Group 1 Intro Paragraph

What do you like to do in the summer? If the answer includes water, concerts, fairs, or car shows, Minnesota is the place to be. As far as being on the water, Minnesota is The Land of 10, 000 Lakes, need I say more? The Taste of Minnesota and the State Fair both offer great food and outdoor music, along with many other things to see and do. Back to the 50s and Car Craft are two huge car shows held each summer. Whatever your interests, you will more than likely be able to find something to your liking in the hot and humid Minnesota summer.

Group 6 conclusion paragraph summer vs. winter fishing

Overall, the differences between fishing in the summer and the winter are varied. In the summer, you use a boat to move around a lake; on the other hand, in the winter you use your friend's beat up truck. In the summer you may find fish are closer to shore due to spawning, whereas in contrast during the winter months they tend to stay in the deeper waters for warmth. Simply catching the fish is different as well. During the summer months you cast out your line or drag it behind you in a boat, while you simply drop the line down a hole in the winter. All you need is the right equipment, knowledge, and technique and you could be on your way to enjoying a fresh caught fish dinner!

Group Three Intro

According to research shown on Dr. Jantz's website, www.overcominggambling.com, there are a few key red flags that tell you if a person is addicted to gambling.  Higher bets, long gambling sessions, and depression are just a few.  An addiction like this doesn’t get as much publicity as others would like alcoholism and drug abuse because one would think the consequences are more serious with them.  One would be dead wrong though.  Gambling addiction is a psychological disorder and is just as bad or even worse than those addictions.  People with this addiction need to get help before time runs out.  Some of the most popular and most successful ways to get help are attending a support group, spending time with people who do not like gambling, or seeing a counselor.

Conclusion Group 4

Many teenagers may have taken this movie seriously. However, as you can see, the rules in He’s Just Not That Into You rarely apply to reality. The movie’s theory of rules and exceptions to those rules, is absurd. Not only that but If the guy wants it to happen with a women, it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. A guy certainly can't "make it happen" either. When men are mean to women, it does not necessarily mean they like them. Women should not make to poor mistake of believing this. Also, a man says he is going to call, and he doesn’t, a girl should not wait by her telephone. He’s not going to call. This movie was very funny, and could easily be interpreted as truthful by adolescent minds. It is important for people watching to realize that this movie is fictional, and not to apply these theories to real life dating situations.

Conclusion/Group 5

This conclusion is regarding Capital punishment being a moral and ethical concern.

Regardless of an inmate’s religious or racial background, if they have taken a life then all can agree that this behavior must not be tolerated. Whether they deserve to die for this crime is a question not easily answered. People have strong ethical beliefs and feel obligated to take a stand, whether it is for religious beliefs, racial disparity, or a defendant’s right to a fair trial. Yet, when it comes to the moral and ethical concern of capital punishment, there is still one fact that remains. As long as one human being feels the right to take the life of another, this ethical debate between life in prison and the death penalty will never come to an end. All eyes are on the accused as he lies strapped to a table; he watches the executioner push the poison into his veins and then all is finished.

Intro Paragraph/Group 2

"Aloha!" Where is the most sought out vacation place in the world that offers hiking to view out of World War II bunkers, to stand on the Bridge behind the wheel of an 1900 century whaling ship, or lay in the hot sand next to ocean? Yes, I am talking about Hawaii. There is no place other than Hawaii where you can fly over an erupting volcano to watch the rushing lava flow down the mountainside. Also, Hiking Diamond Head in Waikiki, is an exhilarating journey up to the highest point on Oahu where you enter the old World War II bunker. Lastly, the Tropical Rain Forest has the most unique tree's and plants. All of these are great reasons for families, honeymooners or just a trip away with friends, to visit the beautiful and astonishing Hawaii.

