Friday, November 12, 2010

Girls and Boys

In Scott Sander's essay, On Looking at Women, the author provides explicit detail to what he tries to say. He talks about women not as just beautiful girls, but talks about their unique style, walk, and appearance. It all started with him as a teenage boy who was then introduced to the beauty of women, in their physical aspect. But Sanders said everything much more better and the way I view girls, in a intellectual and honest manner. He described them from being girls to women who expose themselves in a seducing manner. Now this essay contained many thins that are obscene, but he talks about what he felt and thought about when looking or thinking about girls. It's unbearable not to look when a rather charming young woman sits or walks past a guy. A guy will always look and have their own opinions about girls, but I could relate to Sanders in the way that I don't just see a girl's appearance, but rather I think to myself, " Well why is she wearing that?" Or " Is she a good girl?"
Now this is a problem that I have when writing my essay on cause and effect. I stop and think too much and then again, I don't know what to say and feel as though I already said the things, but I'm repeating myself. I also wish to do the same thing Sanders does when describing girls, but for me i chose to write a cause and effect paper on how girls are the main attractions in clubs and how men fall for them.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

insight on essay

Cause and effect essay in the Norton Reader is "The Clan of One-Breasted Women" by Terry Tempest Williams, this essay is personal and showing that due to the nuclear testing grounds in Nevada, Utah, where atomic bombs were “thrown” the women in Terry’s family along with other women children and men were affected by the testing. The testing affect was that these people in a couple of year had a from of cancer and later died. But cancer and later death was not the only form of cause and effect that was in this essay. Terry also spoke how due to the fact that she was a Mormon she was to respect authority, in this case the government, “obedience is reserved, and independent thinking is not” (359.) Terry was not able to question why the government was allowing the nuclear testing to keep testing, seeing the cases of cancer and deaths are in that area even though there is no specific link to the cancer and the atomic bombs. The affect was that the terry finally go tired of sitting back and finally stood up and questioned and went against authority. Terry gives a lot of description and she places you at that moment being able to see what she was seeing at that moment. She clearly is able to state what the two causes where and how they affected her as time went by.             

Susan Allen Toth's : Classification Essay on "Going to the Movies"

Susan Allen Toth express her discontentment of the way men take relationship's by classifying different men which accompany her to the movies. Men who go with her to the movies are not worried to much about what she needs instead they all seem to looking out for themselves. The authors finalizes her essay "On Going to the Movies" by alluding that she is looking for a person who is also worried about what she feels and that values her opinion when she describes her experience "on going to the movies." One essential aspect that Toth classifies is  the type of movies. 
Toth goes to the movies by herself to see musicals. These musicals make her dream of what she could of been and also of what could be. The movies she watches have to end "happily". Toth ends this essay by saying "In the movies I go to by myself, the men and women always like each other. "(608)  This is a very powerful statement to make because she implies that she is looking for a man that likes her and that she has been wasting her time with all the men she has had any relations with. She goes to the movies with various men who choose what they want to see instead of asking her opinion. This seems really odd because these men are basically just going by themselves. The seek her physical company but other than that she is just a stranger who happens to be sitting next them. There is no emotional connection. These men would obviously not want to watch a romantic movie with the author because that would imply something different to her. 

This essay appears in  The Norton Reader: Shorter Tenth Version

Analyze, Analyze, Analyze

Scott Russell Sanders’ essay Looking At Women is an adequate representation of a cause and effect essay. He clearly illustrates the causes of looking at women. For example: he descriptively describes what women wear, how they walk, and the way their hair sways as the walk. He claims women dress up and get dolled up so that men may look at them. He uses personal anecdotes to describe why he looks at women. He illustrates how when he was smaller he noticed a women who “ as [his] mother would say, had just been poured into her pink shorts” (132). This caused the big, impacting effect that has been with him throughout his whole life. The reason I know that this special incident has effected him periodically is because he keeps bringing it up.
The most improtant thing he does is analyze at the end of his essay. This is one thing I struggle with when writing my cause-and-effect essay. I get stuck on stating the causes and effects that I forget to analyze and show the process and how it effected me. At the end of his essay you can almost see his thoughts while reading. You can see how he analyzes and thinks about his topic and what he wrote about. It seems as if he discovers something while writing his essay.

