An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: I really liked this story because I just kept thinking to myself, how can they do this to this guy? I also kept thinking about how he could survive making it through being hung, drowing and being shot at. This story kept me on my toes. :) The end also shocked me on how he was just imagining all of these things.

The Most Dangerous Game: I did not really like this story as much because I can not understand why someone would want to go hunting for humans. This story frigtened me a little bit. This story was a mystery to me.

But both stories kept me thinking the whole time while reading them

The one who walks away from Omelas

This story made me think about how strong of a person I really am. Could I be the one to walk away or would I stay to torture the kid even though I knew it was wrong? This story really shows that even though the place was like paradise the people would still the kid. They stayed and did this because they liked "paradise". I thought it was very disturbing because they did that. I feel like I would be one of the strong ones because I know that hurting a child would be bad so I would not stay there, even though being in "paradise" would be wonderful, but hurting a child is not worth it!

Research Paper

So when I first picked my topic about funding for USD sports I was excited to start. But when we had to bring a book to class I went to the library to find my book (of course) and I tried to search for it on my own on the computer but I couldnt find any so I went to the help desk. The lady there was very nice and willing to help in every possible way. She told me that there is not a book in the world bout unviersity funding for sports so I got a book just about school funding. I skimmed it and really couldnt find anything in it to use in my paper. So I started looking around on the library website for sources. I found a few but not enough for a reasearch paper. So I changed my topic to how standardized testing affects schools. When I was researching about it this weekend I really grew intrest in it. Research papers are very time consuming and get very boring at points. But I realized that if I do it in sections and get a topic that I am interested in, it is better.

Also I like the way you edited our papers the first time. I did not really like the computer one.

Class so far

I like class. I think I am learning a lot of different ways to write I like how we do the three drafts so we can get different inputs about our writing. I love blogging. I would rather do this than a journal. I also like the quizzes we do before class. I like all the extra credit you offer. I think you should do the powerpoints over the readings more because I think we understand the reading more. At least I do :) Visuals are great!

Death Penatly

I think I am going to write about the death penatly for our next paper. I noticed that when we did the activites in class it came up on my list more than once. Also I have very strong feelings about it. I am excited to write about this.

Topic

My topic was going to be about death penatly but then you said in class that you cant convert someone's opinion on that in an 8-11 pages. I changed my topic to funding for all college sports being the same.

Presentations

I thought the presentations were a good project that we had to do. It gave us a lot of different ways to help with our papers. I liked how most groups had handouts because now we have them to look back at if we ever have questions.