In David Griffith’s “Prime Directive” the idea of his story is to state his disproval of the war in Iraq and to state that through silence people can subconsciously agree with a wrong doer’s actions. Griffith uses a night of partying to set up his point about silence on the events of Abu Ghraib. When looked at closely the stories contents tales a different side of just another night partying. By comparing and contrasting the details of Griffith’s story we can find the real meaning behind the “Prime Directive.”
Griffith’s story starts out with him attending a Halloween party where he is dressed up as Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek. Griffith then uses another guest at the party to bring up the subject of the prime directive on the television show Star Trek. The prime directive is a moral code that governs the conduct of all Space Federation members. The code says that no Star fleet personnel may interfere with the healthy development of alien life and culture. Basically this is saying don’t get into the business of other planets or countries. Right after saying this Griffith then compares the Prime Directive to the war in Iraq, basically conveying that the U.S. should not be interfering with the problems of other countries and civilizations. Personally I thank it is a stretch to compare the United States affairs to a sci-fi television show that doesn’t even come on anymore.
Another way Griffith subliminally portrays his disproval of the war is through the characters that are attending the party. First we have the Prozac pill, a pill that is taken for depression, that signifies the depressions of war and the depression that some of the soldiers have to go through after returning home from war. The second character that has a second meaning is Ms. Scarlet from Clue and Griffith says in his story, “Ms. Scarlet is carrying a noose, but wishes it was a wrench instead; she’s afraid that people will see her as just another beautiful suicide.” This can easily be compared to the people that believe the soldiers that are going over to Iraq are “just another beautiful suicide” and that they are throwing their lives away for something that doesn’t matter. This line in his story rubs me the wrong way because I have such a high respect for our soldiers and I know what they are doing is meaningful and not just a waste of their wonderful lives.
Griffith uses many other situations that draw comparisons to a soldier or the army. He talks about how he is away from his wife for a little while and how he is lonely by himself, the same way a soldier would be if over in Iraq away from his family. Griffith moves around a lot in his story the same way a convoy or army battalion would move around in a time of war. All these small details that draw comparisons add to Griffith’s main idea of his story.
Griffith really brings it home in the last part of his story when he tells us of how he willingly took a picture with a friend who was dressed as army specialist Charles Garner, the man who was in the pictures at Abu Ghraib. He tells us how he didn’t say anything but instead just smiled and posed for a picture. This tells us that through his silence that he doesn’t see what happened at Abu Ghraib to be that bad or that he could see himself doing it. I really like his feelings after taking this picture because I can see myself just posing for the picture just like he did. Later on in the story Griffith tells us that he has learned from his experience of silence and he is able to get across to us that when we are silent about big issues we are really taking a side even if it is not the one we intend to take.
Griffith’s “Prime Directive” is a successful story that is easy to read yet has an underlining idea or theme to go with it. After reading his story we can clearly see where he stands on the war in Iraq, which I disagree with, and we can also walk away with a message of how silence can be damaging in many ways. Overall this is a very successful story that uses creative ways to get the author’s real idea out.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Prime Directive
When I first read this story I was kind of lost, the story jumped around a lot and I really didn't know where it all was going. But now that I have read the entire thing and set through our discussion in class I am amazed about everything in this story has an underlining message or can be related to something that is going on in Iraq.
One of the first points we talked about was the fact that the guy dressed up as Captain Kirk from Star Trek for Halloween. At first glance this did not mean anything important to me and even after they mentioned the Star Trek code or creed, the Prime Directive, I still did not understand why they were talking about Star Trek so much. But again after I was able to finish the story and hear our discussion it was so clear that he was stating his disapproval with our country being at war with Iraq. For those of you who don't know what the Prime Directive is it is a code that says basically that you we will not interfere with problems with other "planets" or "aliens" (countries). This means he thinks that we should not be dealing with Iraq's problems.
Besides the Star Trek comparison he also has things in his story that can be related to things of war and soldiers. Some examples are how he is away from his wife and he feels lonely just like the way a soldier would be if he were on duty in Iraq. Another would be how in the story he goes from party to party and he moves around a lot just like an army convoy would do.
