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sanders tone is very calm but almost annoyed and angry at the same time. for example when he starts going off because some people arent placed theyre inhabitant, it givea the whole essay a different tone ya feel me. if i had to tell someone to read this shit i would tell them to be calm. i find sanders more convincing g because the examples and description he backed all his sht up with really cements the ideas hes trying to put across into the readers mind. whereas ford was dull and unexciting and lacked a voice

178 1

he says that staying put gives us a foundation and a sense of community.  it makes us grow tronger because staying put makes us go through hell and back to protect our homes and keep adjusting to whatever may happen. he defines being settled as living in a home for a long period of time and being a part of a community. being placed is just living there for a short period of time and still figure shit out. and an inhabitant is just settling in a home for a second then leave soon after. schools, stores, friends , family. each is a very effective example because once one is settled and has everything at their fingertips its hard to make somebody leave so theyre very effective examples.  another example is if you grew up in that communtiy or your work is there.

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154 seeing 1 and 2

she starts off by telling the reader how her mother never stepped foot inside that store which is ironic because the little girl loved going there. Then she transitions into what would lead the girl to going to the store which was the mother running out of any groceries the man downtown delivered to her. Then she begins to tell the reader of every neighbor shes had as she passes by their house kn her wah to the store. Then recalls her visit there and her trip back. The games she used to play express her feelings towards the store in a positive way because she obviously enjoyed and had a lot of fun taking this adventure to the store and they're memories that are attached to her feelings pf the store. the effects of presenting these paragraphs before the store are that it gives the store a greater meaning and  doesnt present it as just some store in the neighborhood. She appeals to my taste because she describes the food and the drinks inside the store and she appeals to my smell because i could almost smell all the food whole she describes it walking down the aisles. in my opinion its like shes smaking everything seem ten times amazing then it really is just like we all did when we were kids and every little step for her on her way to that store was like an adventure.

2. after i read the story i actually saw the picture on the front page and as i was reading the story i tried to picture how the shopkeeper would look like and it was exactly how this guy looks. i pictured an angry looking man, very serious in really traditional shopkeeper clothes just chillen by the door or something waiting to welcome in the next kid or adult that walked through his door. the shadows surrounding him definitly make him look more mysterious and serious and give off a threatning vibe.. in the back of the picture there is a calender of wright and ferguson and some bananas hanging from the window. The man looks tired like hes been doing this all his life but at the same time he looks like a figure that is hard to forget.

seeing 1 and 2

He defines working class as people who get payed per hour. its members can be portrayed by tv characters and all the mainstream obvious jobs we think of when we think of jobs. nurses, mechanics, store workers. homer simson , sitcom guys they all fall under that category. the virtues are that we are popularized in american culture and work hard to get what we deserve. the vices are being looked down upon by everybody with a salary and a stable life. he says its the way were taught to think because everybody needs to get put in a class or box that seperates groups them together with everybody else like them. 

2.  the working  class is included in his essay. his essay is targeted more towards working class white people in my opinion.  The paragraph where he talks about nascar and country music would affect the whole essay like crazy if it were changed to target another audience for example if they put something in there to appeal to black working classfamilies where the author states is generaly looked down as poor in this country the point the author was trying to make wouldnt be completely cemented. 

the dispossed 1

he doesnt refer to the third as lower class because i dont think thats the point hes trying to rant on. i think the word working accomplishes a sign of dedication and perserverance whereas lower class gives off a vibe of failure and hope lost. If i had to pick a word to describe the lower class in would use struggling because sometimes there are powers we cant control that prevent us from moving from lower to "working class". Bills, debt, lack of job openings, kids they play heavy factors and sometimes its not our fault. Classes can be divided obviously by money , appearance, material posession because in the world we live in thats all were judged by.  i dont know of any other cultures because where my family is from society is mainly like americas. and i shall not.

house by the railroad numbers 1 and 2

1. in house by the railroad hopper directs my attention to the design and structure of the house since he references it's build and characteristics many times. He also directs it to the emptiness of the sky as well as the railroad and earth. I might be wrong but i notice the house has no doors and a crazy amount of windows as if all it wants to do is look out and let no one in. As for it's relationship to it's surroundings it seems out of place because everything is so still and empty and this house is so complex and elegant. My eyes are mostly looking at the amount of windows Edward has taking to painting. The colors Edward chooses to use definitly set the mood and give the viewer a different sense of what Edward is trying to depict rather than if he were to use bright and more lively colors.

