Thursday, February 26, 2015

analyses of two consumer websites pg 141

  Over the past couple years I have found myself taking short trips more often and if not camping then trying to find a good deal on a hotel room.
   I wanted to compare two different sites that I often look on to see which one I thought could bring me better information about the hotels I was staying at. In order to do this I needed to try and find a hotel I was familiar with. I used to work at a hotel for a while in port townsend called Water Street Hotel. It is a really nice little Victorian hotel, and although there is no pool, it has an awesome feeling and suggest for people to stay there. Sense I use to know that place like the back of my hand I figured it would be a good way to see how it was represented by these two sites. I chose TripAdviser.com and KAYAK.com.
  When I looked at TripAdviser.com first I was surprised to see all nice pictures they had of all the rooms. I thought there could be a lot more pictures though for the amount of rooms they have. they didn't really do justice to the nice rooms and the beautiful views. and they didn't have one picture of the coffee room which is always nice to see. It had a nice little chart to see reviews from different kinds of people. Also had top local attractions which is nice I also couldn't find a link to water street hotels website which I believe has pictures of every room. maybe this is so you have to go through their website.
   KAYAK.com was more disappointing. It only had five pictures compared to Trip Advisers thirty seven. there was no information at all except for the website and phone number to the hotel which was nice. I couldn't find any reviews, or local attractions on this website, seems kind of useless to me.
    I do find myself searching all the websites every time I book a hotel and until now have not realized how disappointing KAYAK.com has been to me almost everytime.
   

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

comparisions


Decisions?
What to eat for lunch
Should I try and buy my parents property?
Should I go to math class this morning?
Not yelling at people when I want.
 
Factors?
I’m eating for 2, am I working?
I don’t want to have neighbors, money, effort
Tired, what important assignments are there
Am I working, at home, at the store
 
Personal
Some things make me sick. I have to eat healthier for baby
I don’t know if I’ll be able to save for a house and pay them
I feel like a horrible person when I don’t go
Sometimes I feel good and sometimes I feel like a jerk
 
Professional
I have to eat to stay functional at work, I ate too much and then was lazy
I would have to work a lot more
I spent a lot of money to go to these classes
Need to keep my job and costumers
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

comparision; litteracy narritive/position paper

       Writing a literacy narrative paper compared to my position paper, it was different in many ways.
    
     When writing my narrative essay it was nice because I could tell a story about myself. The hardest part honestly was thinking of what I was going to write about. In What significant way did a time where reading and writing effected my life? That was hard for me because I was never into reading. Even though I loved writing, it is somehow always linked to reading. I had to dig deep to think about how I ended up with a passion for writing. The only memory I had was reading a big book of nursery rhymes and poems that was my great grandmother.
  
    Coming up with a topic for my position paper was not as difficult as my narrative essay. There is so many different options for topics out there and you can pick any! Most people already have something they are passionate about. I know with my subject (pot farms in rural areas) its a recent subject so its something everyone has been hearing about. Its also is something that a lot of people are being effected by so coming up with this topic was much easier.

    Researching for my narrative paper was not that hard. I went over to my parents house and had a discussion with them about the book my great grandmother passed down. We also ended up having a nice conversation about my great grandma. I realized how much my dad really loved his grandma. More then I have seen for his own parents. It made me realize so much and changed my paper and gave me a connection between my great grandmother, my father and I.

   I Had a more difficult time researching for my position paper. I spent hours on end looking up everything I could find on the internet. Watched the same videos five times. Read the same article ten times. Then after all this time you have all this information you barely know what to do with. You have to weed out all the legit stuff from the not so legit things that you read and listen to.
The hard part was trying to stay fully in my position and not end up sounding half and half in my paper. The more I read to more I understood the other side and it was a little harder to stand ground.

  Writing detail for my narrative was easier because it was a place I had been before. It was my story and I could make it sound any way I wanted really. I just had to close my eyes and do a good job of describing everything I could see, taste and smell.

   Writing detail on my position paper was a harder because these are not really places I have been or really seen but had to relay on the testimony of what I was reading and watching.





1) she believes its a good example of the beginning of the "American dream," a constant need to get and have better things; wives, car, house. I think she likes the show or she wouldn't continue to watch each season.
2)She is a television critic for salon. This is described on the page, but I don't really read in her piece where she states that.
3)when talking about snow white and Pokémon, something all boys and girls can relate with. When describing the show she talks about how don is leaving his marriage, something have of marriages can relate too, unfortunately.
4)I was not familiar with it and I think she does a good job, it was  a little hard to follow at first but I can get a pretty good picture in my head. everyone is always looks perfects, one woman lost after being left by her husband and the ex husband who nothing will be good enough.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

