Final Propsal: Blog 14

This week in class our final proposals for the Inquiry project were due. My group and I still decided to keep the topic that we originally chose, which was the art of attraction. Our overall question is what are single dating books telling single individuals to do? To be completely honest I am very excited to research the art of dating books. In a dream world I would love to make an experiment out of my Inquiry project by having an actual single individual to try a dating book on. I would love to take a single individual and have them read the same dating books that I am and actually go "out on the prowl" and use the tips that they were advised, so that I can make conclusions based on accuracy instead of my and other love coaches general opinion about dating. However this experiment is not possible, however after reading my dating books I will talk to a professional dating coach and a professional marriage counselor. In the end I hope they will both give me a perspective about how relationships start and how relationships through the cracks and breaks of life end. My hypothesis is that what first fuels any relationship will be the thing that most people hid on a first date like their financial responsibilities in life. After reading each book I will blog about my finding to update my readers on the accuracy of my hypothesis.

Mother Tongue :Blog 13

This week in class I focused on writing an essay based on Mother Tongue by Amy Tan. For those who have never read Mother Tongue, the short narrative is about a girl growing up with a mother that does not speak proper English, she speaks what we would call "broken" English. In my essay I focused on the fact that American society being obsessed with perfection and not really accepting someone that does speak English. I personally think that American society judges people unfair when the speak broken English, because society tends to think that people that speak broken English are lower class and are not as smart as others. I think that we should stop judging people based on their English and recognize that English is not everyone's first language, and others may be proficient at speaking another language. At the end of the day English is not America's official language. If it was then Mandarin and Spanish could not be on the voting ballot.

What makes a "hot" guy "hot? :Blog 12

This week in class we are reading what is proposed to be the first tale in anglo-saxon the language that was first started in English, which is Beowulf. Although we are reading Beowulf in class, I am not going to discuss any more details on Beowulf, but I thought that you should know what we are mainly doing in English class. In English class we are also working on our second Inquiry project. My group and I have collectively decided that we want to study the qualities that make a “hot” man. For every girl there is a “hot” attractive guy out there, and my group and I want to discover what each of us looks for in a guy to deem him attractive. My goal for studying what makes a “hot” guy is to uncover the truth behind my ideal guy. I personally would like to have a well researched list on qualities that I find attractive in a guy. My only question for my readers is why books do you think we can read to help us with our study.

English: Blog 11

This week in English we are study the history of the English language and the different languages we use in our daily lives. The more I study the English language the more I start to discover how many different language I speak in my life. For example my father is from the British Virgin Islands, so he has an island accent and sometimes uses strange phrases. For example when someone does something crazy or stupid he might say “are you got in your head” which means why did you do that, are you stupid? Another place I use a different language would be at the salon. Whenever I get my hair done I might use words or phrases like touch up, relaxer, hot comb, edges, kitchens, press, or naps. And whenever I text my friends I use a lot of acronyms like omg, lol, g2g, brb, gtl, fml, and lmao. On my mother’s side of the family they speak pig Latin, usually when they speak in pig Latin it means they don’t want me or anyone else to know what they are talking about. One day I hope to learn how to actually speak pig Latin so that I will be able to understand what they are talk about.