My paper uses the lens of Mark Twain and his short story of
“two views of the Mississippi” I used his view on tourism and wander and all
his lenses to really bring the weight room of the Sun devil recreation center
into more than just a room where people work out and turn it in to more in to a
place where we can make ourselves athletes it is a place where students can
change into the best they can be. I used the lens to take each part of the
weight room and bring it to new light weather it was from the view of a tourist
and weather it brought wonder into the eyes of new members and I also went into
the emotions that fill the room and make it what it is. I then go on to bring
in how all that wonder can be lost and how you can give up on those feelings
and love for the place I even went into how a seemingly harmless place that you
spend so much time in can be so dangerous and can even cause you physical and
worse even emotional pain. I wrote my paper on the Sun Devil Recreation center
because I personally spend most of my time there and am so involved in the
schools athletic clubs and figured I could change this view of just a space
into a place that really means something to me and the students at ASU
Mesa trail is told from an interesting
point of view it is told from the first person point of view but not of a
person. The story starts off at the head of the mesa trail and it describes the
entrance to the trail. As you start this “journey” it describes the trail
itself the fact that it’s wide enough for a horse or for an Indian to just walk
but the experience is completely different for each person. It then continues
to talk about the day time and how it’s an open land with trees and flowers and
mountains but not much action going on. The author is extremely descriptive with
every detail talking about the flowers the mountains and as the story continues
he talks about the night in the desert and how the place comes to life. The desert
comes to life the owls wake up and the wolfs and coyotes come out to eat and it
goes into detail on how every animal is vicious and then out of nowhere it changes back to daytime
and you continue down the trail. But this time we find life but in the locals
who live on the trail and it goes into even more description of how they live
and there housing. 
The story of Polk Street is basically a
recap of a day in the life of a local of Polk.it begins with a guy looking out
his window and he sees the streets booming small business all open everyone working
hard and making a living. When I thought of this I think of a market place or
the streets around pikes place in Seattle WA it reminds me of a marketplace. As
the story goes on the day progresses to the evening when saloons open and
people get off work and go drink and have a good time. Then it gets to ten or
eleven and the night quiets down. This story is very descriptive much like the
first one it makes you feel as if you are there looking out the window at this
bust marketplace on Polk Street. This story tells the tale of most cities where
every day is a cycle. 
Chapter fourteen was all about plagiarism a
how to get past it or to make sure you don’t do it. As a student plagiarism is
very common because it’s easy just copy someone else boom less work for you. But
it is wrong and can easily get you kicked out of any school or even get you
fired from your job. To avoid plagiarism
as this chapter says is easy make sure you site your work and take good notes
in your own words. The better the note the less likely you are to plagiarize and
if you do get accused to of plagiarizing then make sure you have your notes
bring them in and go back to the portion of your writing that aroused suspicion
and double check it if it’s very similar to the source site the source or re word
that section. 
