Jounral Entry 19

I know I misspelled the title.

Dear Future Elizabeth,

What the actual heck are you doing? Finish the millennial paper. Do it. Have someone read over it before you finally turn it in. I know you hate other people reading your stuff, but you need to do so, so that it isn't just total ramblings before it becomes a grade. Elizabeth, I know you are perfect, and perfection comes from friendship. Get friendship to look over your final draft, then make it a final draft. Does that make sense? Yes.

Begin reading that article due at 10. Make a journal entry for it as well as finishing up the journal entry that was due Monday and all the other ones due last month. You're doing great, kiddo!


Lots of love and hugs and kisses,
Yours Truly,
Past Elizabeth A. McKnight

Journal Entry 18 (Attendance Project)

1. Re-writing and revising, to me, simply means adding on to what I was posing as my first draft of a paper. I fill in cracks to get closer to word count and make the paper more coherent in whatever atrocity I had typed previously. 

2. My current re-writing process is to fix my "rough" draft. My rough drafts are typically outlines heavily filled in.

3. My ideal re-writing process would be having just to fill in some gaps and make the paper more coherent to the average reader, not just me.

4. I don't like re-writing, for all it really does is remind me of my present academic failures. Currently, as in the last two years of my educational career, I find that pulling all the documents I need up onto my desktop with some video playing in the background. I find that I need as many senses occupied at once to concentrate, and seeing all the documents in front of me is rather crucial. Having all of one thing right in front of my face when I need to concentrate is good.

5. I don't like having other people edit my papers, but I need them to in order to fix my grammar mistakes. It's important. I like looking for grammar mistakes and sentence structure in the papers of others.

6. As stated above, I don't like peer editing, but I will acknowledge it's assistance in my success. 

Millenial Ideas (Journal Entry 17)

Being a millennial means listening to older generations gripe about millennials.
A good song to describe it would be "Baepsae" by BTS, just saying.
Arguments about this is either the best or worst time to be alive in history.
Millennials typically have it easy as they are the tech generation.
I guess another example would be that Vince Vaughn movie about Google interns and how they are really old but still et to work at Google. 
Being a millennial is about making the next new thing.




What people think about being a millennial:
Lazy
Always on thier phone
"Hook-up culture"
Dress inapproprietly
Protest too much, don't understand "history"
"Inventing" useless things
No motivation
Never finish school, drop out of high school, don't even apply to college
Group all "millennials" together



I do not think of myself as a millennial. I mean, I assume I am at the core; I'm always on my phone, I'm lazy and fit into the obiesity epidemic of America. I follow the herd and protest stuff that older generations don't care about and get upset over when we bring it up. But also, I'm a lady? I wear white gloves and eat finger sandwiches at tea time. I read Emily Post and watch Clark Gable movies, I like to think I'm the "old soul". But also, wouldn't that just make me even more of a millennial? Thinking I'm above myself? Or is that just narcissim?

Response to "Not Every Kid Bond Matures" (Journal Entry 16)

I will once again be responding as I read the article:

First paragraph in and this guy already sounds pretentious.

What does the author mean when he says, "politics did did not line up with the generations"? I know he goes on to explain himself, but I just do not see his reasoning behind using that phrase. I don't get it.

He lists famous marches and protests and uprisings, saying they are/did take place because of "the young". I mean... yeah. But also each generation has different feelings on etiquette and protesting. Of course "the young" are the ones going out and protesting! The older generation of... well, each generation is majorally against what is being protested against. That's kind of the point of protesting. Older people are in charge, and the young want to change it in order for thier future to be how they want. And so on and so on.

Who is this guy to say "the destruction of childhood"? Uhm? He can back up? Does he not think that once girls were widely accepted into learning institutions, thier elders got upset because they would forget how to milk the grass and mow the cows? Never mind.

I'm glad he describes the photo taken in Charlottesville. I always love hearing the stories behind the photos taken at protests. Like the one from Ferguson of the man who picked up a firing can of tear gas to throw it back? I never knew what the photo was until someone informed me. I'd like to see the photo mentioned in this article.
Here is the one I am referencing:

Topics/Questions for New Essay (Exploratory) (Journal Entry 14)

3 things that are cool:

• Musicals? Yeah. 
• Babies

3 things I dislike:

• White boy fashion
• Weed
• Shaving my legs

3 things I don't understand:

• My love for Ronald Reagan
• White boy fashion
• My youngest yet older brother (Preston)

Commitment Ceremony (Journal Entry 15)

Topic: Teacher Pay

Central Question: Why does no one ever rally for teacher pay like they do with other jobs?

