The values and morals of my generation, gen-next is very different from that of our parents and grandparents. The values and moral system of our parents were conservative, even that of their parents. As for generation next we are liberals. Issue like religion, ethic identification, sexual mores, and education have done a complete 360 degrees. Generation next love change and love the fact that we have control over our lives and doesn’t have to live out someone else’s life. We speak out more and are not afraid to confront something we don’t like.
This would be unacceptable to my parent and grandparents generation. They did as told and what was expected of them. They live their lives by strict rules and guidelines that would make everyone alike. The thought of going against what their parents believed was not and question. Everything from religion, sexual moral, family values, and fitting into society had to be done in an orderly fashion and the right way.
For my generation I don’t think we know the right ways of doing things anymore. Religion has become an option, we do have more tolerance for being diverse and accepting everyone for their differences. Our sexual morals are like hobbies and not seen as something you should love and cherish. And education is taken for granted. Most of us don’t have family goals and is willing to do anything to gain a little success. To me it a shame that our generation has lost its way but it’s exciting because of all the different opinions and values.

Case study: last week we did our definition essay. I found this kind of writing was very easy for me. The prewriting that our class did was very difficult to keep up with. I think that all this blogger and wiki pages is a little unnecessary and very time consuming. I don’t think it is helping out my writing at all but keeping me frustrated because I can not keep up. I sometimes feel like giving up but I’m not a quitter and hope can pull through. My writing is getting very confused and its getting hard to do simple things like thinking of a topic and writing a few sentences down about it.
Now when it comes to just writing a paper I can do with no problem. The definition essay was fun to do it was the prewriting that I didn’t like. My word was diversity and just the little research I did on the word was invigorating. I learn so many different ways people used the term, some I liked and some I didn’t care for. For me just by doing the research on the term diversity was enough and I already knew how I was going to do my essay. The prewriting stages we could have left out or found a condense way of doing things. It was all too much for me and didn’t help when it came to doing the essay. Maybe for others in class they love sitting in front of their computers copying and pasting things onto web pages. And it helped for them, but I can only speak of my experience of the prewriting and writing of our definitions essays.

Myself as a writer8: since we are half way through the semester my writing have been confused. I not use to having to keep up with posting blogs every week. I not use to having to type for every piece of writing that we have to. I am technology literate and like to do things the old fashion way. Pen and paper. Not having to keep up with the internet and doing all these wed pages. I must admit it have been overwhelming and taking a while to the speed of things. I feel it has taking away from my writing. I do like all that I am learning in class but it is very challenging. Not saying that it is suppose to easy but I do feel with trying to keep up with dates and deadlines and a lot of multiple styles of writing is a little too much. My writing is not the same as doing one assignment and actually having time to do it and do it right with out worrying about another major assignment. I hope I can keep up to get an good grade in this class. Sometimes I feel like I am the only person with this problem and wish I could get into all of the blogging and being on the compute all time. I get in front of my lad top and go completely blank. I get so frustrated because the writing doesn’t just come to me. I hope I can get over the typing and being on the computer phobia.

myself as a writer-6

I remember after my high school graduation my mom giving me a journal. She told me to write everything I was feeling at any giving moment. Whatever I was feeling at that time no matter if it was good or bad, write it down and it will all go away. At this time in my life I was expecting my first child. I went through every emotion in the book. So I was were glad to receive this gift.
I wrote in my journal as often as I could. Writing about the changes I would see happening over time. The feelings of another life inside of me. As I look back at some of my entries, I had pretty good descriptive images that Stephanie taught us to in our narritive essays. Quoats like, “when my baby started to move it felt like butterflies fluttering around.” “when he would kick my stomach would bounce like the round soft kick ball we would play with in gym class.” I was fascinated that just by looking through some of my writings in this journal, it would help me with my English assignment.
My journal help me in many through the most difficult times and it was like therapy. Once I wrote how I felt or what I was going through, a release came over me. It was like I was transferring my stress, sadness, happiness, or madness into the pen and it would unleash onto the blank pages. And I love I can always go back and read through it.

How do i feel about writing? That's a good question. writing for me is a way to be honest with myself and a good way to help me get through a lot of things. iIfind a comfort in writing and i feel like its a great way to express myself.

I like all kinds of writings. I like to write in my journal. I write about my life, how i feel, poems, and songs. Ilove writing narrative and expository papers. I also like writing persuasive papers too. I really enjoy all types of writing, i don't have a limit to all the writing i can do. I like to explore into many types of things. I don't care if the teacher assign something or if we have to make up a topic. Ienjoy it all.
I don't have a particular way of starting a piece of writing. I see the topic and write from my heart. But the hardiest part of writing for me is trying to organize it. I really don't care of using organizers.
when i write i like to be either in class or at home in my room. it doesn't matter if it's morning or night. i sometimes like to read what i write in front of people. It depends on what it is that i'm reading. If its something in my journal than i wouldn't share it. But for a class i would.