rough draft position paper

Rachelle Gainer

Position paper

English 101


Pot farms in rural areas


After passing initiative I-502(legalization of marijuana) there has been a lot of issues in creating the laws that are going to be taking effect. Recently when working, one of my everyday costumers came in and expressed her concern to me. She was upset, “can you believe they are trying to put one of those marijuana farms down the road from us?” Her concerns were similar to those that I have recently heard on the local news or papers; “It will bring weird people around,” or “crime in my neighborhood is going to go up.” Being a dear customer of mine that I have also come to have a friendship I sympathized for her worries but trying to prevent bickering happening between costumer and employee I didn’t let her know that I thought her concerns were unnecessary and we should have a right to put any agriculture that has been legalized by the people on our own personal property with certain restrictions.
I understand the many worried neighbors that believe crime will began to populate in there neighborhoods I don’t think its as bad as what they are imagining. Its believed that pot farms are going to be notorious for being broken into. None off the finished product that is of interest will actually stay there, It is shipped of to local dispensaries. The business owners that have put thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands into their farms are going to do whatever it takes to make sure that this isn’t going to happen, their concern is at a much higher stand point. They will have high fencing, if not double fencing, cameras and more. As you read in www.king5.com article Pot farms next door a 'complete shock' to neighbors, it states “The pot farmers on hold say they're victims of untrue, fear-based worries such as an increase in crime.” "I think the neighbors who are upset will calm down in 12 months when people see that all of these negative things don't come to fruition," said the "Red Frog" owner. "I live at the end of the property. I'm not interested in having these negative issues." Sometimes people are afraid of the unknown and although majority of us voted this in, there are still going to be people that know nothing of such agriculture and therefore must be cautious. What we do know is that all business’s have a chance of crime. Coffee stands, convenient stores all have reputations for being robbed, yet not so much concerned about those being down the road from your house. Part of this concern seems to come from the type of people that these farm will be attracting, people think that, as my customer would say “a bunch of weirdo’s” will now be in their neighborhood. These farms didn’t get put up by being a slacker of any sort, these are hard working people that took a lot to get here. There is a stereo type here that I see. I didn’t grow up with any religion and know very little about it. I have heard stories my whole life in the news about higher people in churches and religious groups doing bad things and committing bad crimes. Should I protest a church being put up down the road from my house? I know I don’t judge every person that goes to church or who is a priest.


Many parents are concerned with having to drive by the farms everyday and explain to their children what the green stuff in the green houses are. The law states that there has to be an 8 foot fence and in some counties be a certain distance from sight which I totally agree with. Some will probably have higher fencing. When driving by its hard to tell the difference between these and a tomato farm. If you weren’t told my guess is you probably wouldn’t be able to tell and they wont be advertising marijuana plants out front of the farm. I have to assume that the people with these concerns do not smoke cigarettes or have a drink at a BBQ because how else would they not know how to explain to their children about marijuana. Would a winery be acceptable down the road? Or a tobacco farm? Cannabis is not something that should be treated any different.
These marijuana farms could actually help local neighborhoods. Its always good to have a booming business in your community and this business is definitely booming. Having a good economy starts in your own neighborhood. As it list on the website http://wallstcheatsheet.com/business/16-jobs , the manufacturing can be quit the process from start to finish and it list 16 new jobs including government that will be provided by these pot farms like; deliverer, security, trimmer, ect. These could be local jobs created and money going back into local economy. Others can agree like mayor of Cleveland Ohio as you can read at http://wkbn.com article, Ohio could get 10 indoor pot farms if voters OK ballot issue, where it states “If this gets legalized, why would you not want the city to benefit economically?” Ritenauer said, adding that the farm could produce as much as $2 million annually for his cash-strapped city of 64,000 people.

There can be other huge benefits by having more legalized local farms as well. Watching the video from http://www.motherjones.com/environment you’ll see the impact that illegal outdoor pot farms in the “emerald triangle” - the triad of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties. It shows the pollution that these unregulated farms are leaving behind. a lot of camping supplies are left behind. They are creating their own irrigation by redirecting and damning streams. They also have been known to poison some of the animals to keep them away from the plants. This kind of irrigation is not suppose to be done in the middle of the forest there. As we all should know we could definitely go with out all the garbage left behind. I also believe we should be able to walk into are national forest that belongs to all the people and not have to worry about running into someone’s crop. Though I agree with some of the things in this video they may try to over due parts. They mention one of the guys they found had a gun on his hip but they don’t say it was hidden, he resisted, that he was violent, or that it was an illegal gun. After all he was hiking in the middle of the woods by himself, most men would carry a gun. I think its one of those things people want you to fear more of what you don’t understand. What might help prevent this continued abuse to the national forest and restore the ability to safely use all the land everyone of us own is by letting the people use their own private land to harvest their crops legally. A lot of the trash was from campers up there. Not only could this help by having local trash cans to dump garbage and prevent it from being in the woods, but there would be people to regulate what chemicals the farms will be using to element waste in the wrong places. There also wouldn’t be the same problem with animals so they wouldn’t have to use poison and risk damaging the ecosystem.


There is a reason why majority ruled and why so many people worked for so many years to get here. I feel for peoples concerns but I don’t think by having marijuana farms in our neighborhood will be a bad thing. Education can be beneficial to all. We still have a long road with initiative I-502 but I think it will be what we make of it.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

draft position paper


                                Should pot farms be near neighborhoods?

