My name is Melissa Downerd. this is my second quarter at OSU Marion. I live on a dairy farm and is youngest of four. I like to read magazines about topics that interest me but I dont remember the last book.
"I never touched a drop", His father hid drinking from their family for years apon years, they knew he was drinking and saw him but he lied to them directly many many times about it. The writer 44 years old decided to share this personal story because even to this day ( after his father passed) still is blaming himself for his drinking problem. His own children is taking the grief of their grandfather in their own hands and his son is ten years old. His depression over this matter is carried to his son. The writer wrote this so others could relieze when someone is an alcoholic and what to do,and if that person nis an alcholic they can understand what is happening to those people around them due to their problem. It is not just effecting that person with the problem greatly but those around them is more them likely being effected more.The thing that struck me most about his writing was how honest he was. I felt when i was reading the story that i was in the story. I could picture everything, to the broken bottles in the hay to the kids waiting in the car while their dad got fuel and wine. This was very real to me and how many can relate somehow to this story. The whole time his father lied to his family, and i can relate to that.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Jeff Proper introduction post
Hey I'm Jeff Proper. I was born in Ohio but have lived in a couple of different states. I went to Olentangy Liberty High School and I live in Powell. I have an older sister wose is in college at Columbus State, and I currently work as a photo specialist at Walgreens.
"I listen for the turning of a key in my brain." I found this quote at the end of this story shocking because of the author's family history of addiction. It seemed to me that the author was walking a very dangerous path when drinking as he mentioned in the story, even if he only drank a little bit. I think the author wrote this story to find some sort of escape from his troubled past. Writing this story was really a way to lessen the pain he suffered as a child.
The author is really standing on the edge of a cliff, one false step with his own drinking and he will be sent tumbling down into oblivion just as his father had. The quote at the end of the story made is seem like the author almost knew that some part of his father lived within him, and he seems to think that it will be his fathers alcoholic past. It seems that the demons that tormented the author's father will live within him also, a memory of a destroyed life.
"I listen for the turning of a key in my brain." I found this quote at the end of this story shocking because of the author's family history of addiction. It seemed to me that the author was walking a very dangerous path when drinking as he mentioned in the story, even if he only drank a little bit. I think the author wrote this story to find some sort of escape from his troubled past. Writing this story was really a way to lessen the pain he suffered as a child.
The author is really standing on the edge of a cliff, one false step with his own drinking and he will be sent tumbling down into oblivion just as his father had. The quote at the end of the story made is seem like the author almost knew that some part of his father lived within him, and he seems to think that it will be his fathers alcoholic past. It seems that the demons that tormented the author's father will live within him also, a memory of a destroyed life.
First posts to blog!
Hello students, and welcome to our class blog. I hope you will enjoy sharing and writing here, and more importantly, be able to express and understand different points of views and interpretations as we learn together.
For your first post here, do two things.
1-- Introduce yourself a bit. Remind us of some things about you from our introductions and interviews that we did in class.
2-- In another paragraph, respond to today's essay by Scott Russell Sanders. Start your response with a direct quote from the essay (please don't use anything from the first two pages; get deeper into the essay for your passage). Why did this writer share this very personal story? What struck you the most about his writing? Why?
So that's your assignment and this is Exploration Three.
NOTES ON USING BLOG:
You must be signed in correctly from your Gmail. If you are, your Gmail address will appear in the upper right of the blog.
Next to this, you will see a clickable icon called New Post. This is what you must click if you want to write a post to the blog.
You may write your post in Word and copy and paste it to the blog, but you may have to click the Edit HTML tab just long enough to paste the text into the blog. Then you can go back to Compose to edit it. I will show you this in class.
You can come back to your post at any time to revise and change and add to it. So if you do not finish you can always post it, and then come back later to write and/or revise more. You do this by clicking on the pencil icon.
I will also ask you to write Replies to other writers' posts on the blog. This way, we can share and talk with each other about the topics in class and our experiences. To do this, you must hit the Reply feature. We will practice this in class.
I'd like you to reply to THREE other writers in the class.
Have fun! Mike
For your first post here, do two things.
1-- Introduce yourself a bit. Remind us of some things about you from our introductions and interviews that we did in class.
2-- In another paragraph, respond to today's essay by Scott Russell Sanders. Start your response with a direct quote from the essay (please don't use anything from the first two pages; get deeper into the essay for your passage). Why did this writer share this very personal story? What struck you the most about his writing? Why?
So that's your assignment and this is Exploration Three.
NOTES ON USING BLOG:
You must be signed in correctly from your Gmail. If you are, your Gmail address will appear in the upper right of the blog.
Next to this, you will see a clickable icon called New Post. This is what you must click if you want to write a post to the blog.
You may write your post in Word and copy and paste it to the blog, but you may have to click the Edit HTML tab just long enough to paste the text into the blog. Then you can go back to Compose to edit it. I will show you this in class.
You can come back to your post at any time to revise and change and add to it. So if you do not finish you can always post it, and then come back later to write and/or revise more. You do this by clicking on the pencil icon.
I will also ask you to write Replies to other writers' posts on the blog. This way, we can share and talk with each other about the topics in class and our experiences. To do this, you must hit the Reply feature. We will practice this in class.
I'd like you to reply to THREE other writers in the class.
Have fun! Mike
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