Lydia's Story Responces

1. Brideau's main point of the story was to express how you don't really understand the severity, and tragedy of a situation sometimes, until you witness it firsthand. You see this in the story when she says "For me the enormity of the double hurricanes became clear only after witnessing so many people lest without homes."
2. The primary point of view in the story is Lydia's during the disaster. The impact it has on me as a reader is that it really gives me an idea of how horrible, and terrifying it would have been to be in hurricane Katrina.
3. Brideau uses words like toxic, fluorescent, devastated, bulky, and terrified to appeal to the readers emotions by giving you an understanding of just how bad the hurricane was, and how bad Lydia's conditions are even now.
4. The audience of Health Affairs would most likely be students in some sort of medical class. Brideau's tone fits these readers because the people in this class would probably be learning about improving health, and sustaining a healthy living environment. And in Brideau's writing she explains hows the conditions of Lydia, and where Lydia is living at now are not well.
5. I saw a kid sitting alone at lunch one day, so i decided to join him. I asked him his name and, "why are you sitting alone". He said "My name is Dante, and I don't have any friends because I don't wear nice clothes, and people think I smell, But my family doesn't have the money to afford nice clothes." we conversed for while, and I he told me more about how he family struggles to make ends meet, how he has to take clod showers, and even how he has to share a room with his five other cousins and only one bed. We continued to talk and I realized that he's a actually quite a happy guy. he told me about how much his family loves and supports him, and how he got a 4.0 last semester. Lunch ended and we parted ways, but i hoped to see him again next lunch so that we could continue to talk. But one thing really made me think. I realized that I get mad, and stress over little things when there's people like Dante who have close to nothing but still appreciate life and persevere through life's obstacles with a positive attitude.

A few rhetorical situations

Types of writing I've done this week:

• Texting 
• Blog post about "Is everyone an author"
• Aid and debt crisis reading w/ fallow up questions
• Short film question responses

Texting:

I texted a couple of friends this week to see about hanging out this weekend. Knowing that my friends don't have considerable authority over me, nor do I have to prove anything to them, I talked casually. I initiated the conversation with a simple "whatsup." I was motivated to see if my friends wanted to hangout simply for fun. My stance in the situation was that these are my close friends so it would make me happy to spend some time with them, and they shouldn't be surprised to see that because they should want to spend time with me as well being that I haven't seen them in a while. I benefited them by explaining the directions to my new house because I recently moved.

Blog Post:

In this situation I was assigned to respond to the question "is everyone an author?" This isn't a question I have often wondered about so it took me a few minutes to formulate an answer. My audience was my classmates, and my teacher, so I knew that I had to come about the topic respectfully, and fallow the guidelines of 200 words or more for full credit on the assignment. I wanted to show my audience why i think that everyone is an author, but that its only my opinion and I don't stand against anyone who disagrees. It helped to know that my audience aside from the teacher knew only as much as I did about the topic. I also didn't feel pressured to express my opinion on the topic knowing that everybody else has their own opinions as well. In writing about this topic i didn't want to exclude anybody, so I found a way to explain that everyone is an author.

Short Film Question Responses:

I recently watched a film on the Jamaican economy and why it did and has done so poorly. After the video my classmates and I had to individually respond to fallow up questions on the short film. I knew that I needed to try and answer the questions correctly and accordingly to the information I had just obtained from the video in order to get a good grade on the assignment. If the questions are answered correctly I don't have to worry about any of my classmates resisting my answers because they are based on fact and cant be argued with. I felt a little pressured because there were some questions I couldn't remember the answer to, and I knew that some of my classmates probably could. My main goal in writing my answers to the film questions was in hopes to getting a good grade on the assignment.

Is Everyone an Author?

In comparing my blog post with my partners, I realized that we both agreed that we are simply authors by living everyday of our life. One difference we had is the fact that she said, writing anything makes us an author and i feel like there's certain things such as, making a Facebook post, Blog post, Twitter post, etc… that makes us an author.

Writers:                                                                     Authors:

formal	informal
focus more on fiction or facts	non-fiction
based off of others	original ideas, plots, content
express ideas	write/compose literary work

Types of Writing:

Like/dislike                                                              Why

In class essays(dislike)	Not enough time/stresses me out
Persuasive essays(like)	Get to express my thoughts on a topic
Explanatory essays(dislike)	Too many contradictions/ takes long to gather information
Poetry(like)	Get to express my feelings in an abstract way

Text:

Hey do you think i could borrow some cash for this party i'm throwing this weekend? Also i'm gonna need to borrow your car to get to the store. And in order to get to the store you're going to have to send me the directions, and a shopping list so that i'll know what to get when i'm there, since you are the party expert.

Party Poem
“Oh me oh my, i have no supplies. I don't have directions to the store at all
Not a dollar in my pocket for this birthday surprise. Call me and explain them, be a doll.
Please lend me a dollar, a dollar or two. I don't have a list, this isn't my thing.
Then i’ll invite you to this party I threw. You're the one with the birthday bling.
My license was suspended, i ran over a deer.
Lend me your car, and i'll bring you here!

Is Everyone An Author?

"Is everyone an Author?" I say yes, everyone is an author in their own way, shape, or form. The title "author", often goes to people who have published books, magazines, poetry, etc... But personally I believe I am an author, and so is everybody else. We are all authors of our own life. Everyday we spend here on earth we go a series of events. All of these events that happen to us in our everyday life become part of our story. Each day is like a new page, with the events from the day before written down, recorded, posted as a status on Facebook, or even just captured in our memories. Weather we consciously remember what has happened to us, subconsciously remember, or simply choose to forget, what happened has happened and becomes part of our story that we continue to write everyday. In a more simplistic way of looking at things, most people have used Facebook, you-tube, twitter, etc.. Or at least some kind of social networking site in their life. This makes you an author because you are sharing your thoughts, feelings, likes, or dislikes with people, and by hitting "post", you are publishing your work to the world.

About me

Hi. My name is Micah Nelson. I live on Bainbridge Island. I like to play basketball, and listen to music.