The main point he makes toward the last part of his story is the subject of Abu Ghraib. Though a picture he takes at a party he is able to figure out how he really feels about what happened at Abu Ghraib and how he feels toward the people in the pictures. It really makes you think about yourself, how you feel about it, and really if you were in that situation would you of got caught just posing in a picture like that.
I really enjoyed reading this and I am amazed about how he was able to present the material he want to in the way that he did. It made reading the story much easier and enjoyable.
One of the first points we talked about was the fact that the guy dressed up as Captain Kirk from Star Trek for Halloween. At first glance this did not mean anything important to me and even after they mentioned the Star Trek code or creed, the Prime Directive, I still did not understand why they were talking about Star Trek so much. But again after I was able to finish the story and hear our discussion it was so clear that he was stating his disapproval with our country being at war with Iraq. For those of you who don't know what the Prime Directive is it is a code that says basically that you we will not interfere with problems with other "planets" or "aliens" (countries). This means he thinks that we should not be dealing with Iraq's problems.
Besides the Star Trek comparison he also has things in his story that can be related to things of war and soldiers. Some examples are how he is away from his wife and he feels lonely just like the way a soldier would be if he were on duty in Iraq. Another would be how in the story he goes from party to party and he moves around a lot just like an army convoy would do.
The main point he makes toward the last part of his story is the subject of Abu Ghraib. Though a picture he takes at a party he is able to figure out how he really feels about what happened at Abu Ghraib and how he feels toward the people in the pictures. It really makes you think about yourself, how you feel about it, and really if you were in that situation would you of got caught just posing in a picture like that.
I really enjoyed reading this and I am amazed about how he was able to present the material he want to in the way that he did. It made reading the story much easier and enjoyable.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Theme Paper
We would like to start out by saying that this is not going to be a standard paper. This will be a paper in which three different people ‘s lives are compared and come together under a unified theme. Our theme is Family Traditions or get Togethers, which consists of Jacob Connell’s beach trip, Christina DeFilippo’s Christmas party, and Kemishia Williams Family Reunion. As you will be able to see from our personal experiences that our families make up whom we really are. All these events show love, happiness, and a great time with our families.
My name is Jacob and my most favorite time of the summer and the year, besides football season, is the week or two I get to spend at the beach with my family. Not only is it just my Dad, Mom, and sisters but my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are all at the beach together.
I have 3 sisters, so I am the only boy and I get stuck not being able to do guy things a lot so when I go to the beach I meet up with my cousins (three boys) and have a great time. The cousin closest to me is Caleb, he is the same age as me and if you didn't know us, you would think we were brothers, not because of our appearance but because of how we act just a like. We both love sports to death and we are both very athletic and active.
Most of our trips to the beach are very similar. The past 3 years we have stayed in a large beach house in Fort Morgan, Alabama but before that we always stayed in condos in Gulf Shores, Alabama. My family likes the beach house because the beach is never crowded and we are pretty much by ourselves, but Caleb and I of course would much rather be in a place where there are a lot of people and there for more girls, but besides the lack of girls on the beach everything is perfect.
The typical beach trip with my family starts with everyone meeting down on the coast (we don't all live around here so we just meet down there) and checking out the nice house that we get to stay in for the next week or two. The week we go is always during the TSSAA dead week for high school sports because we all play sports and that's the only time we get off. The days at the beach always start late for me because I sleep till Caleb gets tired of being up by himself and finally decides to wake me up. We always start our day by going down to the beach and riding the waves for a couple of hours or if the jellyfish are bad till we get fed up with getting stung. After we are all tired of the ocean beating us into the sand we go up and eat lunch, normally sandwiches, and rest a little bit. After eating lunch Caleb and I normally decided to take a walk on the beach to see if we can meet any girls, but where we are at we both know our odds are not very good. Since we will probably not see a single girl our age we take a football or frisbee and have fun throwing it up and down the beach as we keep an eye out for the girls that is never there. Once we have walked for five mile we both decided there are no girls our age anywhere in the state of Alabama we decide to walk back.
