"Journal Writing" on Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

I do not agree that success is measured by financle rewards. To me success is measured by the goals you set and how you set out to accomplish the goals and for each person their goals are different. In my life I feel that my cousin Christina is successful she set a goal for herself and accomplished it. The reason that I feel that she is successful is she graduated high school which was her first goal, then she set a goal of completing a degree in phsycology at the University of Azusa Pacific, and finally getting a job that uses the degree that she recieved. My ideas of success come from my parents and my education. Which have made me reach for high goals.

"Journal Writing" Rural Delivery by Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up in the city where the only thing that seperated me from a mini mall was my backyard and a brick wall that I could easily climb over. The main streets where lined with palm trees and every house had grass in the front yard.The cultural lines crossed in every way there was no one culture that you could point out. As for political lines I can not really comment since at the time I lived in my childhood home I did not care about politics. I think outsiders viewed were I grew up as the getto. There were people getting shot all the time and you could constantly here the sirens going off. But I did not know any different so it was normal to me. Until moving to another city 60 miles away did I get to see and feel what it was like living where the sirens did not go off all night and people were not getting shot everyday.

"Journal Writing" on The Rise and Fall of the Hit by Chris Anderson

I choose not to really keep up with what is going on in the news, on the radio, on the internet, or even in magazines. From time to time I will watch the news but will only get the basics, I will not continue to listen to them repeat the same story over and over as they change what has happened or who said what because the story starts to become what they want you to know instead of what really happened. When the media starts putting their input in instead of the truth to it is not really news any more and when the first tell about something happening it is more torwards the truth.

"Journal Writing" on The Plot against People by Russell Baker

Inanimate objects can also by classified as not having any real use for them, being made poorly, and not doing what it was made to do. They all still have a job to do but whether or not they can help you accomplish that job is the question. The inanimate object has always been used but some can be used for short periods of time and others may seem like they could last a lifetime. The reason may be that we take those objects and repair them not one inanimate object could last a lifetime without being repaired at least once if not many times. This is why we call them inanimate they imitate something that should do the job and not deceive us by not working or breaking down.

"Journal Writing" on The Way We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson

Yes I have lied most of my lies have been to protect myself or someone else and that is not to say that it makes it ok. That time I remember lying was yesturday to my son. I am not sure what was the most significant lie I ever told you would need to ask the people I have lied to. There are not justifications to lying and yes I have been ashamed of lies I have told. Lying is never a good thing it never gets you anywhere it may even cause you to lose or hurt someone.

"Journal Writing" on The Myth of Doomed Kids by Bella DePaulo

I grew up with my parents divorcing when  I was 9 years old. I choose to live with my father in a single parent household. I would go visit my mother, she had remarried so I guess you can say it was a two parent household my mother and step-father. When I turned 12 my aunt came to live with my dad and I so I guess you can say it was a parent and relative household. DePaulo's characterization of my family is agreeable and I do believe it to be fair. She brings up some strong points about that there is not much of a difference between some of the data that was presented. But for myself I can say I did not fall under these statistics at all. Like I stated in the beginning I lived with my father and a relative and I never had an issue with drugs and or alcohol in my life and never will.

" Journal Writing" on Vampires Never Die by Gullermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

I do not care to watch any television show , movie, or read a book about vampires. The stories do not interest me at all. I think it is crazy how all the people go ga-ga over these vampire roles. The reason they do not interest me is because there just not belivable the story line goes to far off what may have been. To me vampires  have always been so fictional that I really do not care to watch anything about them. I would choose just about anything to watch or read over a vampire story.