How effective was the two types of workshops for the literacy narrative and propsal essay?

I am not a fan of peer reviews because I know myself, I really am not sure what is wrong with someone elses paper, unless it is a major problem. The work shops would be more effective it was to a person of higher education and had an interest in writing. We as a whole just would like to read the papers and see what it is about, not what is wrong with it. Which also means that we are afraid of commenting to harshly about anothers piece. All in all, I think when we did workshops as a class, there was more discussions of everyones papers indiviually.

Life in Vermillion

Growing up in New Jersey, I never realized how secluded a town could be. In New Jersey towns are seperated by roads since they all pretty much border each other. Towns in South Dakota are seperated by miles and miles of farms. Although I have visited the state at least once a year, for seventeen years, it is completely different actually living here. It is a difficult transition, that some (including myself) cannot handle!! In class it was good to see that I was not the only one transferrring away from USD. I would like to know their reasons for leaving. It would be an interesting class discussion.

Literacy Analysis Outline

The outline was helpful in the way that it organized my paper, and gave me the guidlines for the piece. Of course I waited until the last minute to really work on the paper so it was not filled out. But I think if I did complete it it would have made life a little easier. I would recommend having those outlines for all papers because it really teaches you the correct organization for writing the papers.

I have decided to change what I am going to be writing about for The Most Dangerous Game. Instead of irony, I am going to write how the author uses the characters to represent the different classes.

The main characters in Richard Connell's, "The Most Dangerous Game", are used to show the different classes in the 1920's.

The Most Dangerous Game Thesis

Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" expresses much irony throughout his short story.

Analyzing Literature

Analyzing literature definatly helped me understand what these stories "real" meaning is. There are still certain details in all of the stories that i do not understand or know what the author is trying to portray. But for the most part I get all ot the themes in the stories. Highlighting different points in the story also helped me write my paragraphs. It helped me go back and see things that i wanted to write about. From now on when I read literature for a class, i will have highlighter ready!

The Yellow Wall-Paper and A White Heron Symbols

The Yellow Wall-Paper
The main symbol in this story is opression of women by men, also the struggle against a male dominated society. The yellow wall-paper itself is symbolic of the how men attempted to place a mental screen on women during the 1800s. Also the color yellow can be associated with sickness so the yellow wallpaper makes the women sick. It is like a man opressing a women.

A White Heron
The color white is a symbol, it represents the purity of life. Thats why the the story is about a white heron. Also when the girl describes climbing the "biggest" tree to be able see so much. The way the description came off it could have symbolized sex.

Women in the Early 1900's

"The Progressive Era, the 1890s to early 1900s, signaled a new era for women in the U.S. Middle-class women began to enroll in colleges or in technical training programs, such as hospital-based nursing education programs and two-year normal schools. These women faced rigid barriers to entering professions that were dominated by college-educated men-law, medicine, clergy, business executives, college and university faculty, and the military, as well as politics and public administration. An expanding labor force of women with advanced education, however, made the development of new kinds of human service organizations possible." (Austin 552)

Austin, David M. "Women's Career Choices and Human Service Organizations." Social Work 33.6 (1988): 551-552. 1 Nov. 2010. Web.

The early 1900's were dominated by males in all aspects of life especially in the work force. Finally women were actually allowed to got to college. Which ended up allowing the women to eventually find jobs right along with the men. Women were very limited during the 1900's and one of the main way they broke the barriers was when they attended college.