GROUP 4- HUNTIN' DEER by. emily nelson and carissa mossman

In MN hunting deer is a popular sport. Thousands of people are our on that crisp cold opening morning hoping to shoot the buck of a lifetime. This can be proved by stepping into a taxidermist shop. You will be amazed by the overflowing amount of deer heads they have in their freezers. Many people question the ethics of shooting animals but it provides many families food and an opportunity to control the population. Also, it allows you to enjoy the outdoors and become one with nature. All you need is a little patience and a buck grunt (and a gun) and you will find your self enjoying a sport that will leave your feeling accomplished with your trophy buck. So get out in that tree stand!!!

Group 5 body paragraph

One of the struggles with a career in Interior design in today’s society is the ability to find a job. With the economy in the state that it is in, not many people have the money or desire to spend hundreds of dollars renovating their homes. Their hard earned money is spent more so on necessities rather than luxuries. House payments, phone bills, groceries, and much more all come before painting the walls in your kitchen. In a time like thins, “needs” come before “wants.” For the more fortunate ones who have a steady income, updating the style of your home may not be such hesitation. However, the number of interior designers has a direct opposite correlation with the number of people remodeling their homes; that is, the number of interior designers and design firms is increasing, but the number of individuals seeking their services is decreasing. This is just one of the many struggles that an Interior Designer may face in today’s society.

Group 6 Paragraph

Throughout history, there have been many social changes in our society that have been, in part, associated with an activist’s or politician’s writings or speeches. To call attention to the issues they are presenting and to relate them to society as a whole, they use language in different ways. For example, Abraham Lincoln made the argument that slaves were not property that they were men and they should be treated as human beings with the same rights as the general population. Nelson Mandela fought with his words to eliminate apartheid. Martin Luther King, Jr. used language to describe issues that the Negroes were facing and to assign them human characteristics so that the general population could identify with their plight, which helped influence John F. Kennedy to use his gift with words and his charisma to affect change in governmental policies. These men, and many others, who have come before and after them, used the power of speech and language to sway, convince, teach, and modify beliefs so that healthy social change could occur.

Group 6 Konglish

Kenneth Woo was afraid to write. As early as second grade, he was told he had the gift. He fought this gift throughout his life, focusing on math and science, something he believed he should be mastering. In visiting his native land, Kenneth knew he must learn the Korean language; this was not something he was looking forward to. Learning Korean reminded him of learning English when he was young. How ironic that he began to learn the Korean language when he started studying the McDonalds menu board – something that reminded him of America. Kenneth had to go to Korea to find out what he had been running from all along, he had the gift of writing. When he picked up a pen, he wrote from his soul (heart) – the words would just flow out. The homeless lady was the clincher – she looked in his eyes and saw his soul. Ones soul is where the words form, and the soul shows through the eyes of a writer who sees the world as it is in their eyes. A gift is from God, and it should not be ignored. Not all are so lucky to receive theses gifts.

Group 2 Assignment 2- Body Paragraph

This would be an example of a body paragraph from an essay on baseball. Thesis being baseball is fun to watch on television,.

Baseball is also better to watch on television because of the announcers. The announcer is very knowledgeable about the game and can give play by play details. Even if someone isn’t a big baseball fan the game is easier to watch and understand on television because the announcers explain different plays. They tell who is doing well with hitting, who has lots of mistakes, and even about some off the field things like injuries. Sometimes the announcers do fun things like make comments on crowd shots. For instance the Minnesota Twins announcer Bert has a following of people who make signs that say, “Circle me Bert”. These signs make the television watcher feel more included in the game. Announcers make watching the game easier at home because of the sound. It is possible to multitask and leave the room if need be but still hear what is going on with the game. There are so many reasons why the announcer really helps to make baseball better on television.

