Significance of an Important Place

Ann Hoang
English 1301, Assignment #2
Dr. Murray
October 28, 2010
Significance of an Important Place

            School is a place in which is intended for one to come and enhance their knowledge and skills; however, it is not a place only for education, but for social activities as well.  At school one may meet many people and learn new things in which causes them to develop into the kind of person that they are, while also affecting their actions and thoughts. School is also a place where the ambiance is supposed to make one feel safe, secured, guided, and loved as well.

            Students are supposed to come to school to learn; and teachers are there to teach. During the day, the teachers teaches the students to read and write, while later they may assign the students homework in order for them to practice and study outside of class. A school is also a well-known place where students meet and make new friends to interact with; but may also lead into triggering the dilemmas of bad behaviors and actions.

            Although school is supposed to be a safe and positive environment, unfortunately it is not always that way. In school, some students go through a phase where they are being peer pressured by their “friends” to do things that they should not do. For example, things like skipping school to rob a near by convenience store a couple blocks down the street or even going inside the restroom during break time and smoke harmful drugs. If the students/victims who chooses not to do what are expected, the result may be that they will be bullied and may even be harmed both mentally as well as physically.  Strange how a place is an essential place for some students, but may also be a dangerous place for other students. The reason is most likely because school is a place where one learns to interact with the real world; whether they choose the good path or the bad path, they have already been exposed to both paths in school.

Tense Consistency Exercise 1

Ann Hoang
English 1301

Dr. Murray
October 28, 2010
Tense Consistency Exercise 1

U 1. If the club limited its membership, it will have to raise its dues.

If the club limited its membership, it would have to raise its dues.

U 2. While Barbara puts in her contact lenses, the telephone rang.

While Barbara put in her contact lenses, the telephone rang.

S 3. Thousands of people will see the art exhibit by the time it closes.

U 4. By the time negotiations began, many pessimists have expressed doubt about them.

By the time negotiations began, many pessimists had expressed doubt about them.

U5. After Capt. James Cook visited Alaska on his third voyage, he is killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779.

After Capt. James Cook visited Alaska on his third voyage, he was killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779.

U 6. I was terribly disappointed with my grade because I studied very hard.

I was terribly disappointed with my grade because I had studied very hard.

S 7. The moderator asks for questions as soon as the speaker has finished.

U 8. Everyone hopes the plan would work.

Everyone hoped the plan would work.

S 9. Harry wants to show his friends the photos he took last summer.

S 10. Scientists predict that the sun will die in the distant future.

U 11. The boy insisted that he has paid for the candy bars.

The boy insisted that he had paid for the candy bars.

U 12. The doctor suggested bed rest for the patient, who suffers from a bad cold.

The doctor suggested bed rest for the patient, who was suffering from a bad cold.

Assignment #1

Ann Hoang
English 1301, Assignment #1
Dr. Murray
October 21,2010
Beauty Essay

            Beauty can be seen in several ways and perspectives; something that one person may find unattractive, unpleasant, and disgusting may turn out that another person finds beauty in it. This is also why beauty is just not the outer appearance of things. Therefore in reality, beauty is really how people see things as well as how they feel the things affect themselves. Many great authors demonstrate their vision on how they interpret beauty in their own life onto their literary arts that would help show my definition of considering what is beautiful.

            A great example of an author who shows that her view in beauty was dynamic is Alice Walker, in the essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self”. In the writing, Alice Walker talks about moments in her life that changed the way that she viewed the “beauty” of her self. She starts off mentioning and flaunting about her cute and attractive looks when she was a younger girl (Walker 69), but as the narration went on, Walker lost the confidence in her “beauty”. Her appearance changed, and she was no longer the little girl who used to dress in cute dresses, but is now a “tomboy” who dresses up just like her brothers (Walker70).

            One day when Alice Walker was playing by herself, she gets shot in the eye by one of her brothers’ BB guns in which changed her life dramatically (Walker 70). Not to a surprise, Walker started to feel embarrassed because of the ugly scar left in her eyes and so she started “doing poorly in school…[where she was once] a whiz” (Walker 71). As she was a little older, her older brother Bill and his wife understood her “feelings of shame and ugliness” and so they took her to a doctor where she got the white glob in her eyes removed (Walker 72); from then, she started too regain confidence.

            Later in her life, she was afraid that her baby girl was going to be ashamed of the scar that was left in her mother’s eye, but unexpectedly she found beauty in her mother’s eye, which also helped her mother to love her eyes as well.  Her baby insisted that it was a world that was in her mothers’ eye not a scar (Walker 74).

