THE mcGraw Guide

The first 3 chaptas

These short chapters were about writing in college. To give the reader an insight on what it will be like, and what types of writing you do. Writing as a professional is the most important to me, as I need to learn how to make sense of my words and learn how to make great papers explaining my opinion. The chapter then talks about the writing terms. The rhetorical, critical, and writing process. In chapter two it first talks about scanning before you read. One of my teachers in high school told me about this trick, and I have used it ever since. Whenever I don't understand the reading, even after rereading it millions of times, you must skim it and look for terms and ideas that you can understand. The chapters in this book just remind me of learning strategies for success in college. These terms Must be understood and no matter how old you are, you can always better your writing. This book explains how easy it is to improve. As long as you follow the steps, you can make them better.

FINAL READING !!!!!!

In the basement of the final tower!


This teacher starts to talk about how he works at a college. One is a community college and one is a small private college, he talks about how nice each one is with the Gothic tower looking things and how students sit under the trees on their cell phones or reading and doing other things. He wants to talk about a lot of intellectual readings like Shakespeare but he can not Because
All of the kids are in way over their head, they do not want to be in college they did not even try to go to college, SO When they decided that they needed to go to school they had to go to something like community college, it is a last resort.
He teaches Eng 101 and 102 which I am sure is just like our class, 1101 and 1002
Most of the kids he taught has not the best grades and nothing next to extra curricular activities, they chose school based on the location and simply just because they needed a few credits for a raise at work.


They do not look like they enjoy his class and it is because it is really hard for them. He fails 9 out of 15 students , For what! why does he doe this
"What actually happens is that nothing happens. I feel no pressure from the colleges in either direction. My department chairpersons, on those rare occasions when I see them, are friendly, even warm. They don’t mention all those students who have failed my courses, and I don’t bring them up."

I did not know what to think about when i first read this
Then I got to the part about the girl who he thinks never has written a college level paper, He thought he should of given her a C grade but that would not be fair to other students it would be loweing the standards. I think she should of got a C because that is average and she many others who would alos not be considered average, she tries to do her work and comes to class, she does not skip the things she has to do and paid for it.
This article confuses me but I do not think i have a problem and this does not have to do with me at this point I think I am able to do most of the college work and if I am not able to, I know I have enough non important things to not worry about and focus on academics more and try and get better grades.

National PUBLIC RADIO

88.5

July 30th wednesday story

Talk of the nation

This show was amazing coincidence that I listened to it. First off let me say that I am a libertarian, that is my party of choice. Mostly when I hear my mom listen to this radio station it is very
pro democratic
-Bob Barr the presidential candidate for the libertarian party talked about how he wants to get to the white house. This week McCain is leading the poles after Obama went to Europe. Starting off the story, Senator Stevens got indicted for some money laundering thing. He used allot of money to renovate his home, and no one knows how he got the money. What is known is that the money came from some business and obviously was not transfered properly. They also say that it was probably a bribe. I know he was the senator in Alaska.
They talk about the democratic party polls and Obama going to Germany and he got a crowd of 200,00 people. But eventually it got to the important things, mainly Bob Barr

if you want to CHECK OUT THE LIBERTARIANS

http://www.lp.org/


Back to Bob Barr,
He started to talk about how he started out.
He talks about the new libertarian group of people.
He believes in Small government and that is why he left congress as a republican. He is talking about how he was against many things that the new administration has administered, like privacy control and searching houses without a warrant. However it is weird because Bob Barr was a original voter of the patriot act, which I am strongly AGAINST, he claims that for the past 5 years he has been out of congress trying to work with small administrations on how to cut back several of the laws from the patriot act. He thinks the administration took it to far and made the privacy problem bad. The act was just in retaliation to the 9/11 acts and helping the people stay safe. Not total control. Bob says they went back on the insurances that they gave the congress men.
Craig's moral question :If you let the market decide and take care of things for example ENRON. they were caught and punished but not for what all of these people and their life savings, If these companies were regulated that would not happen and these people would of not lost their money.

bob : hE TALKS ABOUT HOW ONE CAN LOOK AT THE regulate sectors in our government business. Like the mortgage crisis we are going on right now. Libertarians do not believe in having the tax payers pay, or be on edge of paying for a mortgage, because those mortgages are regulated, the tax payers HAVE TO PAY THE losses so now you have BAD loses and risks that we will go in debt more because lack of tax payer money, Which is why in the free based economy you can use the LAW and courts to get people in or out of trouble when money is not regulated correctly. Right now the federal government does not do this in enough time and there fore it is not effective.

Then we get to what we disagree on in our party.
The new libertarians like Me are not as conservative as this asshole Bob Barr
He is pro life and wants to crack down and be conservative with drug laws and petty crimes.
I am not like that the new libertarians are for civil freedom, like Gay marriages, legal abortions, no punishment for petty drug crimes, decriminalization of marijuana. But that is why Libertarian party works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is against the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. It is against the country saying what you can or can not do. It is about the small government and making laws by your county or state. He says that it should be up to the people of the state and the federal government should not be able to override the what those people think. It is the state's choice or the county's choice.

Then he talks about the Federal government and getting rid of food stamps and welfare. Because he wants to give the money instead to private charities to help others, I believe that when it is local it is allot more effective, instead of spending tax money on foreign misadventure's and the bureaucracies. But if your community wants to have social services, then that area can have groups that have incentives to give money to social service agencies because your area pays taxes.


Ok I am done talking about the libertarian's VOTE NOW