Grammar post

Since the word contact means to squeeze together, it seems only logical that a contraction is two words made shorter by placing an apostrophe where letters have been omitted. Examples of common contractions in the English language include:
I'm: I am
Can't: can not
We've: we have
She'll: she will
He's: he is
They'd: they would
Won't: will not
Weren't: were not
Wasn't: was not
Wouldn't: would not
Shouldn't: should not
Isn't: is not
Technically speaking, contractions aren't necessary in written English. Using the full version of a word is always grammatically correct. However, there are a number of reasons why contractions do serve a valuable stylistic purpose. For example:
Contractions make your writing seem friendly and accessible. They give the appearance that you are actually "talking" to your reader.
When writing dialogue in a novel or play, contractions help reflect how a character actually speaks.
Contractions help to save space when preparing advertisements, slogans, and other written works that must be short and to the point.

America the Beautiful: What We're Fighting For

This article by Dinesh D'Souza explains a lot about how and why America is the top nation of the world. I really liked this essay because it shows the difference between America and the rest of the world and how we innovate and make things instead of being lazy and relying on things that might go out of date.

I also liked the fact that he said that many of the other countries that are communist or socialist make fanatics instead of normal working people that can reason.

Research rough draft

Evaluating Pharmaceutical Companies
Over the past decade there have been many changes to the United States economy as a whole. One of the front runners of change and innovation is the pharmaceutical industry, but many are wondering if this innovation is taking an adverse affect on the rest of the economy. One of the biggest concerns for economist and politicians is the rise in health care cost and prescription drug costs. Many people are looking to the government for help all the while looking over the pharmaceutical companies that have the biggest impact on the cost of healthcare. At some point in time we will all need prescription drugs. The owners of these companies know this very well, and they take advantage of our sickness in order to make their profit margins sky rocket. In an evaluation of some of the top pharmaceutical companies many have come to see that they fool consumers into thinking that many of the new drugs are big breakthroughs, but in reality they are the same drug we had before. These companies spend more the twice the amount of money on marketing and advertising then on the research and development of a new drug. These costs they put on the consumers backs saying they need the money to make better drugs.

Grammar Post

there are a couple of different rules for starting a new paragraph. First is if you are writing a dialogue; when you switch speakers you should start a new paragraph. Also when you are writing an essay and want to emphasis a point or change a subject you need to start a new paragraph.

I'm black, Your White,Who's Innocent by Shelby Steele

I thought that this was a well written but I didn't agree with what she said. I think that many people in America need to get over the fact that there is a lot of racism in history. We can't move forward if we are consistently looking backward.

I have lived with many different people with a lot of different backgrounds and race didn't mean anything to us. We just felt like brothers even though we looked different.

I feel like there are so many things for people to worry about now days that in order for someone to want to bring up the issue of racism is dumb. Most people don't say anything because there is nothing to talk about anymore, its a past issue.

Rough Draft for Wall-E paper

Michael Schmutz
English 2010 M & W
06/29/2009

Wall-E and Obesity
Obesity is overtaking the United States. More than 58 million people in the United States are overweight. 3 million are morbidly obese. Obesity shows a lot of problems for health care in the United States and continues to hurt the American society by causing a number of different diseases, the most common being type II diabetes (Obesity). Throughout the years many producers in Hollywood have made films to show the problems with Obesity in our nation. Wall E was produce for this purpose of showing the nation how obesity and laziness can become such a big problem that we as a people have to move off of the planet because we destroyed the environment. As the people depicted in the movie left the planet they found the easiest way to get a long in life, which made them lose a lot of muscle and bone mass, and gain a lot of fat.
In the distant but not to unrealistic future the earth is contaminated to the point that all people on earth leave in order to stay alive. The atmosphere has become so bad that only a small cockroach and robots can survive on the face of the earth. Wall E was a small robot left on the earth to clean up the trash left by the humans. When he was cleaning up trash one day a large spaceship came down and left a robot named Eve that stole Wall E’s heart. Eve was a robot sent to see if there was any kind of life growing on the earth again, so Wall E showed her a plant that he had found when he was picking up trash. Eve and Wall E were taken back to the main ship after the humans found out that they had a plant, and the humans from living in a life of luxury and watching TV all day had become little whales floating around on hovering chairs (Anonymous). Within the conflict of this movie the human beings are shown to become the most obese and overweight living thing in the universe. They were not even able to chew their own food because of the lost muscles, so they had to drink everything out of a straw.
In addition the producers not only directed and produced what might happen to mankind if we don’t change our ways of becoming obese. They illustrated the loss of bone and muscle mass that we need to do everyday things. An article in Peak Performance.com uses the “Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology” to get the facts that even for endurance athletes the two key problems are the loss of bone density and muscle mass when they get older. These issues cause them more difficulty when they try to run, swim or cycle. Also the loss in bone mass sometimes causes Osteoporsis (Bone). As shown in the movie this is the biggest problem that the humans had because they were not able to fight against the machines as they tried to take over the spaceship. The humans had lost so much of their bone structure and muscle mass that they were barely able to stand up or do anything that required physical activity.
Furthermore obesity and laziness is obviously a big problem in our society today. Wall-E shows us what could happen to us in the future if we don’t change our ways and try to take care of ourselves and the environment around us. Although Wall-E may have gone to extremes to get a good rating and make money, the problem for America is beginning to be worst than it ever was before. Men, women, and children are becoming victims of their own mouths.
One has to wonder if the blame should be on the corporate giants like McDonalds for serving us food that is very unhealthy and full of fat. Is it their fault for marketing to us poor citizens of the world and brainwashing us into thinking that their food is the best, or is it our fault for not being smarter and taking care of ourselves. Is it our fault for not taking more time to eat healthy and exercise? The Nation seriously needs to look inside themselves and believe that it is themselves and they need to not be induced by the easy way to get food, but look for the nutrition side of things. One has to think what would happen if everybody became conscious about how they spent their lives and what they ate. Would it lower the cost of health care? Would we be able to get past environmental issues? It could only get better or worse from here. We decide which it will be.



"Bone Density and Muscle Mass." Peak Performance. Sporting Excellence. 29 Jun 2009 .
"Obesity Statistics for Adults." annecollins.com. 29 Jun 2009 .
Anonymous, "Plot Summary for Wall-E." IMDbPro 2008 Web.29 Jun 2009. .

Grammar Post

Well I have learned a lesson this week that I need to post on. Chelsi said in our interview that if we use to many to be verbs than it makes the sentence lose its power. For example i wrote on one of my sentences that somebody had done something, but you can rephrase that to be like the work performed by somebody was... It sounds a lot more sophisticated, but also it packs more of a punch.