Researching Research?...

Last week I was assigned a research paper *a single tear rolled down my face*. Clearly I do not like research papers never have and probably never will. Being the person I am though I just flash a half smile and go on my merry way. I went to the library to start my research, unfortunately I ended up changing my mind about 10 times as to what I wanted to write about and the research part ended up taking 2 hours....go me and my indecisive ways! Part of my hate for research papers stems from high school because we forced to do multiple a year every year and they crammed all this knowledge as us on how to write a research paper. But wait it gets better! Once I got to college, I learned that everything I once thought to be true about research papers was complete lies. LIES! So I guess what I learned about all of this is that I still do not like research papers and high school is full of lies.

R.I.C.H.

Last week we watched a documentary titled Queen of Versailles. The documentary focused on the mother and wife Jackie. Jackie was different to say the least. Although she grew up more the poor side, she definitely took every advantage of being rich as an adult. The film portrays Jackie as a person wanting everything nice in the world. She has a 10 thousand dollar pair of shoes and a fur coat just as expensive. One scene that sticks out in my mind is when she is going to the store to buy gifts for her kids for Christmas. Jackie buys everything but in multiple copies. I know she has 8 kids, but each child does not need the same board game. Board games are meant to be played together not separately. I feel like she is wasteful. She was never supportive of the dad either , when he was trying to cut back spending when the market crashed in 2008 and it hit their family pretty hard. He was a little mean to her, pretty much an ass, but considering the stress he was under its understandable.

2nd time around

I just completed my second paper for my WRI 100 class, and let me say I feel much more confident in this paper. Part of the confidence comes from me. I actually enjoyed this book and was emotional invested in it while reading. Having that connection really just made writing this essay so easy. I had a little bit of passion behind this paper compared to my first so I just enjoyed it more. I also took use of the writing center at school, they approved of what I was writing and helped me make my paper more formal and grammatically correct. Having that back-up and boost to my confidence really helped me finish my paper. I approached writing this paper definitely different. I made an outline, found quotes to back up what I wanted, and then just put my opinion in to sum it all up. I was much more organized.