Class on the 27th

Class started off today with a reading assignment, it was about non fiction writing that the authors might have exaggerated and or lied about. I disapprove of this, in a non-fiction writing the reader expects the novel, or story to be completely true, hence non-fiction. In my opinion if the author looses a lot of credibility in the story and whatever point the writer made and convinced me of has vanished. I would probably never read any of the writers pieces again.
After the reading assignment we went over part one of Henrietta Lax, and some of the controversy with taking the cells from patients of poverty without notifying them. I do not see a big problem with this, the patients are receiving free service from the doctors. If the patients are not being harmed in any way, it is not that bad. Although if money is being made off of the patients samples, in Henrietta's case then I do see this as being an issue.
Following up after the class discussion on the Henrietta novel, the class was given a writing assignment, a literary narrative. I chose to write about how my mom has influenced me as a writer and improved my writing over the years.  
 

MSU vrs. WMU

     As the bus departed form Western Michigan University, the entire soccer team was silent. Every player was focused at the task at hand. Michigan State is a team a lot of players would want to play for, being in the Big Ten. After the drive we had roughly an hour and half before kick off, the coaches told the players to walk around the field and feel it out. About an hour before kickoff the coaches brought us into the locker room to change into our jerseys and head back out to the field. It was a perfect soccer night, the air was crisp and cool, and there was a slight wind traveling east to west across the field. 

     It was intense from the kickoff, and would be intense for the first forty five minutes of the game. Both teams had a fair amount of chances and mistakes, after the fifteen minute halftime the game kicked off again, and with about thirty five minutes left in the second half Michigan State struck first with a goal off of a corner. And no more than a minute later they scored again, the atmosphere of the game completely changed from both sides of the field one team was playing with confidence and the other was trying to figure out what just happened. With about twelve minutes to go in the game we found the back of the net making it 2-1. After the goal we were getting to every loose ball before the opposing Spartans of MSU. But even with all the pressure we put on the Spartans survived the last ten minutes of the game and were the victors. The bus ride home was quiet as well, knowing that we were right there, competing with the best of the best knowing that when we are playing good, we can play with any team in the country. 

Class on the 20th

     Time went by fairly quickly at class Thursday night, we started by looking at words and phrases. After failing to figure out what most of them were professor Moses, explained she took them from movie and books. As a class everyone had to come up with three of their own words and phrases and write them on the white board in front of class.

     After the phrases exercise, the class was split into small groups of three or four. Each of the small groups was assigned a section from a reading that was assigned prior to class. As a group we had to answer a set of questions that went along with our corresponding section. And present the questions and answers to the class. Some of the sections were a lot deeper than others, the section I had to go over was about Romelda a young African American girl who is going through puberty and starts realizing that her body is changing and guys start looking at her in a different way. She learns how to deal with the hooting and hollering and talks back to the guys who hit on her.  

     After the reading exercise, there was a in class writing assignment that consisted of a short story. Briefly explaining a situation where someone misunderstood you or you misunderstood them. 

Class on September 13, 2012

Class today was mind boggling, as a class we read two poems. The first poem was "Where I'm From", the poem did a great job of describing scenes and smells with very few words. One that caught my attention was   the smell of "fried corn and strong coffee". The line also tells the readers that the setting might be from the south of the United States. After reading "fried corn and strong coffee" the smells almost became a reality. One of the first lines of the poem talked about clothes pins, Clorox and tetra-chloride. The author made a creative way of painting the picture of laundry and cleaning, without a lot of words. The poem showed many good ways of presenting information with very little words.

The second poem we went over in class was called, Courageous Dreams Concern by Jack White. The poem was very interesting and had a few lines that drew my attention, when the author talked about the smell of sawdust from cut wood the smells of sawdust came to mind. And when the author said "I walked to the rhythm of mariachis" which painted a picture of a more music scene and made me want to dance. After reading both of these poems I grasped a good understanding of how to be creatively descriptive while writing a poem. 

Hi everyone my name is Cam Jensen, I am apart of the Western Michigan Mens soccer team. I am 18 years old and am a Freshman at Western. I am pursuing a degree in the medical field, right now I am currently leaning towards a physicians assistant. I have two younger sisters Eliza and Ava, Eliza is a senior in high school and Ava just went in to 6th grade. I have a dog named Spike.