Multi-Genre Projects: Crumbled Creativity

While skimming through the provided list of multi-genre projects, I found the one titled 'Crumbled Creativity' to be the most interesting. I enjoyed how she incorporated her honest opinion with very blunt facts. She got her ideas to the reader very quickly by giving examples of what the ideal high school English student consists of using objects such as a syllabus, conversations, etc. I found it to be humorous just because the standard modern English student is piled with assignments based off of literature, but the assignments lack the opportunity to be creative on our own. English class should ideally help students to better their writing skills as a whole, which includes fishing for good ideas and being able to creatively put ideas together to form something interesting and worth reading. Instead, we are piled with readings and questions that only have one right answer. It is the sad truth, but if we spend all of our time focusing on the analytics of already-published pieces, what will be studied in English classes 20 years from now?

Reading Response 3: UN Millennium Goals

    The United Nation Millennium Goal that stood out to me the most was to promote gender equality and empower women. I found this to be an interesting topic for many reasons, mainly because I couldn't agree any less with the fact that women need to stop men from holding a "higher" view in society. I recently read a book called Lean In, and it touched on many facts and issues we face today dealing with gender bias. Women nowadays are working their way up to the top with men, but we still face many controversial issues with gender.
    "Women are gaining ground in the labour market, but in every developing region still tend to hold less secure jobs." Women in top positions in the workplace is something that we are seeing more and more of as time goes on, but it never really used to be common. If you are a woman and were aware of this (as I am) , it might just make you want to prove everyone wrong. There is no reason why a woman can't do anything that a man couldn't. Other things that women deal with are opportunity for education and less jobs outside of agriculture. Women are also more likely to be a victim of sexual violence.
    To improve these issues, women and young girls all around the world are getting better education which will hopefully lead to more positive outcomes in the future. Maybe one day we will have a female president, but until then, we must continue to be aware that all women are just as equal to men and deserve the same opportunities, education, and freedoms as they do.

Start Something that Matters: Reading Response #2

1. http://startsomethingthatmatters.maker.good.is/projects/foodshift?position=19&sort=896
     This article is about an idea that came from a girl named Dana. She created FoodShift in order to reduce food waste while giving people part-time employment. This will also help the green economy. Americans dispose 40% of all food while 50 million Americans don't have easy access to food. This article caught my eye due to the fact that this truth is a harsh and scary one that the world faces today, and yet it IS solvable as the article mentions.

2. http://startsomethingthatmatters.maker.good.is/projects/goodspread?position=29&sort=263
    This article is about two men who started a Peanut Butter company called Good Spread. They set out in a Winnebago to deliver small packets of all natural peanut butter (contains milk and vitamins) in order to try to eradicate hunger and severe acute malnutrition. This article caught my eye because I love peanut butter, and it's for a wonderful cause.

3. http://startsomethingthatmatters.maker.good.is/projects/highergroundfarm?position=27&sort=291
    This article is about two people who have came up with the idea of "Higher Ground Farming." This concept allows all natural farming to happen in cities, as they buy out rooftops throughout the city. This helps food supply while doing it the right way. If I do say so myself, it's a very clever and innovative idea as urban areas continue to populate.

    All of these articles hit a soft spot with me. Hunger and food are serious problems in the world today, and it makes me extremely happy when people can come up with solutions that actually work. If more people were to realize this, we could all start something big.
    If I didn't have to worry about money, I would worry about making myself happy along with others. I would focus on the small things in life and just simply being able to enjoy every moment. The kind of work I want to do is something that makes sense with organization, numbers, and good people. I'm looking into accounting of course, but I could make my future just that much better by being an accountant for a company with a good cause. If I had to choose a cause, I would definitely choose hunger. Lots of kids depend on school food on the week days just because their parents don't make enough to get by. Food is one of the most important things for our health as humans, so it's an easy difference that you can make.

Article 1 Response

    In 7 Grammar Rules You Should Really Pay Attention To, Ben Yagoda talks about the most common errors in writing today. These easy "oopsies" consist of subjunctives, parallelism, verb problems, pronoun problems, a 'dangling' conversation, semicolons, and words. When I was reading through the examples that were shown in the article, I was shocked to read this one:

"* The fish laid lay on the counter, fileted and ready to broil."

 

This one sounded extra silly to me, but maybe that's because I don't use the word 'fish' often. In all reality, the word IS pretty hard to use correctly when it comes to subject-verb agreement. I found most of the grammar rules that were mentioned pretty easy to understand though, but I still don't fully understand some situations. The picture I used depicts my reaction to the quoted correction above. It sounded a little off to me, but I can keep this in mind to improve my grammar in the future. This article opened my eyes to critiquing my own writing.