Group 8 Body Paragraph

The due process criminal justice model values a person's liberties as listed in the Bill of rights above society's right to be protected from crime through the crime control model. This model holds it's major idea through fairness to the people being prosecuted. It realizes that there always is a margin of human error, either through the simple mistake of a police officer, or through the scientific process used to prosecute the accused. The Tucson Police Department reported a five percent error rate on tested DNA tissue at their forensics department and found twenty-four incidents of contamination in samples used, some coming from outside sources (Washington Crime News Service, June 20, 2007). Certain rights are giving to citizens and limitations are imposed upon law enforcement as well through this process. Law enforcement needs to state some of these rights, called a Miranda warning, when placing someone under arrest. An example of one of these rights is the right to speak to an attorney, and to have one present during an interrigation. Miranda V. Arizona (1966) found that no confession is admissible under the fifth and sixth amendments if the suspect hasn't been made aware of their rights. The fourth amendment limits random searches that can be made by law enforcement without a warrant. For example, Rochin V. California (1952) found that officers that entered Rochin's home without a warrant obtained drugs foceably and illegally according to the fourteenth amendment. Interrogation is strictly controlled to make sure that a citizen's rights are not broken or the person forced to admit guilt. Due process also follows a guideline of rehabilitation for criminals rather than extended incarceration, believing that people generally want to follow the laws. Overall, the due procees model follows closely what the United States constitution lays out to protect individual rights and helps prevent the abuse of power given to those who have sworn to protect, serve, and uphold the law.

Group 9 1.13

Many families experience the sadness and anger of having an alcoholic related to them. For instance: a parent, sibling, an aunt or uncle, maybe an alcoholic. When this person is close to you it may cause a lot of stress, emotional and/or physical pain in one’s life. Such as, when the alcoholic is in a drunken rage, or passed out and unable to function. This could cause some or most family members to have a growing concern about the alcoholic’s safety and/or the safety of others around them, an example a child or spouse. From just one person in the family that is an alcoholic, it may affect anyone and/or everyone around them. Many people conceder alcoholism to be a disease, some say it’s hereditary; in any case the alcoholic needs help. Therefore, it is very important to not take alcoholism lightly, and to encourage the alcoholic and his/her family to seek help whether it Alcoholic’s Anonymous or a treatment facility, or even Al-Anon meetings for the family members.

Group 8 Summary of Bambara

The Lesson, by Toni Cade Bambara, follows a young girl name Sylvia who is taught a life lesson by Miss Moore, her summer school teacher, at an upper end toy store. Miss Moore brings Sylvia and the rest of her class to F.A.O Schwartz for the day's lesson. As they look through the windows of the store, the children start picking out things they want and will buy. Then they notice the price tags for the different items in the store. As Sylvia goes through the store, she starts to think about who would spend this much money on a toy. What do these people do and why isn't she in on it? She thinks about previous lessons where Miss Moore talks about demanding their share of the pie, but doesn't really grasp the point of that lesson: you can't steal your place in the world; you have to demand it. One student at the end of the lesson seems to understand, but is quickly quieted by Sylvia who is disgusted with the student's "treachery". The story ends with Sylvia not completely understanding the point of the lesson, but you see a glimmer of understanding in her. It shows, with time, that she may understand after all.

Summary of Madera, Group 2

Susan Madera has had the unique experience of speaking two languages, proper English, and the neighborhood tongue. She has experienced multiple obsticals in order to overcome her pursuit to speak proper English. She was uncomfortable, and felt out of place because of this neighborhood tongue she couldn't get rid of. But through education, perseverance, and dedication she was able to understand what flaws in her speech needed improvement. Even though she wasn't speaking properly, she could write in the correct fashion that was academically required of her. The most important lesson learned in this writing is taht with dedication, persistance, and motivation you can overcome your flaws no matter what they may be. Not only has Madera become successful in her career, she has also become successful in her pursuit to be comfortable with the way she speaks. Even though her speech hasn't been perfected to her satisfaction, her writing style has.

Writing college level body paragraphs (group 3)

In “Poets in the Kitchen,” Paule felt that her inspiration came from the women in the kitchen, and although she felt that they “trained her ears,” it was actually all of her reading that she did in the library while waiting for the women to finish their cocoa and tea. Paule was supposed to sit quietly at the library and the only thing to do was read. As she had mentioned she “was sheltered from the storm of adolescence in the Macon Street Library, reading voraciously, indiscriminately, everything from Jane Austen to Zane Grey, but with a special passion for the long, full-blown, richly detailed eighteenth and nineteenth-century picaresque tales.” Of course the more you read the more you can understand and appreciate the beauty of a book, and Paule learned to love reading. Through her reading, she stumbled across poetry by Paul Dunbar, whom she found she could relate to. She fell in love with his poetry and how it spoke to her. She became broadminded and empathetic to what she read. If not for the library Paule would not have fallen in love with reading nor stumble across Paul’s poetry. She would have never encountered such a person in her school readings; they did not speak of such people back then, and thus developing her desire of someday writing.

