Collage Response

http://http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/16/nyregion/l-a-mother-s-perspective-on-family-values-629600.html?src=pm

This article is about a mother expressing the values of herself and family. Her youngest son is forbidden to get marry due to laws on gay marriage. She believes it's hypocritical and disrespectful for society to determine a humans future and love life. She gets angry when told that her son and his partner are dangerous to family values. She believes there are other real threats out there such as alcoholism, drug addiction, violence, etc.

This article relates to my collage because it shows a strong love and respect spread between a family. It also shows that the family passes no judgement to their loved one no matter how society looks at them.

Collage - Family Values

Honesty is shown through the little girl talking to her mom. Many families encourage and live by honesty.

Respect is another value families treasure. Respect not only members of your famiy but your peers, neighbors, elders, etc.

Religion is a big value and belief shared commonly throughout the entire family.

Having trust through your loved ones creates all values stronger such as respect and honesty. Parents at some point in time, have to put trust into their children.

Love and care is needed in all families. Love makes a family strong and lets them be close and pass no judgement through eachother.

Response 2

1. If I could rewrite my paper, I would expand the examples I chose and use more parts of the story instead of focusing on one main part of the overall story.

2. One of my biggest strengths was word choice and the content. I wrote good examples and had a strongly written third topic. My ideas stayed consistant throughout the paper. My weaknesses would be transitioning my sentences and making the paper flow.

3. The prewriting and brainstorming helped me the most when writing this paper. It helped me organize my information, and was a reference I went back to continously in order to write my paper.

Response 1

Reality and truth are two different things. This quote is an example of their differences. The bee is told it can't fly but in reality bees do fly. As people we got told we can't do or participate in certain things, but if we keep attempting in reality we figure out that we are able too. There has been many examples of that in our world. The quote compares to "The Leap" because the bee is told what to do, and so are the citizens when it comes to the lottery.