First Time Blogging

This is my first time blogging I hope I'm doing this correctly. However I am glad to see that I'm not the only one who is new to this.

New to blogging

I am new to this, If anyone has any ideas how to help me or even any ideas that would be great. Thank you

Rather Be Working

With the struggling economy concrete construction is also struggling. So here I am blogging towards my degree in Agriculture Education, instead of pouring out mud like I should be doing. Someday I will have job security, provided I make it though all this blogginess that I am no so familiar with.

Hi Class,
Something interesting that I found online was a news paper clipping that stated
For Sale: One pair
Hardly used dentures,
Only two teeth missing,
$100 OBO
It then stated the name and number of the person who placed the ad.
This reminds me of when I was little and I would read Reader’s Digest. They had a page or two of funny stories or write-ups like this. Reading frivolous articles like this seems to always put a smile on my face and lighten my mood!

My first blog

I am on the Internet all the time and this is my first blog. This semester will be interesting. I hope to get to know more about everyone this semester.

Practice post

One of my favorite TV shows is "So You Think You Can Dance." I enjoy going online to YouTube or some other site that shows recaps of the dances, so I can watch them again. There are two dances I love to watch, and they were both nominated for Emmy's this year. One is danced to Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," and one is danced to Jordin Sparks' "No Air." Does anyone else like this show, or have any good websites to follow some of the dances and dancers from the show?

first time blogger

Well hello everyone! This is my first experience with blogging and it should be interesting.

Internet

I find the whole internet thing still interesting. It has been around for a while now but I am still amazed at all the things you can do or find. My dad has a super big family, so he created a website for our family. He has pictures posted of everyone and poeple can leave messeges. It's a good way to stay in touch.

Something funny on the internet

Something I found to be rather funny online was on the website for YouTube. I don’t use YouTube very often but when I was at work one day a coworker of mine told me to look up a wedding video. It was a video of a wedding. When the wedding party was coming up the isle for the wedding they all were dancing to music that was playing. Even the bride and groom were dancing up the isle in this video. It was very entertaining to watch. I even showed my family members the video.

Kacie

Guarana

Something interesting that I have recently seen on the internet was when my 15 year oldson and his friends were researching ingredients that are in the energy drinks like “monster”. One of the ingredients (besides a lot of sugar) was Guarana which is a shrub from Venezuela. The seeds contain as much as 3 times the amount of caffeine as coffee beans. But the amount of caffeine does not have to be listed on the label like other drinks. This is just something I found interesting.

My very first Blog! How exciting!

Just wanted to say hello to everyone in my class! I am looking forward to working and learning with you throughout the semester! Good luck to everyone!

Hi just posting something to post it.

Hi my name is matt myrick. Just doing the short posting thing that we're supposed to do.... yeah

Welcome Fall 2009 Students!

This is our course blog, one of the places outside of D2L where you will post short writing assignments. An email invitation has been sent to your school email account asking you to join the blog. Click on the link within that email and you will be directed to a page to create your username (keep it recognizable to me but private enough if you do not want to share your name with the world. I might us Beyerj or Jbeyer, for example) and password (WRITE IT DOWN).

Mood of Porphyria's Lover

\The Mood set in Porphyria’s Lover sounds like a scene out of a romantic novel. Imagining the candles and fireplace making the room glow is easy as the author describes his relationship, “And, last, she sat down by my side, and called me, she put my arm about her waist, and made her smooth white shoulder bare.” (Line13) “Happy and proud; at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me; surprise made my heart swell, and still it grew.” (Line 34) The relationship seemed to be going good till about halfway through the story when it got dark and scary. “That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good: I found a thing to do, and all her hair in one long yellow string I would three times her little throat around, and strangled her. No pain she felt” (Line 36-42) He got very possessive and wanted her all to himself. “I propped her head up as before, only this time my shoulder bore, her head which droops upon it still the smiling rosy little head, so glad it has its utmost will.” (Line 49-53)
Nicole K.

Photograph of my Father in His Twenty Second Year/ Those Winter Sundays

I will be discussing the two poems "Photograph of my Father in His Twenty-Second Year" by Raymond Carver and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden. I will be discussing the parent child issues and how the child views the parent and how the parent views the child, along with how children view their parents in todays world.
Nicole K.

Comparison of 2 Poems

I wrote my thesis on the comparison of "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year" by Raymond Carver and "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas. I will show how each child will explore the complex child parent relationship from the adult child's point of view. How each one sees and feels about their father. Carver sees his father as a flawed individual, while Thomas sees his father as a heroic individual, but yet they both idolize their fathers.

Poetry Essay

I am writing my essay on how the speaker has an impact on the poetry. I am also going to compare the poems "The Man He Killed," by Thomas Hardy, and "Dulce et Decorum," by Wilfred Owen. Each of these poems has a different tone and style that the speaker uses. The similarities is that the poems are about the same thing, war. They are also written in the similar time scheme. These two poems will be exciting to dig into and find out truly what the authors are trying to convey. These two poems both have their unique styles, by all in all they are describing a similar concept; war, death, and soldiers.

"Poetry Topic Proposal"

For my poetry essay and am going to will be writing about two of Robert Brownings poems. I will be comparing My Last Duchess to Porphyrias Lover. Both of these poems are written in dramatic monologue. Porphyria and the duchess are very differently looked upon throughout the poem. I will be contrasting the use of irony and the difference between the women who are very different yet both end up dead by their lover.

Topic Proposal for Poetry Essay

I will be writing my poetry essay on the comparison between the tones of the two poems, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and "Those Winter Sundays." I will be going through each poem line by line and determining whether that line has a positive or negative tone.

War

I will compare and contrast the poems "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Man He Killed". The theme of these poems is war, however, they use very different methods in portraying it. Wilfred Owen, the author of the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est", utilizes similies and metephores coupled with descriptive words as well as personification to plant visions in the readers minds. Thomas Hardy's poem "The Man He Killed" uses understatement to create a somber, "matter of fact" tone in explaining the strangeness of war. Both authors effectively convey their thoughts and emotions about such a terrible subject with their own unique style.