It is now late afternoon and we are all somewhat burnt from being out in the sun all day. Around this time Caleb and me grab our skim boards, which we have mastered with years and years of experience, and find a perfect spot to skim until the sun goes down. Even though I said we master it we will still find our selves bleeding at the knees and elbows and washing sand out of our pants from busting and rolling across the beach. Once day light is gone we decide to go up and eat dinner. Now dinner on our family vacations is something you do not want to miss. I am talking steak, boiled shrimp, barbecued shrimp, tilapia, huge baked potatoes, and amazing sides that are better than any restaurant I have ever been to. And then there is sweet tea and you can’t beat good sweet tea. Once our bellies are full Caleb and me normally take my younger cousin out to hunt for grabs. Because there are not that many people around where we stay at the crabs are everywhere and that makes a lot of fun while hunting them. Just a little side note we even got to see a giant sea turtle coming up on the beach to lay its eggs this past year. After we are done with our hunt Caleb and me normally go and relax in the hot tub before hitting the sack and starting the cycle all over again.The beach trip wouldn't be half as fun as it is without my cousin and family there and they are why I have such a great time every year we go.
As you go from the first story to the next you will start to see the similarities between us. You will see how we love our families and how we interact with one another.
I will start by saying I have a big, wonderful, funny, and loving family. I have three aunts, three uncles, and there are fourteen cousins. We love to get together and have a great time. This is my story of our yearly get together at Christmas.When I first get there I feel excited and happy. I feel nervous and jumpy almost at the sight of seeing people I do not get to see a lot. The atmosphere is great. We are all happy to see each other and it is really like a homecoming, because everyone is together for the only time that year. All the little kids are excited and wanting to open their presents, the big kids too, but not as much. All my uncles and aunts are talking and helping with the food. All the young adults (who used to be the kids) are just hanging out and having fun.The next scenes are interacting and mingling before dinner is ready. Everyone is running around and talking. We are all laughing and having a good time. We are all getting caught up about everyone’s business. This is a fun time because we are all just sitting around, helping Ma, and having a great time. Dinner is served. Boy, are we all ready to eat by then. By that time the smell of the food cooking has made us all so hunger we don’t know what to do. Ma and Pa always make the same thing too. Spaghetti and Lasagna with salad and rolls is the standard. Yum Yum. Of course there are deserts too. I love the deserts. We always look forward to this part.Presents are next. Now who doesn't like presents?? Nobody I know. Anyway, we all assemble in the den and Pa hands out all the gifts. The excitement is in the air. "What did we get?" that is all we can think about. The little ones especially you want to watch. They are so funny. When I was younger I was the one they were all laughing at, but now that I am older I see how much fun it is to be the observer. I have a younger sister so I have more fun watching her than I do opening my stuff.
Afterwards we all sit around chatting and us older ones are making plans about what or where to go next. We always have so much fun at the party. We all look forward to this one event every year. We never get to see everybody together at the same time and this is our only time. My Uncle Chuck lives in Ohio so they only get to come down once a year and that is at Christmas. We all look forward to getting to know one another again and just taking time to talk and laugh. Because when everything is said and done our heart is in our family.
Family reunions are when each side of your family gets together and have valuable time. At family reunion your relative show you love and support you through difficult situations. The most important part is the you get to see long Lot relatives that you were dying to see. Most family reunions stitch up break-ups between one another and the can prevent separation time. Reunions keep down the drama from each household. Many times when families plan them it shows that the members of your family have a positive outlook on life, like sticking together at all times. When people attend family reunions' emotions flow throughout the whole day till everyone is gone their separate ways. If a family reunion is something new to you: you will really enjoy moments like those of a family reunion. Reunions are based n a family's communication among each grandparent, sister, brother, and cousins. These people are the unity of everyone. Then location is the biggest part because everyone needs a nice convenient place that is reasonable for everyone. Out-of-town trips are fun for a family reunion but not fun like being at hone giving your family coming to you. Money is a big component that is involve in being a family. If u know it or not their are dues to be paid. Dues should be no more than twenty-dollars. When you can't pay dues your other fellow family members that happily love you will come out their pockets and make sure you com out to attend this gathering. My family reunions are always fun. I just attended an family reunion Saturday the 8th at tan clubhouse. It was exciting, especially for me because I'm like the star of the family. People actually jump up running to me to give me hugs and to speak. All my baby cousin run all around me as a whole and it swam me. Always there is little kids all around me. Yes, I just love the attention because it makes me feel special. When I arrive I feel the vibe of a good time with my family. My family consists off plenty of characters so i never know whom I'm going to run into. The food is always goo.d so if you have good cooks there should not be a problem with nasty food. We had dishes from green beans which I hat spaghetti, ham (to let you in on a secret I don't eat pork). We had plenty of chicken and hamburgers. Lots of cakes and drinks, most people thinks that's the best part of getting together with family is "the food", which is kind of true, but it not important. An older person from the family always selects the music because if someone young picked the music the elders would be upset. The music that is played is good enough to make both parties satisfied. When i go to my reunions i always like to bring my boyfriend at the time to show him off, but i also bring friends of mines too. When all these fun things end it just spoil your night but there is always next year. The next year probably would be more exciting than he previous time.