Mini Questions:

1. Why are teachers paid so little in our state?
2. Is it important to pay someone based on work ethic/outcome of the occupation?
3. How come teachers are not allowed to protest in the state of North Carolina

Examples:

Only protest I've ever seen is wearing red on Wednesdays

Still below poverty line even when dad had a job

Everyone always tells me to change my major or that I have so much to look forward to if I wasn't a teacher. 

In pop-culture such as coming of age movies and shows or Young-Adult novels recently published, there has been a recurring joke since nearly anyone of any decade can laugh at. The joke brings up that awkward feeling a person gets when seeing their teacher outside of school. Running into your math professor at the grocery store, or seeing your old PE teacher at an unlikely concert. We have just become accustomed to seeing a certain person in a certain place, and it can be a little unsettling to change up that scenery. I remember my 8^th grade math teacher standing in front of the class, joking that teachers were robots that lived at school; and once all the students left, the instructors would climb into their respective cabinets and “power down”. I remember all the kids laughing at the way our teacher pretended to mechanically move and lose his robotic battery percentage. The joke is funny because we can all agree: teachers aren’t actually people. Are they? I mean, when you think about it, it can be hard to define that question; for normal people are paid for the jobs they do in accordance to how their occupation affects the nation. Teachers aren’t normal, not like other professionals. Teachers are held at a higher standard, having to still be under occupational scrutiny even when clocking out, so to speak. They are constantly under magnifying glasses, pushing their limits as well as the envelope- the one that holds their paycheck, that is.  

Yes, Hello, I wrote an essay in an hour (no proof read)

An exploratory paper is a structure of paper designed to ask a question or series of questions for the reader to think about and mull over the possible answers. An exploratory paper is in contrast to that of the expository style of writing, in which the author has a central idea and is attempting to make the reader understand and follow. The two writing styles are similar in the way that in the end, the reader comes away with an answer as well as a question that didn’t know they were asking.

David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” article is an example of the exploratory paper in that it asks one, if not multiple, central question. His central question is that whether or not it is humane to catch, boil, and eat a live and sentient being. His article is extensive, chronicling not just a famous lobster-themed festival, but his whole experience. His writing style is unique in itself, switching from first person to second, as well as telling of his experience through the perspective of a lobster and how they think about their rise in popularity through the ages. I, for one, enjoy how he detailed every aspect of the festival experience and atmosphere to add to the importance of what it truly means to be a lobster.

Alice Walker’s article on Southern black women at the turn of the 20^th century has not one central question posed like Wallace’s exploratory exposé, but a handful of them. She poses the question of who were the women, the Saints, of the South? Not just matriarchs of present day families, but how did they get to where they were, and why. Beginning her exploratory article from the perspective of an outsider simply walking around, casting glances at the subject of her writing, is an intriguing style choice, in my opinion. I enjoy how she does not concentrate on just a few aspects of black women in southern 20^th century America. She speaks on the history of black women writing and making art in not just America but in different countries and cultures, posing more central questions along the lines of: why are black women deprived of the arts they wish to pursue? Must they settle for such insipid lives when they were destined for much more?

Both Walker and Wallace write in the aforementioned exploratory writing style, though they express it differently. The two authors both ask not one, but multiple principal questions about their respective subjects. While similar in writing format, the two tackle the exploratory style very differently. They both write from multiple perspectives, but the way in which they do so sets them apart greatly. Wallace speaks on his personal experience at a festival, bringing in details of the history of the festival, the main concentrate of it (lobster), and even of how new and old patrons feel about the festival. Walker speaks on new patrons of southern black women from a personal and present perspective, but more commonly uses the context from historical black figures to get her point across. She focuses on the “what-if” quality of her topic and how history shaped a people and their artistic repression, while Wallace focuses more on the central subject at hand, which is undeniably lobster.

While the two journalists are equally alike and different, I am just small and sleepy. When typically writing for myself, I must confess I stick to a somewhat likened style of how Walker composes, but will definitely follow Wallace’s footsteps to make word count. Because that seems to be exactly what he is doing. The writing process is always challenging to me, and I imagine that the most difficult prospects of writing an exploratory paper will be making sure I fit all the criteria and do not slip into an expository format as well as making sure I do not just ramble about my topic, never making a truly coherent sentence. I am hoping that in the end, I will have a large vocabulary, as well as a better eye for picking out the difference in writing styles and formats.