argument

What I liked about writing an argument was that I was able to write a paper and have a side on this paper. With having a side I was able to write about what I believed and also I could try and get people to see my side of the argument with facts and research.
What I didn't like about writing an argument was doing the works cited page and citing the sources in the paper because with looking in green book we have I was sure where some of the sources should have went. For example they didn't have some options for articles that I found online, so I had to narrow it down the best I could to see where they should go.

I would like to know how one would write an argument if they didn't have a side on what they had to write about. Or how a person would write an argument if they were in the middle and did not want to take either side of the topic.

audience

For my paper, my audience is going to be Bob James. He is 62 years old. He is happy married. His wife and him have been married for 40 years. They have four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. There youngest son, Matt, just told them that he was gay and wanted them to meet his boyfriend. Until this point in time Bob was very against gay marriage and anything to do with gay people. He couldn't believe this how could he have a gay son. How did he not know this?

last argument

My last argument was on Monday with my roommate. We always seem to have arguments over stupid things and Monday was one of them. I went home last weekend and I decided not to come back until Monday morning. I got back to Mankato at 7:45 in the morning. I get up to my room and she has people staying over night. I thought she would be up and gone to her 8am class but she wasn't. Then I came in and put my things away because I wanted to get unpacked from the weekend and on Mondays I am on campus all day. I leave at 8:40am and don't get back until 8pm. I didn't want to deal with my stuff from the weekend at 8 at night. So I put it away and I wasn't even being loud and she freaked out at me because I was being to loud and opening and closing my closet. So I was yelling at her because she could have at least told me that she was going to have people over night. If she would have told me I would not have been as mad. Then we stopped arguing when I went to class. Then later that night we talked about everything that happened and agreed on things that we are going to change.

Begging the Question

The fallacy that I use the most would be begging the question. I use it to try to prove a point to my friends. I will say my side and use point that I have heard but I don't know where I heard it from so I just say it because I said so. Normally I can get my friends to see my side of what I am talking about with saying my point of view and the ones I have gotten from others. This works because I said the person, where I have heard the facts from is always right. They are right because I said that they were right.

Most and Least

The thing that I liked most about the personal essay is that I didn't have to do any research. It is nice not doing any research because it saves time when sitting down to write the paper. It is a story about something that happen to us. We should know all the facts and everything that happened so it makes typing the paper much faster. I also liked this because it give us the students a chance to write a story about something that happen in our lives. To me that was interesting because I got to share a story about my past with others.
The thing that I liked the least about writing a personal essay was, I wasn't sure what to write about. Thats what took the most time. It took longer for me to decided what I was going to write about then it took me to get the story out on paper.

Different Culture

I have a friend from a differnet culture, her name is Reema. The first time that I went to her house I didn't know what to expect. First, I arrived at her house. It was a huge house, I rang the door bell and her mom answer. Her mom yelled for her that I had arrived. When her mom yelled for her it was in there native language so I had no idea what she said. At this point two of my other friends were there already. So Reema's little brother brought me to were there all were. Once he brought me down there we played a game with him. During the game he was teaching me words from there language.
After a couple hours of being there her mom told Reema to come upstairs and figure out what we were getting to have for supper. Reema told her mom that we should have pizza. Her mom called for all of us to come up and eat when the pizza had arrived. She order cheese and one of my friends asked, "why did your mom only order cheese?" She said, "because they can't have anything with meat in because of her culture." Then her mom came out what other food that she had made, it was food that her culture would eat. She asked us if anyone wanted to try it. I can't remember the names of the food that I tried. I tried three different types of food. They were all good. The last type of food that I tried wasn't us good us the first two foods I tried. Also during supper her mom played music from her culture and after supper we listened to that music for the rest of the night because all of my friends and I liked it and thought it was different.

personal essay idea

I was 9 when I found out that my aunt was going to have a baby. We were shopping and my aunt decided to take her two daughter's, Melissa and Michelle, and my brother, Derek and I over to the baby section. We had no idea why we were here. Then my aunt told as to pick out something because she was going to have a baby. We were in shock because it had always been the four of us and now it would no long be that way. So we all end up picking something out. My brother and I each picked out boys clothing. Melissa and Michelle both picked out girls clothes. After this we had to wait a long time for the baby to be born. Then October 2, 1999 came and my family got a phone call that my aunt had the baby. It was a boy and she named him Matthew David. My brother and I were really happy because we were right because she had a boy. My cousin Melissa was really mad because she wanted another sister.

First Memory

My first memory that I can really remember is when I knocked out my four front teeth. We had just moved in out our new house in St. Stephen, and I wanted to go outside. I put on my dad's boots because I couldn't find my shoes. I went outside to talk to my dad, it was really cold out and I wasn't wearing a jacket so I just put my arms in my shirt. When I was walking back in the house, I tripped and landed on my face. When I landed I knocked out my four front teeth.

Exigence

The last time I responded to a exigence was about puppy mills. My mom was watching Oprah and I happened to walk in and catch that they were talking about puppy mills. During the show they showed what happens at puppy mills, of how they put so many puppy in one cage and don't feed the dogs enough food. Then after the mother has so many puppys they just shoot the her in the field because she is not needed anymore. At the end of the show there was a place to write and send money to stop puppy mills, so my mom and I wrote a letter and sent some money because puppy mills are wrong and they need to be stopped.

My First Day

My first day of college has been pretty good. My first class is not until 9 but on our floor the bathroom gets cleaned at 8:15 so I had to get up earlier then I had wanted to. Math is my first class and it was really easy it was just a review of stuff I learned in 9th grade. Then my math class gets over at 10 and I have a break until this class at 2. During that time I went back to my room and looked over my books for my night class, talked with some people on my floor about there first classes, and went to lunch with my room mate. So today has been a pretty easy day so far but I have another class after this one so I guess I will see how that goes.