Yeah your pretty good looking! For a girl.

This piece hit the nail right on the head for me in a lot of ways. Although I don't think selling sexuality is a good thing. Many people in the U.S. seem to think different. I don't think corporate America would be having advertising like this if it didn't work. So we need the consumers need to put an end to this. Kilbourne brings up a lot of good points that people I bet don't usually think about. My only problem is what to do about it. I don't like it but am I probably not going to do anything. I have other things on my mind sexual advertisement is one of the last things I think about. Im sorry to say it but its true.

QuoteKiller Please go! Where taking back the stereo!

This has a lot of information about quotations. I thought there wouldn't be too much about them I didn't know but there is quite a bit. Hopefully others will find it helpful as well.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

Wild Stuff in the Working Class.

This piece was very interesting to read. I liked how Kendall made it so informative but kept me wanting to learn more. The part that I enjoyed the most was his views in the lower class. I found it funny and true that he said that news doesn't cover much of the lower class because it's considered boring. But how many t.v. shows don't make fun of but make that type of living interesting and funny. Especially Jeff Foxworthy. I'm sure everyone knows he is a millionaire by now. But he was once a lower class and knows how to connect to them well and that is why people can like him because its one of the few media that they can relate to. Overall the piece told a lot of facts but they kept it there own, which is signs of a good writer.

I should have known better with a semicolon like you.

One thing that I have never understood that I decided to look up was the use of colon or semicolon. It now makes sense. One is for 2 independent clauses and the other is just to clarify a clause. I should have known better...

http://www.uwsp.edu/english/mbowman/101/Colon_and_semi-colon.htm

Serving in Florida for beginners.

Barbara Ehenreich gives some good insights of how "the other" side is. It was very informative and I'm sure anyone who has worked that business knows what she means. I for one have not. But I'm kind of confused or more like not sure if she really felt what its like since she at anytime could go back to her life. I guess that is the fault I found with it. But besides that very interesting and opened some eyes.

I'm against school. I don't want to be learned.

John Taylor Gatto's work of Against School is exactly as the title says. It is funny to hear a bitter person about loosing a job rant about how much the school system stinks. I'm not saying I disagree with him but, the way he comes off its annoying to me. There is a difference between complaining with solutions and just whining. His second line shows the perfect tone which is to follow this piece of work. "I became an expert in boredom." He continues in a paragraph or two later about how he lost his job.

I think he is just bitter about how he was treated. Yes school systems are not perfect. Could there be a better way of going about the whole entire learning system? Maybe I don't know. I don't think we will ever know. It takes a lot of money and energy to try something completely new. With the spending the government already does on schools I don't see anything better or new ahead for the future.

I just want...a simple kind of life.

Rose's writings of I just want to be average is a good piece about kids not wanting much in school. One of my favorite parts is when he is speaking about the remedial classes and how the kids are there not to learn anything new and exciting but to try to force the knowledge into their heads that they should have learned and have been having trouble with for years. Its a good point why not try to teach them something else? It seems it hasn't sparked any interest so far, so why beat a dead horse.

Also his example or explanation of trying to do a word problem fits what I did to a T. I remember just sitting there and trying to focus then I think about other more important stuff and loose focus and then end by just giving up. He brings a lot of good points and tells it in a interesting way.

Who gives crap about an oxford comma? Im trying to.

I have read a couple posts by others and seems like commas are a good place to start. I have trouble with run on sentances, so hopefully I can learn something from this website I found.

First here are a couple rules Im going to try to remember. When you use a comma to connect two independent clauses, it must be accompanied by a little conjunction. Even short sentances can have problems with them if not properly placed with a comma. These rules make sense when I do research on how to use them, but the problem I have is when I am doing the writing and trying to remember all the rules I need to do. So hopefully this will help.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm

Who wants to be an American Idiot? I don't.

I would like to start that I bet a lot of people are going to get mad at Michael Moore for writing this and take what he says literally. I like Michael Moore, not that I agree with on how everything he says is how it is but that he brings up a lot of good points and gets people to think. Which is I think the sign of a good writer or speaker. With Idiot Nation I thought he brought up some good points about how teachers are paid and how corporate America uses schools and students to make money for themselves. Some of the things that they do to motivate kids to read I like but businesses get greedy and want more. I agree quite a bit about the pointless sports facts but if that is what people enjoy to do and know that is fine. In my personal opinion its pointless, but I bet a lot of people would say the same about things I enjoy to do.

