebaron convertible if I get engaged to Howie.” 

Classification

California- Traveling to
California gives many options to a great vacation whether you want to relax in the hot sun, enjoy the rush of a city, or spend time in the snowy mountains. 

Cause/Effect

Tokyo- American’s that travel to a different country such as Tokyo have to be aware of the laws and the way the way off life over there or things can turn bad.  

Persuasion

California (San Diego) - I have spent time in
San Diego, California and I would recommend it to anyone who just wants to relax.

Quote ” I also learned that I had had no idea of my own limits: when I was exhausted after humping up and down jungle mountains in 100-degree heat with a 75-pound pack, terrified out og my mind, wanting only to quit, convinced I couldn’t take another step, I found that in fact I could keep going for miles.” I chose this quote because it is a strong one. He wanted to keep going to school so he did not have to do what is needed to be done in training, and when he got to the point he had doubts about his abilities. When he realized that he could do it it made him stronger as both a fighter and a person. For the thesis I am going to say that it is the last sentence, The draft is the truest test of public support for the administration’s handling of the war, which is perhaps why the administration is so dead set against bringing it back. He supports this thesis because through the whole short story he talks about the administration and the people in it and also a lot about the draft.

Evidence- There is a car crashed into the side of a boat, The car is hanging by the back end on a dock and the front end on a boat over water, The rope conected to the boat is loose it could have moved, The lady closest in the picture has a grin on her face, The lady with the grin also has car keys in her hand, and The people in the back are standing there looking confused, Both car doors are open. I conclude that the lady standing there was driving to fast and not looking where she is going and her car went off the dock and the boat was close enough that it caught the car before falling into the water, and the car door is open so she could get out safely.

I thought that this was a very interesting short story. I chose the quote ” I had joined the multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believeing that the black people are “inferior” and white people “superior” that they wil even violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look “pretty” by white standards.” I think that this is a very strong quote because its not only for black and whites but for gender, age, title, and more. People do many things that are crazy to impress people. I think that if you just be who you are that is shows that you are a real person and not just someone that does everything they can to make themselves be better or fit in, by changing you lie about who you actually are and you can even forget who you were. I thought at the begining that the thesis was “my hair was finally long enough to be conked.” Because it talks about buying the supplies and doing the process, but I think that my quote maybe a hidden thesis because I think that this story is based on what he did to impress.

I met DeVera today at 11:00a.m. and we went to her room to talk about growing up. The place was very cozy. We talked about things that were different back then to things of today. Some questions that I asked her were: What type of birth did you have? Was it at home or in a Hospital? Where were you married? What kind of wedding was it? Where were your three children born? Did men and women have to were certain clothes? What were they? What kind of food did you eat? Did you make and raise all of your own foods? What was the medical like? For my narrow topic I am going to do a commparison of children back then to children of today…

When I went to Keystone Bluffs I did not know what was going to happen… Then I met this wonderful lady named DeVera Fisher. She is 97 years old. We talked about her living on a farm and having her 3 children. She was a farmers wife and was proud of it. She never regretted anything. She thinks that children today take life and the things that they get for granted and if they had to grow up and do the things that she had to do, they would have never surrvived. One kind of gross thing that she told me was that her mother had her appendices removed on their kitchen table. It was very interesting to learn the things that have changed over time.

1.) What is your full name and where did your name come from?

2.) Where did you grow up and what was it like?

3.) When you were younger what kind of transportation did you use?

4.) Did you have a phone and how was it used compared to now? If not what did you use for comunication?

5.) What was your first job like and how much was wage?

6.) Who do you have in your family? Such as children, siblings, a spouse, etc.

7.) What kind of schooling have you accumulated? Where did you go to school?

8.) What did you do for entertainment while growing up?

9.) What is one thing that you could do when growing up that kids can not do?

10.) What is a memorable moment while growing up?

My grandmother, Georgie Haben, is a very inspiring person to me. She went through so much when she was young. My grandmother got pregnant with my uncle Michael when she was sixteen years old. She raised him by herself while still going to high school. When she was eighteen she had her daughter, my mother Kelly. When she had her second child, she got married to the father, my grandfather. She was a stay at home mom while my grandfather went to work everyday. She liked this moment in her life. Then everything turned. My grandfather started to become an alcoholic, and my grandmother did not what this in her life. They got a divorce when my mom was only eight. My grandmother took my mom and left my grandfather and uncle giving them everything. My grandmother got a job to support herself and my mother. They then lived from apartment to apartment looking for the right one for them. Once everything got settled, she began to live her life to the fullest. She became a full time 4.0 student in nursing and she took care of elderly in their homes. I love my grandmother and I learn a lot from her. I know that I am not going to have the life that she had because I am now nineteen, so I can’t have two children before than.

“Even in the toughest inner-city neihborhoods, just 10 percent of kids from intact families get into trouble, but 90 percent of those from broken families do.” This quote caught my eye because the author is stating that if there is an intact family the children get into less trouble. I believe that its how a child is raised and the enviroment that they are put in creates the child not how many or what kind of parents they have. I think that the authors thesis is that the perfect family is one with a mother and a father. Not a mother and mother or a father and a father.