At first glance, we appeared to be very different people but as you can see from our stories and experiences we share similar qualities and values. We hope that you can take away from our experiences the love and joy that we receive from our families and apply them to your own family lives
My name is Jacob and my most favorite time of the summer and the year, besides football season, is the week or two I get to spend at the beach with my family. Not only is it just my Dad, Mom, and sisters but my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are all at the beach together.
I have 3 sisters, so I am the only boy and I get stuck not being able to do guy things a lot so when I go to the beach I meet up with my cousins (three boys) and have a great time. The cousin closest to me is Caleb, he is the same age as me and if you didn't know us, you would think we were brothers, not because of our appearance but because of how we act just a like. We both love sports to death and we are both very athletic and active.
Most of our trips to the beach are very similar. The past 3 years we have stayed in a large beach house in Fort Morgan, Alabama but before that we always stayed in condos in Gulf Shores, Alabama. My family likes the beach house because the beach is never crowded and we are pretty much by ourselves, but Caleb and I of course would much rather be in a place where there are a lot of people and there for more girls, but besides the lack of girls on the beach everything is perfect.
The typical beach trip with my family starts with everyone meeting down on the coast (we don't all live around here so we just meet down there) and checking out the nice house that we get to stay in for the next week or two. The week we go is always during the TSSAA dead week for high school sports because we all play sports and that's the only time we get off. The days at the beach always start late for me because I sleep till Caleb gets tired of being up by himself and finally decides to wake me up. We always start our day by going down to the beach and riding the waves for a couple of hours or if the jellyfish are bad till we get fed up with getting stung. After we are all tired of the ocean beating us into the sand we go up and eat lunch, normally sandwiches, and rest a little bit. After eating lunch Caleb and I normally decided to take a walk on the beach to see if we can meet any girls, but where we are at we both know our odds are not very good. Since we will probably not see a single girl our age we take a football or frisbee and have fun throwing it up and down the beach as we keep an eye out for the girls that is never there. Once we have walked for five mile we both decided there are no girls our age anywhere in the state of Alabama we decide to walk back.
It is now late afternoon and we are all somewhat burnt from being out in the sun all day. Around this time Caleb and me grab our skim boards, which we have mastered with years and years of experience, and find a perfect spot to skim until the sun goes down. Even though I said we master it we will still find our selves bleeding at the knees and elbows and washing sand out of our pants from busting and rolling across the beach. Once day light is gone we decide to go up and eat dinner. Now dinner on our family vacations is something you do not want to miss. I am talking steak, boiled shrimp, barbecued shrimp, tilapia, huge baked potatoes, and amazing sides that are better than any restaurant I have ever been to. And then there is sweet tea and you can’t beat good sweet tea. Once our bellies are full Caleb and me normally take my younger cousin out to hunt for grabs. Because there are not that many people around where we stay at the crabs are everywhere and that makes a lot of fun while hunting them. Just a little side note we even got to see a giant sea turtle coming up on the beach to lay its eggs this past year. After we are done with our hunt Caleb and me normally go and relax in the hot tub before hitting the sack and starting the cycle all over again.The beach trip wouldn't be half as fun as it is without my cousin and family there and they are why I have such a great time every year we go.
As you go from the first story to the next you will start to see the similarities between us. You will see how we love our families and how we interact with one another.
