Final Blog

This quarter I beleive that I have grown as a writer. By having my peers edit my papers and look at my topic proposal and ask me questions about it, I think that it has help me out greatly to answer my own questions about my writing. I also have had alot of help from my Rachel as well. By having her review my essays and then tell me how I can change my writing and ways to improve it, has helped me out greatly. This course has helped me out because I have learned a lot of new ways to wright an essay in English 102. This course I could have asked for help more when I did not understand something instead of just trying to figure it out by my self. I bleieve that as a class we helped out on the argument papers greatfully. By asking eachother questions about our thesis statements made the writers realize that they needed to do more research on their topic, or what they needed to change and take into consideration. By having people ask me questions about my thesis made me get to answer their questions and made me get to know more about my topic. Having people critque my writing made me grow as a writer because it helped me go through many different steps to make sure my writing was complete. Now that the course is over I think that I achieved my goals because I did not know much about argument papers and now I know the format and how to stick with one side of the argument to make people understand what is being argued.

Thesis

Childhood obesity is growing fast throughout our country but it seems like nobody is taking responsibility for what is happening to his or her children. Parents are blaming it on the school system, and the schools say that they have nothing to do with this problem. While this argument has been going on for years, the schools have finally decided to change their meal plans and their physical education classes to help the youth grow and stay fit. Parents also need to realize that it is not just the schools responsibility to control what the children put into their bodies and how much exercise they are getting throughout the day.

Topic Proposal

For my topic, I decided to choose childhood obesity. I decided to choose this topic because I would like to find out how we can prevent and treat this issue. There are many different arguments I have read about already about on how to treat and prevent this issue. Many people have different opinions about this topic and I would like to do more research to see who is right and who is wrong. They argue about how much a child should weigh while growing up, and when it becomes obesity and not just a “big child.” I would also like to do some research about how different exercises help and which ones do not help. For example, does the Wii Fit really work for children or is it just another video game for children and their parents to play together. I am interested in this topic because I have two nephews and a niece. My one nephew is seven years old and I am concerned about his weight. By doing research on this topic I feel as if I could help him while he is growing up and, to see if my sister is taking the right steps to help him as well. Even though I do not know much about this topic in detail, I know some of the main components to childhood obesity. I choose this topic so I could learn more about how to help the youth and to learn about the different prevention programs there is to help the children. When I write this paper, I will be open to new suggestions to the different ways to prevent and to treat this issue. I have not chosen one side of this topic to write about, I would like to know all the different sides of the topic before I write the essay just so I can understand why they view childhood obesity in that specific way.

In this essay by Scott Russles I find myself aligning with many aspects that he talks about. I came from a small town where all the men worked on farms. In our town we hardly had any "business" type people, but we still understood that there are different jobs out there that we could choose from. When Russles talks about many people not understanding the way he grew up or the way the "men" in his life were, I understand that feeling one hundred percent. Even today when I tell people where I am from they have no idea, and when I try to explain they never fully understand until they havce seen it with their own eyes.

i also believe that there is some flaws to this essay. He talks about how both men and women have a difficult time in their lives. Well he never really goes on to talk about what problems that the women faces as well. If he were to talk about both aspects the readers could get a better feeling of how both sexes feel. Not only men work in the factories and assembly lines anymore. Women also have those jobs. WHen he talks about how hard men have it when they are working all wekk at their job, and then on their "free time" still complete small jobs around the house, women also do that. While they are not working at their jobs it is basically their duty to keep the house clean and to take care of the children.

Russles does a good job of portraying the ways he feels about his small community growing up and makes the reader feel the way he feels.

First blog, English 102

Hello, my name is Ashley Warnecke. I am going to college to further my education. I beleive that by furthering my education that I am going to be able to get a better job than if I didn't not attend college. I beleive that Grubb's argument is very informative. By him going against what the "norm" says about schooling makes this argument very interesting as well. When he talks about the "clusters" in high school I know exactally what he is talking about. I feel that is how my high school was.
I agree with Grubb's argument. Sometimes the profession you need doesn't always mean that you need to go to college. Most of the time it means that you can just job shadow or work in a place long enough to know how to do the job.
I enrolled at SFCC because it is the cheapest way to go to school. By going two years at SFCC then transferring I beleive that it is benificial to helping me get my basic needs done before transfering to a four year university.
My goals at SFCC is to complete an AA degree in Business.
After SFCC I plan to go to Eastern Washington University to complete my major.
These goals relate to Grubb's argument in such a way as that in college they could just be teaching me about my major and not having me take classes that I do not need. By having a job training program for my major it would help alot with out having to transferr and have to attend two different colleges.