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"Slender Man- Mythical Creatures Guide"

1.  This story is intended for college students.  You can tell because you it references to roomates and other things in college life.

2.  The purpose would be to study or to completing projects at the last minute.  The author did not need to say the purpose any clearer because it was obvious as to who would need the advice.

3.  The instructions  are just bits of advice; they don't really need a sequence.  The individual directives describe them more complex though, and have a sequence of smaller steps.

4.  This reading is not an essay because it is missing a beginning and an end.  It is more of a list.

5.  It adds humor because it has the person doing many things at once.

6.  I think the study partner example is very funny and adds to the story very effectively.

1.  When Munger says he wasn't very good at writing, it tells the audience that anyone can learn how to write and become professional at it.  It also helps create a very relatable connection with the audience.

2.  The idea of being able to create more ideas from writing is essential to the writing process.

3.  Munger says this step happens when writers edit and share their work for constructive criticism.

4.  Using "puzzles" or "formulas" are very useful to start, as well as making relationships and coming up with new ideas in your writing.  Be careful though, because sticking to them religiously can make your writing less meaningful.

5.  Munger emphasizes formulating and refining questions, structuring arguments, and defining terms.

6.  In paragraphs two-three, it helps Munger introduce the importance of writing for academic professionals.  Paragraph eight shows Munger taking his own advice.  Paragraphs 12-14 show the main points about writing, flexx

1.  Tannen is speaking to women.  You can tell because she says statements like not being used to ritual fighting and how important it is to say you're sorry.

2.  She wants both men and women to appreciate the social aspect, but account for the differences in gender as well.  It says why in her last sentence.

3.  They are not mutually exclusive because things like criticism and humore can happen at the same time.  Tannen also doesn't pretend they are 'jointly ehaustive'.  She does touch on the simple and other general areas of workplace problems.

4.  She uses subcategories because men and women enjoy and use different types of humor.  These other categories usually focus on either male or female miscommunication.

5.  She uses a more structured form which shows how gender communication styles are usually not to a women's advantage.

6.  I found the narrative elements effective because they are

“The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11,
2001”


1.     
He is traveling on a
bicycle.  He is able to see
everyone as he goes by and is also able to see many different types of people
and their reactions. 
He can also hear
different stories as well.

2.     
He is mistaken at first
because there is so much ash on the man it looks as if he is covered in
snow.  He reports this mistake because he wants to describe to the reader how
bad the explosion was and the impact it had on the
  people.

 3.     
He gives the impression
that he is getting closer to the man because he is able to describe how
bloodshot his eyes are and able to describe his
skin.

 4.     
Beller is able to tell
the reader about the explosion, the second plane hitting, how the tower fell
down, where the fire was, and how many people were on the eighty-first
floor.  He uses dialogue to tell the reader this because it adds to the
emotional drama of the story.

 5.     
Some elements of
narration used in this story are: 
the setting, the characters, the goals, and the plot. 
The outcome does not really apply here since the problem was never
resolved.  The setting adds to the
story because it is ground zero for the 9/11 attacks. 
The characters add a lot to the story because it is the main emotional
impact for the reader in the story. 
Goals affect the story because the ashen man’s goal is to get away from
the towers.  And the plot adds to the story because it is the
main reason as to why the people in the story are doing their certain
  actions.

 “More
Room”

 1.     
She needs the room to
keep her health and in order to keep her mind as well. 
Cofer’s point is that
the space around us makes us who we are, and without being able to manipulate
that, we cannot control our own lives.

 2.     
She puts her focus on
her grandmother’s room because it’s the heart of the house.  It contributes to her description of Mama because
it was the place that meant the most to her when she was
little.

 3.     
She talks about how she
is able to see over the furniture and about how big the bed used to be for
her.  As a child, she would say how the house looked like a large “nesting
hen”.

 4.     
Some of the “symbols of
power” in the story were:  the jars
of herbs, the huge bed, the Bible, the crucifix, and the gigantic
chifforobe.  These make Mama seem like a “wise
empress”.

 5.     
The “bloodless coup”
was that Mama was able to get her own room without fighting it because the only
reason for new rooms anyway was for a new baby.  Mama had found a
way to stop having babies by changing the
house.

“House on Little Cubes” Writing assignment                                                                                               Ryley Steele

1.        A new day.  I wake up and do my normal routine:  breakfast, smoking, and sitting outside, enjoying the sun.  Today is different though.  It seems as if the tide has risen once again, and the ferry man is bringing the supplies to build our houses up once more.  I can’t recall how many time I have done this, far too many to count.  The ferry man approaches my home and hands over many bricks; I gladly take them.  I bring them back up to the roof of my small house and set up the lawn chair.  After I get myself situated, it is time to get to work.  The bricks are hard and rough on my small hands, but I barely feel anything anymore.  After years of building house after house, my hands are now numb to the pain of the tremendous work.  It takes most of the day to finish the next cube, but it is finally finished.  As I went down to grab my furniture from the flooded room beneath me, my pipe slips out of my mouth and is sucked into the depths of the numerous cubes beneath me.  At first, it does not hurt me too much, because I have a case full of pipes.  I can always replace an old pipe.  I return to excavating for my furniture in my boat, and after about an hour or two, I have finally retrieved all of my belongings.  I return to my newer, yet smaller, home.  I put my furniture back and looked for my case of pipes.  None of them were the same.  I tried numerous attempts to get used to every single one, but it did not feel right.  As I went outside in my sullen state, I noticed the ferryman had several diving suits.  On an impulse, I decided to buy one and get back my prized possession.  I put the suit on with ease, and looked down into the depths of the ocean.* STOP*

