Counter Argument

What exactly is the ideal American family? Here in America there are many variations when it comes to what a family consist of, you are arguing that the "Ideal American family" consists of a set of married parents, a son, and a daughter. if you look at the head of the country, President Obama's family consist of two daughters instead of a son and daughter and there has been presidents who had no children. So are they also bad representations of what the "Ideal American family" is?

Monday's Homework 10/20

1.  Evaluative writing is a type of writing to judge something based on a certain criteria.
2. Setting a criteria is important for an evaluative essay because it allows the writer to make a clear argument in their essay.
3. Response to question #2 (What does Rosen mean by referring to music as "an outlet" (paragraph 4)? Do you agree with her observation? If so, explain why.
     What Rosen means is that music is something that people can go to (an outlet) and release frustration by relating to the song that they are listening to at that time. Yes I do agree with Rosen because when someone is sad, mad, or going through something listening to a song that has lyrics explain the same problem that you are going through or having a song with a smooth and relaxing beat can really ease one's mind and the song because "an outlet" to what you were going through before.

Blog 2

It was my second grade year at Benjamin Franklin Elementary school in North Miami, Florida and it was the annual school portrait picture day. I remember the night before picture day I was happy because I had recently had my first two teeth fall out. I was happy at that moment because it was my dream around that time to lose my first set of teeth and join the teeth less gang of second-graders at my school. Unfortunately, while I was all caught up in the moment of losing my first set of teeth I completely forgot that the next day was picture day at school. The following morning while my mom was getting me ready for school I noticed that she put on a pair of earrings that she usually let me wear for special occasions. I asked her what was the special occasion and she told me that it was picture day. I instantly became both sad and happy. Sad, because I didn’t want to take pictures with two missing teeth and happy because I love picture day. So fast forward to the mood in the picture, I mean I remember what mood I was in at the time but in the picture my mood seemed to be EXCITED. Looking back at the picture I realized how back in second grade I wasn’t as prideful as I am now. I say that because being as prideful as I am now I would never take a picture with missing teeth let alone a pimple no matter how much I love picture day; because back in that picture even though I didn’t want to take pictures with my missing teeth I put that aside and gave a huge smile. I guess that’s because back then I cared less of what people thought and of what my flaws were and just did the thing that made me happy.