Amanda's Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZP5wUZmxhU&feature=plcp

Columbia Bridge Program Presentation PT.1

Video

Bridge Video

Lost In Place

Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris Soul Caliber V

Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris (Way of the Dragon)

Chuck Norris (interview about Bruce Lee)

My song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzQj-pjY1JA&feature=player_embedded 

lyrics:
Half a Mile

You saw the end in your eyes

But now there just yellow

and i don't want to leave you behind

you are the rain in this sun

you took everyone by surprise 

why should you have to die?

This, this isn't happening god why

this little boy could be a man

and they knew (2x)

that you couldn't go all the way   

In the past i won't forget you

I'll tell your story to the world

nothing seems real anymore (2x) 

You died a half a mile from our home (3x)

Cesar and your bar scene!!!

Letter to Super Cesar,




Cesar, your final response was very very VERY graphic. Your paper didn't sound like you it was as if I was thinking the same thoughts as you, on the same wavelength as you, but more imporatantly it felt as if I walked your own shoes. As a child, I picked up on my early stages of developing higher levels of thinking. "Walk in someone's shoes for a day and experience what they experience in there everyday lives". I really felt I was in your shoes expereincing what you were feeling.


Sincerely, Larthel Henry Johnson

#Amari's paper...

Good narrative flow and connection to the book, good job elaborating on how your expirience made you feel and including how the charachters must have felt. interesting to read.

Dear Amanda

 

I truly enjoyed your paper. I enjoyed the introduction and how you connected with your reader. I’ve went through similar situations where people I’ve been friends with during childhood have changed.  The evolution of change is epic in life and it’s needed to help build us. I can connect with Sarah because I wasn’t popular in high school and our experience with being under dogs has helped motivate us to pursue what we love. You have connected me to your book and actually want to read it. You sold me on the book and your great writing has done that.

Letter to Aaron

I like your paper bro you had a strong intro and a good word choice. You have great idea’s in your paper I didn’t read the book but I wanted too. You should make more context from the book in some of your paragraphs. I like how you knew the authors aesthetics and understand what she is doing because most of the people that read my book couldn’t keep up.  I like how you went deep as fuck in the last paragraph. I wish you could did that during your whole paper but you ended it well.

Letter To Patrick

In reading your paper Patrick it was very insightful into what you were trying to get the reader to understand. In putting more emotion in it made the story very intriguing from the first start. I like how you relate the book They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky to your own life and related it to issues that go on today. This made me want to read your paper more, and to add on to my own thoughts of what I could do in the situation of the book and the world today. I get the poetic, public figure vibe in reading your paper and relating it to my own life. I like your stance of not fully knowing what you would do in the character’s position. Good paper.

Dear A

Dear Aaron

I enjoyed your paper and the outlook you gave.  Your introduction is strong and you word choice is good.  Your beliefs on Acknowledging where you come from, gives a strong message to your reader. We are connected to where we’re from it plays a role in our identity.  You also help me understand Sarah. I haven’t read the book, but from your paper I see that she is passionate about her creative writing. Her passion has influenced on how I should strive for my goals. She went to different places and still kept her love for writing alive which is difficult.

anDREW "Barrymore" Fridge (LETTER)

Dear, Drew

Well I would say that you writing skill had really change. You have become more of yourself by explaining about the book, your life, and the world. Plus, you have also when in deep in your writing, because after reading you paper I though I did my COMPLETELY wrong. But any who, keep up the good work and hopefully i would hearing your music in the future.

AMANDA!!!!

Amanda, your introduction was brilliant. Even your first sentence in the paper drew me in. I like the way you didn't bring the book up right away. You kind of set a scene that we all can relate to, because we are all just getting out of high school and becoming adults. I like how you kind of set the order of your paper, you didn't jump around at all. You start off your body of the paper like "the book starts off" I like how you did that.

A letter to Ceeser.

Ceesar you had a good narrative flow and gave plenty of reference to the book. I think you could have gave more connection of the book to yourself. Good job making those references and citing them correctly. only thing i would say be more concious of is your language/word choice. try not to write exactly how you would talk.

Letter to Kat

Kat I like your essay about the bitter sweet tough love and hear my thoughts of what I think about your paper. You need to show more contexts from the book. You talk about what happens in the book but I want to hear it from the Author said of the story.  You did a great job tying in the connections from your personal experience and the character personal experience. You should be a little bit more specific because I felt like you kind of like stop after your idea but didn’t keep exploring.  Also claim it because I felt like you were getting their but didn’t uncover some of those idea’s. On the 4 page first paragraph you should of put so context from the book to make that paragraph solid. The risk you took was putting a little bit of your experience more try to balance it out.

Mackenzie

Your paper was interesting! I felt like I was reading a book. It reminded me of nicks essay when he just gave a story rather than being blunt. Was it a true story? Who was the girl? What was going through your head when you made this. I had previewed your thesis before and it totally changed Why?

Letter to Mackenzie

This paper “A Hidden Life in Familiar Places,” was probably the most intriguing paper I read so far. I like in the paper how you discuss how everyone has culture, but what really makes their culture is their personal background and how a person comes of age, and in all actuality how now one really knows each other’s culture if they do not take the time to understand. I like your stance in how “They Poured Fire on Us from The Sky”, expresses how risk is the main element in how someone survives, and how our way of survival is just as much as survival in the book, but only on different terms and circumstances. In how you relate your favorite song to the book makes it more captivating in realizing the epiphany of being insightful, and how a little more passion will always outweigh previous mistakes or even an stuck up arrogant personality. Your storytelling made it feel like I was reading a novel, especially in the intro and conclusion. I think I can agree with you about how sometimes with people, including myself, are sometimes consumed in ourselves and cannot remember the important issues that help us understand culture to better situations. In understanding your paper I would say, even when people can or can’t figure out our culture, it’s important to open up then criticize. Good paper.

Scotty VS. DBZ?

Letter to Scotty



I really found it interesting to have a chance to read your paper because of the vivid images that you wrote in the book. First off how you made the clear connection to DBZ, do you remember the battle between Goku and Frieza? And remember when Goku went super sayian? Everyone at my school the next day was hyped over that episode on Toonami at around like 4pm. Those images painted a real vivid picture of when I was a kid. Trying to remember childhood memories gets harder slowly when you get older and older. Sticking to childhood events are somethiing to be treasured and I would love to read anymore comparsions that you woud come up with in the near future of your writing techniques. Scotty, in the near future, I hope your writing develops into an even stronger structure than this. Always fight for the top spot and never settle for second best. Capture the readers attention and never let them go and do the same exact thing with your music. Captivation is the key to your success in your music career.




Sincercely, Larthel Henry Johnson

To Cornell

I really liked your voice and strong stance throughout the entire paper, as well as your thread between yourself and the book with the use of good examples. I strongly enjoyed the questions in both the introduction and the conclusion. They both really got me, leaving me wanting more, which is something that I might try.  I truly think you did a really good job.

To Zane

I liked how you started off your paper with a question, I feel like not many people do that. You have a good relation to the book throughout the whole paper. I feel like you should have talked about yourself sooner on in the paper, yet it is still a well written paper. I like how you end the paper telling me to read this book; it actually makes me want to read it now. Overall the ending is strong, and I liked it.