Month: September 2025

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“Killing Chickens”

This essay goes into detail about a woman’s feelings of anger, sadness, guilt and shame. A married couple that was sadly interrupted by a man’s lust, deception and neglectfulness, the woman uses her anger to continue going about life but never in front of their children. She fears that they know, and that mom and dad aren’t getting along lately. The feelings she was dealing with, were all greatly expressed in detail by her writing. She took the time to incorporate descriptive words, allowing the reader to visualize her anger and sadness.

One specific detail we could get from her emotions was, the paragraph where she tells us that her brother found her husband cheating on her with his wife. On the top of my head, that already explained to me anger and sadness, because no one expects their partner in which they exchanged vows with to just betray everything they said, “till death do us part”, “in sickness in health”, it makes a person think, were they ever telling the truth? In the beginning of her writing, she creates a gruesome image of killing hens from her coop. She states, “…struggling to be free of my weight, my gloved hands, my need to kill her.” this describe an emotion that was intense, it was on purpose and it held weight to me as the reader. I could feel her anger as she used the words “my need to kill her”, it expressed the emotion and her feelings that bled through her mind into her actions against the hens she is supposed to kill to eat. That anger for being lied to, that anger of feeling not worthy and the feeling of her husband, partner for life, had betrayed their family and it will forever leave a mark. The last detail I thought really expressed the importance of her memoir was when she was talking to her children and they asked if their dad was going to attend her birthday, that it seemed as though he’d forgotten as he stormed out the door. She explained that, “Guilt and fear tugged me like an undertow.” and then she tells them she doesn’t know. This really ties into that topic of feeling like she was betrayed, they were all betrayed and robbed of a happy life that was supposed to last a lifetime. The universal meaning that I got was that, when you’re lied to and betrayed for so long that anger builds up and becomes resentment. Resentment is a really powerful emotion that makes a person feel utmost rage and fury along with sadness and guilt, it’s a tidal wave of suppressed feelings that come out whenever they’re triggered or when it becomes too much. It breaks up a family, it breaks up a love that was once soft and becomes rough.

I chose to write about this one because you would never want your future husband or current husband to cheat on you, especially with someone as close to you as your bestfriend and sister in law. This gave me an opportunity to write about my life with so much detail and much attention to how I would word my sentences.

AI was created as a tool, either to create ideas or to enhance them and many people use it for inspiration while others may use it daily in a means to express themselves. The term that AI is to writing as calculators are to mathematics is somewhat accurate, although AI can give you answers they are not as accurate if you’re vague let me explain.

A calculator, if you were to ask it 2+2, it’ll say 4. That is a definite answer to it, no explanation and it’s just a solid one step. With AI, you can ask it a million different questions with many different devices and they’ll tell you a different answer each time. AI works as a means to combine knowledge and information they collected form the user to successfully create an answer that tends to the interest of the user. With a calculator, it does not matter who uses it the calculator was designed to mathematically prove the solution to an expression given like 2+2=4.

In some ways, a calculator and AI could be similar. They both provide answers or confirmation, a calculator confirms with the use of numbers whereas AI provides writing and elaborate answers. Using a calculator can provide confirmation in complicated math problems, maybe an algorithm like 1000/7. The answer they would give you is how many times 7 goes into 1000, it’s not going to be an even split and that’s where the great function of calculators come in as it’ll give you the answer in it’s most definite form. AI could provide the same exact answer if a calculator is not present but, you cannot ask a calculator what color shirt goes best with brown hair.

To compare and contrast the two, they are both used as a means to answer questions that need answers. AI is designed to take information about the user to learn how they would like something to be answer, whereas a calculator is designed with a specific algorithm to answer questions that have a definite answer preferably with numbers (of course).

ChatGPT said:

When it comes to cars, reliability is often the most important factor for buyers. A reliable car means fewer repair costs, less time in the shop, and more confidence on the road. While many brands have solid reputations, the Toyota Corolla is often considered the most reliable car.

The Toyota Corolla has built its reputation over decades of consistent performance. First introduced in the 1960s, it quickly became known for its durability and fuel efficiency. Even today, Corollas from ten or more years ago can still be found running smoothly with high mileage. This long lifespan is one of the key reasons it stands out among competitors.

