Resubmissios Essay

Throughout this essay I will be discussing the skills that I need to work on with it being personal skills and skills that pertain to writing essays. And I will be discussing personal strengths, weaknesses and capabilities that would feed into me being a better writer. Lastly, I will be going over the things I will do to improve my strengths, weaknesses and capabilities in order to become a writer.

            Before this class I didn’t realize that there are skills that I need to improve.  For example, when writing I can be nonchalant and not too much of a perfectionist. Those are qualities that should not go together but they are two major things that sometimes have a negative effect on my performance. When I bring up being nonchalant I don’t mean completely being careless. I mean that by when I am in writing and something isn’t right, or I’m confused about something I don’t want help. I want to figure my problems out by myself which affect my work load. So, when it comes to being nonchalant that is something I need to work on because when writing an I see my grade outcome I really care, and it is way harder to fix things at the last minute.                      There is a lot of room for me to work on my strengths, weaknesses and capabilities. I can work on my strengths by being more dependable in when it seems like the situation is impossible and not giving up as easily. I can work on being more responsible and courteous by making sure I improve eon getting assignments in on time. I can fix my weaknesses while writing by asking for input and not being scared. And when it comes to improving my capabilities, I can improve using my resources by listening to my teacher and asking her she finds her resources, and about the different ways on how she chooses to find resources and use them in a way that it still understanding to readers.

            In conclusion, I may have the good and bad skills of being nonchalant, introvert, and Scared to ask question. Which has its good and bad effects but with the right improvements they will result to the fundamentals of being a good writer. Same with my strength, weaknesses and capabilities. My strengths contain of having a creative mind, not using words to big when writing an essay. My weaknesses consist of time management, being an introvert and being Shy at times to much which negatively affect time when writing. Lastly, my capabilities I’m capable of coming up with a lot of innovative ideas due to my creativity and I am great at projects and handling different topics, and   due to me being able to handle a wide variety of topics I am usually confident about my outline when constructing an essay. But, with having all of those trait and skills there is always room for improvement. And I feel if I can improve every last one those, it will make me into a successful writer.

Blog Post 4 Resubmission, "Our Sweet Hypocritical Grandmother" by Kyra Moore

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner I would argue was undoubtedly one of the most context heavy stories that we have read in this class thus far. I would also argue that it is the most intriguing story that we have read as I feel it has no clear or concise moral theme. She addresses a number of topics such as our prison system and its effects on it inhabitants, family dynamics and Christianity. Although she alluded to a number of concepts, the one that stuck with me the most is the concept of Christianity. O’Conner used the character of the grandmother and her persona in the story to speak on, or allude to, a number of concepts as it pertains to Christianity such as hypocrisy and the use of the religion.

In researching the personal life of Miss O’Conner, I found that her and her family were devout practicing Catholics. With this being said, this leads me to believe that she may be speaking of accounts that may be specific to her interactions with Christians and Christianity. Speaking on that matter, Abbie C. Harris in “”Jesus Thrown Everything Off Balance”: Grace and Redemption in Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,”” says that “her [speaking of O’Conner] stories bring to life a land overflowing with churches and self-proclaimed Christians, where religion is present everywhere, but rarely practiced in its true form.”

I actually primarily read this story in a college credit English course in high school. It is not until I was forced to further look at the literary work with an analytical eye that I noticed what O’Conner could have been saying about Christianity. The prominent character that can be associated with Christianity in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is the grandmother.

Within the work, we are not aware that the grandmother is a Christian at all in the beginning of the story. Ironically, when the reader is fully aware of the religion of the grandmother is when she is in a high anxiety situation such as her looking face to face with death. In fact, we are made aware numerous times that she is immensely concerned with her appearance being “lady-like” before we are aware of the religion that she practices. O’Conner even goes as far as to say in the beginning of the story, “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.” Ironically enough, as we see in the story, it is not her appearance or apparel that she uses to try to bring her out of a fate of death but it is her religion that she uses as an agent. When the grandmother realizes that she may be subject to death, she says things to the Misfit such as “If you would pray, Jesus would help you” and “that’s when you should have started to pray,” speaking of a particular time in the Misift’s life. Another time when the grandmother could not think of anything else to say when faced with adversity in the story she said, “pray, pray, pray.”

