In this blog post I will provide an annotated bibliography of six sources that I will use to write my research paper. The topic for my paper is "Should prison systems in the United States focus more on rehabilitation rather than punishment?"
Source #1 Moore, Michael. “Where to Invade Next (2015) Movie Script | SS.” Springfield! Springfield!, 2015, www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=where-to-invade-next.
Source #2 Lappin, Harley G. “American Prisons Are Humane.” American Prisons Are Humane, edited by Noah Berlatsky, 9 Feb. 2006. Opposing Viewpoints In Context, link.galegroup.com.libdb.dccc.edu/apps/doc/EJ3010108415/OVIC?u=pa_de_ccc&sid=OVIC&xid=6aeec657. Accessed 13 Apr. 2018. Source #3 Benson, Etienne. “Rehabilitate or Punish.” Monitor on Psychology, American Psychological Association2003, www.apa.org/monitor/julaug03/rehab.aspx.
Source #4 Rivers, Eileen. “Re-Entry into Society, or Back to Prison?” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 31 Dec. 2017, www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/reentry/column/2017/12/29/reentry-incarceration-corruption-prison-barriers-recidivism-policing-usa/979903001/.
Source #5 Brasfield, Philip. "Prisons Should Focus More on Rehabilitation." Prisons, edited by James Haley, Greenhaven Press, 2005. Current Controversies. Opposing Viewpoints In Context, http://link.galegroup.com.libdb.dccc.edu/apps/doc/EJ3010059258/OVIC?u=pa_de_ccc&sid=OVIC&xid=f51a20c1. Accessed 13 Apr. 2018. Originally published as "Los Marginales: Prisons Operate on the Premise That People Cannot and Will Not Change. But If We Accept That Lie, We Must Throw Out the Possibility of Redemption," The Other Side, vol. 38, 2002. Source #6 Ensign, John. "Incarceration Should Be Punitive." Prisons, edited by James Haley, Greenhaven Press, 2005. Current Controversies. Opposing Viewpoints In Context, http://link.galegroup.com.libdb.dccc.edu/apps/doc/EJ3010059241/OVIC?u=pa_de_ccc&sid=OVIC&xid=d6199e0b. Accessed 13 Apr. 2018. Originally published as "statement before the U.S. Senate," 2003.
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Below you will find the notes i took while watching Michael Moore documentry Where to Invade Next. A film I had to summerize for my English Composition I class.
In this blog post i will select three different topics from Michael Moore documentry Where to Invade Next. I will provide a research question and argument for each topic. Here you will find a summary of the film.
Research Question #1 Should prison systems be reformed in the U.S.? Argument Research Question #2 What can Americans do to better themselves? Argument Research Question #3 Why doesn't America provide free college tuition? Argument In this blog post I will provide a summary and rhetorical analysis of the film Where to Invade Next by filmmaker Michael Moore. In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore sets out to find ways on how to make America great. Moore visited European countries where the population were mostly Caucasian to get ideas from them and bring them back to the United States. Michael Moore visited France where companies are giving fair amounts of paid vacation time to their employees. He sat down with CEO” s to tell them that they ran the company the American way they could make more money. The French care for the welfare of people and would rather work with people who are happy than to be richer. When visiting France, he discovered how healthy the children eat in school oppose to what our children get fed here in America. How at lunch the children learn how to eat and what’s healthy for them. Also, the children have sex education and proves how they have lower pregnancy rate. Moore visited Finland where all schools are equal and Slovenia where they have no college tuition, freeing students of debt. When visiting Germany, he spoke with middle class workers who have no need for extra income. They make good money and work for companies who listen to their workers. When Michael visited Norway, he learned that the prison system is designed to help inmates be good neighbors and help to rehabilitate inmates. The only thing that is taking from the prisoner is their freedom and family. In the end Michael Moore says how America has had these ideas all along. These ideas came from America but are used everywhere but. rhetorical analysis
This weeks blog post is on Reflective Writing. My understand of what Reflective writing is, writing without summarizing to much and also expressing thoughts and feelings. Reflective writing can get your audience to dig deeper into what is being discussed. It can also make one discover their own feelings. Provide thoughtful answers to these questions:
For this week’s blog assignment Print out, read, and annotate Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) This story is about a man and women sitting in a train station having drinks, which seem to be the norm. while waiting for a train to arrive, they are having a conversation about the status of their relationship. They don’t agree on a lot of things but one of them feels like staying together and boarding that train would make all well. Does she stay in her relationship with the man? I believe that the woman does not remain in the relationship with the man. During their conversation he would often get upset with the things that she said. This action from him upset her, making her questioned if he would always get upset with things that she said. The man believes that if they go away together everything will be okay and that their problems will disappear. He says “We’ll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before.” However, I think she does not believe this because as they sit there they continue to argue and she continues to be defensive to everything he says. She gets upset with how much he’s talking and asks him to stop. The relationship is already dead because all that this couple does is “look at things and try new drinks”. When they began to try to have a decent conversation it turns bad and the man starts to plead with her. This couple has problems that the woman does not want to fix. When have you made a important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation? I encourage you to write a scene that shows the moment. Consider using dialogue. It was Saturday afternoon in King of Prussia Pennsylvania. The mall had been crowded as expected for it being 14 days before Christmas. I had been doing some shopping with my two youngest children, Tiara, had become rather fussy after walking around for hours so we decided to stop at the food court for dinner. After receiving our food and settling at the table to eat my phone rang and my face lit up with excitement, it was my husband. He said, “This is not working, I want to get a divorce” As I realized what this conversation was about I got up from the table and hurried to a corner so no one could see the tears that started fall from my eyes, especially the children. “why are you saying that?” , “you just want to give up like that after 18 years” “Yes you need to continue on with your life, I have to be in jail for 9 and a half to 19 years” “what do you expect me to do? “I know you have a friend now who can actually be there for you and the children. I will be okay. I’ll always love you but I need to do this on my own and this is not fair to you” This week’s blog is based on a podcast called What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang). It’s about a young lady whose family persuaded her to lie to her grandmother about a terminal illness. They thought by not telling her it could possible lengthen her life span.