I will start by saying I have a big, wonderful, funny, and loving family. I have three aunts, three uncles, and there are fourteen cousins. We love to get together and have a great time. This is my story of our yearly get together at Christmas.When I first get there I feel excited and happy. I feel nervous and jumpy almost at the sight of seeing people I do not get to see a lot. The atmosphere is great. We are all happy to see each other and it is really like a homecoming, because everyone is together for the only time that year. All the little kids are excited and wanting to open their presents, the big kids too, but not as much. All my uncles and aunts are talking and helping with the food. All the young adults (who used to be the kids) are just hanging out and having fun.The next scenes are interacting and mingling before dinner is ready. Everyone is running around and talking. We are all laughing and having a good time. We are all getting caught up about everyone’s business. This is a fun time because we are all just sitting around, helping Ma, and having a great time. Dinner is served. Boy, are we all ready to eat by then. By that time the smell of the food cooking has made us all so hunger we don’t know what to do. Ma and Pa always make the same thing too. Spaghetti and Lasagna with salad and rolls is the standard. Yum Yum. Of course there are deserts too. I love the deserts. We always look forward to this part.Presents are next. Now who doesn't like presents?? Nobody I know. Anyway, we all assemble in the den and Pa hands out all the gifts. The excitement is in the air. "What did we get?" that is all we can think about. The little ones especially you want to watch. They are so funny. When I was younger I was the one they were all laughing at, but now that I am older I see how much fun it is to be the observer. I have a younger sister so I have more fun watching her than I do opening my stuff.
Afterwards we all sit around chatting and us older ones are making plans about what or where to go next. We always have so much fun at the party. We all look forward to this one event every year. We never get to see everybody together at the same time and this is our only time. My Uncle Chuck lives in Ohio so they only get to come down once a year and that is at Christmas. We all look forward to getting to know one another again and just taking time to talk and laugh. Because when everything is said and done our heart is in our family.
Family reunions are when each side of your family gets together and have valuable time. At family reunion your relative show you love and support you through difficult situations. The most important part is the you get to see long Lot relatives that you were dying to see. Most family reunions stitch up break-ups between one another and the can prevent separation time. Reunions keep down the drama from each household. Many times when families plan them it shows that the members of your family have a positive outlook on life, like sticking together at all times. When people attend family reunions' emotions flow throughout the whole day till everyone is gone their separate ways. If a family reunion is something new to you: you will really enjoy moments like those of a family reunion. Reunions are based n a family's communication among each grandparent, sister, brother, and cousins. These people are the unity of everyone. Then location is the biggest part because everyone needs a nice convenient place that is reasonable for everyone. Out-of-town trips are fun for a family reunion but not fun like being at hone giving your family coming to you. Money is a big component that is involve in being a family. If u know it or not their are dues to be paid. Dues should be no more than twenty-dollars. When you can't pay dues your other fellow family members that happily love you will come out their pockets and make sure you com out to attend this gathering. My family reunions are always fun. I just attended an family reunion Saturday the 8th at tan clubhouse. It was exciting, especially for me because I'm like the star of the family. People actually jump up running to me to give me hugs and to speak. All my baby cousin run all around me as a whole and it swam me. Always there is little kids all around me. Yes, I just love the attention because it makes me feel special. When I arrive I feel the vibe of a good time with my family. My family consists off plenty of characters so i never know whom I'm going to run into. The food is always goo.d so if you have good cooks there should not be a problem with nasty food. We had dishes from green beans which I hat spaghetti, ham (to let you in on a secret I don't eat pork). We had plenty of chicken and hamburgers. Lots of cakes and drinks, most people thinks that's the best part of getting together with family is "the food", which is kind of true, but it not important. An older person from the family always selects the music because if someone young picked the music the elders would be upset. The music that is played is good enough to make both parties satisfied. When i go to my reunions i always like to bring my boyfriend at the time to show him off, but i also bring friends of mines too. When all these fun things end it just spoil your night but there is always next year. The next year probably would be more exciting than he previous time.
