Once you've read This I Believe II, pp. 14-31, choose your favorite essay from the reading. Then write a summary of just that essay. Instead of printing out your summary, type it here as your blog response and explain why you liked that particular essay.
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The essay "The Strange Blessing that Brought Me Home" by Robin Baudier is about Robins life after hurricane Katrina. She talks about life in her FEMA trailer house with her parents. She lost her home but is less stressed then she used to be because now she finds time to run off any sort of stresses she encounters. In the end she feels that losing her home to the Hurricane brought her closer to her family making her feel more at home then ever.
ReplyDeleteThe essay “Returning to Whats Natural” by Amelia Baxter - Stoltsfus is about believing in permanent change- just not for hair. The author explains that change is good but its always nice to be able to go back to what you know. She believes in semipermanent hair dye: the kind that lets you have a wacky hair color during winter and by graduation your natural hair color is back. Feeling safe isn’t about setting in ways its about holing on to what you are most familiar with.
ReplyDeleteI liked it because it is true…I like to change but it is nice to know that I will eventually be able to go back to what I am comfortable and familiar with. The way she compared it to hair dye was perfect.
ReplyDeleteThe essay "The Strange Blessing That Brought Me Home" by Robin Baudier is about her staying with her parents in their FEMA trailer. Quitting her job in LA and now working with her dad. She has been more stress free. After Hurricane Katrina, her life has changed completely but she is thankful for her strange blessing she has gotten.
ReplyDeleteI like this essay because it shows even the worse of things can happen but you will always have your family and the outcome can come out even better than it was before
The essay "living with Integrity" by Bob Barret is about believing in integrity and how earlier in his life working with patients with HIV really showed him how inpotant integrity really is. He goes back describing a time when they were given six cards with names, abilities, things and values. He talks about how his two last cards were integrity and family and he had to choose only one and he says now how he became gay and how him and his family live with their own integrity.
ReplyDeletei liked this story because it does show how some men that know they are gay live their lives a lie becasue they are scared that they will not get any respect from their community when they should have integrity and not care.
The essay "A Silent Night That Brought Healing" by Steve Banko is about him being a patient in a military hospital in Yoka, Japan on Christmas eve in 1968. He explains how his lef had been shattered by machine-gun bullets in a five-hour battle in Vietnam and doctors their stuggled to save his leg. He was desperate for magic. WHen he heard music through the PA system and a chorus from a christmas carol "sleep in heavenly peace", but he believe heaven and peace seemed distant to him. When he heard a moan next to him, he asks his nurse to pull his bed closer to him and saw he was in a cast, in more pain than he was. He reached for his hand as the carlo told them "all is calm, all is bright." This had him believe that ther is magic in Christmas and the music that celebrates it, because it brings everyone closer together and closer to our own hearts.
ReplyDeleteI liked this story because he, at first didn't show as much concern of dying until he heard that Christmas Carol and saw his neighbor in even more pain than he was. He wanted to survive and his new friend also watned to survive his ordeal.
ReplyDeleteIn the essay, "The Strange Blessing That Brought Me Home" by Robin Baudier, Robin explains the occurances that Hurricane Katrina brought upon her life, wheather they were for the good or the bad. Katrina brought her back from Los Angeles to help repair her parnents house and rediscover what the meaning of being home is. This was my favorite essay because it gives you the idea that no matter what happens, for the good or bad, being home is a feeling worth giving up all you left behind.
ReplyDeleteIn the essay, "The Strange Blessing That Brought Me Home" Robin Baudir describes how after Katrina her family had to cope with loosing their house and living in a FEMA trailor. Even after beginning a new life in Los Angeles Robin moved back to stay with her parents in the trailor. Though she had to make sacrfices she realized that even through disasters and tragedies families can be positive and become even closer.
ReplyDeleteI liked this essay because I can understand Robin's experiences because I am from Louisiana and growing up there I had to go through many hurricanes but luckily Katrina didnt do any damage to my town but, I do know how much damage it affected the families of people in my town, so I can understand how she explains that families need to stick together in times of need.
The essay that was my favorite was the first one, "The Strange Blessing That Brought Me Home". It was very englightening to me how positive Robin Baudir stayed even though her FEMA trailor was having nothing but issues. She found the blessings that came from a natural disaster that destroied a whole town. She was able to find a way to stay happy and not let something like a hurricane bring her down. I find that people like this are the most amazing kind of people and I commend her for staying positive when the easiest thing that seemed to do was to give up like some people did.
ReplyDeleteIn "The strange blessing that brought me home," author Robin Baudier goes over the stresses of living in a FEMA trailer with her family. She left her job in L.A., that required her to do many internships, to return home after hurricane Katrina struck to help her family rebuild their lives. She describes being in the best shape of her life due to her running with her dog to escape the frustrations of her now crummy lifestyle. This way of life though, is not as bad as it may seem because she loves the fact that the hurricane has brought her and her father together to rebuild their damaged house.
ReplyDeleteThis essay spoke out to me because of Baudier's selflessness. She gives up her whole life that she has been struggling to get together, so that she can make sure her family is safe and able to rebuild. This I feel is something I would do for my family because they have given a lot up for me at times when they had little or nothing to give. I also feel that her use of exercise as a therapeutic method is very effective.
In the essay The Strange Blessing That Brought Me Home, Robin Baudier talks about how hurricane Katrina changed her life for the better. Robin moved back to Louisiana from Los Angeles to help her family rebuild after Katrina destroyed their town. She describes being somewhat frustrated with her situation (low paying job, living in a FEMA trailer, lack of privacy) but the closeness of her family is giving her life purpose.
ReplyDeleteI liked this essay because it talked about making the best out of even the worst situation.
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