reading assignment

Genre: Persuasive essay

Purpose: The woman was trying to inform readers about the purpose of the veil and the history of why it was considered acceptable to remove said veil. She wanted to prove that the veil was important and should not be cast aside.

Central Message: Women should not abandon the veil because it represents their religion not men’s power over them.

World View and Assumptions: The veil has been seen in western culture as a way to keep the women under their control. Some said it was a prison, and that it prevented the women from progressing like the men had.

Use of Tools: She started with stating what was wrong with western cultures belief of the veil. This helped make clear her intentions. Then she gave a history of the abondenment of the veil. This helped inform the reader with facts. Then she told them why the veil was important. This helped give perspective on why it was instituted in the first place. 

Assignment Narrative Response

Writing my personal narrative was very difficult. At first I couldn’t think of anything that would be meaningful or that I thought really made a difference in my life. I thought about girls I liked, people I met, but none of them made a compelling story. Then I remembered a seminary lesson I had. I was telling a story about a story, so it ended up being a story within a story. This made the paper seem like inception. It was hard to help the reader keep track of which level they were in and what was going on in the other level. The advantage to using this technique however was making it easier to get my point across and to give the meaning more depth. I was able to have many different things that changed my life portrayed in my writing. I wrote about the value of life as well as the sacrifices that others have given us, because these topics are very broad it was difficult to form them into concise thoughts and meaningful comments. The situation that I was in is what made the lesson more meaningful to me, and it was hard to portray that to the reader so I took extra time trying to explain that. I sure hope it all made sense, because it made sense to me. Then again, I wrote it so it is hard to tell what really makes sense.

Assignment Personal Narrative

I am excited to get started on my narrative. The story I will be writing about mean a lot to me and has changed how I think as a whole. The one thing that I think made my experience so moving is that all the people who were involved were my good friends in my seminary class. In Alaska the classes were smaller so there were only six of us there, but because the class was so small we were the best of friends. I like to write stories and novels so I think that creating the mode and building the characters will be easy enough, but the one thing I still don't understand is how she wants us to format it. Does she want it like a book or an essay? In class it sounded like she wanted us to write it like a book, but I didn't see any of the other narratives formatted like that. I couldn't tell what she really wanted. I will probably end up looking it up in the MLA book and just writing it like the other ones. I guess that the other problem I might have is writing too much of the details. When it comes to writing I don't leave anything out. It will take some work to shorten my narrative to the proper length. If anyone would like ideas still I think I may be able to help, even though we are already supposed to have a topic.

Assignment Oriental Woman

I have actually been thinking about this same subject in the past and I agree with the author. I really doesn't matter what people are called as long as it is not offensive to them. We had four or five black kids in my high school and every last one of them wanted to be known as black, not African American, because they have never even been to Africa. After reading this I talked with a coworker about it and she told me of an experience she had on her mission. She said that her companion was a very white girl and she was tan. Once a Chinese women she had been teaching asked her why she was not white like her companion. She didn't understand what she meant. The women said "the other girl is white and you are brown." My coworker explained that they were both considered to be white but she had a darker skin. The women said that each they were different. she said "No you are brown, she is white, and I am yellow." My coworker said that if she had said the women was yellow she would have been sent home, but the women didn't care because that is what she is and it described her. People lost sight that it is really just a description and now take it as an insult. 

Secrets of a sketchbook

I enjoyed reading my father’s sketchbook. I loved how she was able to see her fathers’ drawings, lists, and even his thoughts at times. It was in a sense his journal and his work all in a small book. She loved to go into his office and flip through his work. She said that she felt bad at times for reading his secret sketchbook but to be honest I think that it was not necessarily hidden so it was not off limits. When she read about her father being down in the dumps I thought about my own dad. He never lets people know when he is having a bad day. Even though I know he has them from time to time I never hear about it or help him through it. I feel like he is doing what he must to keep the rest of us from feeling depressed just like her father, but sometimes the children need to know about those sort of things so that when they are in the parents position they don't think they are alone. I think that her father needed to talk with his daughter about things that were going on in his life, instead of just writing them down where she may never see them. If she hadn’t been snooping around she may have never really known who her father really was. I hope that when I am a father I will not make the same mistakes as he did. 

An overview of me

My name is Steven Andrew Moore. I come from a family of four of which I am the second oldest. Whether it is sports or just hiking I love the outdoors. I play Ultimate Frisbee, and soccer, Ran Track and field, threw discus and shot put, and competed in dive team. I also am an active participant in local scout troops and have helped organize and run camps for the boys in this district. The camp I would love the most s a  survival camp. The boys get a knife, some string, and a compass. Then we leave them up in the mountains. I enjoy those sorts of camps.