week 10

Oh Mickey D’s, I have a love hate relationship with you. You are always there for me when it is 2am and I am starving after dancing away the night at Keys Bar. When a falafel pita from Pita Pit is just way too expensive for my “ballin’ on budget” budget, a nice crispy McChicken was waiting there for me. For only a dollar and seven cents you were there, nice, hot, and without mayo. I love you, but you are oh so unhealthy.

But wait, you then made the glorious announcement of all day breakfast. The angelic choir came down from the heavens because I could finally have my hashbrown Friday after celebrating thirsty Thursday at Tequila Bar, with out having to wake up before 10:30 on a Friday.

Mark Pierre’s article for our Eagle News in my opinion was well written. He did not include his own personal bias in the article, but rather other people’s opinions. The author does this with short quotes from other students. There is also both sides of the argument, saying that it is either a good or a bad move for McDonalds. Most of the views are positive in this article. Personally, I think it’s a good move for McDonalds because that means I can get those delicious pancakes all day long, no matter how bad they are for me.

week 9

For this week, I had to read a short story by Sherman Alexie, titled Superman and Me. It is an excellent example of story telling with the purpose. Story telling with the purpose is exactly what one what would think it is. The purpose for this story is how Alexie broke the expectation of his culture.

The story starts off by giving background information about the author’s father.  The father went to catholic school by his own choice and read many western novels. The author remembers trying to read from a young age and can recall teaching himself how to read by looking at comic books. I like the author’s analogy that his house, town, and reservation are all like paragraphs in a book.

I was impressed that the author read Grapes of Wrath in Kindergarden. While I was smart for a Kindergardener, I was not that smart. One thing that made me angry was how a smart Native American is considered a dangerous person. The author could not fit in with whites or his own culture just because he reads. The author then says that he tries to make a difference in his community.  As an author, he goes to the school on the Indian reservations and teaches creative writing. This made me really happy as a future educator because he wants to shape the future, the children’s future.

week 8

This week’s topic for my blog is Reflection. A reflection is a story where the author describes an event and thinks about how it changed them.  Sarah Vowell does this in her short story, Shooting Dad. Vowell reflects about her life, more specifically her Dad and his obsession with guns. The imagery the author uses to show her gunsmith father’s actions is amazing.  When I read the story, I could feel for the author.  When she told the story of the disagreements of her and her dad I felt like I was fighting with the father. I also could relate to the author, being the complete opposite of my dad. I can relate to the author because I am a democrat while my father is the epitome of the GOP.

My favorite part was the section about the cannon. The author could finally accept her father’s obsession with these guns.  She even liked watching it shoot off because she realized she was just like her dad, except her obsession was journalism. I think the cannon was some sort of symbol for her dad’s strong like of guns and that’s why he wanted to be cremated and shot off in the cannon. The author also did not want to cover her ears, she wanted the noise to hurt her ears.