Well the time has come for this semester to end, and although I am happy that this is one semester down, I am not happy to be leaving this class. I have truly enjoyed all the time that I spent in this classroom. From all my classmate's being kind, to you, Natasha, who was always willing to help, and always knew how to make the class fun and how to actually have a point to each lesson. With the time we had to do our essays and reviews, it was much easier to stay calm and attempt to get a better grade without stressing. I came into this class expecting it to be endless amount of pointless writing that would show me nothing that I need. But it was the complete opposite, it showed me exactly what I do need.
I learned that to wright about something you need to put everything you have into it, you need to believe yourself an go from that. I also learned how to use numerous forms of writings to make my point about something, or to show how I felt about something in my own perspective. I feel that I am now a more educated writer after taking this course, and that it has set me up for success in my future English classes. I wouldn't recommend that you do anything different as a professor. I think you do everything right, you know what gets the students talking and what interests them. Your blogs, and essays always revolve around us as students and something that truly either means something to us, or is making a difference.
The expectations I had for myself, as well as for you as my teacher, were over achieved. I learned far more then I thought I would in my first college English class, and was able to retain a lot of useful information for the future. As far as you, as my professor go, you passed my expectations. The first day I thought you were going to be extremely mean and that this class was going to be horrifying, but that quickly changed. I think it is safe to say that throughout all my years of school, you have been my favorite English teacher.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Joe Paterno!
There are many different views on this issue, and I myself am on the edge about it. Sandusky defiantly deserves to go to jail for a long time, then maybe he will understand how if feels to be on the other side of a rape crime. I however don't think that he should get lethal injection because then his life would just come to an end, I think he needs to suffer for a very long time. As far as Paterno goes, I am not quite sure what should be done.
When Paterno was told about the incident with Sandusky and the young 10 year old boy, he went to who was above him with the issue. That was the right thing to do, however when nothing was done he didn't make sure that the issue was heard about. This is the issue many people are having with Paterno, that he did not see to it that some charges where put on Sandusky. Like I said I am in between the fences because I think he was both right and wrong. Yes, I agree with him 100% on telling the person above him, but I dont agree that he did not go furthur with the issue when nothing was done. Like you said, there is a law that may possibly be passed soon, which I think should be passed because it is very wrong that many people knew about this and said nothing. Paterno should have lost his job because he should have said something to authorities, however he should not be getting all the heat (although his is Penn States legendary coach). The people in charge at Penn State need to see to it that everyone that was involved, or knew about this, gets fired. However, Paterno never even saw the act first hand, he heard it from someone else, so maybe his job should have stayed in place? Like I said I'm on the fence. If they do not fire all the people involved, then this would be horribly wrong, being that Paterno would be the only one to get fired, when he probably did more about the issue than some other, such as McQuery, who saw the act first hand. This law needs to be in place so that issues like these will, hopefully, not arise in the future.
When Paterno was told about the incident with Sandusky and the young 10 year old boy, he went to who was above him with the issue. That was the right thing to do, however when nothing was done he didn't make sure that the issue was heard about. This is the issue many people are having with Paterno, that he did not see to it that some charges where put on Sandusky. Like I said I am in between the fences because I think he was both right and wrong. Yes, I agree with him 100% on telling the person above him, but I dont agree that he did not go furthur with the issue when nothing was done. Like you said, there is a law that may possibly be passed soon, which I think should be passed because it is very wrong that many people knew about this and said nothing. Paterno should have lost his job because he should have said something to authorities, however he should not be getting all the heat (although his is Penn States legendary coach). The people in charge at Penn State need to see to it that everyone that was involved, or knew about this, gets fired. However, Paterno never even saw the act first hand, he heard it from someone else, so maybe his job should have stayed in place? Like I said I'm on the fence. If they do not fire all the people involved, then this would be horribly wrong, being that Paterno would be the only one to get fired, when he probably did more about the issue than some other, such as McQuery, who saw the act first hand. This law needs to be in place so that issues like these will, hopefully, not arise in the future.
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