I had the opportunity to do my volunteer hours at the event “Welcome Back BBQ” at Hialeah campus. Helping at the event was a nice experience because I had never had the opportunity to work in an event for the school. The event was in January and it was a way for the school to say welcome back to their students. At the event professors were working making the burgers on the grill, and also hotdogs. For some reason almost everyone preferred the burgers instead of the hotdogs. There were also lettuce, tomatoes and 3 different types of cheese. I was serving the lettuce and the cheese. A lot of students and professors were helping at the event.
I also helped setting up the tables, were the food was going to be serve. There were music and games too. Everything came out very good. I met new friends at the event. I really enjoyed helping, I would definitely help again in other event if I have the opportunity.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Two Interesting Stories
The story of Araby and A& P, both were affected by the setting in a negative way. The writers described the setting with a lot details.
In the story of “Araby” we find this boy named Joyce, who is in love with a girl. The boy is always secretly observing her, and when they finally came to converse, the girl ask him if is going to the fair, and tells him that she can not go, to this he respond that if he goes he will buy something to her. Then the boy is patiently waiting for his aunt to arrive home so the aunt could give him money to go to the fair. Is not until 10pm that his uncle arrives and despite of how late it is, Joyce departs to the fair. When he arrives, he finds that everything is closing. Disappointed, he couldn’t buy anything to the girl.
The fact that his uncle arrived home late and that the fair was closing makes the story been affected by the setting in a negative way.
I think that it would work out if for instance the uncle would have arrived at 4pm. In this case Joyce would have got the money early, arrived early to the fair and would of have bought something to the girl.
In the story of A&P the setting impacts the story in a bad way as well. In this story there is this guy named Sammy who works in a supermarket. Three girls came in wearing bathing suit, the manager get angry about that and make them live and tells them not to come back wearing bathing suit. Sammy gets disappointed and decides to quit.
The fact that 3 girls go to a supermarket wearing bathing suit makes the story gives a negative turn, Sammy quits.
The story would of worked better if the place were the girls went would of have been a beach- store supermarket and Sammy would have worked there.
In the story of “Araby” we find this boy named Joyce, who is in love with a girl. The boy is always secretly observing her, and when they finally came to converse, the girl ask him if is going to the fair, and tells him that she can not go, to this he respond that if he goes he will buy something to her. Then the boy is patiently waiting for his aunt to arrive home so the aunt could give him money to go to the fair. Is not until 10pm that his uncle arrives and despite of how late it is, Joyce departs to the fair. When he arrives, he finds that everything is closing. Disappointed, he couldn’t buy anything to the girl.
The fact that his uncle arrived home late and that the fair was closing makes the story been affected by the setting in a negative way.
I think that it would work out if for instance the uncle would have arrived at 4pm. In this case Joyce would have got the money early, arrived early to the fair and would of have bought something to the girl.
In the story of A&P the setting impacts the story in a bad way as well. In this story there is this guy named Sammy who works in a supermarket. Three girls came in wearing bathing suit, the manager get angry about that and make them live and tells them not to come back wearing bathing suit. Sammy gets disappointed and decides to quit.
The fact that 3 girls go to a supermarket wearing bathing suit makes the story gives a negative turn, Sammy quits.
The story would of worked better if the place were the girls went would of have been a beach- store supermarket and Sammy would have worked there.
Cathedral
Cathedral is a very interesting script. The narrator, who is known as the husband and Bub, gives the impression that he feels sort of like a type of jealousy for the friendship that his wife and Robert, the blind man, have. Robert has recently lost his wife and he is now visiting his friends. Bub is bothered by the fact that a blind man is coming to stay in his house for a period of time.
Apparently Bub doesn’t have a good conception about blind people. For some reason he thinks they are not smart. Bub even feels sorry for who it was Robert’s wife, just because he thinks that it must be very frustrate to have someone who can not tell you how good you look.
Everything happened when Bub and Robert were watching documentary about cathedrals. It’s obviously that Bub knows nothing about Cathedral, still being able to see them while Robert did, without seeing them.
Robert asked Bub to draw a cathedral with him, its then when something fills Bub, an emptiness that he had is being filled by this blind man. Bub is the character that changed at the end of the script.
Apparently Bub doesn’t have a good conception about blind people. For some reason he thinks they are not smart. Bub even feels sorry for who it was Robert’s wife, just because he thinks that it must be very frustrate to have someone who can not tell you how good you look.