2. The emptiness of the sky, The tracks running into the distance, The akwardness of the house. He gives the house a personality by saying it feels akward and ashamed of itself and it's structure. I think it helped because it helper the viewer cement their opinion of the painting because it confirms what i believed he was trying to achieve with setting this beuatiful house in this depressing area. It makes it more interesting because i saw it at a different light rather than if i was just to look at the painting by itself with nothing to form an opinon with.

River of names

I think i really like this story. I say i think because i don't know if what i believe happens is what actually happens. It's all pretty confusing because i don't know anybodys names but this is how i think it goes down. The girl who had the baby, who could be either cora, nancy, or jesse, was in that point of motherhood where she couldn't stand her baby, who i think was called cy. She was annoyed becuase he wouldn't sleep to the point where she was fed up and tired of struggling with him. Despite all the hatred she had towards him though when the car they were travelling to oklahoma in fell in the river she wrapped around her baby, protected him and died with him. I thought that was beautiful because no matter how much stress he was giving her she still protected him like a mother always does. I might be wrong because it might not even be her that died in the river or never fought with the baby in the first place. it doesn't matter because i'm always going to look at it as i explained because that's what hit home harder. I thought it was a great story that showed the perserverance of a struggling mother through highs and lows.

the uncommon life of common objects seeing 1

1. Busch talks about how sentimental value gives an object value. How much a person is willing to pay at an auction as the price goes up and up makes it gain value. The fact that we give objects sentimental value. None. The fact that sometimes we don't see things as objects but partners. Without my phone i couldn't navigate around the city and do all the shit that i do. Without my notebook i have nowhere to store my thoughts. Without my uniform i can't make money.

magazines

What i observed from my magazine was that it was mainly about hip hop, trends, and fashion. It talks about album releases, updates on rappers, up and coming rappers, hip hop in pop culture, hottest trends most seen, and a million advertisements about shoes and clothes. The culture this magazine tries to show is a modern, music loving, hanging out culture. i used my seeing to make connections and i used my touch to buy the magazine to see it and my hearing to hear the music they talked about to further connect with the magazine. My magazine was definitly different than the ones my classmates brought in mostly because of genre, topics covered, and culture.

page 94 # 1 + 2

1. When i examined the room the first thing that i saw was the bike in the middle of the room because who keeps a bike in their room in like the middle that's dangerous. I don't know if those are individual cards on the wall or wall paper but that caught my eye because it's awesome looking and pippen on the wall as well as the reflective floor and puerto rican emblem on the bed head. I notice the bike has some age to it because the paints peeling off and if i had to guess he's probably a cyclist because of the shape and style of the bike. As for the Scottie pippen poster i noticed this kid is probably living in the 90's because of the players he has up and the shoes he has and the movies he watches. The puerto rican emblem and American basketball players and family pictures are all cultural references. based on the details i can infer the kid is puerto rican but lives in the united states and loves to play basketball and rides his bike to the park every day. I just feel like he lives in New York because of his love of basketball and the type of shoes he wears. he definitely loves sports in general because of all the trophies he has and the baseball cards on his wall. He loves his family back home and still misses them based on all the pictures he has hanged around his room. Osorio's style is very detailed and precise i feel like he wants the viewer to look deep into the picture to find out what he's really trying to say and all the noticeable details are just diversions.

2. He's been pretty good at capturing a teenage boy's room all the details are there. For example every guy I've ever known has some type of poster of their favorite athlete lying around or a random basketball you're ready to trip over. Another example ? the movie posters and family pictures. Something that struck me as fantasy is the golden fists attached to the bed i feel like it would've been cool in his eyes. Another thing is the reflective floor because that just doesn't happen. The differences between fantasy and fiction when it comes to a guys room are if it looks expensive it's probably fantasy or if it's over the top it's probably fantasy or if you have a million little golden fists it's probably fantasy.

