Wesley’s English blog

 Man, what a loaded question. I'm not so sure about times that I specifically had a stereotype about a food that wasn't based on facts that the food just sucks. For example, vegetables are horrible because they all taste rancid. Maybe I haven't tried vegetables that are cooked correctly? I don't know, but salad and vegetables suck. However, I can in fact recount times that my FRIENDS have had this experience... About half of my friends will forever to the grave say that McDonald's is one of the worst things to happen to America. They insist that McDonald's is super unhealthy for you and that it is made out of slop. This belief is fabricated solely from the other people who say this propaganda as a way to make everyone hate McDonald's. It's really no more unhealthy than OTHER fast food places (I'm looking at you Chick-Fil-A), but other places tend to have foods healthy options (like some salad) but the people at McDonald's know that people (in the...

 The yakamein from the episode shows how crazy the streets of New Orleans are, but also captures the feeling of a hug from your mother all in one bite. It has become super culturally important because people eat it when they want to be sober which is insane because obviously no food actually does that.  Today we watched a documentary about food in N.O I learned how different cultures have influnced the food that they eat on the streets of New orleans 

 One dish that is a must have in my culture is definitely Steak. Steak is one of the best foods on this entire planet earth, and I could always go for a steak meal. It is significant because it's a highly nutritious meat that has an extremely rich flavor when cooked to the only proper temperature, medium rare. A good steak needs no sauce, only salt and pepper.  Today we started food posters I learned I'm not very culturally aware because my family is from Scotland but I don't know how the foods I listed are Scottish at all.

 The entire writing process helped to make my essay a lot stronger and I feel like I did a really good job. It revealed to me that I'm not a very good writer in any context unless it's trying to be funny. I can write stuff that will make people laugh or at least have a good chuckle, but I don't think I did half bad. Today we wrote our essay I learned how to organize my thoughts into something that is intelligent and can be written down.

 Drafting is essential because you need to be able to make changes to fix your spelling, grammar, and make your ideas more clear. This step is super important in making your thoughts more organized. Today in class we prepared to write our essay. I learned how to draft an essay.

 I think the hardest part of writing an essay for me is making my thoughts organized. As you know from reading all my blog posts, I can tend to write a stream of consciousness that is really long and doesn't really have any goal except to make the reader laugh. Making something intelligible that can actually be high level is super boring and not fun because I feel like it takes the fun out of writing. That's the hardest part.  Today I prepared to draft my essay.  I learned how I can effectively use evidence from a very large source. 

 The last colleges on my list are these final 3: University of Arkansas, Columbus State University, and Georgia Southern University. I like all of these schools for each of their schools of music and horn studio since I'm going as a music performance major. The campuses are all very nice and the horn professors are all excellent.  Today I found evidence for my essay. I learned how to comb through a giant book to look for specific evidence.

 The idea that I had for my essay that was the strongest in showing how Cheryl's deplorable decisions were her trying to escape from her identity was her sexual infidelity. This is a strong indicator that her actions were just her trying to find a way out of the hole she was in since her mother died. Today we brainstormed for our essay.  I learned how to organize my thoughts and ideas into something that lays the backbone for a quality essay.

 When I did the assignment, I already knew everything that the reading talked about. This is because I have had to do a ton with colleges in order to get scholarship money so that I can go where I want to. I have toured 5 different colleges, and revisited them either 1 or 2 times each for tours of the music schools or for auditions. However, the information is important for seniors to have an understanding of so that they can get to a good college.  Today in class I read about college processes. I learned how to effectively site evidence for questions.

 It's important that we retain the knowledge required to write with our own intelligence because eventually, we're going to miss the feeling that something is human made. If everything is made by AI and is AI slop, we're eventually going to miss what makes us human. This not only goes for writing, but also for music too (It's a big deal that AI's are starting to control ambience in restaurants and other places. Today I wrote a body paragraph on writable. I learned how to structure my arguments in an effective way.

 I think the hardest part of writing an argumentative paragraph is moving away from summary. As you know, I can talk forever and ever about something that I'm passionate about. I always try to summarize everything and moving away from that is hard to do. I'm also bad at arguing, so maintaining my position is hard in arguments because I like to try to make people happy.  Today we did an assignment on writable about writing a body paragraph I learned how to effectively defend my arguments in a debate 

 The most difficult part of writing an essay is definitely the conclusion. I don't ever understand how you're supposed to make it end like why can't the reader just stop reading? That doesn't make sense to me. I'm really good at being creative and I can be funny in my essay if it's something to be funny about but that's a weakness in itself because unfunny topics are hard for me to write about.  Today I wrote a body paragraph argument. I learned how to outline a body paragraph

 I did not attend school on Friday, I had an interview at the honors college for Columbus State University. Therefore I have no idea what other posters looked like or what people thought of mine. Today I took an interview at the honors college I learned life skills in how I should act in an interview, and I think I did well.

 The hardest part about making my poster was that all my metaphors were just trying to be similes in disguise, I tried to make a comparison without using like or as, but it was just not flowing very well and it was awkward to read. I combated this by thinking about how I can use prior knowledge of already well known metaphors and to base mine off those so that they work better.  Today I auditioned for a spot at Gretcsch School of Music and Georgia Southern University.  I found out just now that I got in and await a scholarship offer. 

 I learned that I have a natural ability to describe myself with metaphors and similes. I remember you said it would be difficult to be able to come up with them, but I guess I may be more creative than the average person. It felt easy for me to describe my life story using outside knowledge of common phrases. Maybe its because I'm from the south. Today I worked on my project about metaphors and similes.  I learned I can quickly do a lot of work if I just focus.