2.       My dear Beatrice,

     Words cannot express how much I miss you.  Every day it is the same feelings of emptiness I experience as I wake up.  I do what we used to do:  wake up, eat breakfast, and sit outside in the same chair as when we would sit together.  Nothing seems to brighten my days anymore ever since you were taken away.  The other day, the tide came in, and you know what that means.  I had to build another house for myself.  As I went to the old house to grab our furniture, I dropped the pipe you gave me.  At first, I did not even think of anything different, but after I tried out the other pipes I had, I knew I had to get it back.  I went to the ferry man the next day and bought a diving suit to get your pipe back.  When I went down, I was not expecting to be hit with every single memory we ever had with each other.  I saw when you were sick, when Gwen was married, when Gwen went to school, when we had her, when we met.  So many memories of us, it pained me to continue down.  But at last, I got the pipe, and that was the only thing that mattered.  When I got back to the new home, I prepared dinner just like any other day if you were here:  the wine, the table, and the chairs.  The only problem was you were gone.

                                                                                                                    I miss you every day,

                                                                                                                                                            Alfred

3.       Today, I’m observing a very peculiar person.  He goes by the name Alfred, and he does not say much, which is part of the reason he is so peculiar.  I will be watching his daily routine, to see if maybe he has a secret to hide.  He is getting up at the moment, but nothing to strange so far.  All he did was get dressed, which is normal, and is now preparing a normal breakfast.  How can someone so normal be so weird?  He is taking his breakfast to the table, but he has set up two chairs.  That’s odd.  If there is only one person, why set up two chairs?  As he finishes breakfast, he takes his dishes over to the sink.  He washes them like normal, but what’s this? My feet are wet.  It seems as if the tide is coming in again, which means he will have to build up once more.  This means I will have to build up once more, but I can do that later.  This is more important at this exact time.  I see him grabbing the usual supplies from the local ferry man as he prepares to build his home for maybe the 100th time in his life.  How old can he be? And with no family?  There’s another strange thing to consider.  Maybe he never had kids or married.  Anyway, back to the story.  He seems to be finishing up his new house, so now must be when he is going to get back his furniture.  He ventures down into the half flooded home, but what’s this?  He’s looking down into the water as if to find something.  A pipe.  He does not have his pipe anymore, which is awkward, due to the fact that he has been smoking it for quite some time since I started observing.  As he returns back to the surface, he goes to the local ferry man once more.  It looks as if he has rented a diving suit.  A diving suit? Does he really think he is going down into the ocean?  That means I will have to follow. As we both go down into the depths of the sea, he seems to stop for long intervals of time as if to remember something. *STOP*

Tell Tale Heart- Poe

I believe Poe used a variance of tenses in order to draw the reader into the story, because when he does so, it seems to be more interesting in general.  Another reason he might is as to confuse the reader, but at the same time having the reader analyze more in-depth to the story.  They are fairly consistent, but at some times it is a bit difficult to understand and see them at a first glance.  I believe they do add to the story by adding a more interesting theme to catch the reader.

“House on Little Cubes”


Chronological Order- “House on Little Cubes” uses
this technique because it goes in order of the old man’s actions throughout the
  short film.  It also, however,
uses the ‘flashback’technique for when the old man recognizes things that remind
him of his past.


Transitions- “House on Little Cubes” uses transitions during the
flashbacks.  It does this by going
  directly back to the time and place where the item he recognizes is used. 



Verb Tenses- “House on Little Cubes” does not use any verb tense,
since there is no conversation between
characters.


Dialogue- While “House on Little Cubes” does have interaction
  amongst characters, there is no conversation or dialogue among
them.


Point of View- The point of view used in “House on Little Cubes”
would be the objective point of view, since the reader does not know more than
what is happening in the story.

“The Clinic”
1.
  Gremmels purpose in writing “The Clinic” is to describe his first experience
with a patient where he has to go beyond the physical problems with the patient.
  The reader knows this because he explains his feelings about dealing with the
boy’s mental psych after conversing with a doctor.
2.
  I believe Gremmels choose the medical detective genre because the essay and
story is based on him finding out clues as to why the boy is feeling
pain.
3.
  Gemmel reveals these clues to the read by describing what he does to examine
the boy, such as taking off his shirt to reveal the marks.  Another way he
reveals them is how he talks with the mother about how he gets the bruises. 
These clues advance the narrative because they further incline the story about
the boy and his mental and physical abuse.
4.
  I think if it were for an english essay contest or for the general public to
view,  I believe it should have ended with the poem because it adds a more
personal and intimate setting with the reader and the boy.  Since it was for the
medical judges though, Gremmels did an excellent job in ending his
essay.
5.
  I believe that Gremmels does do this in “The Clinic” because he is presented
with the boy with the bruises and he has to find out why.  While he does not do
this on his own and needs a doctor to help him, he is still presented with
effects and cause.
“An
American Childhood”
1.
  The introduction about football is necessary to the plot of the story because
it talk about the value of fearless perseverance, which the man chasing the kids
displays.
2.
  Dillard starts to call the man a “hero” and how him chasing the kids is for
“glory” after a while, and in the beginning it was just a man chasing a couple
kids for throwing snowballs.
3.
  Dillard only gives the first part of the stranger’s rant because she states
that the rest of it was redundant and beside the point of their
actions.
4.
  Dillard learns by imagining different outcomes that no matter what would have
happened, the stranger would not have been able to say anything more meaningful
than “You stupid kids”.  This reveals that her purpose for the writing is that
perseverance is key to anything in life.
5.
  Since she is using such powerful description, it really paints a picture in the
reader’s mind as to what she is experiencing in the scenario.  It contributes to
the point because it also helps the reader understand how much the experience
meant to her.  I think the point is that Dillard is trying to tell the reader
how important going at your goals fearlessly is, but at the same time, no matter
how hard you go, the result will be the same.