More Like Catton

In "Grant and Lee: A Study In Contrast" Bruce Catton begins by introducing us with both off the essays main topics. He states their similar goal which is to bring an end to the Civil War. The structure in which he writes this compare/contrast essay, is by giving us a solid background, their personalities and aspirations. This comparison helps me, the reader, understand both men separately before jumping to any conclusions of my own. He tries to set his point on how these men's ideals are different but still doesn't deny the fact that they're truly much alike.
      His structure plays a major role on how effective this compare/contrast essay really is. By then contrasting both men, to their full extent, we can clearly see how they differ. Only by his description of character is he truly able to set them apart. If it wasn't for the detail in his writing, this essay could just be any other vague failure. 


Classify my man

In " Going T o The Movies", Susan Toth uses the style and structure of classification to convey its purpose by grabbing the attention of the audience. In order to get her point across she classifies the dates she went on as well as herself to prove that they are different and to show that each date can be classified. She first begins to classify her dates by who pays when they go to the movies. She begins with Aaron who is a "dutch treat" which means that she has to pay for herself. while the other dates she has are the same or pay for themselves.The pupose of her writing who pays for what is that she wants to show how even though she has gone on plenty dates they are not all the same. These men all fall in diffrent categories. Another way that she shows this is by showing us (the readers) the same date with different men and herself. the way that she is with them weather it be touching or not touching,buying snacks or not , or even paying for things.The reason i feel that this essay is so unique is because she shows classification by having the same dates at the same plays and just showing how different each date is.
  

Grant vs. Lee = Vegeta vs. Goku!

Comparing and contrasting is what Bruce Catton showed in his essay called "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts". What did he do that showed comparison?He did a very good job in describing where they came from and how they were raised. He stated that "Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition....He embodied a way of life that had come down through the age of knighthood and the English country squire." Here Bruce tells us where Lee was born and how his surroundings were. He tells us that he was raised in an environment such that one would have in England with knights and it shows that Lee was probably rich in English culture. Comparing him to Grant, Catton tells us that "Grant, te son of a tanner on the Western Frontier, was everything Lee was not. He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains." This explains to the reader that Grant was raised in the Western part of the United States. This also tells us that Grant was raised in the mountains and more in the wildlife. This helps the reader understand that Catton is trying to state that two different people that were raised completely different and born into different environment come together and become some of the most important historical figures in this great Conflict. Their leadership skills are different but yet they are both fighting to get what they want and have achieve so much. By reading this essay I thought of how to do my essay. I thought of a creative way to do it. I, for sure, wanted to compare two people. And in a way I thought of fighting by what Grant and Lee did. Therefore I chose to do two males that fight but were born in different environments and raised differently but then again brought together to fight for something they want. I chose Goku and Vegeta from DragonBall Z. I compare them by strength and perseverance. Bruce Catton helped me by deciding on what I wanted to compare and how. I decided to do it with a story mode. It was easier to do it this way. But re-reading Catton's essay it makes me want to change it a bit and talk more about what each character does and how they were raised a bit more.

Look at That Chassis

The author of, "Looking at Women", uses cause and effect to effectively explain to the readers why men look at women. So he tells us about the girl that his friend said had the nice "chassis" and then he explains to us how he began to understand why friend looked at women the way that he did. He went on throughout the explain what different things caused for him to examine the way men looked at women. He explain all these things but he ended just where he began; with the girl in the pink shorts. He used practical examples that all of his readers could relate to one way or another. He kept the readers attention by not drifting to deeply into any of his examples. He kept his essay interesting and didn't use to few or too many examples.