Group 1 assignment 2

There are many reasons why students attend Century College. A few examples are the great teachers, in-class and online class avaliblity, and also the low cost to attend. Century College also has a variety of courses to choose from which makes them very appealing to all sorts of people perusing an education. Also, It is a nice size campus, compared to others, therefore students get that one on one time with professors in a less intimidating and a lot more welcoming environment. We can now see why Century College is chosen by so many different people, because of the convienece, cost and great learning environment that they have to offer.

Outline of Jorif - Group 9

Introduction
As an attention getter, he used the simple but thought provoking sentence, "Thinking is a very nice exercise when you are young."
Thesis
His subject is freedom as a new immigrant, and his attitude is that freedom isn't quite what he expected it to be at first.
Body Paragraph #1
Topic - Being discreet in your expression of freedom.
Support - Snow is new to him, and eating it off a windowsill gets him in trouble.
Body Paragraph #2
Topic - If you want freedom, you better be able to take care of yourself.
Support - Jorif goes to his mother to replace a button on his school uniform; she instead gives him a lesson in sewing.
Body Paragraph #3
Topic - Freedom can mean being all alone in a crowd.
Support - As an immigrant, he is stared at when he is able to recite and understand part of the Declaration of Independence.
Conclusion
Jorif continually thought about the meaning of freedom as he was growing up, and found he sometimes had to follow other peoples' interpretations of freedom to make his life easier.

Annotation in Marshall (Group 3)

In reading this story from “Poets in the Kitchen,” I noted a few things that really caught my attention. The first thing that I noted was Paule’s attention to the male novelist who visited her graduate seminar. The novelist ironically spoke of how being a female had its advantages because they “usually spent so much time as children around their mothers and their mothers’ friends in the kitchen during their ritual tea/coffee gatherings. It was Ironic because although she was offended and even “bristled” when he mentioned it, it was those people that were her inspiration to become a writer.

The second thing I noted was why she felt they were her inspiration. Paule wrote of how she and her sister sat at a table listening to the women. “They talked- endlessly, passionately, poetically, and with impressive range.” The women spoke of everything from their daily routine, to the economy, to their families, and of their old lives Bimshire, their hometown.

The third thing I noted was how the women’s conversation was not only a way to release the tension, but it was also a therapy for them. It was a way for them to feel in control of their lives. And ultimately it was those conversations “therapy sessions” that lead Paule to be the best writer she could be, so she thought, but in further reading it was also it was her sheltered life in the library reading and waiting for the women to finish their cup of coffee.

Gloria Naylor/Group 5

Certain words are hard to grasp for a child's mind, this was especially true for a young Gloria Naylor. Nigger was a word she heard one day during school from one of her classmates. As it was directed at her in a hateful manner, she knew it meant something bad. But every other time she had heard it, it meant something completely different. Words of approval, endearment, disembodied force, or trifle were all meanings of the one word that she'd experienced before, but never hatred. Even though nigger was said in her company, it wasn't until that day in school that she actually heard it. Spoken word is dynamic in the fact that words used in different contexts can mean entirely different things. And every word that you speak means nothing unless the people that hear you understand what you're trying to convey.

Alexie paraphrase group one

Although Sherman Alexie read alot of books as a young indian boy, the last thing he thought he was going to be was a writer. Sherman is now trying to save every child's life he can through a story, because he knows the impact a simple book made in his life. Now, he is determined to visit schools and teach creative writing , giving young indian boys hope and determination to become all that they can. The children who have already began writing poems and short stories are already starting to save their own lives and figured out that reading a book can take you to a different aspect of the world. . In the mean time hes not letting the children that have already givin up, demolish his determination to help them. He stands by his words " I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives."