2010年5月23日日曜日

Blog Assignment5

The main characters in Old Man and the Sea are Santiago, a fisherman and Manolin, a boy who helps him.

Three adjectives that describe Santiago are...old, unlucky, and confident that is shown in this statement "His hope and his confidence had never gone.". (pp.13)

Three adjectives that describe Manolin are...young, lucky, and kind that is shown in this action "The boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair and over the old man's shoulders.".(pp.18)

2010年5月18日火曜日

Blog Assignment3

The pieces of information I found in sources to use to support my thesis and topic sentence ideas for Essay 2 are as follows.

The supporting piece of evidence that I found for body paragraph 2 is a paraphrase/quote from... "More Than a White Lie"
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200711/more-white-lie
It says that lying is one of great facts of social life.

The supporting piece of evidence that I found for body paragraph 3 is a paraphrase/quote from... "The honest truth about man's ability to lie"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article6899623.ece
It says that there is connection between deception and mental capacity.