Congratulations to everyone who got their essay in on time. To those who missed the deadline, your essays will lose one grade point for each day it is late. I am generally pleased with the level of writing and research for all the essays I've read so far. Some students exceeded my expectations. The common problem was a failure to proofread the essays before submission. I cannot stress enough the value of reading the essay aloud (in a loud voice) to yourself.
Don't forget to finish Elements of Style. We will have a short quiz.
Also you have a cyber-essay due by midnight today. See April 19 for the assignment. In the 9-10 a.m. English 1A class students were interested in writing about the Golden State Warriors instead of Virginia Tech and gun control. If you'd like to switch topics to another current event topic that is controversial or debatable, this is fine. All the elements of the assignment apply, so look at it.
Field trip
I reserved 20 tickets for this event. Email me at professorwandasposse@gmail.com to let me know if you are interested in attending and how many tickets you'd like.
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, a Community Conversation with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, is Tuesday, May 8, 7-8:30 p.m.at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium | 1111 California Street @ Taylor, San Francisco
The Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium is located between Jones and Taylor streets, immediately opposite Grace Cathedral. Limited parking is available on-site for a special event rate of $15 per car, payable upon entry in CASH ONLY. There are other garages in the area; however, they do not offer discounted rates for attendees of Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium events.
Visit www.masonicauditorium.com/location.html for a local map, parking and driving directions, as well as public transportation information. You may also call (415) 292-9151 for directions.
Doors to the auditorium open at 6:00 PM. Tickets are general admission; please plan to arrive early for best seating. Stand-by seating will begin for non-ticket holders at 6:45 PM. If you have not arrived at the theatre by this time, you may forfeit your seat.
Other important details
The first 1,000 attendees will receive COMPLIMENTARY copies of Not on our Watch. Again, we encourage you to allow ample time for traffic and parking, plan to arrive early, and to ensure that you receive your copy of this highly-anticipated book! Not on Our Watch will also be available for purchase for $14.95 in the auditorium lobby.
No cameras, audio, or videotaping will be permitted for this event.
Don't forget to finish Elements of Style. We will have a short quiz.
Also you have a cyber-essay due by midnight today. See April 19 for the assignment. In the 9-10 a.m. English 1A class students were interested in writing about the Golden State Warriors instead of Virginia Tech and gun control. If you'd like to switch topics to another current event topic that is controversial or debatable, this is fine. All the elements of the assignment apply, so look at it.
Field trip
I reserved 20 tickets for this event. Email me at professorwandasposse@gmail.com to let me know if you are interested in attending and how many tickets you'd like.
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, a Community Conversation with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, is Tuesday, May 8, 7-8:30 p.m.at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium | 1111 California Street @ Taylor, San Francisco
The Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium is located between Jones and Taylor streets, immediately opposite Grace Cathedral. Limited parking is available on-site for a special event rate of $15 per car, payable upon entry in CASH ONLY. There are other garages in the area; however, they do not offer discounted rates for attendees of Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium events.
Visit www.masonicauditorium.com/location.html for a local map, parking and driving directions, as well as public transportation information. You may also call (415) 292-9151 for directions.
Doors to the auditorium open at 6:00 PM. Tickets are general admission; please plan to arrive early for best seating. Stand-by seating will begin for non-ticket holders at 6:45 PM. If you have not arrived at the theatre by this time, you may forfeit your seat.
Other important details
The first 1,000 attendees will receive COMPLIMENTARY copies of Not on our Watch. Again, we encourage you to allow ample time for traffic and parking, plan to arrive early, and to ensure that you receive your copy of this highly-anticipated book! Not on Our Watch will also be available for purchase for $14.95 in the auditorium lobby.
No cameras, audio, or videotaping will be permitted for this event.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 8:23 AM
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Gun Control in the United States
The problem is not gun control; there are many factors that add up to the problems we face as a society and the large amount of suicide and murders we have every year, particularly by firearms. Some of the problems we face are the culture of fear we have created, the lack of health insurance for everyone in the United States and the large amount of yearly deaths we have compare to other countries.
The problem is our culture of fear, power, and obsession with success, violence and sex. Americans are obsessed with fear, control and power. If you sit to watch the news for two minutes all you see are bad news about people being killed somewhere, or deadly diseases. Moreover, the need for physical and financial perfection can be truly damaging to the mind of human beings.
Another problem is the amount of yearly violent deaths we have in the United States compare to other countries. For instance, a “total of 12, 000 people were killed by a gun related incident in 2003” (Moores). If we compare it with any other country ,ours is much higher, for example Canada had about 300 deaths, so did France, Japan had something like 150. People in these countries are exposed to as much violence as the people in the United States, only the results are different.
The lack of mental and physical care Americans receive is also a problem.
How many people can afford to see a psychiatrist on a daily basis when faced with anxiety, stress and severe depression? How many people can actually be absent from work at least once a week because they need to receive counseling for their depression?
Furthermore, as a society, and individuals, how much time do we spend actually doing something to reach out to those unfortunate and lonely people? Do we really care about our neighbors and classmates? How much do we considered the people we encounter on the street?
The solution to violence must begin in the home, from childhood. We must be able to grow up in a place where not only our parents are there to support us but society is there to do so as well. The media, television and our overall mentality needs to be changed. Obsession with competition and perfection needs to stop. People must begin to love themselves in order to love others.
Samantha Garrido
English 1A 8-9
Works cited
"Gun Control.” By James D. Agresti. Just Facts Foundation, June 10, 1999. Accessed at justfacts.com.
DelVecchio, Rick. Mental Health Services: States Universities re-examine programs for struggling students.” San Francisco Chronicle 19 Apr. 2007: A13.
Samantha Garrido
Great essay Samantha! Your evidence is strong and your argument for the problem with violence as symtomatic of a larger social problem like insufficent mental health facilities or access to proper healthcare, plus your very compelling evidence for violence steming from "our culture of fear, power, and obsession with success, violence and sex."
I had a grammatical note, but I can't find it anymore. the word order in a few instances is questionable, but not wrong, also you do have a few comma splices and I think a fused sentence. Overall, you are getting a lot better with catching the errors before publishing.
The grade is a B+ (4/5).
Oh, I found the note. I wanted to mention the term: "collective noun." See Hacker. Collective nouns, even though they are plural in meaning, take singular verbs.
The word I am referring to here is "news."
"If you sit to watch the "news" for two minutes all you see "are" bad news about people being killed somewhere, or deadly diseases...".
"news...is." The subject is news, the rest are phrases and dependent clauses.
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