Journal #18: Reaction - Writing

The writer of this poem wrote an amazing imaginary conversation between a visitor to his house and him. While he was sitting in his room, he heard knocking sound. He went to the door and opened it, but there was nothing just darkness and sound of wind. After he closed the door, the sound came again but this time much louder. He looked around his room then he walked to the window. The visitor, a raven, was outside and it went inside his room without asking him! He thought that the visitor was the angels of Lenore. He talked with the bird and asked him some questions but the raven didn't say anything. After while he realized that it is difficult to talk with that bird and he asked it to leave and make him alone because he was afraid from it and he thought it would hurt him.

This poe is really far away from realistic. I have read a lot of poems but I haven't read like this before. It pictures the fear side of that man and also his sadness. How it come people can talk with animals! This make those words really awesome and unique.

Sun and Ceyda

Journal #17 Move to America

Hello Dad and Mom...

Education is the most imporant step in the life. With eduaction you can increase your knowledge and background. Furthermore, good education leads to finding a good job. As you know I got my engineering degree from King Saud University with a high GPA. I want move to the U.S. to do my masters. I understand the distance issue between the two countries and I will be far away from you. However, technology makes communication with you much easier. You may think America is a dangerous country, but this absolutely isn't right! Everywhere in the world, there are safe places and dangerous places and I'll live far away from dangerous places. Another point is the statistics show that the average number of crimes in California State is low. You also talked about the schools in my country. Actually, schools in my country are good for undergraduate studies, but they aren't good for graduate studies.
I'm looking for doing my masters in a good school in the U.S. becuase this will help me to increase my knowledge and find a good jop.

Best Regards,
Saud

Laura and Priss

Journal #16: Confucius Quote

"Find a job that you love doing and you will never have to work a day in your life."

The meaning of this quotation is whenever you work in a job you like it, you will be happy and interested in it and that leads to enjoy your work. I agree with the man who said it becuase that's the right way to produce and do a lot of tasks without any negative feeling. In addition, you make a clear different between people who like or dislike their jobs by monitoring thier activity and productivity in thier work environment. To be honoset with you, I like to be a pilote since this job required traveling to many places and dicovering a lot of cities. However, like other jobs this job has disadantages and one of them is being away from your family for many times.


Laura & Sun

Journal #15

Verlyn Klinkenborg, (October 15, 2008). Watching the Numbers and Charting the Losses — of Species. New York Times, p. A37.


In this article, Verlyn discussed the decreasing in the number of species on our planet and what are the causes for this problem. It's obvious that the writer used claim of cause and policy in his article because he used researches and numbers as an example of how this problem is very important to support his ideas about this claim. (par. 2,4 & 5) According to him, human behavior and modern life styles are in charged of this distinct. Also he used an appeal to emotion and and reason in his article to argue the readers. (par 3,6 & 7).


Yejin & Ceyda