SUPA Writing 105

      As this year progressed, and I was exposed to more and more writing styles and tasked to create writing pieces in different genres, I have learned quite a lot, like allowing myself to open up more and write about my life.  At the beginning of the year, we were tasked to write a college essay about ourselves and some event or aspect of our lives.  I have never been one to easily open up and tell my story, but using the college essay as an outlet gave me the perfect reason and opportunity to do so.  An due to the time spent on the project and the ideas we explored, I have come out a better personal writer and can bring that with me into the future.     Another thing I learned was how to not follow a basic essay format and create writing pieces in a more unstructured format.  For almost the entirety of our year, we were taught how not to use generic writing formats in trade for more freely written ones that help ideas flow more coherently....

  The 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, is about an incredibly dysfunctional family caught in an unexpected journey across the country. The family of six consists of Richard and Cheryl (mom and dad), uncle Frank, Grandpa Edwin, and the two kids Olive and Dwayne. While Cheryl and Richard are at a difficult point in their marriage, Olive gets picked to be a contestant in a beauty pageant, the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The trip that no one in the family was excited about only got more and more painful for them as their van would consistently break down. Before they could leave their current stop, it required the family to cooperate and push the van to start and quickly hop on. As more and more setbacks and troubles are sent their way, the family realizes that they need each other's support and have to stay strong for Olive's sake. It gets worse when the family arrives at the pageant late and Olive is unable to participate.  ...