Extra credit blog.

Ryan Dietz

The winner by Knock Out....SELF RELIANCE!

As far as i am concerned neither Nature or Self Reliance relate to my life very much, but the one that has even some relation is Self Reliance. The only reason that it does at all relate is because it is m own personal belief that it is better to rely on yourself than it is on others. Ever since i was very small my father has been a single parent, and when he was off at work i had to learn to cook, clean and do alot for myself. I'm not saying that i do everything for myself because if I did I would be lying, but if it came down to it i could rely on myself with the skills i have learned.
The reason Nature doesn't relate to my life, really at all, is because I  disagree with most of what Emerson says. I don't believe that there is one shared soul, i believe that we each have an individual one. I don't believe that people are a part of nature because i think that nature is just a thing left here to use to our disposal, to build things and hunt for food. It seems even if i am wrong and nature is sacred that it doesn't matter because it is being all ruined anyways.

Essay's a-ok

Going into high school the thing i dreaded most was to have to do essays. But i soon found out that really they wern't that bad and that if you just do a little bit of preparation just by thinking about what your going to write the words flow easy as anything. The hardest thing about essays is taking something and reading it then putting it into words. but there is a very easy way around it thats actually doing the work, I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people try to do an essay without reading what they were supposed to and expecting it to work out. 

My literary analysis skills have improved by 10 fold since i have entered high school and i have one person to thank for this, Mr. Salme my 9th grade English teacher. In his class we had an assignment where he taught us how to write a 5 part paragraph and how to use commentary and concrete details then had us write about To Kill a Mocking Bird and it really helped with literary analysis because it made me think about everything that goes into writing about reading.