Two Thesis Statements

Matthew Williams
ENGW 1100_34
17 November 2015
Professor Young

Two Thesis Statements

1.)  Therefore players should not cheat, because when they try to gain an advantage by cheating, they  end up ruining their careers and reputations. 

2.)  Because players try to gain an advantage by cheating, they ruin their careers and reputations, and therefore should not cheat. 

Ten Questions to the Analytic Question

Matthew Williams
ENGW 1100_34
8 November 2015
Professor Young

Ten Questions to the Analytic Question 

Analytic Question: How does cheating in a sport effect how the game is played?

10 Questions:

1.  What if others players are cheating in a game that you have to play against? Factual 

2.  How can a player become better without cheating? Analytic

3.  In what ways is cheating in sports ok? Analytic

4.  Why do many sports players need to cheat? Inductive 

5.  Why do players have to tamper with equipment to win games? Inductive 

6.  What happens when players don't cheat to become better? Factual 

7.  Why do players need to cheat in sports? Factual 

8.  How does cheating make you become a better person? Inductive

9.  Can some sorts of cheating can be ok for some sports? Factual

10.  How many people have cheated in a sport that got away from it? Factual 

Three Quotes to Discuss from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid

Matthew Williams

English 1100

29 October 2015
Prof. Young

1. "Perhaps most damaging to any serious effort to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities to confront or even clearly name an obvious reality they would have castigated with a passionate determination in another section of the nation fifty years before—and which, moreover, they still castigate today in retrospective writings that assign it to a comfortably distant and allegedly concluded era of the past."  This quote  means that many people refuse to put their students in these types of schools.  These schools want to get rid of segregation in schools.  They want more types of people in the school. 

2. "Many educators make the argument today that given the demographics of large cities like New York and their suburban areas, our only realistic goal should be the nurturing of strong, empowered, and well-funded schools in segregated neighborhoods."  This quote means that the town should put more funds into the schools to make it better, so more types of people come to the school. 

3. "The bad times were seized upon politically to justify the cuts, and the money was never restored once the crisis years were past."  This quotes means, that the students are not getting the extra curriculum activities because of the budget cuts in the schools.  The students are not getting the right kind of equipment they need to have in school.

Three Quotes from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid

Matthew Williams

English 1100

25 October 2015
Prof. Young

Three Quotes from Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid 

1. "In New York, Nearly three quarters of the students were black or Hispanic." 

2. "At John F. Kennedy High School in 2003, 93 percent of the enrollment of more than 4,000 students were black and Hispanic; only 3.5 percent of students at the school were white."

3. "School physicians also were removed from elementary schools during these years. In 1970, when substantial numbers of white children still attended New York City's public schools, 400 doctors had been present to address the health needs of the children."

What Identity Means to Me

Matthew Williams

English 1100

2 September 2015

Prof. Young

What Identity Means to Me

     What the word "Identity' means to me is what do you believe who you are.  The identity characteristics I think identity is about are race, culture, language, religion, presentation, clothing, friends and family.  Gloria Anzaldua thinks identity is about race, language, culture and family.  In her story she writes about how she can’t speak English fluently.  She is of Mexican decent because of her family and lives in the Texas’s Rio Grande Valley on the U.S.-Mexican border.  She can speak some English that is broken up, Standard Mexican Spanish and Tex-Mex.  “We’re going to have to control your tongue” (Anzaldua 255). Gloria is a strong and stubborn child and as an adult, she really wants her language to survive in the future. She wants the language to be brought down to generations to generations.  When she is in her mother’s house she would always talk in Tex-Mex.  Gloria always cares about her identity.  My identity is mainly about my race, culture, language, religion and family.  In my house we have big Italian celebrations for holidays and get togethers.  I care about my whole family like Gloria does.  Even though I do not speak a lot of Italian, I do pick some up still.  Having your race, culture, language, religion and family is a great part of your identity. 