            Another author named Lars Eighner wrote “On Dumpster Diving”, an essay where he described the beauty of dumpster diving. Oddly, he was able to show that dumpster diving is not just as easy as it sounds but it required one to have a common sense and knowledge. One just cannot pick up some thing from the dumpster and eat it, because one should know if that food is edible or not. Eighner insisted that it was important to know what was good and what is bad. He also presented that dumpster scavengers are intellectual people (Eighner 21).

            Andrea Barrett, a witness of the traumatic event, on September 11 found beauty with in the devastation in order to be able to live on. In her writing, “A Hole in The Wall” she explains how when the Towers first collapsed, every things was just overwhelming, but as a result of the “hole left” it united the people to where strangers were talking to each other and pouring out their emotions. She ambiguously insisted that the result of the dramatic event, helped create a friendlier environment in which she can now call it her home because she felt that she was a part of the hole (Barrett19).

            There are much more authors who show how they define beauty in their writings although they do not point out “this is how I see beauty” or “this is beauty”. Hence, beauty is just not the outer appearance of things, but it is actually how one feels about something, or how that something affects oneself.

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Work Cited

Peterson, Linda H., and John C. Brereton. "A Hole in the Wall." The Norton Reader: an            Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 19. Print.

Peterson, Linda H., and John C. Brereton. "Beauty: When the Dancer is the Self." The Norton            Reader: an Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 69-74. Print.

Peterson, Linda H., and John C. Brereton. "On Dumpster Diving." The Norton Reader: an            Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 21. Print.

Classwork: Reading from, "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self"

Ann Hoang
English 1301
Dr. Murray
October 19, 2010
Question #2 from Norton Anthology PG.74-75

#2 Walker writes her essay by selecting particular moments in her life. What does each moment show? How do these moments relate to Walker’s theme?

Moment #1: Alice walker presents in the introduction that when she was younger, she knew that she was the prettiest and her parents would always spoil her. She mentions that only three children would be taken to the fair where her father was the designated driver for an old rich lady and assures us that she was sure that she would be taken. Also Alice Walker talks about how her mother prepares her by braiding her hair and dressing her up. Later in the reading, Alice Walker flaunts a moment when she wore a dress that one of her sister made and how stunning it was. (Walker 69)
-This moment shows when everything was still good for Alice Walker. For example, she was satisfied with her looks.
-This moment relates to Alice Walker’s theme, beauty, because she shows us the outer beauty of herself and how proud she was with her beauty.

Moment #2: Alice Walker stated boldly, “It was great fun being cute. But then, one day, it ended” (Walker 70). From there, Alice narrates and tours us through here problems. She talks about how her two brothers were her playmates until one day when they were older, and their parents bought them BB guns, Alice Walker then was left out of the group.  One day when Alice Walker was playing by herself, she tells us that she gets shot in the eye by one of her brothers. (Walker 70)
-This moment shows that things are slowly changing for her. Her life is not the same as it was before.
-This moment relates to Alice Walker’s theme beauty because from this incident, Alice Walker shows how she was not the same little girl as before; She was now changing.

Moment #3: Alice Walker expresses that she is not the cute little girl that she was before anymore. She now does not even raise up her head nor is her self-esteem and her self-confidence the same as before. She even emphasizes that she for the first time is doing poorly in school. (Walker 71)
-This moment show that because of the incident things are very different now and are also going downhill for her.
- This moment relates to Walker’s theme beauty because she shows that with out the confidence in her beauty, it affects the way that she sees and does things. What is clearly shown is that she no longer has confidence in herself or the things that she does.

Moment #4: Alice Walker mentioned about a teacher who loved her. (Walker 71).
-When Alice Walker mentioned about this moment, what was showed was that she slowly showed a bit of support and change in the story.
-This moment relates to the theme beauty of Alice Walker because she stresses that the teacher already knew her before she was born, and so there maybe a bit of inner beauty and light shining on Alice Walker’s way.

Moment #5: Alice Walker’s brother, Bill, knew that she did not like the way that she looked, and so he and his wife took her to a doctor to help her. From there, she was able to look better that she was before, regardless of the little blue scar that was left in her eyes. Alice Walker soon gained more confidence in her self and started to have more friends as well as strive for academic success. (Walker 72)
-This moment shows that Alice Walker was able to gain more confidence in herself, which changed her down-hilled life into a more positive life.
-This moment relates to Walker’s theme because now with her outer beauty confidence, her inner beauty is starting to show once again.

