What Time Is It

In Waters's essay he says, "step out of the grid of time". What Waters is asking us to do is to not worry about time when we're reading something, but worry about the message that the author is trying to send out through his reading, which, sometimes is only notice by deep concentration into the writing.

I agree with Waters because America is based off of time alone. If you think about it,. . . . . . . . . . . . time is a number one priority for everybody, it is agreed that there isn't enough time in the world. To prove my point, how many of you skip right to the next word instead of pausing? Just because I put them pauses in my reading doesn't mean you are going to take time to stop reading to just think. I mean we never wait for anything, time is a burden.

Some examples are that; we get upset when somebody is still at the light when its green, we give them a honk to make them hurry up or we go around. Fast food restaurants that is made exactly for people who don't have time to sit down at the table in the morning and have a nice dinner with they're family or maybe they get up in time just to catch that early bird special at McDonald's. One of my favorite reasons for not having enough time is because of procrastination, we do what we feel is more important, then we rush on things that is less important like reading.

So I understand what Waters is saying, just take time to sit back and relax, crack open a book and read, don't rush think about what the author is saying, try to understand why the author is writing about the topic at hand, look into to the authors background see where the author's coming from.

Unless you don't have time!!!!!

Pay Attention

In Waters's essay he talks about how people need to slow down and think about the passage they are reading and try to comprehend what it really says.

I agree, I feel if you have to skim over something go head, but being a college student that's not going to take you far in your class. You may have some people out there who can speed read something and get it out of the way, but are they really going to understand what is going on. Us being college students we not only have to look at the big picture but we also have to notice the mediums and the strokes and the patterns of the art work. We have to understand why the artist put things in certain places.

That's just like the readings Mr. Barnette gives us, I think I can speak for some of us when I say we were reading the assignment but we weren't paying attention to what was read. We were "speed reading" or we were "multitasking" trying to get the assignment done, instead of being "quiet" and noticing every little detail that the writer was trying to give us.

The thing I do disagree on is the throwing time out the window. With use being college students I feel there isn't enough time to do anything, whether its that big paper you have to write, or studying for your exams. There's always something to do being a student so we gotta get things down as quick as possible so we can move on to something else that is also very important.

Reckless Driving

In the essay "A Call to Action" by Angela Daly she talks about how there is number of bills that have been made in order to stop drivers from using cell phones while on the road but they aren't being enforced very strictly. And I agree because there are plenty of people that use the cell phone while their driving and they sort of swerve while on the road.

I have even used my cell phone while I was driving and even though I didn't swerve if something was suppose to happen I wouldn't be able to react as quick as I would if I wasn't on the phone. This can be proven with psychology having to do with your eyes sending messages to your brain and if your not focus just on the road then it will take a little longer but that's not the point. The point is that cell phones have been the cause of "450 accidents out of 1000 in a year" says, Daly. That's enough numbers for it to be compared to DUI.

If that's the case they mine as well legalize drunk driving since you still swerve when your drunk, cell phones may not have the same amount of deaths as drunk drivers but they both are still killing people. I know allot of people who say they can drive drunk and I've been in the car with them and we make it home or to the club safe but they still penalize you for it even if your under the influence. This is not something they over look neither they are setting up road blocks everywhere and pulling people over on the road that might make a mistake just to see if their drunk. They don't look over that law their actually getting more strict.

You can see people using their cell phone a mile away, come on you can't miss it, a hand being held to their head with their mouth moving like their sing their favorite song but you don't hear any music coming from their car, but yet they don't enforce their own law, that's whats it was made for.

Yea there are many solutions to solving this problem by wearing ear pieces or the new latest fashion the bluetooth but it still takes away attention from the road.

But with if your using your cell phone to stay awake by talking to your girl/boyfriend after a long days work? Do you think it helps you stay awake and concentrate on the road?

Women Are So Emotional

In Eden's essay I agree that women are so emotional when it comes to spending time with them, especially in the sack, Eden says, "the nature of sex awakens deep emotion within us". I mean why can't women just think about sex like some men do, just get yours and don't worry about what the other person is thinks about it.

I still understand where she's coming from because when that right man puts it on you, I really don't think it's anything women can do but fall in love. Not unless they were already looking for somebody to love them.

It can't all be put on the men because sometimes women don't know how to keep a man and the only thing bonding them together is sex, which is kinda wrong but it would fall under the category of casual sex because it's no feelings involve.