Smoking

What is up with smoking? I have never tried it, nor will I for 2 simple reasons. One, it kills you, and two, it irritates the hell out of people around you. I was just walking to class and a man puffing on a cigarette turned off a side street right in front of me. He was blowing smoke right in my face. I ended up walking off course a bit, just to get out of the smoke. I understand that it is addicting, but I'm not sure what people like more, death, or causing others grief.

IT WILL KILL YOU!

I don't think there is anything on God's green earth that is worth doing when the manufacture tells you "Feed us money, and we will kill you."(unless you are suicidal, but then you have other problems) If you want to go suck in fifty things that will kill you stick your face in front of your car exhaust, at least then you're only causing global warming.

Audience

When you write a paper you must consider many things. One of the most important being your audience. I have thought long and hard about a topic, and when I finally picked marriage, I found myself at an impass; I could not determine a suitable audience. After some debate I have determined to focus my audience as engaged couples. My reason for doing so is that they are who will essentially shape the future definition of marriage. They will either support (hopefully) or refute the claims made in my paper. Hopefully by choosing to write directly to the individuals that will determine the definition themselves, my paper will flow very easily, and establish a good footing from the start.

Writing a Paper

When I write a paper for English class, any English class, I never really follow any certain script. To tell you the truth I write my papers on a spur of the moment. I procrastinate more than most college students and therefore I usually wait until the last minute to type out a paper.
When I do actually start it I am usually sitting at my desk with the prompt. I answer the question first in my head, and then take a few mental notes as to how I want to go about answering the question at hand. I usually come to a block here, because when I answer the question to myself I always have a hard time inturperreting into english words other people will understand. So I end up typing a whole paragraph just off the top of my head. I go back and reread it once or twice, and then either fix it so it makes sense, or just dump the whole paragraph. I end up doing this about 3 times before I get a reasonable introduction. Then I go from there. After presenting the problem, depending on how long the paper has to be, I attempt to translate my thinkning onto the paper.
If I do anything else besides concentrate on the paper I stop writng. I get so easily distracted with anything that it is hard for me to talk to someone else. Having an IM conversation is completely out of the question, and if my phone rings I'm even more screwed.
I do however listen to music as I write. I feel it allows me to write more freely, as I think less about what I am actually putting on the paper. As a rough draft, I usually just have my thoughts written down as they flow out of my head. Then I go back and reread, using spell check.
I am terrible at grammar and spelling (you may have already caught a bunch of spelling errors here) and if I can not use spell check as a crutch, fifty percent of the words in my paper could be misspelled.
For me I have no joy in writing papers in which a topic has been asigned. It seems very chaotic for me, and it is not something I enjoy.

Motorcycles

Motorcycles are dangerous. This is a known fact among everyone, even the people that ride them. I understand this fact and want to buy one. Yet my parents are pushing me away from the idea of buying one. I understand that they are afraid of what could happen to me if I get into an accident, yet that is a risk I am willing to take. This has been my stance for the last year or so. Recently I have changed it for two reasons. One, my parents are usually right about 99% of the things I argue with them about. And 2 is something my father told me the last time I was on vacation from college. He said that he was not willing to pay any of the loans he would incur if I get hurt in an accident. I see his point. It is not really my own life that i could possibly ruin, but my friends and family as well. Do I have the right to possibly put my families future on the line because I want to have fun? My parents do not think so. I agree with this and while I still want a motorcycle, I do not foresee myself buying one anytime soon.