by K.M.
Do you want to fail Essay Writing class? I don't! But maybe some people want to know how to do this, so I will tell you! Follow just one of the suggestions below, and you will surely fail Essay Writing class!
First, do not complete the 8 assigned essays. For example, you can do 7, but you will still fail the class! Or you can write 8 essays, but forget to do the last revision (final copy). All the work you did during the semester will not earn you credits! It's amazing!
Next, be absent from Essay Writing class 10 times or more! This is really easy to do; just stay in bed! Or go have a nice lunch someplace and forget to come back to school on time. If you do this, you will have a nice, relaxing day without having to do writing exercises in class.
Finally, do not get enough points to equal 60 or more. Kevin's classes all have a points system, and you have to get 60 points to pass the course. In Essay Writing, a good essay gets many points, and a poor essay gets few points. But who cares about points? What are they, anyway? If you can't see them, they don't exist! So don't worry about points! Just do what you want, and life will go on as usual!
To summarize, there are 3 easy ways to fail Essay Writing class; don't complete 8 essays, be absent from class 10 times or more, and fail to get 60 points for the course. Remember, you only have to do one of these and you will surely fail Essay Writing! Then you can have a great Spring vacation thinking about how you will get enough credits next year.
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Today's class, Nov. 29, we will ...
1. Read two student essays that were posted recently (scroll down to the previous post).
2. Turn in a first or second draft of the restaurant review. Few people have given Kevin a review so far, so please get busy on this! Remember, you have to do a 2nd revised copy, so please give Kevin your first draft.
3. Kevin will introduce Essay #8 Narration.
- Think of an interesting story from your life. Everyone has at least one good story, so please find one in your life. Even if you don't think it's interesting, it becomes interesting if you tell it in an interesting way.
- The story should have some dialog (conversation). Just a little dialog is OK, or a lot of dialog is OK. However, you should follow the rules of punctuation and indenting for dialog. Kevin will explain more about this.
- Don't worry if you can't remember the actual dialog from your story. Just try to remember the dialog as best you can (or make some of it up) and translate it into English.
- This story becomes an essay when you comment on what happened. Just a dialog only is not enough. You should tell how you felt about the incident, or explain what lesson you learned from it.
- This is your last essay, so it should be awesome! I want your best effort and your most interesting writing! This topic is good for writing something meaningful, so please do your best!
- Kevin will show you some samples in class. There are also these samples from last year and the year before.
5. If we have time, you will comment on a blog post about tattoos in Japanese onsen.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20121127at.html
I agree about having tattoo people memove to public facilities. especially onsen is people can look tattoo direct, if they look at it, they will uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteDaiki Shinji
Tattoo is outlaw's mark on Japanese history. So we should not to do this if we are Japanese.
ReplyDeleteBy the way they looks so dirty isn't it?...And I'm never want to meet them.
Shoichi
Japanese culture has negative thinkings for tattoo, because people think tattoo is symbol of "Yakuza(Japabese gang)" so, tattoo hated in japane. You really want to tattoo, you must have a preparedness. kouji
ReplyDeleteI think that tattoo is cute but I don't wanna tattoo. because my body is gave me my parents.
ReplyDeletemikako
I think Tattoo has a problem. I don't get inked.
ReplyDeleteTakayuki
I think tattoo is OK.
ReplyDeleteRecently, It's fashionable among young people to tattoo.
It's don't just Yakuza.
Mina Goto
I think that the Japanese is strict to the tattoo.Though the tattoo of Japan is threatening, I think it is good because the tattoo is fashionable.Because the hot spring is a peculiar culture to Japan, such a problem invites it.
ReplyDeleteTakeshi Kaneta
I think tattoo is agree.
ReplyDeleteBut japanese's peole think it is so bad in far past.
The idea would still remain.
-Akira suzuki
If tatto are not bad to water of Sento of Onsen. I think it is Ok to permit them entrance.
ReplyDeleteBut frankly, I scary them because thet might be Yakuza or something.
-Yang
I think tattoos are good separately. Because it is fashonable
ReplyDeleteSmall tatoo and one point tatoo aren't striking. In case big tatto I think tatto people is a social problem. Tatto people's children are sad.
ReplyDeleteAkane Kato
I think it's freedom to have tattoo, but if the person has tattoo too much like this picture, the person should think carefully to visit public baths. I think children is afraid of them.-Yukiko
ReplyDeleteI think tattoos are good separately. Because it is fashionable.
ReplyDeleteHiroharu
I do not feel bad about the tattoo.
ReplyDeleteThe Japanese have a strong prejudice against tattoos.
Tattoo hot springs and is something that has existed since ancient times in Japan.
I think they should compromise with each other to be able to co-exist.
miya
I think Japanese people are thinking "tattoo is just use yakuza," so onsen and sent write "no tattoo." But I think little tattoo is ok, because other countries many people have little tattoo and it is natural.
ReplyDeleteMasae
If I am small TATTOO, I will think that it is good.
ReplyDeleteI have a TATTOO. Since I am small TATTOO, not putting into a hot spring is sad.
However, I think that putting in many TATTOO does not have a good impression.
Tae
The tattoo will not be so good. However, I think that I do not have any problem if it is the place where it is hard to seem that I am small.I do not want to enter together with a bath.
ReplyDeleteTaihei
I think tattoo is not problem. It is Individual freedom. Japanese is stubborn.
ReplyDeleteMaki
I think put in a tatoo is individual freedom.But It is disagree that ink goes into a onsen.
ReplyDeletetattoo is scary to watch.
ReplyDeletetattoo people is almost outlaw image
so but japanese culture
I don't want to do.
ReplyDeleteBut it's cool.Yumi