Archive for the 'English 101 Entries' Category

08
Nov
07

what am i again

i am a man from pittsburgh i go to indiana university of pennsylvania and i am a freshman. my major is computer science. i have lived in pittsburgh all of my life and so has my family. i have one brother, greg, who studies at penn state university. he is a senior there. iwhen i applied to college i was accepted to iup and penn state. i chose to go to iup over penn state because i think it fit me for who i am better. i liked the small campus and classes because i feel you get to know the students and teachers better than having an full auditorium class that has over one hundred students. iup also had my major of computer science and specifically, information assurance, in which iup is licensed by the homeland security department currently. i was thinking about parents weekend when my parents came up to visit me. i had visited them back home in pittsburgh the weekend before that which was the first time i went back home.

my favorite piece of writting was my sense of smell essay. i had written a self narrative essay before that and wanted to try to just write a story. for this essay we had to find a picture and write about it. so it took me a long time but i found a good picture of something i thought i could write a lot about. i looked at the picture and just asked questions about it then developed a storyline and began writting. i felt like a real author writing a novel. which is weird because i always hated reading novels in high school and here i am wrting one.

vision

i love to taste good food like pizza, hot sandwiches, or pasta. i hate to taste cinnomin gum and and really overwhelming sharp taste.

my sense of smell makes me different from other people because it is not as strong. often i will be walking with someone else down a street and they say they notice that somehting smells mad where ever we are and i will not even notice anything until he/she says anything.

to me being touched is many different things. it could be a greeting like a handshake. it could be intimate like holding hands.

i hear a truck outside, i bet other people just wrote this too. i hear a lot of clicking and typing. during this exercise the typing sound is almost constant.

my strongest sense is taste. i think this is because some times i am a picky eater and only like things that taste good

in this class i am supprised how i broke from the high school five paragraph writting and book report writting bull shit and learned how to write more personal and indepth. i am also supprised that i have a blog that i write on. being a computer science major i have seen and read many blogs but never had my own. and now i do.

my five senses make me different from other people around me because everyones senses are different. we sense different things, just how when marlen asks us questions about what we sense all of the responses can be different.

the word i means self or individual to me. what makes us different from everyone else

30
Oct
07

essay choice

I chose the Persuasive essay type because I have not done it yet, although I have written many persuasive essays before. Persuasive essays start with a strong statement which the writer then tries to persuade the reader into sharing a similar view point. In my essay I stated that hearing was the most valuable sense. I then provided evidence of this by explaining that hearing is heavily used for communication, imperative for listening to music, and an irreplaceable sense.

25
Oct
07

hearing test #2

this song was more rap/hiphop than the first. the intro had a lot of different rythm and beats and lyrics were sung over it. the intro broke off to the main song where there was fewer beats.

25
Oct
07

hearing test #1

the music sounds like rock and is fast paced. the begining guitar solo sounded like something out of guitar hero. the notes go back and forth very fast and i could imagine this song being very hard to play on that game. after listening to a couple verses i didnt really understand the lyrics

25
Oct
07

hearing thesis

My main idea is going to be about how valuable hearing is and how we use it in everyday life.

What is the value of hearing and how do we use it in everyday life?

How do I use hearing to function in everyday life?

Persuasive

I will persuade the reader that hearing is one of the most useful and valuable of the five senses.

How is being able to hear the sounds of nature valuable?

How am I going to strech this into 2 pages?

my thesis is going to be about hearing and its value and how we use it. since this is a persuasive paper i am going to have to convince the reader through examples that hearing is one of the most valuable senses. i use my sense of hearing a lot by listening to music. this always puts me ina better mood when i am listening to my favorite song or by chance find a remix of my favorite song that i like even better. hearing is also used in nature. we often hear such things as wind blowing, leaves falling, rain, thunder, and song birds. hearing is also used in communication by hearing the words other people are speaking and inturpreting them as a language. in this persuasive essay i am going to have to find several quotes to prove my points.

24
Oct
07

the loss of hearing

Hearing is one our most valuable senses and as I could imagine, would be a tragedy to lose. Hearing is very essential to our everyday life. Hearing is responsible for half of the way humans verbaly communicate. Without hearing this would have to be changed and everyone would communicate by some other means such as sign language.

One of the main things I would miss if I ever went deaf is music. Everyday I listen to music either on the radio, my ipod, or my computer. It is something I enjoy doing so much that I would not want to live in a world without music. To not be able to hear soothing melodies or catchy rythms of my favorite bands and songs would be a great loss for me.

In some breakthrough cases instead of people loosing their hearing, doctors have even been able to allow the deaf to hear again through cochlear-implant surgery. When the audiologist turned on the cochlear-implant Richard Reed explains,

“I heard some loud beeps and boops;, then I heard her say, “Can you hear me?” I could indeed, but had something gone wrong? I’d expected it to sound weird, sure, but she sounded as if she were using, bubbles instead of words. Her voice was musical, like a toy piano, each syllable a tiny ping. My reply was loud, a gruff, high-pitched Popeye voice. The audiologist said there was nothing wrong” (Reed, 1-2).

This must be an amazing feeling to be granted the sense of hearing for the first time and listen to all the new sounds that we are exposed to in everyday life.

works cited

Reed, Richard. WHAT IT FEELS LIKE…TO REGAIN YOUR HEARING. 2007. 10 Oct. 2007

<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=8&sid=affc0c74-0bee-4bcb-9260-d0e63532a9ce%40sessionmgr8>

23
Oct
07

hearing poem

  • music
  • nails on a chalkboard
  • mellon arena after a goal is scored
  • saxiphone
  • window blind rising up
  • fire alarm at 4 a.m.
  • cell phone ring in class
  • the beatles
23
Oct
07

works cited

Stradley, Linda. What’s Cooking America. 2004. 17 September 2007
<http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Pizza/PizzaHistory.htm>.

Perception of texture by vision and touch: multidimensionality and intersensory integration. 15 Oct. 2007 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2940321&dopt=Citation>

Smell & Taste. 15 Oct. 2007. < http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/topics/smell_taste.cfm>

Stradley, Linda. What’s Cooking America. 2004. 17 September 2007
<http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Pizza/PizzaHistory.htm>.

11
Oct
07

Touch test #2

the first thing i felt was two paper circles that made a sort of spindle. wrapped around the spindle was a type of cloth that was soft and seemed like it would be absorbent so i thought of a length of gauze that one would find at a hospital. then i found that the cloth that was unreaveled from the spindal had two sides to the item one was very fuzzy and the other was rough and felt like plastic. this type of texture reminded me of velvet so thats what i thought the item was.

11
Oct
07

Touch test #1

the item i touched was not very hard but was definately not soft. the texture felt like paper but i did not want to jump to that conclusion. the first thing i felt was that there was a slight crease in the paper. i felt the edges and they were perfectly cut and seemed like equal dimensions. i began to think of what type of paper this was like a handout or maybe something we got before in english class. as soon as i felt that the paper was extremely smooth, smoother than classroom paper i began to also feel very little bumps which reminded me of a dollar bill. as soon as i thought that it was a dollar bill i quickly smelled it and sure enough it had a slight dollar bill ink smell to it.