More Than Just Fighters

In the essay, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast", by Bruce Catton the differences of the two men (Grant and Lee) went beyond more than just what they fought for. Although Catton describes these men along with their styles of reaching their goals he also portrays their ways of being from the beginning. This essay is very informative, but it accomplishes to describe and not in a dull manner. The essay begins with a brief introduction and soon switches off to describe each man individually. Catton begins in their line of duty and what they do and yet is still able to go as far back to take a glimpse at how these men were raised. The author writes in a way that the reader feels the emotion of the mens' beliefs and hardships.
The feeling of the reader is able to shift gradually but quickly from one emotion to a completely different one through Catton's gentle transitions. He wrote about Lee first and was able to shift from Lee to Grant so smoothly it was as if they were standing right in front of you and they are introducing themselves to you. The essay is personal. It is not just a general idea of the two men; you get two know the men as more than just fighters. Catton compares the men and then introduces them separately with enough detail to understand their ways of fighting which was stated in the first three paragraphs: he analyzed. Although Catton does analyze the way the two men differ it does not feel like there is a huge gap when transitioning from the personality of one men to the other. They way the descriptions are presented gradually transitions into describing the differences of another. The fact that Catton does not just list and analyzes is one way he keeps the readers attention, but he also separated the paragraphs enough to not scare the reader away. There are about two medium length paragraphs and the rest are pretty small. Although the other paragraphs are pretty short they keep the readers attention because there is small point being stated in one and it's breakdown of the point is spread amongst other following paragraphs.
Writing about historical figures in a captivating way can be difficult because there are so many facts. There is a solution to that and Catton was able to accomplish that. He filled the essay with many facts, but he also fit in the reasons. The facts are not just stated in a list; they are stated then followed by his descriptions: he analyzes. It gives the reader a captivated and secretly informs them about history in an entertaining way. Catton's writing is the opposite of that of a textbook. His essays are graciously informative and I actually learned something about these two men without being bored to sleep and ending up forgetting everything about the two once I put the essay away. It made me think about how I was raised and how some events and routines that have gone on in my life have effected the way I am as a person. It is almost as if this was a history lesson with a checklist about personality attached to it. At the end of the essay I saw these two men as more than just people who are remembered because of something big they did which was a result of their background as well as what they were fighting for.

Categories Leading to the Point

In "Going to the Movies" (p 606 in The Norton Reader)by Susan Allen Toth, Toth places her experiences in categories when describing her dates. By placing her dates and her experiences in categories, she proves to her audience that sometimes it's better to be alone than with bad company. Toth had more fun because she could eat and watch whatever she wanted to, rather than being forced compromise because the other person might not enjoy that type of movie.

Toth uses a set structure when describing her dates. She focuses on one and explains every detail about him, then moves on to the next, and so on. She explains how her dates make her feel by the things they do and don't do. Her structure is easy to see which makes her point hard to find because it's an easy essay to read. Since it's easy to read, we get the sense that something is being left out. It makes you want to look back and re-read the essay to find her point. The point is so obvious thats it makes it hard to find.

Toth focuses on things like habits her dates have while watching a movie, what they eat(if anything), where they park, and what kind of film they see. These are the categories that branch off from her main point. When she places her dates habits in each category, it leads us to the point she is trying to prove. She leaves her experience when going to the movies by herself, in the end, because she already established the "bad"dates so now she will end with the 'ideal" going to the movies experience. The point ,or thesis, is usually found in the beginning of an essay, but Toth decides to place it in the end. She has to place it in the end because after all that classifying, she has to come to a conclusion of what she is trying to prove.

Classification=Epiphany

My essay "Suitors" is supposed to be a classification essay. It is not as good as Susan Allen Toth's classification essay "Going to the movies", but I do manage to classify my point.
The purpose of using classification in an essay is to organize the material so that it can be easier to analyze and explain. As a writer, you use this categories to usually justify or explain your thesis. These categories are almost like examples/ proof. By the end of your essay in your conclusion paragraph, the writer realizes what he/she was trying to say all along but that is really deeply hidden in the thesis. In other words, the thesis says what you want to say, but it really reveals something else about the reader.
For example in "Going to the movies", Toth classifies the movie dates (types). She has four different cases when she goes to the movies. The first three she goes with different guys, and the last case she goes alone. She uses categories like economics (who pays), transportation, type of movie, body language, chemistry (i.e. touching), snacks, and post-movie experience. Throughout the essay, the reader get the sense of the different type of guys she's goes with and how she feels. In the last paragraph when she talks about going to the movies by herself, we find out what she really wants. While describing the type of movies she likes, which are movies that end happily, she writes "At the end of Daddy Long Legs I wait happily for the scene when Fred Clark, no longer angry, at last pours Thelma a convivial drink. The smile at each other, I smile at them, I feel they are smiling at me. In the movies I go to by myself, the men and women always like each other" (Peterson, Brereton, and Hartman 608). With this last sentence, the reader finds out the purpose of her categories. We figure out what she really wants, and that is nothing to what she is getting. To some extent she likes going to movies by herself, but she also wants the perfect partner to go with her.
In my essay, I really was inspired with what she wrote. I like coming to the conclusion with what you really want all by yourself (having that epiphany feeling). I wrote about some of the different types of suitors I have encountered. I think what I am really trying to get at is describing the perfect man, who I have not encountered.

