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 * Citation: **Tannen, Deborah. "There Is No Unmarked Woman." //The Language of Composition//. 388-92. Print.


 * Category: **Essay


 * Precis: **In this throught provoking essay, Deborah Tannen asserts that women are characterized by their physical as well as material attributes, multiple honorifics, and their choice of surname in order to epitomize how women are looked upon differently than men.


 * Personal Commentary: **I really enjoyed reading this essay. I had never thought of women and men as Tannen did. She puts it in a different perspective, but is very insightful. It's very opinionated and seeing her view was very interesting.

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 * Citation: **Botstein, Leon. "Let Teenagers Try Adulthood." //The Language of Composition//. 153-55. Print.

**Category:** Opinion piece

**Precis:** In this biased opinion piece, Leon Botstein argues that teenagers are caught up in the social world of high school for too many years that when they step out into the real world they won't know how to behave appropriately in order to adjust to an adult work environment.


 * Personal Commentary: **I had never actually heard an adult say that we need to be in school for a shorter amount of time. The way he justifies his idea is very well thought out, but I do not think it will be accepted anywhere. Teenagers can get jobs and that is their "getting out in the real world" attempt. Most won't try any harder.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">O'Keefe, Claudia. "The Traveling Bra Salesman's Lesson." //The Language of Composition//. 205-08. Print.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Category: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Essay


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Precis: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this straightforward essay, Claudia O'Keefe asserts that no matter what curve ball the economy throws at you you need to accept it the way it is and try to make the best of it in order to keep a job and be to provide for yourself and your family.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Personal Commentary: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Her introductory story was really good. It was interesting how she connected her flea-market story to her father and then realted it all to the crazy and unpromising economy we are living in today. She put a slightly positive voice into it, but really just said that whatever happens happens happens and we just need to accept it and I think a lot of people have a hard time dealing with a statement like that. But they need to hear the truth and accept the things they cannot change.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citaiton: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Howard, Jane. "In Search of the Good Family." //The Language of Composition//. 283-88. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Category:** Classic Essay

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Precis:** In this insightful essay, Jane Howard claims that you can have more than one family, as one being friends and others being your blood family, and that there are many attributes that these familes have to have in order to be considered a "good family" and with this "good family" you feel loved and accepted, like everyone in the world should feel.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Commentray:** This was a really inspiring piece to read. They way she describes how families should get a long and act is the best way to put it. She puts it in simple terms so you can understand it well, but it has so much meaning to it. I am a huge family person so I really enjoyed reading this.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Freedman, Samuel G. "For Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game Plan." //The Language of Composition//. 473-75. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Category:** Essay


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Precis: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this complimenting essay, Samuel G. Freedman asserts that the Muslim boys who are on the football team are very dedicated to their religion in order to show how their fasting affects their performances, but their coach, their teammates, and themselves respect what their religious rituals call them to do even if it affects their performances.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Personal Commentary: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This was really interesting to read. The dedication these boys have with the religion and to follow it so percisely is amazing. And the fact that they aren't harassed or bullied is eve more amazing; that they get respect from their peers about their religious rituals and aren't discriminated for it.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Berkowitz, Peter, and Michael McFaul. "Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation." //The Language of Composition//. 559-61. Print.


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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Precis: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> In this criticizing essay, Berkowitz and McFaul argue that universities need to start teaching more about the Islamic culture and Arabic, Persian and Turkish in order to understand how the Middle East functions and to be able to respect foreigners by knowing their customs.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Commentary:** What these authors are saying is very true. Its important we understnd their culture and learn it so we can hopefully prevent future terrorist attacks like 9/11. If we can realte to them and show them that we are trying, they are more likely to accept America as an alliance not an ememy.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "The Future of Happiness." //The Language of Composition//. 623-29. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Category:** Essay

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Precis:** In this candid essay, Csikszentmihalyi claims that our society wants wants our next generations to be smarter, prettier, and stronger and to have live in a "perfect" world by genetics in order to have the generation be happier, but he explains that happiness cannot be genetically put together; that it is something you aquire yourself.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Commentary:** I really ejoyed reading this. The way he explains all of these new technological advances seems really cool, but when it boils down to "programming" your child to be perfect, he shows that it isn't worth it. That children and generations to come need to aquire their own happiness and that happiness isn't just something you can program because happiness comes from different stimuli for different people.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Smith, Danyel. "Dreaming America." //The Language of Composition//. 734-36. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Category:** Essay

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Precis:** In this spiteful essay, Danyel Smith asserts that just because New York is a "dark and poor" place, does not mean it is where hip hop began and compares New York to California in order to show that while California is a wholesome, perfect city it still has hip hop in it, but not have a negative connetation as New York does.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Commentary:** It was interseting how Smith wrote this essay in third person, describing herself. I think it was much more insightful to tell her story this way because it grabs the reader's attention more.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chief Seattle. "Message to President Franklin Pierce." //The Language of Composition//. 823-24. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Category:** Essay

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Precis:** In this condeming essay, Chief Seattle claims that white men do not respect, preserve, or understand nature well enough to see the importance of it and he explains how important nature is to humans in order to explain why the white men need to do a better job of seeing nature as something to preserve, not destroy.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Commentary:** This was a very intimate essay because it was from the Indian's point of view. They know the land so much better than we do and depend on it so they understand why it is so important. If we nderstood our land like we did we would appreciate it much more.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citation: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Goldsmith, Oliver. "National Prejudices." //The Language of Composition//. 932-35. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Category:** Essay

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Precis:** In this critical essay, Oliver Goldsmith asserts that the gentlemen of our world are not gentlemenly at all, but self centered and narrow minded and explains how we need to think of ourselves as citizens of the world in order to fully understand what the world is actually like instead of stereotyping which will eliminate national prejudice.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Personal Commentary:** I really liked the way this essay was set up. The story at the beginning really get the reader to understand Goldsmith's point of veiw and when he goes into more detail it makes sense having the story for reference.