comparison/contrast

the car i am driving now is a Lincoln town car, with a v8 engine with horrible gas mileage, whereas my new car is a Pontiac, with a 4 cylinder engine and great gas mileage.the paint on my new car is coming off, while my old car's paint is almost like new. the seats are really comfortable in my old car, but my new cars seats are kind of dirty and not comfortable at all. no work is needed for my old car, but my new car has a few things that need to be fixed before it can be registered. there is heat in my old car, and no heat in my new car. both of the cars are good cars, even though they are different brands. they both have radio, and both will last forever if i take good care of them.

Struggles with Research Paper

ok...struggles? haha where do I start?? i've had so many problems writing this paper... i swear it just hates me or something. first of all, the bibliography was extremely hard for me to do. i have no idea why... i realize it shouldn't have been as hard as it was, but it was for some reason. i couldn't get the right format going... or the right kind of sites, or really just understanding how it was done. i hope i did it right now. ok... but for this actual paper?? well, finding the stuff wasn't so difficult.. there's plenty of stuff supporting homeschooling. only thing is, i'm not exactly sure how i'm supposed to show the opposition. what is the opposition in my case? am i supposed to show why homeschooling is bad? or why public schools are good? either one of those options kinda just takes away from my entire paper... so i guess that maybe i just don't understand this concept... or whatever. like i said, i think the whole thing just hates me or something. so i guess that's the really big struggle i'm having. finding the opposition. that's what my peers told me from the peer review too. i need to have the opposition side showing... but i don't see how i'm supposed to do that exactly. this whole thing is just really confusing!! it also doesn't make sense to do research on something that the info has already been researched... like if your trying to make a new discovery or something, so you create your own new experiments or something, i'd understand, and this would make sense to me. but being as anyone can go find this info online, or read about it where ever they want to... it doesn't make sense to me why we should be writing a whole new paper on it. what's the point really? anyway... that's my rant for this post. hopefully i'll just get this whole paper over and done with and i can forget it. haha heaven knows i procrastinated enough already for this paper, so i'm glad its almost done and over with.

Class Discussion

ok... so this is supposed to be on what help we recieved from the discussion we had in class? i really liked being able to discuss everyone's papers by the way. it seemed like we were an actual group of students with the same goals... instead of just a class. anyway... umm...lets see... i don't remember anyone giving any specific help to my papers exactly... from what i got from the discussion on my paper, was everyone was just trying to figure out what i was really writing about. and we had to leave by the time everyone finally got the idea. so... as to exactly how they helped me... i can't say. because i don't feel as if i really got any help. :S So...i guess that doesn't really answer the question for the blog entry... but that's all i got.

research peer review

well... being as i didn't have the first three pages of my paper done on the peer review date... i guess this blog entry is useless. but just in case i can get extra points for actually doing this...i'm all for it :)
i came and asked how i could actually write my paper without quoting every site i find...which honestly seems like the most logical thing to do. but, being as that would make no sense to write a paper in the first place, i'm going to do it using my own words how the teacher suggested. i can take from my own experiences, and write a paper like that, without it seeming like a personal paper. i will then add a few quotes, and perhaps statistics, and information that i have found in my sources. this whole thing should be able to create my paper.
i know this isn't the actual assignment that was specified, but it was nice to get my thoughts down in here anyway.

Three FOR Reasons

my three reasons for picking the side that i did are hard for me to say actually. i really don't care that much either way about obama, and i try to be as little involved with his politics as possible. i will say that his idea to reform the health care is kinda stupid in my opinion...because the system is already abused enough. if this reform goes through, then the entire medical feild will be abused even more by those without insurance. second... i think he's trying too hard. you don't have to make peace with the whole world for your country to like you. third, i think you should be paying more attention to the country you're a president of, before you start sending people off to a different country especially when you said that you'd bring the troops home. pay more attention to your own country before you go off fraternizing with the other countries.

Obama debate

this debate thing was good because we were able to look at both sides of the table. this is very important because in order to have an argument about anything... you have to have something to argue against.its really important also to acknowledge the other side to make sure that your argument is not just biased based off of your own personal beliefs or interests.

argument activity

i learned from the activity in class about picking a side for an argument that in some topics, there can be many different sides to a specific topic. some may be good, or bad, or even both, but they are all still reasonable arguments for each topic. picking a topic is still going to be hard for me though. i thought i did have a topic, but now that i have looked more into my topic, i have realized that it probably isn't a topic that i could have a good argument. so... i need to figure out a completely knew topic now, and make sure that i can have a credible argument for it. so being as if this activity actually helped or not for writing my own research paper... i can't really say. i might say no, simply because now i'm even more confused about which topic i should find/pick. but then again, i can say yes, because now i have more of an idea on what to look for- something with an easy argument from both sides that i can model to my own side and argument.