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Peterson, Linda H., John C. Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman. The Norton Reader. Shorter 10th ed. United States of America: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000. Print.

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How can I "Compare" to that

The style and information that the essay "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"uses is unique. It doesn't abide by the rules. This essay is a lawbreaker because it does what it wants in the way it believes should be done. It's approach is distinct from ordinary Compare and Contrasts essays. Compare and Contrasts essays usually follow one of two formats. Format one is when you compare the two topic in the same paragraph, keeping in mind of what you are comparing them for. So, essentially you have multiple paragraphs with the two "items" in each one. Format two is when you compare two topic in separate paragraphs. Usually, there are an even number of paragraphs for each topic. Using a different style/approach of this type of essay, Bruce Catton is able to gets its purpose across and unlike the ordinary Compare/ Contrast essay, this essay uses different amounts of paragraphs on each topic.

Unlike my compare/ contrast essay, this one has a point. It's purpose is to compare two historic figures that changed the course of the United States of America. They had a major affect on our nation and their actions can be a factor that shaped it today. Catton chose to compare these two to analyze how they were raised and how it affected their views and actions on things.

Compared to a Dark child

The essay I have chosen to pursue once again is the comparison essay. I have abandoned my old idea and have decided to write about being a dark child. I shall compare the reality and actuality of being a dark child to the perceptions and fabrications of what a dark child really is. It uses comparison because first it will define what the term dark child actually means. Then it will be taking my personal experiences as a dark child and breaking them down into why I might have had these personal experiences in the first place. Secondly it will taking what people think a dark child is and not only stating it but advancing forward to where it shows why these non-dark children would think like this in the first place. It will mostly in the beginning be defining what a dark child is because there is more to a dark child than the color of his skin and not many people know that which is an assumption of the non-dark child. I intend to possibly use some lines from a poem called "Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty. The poem should be displayed below.His words somewhat convey the essence of a dark child.

"Going To The Movies" - My analysis

The AP book says that the purpose of writing a classification essay is that through categorizing your topics to form a central thesis, we're are supposed to learn something we didn't expect to get out of the essay through an analysis. We're supposed to define our categories and what they mean to us and analyze to explain something to ourself.

In the classification essay, "Going To The Movies," the author, Susan Allen Toth, wrote about her experiences of going to the movies with different dates and compared them back to her own experience of going to the movies by her self. She analyzes throughout the essay and gets her point across, through classifying, that she wants a movie like type of date where they both like each other and care about each other deeply. Throughout her experiences, she always finds something wrong about her dates but she doesn't say it directly, she lets us figure it out through analyzing the experiences she classifies. She makes it clear that with all of her experiences she is always pleasing the date instead of herself and them pleasing her. Through her classifying each of her dates, she lets the reader know what kind of date experience she is looking for. All of her dates didn't care about her and they just worried about what they wanted and not so much of what she wanted.

I believe Toth used classification to explain what she wants through categorizing each of her dates to better explain to us that she wants better than what she has already had, but more so she wants someone to care about her and what she wants for once, similar to the experience she has with herself while fantasizing at the chick flick movies she watches. She wants an experience like the one's in love movies.

This relates to the way I wrote my classification essay because I just mocked her style of classifying, but in my essay I classified cars. I did so by breaking my essay into four parts: my car right now, the truck I want, and the little car I should get. Within each of the paragraphs I did as Toth did by explaing the qualities and experiences of being with the cars, just as she did with her dates. I explained three components within each paragraph: the feeling I get when I'm driving it, the expenses that it would cost me, and the opinions of me and my parents on the car I should get.