Works Cited

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to tame a Wild Tongue" Teaching Development Writing. Ed.  Susan Naomi              Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 245-255. Print.

Reading Response Questions to "How to tame a Wild Tongue"

Matthew Williams

English 1100

30 August 2015

Prof. Young

Reading Response Questions to "How to tame a Wild Tongue" 

1.  The opening scene of Anzaldua in the dentist's chair connects with the overall point/message of the essay and title by having her being strong and stubborn in chair.  She wants to protect her language. 

2.   Anzaldua's use of the Spanish throughout her writing does does make sense because she is answering the question in her own way. It is her purpose of keeping the language alive.  

3.  Yes because Spanish is more taught in schools and Chicano Spanish is not taught because only a group of people use it.  People can use whatever language they want to use that is a nonstandard because this action is your identity.

4. The necessity of speaking and/writing in Academic English is an identity because it's about how your are as a person on the type of level.  it is necessary because English is spoken in many parts of the world.  

5.  Anzaldua does describes different types of Spanish she knows and speaks.  I use the Academic type of English. I have been using it my whole life.  

6.  I do not use a secret language, secret identity to communicate with my friends.  

7.  I speak standard English to my friends,  When I speak to my parents, professor and others I speak standard English because thats what they use. 

8.  "I am my language" means, I know the language I speak. This statement connects to a person's identity because its about who you are.  

9.  How both of the paragraphs connect connect by talking about how the tongues are stubborn and know how to survive.  

10. I can not really speak a part of my identity because I took Italian my freshman year and did not get a good grade in the class.  

11.  How my identity is important to me because its how I am in the real world.  Anzaldua believes it's important to have an identity because it's how you act in society.

Quotes:

"We're going to have control your tongue," the dentist says.

"If you want to be American, speak 'American.' If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.'' 

"Flies don't enter a closed mouth"

Works Cited 

Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to tame a Wild Tongue" Teaching Development Writing. Ed.  Susan Naomi               Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 245-255. Print.

"How to tame a Wild Tongue" 3 Quotes

Matthew Williams

English 1100

3 September 2015

Prof. Young

"How to tame a Wild Tongue" 3 Quotes

1.    “We are going to control your tongue.”  This quote means Gloria is a strong and stubborn child and as an adult she wants her language to survive.  

2.    “If you want to be American. Speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”  This quote means immigrants have to speak American if they want to stay in American.  It is hard for them to speak a language they don’t really know

3.    “Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.”  This quote means you should always talk to get what you want.

Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Social Work

Matthew Williams

English 1100

24 September 2015

Prof. Young

Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Social Work

            Jean Anyon’s position on education is still learned in schools but not all of them.  Many education departments have been changing the way kids learn nowadays.  Every year they are changing the curriculum on subjects.  My educational experience was sometimes the same as Jean Anyon’s data in the essay and sometimes different.  I went to a private elementary school when I was young.  The school felt it was a like working class to middle class. Just in the middle of both of those types of schools with a hint of affluent profession school.  When we were taught lessons we would have to copy down the notes on the board.  After the lesson the teacher handed out a ditto on the lesson she taught.  Most of what I learned in elementary school was like this.  If a person did not understand a problem on the board, the student can ask questions to understand the problem.  When we reached 4^th and 5^th grade, we were allow to switch classrooms for different subjects once a day. This opportunity allow us to have a better feeling for middle school since we had to switch class every period.  I went to a public school for middle and high school.  The middle school was similar to the elementary school.  We had to copy down the notes the teacher told us to copy and if we wanted to take down our own notes we could do that.  I took a reading class during my three years there.  In 7^th and 8^th grade, we were told to write in a journal a couple days a week for a grade.  Sometimes the teacher would provide a writing prompt to answer or we could make up our own.  This was a good way to think about creative writing. When we had to go to the bathroom we would need to take a pass and in elementary school we did the same thing.  In high school learning was different.  In math class, if I did not understanding a problem. I could go up to the teacher and ask him what I did wrong.  In my junior year, History was taught differently than the previous years of the traditional teaching of history.  My teacher taught his students with flip learning.  He made of the concept and it was a better learning experience.  Flip learning was not having to take notes in class but having to watch a video of him talking about a lesson and taking notes on the video.  The next day in class the students would have to use the notes and concepts of the video lesson to complete a worksheet on the video lesson from last night.  If you don’t do the homework for class, your grade for the class will reflect on the amount of homework you have complete. Jean Anyon’s position does not holds merit today due to the changes in our curriculum.

