I miss music from the 90s. Jason started playing throwbacks before FRO the other day and it reminded me of all the great music from when I was a kid. I don’t know if it was necessarily because the music was great or just because I associate the music with times where everything was easy but to this day music from the 90s is my favorite. Bands like Counting Crows, 3 Doors Down, Oasis and Matchbox Twenty on top of all the countless one hit wonders such as Closing Time by Semisonic and Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry just have the kind of sound that never fails to make me feel nostalgic.

Im actually very surprised no ones written about music in these blogs yet. Maybe its because we all had to do the top 10 list for FRO but today it clicked with me that this was such an obvious choice. Music is something universal, not necessarily the type of music, but the power it has to link up with certain events. I think people tend to associate events or time periods with songs. For example all the bands I listed above remind of when I was younger and life was so easy. It was just me, my friends, and the park. And of course my 90s music.

Animal cruetly is something I am strongly against. The commercials with the dogs and cats that have been abused are incredibly hard to watch and I just change the channel when that song comes on and tries to ruin my commercial watching experience. I don’t understand how people could be so mean to an innocent animal. All they want is for someone to love them. How can someone willing be cruel to a face as cute as a puppy or kitten?

I try to always buy my cosmetics with the cruelty free stamp of approval. My favorite brands to buy are Tarte and Buxom cosmetics. These brands are proud to be cruetly free. They always add to the packaging that their products are cruelty free. I like having the feeling that I was a bunny’s honey and bought cruelty free products. Bunnies are usually the animal of choice when they test if a product is safe or not. Check for the bunny on the box to see if the product is cruelty free.

I must start by saying that the writing process this time around was a lot easier for me. Easier because I had a better idea what the writing prices was. In class on thursday, we used a writing-brainstorming activity to further explore our thesis. To be honest in, I felt that the process was pointless and just more work then i needed to do but as I started writing I started thinking and one idea brought me to next. Although I didn’t have a thesis by the end of the activity, it still helped me out in my aim of what I wanted me thesis to be. Over the weekend when I sat down to start my essay, I was stumped on what to write about so I opened up a blank word document and started writing just as we did in class on Thursday. Through this brainstorming process not only did I developed my thesis but I had wrote a big chunk of my introduction paragraph. In conclusion the writing-brainstorming technique was quiet helpful in developing the idea of my essay and I will further use it for future writing assignments to come.

What I am worried about? Im more confident about this paper then any other paper i have written, so its hard to say what I’m worried about. In this paper i actually have a thesis statement, not just something I call a thesis statement which makes me confident in the overall idea of the paper. I used a lot of quotes in this paper and analized them compared to just referring to them briefly or summarizing them, which has been a pervious problem of mine. I am confident about my paper, so I guess that what I’m worried about the most is if I’m right, that this paper is actually well developed and answered the prompt given.

I’d like to think of myself as a good writer. When the time comes to write a paper on a subject, I’m able to manage with little to no difficutly whatsoever. That’s also a problem I have. I can only write about a certain subject or in other words, “summarize”. Ever since high school, thesis papers have been the only kind of assignments that have seriously hurt me academically in english. I just can’t seem to grasp the concept of a thesis and how to make one. At this point in writing it’s just weird and honestly it troubles me. It’s like being placed in Calculus without ever having a firm understanding of multiplication. As for progress, I haven’t started yet.

This paper is a bit different from the last. It is because I have my ideas formulated and I know/understand what I am writing about, or at least going to write about, much better than before. I already have my my introduction and thesis statement written down, but I feel that my thesis could be much better than it is right now. This has been my main problem, writing a really strong thesis, or at least one that I am happy with. This is hard because I am so hard on my writing sometimes that I believe it is never good enough.

Another really strong difficulty I am having, but I believe will be overcome much easier, is finding quotes to fit what I want to say because it is an extensive book, but I feel this will be easy to overcome. I believe that this essay will be challenging but my ideas will flow much better from the last paper so I think that its not going to be too bad.

Writing this paper I feel lost. Where as in the first paper I felt proud of what I was writing, at this point I’m a mixture of tired, confused, and a bit angry. I don’t know why but I just can’t seem to get anything going.

I have somehow gotten 4 pages, but I’m not sure how good those 4 pages are. It’s really frustrating but hopefully with some peer review my paper can turn into something good.

i am going crazy about this essy. i dont like essays, especially if its over one page. (yes i know, im very lazy when it comes to writing. im more of a practical person when it comes to activities. i just get restless when it comes to sitting down for over an hour and thinking about how annoying and tedious writing can be. but enough about ranting, ill talk about my thesis.

I feel like stating in my thesis how rebecca skloot gives herself too much glory in the fact that she kind of personifies herself as the hero of the story. i would also talk about how deception is a big factor. the main theme would be about deception, not heroism. Although i woud mention that Skloot treats heself as a hero, i will concentrate more on how she indirectlly glorifies herself as the person who “saved” Henrietta Lacks from being an insignificant being instead of letting her become some nameless patient who died of cancer.

I think the fact that im typing this late shows how much im struggling with college right now. The next week alone there are so many assignments and so much work i have to do im strongly considering dropping a class just so i can get this essay done. I have a general idea  of what i want to write about but im still trying to finish the book. Theres just so much on my plate right now im not exactly sure how ill get it all done. I thinking dropping my science class would give me  enough time in the morning to get sleep and to start working on my english paper. Im not dure how im going to structure it but i feel like having more time andbless work would help me sort out howill get this paper done.