What my paper is lacking is the analysis, and this is so because after reading Toth's essay she left the analyzing for the reader and just wrote her classification, so I did the same. When I revise my essay, I'll be sure to explain why I'm classifying these cars and explain that the type of vehicle I have has a lot to do with my style, and I'll do so in my conclusion paragraph where I'd be analyzing.

Clubbing Causes Happiness

I chose to redo my cause and effect paper all over again, even though it has a lot of errors and I can improve the way I word it. What I want to talk about is how clubs can provide happiness to people. Many elements fall into this, but the main reason are the girls and the music. If it weren't for girls, clubs would be boring. I mean guys wouldn't go to clubs to go see other guys, but what makes a good clubbing experience is having a girl dance with you and have music in the background. If music wasn't available then meeting a girl would be impossible and one lost their chance to meet a good companion.Girls, with their dresses and steady dance movements just catch my eye. Its not like I don't see girls everyday, but girls in the club are typically more crazier, but also good dancers. Clubs help men and women come together to enjoy a nice evening while listening to music and dancing to a favorite song with a beautiful woman. not that they are provocative, but they just display their best features, everything from how they use their make up, their hair, their choice of dress or tight jeans and their heels. A woman's appearance is what defines who she is that night and if the music is right she is the prey from gazing eyes. It's a wonderful moment when a guy asks a girl out to dance and just have a good time, listening to the songs that determine the way they move or spin. I especially like to take out girls, not only for their good looks, but I know that if the right song is being played I can show off my skills and get to know her even more. If I'm interested in one woman, I try to convince her to dance. and if I'm permitted, I know she won't regret the dance or me.

The Essay Like Mine

So I wrote a cause and effect essay, and because everyone helped me edit it up, I'm revising it. I was given a cause and effect essay to tell me how I should write mine, and it was called "Looking At Women." It was a long and arduous read, partly because I found it hard to understand, but in the end, I was helped along to comprehension by the discussion my classmates held. The essayist is very descriptive with his thoughts, which I am not used to because it leads to a lot of words that I have to read while he pins down his thought. He asks a very good question, which is why do men look at women, and how should men look at women? His first point is that men are hardwired to look at women. That is the way we are, and the greatest men of the age have been just men. He uses examples, both personal, when he explains his thoughts on Playboy models, and political, when he mentions Jimmy Carter, to show his point, which is that everyone feels lust. He concludes the section by explaining that he bears the responsibility of what he does with his desires. His next section deals with the female part of things: why do women make themselves desirable? They get dolled up, wear tight and/or revealing clothing, compete for title of prettiest in a certain area. His argument for this one is that regardless of what the woman is wearing, the desire of a prettied-up woman is this: to be seen as art. Men should look at women the same way we look at Picasso or Dali. His third point is that it is simply wrong to look at women like they are simply objects of desire. It makes women easier to handle for the man looking, and that's why it happens. However, it's wrong for women to turn themselves into objects, and it's wrong for men to look at them like they are objects. He concludes with his personal idea: that there is desire in his genes and women all around him, and his responsibility is to look at women the way they deserve to be looked at.
Works Cited:
Sanders, Scott Russel. "Looking At Women." The Norton Reader: an anthology
of expository prose
. 'Comp'. Linda H. Peterson et. al. New York: W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc., 2000. Print.

A useful comparison of Grant and Lee

Bruce Catton does a great job of using compare and contrast wisely to get his point across in his essay, "Grant and Lee: A study in Contrasts". He clearly describes who each character was and what he stood for. Then, at the end he goes on to analyze the importance comparing these two important figures.

In order to understand how he uses compare and contrast to get his point across, we first have understand what his point is. He compares Grant and Lee to show how two very different men were able to come together - in a room- and decide the future of America. They each had their strong opinions of what they each stood for, and what they each wanted was at two opposite ends of the spectrum. Yet with all these differences, they were able to unite America back again. His message is that having to different opinions doesn't have to be a bad thing. When trying to decide the future of our country these two men surely had some conflicts but because they were different, they were able to analyze the two different options and chose the best one.

Even thought he leaves the analysis at the end, at the beginning he does mention his purpose for comparing and contrasting. This helps with getting his point across because, as we read his comparative essay, we have his argument on the back of our minds.

