On sale at Old Navy: Cool clothes for identical zombies Response

The article, "On sale at Old Navy: Cool clothes for identical zombies", can be summarized for me with one word, wow. After reading this article i think that the writer and the people he quoted were absolutely right. We go into these stores and buy so much, but then as soon as something falls apart we go back to replace it. Then as soon as someone says cute top, where did you get it, you say oh its from old navy. Or someone says i have the same shirt, did u get it from old navy? We buy clothes and we start to look the same, dress the same. We lose our individuality. They may offer clothes for cheap, and try to be Calvin Klein and people like that but what are they really doing? They are just trying to beat Klein and have lots of people buy from them, they want to be just as famous as Klein, and they are well on their way. I for one have only shopped at old navy once and i bought a scarf that i never wear. However, my aunt shops there constantly as does her daughter, they think they have the best clothes and the best deals, which isn't necessarily true. My aunt has so many clothes she doesn't know what to do with them, she thinks "oh this is on sale, a good deal, i want this or i need this." this leads to her over-consumption of goods she doesn't actually need, nor do i ever see her wearing. So i am in complete agreement with the author, these places just trick you into buying things and lead to over-consumption.

"The Writing Process"

Behrens suggests that there are six stages of writing when writing a good paper. First you must understand the task, meaning to understand the purpose. You must then gather data. This means to get you information. He then says its times for invention. You must invent you paper but maybe using  lists, outlines, or free-writing. The you draft, meaning you start writing your rough copy. Then you revise and edit. You pretty much make your paper sound good and have someone proof read it. My own style is very similar. The only things i change is the last two stages. When i write my rough draft i do not revise it until after i have someone edit it. Because my draft comes out the same way a revision would in Behrens stages. Personally, I find the invention stage to be the least important because it could easily be tied in with drafting. I have never really broken those two up before. The easiest part of a paper is the revision. After someone edits my paper i get all kinds of new ideas and i just go and work. I call it creating a whole new paper, even though its the same paper just revised and made better. However the most difficult part would be the gathering data. In my head i always know where i want to go with a paper, it is sometimes just hard to find information to support that goes with where my head wants the paper to go. So this kind of shows what i spend my time doing. I spend the most time researching for the paper, gathering data and such. And i spend the least amount of time actually writing the paper. This works really well for me i did pretty well in high school, writing papers. Though it could be really different now that I'm in college but i hope that i can stick to how I've done things for years and still turn out a good paper.

"Open a Vein"

To share a passion is one of the hardest things for a person to do. It causes them to open up about themselves and wonder what other people thing. It also allows others to hurt them. Well to help break through this insecurity, I'm going to share somethings about myself. I'm very passionate about writing in general. I love to write. I write letters, i write poems, and i write stories. Usually all about love. Writing is a huge part of me. You'll never find me without means to write, i even use my phone to write ideas and and start stories that I then put on paper. I write to express my feelings and myself. The only problem i come to is that i don't share what i write unless it was an assignment. My stories, my poems are mine. No one reads them. My most challenging kind of writing is writing assignments because I'm not always into what I'm writing. If I'm not passionate about it i don't do my best work. I never know what I'm passionate about the topic comes up and then it just comes and my opinion and thoughts just burn inside of me. I know that sounds really weird but that's how it feels. I need to be passionate about it to do my very best but i do love writing in general which helps a lot.