Shitty First Drafts

In Lamott's essay, she emerged the meaning of word " shitty" is the idea of processing writing at first time in order to submit a complete paper. She also mentioned about ways to draft our papers in writing review for first and second time. Based on my perspective, I consider shitting is the method of opening and ending up papers. It is important to draft papers to determine the strongest and the weakest points in essay. I usually do shitty when I do not have any idea to start my paper, so I would do free-writing and then interpretate it to submit the final paper. In order to improve the drafts, I need to revise them many times and review again and again to make sure it is smooth with theme and topic.

Extra credit events

I went to two events which were presented in Elberly auditurium.

The first one was " The Times of Harvy Milk", it was basically focusing about criminology. They mentioned the way to run a program and tried to help those innocent people who were convicted to get out of jail by using DNA test.

The second event was a program about "Symposium on Gender and Sexuality. I went to panel 2 which was talking about causes and effects of sexual harrassement among people in daily lives. It also estimated statistically percentage of people reported their experiences in sexual harrassement.

Background Covering

We all came from different places and raised in different ways according to family situation. I would like to cover my background when I was a little girl. I was a girl who was raised mostly by my grandmother in Cambodia. It might be a hard time to live separately from parents instead of living with grandparents. I first found that I was upset to be controlled strictly by my grandmother even I was a quiet girl at the time. My grandparents and aunties sometimes gave me attitudes that made me feel so frustrated. However, I could not say anything or fight them back mentally at all because I was younger than me and had to behave respectfully. I therefore decided to write diary of my upset days in the book. I did not know if I was mad at them or hate them for a while. Until 2006 when I was 17 years old, I left Cambodia to live with my parents in United States. I found out that my grandparents were doing for my own good. I really appreciate my grandmother who gave careful attention to me. Finally, I can understand that I behave and grew up properly in a good family background.