Persuative essay

It’s time to start taking care of our planet.


Now I live in San Francisco downtown area. After I came to San Francisco, I found that restaurants and shopping malls in my environment seriously leave different kinds of waste into different kinds of garbage bins.





We also have different groups of people respond on difference kinds of garbage too. It makes me realize that I separately trash different kinds of stuff into the right garbage bin.


It’s better to understand the kind of materials that enter and leave your home, office, or school, consider conducting a waste audit. Separate your waste categories. Weigh the different kinds of material flows that go out the door (landfill waste, organic compost, aluminum, recyclable plastic, reusable material, etc.).

One day I bought some snacks from Walgreen nearby my place, when I paid for my stuffs; a cashier put my stuffs into the green bag and told me that I could reuse it the next shopping. I felt agree to use that bag because I knew that I could decrease plastic garbage to save environment. After that I always put my purchased stuffs into my own bag instead of getting a new one.





I also use a water filter and reusable container to reduce disposable plastic bottles. I start doing this after I got information from the internet that we could recycle 100 bottles/second but we discarded 840 bottles/second. Can you imagine how much is it? I feel that it’s not too hard to bring water from home instead of buy a new bottle. We can reduce plastic bottle to save the environment and also save money.
I reduce my electricity use by unplug my cell phone charger, TV and other electronics whenever I do not use them because the energy is wasted when they are plugged in and on standby. The process can be made easier if you have everything plugged into a surge protector with its own switch. I turn off lights and other energy-sucking devices when they are not being used. If I leave my computer for a while, put it on stand-by, I will be able to restart it quickly in order to use less energy than shutting it down and then restarting it.

In holiday season, I always give a gift certificate or buy a green service like a Zipcar membership or find items that are made or grown locally, items manufactured from recycled materials, durable items that will not be trashed soon.


There are so many ways to go green. You can start to preserve the limited amount of natural resources that we have today, so that the earth can continue to provide. Please help us saving energy, reduce garbage landfills that growing beyond capacity, and reduce pollution that emission greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It’s the way that we can against global warming. Just do it for yourself and someone that you love. Start from today, it’s not hard as you think.

Chapter 17-20 Persuasive Writing

Analytical Essay

My Lovely Nephews

I am the second from the last one of my generation, so almost all of my
generation’s already have family. Two of my older sisters and one of my cousin have child. Now I have nephews who are one and a half years old, six months old, and two
months old.











I was in the operating room with my cousin while she gave birth to
her baby. I can feel how wonderful of this period of life is, period from birth to those first few hours. I felt like he was a moveable doll.






On that day, I found that one of the first basic behaviors is sucking. After the nurse cleaned my nephew, she carried him to my cousin. He stopped crying after he was with my cousin. The nurse wanted my cousin to started feeding her son. I saw my nephew open his mouth and put his face on my cousin’s breast and know how to suck milk automatically. Sometimes if he is going to cry, he will be quiet after we put a pacifier or finger into his mouth.
The first time that I carried my nephew, I was so afraid because it was my first time to carry a baby and he still had weak neck muscles. My brother-in-law show me how to carry him safely. I found that it was not very hard to carry him and I could carry him with one hand because he was so small at that time.
I read about development of infants. I liked to compare what they said with my nephews. For example, the book said “The newly born infant enters the world with an impressive array of physical and sensory capabilities. Initially, his behavior is mostly limited to reflexes that enhance his chances for survival”. It is exactly the same, my nephew was closing his eyes and putting his hand to cover his eyes under bright lights when he was only a one-week baby. My nephew usually cried when he was uncomfortable, hungry, sick, or needs some physical attention but when he was in a good mood for example, after he was feeding and changing diaper, I liked to holding, cuddling, talking to him. He will smiling and trying to talk to me too. I can see his development every time I see him. I see a lot of advantages of article that I read because we can know what we should do to encourage my nephew’s each month-by-month development.
Now my mom takes care of my second nephew in Louisiana. I can tell that she was very happy because she always talking about my nephew with happy smiling and laughing in every times that I called her. I also like to see my nephew’s pictures and videos, I also uploaded its on my Facebook. When I have nothing to do or want to relax. Its makes me so happy and never feel bored in its.




You can see my nephews's video by go to my Facebook(I sent CD to my sister so right now i have only video that i uploaded on my Facebook;I hope you will like it ^^ )

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720146480&ref=profile#!/profile.php?id=720146480&v=app_2392950137&ref=profile

Description Essay Reader-Response Sheet (Chapter10 )

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Description Essay Reader-Response Sheet
Description Essay
Reader-Response Sheet
Writer’s name: ___Jacqui Nyangi Owitti_________
Reader’s name: ___Pramephan Kulpreyawat________
As the writer, my major concerns/questions for my readers are:
Reader, please respond to each question.
1. What is the writer’s topic?

To recalls an important personal experience in her life that taught her the pain of loss

2. What is/are the dominant impression(s) the writer seems to be making? If there is a sentence that states the dominant impression, write it here. If there is not a sentence that states the dominant impression, write what you believe it is.