Everything happened when Bub and Robert were watching documentary about cathedrals. It’s obviously that Bub knows nothing about Cathedral, still being able to see them while Robert did, without seeing them.
Robert asked Bub to draw a cathedral with him, its then when something fills Bub, an emptiness that he had is being filled by this blind man. Bub is the character that changed at the end of the script.
Facts About Turtles
I am an animal lover and one of my favorite animal besides cats, are turtle. I love the small turtles. There are many interesting facts about turtles that I didn’t know until I saw a documental the other day. To start off turtles have been on earth for 200 years more or less.
For some reason I thought that turtles can completely come out of their shell, but I found out that that’s not true. Some facts about them that called my attention were that there are about 300 species of turtles; you can find turtles in every continent except in Antarctica. Did you know what it is called to a group of turtles? The answer is “BALE”, interesting huh? Another interesting fact is that not all turtles have hard shells; for example the sea turtls have a flexible shell. A funny fact that I also find out is that turtles breath by their anus.
For some reason I thought that turtles can completely come out of their shell, but I found out that that’s not true. Some facts about them that called my attention were that there are about 300 species of turtles; you can find turtles in every continent except in Antarctica. Did you know what it is called to a group of turtles? The answer is “BALE”, interesting huh? Another interesting fact is that not all turtles have hard shells; for example the sea turtls have a flexible shell. A funny fact that I also find out is that turtles breath by their anus.
Cloned Meat?!
The other day a friend of my told that some supermarkets might be selling meat form cloned animals. I opposed to that. While searching about this topic I found that there is not a label that can differentiate this cloned meat from the regular meat. The fact that there is not a label that states weather the meat is cloned or not makes me have an issue with it. I found that the FDA (The Food and Drug Administration) is not requiring that the food industry labels this type of meat. I think that there should be a law that obligates the food industry to labels cloned meat.The NAS is researching about the consequences that cloned meat might have on our health. I personally think that although is too soon to tell, producing this type of meat can be very risky. Since cloned animals are “created” in a lab, many errors can occur, making the meat unsafe for consumption.
"Those Winter Sundays" Great Poem --- (one of my favorites)
The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hyden, is one of my favorite poems. I like the way that Hyden captured the emotions of the reader. The tone of the poem is a melancholy one. That’s the tone that I perceived when I read it. “And put his clothes on the blue-black cold. / Then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made/ banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him” (lines 2-5). The fact that the father will wake up early in a very cold weather to warm up the house for his family and no one ever thanked him makes the reader sense a tone of sadness. “Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold/ and polished my good shoes as well” (lines 10-13). In these lines, a sense of sadness can also be perceived.
“Those Winter Sundays” describes the hard work of a dad towards his family. “Sundays too my father got up early/ and puts his clothes on in the blue-black cold” (lines 1-2). In these lines the writer tells how his father wakes up early on Sundays under a very cold weather. The writer makes the message of the poem very clear by using certain words. The writer makes the reader believes by using the word “too” (line 1) that his father wakes up every day under the cold weather. Also the word “blue- black” tells the reader that the weather under which the father wakes up every day is a very cold weather. The father will wake up Sundays too very early in the morning to warm up the house, and once the house was warm, the father will wake up his son. The poem is sad; the author didn’t realize the headwork his father was doing towards him.
I like this poem because of the feelings perceived while reading it; the author sure knows how to use connotations. This felling can be perceived by the reader from the first time reading it, and that’s the reason why I like this poem, besides that it is understandable.
“Those Winter Sundays” describes the hard work of a dad towards his family. “Sundays too my father got up early/ and puts his clothes on in the blue-black cold” (lines 1-2). In these lines the writer tells how his father wakes up early on Sundays under a very cold weather. The writer makes the message of the poem very clear by using certain words. The writer makes the reader believes by using the word “too” (line 1) that his father wakes up every day under the cold weather. Also the word “blue- black” tells the reader that the weather under which the father wakes up every day is a very cold weather. The father will wake up Sundays too very early in the morning to warm up the house, and once the house was warm, the father will wake up his son. The poem is sad; the author didn’t realize the headwork his father was doing towards him.
I like this poem because of the feelings perceived while reading it; the author sure knows how to use connotations. This felling can be perceived by the reader from the first time reading it, and that’s the reason why I like this poem, besides that it is understandable.
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