Students’ right to their own language

Matthew Williams

English 1100

17 September 2015

Prof. Young

Students’ right to their own language

           

I think students should have the right to use their own language in an academic setting because if they can feel more comfortable in school when talking with their language they can learn better.  If they feel like they should talk in their language to their friends when doing project or assignment in class, they can do it.  The students cannot say bad things in their own language to others or teachers.  This action will not be tolerated in the classroom.  The school does not want people saying derogatory things to cause people to fight one another.  The students should be able to talk their language in school because they can interact with others and also pick up on other student’s languages.  Their language is the dialects of their nurture. They grew up learning the importance of their own language.  Students are proud in their language because of how it is surviving through generations and generations.  They want their language to survive just like their country has been doing it for a longtime.  Not all students need to learn English but if you go to school it’s a requirement to learn about it in school. There is no language that is more dominate than other languages.  All languages are equal.  Teachers should allow student to use their own language in the classroom.  Talking their language is their identity to people. Students should have the right to use their own language in an academic setting and this should not be taken away. 

Getting to know me

Matthew Williams
English 1100
25 August 2015
Prof. Young

Getting to know me 

The type of sport I play is baseball.  I have been playing baseball for around 11 years now.  I am playing on trying to walk on the baseball team here at FDU.  I will try my best to make the team.  Also my favorite MLB team is the Yankees.  The thing I am passionate about is playing baseball.  I have been playing the game for a while and practicing a lot.  What I do in my free time is watching baseball and sports center.  I could go and watch sports center for hours a day.  My nickname is Matt for short.  But some of my friends call me Mattyice because during baseball I don't really make many errors and I am smooth as ice at 3rd base.  

When I write, I have to have an outline.  Having an outline makes it easier to write about my thoughts  because my information is organized and thats the way I like.  I was a good writer in high school.  My teacher gave me one time to revise my essay to get a better grade.  I felt like I needed to take the advantage and see how I could approve.  I had many mistakes and questions I had to get done before handing a in a big paper.  This revision of my paper may have gotten me 10 to 15 points more then handing in my first draft.  I did learn grammar rules, structure and learned about the 5 paragraph structure.  The type of music I listen to is rap and hip hop.  My favorite artist is Logic.  I do listen to Drake, J. Cole, G-Eazy, A$AP Rocky and many others but Logic is just my favorite.  Logic is an up and coming rapper so many people won't know him that well.  He is a white rapper and can rap as fast as Eminem.  The reason I like him is because he is unknown and raps about his life in one of his latest album.  He is from Gaitherburg, Maryland which is a rough area to live.  He has dealt with his family selling drugs and if he should join that life just to make a few grand night to support his own family. But he did not go that way in his life.  He would practice rapping anywhere he could like he did when he was working a Jiffy Lube.  He just never gave up on rapping.  In the album he would rap more about is life and most rappers don't do it as much and thats why I like him.  I do use social media.  I use it everyday but not as much as others because I can live without for a period of time.

What is the most important to me to learn this semester is to become a better writer and getting good grades.  For me to become a better writer is good because that is my weakest aspect of me and I need improvement in the area.  Becoming a better will make me a better speaker and get good grades.  I rate myself a B-, because I am not the best writer I could be. It takes a good amount of time to produce a great paper.  I have trouble writing a quick essay in a small amount for a big grade.  I think this class will help me become a better writer.