The dominant impression the writer seem to be; “I stare at him and can not tear myself away. I weep, saying over and over that he is smiling, he is smiling. My heartbreak and tears echo the refrain. He is smiling—a radiant, unforgettable smile.”

3. Has the writer used a subjective or objective perspective? What makes the choice of perspective work well in the essay?

She used an objective perspective because she describe by explain how everything she saw and how she felt from them.

4. What makes the opening effective? How might it be made more effective?

The writer started by describes who she is and how innocents of her by let we know how old she was, how was her family and how she felt at that time.

5. What do you find to be most effective about the essay as a whole?

She had very well planed story and described detail and feeling; example how innocent she was, personality of her grandfather in her memory, very well describe how she knew that her grandfather died and how she felt upset in her childhood.

6. Discuss the level and breadth of detail used—where does the writer use language effectively? Where does she/he use sensory images? Which senses does the writer appeal to? Where has the writer used active verbs?

She often used sensory images, for example As the bull is led away into the boma, people enter the room that has been emptied of furniture.

7. Make some suggestions for increasing the level and breadth of detail. Please make specific references to the essay.

None.

8. What two or three specific questions do you have for the writer?

None.

9. Please circle any words that you suspect are misspelled or are typos—DON’T CORRECT THEM!

None.

10. Indicate with “frag” any sentence fragments you suspect or find.

Watching the drama unfold(end of paragrph4.)

11. Indicated with “r-o” any comma splices or fused sentences that you suspect or find.

None.

12. Please check off each of the following items that apply:

_____ proper heading (you, me, class, date)
_____ a title that describes the contents of the essay
__1__ 2 full pages minimum length
_____ a good opening gambit
_____ appeals to all the senses
__1__sight
__1__sound
_____smell
__1__taste
_____touch
_____ uses strong verbs
_____ uses at least one simile or metaphor 


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ll.A Reader: Strategies and Models(Chapter9-16)

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My First Flight

I’m the baby of my family. Since I was young, I remember that everybody in my family always worried about me because I’m the one that looks very innocent to my family. I still lived with my family even though I graduated and earned money by myself. I was working in Thailand for one and a half years. I decided to quit my job and come to the USA for studying like two of my older sisters. I had never traveled by plane before, so it was the first flight of my life.

My parents, my uncle, my aunt, my cousin and my friends, everybody came to the airport to see me before I came to the USA. I remember that I was the last kid who leaving our family for the USA. At first my mother wanted me to wait until my sister graduated and came back home, but I asked her if I could leave because I really wanted to practice my English here. I couldn’t wait until they came back because it would take too long for that. I knew my mom would be lonely while I was not with her. That day, my mom was crying, I held her and told her that we would come back soon. I wasn’t crying until the plane took off. I saw the land that I had to leave grow smaller, smaller and then I started crying because I didn’t know when I would come back to my country and come back to see everybody whom I loved again.

I tried to stop crying because I know I’m not a baby who can cry wherever I want. I know that the person next to me knew that I was crying. He was an old man who looked very kind to me. I had nothing to do on my flight, so I thought he could be the first person who could help me practice my English. I started talking with him until my fight landed in Taipei. We wished each other a good journey. I checked my second plane ticket that I had to transfer to the USA. At first I thought I was in the same area, but I wondered why there were a lot of people getting in line to go somewhere else. I walked passed them to the terminal that I thought was the terminal of my next flight but I found that nobody was there. I was nervous because I felt that there might be something wrong. I walked back to the area that had a lot of people and showed my ticket. They told me that I have to go to the same line as the other people. After I came to the right terminal, I found that my flight was delayed so I had to spent two hours in the airport by myself. I was walking around and met that old guy again by accident. He told me that his flight was also delayed because it was raining that night.

On the flight from Taipei to San Francisco there were a lot of Chinese people and other nationalities. I tried to look for Thai people, but I couldn’t find anyone. All fight attendants were Chinese and they thought I was Chinese too and they talked to me in Chinese all the time. I saw flight attendants giving a paper to other passengers. One of the Chinese attendants gave me a form that was in Chinese so I could not understand it at all. After that the light was turn off and everybody was going to sleep while I was thinking how I could ask for a new form in English. I talked to one flight attendant, but it was hard to understand because I’m not used to her pronunciation. Finally, I got that paper and filled it in. I slept on the flight but not very well. I woke up again because the flight attendants were serving breakfast. I couldn’t eat much because I wasn’t hungry at all. I saw ocean and land under the plane all the way after that. I was so excited because I was going to arrive at my destination, the United States of America.

At San Francisco airport, my cousin came to pick me up. She said my sisters called her to check whether I had arrived in San Francisco yet. They were afraid that I would miss my flight in Taipei. My cousin called my mom in Thailand and my sisters in another state to let them know that I was safe. It made me feel that I can do anything like my sister’s do and I was ready to learn something new in my life.