Final Response

When looking back to my goals in the first blog i would have to say i havent quite achieved those personal goals yet. From what i wrote in my first blog my goal was to recieve my AA, that hasnt occurred yet but will hopefully happen in the near future. Since the begining of the quarter i have seen improvement in my writing and would agree that the course did helped me improve these skills. I have to admit that i could have participated more in class to help me better obtain more skill. Ive made it a personal goal to participate more in other classes that i take. I learned things from English 102 that i will be able to use again in the future. :)

Topic Proposal

For my researched topic I have decided to go in the way of the feminist direction and its contemporary issues. Knowing that this is a broad topic with many different subtopics; I plan to narrow it down and focus on the issue of pornography vs. censorship and the ideas of sexual expression, sexual violence, and the First Amendment. Dealing with pornography and its effects to men's perception of women. This is a topic that i have very little information on, and would like to go in dept researching about it. I feel like this would be a very interesting topic to learn more about, and to find out if it really does have its effects on men's perception to women.

"The Men We Carry In Our Minds"

When Reading "The Men We Carry In our Minds" By Scott Russell Sanders, alot of mixed feelings were occurring in my mind. I agree with most of the essay, but there were a few things that i just couldn't come to terms with that Sanders was saying. I feel that like sanders said in the essay that "men are the ones who've been discredited" because in some ways they have been. They are the ones that had to go off and leave their families to fight wars and to work longs days to take care of their families. In that time that's how it was, and we were all used to this. The one thing that I did disagree with Sanders on was when he thought that all woman believed that "men were guilty of having kept all the joys and privileges to themselves". He based most of these thoughts off of this one woman's opinon that he had met at a university. I believe that everyone doesn't have the same opinion, and that Sanders shouldn't have just used that one example to explain how he felt about it. Other than that one disagreement I think that this essay had a lot of good thoughts that i aligned with very well. He's right men did work very hard back then, maybe more than they should have. Nowadays I'm glad that the work can be equally shared between men and woman,and that complaints about the opposite sex are acceptable because the work between them is in fact equal.

W. Norton Grubb's essay

W. Norton Grubb's argument that going to college might be the only way to succeed in our economy is way out there but makes many valid points. I feel i have to agree with his argument because i too am attending college to make it in this world, or at least make a good amount of money to live happily. When deciding what college i would attend, SFCC was almost number one on my list because it was cheaper then university's and i felt they taught the same curriculum for the first two years of college as university's did. I would have to say my goals at SFCC are to receive my AA, i have yet to figure out what i want to do. After getting my AA i would like to move on to a four year university and decide my career. When reviewing Grubb's essay i would have to say that my goals relate fairly well to his argument, because i am getting an education to better prepare myself for my future.