Throughout the piece Michael Moore's tone is a very sarcastic. He uses the same style in

his movies. I can just picture this article as a movie and him narrating it throughout. I think

he may come of as very negative that he hates America, but I think he just hates certain things

about it. He even says he loves this big lug of a nation. Could he go about it a different way?

Maybe, but I do not think it would get the same reaction out of people that it does. Sometimes

its not good to sugar coat things for people and they just need to hear how it is.

One of my favorite parts of the story is "How to be a student subversive instead of a student subservient." It is good for kids to do stuff like that. It keeps students from being mindless sheep and to keep adult on their toes. I also agree not to take it to far. I know some of Moores facts are one sided I'm not stupid, but he brings up a lot of good issues and points that no one talks about too much. I personally get sick of the government spending money to protect kids from violent video games and stuff like that. Its giving less responsibility on parents. I was a kid I got my hands on violent video games before I was at the right age, Im not a psycho killer. So I think why spend so much time and energy on stuff that isn't important instead on how and what environments are kids are taught in. That's my two cents.

your phone's off the hook, but Americas not.

Judy Root Aulette's description of the differences of social classes, race ethnicity, and gender was very fascinating for me.  I growing up in a middle class family was I guessing somewhat oblivious or unaware of the things around me growing up.  I always had more than what I needed.  I being the youngest got more than my older brothers did but it was not by much.  Until this reading I didn't know the extent of how upper class people were so caught up on how they are viewed by others, rather than by what they have done with their lives.  I really didn't like the sentence for upper class that said "Social clubs were also cited as places to keep themselves away from those the women referred to as "anybodies"".  I'm not sure why this sentence bothered me so bad.  I guess that I knew that some upper classes were like that but I don't like to see or read about it actually happening.  

 

         I guess not surprisingly I would agree most with the three factors associated with working-class white families.  The first of these points being to marry for love rather than money.  The second is the importance of family and third is keeping family and work separate.  I agree with all these statements by Aulette.  This reading was very enlightening for me to see of where I truly stand in this perspective and to see the others that I have not experienced and probably will not ever experience.  

Fraud in the 50's

It is funny how a lot of people look at the 50's as a time of the time to live and raise a family.  In Stephanie Coontz's story "What We Really Miss About The 1950's", she tells about the many things of what may have been peoples reasons for picking the 50's out of every decade the one to live in.   I did not know too much about the 50's besides some of the movies, t.v. shows and music that came out.  When she was discussing about the t.v. shows in the 50's I found it funny that people watching leave it to beaver knew it wasn't supposed to be a mirror image of their live but of how their lives are supposed to be.  Right their is funny difference to me of now and then.  I don't think people now a days try to replicate their lives after The Simpsons or The Bluth family from Arrested Development, now a days we like to see families more messed up than our own so we feel better about how are lives might be.  In a way I think people were ignorant and perhaps reaching for something unattainable. 

I also found interesting that she talked about how divorce rates were lower in the 1950's a lot of parents stayed together even though they could not stand each other or had no love for one another.  I guess that would be a persons personal view and belief of what is better to raise a family with a mother and father who have no love for one another or to be divorced and perhaps be more happy.  

One final point that that I thought was ironic with injunction with my last thoughts.  Is she stated that the children who were raised in the 1950's stated that they could not live how their parents lived or talk to their kids like their parents talked to them.  So this left me confused about what was it about the 1950's that made it so special?  Maybe it was that kids for the most part had more respect for their parents and for adults.  I think it is left up for debate and maybe if people really thought about it they would say different.

Did you know that? Now you know!

My name is Nathan Wolfe I am currently going to school at Dixie State College.  Im from Glendora California.  I enjoy movies, music a lot, probably too much.  People say Im funny but people are crazy.  I enjoy swimming a lot and to go bowling and just have fun playing videogames and doing stuff with friends.  My favorite board game is probably Monopoly I use to play it a lot before college.  My favorite movie its hard to pick one but it would probably be Empire Strikes Back.  Im a nerd and very proud of it.  Favorite band might be Totally Radd!!.  In fact my blog is named from their debut album.  Im a accounting student trying to make it through school.  I am a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints or Mormon if you want to save some breath.  I probably should have mentioned that first but thats how I am.  I served a 2 year mission for my church in Montana which is probably the coolest state besides California.  I have 3 cool older brothers and a mom and a dad.  Yep Im the youngest of 4 boys.  I was raised well.  Thats all I can think of at the moment enjoy.