He also gets his point across by painting an image of each character. He describes where each of them grew up and what affected their way of thinking. Catton does this in an organized fashion. He first describes to us Lee's background and opinion and then he moves on to Grant.

Overall, he has clear image of what he is trying to get across and he is able to transmit this clearness on to us.

Catton: The Writing Rebel

Bruce Catton is a writing rebel. When he writes his essay he doesn't follow the typical a,b,c order that is "the right way to do it", where Topic A has sample 1 and 2, and where Topic B is followed by sample 1 and 2... and so on.

Catton follows a structure of his own. It is very different yet very organized and easy to follow. For example he doesn't state his thesis until the third paragraph and he divides each paragraph to specifically talk about each person (Grant and Lee). Since he is talking about historical figures he begins by talking about what was happening at the time to set the reader in place and give them some brief knowledge about what was happening.

The body of the essay mostly talks about each historical figure in their own way. Each paragraph talks about their backgrounds, their views towards the war, and what they represented. It isn't until the last paragraphs where Catton actually begins to compare and contrast and analyze both of the generals side by side.

In this essay, Catton is arguing that both of these generals have very distinct backgrounds. Both were raised with different lifestyles, yet, they grew up to have the same mission. They were both brought in history and ended up doing something greater for the country which was to bring peace and end the war.

Catton uses this technique in order to show how two very different characters or what ever is to be compared can be similar and come to a common conclusion.

On "Looking at Women"

How does Scott Russell Sanders use cause and effect analysis to get his perspective across in "Looking at Women"? That's an interesting question, you see, because I don't know. To answer this question you first have to ask, "What is Sanders' purpose/perspective?". Well, Sanders is, in a sense, trying to answer the question of, "How should men look at women?". The problem for readers is that his essay doesn't answer the question with a clear and direct answer, which is okay for such an open ended question. Sanders instead describes how men look at women then answers why they look at women. He also describes what women think of men looking at them and how it further effects their actions. The causes and effects that he provides illustrate the problem that men looking at women are causing women to feel like objects or pieces of meat; makes them what to become like pieces of art or toys for men to play with. Showing the effects of looking at women answers the question of, "How should men look at women?". The rest is up o the readers discretion. If they believe the effects are wrong then they will find the answer to be that men should not look at women the way that they do so now.

Classifying to elighten

Anyone can classify or categorize; people do so in their daily routines at school or the workplace. Categorizing with style, though, is something only a few can do. Susan Allen Toth's "Going to the Movies" is a perfect example of this. She classifies the different elements that make up going on a movie date- the type of guy, type of movie, and the interaction between themselves- and uses 3 different dates to represent different categories of movie dates.

Toth doesn't only point out the positives attributes that these 3guys have, she also discusses their downsides. With the exception of Aaron, who doesn't appear to have any good date qualities, Toth points out what these guys do during the date, avoiding bias. A perfect example is Bob, "Inside the theater Bob will hold my hand when I get scared if I ask him. He puts my hand firmly on his knee and covers it completely with his own hand. His knee never twitches"(Toth Paragraph 5). At this point, many readers would think that she would simply keep listing all the positive things that Bob has, but in the next paragraph she addresses how Bob refused to stay for one more drink after a movie because "relationships tend to move too quickly".

Toth does the same thing with the other guys, listing their characteristics and what sets them apart from each other. For example, while Bob likes to watch more documentary-style movies about war, poverty, and other social problems, Sam likes to watch entertaining movies. Again, Toth starts to describe several things about Sam that make him interesting, but then she plays the cards down as explains how he has another girlfriend Duluth. Toth is trying to say that there is no perfect match, up to this point.

In her last paragraph, Toth describes how she sometimes goes to the movies on her own and watches romantic films. Instead of categorizing what she does at the movies, she categorizes what the characters do in the romantic movies- "They smile at each other, I smile at them, I feel they are smiling at me." Toth puts herself in the female character's role in the movies, wishing that it was her living the dream. Toth is trying to convey how a perfect date is only seen in movie films, not in real life.

