2/22

 Burkhard Bilger is a legitimate source and author, because he has been a contributor  for the New Yorker since 2000 and staff writer since 2001. He has also had work published in the New York Times and has earned two National Magazine Awards and six nominations. Bilger's interviews are also reliable.  For example, Guy Pidgeon was found in the article, "The Last Meow". Pidgeon is found to actually work at the AMC. 

Paws & Whiskers,

E-Roc & Sandeezy

THE AMC.

Fun Fact: Veterinarians are in the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide immediate care.

Today in our class reading of "The Last Meow", we discussed the foundation of a paragraph lays on the topic sentence. As a class, we learned that for future college references, it's a good idea to highlight the topic sentence of each paragraph. Doing so, will make it easier to understand what you read in the article. Also, we briefly hit the topic of parallelism, and we were taught identify the structure. Lastly, we learned to identify the irony in a paragraph.

Eggs & Bacon,

E-Roc & Sandeezy

The Last Meow PART 1 reaction

In a world of destruction and hate, I find it enlightening to see Shawn Levering care for his deathly ill cat, Lady. A blue collared man from a small city in Delaware found himself in the throes of Upper East Side New York, willing to spend over $15,000 for a kidney transplant, in hopes of curing his sick cat.  To see such a love expressed is nice to read about. Although the article expresses that this procedure is only to be done to please Shawn's wife, the owner would still risk all that money out of love for his wife. It almost seems like a dream to read about this, to read about an owner going out of his way for a small helpless creature. I'm trying to compare Lady to my last cat Mini. If I had all the money in the world, I would have personally went out of my way to cure Mini of her allergies and bad liver. We did our part though, as a family we all took our turns giving Mini her monthly shot for allergies in a span of 7 years. Months leading to her death, she lost a drastic amount of weight, stopped eating normally, and she would vomit the food she did eat. My step father spent thousands of money on her shots, vet visits and special diet. It was heartbreaking to see my cat in pain and slowly die, and now reading this article I'm learning that there could have been something more done. Perhaps we could have taken her to a big city where Mini's suffering could have been cured, but due to financial circumstances it was impossible for us to do so,

I find it sad reading this article because it reminds me of something that could have been. 

Cherries & Smiles,

Sandeezy

Picture This! We learned This! 2/10/11

Today in our class discussion, we first learned to used the terms "retrospect" and "borne away" in a correct manner. In addition we learned the proper placement for a semi-colon. Here are some examples of the terms used correctly.

"In retrospect, I noticed that my choice in fashion was quite horrid freshman year."

"Borne away, the sunbus took me to the mall."

"I have several pet-peeves: snoring,nail biting,burping, and spitting."

      

 Following the session, we began to read "The Last Meow". In doing so, we broke down the first three paragraphs in order to analyze what we were reading. The first paragraph was formed to describe the cat with a massive amount of pathos. The pathos used, formed an emotion of glamour and beauty to describe cat in her last days of life. Using pathos was a strong introduction to the following paragraph that contrasts a middle-class man (owner of the cat) from Delaware in Upper East Side, New York City. Using deductive reasoning, the reader can understand that this man wouldn't be such a hectic city if his cat wasn't in dire need of medical attention. Lastly, in the third paragraph we were taught the simplicity of coherency. The first sentence of the second that third paragraph and very much coherent to each other, regardless of the fact that they are not next to each other.  

Apples and pears,

e-roc & sandeezy

PARAGRAPH USING ALL OUR VOCAB.

They called the girl "Ruddy", because she was never seen with a fair complexion, always glowing red on her cheeks. You can always find her on the beach, the sun transforming her light brown hair almost to a dirty blonde shade. There is an exception though, one day the beach missed her because of she got pink eye, an eye doctor prescribed her with some eye drops. Suddenly, she dropped her dreams of studying oncology, the study of tumors, to dig deeper into opthamology, so she can cure everyone's pink eye. She rushed home that day to remind her anemic mother to take her iron pills, and talk to her about her new dream. Her mother praised her for this new found dream, finally her congenitally blind husband can now be studied, and hopefully one day be cured by his own daughter Ruddy! Ruddy laid in bed that night, contemplating whether to pursue this dream, in retrospect, she looked back on her past dreams and realized she could do this! Borne away, she took the SunBus the following day to the Mayo Clinic where she could encounter professionals working.  She strived to do everything her role models where doing. She enjoyed the sight of the utilitarian objects, such as injections being practiced on the eyes of clienteles. With the intent of taking the SunBus home, she was surprised to find the bus had left with out her. The dichotomy of the sky didn't bother her, due to it's radiant pink color for the sun was about to set, and the night sky was about to fall. Dander from the trees was falling in front of the path laid before her, she took a huff from her albuteral inhaler, and thought about the compounded dreams rushing in her head. She hoped that if she did decide to become a opthamologist, her spawn would unequivocally have a bright and wealthy future. She continued to walk on home and she noticed she couldn't be more in love with the sound the leaves were making, anthropomorphized, she spoke to the trees and told them about her future plans. Suddenly, a turtle crossed her path and it seemed to have been struggling to survive. Quickly, she took it to the vet. The veterinarian spoke words that would make anyone unhappy, "The turtles aorta has failed and it's in a coma." Ruddy's heart broke and she felt that not even sutures can repair it. The dire choice of euthanasia or life had been brought upon Ruddy and she chose life. Ruddy stayed at the vet all night, only to watch the life of this orphaned turtle depreciate slowly. Every second spent with the turtle had been appreciated. The Vet came in to the room and gave the turtle a shot. The vet's deductive reasoning had failed on him, because 2 minutes later the turtle passed on. It had been euthanized. Ruddy felt devastated because of the malpractice.  Ruddy returned home, went on with her life and ended up studying oncology. Ironically, due to her over-exposure to the sun as a young child, she developed skin cancer. Fortunately, chemotherapy had made her healthier, and she's now a successful oncologist.

THE END. 

Pins & Needles,

E-roc & Sandeezy