English 102 Assignment 12

Meggie Besaw

English 102

Assignment 12

The stakeholders I found in my paper were the victim, the abuser, authorities, and support groups. The victim and abuser are stakeholders because they are the one causing it and getting victimized by someone. I added the authorities because if the victim decided to tell somebody the authorities get involved and decide what to do with the abuser. Support group is a stakeholder because they are the people who help the victim pull through after something so horrific happens to them. It’s important to address the stakeholders because they are the body of the paper they are what make the paper important I think. Of course the issue is important but with out that people the contribute with the issue with out having personal people incite and people who can understand on all different levels a paper wouldn’t draw a lot of people in.

English 102 Assignment 11

Meggie Besaw

English 102

Assignment 11

A lot of my paper was kind of confusing to follow and the transitions from paragraph to paragraph were not smooth. I ended up switching my topic in the middle of writing my paper so we came up in discussion with my small group that after figuring out my topic question exactly it may be easier to put together my paper. I have a lot of good ideas and found a lot of good things to back up my topic I just need to explain more with some more examples. We also noticed that things that were written about women being violent towards men caught a lot of peoples eye and drew them into my paper. I only had a few short paragraphs on it so I need to find some more things on men.

Part 2

         My main purpose is violent relationships between a significant other. Its important to have your main purpose because though out your entire paper you need to go back to that and writ about it. I used a lot of ebscohost sources that gave me a lot of detail about women being abused and the statistics on men and women. I found a few sources on men being abused also. I’m going to stick with the library web because it gives you so many options and im going to look more into the men’s side on things. I think its important to have both sides and especially the men’s side because women are always looked at as being abused but when a man is abused it comes as a shock to a lot of people. I used the sources I found as a back up of things I have said but also some sources I found I had no idea about the statistics they said so I put them in my paper and explain them and how interesting they are because a lot of them are very unknown. 

Assignment 8 English 102

Meggie Besaw

English 102

Assignment 8

            This article had a lot of facts and things that backed up what it had to say. I think that’s why I loved this article so much. The article had more then 20 cites and what made it interesting was that they were all a bunch of different types of cites. (Brochure, articles, books, etic.) I think by it having so many different types of cites and so many cites in general it gave you a lot of different kinds of information and statistics. She used maybe only a sentence from some of the cites but sometimes that’s all her statements needed to back it up. I think one of the most interesting things is that some of the cites to back up the facts but are actual facts. “We build the romance design into everyone of our stores) (Ruzich, p. 432). That’s a fact from the starbucks brochure stating that how they build their store instead of show statistically showing you how they build their store. “We wanted to introduce them to fine coffee the way wine sturdiest introduce fine wine.” This is another example of how this citation explains how they wanted their coffee to be and for what type of people. Its not backing up a statistic it’s a fact but not just a fact it then has an example of what they mean by comparing fine wine with their coffee. I think a lot of people think that citing and researching things are to just back up what their idea of the topic is, but in all reality you can use it as the facts. I also think that people don’t cite enough things and have the same opinion from the same book or article but having a variety of articles gives your paper a variety of opinions and gives you more facts and things that can back up your paper.

Assignment 7 English 102

Meggie Besaw

English 102

Assignment 7

Perspective is your viewpoint of something, your personal idea about a certain subject or event. You hear the word perspective a lot in class when the teacher wants your perspective on a book or a subject you are talking about. Another big place you hear perspective is at work, they need your perspective on the new fall line of clothes or the new box cover for Pepsi.  When somebody asks you your perspective it’s the time where you get to express your feeling about something. I think perspective is an important word for English 102 because when writing a research paper you have to write about the entire topic the good and the bad no matter what your personal perspective is about that topic. That doesn’t mean after giving out both sides of facts that you cant add a little of your perspective. I think you just have to be careful and not add to much of that because it’s a paper that helps people understand the topic with facts not a personal paper about your view on the topic.

            I realized after watching 60 minutes that sometimes T.V creates your perspective on the issue. After talking about the 60 minutes my perspective completely changed because T.V has a way to show you their perspective and only their side. The show didn’t have enough evidence or back up to support her problem but it’s a sad problem and the show has a way to make you feel bad and makes you want to believe her. 

            In my research paper the story I’m telling is how a past relationship can change your view on love? Negative Relationships, Positive relationships and, Homosexual relationships, and now those are change your perspective on future relationships. After people would read my research paper they can have they’re own perspective on what they read. I think it’s important to show everything not just things I agree with so that everybody’s perspectives are based off of all true facts and all true situations. I've included one of the two couples being controlling, abusive, and cheating for the negative. For the positive it isnt specific behaviors but studies on how they act towards each other changes their view on love. I used caring. supportive, and loving.   When writing this paper i used all different ages from 10 to old adults. I think its important to understand all ages and what ages strongly change your view on love.  I used a lot of sociology and psychology statistics to show why and how all of those aspects contribute to peoples future. My main point is that you give your readers all the aspects (age, positive negative, homosexual, heterosexual) so that their perspective is based off of everything.

