English 104

My experience in my last english class was a very good one. We did a variety of things besides just writing papers. We mostly learned about rhetoric. We learned rhetoric by once a week somebody would bring in an argument that they found, and we would talk about it as a class.

Along with learning about rhetoric, I also learned how to write better. I used to not be a very good at writing a paper at all. I can tell that this class has helped out my writing. Even though we only had to write four papers the whole year, they were suppose to be well written papers.

Writing a blog once a week also helped me with my writing skills. Even though these blogs are only graded on completeness, I still tried writing as well as I possibly could. The more practice the better.

I am really glad that I had the professor that I had. I had a lot of fun in the class, and I was interested in english. That is saying a lot because english is my worst subject in school, and I usually don't enjoy it. This english class was different though. We just did not talk about english.

Thank you Azor for a good semester! I am really glad that you were my professor.

How Hard is it to Move Over?

This past Sunday, one of my brothers made his first communion, and I had to usher for the mass. There where eighteen children making their first communion that day, and one of my jobs being an usher is to seat as many people in the pews so they don't have to stand the entire mass. I came to realize that people do not like to move down in the pews to make more room. Some people need their specific amount of room, and if moving down would minimize their space, they wouldn't.

I had one lady with three younger kids that needed a seat, and there was plenty of room in one pew, but there where six other men in it already that did not want to move down. There was more than enough room to fit all four of them in the pew, but they only made enough room for two of her kids to sit down. She had to stand the whole mass while hanging on to one child.

These men where very selfish. They really irratated me. I asked them more than once to move down more, but they just moved down another inch or so each time I asked them. They could not move down that extra two feet because they all needed room to keep their legs apart. It is just not men though that have this problem. Also there where women that had to keep their purses on the pew, instead of putting them on the ground. In each spot where a purse was, one person could be sitting there. I did not know when a purse became more important than a human.

This all happened in a church! Shouldn't people be thinking about helping out others and being kind while in the presence of Jesus? I guess not. They can't even think about others for that one of hour out of the whole entire week. After that one hour they can become selfish again and just care about themselves, but it should not be that way in a church. These people have to get their priorities straightened out.