Sunday, September 28, 2008

Journal Entry #2

Caring Makes Us Human & Follow the Laughter

The essays that I like the most from the thisibelieve.org website were Caring Makes Us Human and Follow the Laughter. I found them both compelling because they talked about love and care, and also joy and happieness. The type of story that Caring Makes Us Human uses to showcase their belief is a story about an inmate who found a cat and he felt as if the cat brung more happiness n joy to the prison because with the inmates caring for the beat down cat, it gave the inmates a chance to practice kindness instead of recieving it. The type of story that Follow the Laughter uses to showcase their belief is a story of laughter and happiness that brings togetherness. She talked about her ex-husband and how they used to laugh and be happy, then how the happiness dimmered and they got divorced. The tone of Caring makes Us Human is serious. While the tone of Follow the Laughter is reflective. The essays are simular because they both are reflective, meaning that they both look back and see differences from the past. The essays differ because they both have different tones. One essay is serious and the other is all the way reflective. They both do follow the guidelines by the This I Believe Organization. The beliefs that I might want to write about for project one is probaly humor and laughter.

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