"Annotated Bibliograhy #2"

Horowitz, Rosalind. Talking texts : how speech and writing interact in school learning . Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

Once again Sarah Beth, that damn blogger is out to get me and refuses to let me underline. I’m sure you’re well aware that I know it should be underline as well as yourself. Anyways, I am very excited to talk about this book, plus it is Valentines Day and I am alone :( sad I know I have a few offers but I passed. This book talks about Speech as you can tell by the text, it allows me to read and learn how to interpret and make sense of many different ages of conversation think it focuses on main groups that have certain conversations, I mean you wouldn’t talk the same way when you're eating at dinner, versus at the movies talking during the movie. The difference is at dinner you tend to focus on the movie talk about one's day more like small talk, while during a movie its a low whisper that usually is either talking about the movie, snacks at the movie, or going to the bathroom. This book is also referred more towards teachers and understand there students, but I can also be a part of the authors audience for I would like to understand the people I watch and listen so very closely too. Talk as text: gender and children’s conversational interaction -- Teenage talk: a London-based chat and discussion compared -- Dinner talk: gaining cultural membership in modern literate societies -- These are only a few things this book discuss I found the Dinner talk quite interesting for I am observing not only those who serve but those who dine. Her main focus was too dig deep and really discover the meaning behind vocals and why certain times and ages call for certain ways of talking and communication. I know those two words seem like the same but can be described as two very different things. I still can't shake the fact that this book literally gives you the door to a number of different kind of talking. I truly encourage others to not only use this for observing and researching purposes but also for Meir entertainment. It most defiantly will help my researching and allow me to interpret and fully understand the language that my co-workers are speaking and yes I know it's English but maybe ill be able to interpret there actions and how they talk to a certain person one way and another person another way. The main purpose I feel for this book is to understand others. I think everyone tries to understand other cultures and languages that they lose sight if there own and forget that you can’t really understand others until you can understand your own.

Swarts, Katherine. Are cults a serious threat?. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007.

Okay now I know that this next one looks totally off base but really, a cult is a group of people that all have the same beliefs and feelings, much like the communities that we are observing. I feel that it would be morally wrong to overlook even cults because they too can be useful for observation. Even at the Restaurant they seem to be in a semi-cult-like manner where they all believe that making money is more important that being nice to others, and how if you not wearing a Pete's shirt then it must be sports related only during the time that, that sport is playing. And if your a hostess which I have done for about a year until I started waitressing, they require you to dress a little dare I say "slutty" even after I repeatedly told they that I rather not because of the audience I was getting, the "un-needed" audience. So yeah your probably laughing right now that I have chose this book about scary cults and what there all about but you know Sarah that it is kind of relevant to our "community" era that we are in, in English 121. I want to be there audience along with those who are researching "cults" because in some small way I do believe my community is a cult, they brain wash you and make you believe your worthless and that the rude, nasty comments guys say are just something you need to get over and get used to.

The purpose of this writing is to demonstrate down in text if cults should go un-noticed or if we should be scared and aware other them, blah, blah,blah. This is how I really am using it even though we all know that yes this would be a very good source if I was doing a documentary on the KKK or any other bizarre pointless cult, I am using this for this purpose, it shows you what a group of people would do for what they really truly believe is right and what they think is okay and should be done. The people I work with really believe that it is okay tat because they got "knocked up" now they must live there life doing the only thing that's legal and can skill get you a lot of money without a college degree. I do admit that there are woman who work there that this is only a stepping stool for them when there in college or high school. This is how I look at it, when so many people in a close community all do the same thing whether it is right or wrong, they start to believe its okay because no one else is there to tell them different. They lost there opportunities in life, I still have mine and in many way's I think it bothers them, I think it makes them made that I’m child free, smart, young and well decent looking but most of all still have my entire life ahead of me, with nothing holding me back.
I focused on things that this book talked about such as why people result to succeed in cults and why they can be manipulated so easily, I know this sounds odd but it really does give me insight to my community, I think something your so evolved in has a way of brain-washing you, even if you don't think so, or don't want to believe.

Amanda Elizabeth McCann

P.S. Thanks for blogging me back about the letter! :( Just kidding I know you will in time, but remember chew it 3 times then swallow after reading. Ha, ha.