I think this is the phenomenon that O’Conner was trying to bring awareness to- the fact of putting Christians portraying themselves in a prominent manner but puts their religion on the backburner until it’s convenient for them. This is exactly the hypocrisy that we see in the grandmother, she only practices her religion primarily when she is faced with adversity. Abbie C. Harris in “”Jesus Thrown Everything Off Balance”: Grace and Redemption in Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,”” solidifies this by saying “This land of Christianity in turn becomes a land of hypocrisy, where people strive for respectability, ignore Biblical teachings and only act as “Christ followers” when it benefits them.” This quote perfectly illustrates the character of the grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”

Overall, in this story we can take a number of different angles as it pertains to Christianity, as O’Conner designed it to be, but the concept of hypocrisy and backburner Christianity is what stood out to me most. It also had a substantial amount of evidence to support the claim. In researching O’Conner and analyzing this literary work of hers, it entices me to read what other claims does she make throughout her works.

Scholarly Source:

https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/papersandpubs/vol3/iss1/5/

Fear of Death X The Under Representation of Minorities Within the Healthcare System Post 1 Group C

Fear is something that lurks deep in the mind of living things everywhere. Each individual, which is not limited to humanity, has a fear of something. That thing may be spiders, the dark, clowns, etc. Something that I fear is death. There is a saying that there are only two things guaranteed in life. Those are death, and taxes. That is an irrefutable fact. Death comes for everyone it does not discriminate, and you never know when it will strike.

This is something that many people today fear. Dying is even becoming common in the inner-city area where minorities are mainly located. There are diseases and illnesses that affect millions every year such as HIV and AIDS, and the failure of organs within the bod. A large percentage of people within the united states die from not being able to afford healthcare and the underrepresentation within the healthcare system. Many people besides myself fear dying, and in my own opinion, it is not the fact that it is unavoidable, but the fact that you never know when it will come for you. The unpredictability of being able to be doing your normal everyday routine, and your life ends in a snap.

The Health Care industry is worth billions of dollars and affects citizens. In American history, there have been several instances where minorities have died from simple disadvantages within health care. The several disadvantages such as they are uninsured, unrepresented, and discriminated against within healthcare system. The discrimination against minorities started all the way from slavery days in the republic and still affect minorities today. Thomas Jefferson, in Notes on the State of Virginia, wrote about lung differences between slaves and white colonists. Jefferson described many physical distinctions to justify the condition of slaves in the republic, and one was “a difference of structure in the pulmonary apparatus”. The interest in modern spirometers did not start until the 1840 in Europe after John Hutchinson, a London-based physician, published several studies.  The physician Hutchinson, described the technical features of the spirometer and its potential applications. Spirometry are commonly used to test how good your lungs work. The spirometry measures how much air you inhale. The devices used to help you keep your lungs healthy after medical procedures such as a patient receiving a surgery or when you have a lung illness (Orenstein).  The Doctors use the spirometer to measure lung capacity automatically make “corrections” for the patient’s race (Orenstein).  Research was done in the late 1990’s where African- American children were taller and heavier but had lower lung function (Braun). African Americans were poorer and had lower levels of the antioxidant vitamins A and C and α-carotene. Poverty, nutrition, and exposure to tobacco smoke may affect lung development (Braun). Users of the spirometer indicate that many operators are unaware that they are automatically activating race correction when they select a patient’s race (Braun).  The correction for blacks is reduced by about 13 percent of the normal settings for whites. It is crazy to go back and see that black and white lungs differ has a long history dating to the early years of the US slavery-based republic.

Minorities have been targeted in research and largely affected. Moreover, minority populations are not represented equally within the Health care industry. If, the United states doesn’t come up with a plan, to make better health insurance and policies the same problems will remain. physicians will keep having the ability to discriminate against unserved patients within healthcare system.  The percentage of people who die from health circumstance will always be high for minorities, and the rate people die from thing such as heart failure will stay high for the urban communities. The reason African Americas, and Latinos have more health problems are not from a genetic difference, it is because the discrimination they receive and underrepresentation within the healthcare system           

Fearing death is one thing, but along with that comes the strength to overcome that fear as well. Life waits for no man, and will continue to flow down its long stream, and does not stop for those who inhabit it. That is no way to live. Being able to live with your fears are something that humans must be able to do.  Death is a very scary thing. It is not a slasher movie murderer, or a scary monster that lives under your bed. It is much more real than those, and it is absolute.

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