Dumpster Dving

Ben Marakovits

Parkinson

English III

5 April 2016  

     Serious topics usually have emotion flying all around them and you often feel bad when the topic of homeless people is brought up. Some people turn their heads in discus when they see trash and of course when people are jumping into dumpsters. There is a lot of things we don't know abuot the art of dumpster diving, and many mysterys surround it and how it is done. In the book On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner infuses pathos into his writing by saying "Dumpster things are often sad- abandoned teddy bears, shredded wedding books, despaired-of sales kits" (Eighner). When first reading this the line saying abandoned teddy bears really got to me because I jusr got an image of a little kid who drops their teddy bear and they are screaming for their parents, but the parents are busy and don't have time to go back. Then it gets the gears turning, somebody who is going through trash trying to survive is saying these things are sad when they have so much more than him. This really shows the pathos that whoever you are, rich or poor, you have a heart.

old workers

Ben Marakovits

Parkinson

English III

14 March 2016

Old Workers

The age of retirement varies for everybody and people need to stay in the workforce because they need the money. They might have nobody to turn to and they are poor, so they must continue to work at an old age. It may seem they run out of uselessness at an old age and that is true for laboring jobs, but it is not true for others. I work in a gift shop at Kings Island as a part time job and one of my co-workers, Al who is 76 years old. He was one of the best on the sales floor because he was always able to strike up a conversation with anyone. Manual labor puts older men and women out of work seen in of Mice and Men “They’ll can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me on the county.”(John Steinbeck pg. 60) As soon as Candy can’t work anymore he will be fired and that will be the end of him. I don’t think they should be helped with their jobs because in our current society than can get a job which is capable of doing at an old age.

Tableau

Ben Marakovits

Parkinson

English III

6 March 2016


      "The golden splendor of day / the sable pride of night" (Cullens 3-4)These are clearly two different things. The day has the sun and life everywhere. The night brings the moon and cooler weather. day and night are polar opposites, but they really are not very different. Day right now is night somewhere else. Even though doesn't look like night it still is.”Oblivious to look and word / They pass, and see no wonder.” (Cullens 9-10) These boys can’t see the difference between night and day. When people make fun of one of them being black or white, they are oblivious to this because they don’t see any difference with each other. I wonder how these boys don’t see anything different about them? I probably forgot these are great people.This is what the Harlem Renaissance taught us, that people are people no matter their skin color.

Writing voice- The Importance of kindness

They offer surprising information and observations

When the author first started the video with surprising information and observations. First starting the video you thinking he will just start talking about kindness but he instead begins with a story of a girl who got bullied. "In the seventh grade a new kid joined our class." (Saunders, 0:09) he then continues to describe this girl in precise detail. "She had a habitat of taking a strain of hair and chewing on it" (Saunders, 0:25) He also describes her as shy and she wore grandma glasses. This real makes you imagine the girl in your head and you actually know her. He really keeps you captured in the story by giving you detail after detail until he just suddenly ended it, similar to how the girl suddenly moved away.

They deliver interesting information

The author's voice is really powerful when he delivers the information. He first off starts with a story that hooks you right away, but what is even more impressive is when he hooks you at the end of the story. "End of story. Now why that? Why after 42 years am I still thinking about that?" (Saunders, 1:05) He ends the story rather quickly and you are still wondering what happened to the girl? Saunders is then asking himself why after all these years does he remember this little story. That hooks the audience because if he remembers this story with precise accuracy after 42 years, there must be a big idea that people want to find out.

They exhibit perceptivity

The author offers movement through the video by first presents us a story. He goes through story about when the girl arrived and when she left. He transitioned from the story to beef of the subject. He uses the story to move into the Importance of kindness. The author was very straight forward with the transition by saying "Then she left, end of story" (Saunders 1:01)  He started to talk about kindness and was straight forward and the audience could see the separation between the story and the beef.

Catcher in teh Rye Blog 2

A vignette I was looking at in chapter 15 was when Holden was done talking to the nuns. After their conversation that he enjoyed, he was also pleased that they didn't ask if he was catholic. He then shared us a story about a boy named Louis Shaney who he was having a great conversation with about tennis, then Louis suddenly said "Did you happen to notice where the Catholic is in town, by any chance?" This powerful moment showed how he disliked when people asked if he was Catholic because in ruins the conversation and just because awkward.

Catcher in teh Rye 9-10

In this simple discussion of there being a rattle in this lady’s car, there is a greater idea. Everybody has a rattle, but not a literal rattle. A rattle used in this story is a problem that one has that nobody else sees, hears, and feels. In the story the author mentions cancer as an example of a rattle and Holden can relate to this because his brother Allie died of cancer and his death banged up Holden. The article is about a rattling sound in the car, but really the rattle is a problem like I said before. A problem you usually have to fight alone. I really think the second half of the story connects perfectly with Holden. Not just because of his brother, but because of Holden’s rattle. As we have already seen throughout his complex characterization that he has a problem and he is telling his story through a mental hospital. The article says “that thing that is the thorn in your side, that others can’t see or detect that you’re told to get over.”