For the western readings assignment I read the Ice Man and listened to one of the episodes of Gunsmoke. It still amazes me that the western genre encompasses all of the different categories we have previously learned about through links and readings. However, while reading the Ice Man the typical characters associated with the American Old … Continue reading Western Readings: Ice Man vs. Gunsmoke

The first thing I look at when I look in the mirror are my eyebrows. Their bold black color makes them stick out from the rest of my face making everyone look at them first. Then my big brown eyes with curled lashes has everyone wondering from who did I get these genes? But if […]

Wow. I have so much to say that I couldn’t even choose a specific age. Where do I even start? I think I’ll start in 8th grade when you just turned 14. Cannot believe this, because Vivian just turned 14 and she might be going through the same things as you. I can’t believe how […]

Everyone, meet Riza. Riza was born and raised in El Salvador where she learned everything about cooking and serving others through her mother and aunts. Once she grew up, she immigrated to the United States in hopes of creating a better life for herself. That is where she met her husband, Tate, and decided to […]

I read Ice Man and listened to an episode of Gun Smoke for this assignment. I never truly knew how westerns could be so many different things and have so many different components to them. Obviously the typical western stereotype is cowboys, gun shots and old country music which is what I really got from … Continue reading Western differences

Bonnie Sue, wife of the town Sheriff. Bonnie was born and raised in Kansas, where she married the town sheriff

Read more »

Time for my third weekly summary! This week was a lot of writing!!! Being a science major I don’t do a lot of creative writing, it is mostly scientific research writing so this is good practice for me. In scientific writing we try to not use a lot of adjectives and try not to stray […]

By far my favorite thing that I did this week was watch this really quick four minute video of shapes of stories by Kurt Vonnegut. This video has to be from the 90s or maybe even earlier, but I loved it because he is so right! The premise of this video is that he has a chalkboard […]

The big task for this week was to learn a little more about westerns as well as read two western stories from a list provided. I first learned about old west legends. This website gave some great background information as well as some fascinating pictures of what the old west used to look like. After getting […]

Writing Assignment #1: Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, 3 Stars Assignment Description: “They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Quite often we see pictures on different social media outlets. They are funny, awkward, or beautifully portrayed moments but we don’t know what led up to that point in time. Your task for this assignment is […]

This week we were provided with several links to review which were related to the western theme of the course. The first link was titled Old West Legends. I really liked this site in that, it provided me with a quick background of the western ideal, from when it first began to informing the reader … Continue reading Read Some Westerns Response