English 102 Assignment 7

Meggie Besaw

English 102

Assignment 7

How do past relationships change peoples views on love?

Keith G. Schrag. Relationship Therapy with Same-Gender Couples

Family Relations, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 283-291.

In this article it talks about how homosexual relationships and the affects it has on them in the future with future relationships and in life in general. I think it’s a perfect article to use for a source because I think it’s important to compare all types of relationships. The article concludes that a lot of therapists use to not have therapy for same sex couples, and explains how now therapists are more open too that and it explains how the relationships have changed from when they couldn’t talk to a therapist to now when they can.

Bryan E. Robinson, Patsy Skeen, Carol Flake Hobson and Margaret Herrman. Gay Men's and Women's Perceptions of Early Family Life and Their Relationships with Parents. Family Relations, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 79-83.

As you read this article it talks about how three fourths of homosexuals parents accept their homosexuality and shows how when they do accept how that affects their relationship and when they don’t how that affects their relationship with their significant other. I could use this because it shows how family can affect a relationship

Jan E. Stets. Modelling Control in Relationships. Journal of Marriage and Family , Vol. 57, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 489-501.

The article talks about how one-partner controls the other. Not only does that change a persons view on love but also on that relationship. Its conclusion is how a lot of the time the person who is being controlled doesn’t realize that and think its normal until they get out of the relationship. I think its really important to use some main ideas of a reason why peoples view on love changes good or bad and I think modeling control is a big factor.

Miriam R. Hill and Philip M. Mamalakis. Family Therapists and Religious Communities: Negotiating Dual Relationships. Family Relations, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 199-208.

When reading this article it explains how when trying to find a relationship a big factor in that is religion. It explains how that either holds you back from starting a relationship or changes your view on love. Sometimes when meeting somebody and falling in love with them you are willing to change or compromise on relationship, but sometimes no matter how much the love that person they will leave. I think this is another big factor on how it changes their view on love if they change their relationship or even if they don’t.

J. Mark Halstead. Teaching about Love British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3, Values, Ethics and Character in Education (Sep., 2005), pp. 290-305.

            This article talks about children’s ways of thinking about love. It talks about why and how different children think about love. I think it’s a really good article to use because it’s when it starts 9-10 when children start to think about love. All my articles so far are on young adults or adults so I think its good to add a little bit about when it all started.

Jerold Heiss. Gender and Romantic-Love Roles.The Sociological Quarterly Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 575-591 (article consists of 17 pages)

            This article talks about the different roles on love. It talks about the different ways boys act and their view on loves and the different ways girls act and their views on love. I think this is a really great article to use because it has a lot of statistics I can use in my paper to back up my thoughts and things I found and learned about m

Annotated Bibliography English 102

English 102

Annotated Bibliography

Meggie Besaw

            Jennifer Manlove, Suzzane Ryan and Kerry Franzetta

Gender and the Meanings of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Focus on Boys, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 2007), pp. 603-621

            When writing my research paper I think its good to look at both sides of a relationship, the boy’s side and girls. This article explains how boys act in relationships and how relationships affect boys. This article doesn’t come up with a conclusion but with ways the norm ways boys act towards girls in a relationship. Not only do they explain how they act but why they act like that. I want to write how boys act in a relationship and then how girls act positive and negative and how that affects their relationships in the future. So by reading this article I learn the boys aspect of my paper.

John H. Harvey and Brian G. Pauwels Recent Developments in Close-Relationships Theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science

Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jun., 1999), pp. 93-95  

            While looking at the boy aspect and the girl aspect on a relationship I think you need to look from teens to adults. This article looks more on adult and marriage. It gives you a look at statistics on good relationships and bad relationships, and shows you how those relationships can change your view on love. It also shows you statistics of divorce rates and depending on the relationship how it shapes your next relationship. The article concludes with what a marriage and how a marriage affects a women and male. This would work perfectly into my paper because I want to show how relationships affect women and men and I think that it is important to not only show young adult love but also adult love.

Peggy C. Giordano. Relationships in Adolescence.

Annual Review of Sociology , Vol. 29, (2003), pp. 257-281

            This article shows the distinct meaning and significance young adult a relationship has on developing adolescents. It explains why it’s important for young adults to have a relationship and the ways it affects them in the future, not only in their future relationships but life in general. I think it’s the perfect article to explain how relationships affect young adults future and the reasons it affects their future like that.

English 103 Assignment 6

Meggie Besaw

English 102

Assignment 6

Wyndol Furman

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Vol. 11, No. 5 (Oct., 2002), pp. 177-180

(article consists of 4 pages)

I think the source is very useful for my paper.  It talks about adolescent relationships and how they are important and positive but also can be negative.  The article talks about how relationships have blossomed more and more through out the years. Although it doesn’t explain how past relationships change your view on love, it does explain relationships and how they affect you. I think that would be a good way to ease into my paper.