S33IN' THRU MY LENS

If you knew me well, two things you’ll know about me is that I am not very argumentative, nor am I good at proving points. So when Silverman told me the best papers are those which contain an argument I became nervous about my success in English 015. My nervousness was only intensified when he said the best way to come up with an argument is to look through a lens. Not very much into politics I have no social or political approach. I am a female, but I’m beginning to think that maybe the sexism argument is getting old and boring [I could be wrong], and being born in raised in America, I have no cultural view, well I do, but nothing that I can bring to the table that many people don’t already know about the American culture [I could be wrong about this too].

But feeling like I was stuck, with no real sense of direction to a road that would lead to a good paper, I became discouraged. I asked myself, how could I write a paper that people would want to read? What can I say to an audience of many different types of people that would keep them all engaged? And then I stumbled upon the lens of class. Yes, I might have been born in America, but I grew up on a different step of the social ladder then others, I lived a different lifestyle, and was exposed to things different from others, and this makes for a good argument, for I can talk about a lifestyle different from those who, lets say, grew up in an upper class family. And through this lenses I can expose others to a lifestyle they might have knew a little to nothing about, and that makes me feel proud of where I come from because it’s part of what makes me unique.

Silverman has also taught me about a thesis statement. I always thought that for a paper, a topic and thesis was enough, I never knew that a thesis statement, which unpacks and explains the thesis, was essential to the paper as well. And it’s something that I will have to work on.

And finally, I was most surprised at how much we actually PAY for FREE television. For one the television sets we buy, wanting to keep up with the latest fashion flat screen. The cable we pay for monthly or satellites, which total to nearly $1000 dollars a month [yet television is free]. And let me not forget to mention the commercials that are constantly ran [for example ALLSTATE] to entice us to practice our consumer instinct. For all this money for “FREE” television, like Silverman said, were better off going to the library, to check out a FREE book, using our FREE library card…and I agree!