Moment #6: Alice Walker also talks about her baby girl, and how her words changed her prospective on the incident and her views completely. She says that one day when she was putting her baby to sleep, her baby looked into her eyes. At first she was afraid that her child would be ashamed of her mother’s looks, but in shock, her baby told her that she had a world in her eye, and also asked her where she got it from. Alice Walker’s baby was comparing her mother’s eye to a television program, the “Big Blue Marble” where it “Begins with a picture of the earth as it appears from the moon”(Walker 74). It resembled Alice Walker’s eyes.
-This moment shows that her looks really mad no difference to who she was. It also shows that even her baby appreciates her mother for who she is that Alice Walker finally realizes that there maybe be a good in a bad.
-  This moment relates to Walker’s theme beauty because she can finally see beauty in her self after the incident that occurred when she was with her baby girl.

Moment #7: “And I saw that it was possible to love it: that in fact, for all it had taught me of shame and anger and inner vision, I did love it”(Walker 74).
-This moment shows that she realizes to adapt to what life had planned for her. For example accepting the way that she looked.
-This moment relates to Walker’s theme beauty because she shows that her ways in seeing beauty is dynamic. It is obviously different from before. For example, at first she was ashamed of the way that she looked, but now she was able to accept it and make it into something good and positive.

Moment #8 Alice Walker has a dream that she was dancing and beautiful. (Walker 74).
-This moment shows that she sees goodness in her new self now. She is no longer the girl ashamed of her self, but the girl why is proud and confident about herself.
-This moment relates to Walker’s theme, beauty, because now that she finds both inner and outer beauty, she is able to have more optimistic dreams and ambitions. She definitely shows that beauty plays a main role in her life, which she can control. She can either make that beauty into something beneficial or even something destructive. Essentially, this moment of Alice Walker shows that beauty is the way that you interpret things. Something you are ashamed of for having maybe be beauty in someone else's eyes.

Autumn Descriptive Essay

The Picture Perfect

The sizzling summer ray is gone; yet the frosty winter is not here. What is left is what is left here. The leaves on the trees appear to be converting into blazing colors of red and intense tones of orange. All the greens look like they are being reborn into yellowish tones. The looks of the transforming phases of the leaves and the scenery overall gives off the feeling of what can be described, “walking into fire without the heat”.

All the colors are colors of furious flaming fire, but the temperature is just a calm and tranquil one. Walking into this setting makes me assume that both summer and winter wants its presence but both are struggling to take over with the aggressive opponent. Summer doesn’t want to leave and winter wants to come in and take over. Therefore the outcome of both their forces combined creates a neutral atmosphere with vigorous colors!

The combat makes it easier for the motionless lake. Only every once in a while, the tip cover of the lake would stir a little. Otherwise, it would just stay calm and produce the reflection of the vibrant colored trees off of it self. Seeing this scene from an image makes you just want to depart from where you are in order to enter the scene; A scene that also may represent a moral for life. “Do not take things for granted, you will not realize what you have until you lose it”. While sitting here and analyzing the image, I finally can understand the saying that people say, “a picture can mean a thousand words”.

This perfect scene is the perfect time and the perfect place for the state and mind to meditate. A mist of the summer ray and a sample of the winter breeze.  So flawless that I just want my presence there but yet I do not want to disturb the beautiful Mother Nature's ground.  

Picture above was used from:

http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=gemini&number=1826&album_id=533&thumbstart=2&gallery=#slideanchor

Part Of Speech

Parts Of Speech

1.     Noun

“The film is due in April 2011.”

-The film must be finished by April 2011.

2.     Pronoun

“"We're not lazy about our marriage," she told the magazine.”

-She told the magazine that they were not lazy about their marriage,

3.     Article

“After 11 years of marriage, Courteney Cox and David Arquette have separated, the couple announced in a joint statement on Monday afternoon.”

-Courtney Cox and David Arquette announced a joint statement on Monday afternoon after 11 years of their marriage.

4.     Adjective

“"'Behind every great woman is a great man' because he's so supportive and wonderful," Courteney told Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson in June.”

-In June, Courtney insisted that there is a great man behind every great woman to Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson while referring to David Arquette.

5.     Verb

“Almost five years to the day later, the couple welcomed their first (and only) child together - daughter Coco Riley Arquette - on June 13, 2004.”

-On June 13,2004, almost five years and a day later after their wedding date, they welcomed their daughter Coco Riley Arquette, who was their one and one child together.

6.     Adverb

“We remain best friends and responsible parents to our daughter and we still love each other deeply”.

-Although we are separated and love each other deeply, we are still best friends and we both still are responsible parents to our daughter.

7.     Conjunction

“"We're not lazy about our marriage," she told the magazine.”

-We told the magazine that we’re not lazy about our marriage.

8.     Preposition

“They tied the knot on June 12, 1999.”

-They were married on June 12,1999.

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