Pathos of lyrics "Runaway Love"

“Runaway Love”

            Ludacris is a very well known artist across the United States. He has won tons of awards for his music. Ludacris is also a co-founder of a record label. The genre he performs in is rap/hip-hop. Ludacris is known more as a hip-hop artist. Not all his songs talk about problems going on in the world. Some are very explicit, and can be seen as degrading to women. However, no one seems to care. Some of Ludacris’s songs are about problems that are current in the world. One of his famous songs is “Runaway Love” featuring Mary J. Bilge. It is mainly about three little girls going through a hard time in their life.  The song is for young girls who are going through this around the world and expressing they story that they are too afraid to tell.

            The first verse is about a girl name Lisa, 9 years old who is being raped by her mom’s random boyfriends. In addition, when Lisa tells her mother, she don’t believe her. So Lisa is forced pack her clothes and runaway.  The next verse is about a girl named Nicole, 10 years old, who is being abused by her alcoholic step dad. Then she finds a friend who is going through the same thing she is. However, her friend is shot in a drive by shooting and she dies. So Nicole packs her clothes and runaway. The last girl in the last verse is named Erica, 11 years old, who is having unprotected sex with a boy that is sixteen. She pops Ex pills to get rid of her pain. She finds out she is pregnant and the boys leaves. In addition, she can’t tell her mother, because she would freak out and she can’t afford abortion. So Erica packs her bags and runaway. At the end of the song, Ludacris tells them to not runaway and that he can only image what they are going through.  This song is made to tell young girls that they are not alone.     

My Writerly Biography

            My name is Jerann White. I come from Belton, Missouri. My experiences with reading and writing are not bad. In high school, my English teacher’s did not enforce to importance on reading. I read books and wrote poems outside the classroom.  Then my 1^st year in college at Longview Community College, I found that the English teacher was the same way.  All we did work on was grammar. I transfer to MWSU last fall and the English class was better prepared.  I found myself doing more reading and writing in the classroom.  I was a little sacred at first but as the class went on, I found it not as bad. What my classmates and professor need to know about me is that I don’t write my drafts in order. I sometimes start in the middle.  Then beginning followed by the conclusion. My strengths are ideas and being able to free hand my papers. My weaknesses are the thesis to a paper as a writer. However, as a reader my weakness is being able to relate to the story and comprehension. These practices excite me because I’m able to write down my thoughts and voice my opinion.    

   

Review of English 100

My review of English 100

            I believe English 100 as helped me as a writer. Before English 100, all my papers have been only a page long. My pass English classes my teachers made grammar more important than the actually paper length.  Being in English 100 this pass semester, I learned how to write an actual academic paper. I also think that after being in English 100, I have become a better reader and writer.   I’ve became a better reader and writer because being assigned to write a blog entry about what we have read helps me better understand what I have read. Having to blog our assignments   makes doing homework a lot easier. I’m able to look up and write down the questions without having to close the book. Blogging makes the class easy as well because the teacher is able to pull up our assignments. The teacher wouldn’t be able to lose papers.

            Blogging is similar to a journal because you are able to blog about things you read. You can write anything you want.  The only difference is that you write more professional in the blog verse a journal. In a journal, it is more private. Only you can read what’s put into it. The couple of things I would like to see change with this class are the peer review. I think we should can more time in class to peer review. In addition, I would like to see change is the time we have in class to work on task papers.  Those are the only things I would like to see change. 

Self-evaluation for task four

·                     What is the thesis for your paper?

My thesis for task four was why I love to read. And I found a love for reading. It wasn’t until I learned how to read that I could really understand the books.

·                     List the main points you make in your paper.

The main points in my paper were when I was a child and reading, learning how to read and  not liking to read, going to high school and finding a book that helped me love to read.

·                     What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

The most helpful advice I received from my peer evaluation is to show relation between I the two essays.

·                     What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

The most helpful information I received in class is for me to show more that I can relate to the authors.

·                     How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

I wrote two drafts. I wrote them a week before. I composed both of them at the computer. I only wrote some notes. I tried to write one whole draft but I end up only writing in small chucks.

·                     What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

I would have found more quotes and written down more examples.

·                     What are most pleased with about this paper?

I’m pleased with my introduction on my paper.

Response to "Literacy Autobiography"

Response to “Literacy Autobiography”

            My present educational story is not a good one.  I have been in school ever since I graduated high school. I was kind of forced to continue my education by my parents. My mother told me I had no other choice. I really didn’t want to start college right away. I wanted to just work and travel the states. But that is not okay with my parents.  College is not was I expected, I thought it would be a little easier. I had a couple of classes that I didn’t do so well in.  During the time I thought I was doing well, but I wasn’t. My mom was not happy about the classes I didn’t do well in.  She told me to straighten up or find somewhere to live.

            I have learned that I need to start studying harder. And not try to be like my friends, who didn’t attend college and just lived at home with no job. I also learned that college is going to get harder as I take more classes. I have time to actually decide what I want to do. I have gained that you have to be successful with what you love to do. My views changed only a little bit on education and college. My ability of doing school homework has been a challenged. Not having a very affected high school experience, I have a hard time during simple school work. So whether college is for me or not, I will always have education experiences in my life.     

Task Three

      
          The same as the students in Kozol book "Save Inequalities: Children in America's School", the inner city school I attended was mostly nonwhite. In addition, the school conditions were the same as well. I had to go to a school that had heat but wouldn't turn it on because they thought the students would stay awake during class. As the same as in the high schools in "Save Inequalities: Children in America's School", our school had students that had to live in the "ghetto" or the "dead zone".   They were the students that the teachers had no hope for.    

Why I'm at College

Why I’m at College

I’m at college because I wanted to continue my education as a young African American. In addition, I want to be successful in life. The way our economic is, you have to have a degree in a field that you know would have a guarantee job opening for you. I also chose college because I didn’t want to work a low paying job all my life. I’m at college because I didn’t want to go into the service or get a job and pay bills yet. I guess I’m in college because I wasn’t ready to grow up completely. I still wanted to learn new things that someone who teaches it is passionate about what they teach others.  I love to learn new things and being able to use them to help other people. College is a great place to help continue learning with other people who want the same thing.

I was rather forced to go to college. My parents told my younger sisters and I that we had to either go to college or join the service. They said that they wanted us to be successful and live a life without financial problems. They’re not the only reason I decided to go to college. I also wanted to get a job that will help people.  I decided to be an anesthesiologist nurse. Getting a job in the medical field is a guarantee job that I know will always have an opening.  I always wanted to have a job that is in the medical filed because I love to help people.