Billionaire

If I won the lottery today I would be very happy! The first thing I would do is pay off all of my credit card debt and school loans. Then I would buy my little brother a nice car. I would also put enough money into a savings account so both my brother and sister would have enough to go to school and not have to worry about school loans. I would also finish my own education. I would also support my parents so they could retire and travel, I would pay for everything since they supported me my whole life. After my family was fully taken care of then I would give seventeen million dollars to Muslim charities which help orphans and people who are less fortunate. After all of that then I would adopted a few kids of my own. My mother always said that "a person who never had kids doesn't really know what its like to have patients or how to be completely unselfish", I would adopt because there are so many children who need home and to be loved, and besides my mom always said she wants to be a grandma. I was planning on adopting anyway but I would feel better about things knowing that I could give then everything they need in life. Hopefully, when I die there will be enough money left over that my children and my brother and sister's children to live comfortable lives. This is what I would do with all the money.

Brainstorm

I'm not sure what my topic is going to be for our argument paper. When I chose a topic, I think I will wright the essay using the problem/solution strategy. This strategy is easier for me to do that the opposition/refute strategy because I often have trouble coming up with questions that the opposing side would ask. Problem/solution strategy is easier for me get my point across and ends up being a stronger essay. Using Aristotle's three appeals towards the audience, I would use either logos or pathos. I would use logos because it give the essay a kind of format and room for lots of evidence to support my thesis using logical examples. I would also use pathos because essays with lots of emotion are often times stronger than essays with little or no emotion at all. Just from personal experience I found that I connected more to writer that write with more emotion. It give the writing more flavor. I would use ethos in my essay as well but I think that if you use Aristotle's other two appeals crediting comes on its own. Now my only problem is finding a topic.

Glue

Last night my dad was making dinner for us. He went to open a can, the can slipped and sliced his left pinkie finger. I was sitting on the computer near the kitchen. My dad walked over to me and said " I just cut myself, could you get me a band aid?" I asked him if I could see his the cut. He uncovered his finger, exposing the cut. I saw the bone of his knuckle and the tendon that wraps around. At first I saw no blood. Then my dad bent his finger and blood gushed out. I told him that he had to go to the hospital. I ran and got my mom who was up stairs finishing the laundry. We both ran down stairs to my dad. My mom examined the wound and told him he had to go to the hospital. My dad said he didn't think that the cut was to bad he wanted to put a band aid on and call it good. My mom told him that it was too deep to just put on a band aid. If we could see bone then we had to go. My mom and dad went to the hospital. My brother and I stayed at home with my little sister. She was really worried about dad and it made her more upset that she had to stay home. Two hours later we get a call from mom telling us that dad got a Tetnus shot and they were just now closing the cut. I was putting Aliah to bed when we heard the garage door open. Both of us jumped up and dashed for the door. My dad's finger was in a sling to keep him from moving it. He ended up not getting stitches because he is going on a business trip and he wont be able to get the stitches removed. So instead the doctor glued my dad's cut together. It looked so painful but my dad said it didn't hurt too bad.

Daylight Savings

Holy moly, daylight savings has messed me up. Even though in the fall, we gain an hour of sleep, it has totally made me feel off. This morning only half of my clocks changed over so I wasn't sure what time it was. I was supposes to be at my parents house at eleven in the morning, because of daylight savings I was really late. Of course, they understood but I still felt off running so late. All day today I felt hungry at the wrong times, tired at all the wrong times as well, and now it gets darker earlier. I hate daylight savings so much. I don't understand why we do it anymore. It is such an inconvenience to adjust to the different times twice a year. I understand that back in the day, when there was lots of farmers daylight savings worked but now it is a practice that no longer benefits the people. Why don't we get rid of it? The thing that I hate most of all is the fact that when I leave work it is dark and pretty soon when I go into work it will be dark as well. So I never get to see the sun. Studies show that people who rarely see the sun have higher risks of depression. I think that we should stop this nonsense and get rid of daylight savings it is so inconvenient and irrelevant to our time.