Final Paper

It is such a relief to have finished my final paper for English 3010. I am so happy that we did it on Pretty Women. I was very familiar with the movie so it made the paper easier to write. I was suprised when I watched the movie for the hundreth time from a different perspective and saw things that I had missed all along. Watching the movie to critisize it made it more interesting because there was hidden meanings to things that I never picked up on before. I admit that I thought 7-9 pages was going to be rought but after watching the movie over again and taking notes it was much less painful than I thought it was going to be!!! I actually found this paper to be very interesting.

tutoring

My last tutoring session went really well. I am happy that everytime my partner and I have been in the writing center we have had someone to tutor. I really think that looking over other peoples writing has helped me to become a better writer. This week a women came in and needed us to look over her resume. I thought that was pretty interesting because I have to write one this week because I am looking for a job this summer. Helping her with her resume not only helped me with mine but it also answered the questions that I had about resumes. I must say tutoring in the writing center was much more fun than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be difficult and it ended up being enjoyable.

Thursdays Class

Thursdays class was a lot of fun and very helpful. We got into groups based on the type of critisism that we are doing for our final paper and presentation. I found this to be very helpful , even though everyone in my group was attacking the gender aspect on different commercials or movies we were still able to help each other and give and recieve great ideas to other people. It was interesting to see how other people in other groups viewed gender and how they were going to talk about it in their papers and presentations. It definetly gave me more ideas for my own paper. I am also happy that I now have until Friday to work on my paper I want to do a good job and I can use the extra time to make sure that it a good paper.

Tutoring

Tuesdays session went really well. A young man came in and needed help on how to write a paper on the similarities between two english stories. At first this was difficult for my partner and I to help him with because we had never read the stories before and they were long stories so we did not have time to read them. Instead the tutee gave us the jist of the story and we went from there. However in the story there were far more differences than there were similarities so it was difficult for us to help him think of more similarities. Lucky for him, Nicole ( Another tutor in the writing center) had taken the class before with the same professor and she had read the same stories. At the end of our session our tutee had over 10 similarities and was very happy with his tutoring session.

Thursday

I was very happy that we didnt have class on Thursday because I really needed to spend sometime on our final project. I was short on ideas and our meeting really helped me. I am planning on renting the movie this week to watch it again so that I can take notes and get even more ideas. I am really happy that my group chose to do our final projects on the movie "Pretty Women" because it is a movie that I am very familiar with and I have seen it many of times. I do think watching it again will help me because I can write down certain scenes that I may not remember off of the top of my head. I am also happy that we chose this movie because it is a movie that has a great amount of information that deals with all of our topics to write about in our final papers.

Tuesday

I found Tuesdays class to be very interesting. Im glad that we had the chance to discuss our findings from the media projects. Many of the people in the class talked about things that were going on that I had no idea about so it was very interesting to hear what was going on and how each source was different. I even went home to look up the story about the pregnant man because I just couldnt believe what I was hearing. I had heard about it once before but I honestly thought it was a joke. I also found out a great amount about the writers strike. I had no idea that most of the writers were middle class people nor did I know that the main reason that they went on strike was because of the internet.

No Class

I did not have to attend class on Thursday. I would like to say that I thought this class was going to be a lot more boring than it really is. I have never really liked to take English classes because I dont enjoy writing papers on a given topic, but I must say I have really enjoyed this class. I have learned a great amount of information. Rather than just being taught how to write I have learned many other useful skills. I wasnt really sure how to feel about the ending of How to Catch A Tiger By the Toe. I really wanted things to work out with her father and I was disapointed that Jamies father had to go to prision. On the other hand I was happy that he stood up for what he thought was right and that he didnt back down just to stay out of jail. I like the book because prior to reading it I knew nothing of the McCarthy years. To be honest, this is my junior year of college and I am just now starting to be interested in politics. The book gave me an insight into those years and I found it to be very interesting. I also like that it gave us an insight into who Jamie was and how she overcame the obsticles that she faced in the begining of the book.