El Fin!

WOOH!!! I FINISHED!!!!!!!!! :)


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book club post

My book club group has talked about food and recipes from New Orleans and thought about making some food from there to share so the class could get a good taste of the culture shared and explained throughout the book.  I also thought about playing music and/or making a little pamphlet like a travel guide to New Orleans since this book seems a lot like one with all the lists of great places to eat and all the great things about New Orleans. I found this website which was interesting.

 http://www.neworleansonline.com/

It not only has great ideas for places to go but shares traditional foods of New Orleans and music and more. I thought it was wicked cool. I haven't checked out Adriann's site yet though so that one may be better for the food part. :)

mardi gras indian dance
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blog- FW book

In the Feature Writing book it basically all talked about complications that can happen while writing and gave examples like placing someone in a certain light or the definition of libel. Libel is when you falsely write about someone that can result in affecting their reputation etc. It talked about fictionalizing factual information like swaying the truth too and I never knew there were so many ways. It also talked about invading peoples' private lives and displaying private information in their writing.

blog- nickel and dimed

Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich  
The excerpt from Nickel and Dimed was when Ehrenreich was in Key West, Florida. The whole point is that she is trying to see if she can get by with low wage jobs and make it through the month. In Florida she gets a waitressing job that pays below minimum wage. For her home she rents a trailer but her money from waitressing isn't cutting it so she has to pick up a second job as a hotel maid. But then it's too much to handle because she's on her feet nonstop and works so much when the money isn't even good. She's gets way too over-exhausted so she quits her second job right away because she knows she can't do it and then she ends up quitting the waitressing job too before she's even been there for a whole month. She got really close to the other waitresses she met while doing this and learned about their lives too and how it's a real everyday struggle for them and they have no other money to fall back on like her. Many couldn't make enough for first and lasts rent so they would live out of their cars and stuff. It was sad because it was like a vicious cycle working their butts off just to get by and doing it over and over again never getting the chance to even save to ever become comfortable because it's all about just getting by.

Weebly GRR

soooo my audio file is too big for weebly to upload
anddd it won't let me email it either?!?!
i don't know what to do.. it's saved on my computer numerous times
and i think it says the time i did it so you can know i did  if you look at my computer
but i don't know what else to do.. but here is my site at the very least!



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book club!

I finished the book. I didn't really like it. BUT I guess it did make me want to go to New Orleans and it did explain to me why New Orleans matters (in the author's opinion). So, as much as I didn't like it- it did the job. I mainly just didn't like the rambling and the lists he'd say were informative but dragged on and on and I found myself skimming over them. I guess I just didn't care for the structure of the book but the information was good and effective to the thesis/point of the book.

talk of the town

im writing about "drunkorexics." the term is a mix between drunks and anorexics. mix the two together and you have a person who counts their calories saving them throughout the day for alcohol rather than food in order to be able to party hard but still maintain or lose weight. im gonna bring up how most of the people viewed as drunkorexics would be college girls. ill talk about why this could be like why they would fit under this category. also is it just about the college life or is this actually a disorder and dangerous?  also will talk about the skinny girl margarita and its kind of symbolic of a drunkorexic- an alcoholic beverage but low on calories so its all about maintaining your weight. could this aid a drunkorexic? is this a risky fad or an deadly epidemic?