SUPA Writing 105

Sarah’s Top 5 Hey y’all! I’m Sarah, and this is my top 5 from SUPA Writing 105! This top 5 consists of 5 very important units to me that I learned in this class, and how they will help me in the future. First I would just like to thank this course, my peers taking this class with me and my teacher, you guys made it such a fun and comfortable year even in the middle of a pandemic. This for sure will be a class I will never forget, for various reasons.  Looking back at my notebook full of notes from this class, I feel my first topic should be me talking about free writes. Free writes were a new thing to me when I started this class,  and at first I was confused by them. Then I started to do them more, and grew more comfortable with them. The idea of free writing always seemed weird to me, this idea of just writing things down, not looking back to fix it or anything, just to keep writing. And if we are going to be honest, that's how I write my longer papers. I just write and see ...

  Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris, released in 2006, is a movie about a family just trying to be normal. But they are far from normal. With a broken bright yellow station wagon bus, the blended family of six travels to California for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant for little Olive. Because all Olive wants is to be a beauty queen and make her family proud, mainly her father, following his 9 steps to being a winner, and her grandfather, who trained her with everything she knows. This tragic-comedy movie expresses various ideas, from following your dreams to leaving no man behind(literally) in such a funny yet practical way.   The idea of following your dreams is expressed in various ways throughout the movie. The first explanation of this idea of following your dreams is Dwayne, the older half brother to Olive, and how he has a dream of becoming a flyer for the Air Force. He takes a vow of silence, works out every day and keeps t...