At first glance, we appeared to be very different people but as you can see from our stories and experiences we share similar qualities and values. We hope that you can take away from our experiences the love and joy that we receive from our families and apply them to your own family lives
Monday, September 10, 2007
Going to the beach
Probably my most favorite time of the summer and the year, besides football season, is the week or two I get to spend at the beach with my family. Not only is it just my Dad, Mom, and sisters but my grandparents, aunts , uncles, and cousins.
I have 3 sisters, so I am the only boy and I get stuck not being able to do guy things a lot so when I go to the beach I meet up with my cousins (three boys) and have a great time. The cousin closest to me is Caleb, he is the same age as me and if you didn't know us you would think we were brothers, not because of our appearance but because of how we act just a like. We both love sports to death and we are both very athletic and active.
Most of our trips to the beach are very similar. The past 3 years we have stayed in a large beach house in Fort Morgan, Alabama but before that we always stayed in condos in Gulf Shores, Alabama. My family likes the beach house because the beach is never crowded and we are pretty much by ourselves, but Caleb and I of course would much rather be in a place where there are a lot of people and there for more girls, but besides the lack of girls on the beach everything is perfect.
The typical beach trip with my family starts with everyone meeting down on the coast (we don't all live around here so we just meet down there) and checking out the nice house that we get to stay in for the next week or two. The week we go is always during the TSSAA dead week for high school sports because we all play sports and that's the only time we get off. The days at the beach always start late for me because I sleep till Caleb gets tired of being up by himself and finally decides to wake me up. We always start our day by going down to the beach and riding the waves for a couple of hours or if the jellyfish are bad till we get fed up with getting stung. After we are all tired of the ocean beating us into the sand we go up and eat lunch, normally sandwiches, and rest a little bit. After eating lunch Caleb and I normally decided to take a walk on the beach to see if we can meet any girls, but where we are at we both know our odds are not very good. Since we will probably not see a single girl our age we take a football or frisbee and have fun throwing it up and down the beach as we keep an eye out for the girls that is never there. Once we have walked for five mile we both decided there are no girls our age anywhere in the state of Alabama we decide to walk back.
It is now late afternoon and we are all somewhat burnt from being out in the sun all day. Around this time me and Caleb grab our skim boards, which we have mastered with years and years of experience, and find a perfect spot to skim until the sun goes down. Even though I said we master it will still find our selves bleeding at the knees and elbows and washing sand out of our pants from busting and rolling across the beach. Once day light is gone we decide to go up and eat dinner. Now dinner on our family vacations is something you do not want to miss. I am talking steak, boiled shrimp, barbecued shrimp, tilapia, huge baked potatoes, and amazing sides that are better than any restaurant I have ever been to. And then there is sweet tea and you cant beat good sweet tea. Once our belly's are full me and Caleb normally take my younger cousin out to hunt for grabs. Because there are not that many people around where we stay at the crabs are everywhere and that makes a lot of fun while hunting them. Just a little side note we even got to see a giant sea turtle coming up on the beach to lay its eggs this past year. After we are done with our hunt me and Caleb normally go and relax in the hot tub before hitting the sack and starting the cycle all over again.
The beach trip wouldn't be half as fun as it is without my cousin and family there and they are why I have such a great time every year we go.
I have 3 sisters, so I am the only boy and I get stuck not being able to do guy things a lot so when I go to the beach I meet up with my cousins (three boys) and have a great time. The cousin closest to me is Caleb, he is the same age as me and if you didn't know us you would think we were brothers, not because of our appearance but because of how we act just a like. We both love sports to death and we are both very athletic and active.
Most of our trips to the beach are very similar. The past 3 years we have stayed in a large beach house in Fort Morgan, Alabama but before that we always stayed in condos in Gulf Shores, Alabama. My family likes the beach house because the beach is never crowded and we are pretty much by ourselves, but Caleb and I of course would much rather be in a place where there are a lot of people and there for more girls, but besides the lack of girls on the beach everything is perfect.
