Wednesday, March 31, 2010
O'Brien's Land
At the beginning of the book O'Brien used his land in a way that was unfamilar to some of the ranchers around the area. He seperated his ranch up into different sections and would only let the cattle go into one section at a time therefore he was saving a bunch of grass for later. When the cattle got done there section it would also give the grass some time to regroup.
Casey Property
I was lying down in the long white van on the gravel at the top of the hill. I was having a good time resting while waiting for the other groups to get back when all the sudden i heard a little bit of laughter coming from outside. I looked out the window to see Kyle holding on to something. So I looked closer and saw that it was the spine and ribs of a deer. Everybody around looked kind of shocked that he would actually pick it up and then the teacher had to take it back.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Spring Break Snapshot
There were 15,000 fans in the 17,000 seat arena for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. About 70% of them wearing the Kansas Jayhawk crimson and blue. With about 5 minutes left in the game every single one of them had a scared look of disbelief on their face. The Kansas players and coach looked overwhelmed. With all of this the thousand University of Northern Iowa fans were looking wishful and excited in their purple and gold while clapping along to the fight song during a timeout. There was a great feeling from them that something remarkable was about to happen.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wendell Berry Poem
This poem is very different from any I have ever read. By that I am talking about the way it is set up. The punctuation is everywhere. There are periods at the beginning, middle, and end of some of the lines. This makes me want to hear how Wendell Berry would read it. I would like to hear how he uses the periods and how he goes from line to line. When I went to see Patrica Smith read her poems it was a world of difference between when I read it in my head and when she read it aloud to everybody. I think there would be a world of dirrerence in this poem as well.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sandra Steingraber
Context
Steingraber uses her real life examples to convey her message throughout her writing from Having Faith. In the first part of the piece she tells about when she was growing up and how she was always interested in science. She tells how she read the textbook and about how she read it during a rained out recess or a spelling drill. Sandra then tells us how her favorite part of the books were the diagrams representing the ecological food chains and this takes us into her next part with statistics on how breast feeding has a lot of problems to it. After she tells about all that, she goes on to another one of her real life examples. She tells how she breastfeeds her baby and then uses this to transition into how there was a big outbreak in Belguim and how she feels bad for the Belguim mothers.
Steingraber uses her real life examples to convey her message throughout her writing from Having Faith. In the first part of the piece she tells about when she was growing up and how she was always interested in science. She tells how she read the textbook and about how she read it during a rained out recess or a spelling drill. Sandra then tells us how her favorite part of the books were the diagrams representing the ecological food chains and this takes us into her next part with statistics on how breast feeding has a lot of problems to it. After she tells about all that, she goes on to another one of her real life examples. She tells how she breastfeeds her baby and then uses this to transition into how there was a big outbreak in Belguim and how she feels bad for the Belguim mothers.
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