Texting article

After reading the article I will no change my texting habbits. I use common sense while walking and texting, I look several feet in front of me to make sure nothing is there before i look down to text. I woul NEVER cross the street wile look down at my phone I think the text can wait ten seconds before crossing the road. I don't text while driving but somtimes I pull over or if i know the stop light is going to be long i will read or write somthing real quick but I have stopped texting while driving last year. I don't think its the texting that is the problem i think it is the people lacking the common sense that are the problem, not only with texting but they ruin a lot of things for us.

Week 7 Paragraph (activity sheet)

The election is a very popular event therefore i know a lot of information about it. Basically I know all about the candidates and what they stand for. There isn't much else I would like to know about this topic, I pretty much know all I want to know.

In my reading I leanred about the nation debt. The national dept is over ten trillion dollars. I am not a very political person especially if I don't agree with either candidates. So there isn't much i need to know about the election.

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Narrative Sept 30

Evan Johnson
EDUC 108
M03
09/27/08

Thanksgiving

The smell of the crescents in the oven being warmed makes the feel of thanksgiving. The way the table was set so all the food was in reach so we could feel our plates fast. I never cared much for turkey, it was always draw and I wasn’t a big gravy person, but we would always have ham to supplement it. Never really cared much for the time chatting with family but the food was always great, a nice spread of so many different food and smells made the all day of waiting worth it.

So many different platters were set on the table; deviled eggs, crescents, ham, potatoes, and so much more. I usually take all the favorites so I don’t miss out on them. Then I take the things that my aunt supplied a lot of. I make sure I get all the good food first. So many things to eat but up you always need to save room, because desert is the best part.

Cheesecake was always my favorite and the favorite of most of the family. We also always have a supply of brownies, cookies, and cakes. I always grab some milk and a plate full of cookies with a slice of the delicious cheesecake. After my stomach gets bloated and I can’t eat anymore we say our goodbyes and we go home where we watch TV and go to bed. For most people thanksgiving is about the family, but for me it’s about the food.

Colin Powell

Evan Johnson
Deforest Westry
09/30/08


Colin Powel

1) They visited top hill Jamaica because that’s where Colin Powel is from and where most of his family lives now
2) They got into the jeep and drove until the road became too narrow then got out and walked to the camp where he saw his family. He instantly knew that it was his family without being told.
3) It seemed quite a while because he had to take a jeep for a while then walk for fifteen minutes even after getting out of the jeep.
4) There were several groups, some wore old battered cloths and others wore nice colorful cloths. There were old young and middle aged people that came out to greet him, and he treated them all with respect.
5) He just had that feeling he has the intuition and see it in their faces.
6) He reacted this way because he hadn’t seen his family ever; it was a great feeling and event to finally see all of his family after all these years. I would probably react the same way, I would be really excited and glad to see everyone
7) No all of my extended family lives close by me or close by my dad so I always see them whenever I visit.
8) I can’t think of a time where I have ever met someone important but I hope one day to, because it is an exciting feeling to meet someone you can brag about meeting or say the name and everyone knows it.
9) “we arrived at top hill, the land of my fathers birth” is the topic sentence for the second paragraph and the first paragraph doesn’t really have a clear topic sentence.

Week three (speaking style)

1) Sakomoto used western style conversation and when she talked to people from japan they were confused that she would interupt them wile they talked
2) When she was compairing she compaired tennis to the western style of speaking
3)You constantly hit the same ball back and fourth
4)She used bowling to compiar it to
5)A)No taking turns
B) in japan its considered rude
C) In japan they start a new topic after the first one is done, but pause in between
D) If you arent included in the conversation being spoken you will be considered rude if you talk
6)The main idea and thesis is the compairison of the two speaking types, western and eastern
7) she Lived in both areas and she was able to experience it
9)even if she grew up one way she needs to be the other in different areas
10) no most of my conversations have all been the same, they were all western style and people would just interupt each other and get into the conversations
11)Western but i do hate it when people interupt in the middle of a sentence and disturpt my thoughts

Compair and Contrast

There are threww major car class types out there; Muscle, Exotic, and tuner. Muscle cars are suually american made and have large loud engines. Tuners are usually small engines no bigger than four cylinders but consist of complex engineering and performance to gain speed. Muscle cars are all power straight from the v6+ engine. In the end tuner or muscle they are both fast and fun to drive from a v8 supercharged mustang to a 2.0 turboed eclipse.

Muscle cars
big engines
straight power
usually coupe
American
Engine sound

Similair
Fun
Fast
Vehicles
Loud
Exilerating

Tuner cars
Small engine
Techinical power
imported
Exhaust sound