Jerkins Key Ideas

Essay Question: Describe at least one important idea the writer developed throughout the written text. Explain how this idea helped you to understand an important message for teenagers.

In my essay I am going to bring up three different topics. How jazz music makes West Side Story be evocative of the decade in which it was written, how gang related music would change West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, and further how different Romeo and Juliet would be if they would of sang rather than spoke their soliloquy. Each of these topics has gang related actions and how music defines the gangs.

The essay I chose for my response page is Mint Snowball by Naomi Shihab Nye, a story of a girl born in the wrong time. It's very interesting that this story is a personal narrative, but it is mostly written about Her great-grandfather. Her mother probably told her this story often enough that it stuck with her and became vivid in detail. She seems like she wished she was there with her great-grandfather. This leads to her disconnect between her and modern day society.

I liked bell hook’s essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor”. Bell assesses the light in which higher class people view the poor or lower class. Bell hooks, also known as Gloria Watkins grew up in a small Kentucky town where her father worked as a janitor for the local post office. As one of seven children she was taught that money and material possessions did not make her a better person but hard-work honesty and selflessness determined character. Her hard work landed her acceptance into Stanford University. Although she received various scholarships and loans, her parents worried that she would not have enough for books and supplies or emergency funds. Regardless of this, belle went on to earn a Ph.D. Her experiences and education earned her a very good reputation and even an authority writing critiques on popular culture and diversity (hooks 431-432). She uses ideas in her essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor”, that stem from her own personal experiences with poverty to add credibility to her writing, as well as examples from pop culture and mass media to demonstrate how these representations portray the lower class in ways that radiate negative stereotypes. She wrote the essay because she saw how the poor had many assumptions made about them. It wasn’t until college thought that she made that discovery. She discovered how unjustly they were represented due to the

My essay is on Jackie Robinson. What did Jackie Robinson want to accomplish? Jackie wanted to be the first African-American baseball player, Jackie loved sports and was amazing at them. He was an all- around great athlete who wasn't afraid of anything. Jackie was an All American for football and went to ( The University of California Los Angeles) aka UCLA, football was getting too rough for him so he tried baseball, Jackie was a huge impact to the game, he played earlier in his life but he came back and was unstoppable.

Reflection: The hardest thing on this essay was finding good examples that could really illustrate the examples above. For working in this essay I did a short brainstorm for getting good ideas. Then, I made an outline and started doing the draft version. Then I got the feedback from my teacher and wrote down the final version. For getting advice, I showed every step for my teacher and also for my friends, for getting a good peer review and good advices. The best advice I got was one of my teacher, when I was making the outline, when he told me to change the

After watching the Sam Cooke documentary, I immediately knew that it was he who I would be writing my essay on. Although his musical talents alone would undoubtedly place him in the league of musical greats, it was his immeasurable impact on the civil rights movement that defines his life as iconic. His perseverance in his attempts to integrate whites and blacks through music is what, to me, made him so admirable.

My first theme is prejudice. It is never right for one individual to own another, or for one group of people to be denied equal rights because they are different in some way. In NightJohn, they were prejudice and made African American people be enslaved and work for them and treat them differently just because they were a different color than them. I’ve seen prejudice a lot all my life. Whether it’s for for colored people or gay people or whatever, in the end we’re all the same and should all be treated equally.

Topic Sentence 1: African Americans were able to create and preserve a distinctive music culture that helped to showcase their culture in a white dominated society.

Reflecting on my life as a means of deciding on a topic, one time period struck me as particularly important in terms of writing itself: my second year of second grade. Moving to Poway in 2007, the first class I was in was Mrs. Ramin’s 2-3 combo at Painted Rock. I had purple wire-rim glasses, a brown Hello Kitty tracksuit, two friends, and a hatred of writing. This was particularly unfortunate for young Analise, since Mrs. Ramin’s main focus was writing. She encouraged her students to write daily, setting aside 20-60 minutes each day for it. Although I hated it at first, my passion for creative writing grew as I turned my love for my sister and for Webkinz into tales of adventure and peril parallel to my then favorite series, Magic Tree House. I wrote, drew, and colored whatever my seven-year-old imagination spun for me. After that spark, the fire of writing died down to a smolder until eighth grade, when I wrote my first successful essay, “Flowers for Algernon: A Comparative Essay On How Two Versions of the Story are like

One of my biggest challenges was accepting the fact that I had numerous habits that I developed in high school which were restricting my creativity. After reading Revising Attitudes by Brock Dethier, I now know that your first draft isn’t meant to be perfect. While writing drafts you need to let it go and not try to perfect anything. A rough draft is called rough for a reason. As a perfectionist, it was hard for me to comprehend the fact that I need to let go. I quickly found out that this would end up being one of my biggest weaknesses. I became frustrated with myself since I couldn’t figure out ways to revise my essay that had obvious problems. I was able to learn from my mistakes from the last assignment and avoid them. I now know to start narrowing your topic down when brainstorming your topic. Then you would continue to be more specific as you do your initial research. This helped me be crystal clear with what I wanted to write about and in the end helped me figure out which claims

You read several of the most common reasons why we go in debt. I remember one of my reasons was shopping and how i have no self control when it comes to shopping. The end of the essay, in the conclusion you talk about how you’re going to prevent yourself from going into debt. I remember talking about how i was going to make myself a budget, so i could only spend so much on random things. Even though it was only an essay, i do have a problem with spending money when shopping. I made myself a budget and it stuck with me to this day i still follow through with it. Writing about why most people go into debt, makes you really think about them. You start to see that even you are applicable to some. Another essay you do in Mrs.Hilers is the Shrek essay. Yes, you’ll be writing about the movie Shrek. You’ll watch the movie in class, and you’ll be proposed different topics you can write an essay about. I picked the topic “why Fionia is a contemporary woman.” Meaning why Fionia belonged in the present rather than in past. This was probably my favorite essay of the whole year. The Shrek essay really helped me examine the movie Shrek better than you usually would. I think this essay really brought the kid out of me, since i ended up watching the movie a few times. Theses essays have made me grow as a writer, essays are becoming easier to

In order to complete this assignment I first had to create a script. It took us a while to make the script because we weren't sure on what to do the essay on. After about two or three days of debating on what to do we decided

The essay is your dad getting laid off from his ritzy Inner Harbor job and having to sell used cars for a living when you are 10 years old. Every few weekends, you would beg your dad if you could go with him to one of the exotic locales where he sells his cars. This weekend, it was Princeton, New Jersey. The buildings there look like scary European castles, but you agree to smile and pose and help your father stumble over his touch screen to send them, captioned “She got in!!” to a number labeled “Wifey”, who will probably have to read the text when she is driving home from the nursing home after a 16 hour

organize your thoughts. Then you may begin writing your essay. You may feel free to add additional