An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Most Dangerous Game

Both these stories I have read before in high school. The Most Dangerous Game I remembered right away. We read it my freshmen year and I loved it. It was like watching a horror movie but reading it instead. Reading it for the second time I was able to pick out a couple things i didnt notice before since i did not already know the ending. For example at the begin Rainsford's friend asks him what he thinks a jaguar feels when it is being hunted and Rainford says who cares? Well he soon finds out that he should care since he can relate to how the jaguar feels. I do enjoy that that ending of this story is happy and that the good wins over evil.

For an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge i did not remember reading it at first but as I got into it i remember it and the ending. The ending is very shocking I think. You think that this man has escaped amazingly from being hung, when in fact he really just dreams it. Little kids all the time write stories with the ending "and then I woke up" but this takes that ending to a whole new level.

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

I would like to say that I would walk away from Omelas but I'm not sure if I would. When you have something good even when you know its wrong its hard to give it up. All the people in Omelas know that it is wrong to  torture that child, but they are to greedy to do the right thing and have their happiness taken away. The ones who do walk away those are the strong ones who are willing to give up what they have for someone else. I wonder though why the people who walk away don't help the child instead of just walking away?

research paper first draft

This went a lot easier then I thought it would. Once I got all my note cards and information organized it was just of matter of putting it in my own words. I am not quite sure if i source everything right though, I still get really confused on that. But other wise it did not take me nearly as long as a i thought it would and I didn't get stuck or bored while i was writing it like I normally do!

How the class is going.

I think that the class is going very well. I know I am learning a lot, and my papers are getting so much better. Just by looking at my first paper I wrote for this class and the papers I am writing now for both this class and others are so much better. I like how each paper has 4 drafts so when I am first starting the paper I know it doesn't have to be perfect because I will go back and fix it. My favorite way for doing class is when we are in the rectangle, I think it gets people in to the discussion better and when we talk things out I understand them better.

Tanning beds

I decided to do my topic on tanning beds and why they should be either banned or have laws that go along with them. The reason I decided on tanning beds for my topic was because when we were making the brainstorming web, i was able to come up with a lot of questions like, how tanning beds are dangerous, who uses tanning beds the most, how were tanning beds invented and why, and many others. I think it will be a good topic that i will easily be able to write 8 to 10 pages on.

Reseach topics

Some topics that interest me are the funding in sports not being fair, banning tanning beds, and banning smoking in public places. The lasts one I don't think I will be very passionate about, but I do think it is something that should become a law. I care though about the tanning beds and sports funding a whole lot more. I wasn't sure about the sport funding topic but considering how worked up everyone go over it maybe its a good idea. Banning tanning beds though is a topic I am passionate about. I don't understand why anyone would use a tanning bed in the first place, considering how bad they are for you, i have written about this topic before but it was in the 8th grade so if i do write about it i hope to learn a lot more. I'm still not sure if that's exactly what i what to do. I want to wait and see if any other good topics come my way.