thesis

In this article the steps to outline a thesis are clearly displayed.  When these steps are followed the reader can easily tell where the thesis begins and ends.  It also allows the thesis to be easily understood by the reader.  The student essay was similar to my own writing in which it gave many details.  However, the thesis the student provide was much more clear and could be easily found.

Making a Thesis Evolve

The main point that stood out to me in this chapter was the idea that we should imagine we have muliple theses that mix and work together throughout the paper. When done correctly this will look like one big thesis that evolves into many different ideas related to the topic. My writing tends to have one idea that gets repeated throughout the paper instead of evolving like the example at the end of the chapter.

The Last Stop

In "The Last Stop" Cable examines a modern day funeral home. In the essay he makes assumptions about what he thinks funeral homes should look like. One mistake was that these places would have gardens with wonderful, colorful plants, and that it would be out of the day to day life. Instead was he found was an old building, that looked like a church, in the center of town. Another key mistake was thinking that an undertaker was a dark, gloomy man. The man he met in the story was just another business owner trying to make money in his profession.
Cable's essay did a great job describing Goodbody Mortuaries. I thought that this place sounded much like the funeral homes that i've been to, with a welcome feeling, and soft-spoken people who are there to help. Also, Cable did a good job expressing his new understanding of the dead. This will help me write my paper because it teaches to properly explain how an experience has changed your view of something.

Befriending Barbie

This essay about the popularity and special meaning Barbie has was quite intesting to me. Being a guy, I knew Barbie exsisted but would have never guessed that there were collectable Barbies much less that they were popular. Also, I had never heard of a Barbie convention. Honestly when I saw the title I was dreading doing this blog, however after reading I had a new perspective on a subject that I didn't know anything about. One of the key things in the story is where you hear people using Barbie to get though difficult times in their lives. This story helps me because many times I will get a subject that I don't want to write about, but this proves if you just give it a chance and look into it a little more maye it won't be as bad as you think.