Did you agree with the family's choice to deceive Wang's grandmother? I do not agree with the family’s choice to deceive Wang’s grandmother. I believe a person should be given a choice to receive treatment or not. True, it is up to that person if they will take the news and just give up on life or keep positive about it and it is the family’s duty to uplift that person whenever needed. However, culture also comes into play, and some beliefs around the world are far different. And then that lie just led to another lie that many uncomfortable about the whole things but it did give everyone to see her if it was going to be the last time. When have you made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or you made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on you and/or someone else? For this week’s blog assignment read, and annotate My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).
In this reading Maya Angelou speaks about herself as a child named Margaret learning her way around the kitchen working as an understudy of a household servant by the name of Ms. Glory, who has worked in this house for twenty years. They worked for a woman named Mrs. Cullinan a wealthy woman from Virginia who was unable to bear children and her husband had lead a double life which produced two children. Margaret secretly felt sorry for her. When Mrs. Sullivan choose to listen to her other women friends and shorten Margaret’s name for her own convenience. Margaret decided to find a way to quit her job and in a way her mother wouldn’t be oppose to since it was something that you would not quit a job for back in that time. Margaret decided to break a glass casserole dish and two green glass coffee cups that she knew that Mrs. Cullinan adored, that had been passed down by her mother. : Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? I can’t say whether I agree or disagree with her decision to break the dishes. Back in those times I’m sure it was hard to get a job and like Ms. Glory tried to tell her in the story she had kept this job for twenty years and her name was changed also, but some things are not worth giving attention to. Also in another sense, Ms. Glory got hit with the piece of dish by and accident and that could have been a wakeup call for her to start standing up for herself as well. You have to pick and choose your battles. : When have you made an important choice to either resist or not resist oppression, challenge the status quo, or refuse to obey an authority figure? I would have to say the time I refuse to obey is when I was about thirteen years old and my parents had always been Jehovah witnesses. Every week on Sunday we would go to the kingdom hall (place of worship for Jehovah witnesses} and me being the child I had to follow suit. Until one day I told my parents that I wanted to explore other religions. Do you suck at writing, like I do? I mean dreadfully suck? You see, my forte’ is math, because of my line of work as a financial counselor, I’m required to be exceptionally proficient with numbers. So, you see this English Composition I course may prove to be a little challenging but never have I ever backed down from a challenge and I ain’t about to start now, “Yes Professor Mangini, I said ain’t!” So for this assignment we had to provide quotes from the following three readings as well as my own writing process.
· Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray) · The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) · Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray) Quote 1. "Instead of teaching finished writing, we should teach unfinished writing, and glory in its unfinishedness." Quote 2. "It is the responsibility of the student to explore his own world with his own language, to discover his own meaning. The teacher supports but does not direct this expedition to the student's own truth." Quote 3. "The students are individuals who must explore the writing process in their own way, some fast, some slow, whatever it takes for them, within the limits of the course deadlines, to find their own way to their own truth." The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) Quote 1. "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper." ( E.B. White) Quote 2. "I write with a felt-tip pen, or sometimes a pencil, on yellow or white legal pads, that fetish of American writers. I like the slowness of writing by hand. Then I type it up and scrawl all over that. And keep on retyping it, each time making corrections both by hand and directly on the typewriter, until I don’t see how to make it any better.” (Susan Sontag) Quote 3. “Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.” (William Gibson) Quote 4. “You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.” (Ernest Hemingway) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) Quote 1. “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” (E.L. Doctorow) Quote 2. “For me, and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” (Anne Lamott) Quote 3. “I don’t think you have the time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have the time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect. You don’t want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water.” (Anne Lamott) My process 1. Ask the children what their needs are so that there are no interruptions. 2. Eat a good meal, I cannot think when I am hungry. 3. And maybe accidently eat some cinnamon toast crunch infused edibles. Accidently, maybe. |
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