Papers

Out of the papers I wish to put in my portfolio, I believe that my superstar narrative was the best example of my work. It was a topic i enjoyed writing on, and was a paper mainly about our commentary. With that being said, it was easier to write about a topic which I liked, and one that was mainly about me. However even though I felt it was my best work, it was actually one of my lowest scoring papers. So in a way it needs the most work as well. Maybe I am not good paralleling a hurdler's life to my own life being that I am a hurdler. Maybe I am better at writing research papers, reports inscribed into essays. I lacked the "my story" in the paper. So making a better connection between Edwin Moses and I will help my superstar narrative become better.

Primary Source

My primary source for the research project is the movie The Karate Kid. I choose this source because I believe it teaches valuable lessons of patience, perseverance, and above all respect. My audience is primarily the youth of our generation, but also is focused at parents, the people who have the influence over these young minds. I hope that my audience will get a better sense of how important of a role the three aspects above help in developing a succeeding youth in today's harsh world.

Group F response

I think none of his heroes went looking for death, or even placed themselevs in predicaments close to death. Afterall, Thoreau may have loved the wild, but he also worked for the government, being a land surveyer marking out lots of land the US intendended to sell. I do not kno w the background of Haines or London, but I would assume that all three of these being's view of nature were taken as a secondary position. It was important for them to live and be apart of the wild, but their need did not drive to want to become trapped in a desert or rock climb a death mountain. For them, they knew nature was right in their back yards

Group E Response Reasons for Escape

If Chris and Ruess both had families that understood them they way they wanted to be seen by their environmental heroes, then I think they would have ventured, but not in an extreme fashion. Had their family support their outdoor endeavors, their willingness to be apart of the earth, I feel that they would not venture as far as they did from their families and society. Since they feel that these issues are present even though to many on the outside their lives might be quite lot smoother than most, their family problems could have been seen as a weak excuse to go and prove to themselves who they really are. It's one thing to go against your families well doing for you, it's another thing to go against your family to the exremem of killing yourself

Group D response Rewriting Into the Wild

If I were to rewrite Into the Wild, I would not change my rhetoric, rather change the bias of the book. I would report the story exactly as it was and only leave my personal comments in the book to the epigraphs at the beginning of the chapters. My rhetoric would mostly be pathos, because if I am the author of a book and I want my readers to feel the same way as I do. I would bring a strong emotional aspect to my book in a way that the reader can't help but to choose my side, without all the bias comments Krakauer inputs. If anything, my story would be called: Into the Wild, as Seen Through the Emotions Of Alex Supertramp.

Group C response, Adoption

I would never let someone adopt me. First of all unless I knew the person as long as I knew my parents then there could have been a possiblity. In this case however Ive known this person maybe close to a year. Thats not enough to have someone adopt me, leaving all my friends and family behind and taking on a new last name. Chris did not accept the adoption because he wanted his journey to be a journey that he traveled alone in. Had he been adopted I don't think he would have went to Alaska unless he took the old man with him of course, which would equal two people's death... instead of one.

Group B response, Presidential

I was not inspired during the last election, rather surprised that someone who is a person of color would get elected to be our nations president. I found it more shocking that there were not more attempts to take Obama's life away before he got elected president. It kinda seems like our world is changing, people are becoming lax on their views of people barriers based off of their skin color. I felt that this election had hype, but still not even as much hype as the 2004 election because it was so close with votes whereas this election was a landslide. The only thing I could say to improve elections is: don't mess up the count!

Brave the Alaskan Wild

Hell no I could not brave the Alaskan wild. Who wants to go out in the middle of nowhere with no food, no clothing, no sense of direction, no education about your environment, did I mention the ridiculously cold weather? Definitely not for me. I do not even go camping in Washington so there is no way possible I would do it in an endless wilderness.
However I do believe that if I was well equipped, I could last some time in the wild by myself. I would surely need lots of food like non perishables to keep me going. Lots of carbs for energy as well as veggies to keep my vitamins coming into my system. I would need a map, some type of vehicle and more importantly a good weapon that is light, quick, but very powerful at the same time, lets say a Magnum to hunt with. Almost forgot one thing, I would need to be by some type of water source mainly a fresh water river to help me replenish the mounds of H2O I will be losing in the wild.
As far as fear goes, I would only be afraid of waking up to an ambush from a predator. Starving and dying of dehydration is imminent, so I would not fear those, but being attacked by a mad cougar or something, would definitely not be the way I would like to go out. I want someone to find my remains.
Simply put I don't think I could brave the wild because I do not like the wild. After one day I would be wanting to go home, and all my bravery and courage would all go out the window. I like the natural world, but I also like it from a safe distance in my living room on the television screen.

Beginnings and Introductions

Hello,
My name is Jerroid Hopkins. My nickname is "J". My mom decided this because she thought that if I grew up and became a famous basketball player, they would call me Dr. J.... Funny I know. I was born in Wartzburg Germany. My mom and dad were both in the military, my mother being in the army for seven years. I moved to America when I was three months old to Illinois. By the time I was five I had went through Texas, California and finally Washington. I live with my mother and older sister who is 22 years old. I have three sisters, and I am the second oldest (one sister from my mom, two from my dad).
I am attending Washington State University not mainly for academics but rather the sport of Track and Field. I am a sophomore this year and last year I was ranked 46th in the nation for the 400mh, and 4th in the nation 19 and under at the collegiate and national level. Track hopefully will be apart of my life for a long time. When I am not racing I am focusing on getting a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I am a little behind in math and science, but I plan to stick with it, I feel it is a great challenge.
As far as writing goes, it has been one of my strongest subjects for me throughout my schooling. However I do not favor structured writing. I'd rather be the type that gets to choose what they get to write about rather than boring books and meaningless essays. I believe that my schooling is almost, almost just as valuable as my track and field = )
The picture I posted for my profile view comes from the word knowledge when typed into google images, because to be successful in the world, you must be a thief of knowledge.