 

 

While working the other day I had a lady come in and began to complain. She had just found out that they are wanting to put a commercial marijuana farm next to her neighborhood. To say the least she was not very happy about it, I understand her concern but her being my costumer I didn’t want to tell her that sometimes it’s hard to wrap your mind around something you don’t entirely understand.

When talking to and reading most peoples statements they argument begins talking mostly with the crime that will begin to grow in their communities. They think people will try to be breaking in there all the time trying to steal marijuana but I wonder if anyone thought of this when they put a liquor store in their neighborhood, or a local brewery. These things have just as high of a demand for thieves as would a marijuana farm.

These places would have a lot higher security than just a regular business. This would detour most criminals away form even attempting to break into them. There are also lots of marijuana facility’s right down town that have yet to be a target for a crime spree. These already facilities (mostly medical) have a lot of finished product that you would want. The farms themselves might produce but most finish product would not be held there.

People also have an issue that they don’t want their kids to see pot farms as they are driving home but most will probably not be seen. I can agree that this would be unpleasant and as most will have high fencing, it should be required. Also as the times go on, it’s another concept like alcohol we might have to explain to our children what it is, its ganna be advertised everywhere anyways. They have  already seen it on the news for 2 years.

This is a something that will have to start being treated as an agricultural product. This way it can be controlled more by the way we grow it. How much chemical? Is it really organic?

This will also bring up a local economy. Local business owners that have spent money into this business is now being put on a standstill and everyday losing money that could start being used to put back into the economy.

"On buying local" by Katherine spriggs

* spriggs main point was that buying local is better for the national economy and environment.

*its pretty clear to me what her thesis is, it's stated several times at the beginning of her sentences and   Paragraphs. "Buying local helps" buying local benefits"

*reasons given are
        • the cost of transportation also creates more burning of fossil fuels
         •pesticides used
        •local farms are usually poly culture and sustainable.

* evidence for Those:
            •CNN article( u.s manufactures more than 1.5 billion pounds of chem. pesticides a yr)
            •"strawberry fruit facts page"
            •progressive policy institute " only 13 percent of Americans diet is imported"

* yes I believe the reasons are plausible she uses references

*she mentions a few counter arguments and does very well with them.

*she acknowledges Alex Avery that he has a good point but has a good rebuttal.

*i think she is very respectful of their arguments and does a good job of making sure we see the other side

*i feel sweeping generalization is what she is trying to Avoid. Unless some think "greener living" might be a new "fad"

*alex Avery she used as a counter argument,
    She talks about a farmer her family used to rent land to, and shared his point of veiw
    Uses a reference from "global warming statistics  to talk about global warming

*i think she does a great job of giving us references that are reliable. But some would have to be taken by her own experience and knowledge of local farmers which is never as creditable as facts and statistics

*not all are current, she uses an article from 2000 and tells a stories from when she was. Girl

*i think she might assume most that Are reading this is Americans but not knowledgable about local farms

*not as much we as there is they. Or I feel it's more "everyone" as she sates in her last sentence

*we can decently see eye to eye on buying local. And i know it might suck but that might include having strawberries only in summer!

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

bob herbert

    Response: 
         I have to agree with what he is saying. I tell my boyfriends daughter all the time how important school is. It is something that I feel even just when I was a kid you could get away with not having an education and maybe just work hard, not now. I find it more and more people working full time jobs and still living with their parents because they cant afford to move out.
      I also believe that the teachers defiantly need to be evaluated. This would be a difficult process but I don't think it should be as hard to figure out as they would want u to believe, the crazy systems and procedures we put together for some corporations to follow, Im sure we can figure one out for the people spending 8 or more hours a day educating our children and our future.


 summery:
    

“Our schools must do better” is a good way to sum this up! Back in the day when things weren’t ran on so much technology it was a lot easier to be a laborer. Now not only is it going to be nearly mandatory to have an education in order to survive but our schools are not catching up to the demand that this is requiring.

School districts and states have focused mostly on credentials and not the actually effectiveness of the teacher. Although creating a system would be difficult it is doable.

Alternative schools are also one to observe. They are sometimes known to excellent results from low income students, but are these effects real? What accounts for them? If all kids want a fair chance in this world we need school systems to give them that chance.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Pg 70. Thinking about my writing

I recently sent this email...
Hello!
  My name is rachelle I was wondering about the house you had on craigslist! Are you asking a deposit? I'm a collage student paying my own tuition and could use my own space to study! Thank you for your time!
     Rachelle gainer 

   
  
There is a lot I should change here, My position should be that I am a suitable rennet for This house, I don't think stating what bills I have is a good idea I might Change it to something like:

   Hello!
          My name is Rachelle. I was inquiring about the house you had on Craigslist, I have a steady income and good references. Please feel free to contact me with any further information. 
360 *** ****
              Thanks,
                     Rachelle Gainer