After watching the Shape of Stories I read “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane. This western did not necessarily fit the Shape of Stories plot due to it being two stories within one, but each individual story fit into the models that were shown in the video. The story was split into … Continue reading Shaping stories

Dear Mom, I bet five years ago, a college assignment would be your last guess for a reason that I

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When I looked at the To Do list of tasks to complete for this week’s assignments I did not seem as overwhelmed as I had the past two weeks. This is because I feel I am becoming more familiar with how my social media sites work and I have a better understanding how to operate … Continue reading Week Three 1/23-29/16 Summary

I found Vonnegut’s little video about the “simple shapes of stories” to be very entertaining. I have never thought of stories in the form of shapes (especially graphs and lines). But, it definitely opened my eyes at how the majority of stories I have grown up reading and listening to, do take on one of … Continue reading The Different Shapes of Stories

This week was kind of harder than the last couple of weeks, for some reason it seemed like there was more work. Also the snow days totally threw me off, because I got lazier and lazier as we got more school off. The assignment banks were great, because I prefer the writing ones. I decided … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"

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Kurt Vonnegut talks about the different shapes of stories, and the first shape he talks about is starting above average and then they get down and come back up. Another one he talks about is starting average thing and then something goes wonderful but then come back down and up again. The last story he […]

In this blog post we had to read up on more western stories to get us thinking and learn more about western themes. First I read old western legends, the first thing that caught my eye were old west photos, and then old west people. I think this is really cool, having old photographs of […]

The Western Belle, Boy is she pretty, with long wavy hair, blue eyes and some great cowboys boots. Every boy drools over the western belle because she is a lady but when its time to rodeo its like she’s is a different person. She knows how to stay on a bull and fight like a […]

YEEHAW! Damn cowboys I just got into a shootout with a bunch of city-slickers. But boy were they bad, they thought they could yonder to my barn and cahoot my horses! No son of a gun gets past me! So I took out my pistols and put my hat on (to show them I was […]

Mami, I grew up as a middle child, and always felt far from you. I seemed to think you always favored my older sister over me, but as I grew up, I realized that I was wrong. Instead you would teach her to care for her younger siblings while you were gone during the day. […]

Riser (according to Dierks Bentley): life is hard, man, and you’ve got to give it your all to succeed My family moved to the U.S when I was 8 years old, we came with nothing. We lived in a one bedroom apartment with 5 people, and started off with nothing. Yet somehow, it never felt […]

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

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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

Today’s daily create challenge!

Today I did my last dailycreate for this week! This dailycreate instructed you to pick an old west wisdom quote from the given website. I looked through them and liked the quote “when you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.” After picking the quote, I went through basically the same process that I did for yesterday’s dailycreate. […]

Today’s dailycreate asked you to make a visual representation honoring the late bronco rider Bonnie McCarroll. For this, I first googled a picture of Bonnie McCarroll. After finding one that I liked, I saved it then opened it using the iPhone app called Phonto. This app allowed me to put the quote at the top and […]

For one of this week’s tasks we had to create a western character. So, everyone get ready to meet the coolest, smoothest, sweet talkin cowgirl in the Wild West. Her name is Talie. But let me tell you, you don’t want to get on her bad side. She may seem sweet as sugar but, you … Continue reading My Western Character