Blog 5: Me proposing a solution.

1. My Practice/Problem: Procrastination.
-To improve this problem I can begin by making a stronger effort on beginning and completing all work before their deadlines/due dates.
2. Our Island's Practice/Problem: Polution.
-A good propostion would be to have more park rangers at beaches, and other public pavilions to enforce the law, along with awareness. Another solution is to make it mandatory for every village mayor's office to have a monthly village clean-up.

pg.286-287

Statistics Listed:
Paragraph 2 "...2/3 of America's high school juniors and seniors now hold down part-time paying jobs..."
Paragraph 10 "...among those students who worked at least 25 hours per week while in school, their unemployment rate four years later was half of that of seniors who did not work ."
Pragraph 11 "...they are "ideal" for lower-class, non academic," minority youngsters..."over- represented" in these jobs (21 percent of fast-food employees)."
Paragraph 12 "...a third of fast doof employees (including some high school drop outs) labor more than 30 hours per week..."
Paragraph 13 "...24 percent of thes eniors at one high school in 1985worked as much as five to seven days; 27 percent, three to five."
-Etzioni's use of statistics is an effective way for readers to agree with his opinion. Using statistics to support his opinion was skillful of him because when people see statistics they know that time was taken to conduct the surveys needed. People feel more confident with them, and even more confident of its accuracy.

Direct Statements Listed:
Paragraph 6 "Closer examination, however, finds the McDonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways."
Paragraph 15 "Supervision is often both tight and woefully inappropriate."
Paragraph 16 "There is no father or mother figure with which to identify,to emulate, to provide a role model or guidance.
Paragraph 20 Thus, most teen work these days is not providing early lessons in the work ethic; it fosters escape from school and responsibilities, quick gratification and a short cut to consumeristic aspects of adult life."
-The most convincing statement is the last sentence in paragraph 20 because from personal experience not to mention the countless numbers of friends I had while in high school who had jobs then, they're all materialistic young people who spend most their money on unecessary items, like jewelry, name brand shoes, etc. Yet they drive the ugliest cars on campus. I can also recall plenty who dwell on their thoughts of quitting school just to worka nd get paid and to spend the money soon after. Very few were smart enough just to even save their pay checks for emergencies, or a rainy day, others would send their checks to relatives back in P.I.
The least convincing was from paragraph 16. Sure there isn't a parent like supervision, but new workers are usually supervised by other teens or people in their early twenties wh have worked there for a couple years to guide them. Some old folks forget or don't take into consideration that time has changed and that students know too much for their own good. They can;t see that we were being educated so well we have a high sense of independence. Mind you thats only how I feel.

Summary p.274-275

The three articles were all about different writers in different situations using research, common insight, along with past examples as reason or support for readers to learn more and to understand or be convinced that a certain way possibly could be better than the other.

Blog #2: pg. 36-37 answers to questions 1-2

1.)
-Comparisons underlined (pointed out) in paragraphs 1,3,7,9,13, & 16.
paragraph 1: " SInce I was a boy i searched for ways to slingshot myself into the distance..."
paragraph 3: "...I would creap around it like an old woman."
paragraph 7: "...as if there was no limit to her and how fast we would go together..."
paragraph 9: "...like a winding top."
paragraph 13: "...seemed all the way to Piedmont."
paragraph 16: "...looked like a white sheet of paper..."
-In paragraph 3 Bragg compares his youngself to an old woman creaping, to the extent of how careful he would be when his uncle Ed was telling him how dangerous the car was. These comparisons Bragg made gives me the impression that he was a normal young man, yearning for excitement and adrenaline rushes and satisfied his yearn with driving his car fast. Vividly, he explains in great detail by using the comparisons listed above.

2.)
-Outline of events from paragraphs 9-16.
First Bragg writes about the cause, the beginning of the event, which was Kyle Smith and his Chevrolet in paragraph 9 along with his atitude of not backing down from a little race. Next he shares his speed of going over a hundres miled per hour followed by the sweeping turn and the blue lights from the police car in paragraph 10. This is the paragraph which 'aroused my curiousty' Bragg tells the readers he doesn't really rememebr what happened next. Forcing his readers to continue to read on. Then follows in paragraph 11-16 details from his memories in perfect sequence to 'yes' make sense.

Taimanao's Travels

Julie Taimanao, a current student at Guam Community College with her approachable and warm personality shared significant voyages from the past couple years. Taimanao graduated in 2005 from Rota High School. After graduating she spent a whole year on Guam, catching up with friends and family. Soon after she joined a friend on a voyage to Germany. There, she stayed for almost 2 years. She explained that her most significant memory was driving on the autobahn on her way to work. Afterwards she made her way to Maryland, and stayed there for a whole year. When asked how she kept up with all her personal belongings she explained that whetever was left behind, she would tell her friends to keep it as memorabilia. She now resides on Guam where she is persuing her major in Visual Communications, and working at GCC as an office aide.