Wednesday, March 25, 2009

topic proposal #3

For essay 3 I propose to write an essay in the style of "A Modest Proposal"

I plan to write an article on how we can eliminate the welfare problem. There are so many people in the welfare system (including "octo mom") and a lot of them aren't working or useful members of our country, they keep having children and then get more of the tax payers money. In order to save our country from certain disaster, I propose that we sell all the people that are currently on welfare to the highest bidder. Selling the people will also help the government get back some of the money they have wasted on all the people on welfare and they can put the money into the education and health care system so less people will have to be sold in the future.

Monday, March 2, 2009

SWA #5

For the first text I chose the song, "Love, Me" by Collin Raye.

I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. He said,
"Boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but I loved your Grandma so.

"We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead
Of her, I found this letter, and this is what it said:

If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.

I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away,
In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray.
I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.

If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.
Between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.

For the second text I chose a youtube video, "Kid Gives The Evil Eye"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7yR1xcsyaY