page 91 # 1 + 2

1.What she finds magically seductive about it is the use of imagination it takes to envision such a world. To contemplate the world of a flea or the view of a giant "all cast spells that take us far beyond the realm of everyday living into exotic landscapes accessible only through the imagination". Cole's essay showed me all the living creatures that inhabit my face and arms and bed that i forgot were even there that are now freaking me out but she also showed me the different ways animals like fleas and flies view the same things that we do. For example, a bug leaning over a puddle is the same as us reaching over a cliff to pick a berry. Something that will change the way i think is the fact that if i was to ever become a giant my bones would shatter with only one step or that a flea is like a mini superman the way it can carry an object 160,000 times its weight and jump really high. I also find it cool how a mouse can survive falling off a cliff where a rat couldn't because of its surface area and size. Knowing that a fly could die if he stepped into my soup makes me feel bad for the guy but in the end i still don't like flies so he can go drown in a puddle. some facts that won't change the way i think are that if a planet was shaped like a teacup it would still change in to a circular planet or that flea superman can't actually fly through the air like a speeding bullet because frankly I've never liked superman so flea superman can go fall in a puddle and planet sizes aren't my main concern.

2. I think Cole ends her essay like that to make the reader grasp the concept of how we can't grasp the concept of the world we can't see to an extent she can't explain but he could. If she had paraphrased the guy instead of quoting his whole paragraph it probably would of looked better because she would have successfully integrated his paragraph creatively with her concept. If she would have ended the essay with the first paragraph i think it would've had a more successful impact on the reader because in the beginning i was like what ? but in the end i would of been like damn you changed my way of thinking. she footnotes Bodanis on page 89, and Humphrey on 86 then she references Haldane on 85,86, and 87, Frost on 88 and Margulis and Sagan on 89.

page 42 number 1 and 2 for writing and rhetoric

1. The way i would describe peter menzel's pictures to someone who has not seen them is unbelievable. One picture shows a wealthy, middle class family surrounded by food of all sorts. They're sitting around their living room with the floor and coffee table covered in food. They're a family of four 2 kids a wife and a husband and they're Japanese. They're all sitting around looking at the photographer as he takes their picture. The Other photograph shows a family of 6 from the Darfur province of Sudan. They're sitting outside their tent home on a blanket with their food on the blanket in front of them. The area looks like a desert and very hot and the kids and mom look very skinny. The tent is not to big maybe big enough for a family of 4. The crazy thing about the pictures is seeing all the food a small family eats in a week compared to how small a large family eats in that same week. Some specific words i would use to characterize what i see is damn!,wow,really?,hungry,happy,desperate. What stands out to me is each families diverse choices of food. In the mendoza family you see a lot of vegetables, fruits, and very natural healthy stuff. Where as in the Fernandez family there's a lot more pizza, and microwavable stuff and things you can make quick. In the ukita family i can infer the dad has a high paying job and is able to easily maintain his family not only by the food but because of the way they're dressed. I can also tell that a lot of the food they don't need but got more because they can. The mom probably works as well and has a nice job. The Ukita picture suggests a story of struggle from the dad's part to pay for his education when he was young and he spent nights working to pay his tuition but when he finally finished he got a scholarship to graduate school and worked in his field while he payed off the rest of his debts. He met his wife and got happily married after 2 years of going out. The wife comes from a nice middle class family and never had to suffer or struggle to survive. They have 2 kids now and one of them is in a great college in japan studying marketing and the other daughter has 2 years left in high school and plans on majoring in journalism. My appreciation honestly is not affected by faiths writing.

2. The mendoza family is from Guatemala the fernandez family is from the united states. The room in the fernandez picture is dark and elegant the mendoza family is outside with more bright and natural colors. The fernandez family has junk food the mendoza family likes their veggies. There are 5 people in the fernandez family there are 6 in the mendoza family. The mendoza family are dressed in traditional clothing. The fernandez families just plain and regular. A full plate definitly varies in these pictures in the mendoza family a full plate is probably some vegetables rice with some fruit in the fernandez family a full plate is a bunch of stuff piled together. The mendoza family eats more traditional food based on their country and so the the fernandez family. The mendoza family lives in a farm area so they have more fruits and vegetables the fernandez family live in america so all they're going to eat is random easy make stuff. d'aluisios text is more informative when he explains the prices of foods because it really opens your eyes to see what different cultures spend in a week and how they eat their meals.