The typical beach trip with my family starts with everyone meeting down on the coast (we don't all live around here so we just meet down there) and checking out the nice house that we get to stay in for the next week or two. The week we go is always during the TSSAA dead week for high school sports because we all play sports and that's the only time we get off. The days at the beach always start late for me because I sleep till Caleb gets tired of being up by himself and finally decides to wake me up. We always start our day by going down to the beach and riding the waves for a couple of hours or if the jellyfish are bad till we get fed up with getting stung. After we are all tired of the ocean beating us into the sand we go up and eat lunch, normally sandwiches, and rest a little bit. After eating lunch Caleb and I normally decided to take a walk on the beach to see if we can meet any girls, but where we are at we both know our odds are not very good. Since we will probably not see a single girl our age we take a football or frisbee and have fun throwing it up and down the beach as we keep an eye out for the girls that is never there. Once we have walked for five mile we both decided there are no girls our age anywhere in the state of Alabama we decide to walk back.
It is now late afternoon and we are all somewhat burnt from being out in the sun all day. Around this time me and Caleb grab our skim boards, which we have mastered with years and years of experience, and find a perfect spot to skim until the sun goes down. Even though I said we master it will still find our selves bleeding at the knees and elbows and washing sand out of our pants from busting and rolling across the beach. Once day light is gone we decide to go up and eat dinner. Now dinner on our family vacations is something you do not want to miss. I am talking steak, boiled shrimp, barbecued shrimp, tilapia, huge baked potatoes, and amazing sides that are better than any restaurant I have ever been to. And then there is sweet tea and you cant beat good sweet tea. Once our belly's are full me and Caleb normally take my younger cousin out to hunt for grabs. Because there are not that many people around where we stay at the crabs are everywhere and that makes a lot of fun while hunting them. Just a little side note we even got to see a giant sea turtle coming up on the beach to lay its eggs this past year. After we are done with our hunt me and Caleb normally go and relax in the hot tub before hitting the sack and starting the cycle all over again.
The beach trip wouldn't be half as fun as it is without my cousin and family there and they are why I have such a great time every year we go.
Theme and Team Members
My group is made up of Kameshia Williams, Christina Defilippo, and myself. We decided on the theme of familiy traditions.
My family Traditions
My family Traditions
- I have a huge family
- 3 sisters
- 18 cousins
- Thanksgiving dinners and football games
- Home made ice cream and peach cobbler
- Going to the beach
- Christmas time
- Football games
- Easter
- summer time
- New Years
- "spot light"
- Times at the pool
- Colorado trip
- 4th of July
- Water balloons
- meeting at the park
my group chose "going to the beach" as my point to write on.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I read and article in The New Yorker and the title of it was No Obstacles. It was written by Alec Wilkinson and the article is about a new form of sport or so called parkour or free running. I was drawn to this article because i am really into athletics and parkour is very physically demanding and takes a lot of hard work and determination. Just to tell you what parkour is, it is those people that start running and no matter what is in there way they do these jumps and what not to get over every obstacle. If any of you have seen the latest James Bond the opening scene in it is parkour.
The article was pretty easy to read because I am for one interested in the subject but also it was very descriptive and gave good mental pictures of something that i have never seen before. The authors word choice consisted mostly of words that are used in parkour such as certain jumps and what not. Most of the words he used i wouldn't have know the meaning of them by themselves but because they were in this story i was able to understands and picture what parkour really is and what the moves look like. The article was set up by the writer in an interview format where he went around and talked to people that were doing parkour and he even talked to the man who invented it. Every person that he mentioned in his story he gave a detailed description of their face, body type, and what they were wearing. All that really help me visualize where and what he was doing, i felt like i was with him. As far as tone and voice go in my article, the tone was like the writer was kind of excited about the subject but not to over the top and the voice was just getting this information about the unpopular hobby out there.
The article was pretty easy to read because I am for one interested in the subject but also it was very descriptive and gave good mental pictures of something that i have never seen before. The authors word choice consisted mostly of words that are used in parkour such as certain jumps and what not. Most of the words he used i wouldn't have know the meaning of them by themselves but because they were in this story i was able to understands and picture what parkour really is and what the moves look like. The article was set up by the writer in an interview format where he went around and talked to people that were doing parkour and he even talked to the man who invented it. Every person that he mentioned in his story he gave a detailed description of their face, body type, and what they were wearing. All that really help me visualize where and what he was doing, i felt like i was with him. As far as tone and voice go in my article, the tone was like the writer was kind of excited about the subject but not to over the top and the voice was just getting this information about the unpopular hobby out there.
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