Toth categorizes all the 3 guys to somehow represent three different kinds of men in America. By explaining what each men does, Toth shows the reader how men do both good and bad things, in the dates. This way, categorizing the actions does the job of telling the whole story instead of her having to explain how she doesn't like the guy. Since, to Toth, there is a right way to do things (most likely what people do in the romantic films she watches on her own), Toth is showing how most guys don't do enough to make her completely happy.

Objection, please.

Reading Looking At Women by Scott Sanders is a deep analytical, Cause And Effect essay about how men look at woman or as the author puts it, " How should a man look at women?". The author gets his points across points across by giving us examples of women in culture. He uses franchise names such as Playboy, Miss America pageant, Greek Goddesses, famous erotic novelists, paintings and so on. Each example gives us a better view at the points he's making. Let's take for example the Greek Goddesses. Sanders writes that women arouse the interest of men in the way they dress. He gives the example of a goddess lolling around in her long white, chiton gown. It's man-like, he justifies for men to notice the beauty because she's just there for everyone to see. This is how much of the essay is formulated. Question, answer and explanation. The most important part of this essay is the question itself, “How should men look at women?”. He goes by answering this question by getting into his male persona, and others. Yes, all men ogle at woman for one reason and another but it's not always to make them feel uncomfortable though for most of human history, it can't be said the same. Women were built differently, shaped to be beautiful that any man would want to take back home. Even the most novel of men who are not “lusting” have thoughts of looking at women. It's all genetics he resolves to at the end.

Overall, the concept of men looking at women is a topic many will have different positions on. Sanders gives his own perspective and reasoning behind this. He also gives a minor perspective how women feel when thousands of men look at them. They become an object not a person. It can almost relate to slavery. Men objectify women and it might be on purpose but anatomy does not allow men to not notice.

The Norton reader: an anthology of nonfiction prose

Linda H.Peterson - John C.Brereton - Joan Hartman - W.W. Norton - 2000


How to compare

The comparison essay is the one that has proven to be the hardest for me because of the analysis that distinguishes it from a regular classification essay. The example provided was an essay written by Bruce Catton that compares to of the greatest American historic figures, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee tittled "Grant and Lee: A study in Contrasts". In this essay, Catton compares the men by analyzing the the ideals they represent. Catton makes Grant and Lee the incarnation of the North and the South during the Civil War.

Catton describes each man's characteristics independently of each other but in a way that clearly shows how polar these two standpoints are though the men themselves exemplify similar characteristics such as their ability to fight, to think, and to virtue. Catton doesn't just categorize the two men as individuals and then analyze. When you look closer at the essay you see that there is analysis all through out the essay that may have been overlooked because of the subtlety of it.

In his introduction, Catton clearly states the subject of his comparison, though he doesn't really explain his purpose for comparison. The fourth paragraph, which reads "Back of Robert E. Lee was a notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life" (213), summarizes Lee's identity in such a way that the ensuing paragraphs are meant to support it. Catton does this so that when he introduces Grant, he may describe him as "everything Lee was not" (213). Of course Catton is referring to Grant and Lee as symbols for the comparison and as people for the similarities.

This was something that I tried to imitate when began comparing George St-Pierre but failed in doing so because of the lack of analysis until the very end, by which point my comparison essay had become a classification essay.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Bruce Catton: Compare & Contrast

The writing in Bruce Catton's Grant & Lee: A Study In Contrast is a compare and contrast essay that explains the differences between the two civil war generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Because if Catton's extensive history of the civil war he has a very good overview of these two generals. He shows his knowledge over these two generals by comparing them with each other. Catton does more then just compare the two generals he also uses historical facts about the war to back up his knowledge, he also gets into the meanings behind the facts by comparing and contrasting. He analyzes the facts of the war to go into great depth behind the generals.
To really help you understand how compare/contrast work and how you can really get into the heart of the subject, this website will really help you: Compare/Contrast. Compare and contrast I feel is on of the types of writing that can really get deep into the analysis of your subject. One because iit gets you distinguishing between all  that you are comparing and it also makes you show the details in which  makes the things you are comparing different or the same. Compare and contrast essay's are hard to write because there is the chance you can go into repetition, but if you  know alot about what your writing like Bruce Catton then you can really do a good job at it.