Another reason the Corolla is so dependable is its simplicity. While it has modern technology like safety sensors and smartphone connectivity, it avoids unnecessary complexity that often leads to mechanical problems. Toyota engineers focus on refining proven systems rather than constantly reinventing them. This makes maintenance easier and more affordable for owners.

In addition, the Corolla is backed by Toyota’s strong reputation for quality control. The brand consistently ranks high in reliability studies from organizations like J.D. Power and Consumer Reports. Many owners report that their cars only require routine oil changes and tire rotations for years before any major issues arise.

Overall, while there are many cars that can claim reliability, the Toyota Corolla continues to be the most reliable choice. Its history, design, and reputation all prove that it can be trusted to last.

My Response:

In regards to evaluating this essay given, I would say it was produced with an effective amount of evidence and information needed to fully answer the question given. Although, given the lack of personal thought and more information rather than opinion makes the essay feel typed and planned out as if a robot were answering the question for the writer. As for plagiarism, it might not prompt for concern but there does seem to be no originality to it as if someone actually took the time to write it out and gather their intel and personal thoughts about the question. There are many ways I could revise it, some parts just need a little touch of knowledge from a personal experience or preference.

The sentence, “Many owners report that their cars only require routine oil changes and tire rotations for years before any major issues arise.” If the writer had a Toyota they could say something along the lines of, “As a Toyota car owner, the mileage and timeframes between wear and tear and routine jobs is super reliable as they don’t require much labor until a long amount of time.” Or if they don’t own a Toyota they could ask around and say, “While gathering information on cars, it was revealed that many with a Toyota car have experiences great success in maintaining it as the company itself has an exceptional reputation for reliability.”

The theme I believe I want to write about is family and relationships. This is because I’m a person of emotions, memories and some may call me sensitive but, I really feel strongly about others because I would never intentionally try to make someone feel a type of way about themselves.

My family and those around me are something I’m not particularly proud of to speak on, mainly because I have feelings that they don’t feel so it seems one-sided. My deep connection with the topic of family and relationships is because I love people, I will always feel deeply for what anyone might say or do to me.

Although, what interests me is psychology. I’m a psych major and I really love reading people and seeing how people are the way they are and what goes on in their minds. I believe I have a very good understanding of the people around me and my family which makes me so prone to sympathy and empathy towards them and everyone. This also goes for friends to, I have so many memories of good friends, bad friends, and even absent friends who come into my life just to say they did something for me.

I might write about how psychology works within the mind of those who don’t believe they’re doing anything wrong, how someone may think because of past experiences and my own feelings of my relationships with other people.

As a child, I’ve always loved the art of writing, reading and telling stories. I believe that I was fond of expressions and feeling like every memory and event was a story to be told. My parents didn’t like that passion of writing and telling stories, so eventually I used writing as a hobby. When I’m bored, I write, when I’m inspired I write. Journaling, making up stories and telling memories I once had. As a person, writer and reader, I believe detail and the way someone writes or says something is so so important to me because it adds emotion and sincerity.

While reading “Ten Ways to Think about Writing”, was a very fascinating way to help writers with stronger pieces. Stories should be written with knowledge, as stated in the first section of the passage there should be at least some variance of knowledge and curiosity put into their story. I like the way that fully explains that all your writing should be about what you know because if it was just written without your own personal knowledge in some way type or form, then it’s just somebody writing about something they don’t want to.

As you write, you tend to have your mind come out as a whole from a writers perspective at least. I really believe that my emotions reflect everything I choose to write about, and that people can feel exactly what I feel just with my words. Another part I found interesting was the example of the little green ball, this emphasizes the importance of details and going more into depth about how you write that will make everyone feel and imagine what you are talking about. I feel as though I really do well in explaining many details that I want people to know and to feel as it creates strength in my writing.

Last but not least, “wash and wear paragraphs”, I really liked that because I really do believe the most effective paragraphs are some with little to no words like how some others use that to create an effect in their readers, explain being a sentence and paragraph saying, “and then she left.” as it’s own.

As a person I love to write, my strengths include emotion and emphasis as I really believe it could describe me as a writer as well when I incorporate those into my stories or writings. In this course I hope to show others my strength of writing and hopefully get the reaction that I intend for those who read my posts and stories.