Compare & Contrast -- In-class Response (Group Essay -- Read together)

[Mr. Kitsmiller]

1.  Personal Response -- What have the lawyers "stolen" from you?

2.  Structural Response -- Based on the class lecture and/or chapter reading for Comparison / Contrast, how does "How the Lawyers Stole Winter" exemplify this style of writing?  Consider some of the following points from your notes or the chapter: 

• What is the basis of comparison?
• What is the structure of organization (subject-by-subject, or point-by-point)

Response to both of these points accurately and completely in your reply. 

[Connar Benson]

When I was younger probably my freshman and sophomore year I used to go to the mall every Friday night, Never once did I ever cause any trouble, always made a purchase and has dinner yet every night at 8 or 8:30 I was told I had top leave the mall because I was too young to be at the mall without adult supervision past that time. When my parents and my sisters where younger, they could go to the mall and hangout until it closed and no one would have a problem with it but now that's all changed.  

[The Dark Lord SATAN!!! (christian haley)]

1. Lawyers have stolen a good time from not only me, but those who partake in the smoking of cannabis. They have been restricting fun for to long now. If one wants to ruin their lives for drugs, then so be it.

2.He was showing how differently his childhood was from how his childrens childhood will be with the lack of ice skating and just the childhood experiences.

[Connar Benson]

Basis of comparison was how the fathers childhood was compared to his kids childhood.

Structure is point by point, i think.  

[Lane Lightle]

I feel like laywers are not takeing away anything from us because lawyers are only trying to protect us from what could harm or even kill us also lawyers may take somthing from you but you have to think should you be doing it in the first place

[Noor Bibi]

1. Lawyers has stolen the rights from me and the right of learning by experience and just tried to impose their right on us by posting boards and by posting signs and also my life compared to my parents what they have at their time and what I have now. There is a big change and difference between our time age.

2. The comparison in  "How the Lawyers Stole Winter" is that skating on ice in winter. He also compared and contrasted how he learned things by experience and now a days kids learn from the signs and posts shown. Analogy is a best example in this piece which we read in class because analogy means special type of comparison that takes two subjects and in this is Him being father and other his kids and the comparison is being between the learning environment. 

[Madison Smith]

The lawyers have stolen my ability to treat myself to some cough syrup when I am sick.  I can no longer get the stuff that works, only the stuff that is a temporary healer.  Because of the want for a high, kids have abused cough syrup, which has called for regulations.   In the reading, the author exemplifies comparison and contrast by giving examples of what he learned as a child and what his children will not know and other observations.

[Elijah Cummings]

The lawyers taken away curfew for people under 18 a couple yeas ago. Now that I am 17 with a car, I have to wait to stay out all night after 12.

The story is comparing the freedom from back then to today and how the freedom has been broken from generations. Telling how his childhood was a memorable childhood instead of a organized childhood. The lawyers are trying to raise us to be the best in everything. So they make our childhood into paying for cable to watch T.V instead of enjoying the fresh air for free

[Daniel Ely]

To start, I would like to say that I think that Lawyers have truly stolen nothing from me. Lawyers are in a lot of ways just facilitating what has become a overall social problem. What is the problem? The problem is that people more and more are refusing to take responsibility for their actions. They always want to blame it on someone else when something bad happens to them. Take for example, the woman who sued McDonald's for endangering her with hot coffee. She claimed that since there was no warning that the coffee was hot, McDonald's was responsible for the burns she sustained when she spilled the beverage on herself. She would be the first of many people that would sue businesses for crazy reasons. So in this case, I think that it is not the lawyers that have put all these restrictions into our society, it is the inability of our fellow man to take responsibility for their actions. 

Moving on, this story showed compare and contrast in a very simple way. It took an environment where the author felt free, and compared that environment to the way the rest of society is corralled by rules and regulations. He then provides the reader with contrasts based on his childhood and the childhood of present children, and how children today are greatly shielded from any danger whatsoever. 

[Lane Lightle]

the comparision it to how kids back then use to learn and understand things by takeing an in depth look at them while todays generation is restricted from learning these things and i feel that its point by point

[Nathan Konik]

the lawyers have stolen bassically the whole world. the social order. kids cant just go out and be kids anymore. there way too many rules in the world. for example. if i were to say the word bomb, first thing to come to mind is either an explosion or a terrorist and the whole place we're in go in to lockdown. look at it this way. since 9/11 the world has gone soft. people are afraid of everything. hell, today if you fart innfront of the wrong person they wil sue the crap out of you.

 

it was an example of compare and contrast because hes compareing his childhood to the his sons childhood.

[rogers.bryce]

I feel like the lawyers haven't stolen that much from me personally, because i don't really do much. 

I feel like he was comparing his childhood to his adult life using a subject by subject approach

[Briana Everhart]

1. What lawyers have taken from me is being able to go to the mall, under the age of 16, anytime I want. It use to be that no matter what age you were people could go to the mall, when open, by walk around or buy things. Now they have security checking ID to make sure that your 16 or older and they have security follow groups of teenagers and kicking them out if they do not meet the age requirement.

2. -The basis of comparison is the ability to go to the mall -The structure of organization is point by point

[Folasade Aiyeru]

Lawyers have stolen my basic rights from me. I can't go to the store and buy a bottle of nail polish remover because of the laws. Simple things like that have been taken away from me. The article talks about the differences and similarities between what he has learned and what his children will learn with ice skating.

[Jenicka Roche]

1. I don't feel like the lawyers have stolen anything from me. I fell like they are supposed to if anything give stuff to you and help tou. 

2. The story exemplify's this style of writing by talking about how things were different back then, than they are now. Like when the guy talks about back then when he could just go down to the lake by himself with some friends and make sure the ice was safe to skate on. But now his kids and the kids now don't know what the ice is like. Also how the Harvard kids died because they didn't know about the ice being thin or not even when they have a really good education they still are not smart enough to understand real life aspects. They didn't get to experience those kinds of things because children now are so sheltered.

[Breanna Newton]

i feel like the lawyers have stoelen the fun out of being a kid for one they dont allow you to be at the mall after a certain time if you are underaged . they also do not allow you to watch movies that are rated a certain rating because they are not allowed.

[Evan Kraus]

1. When I was younger, me and a group of friends used to go to a newly paved street in my neighborhood to play street hockey. We would bring a net and a roller hockey puck. We played hockey almost every day from the time we got home from school to when it got dark. Sometimes we would even play in the dark. One day we were playing a game and a policeman drove up and got out of his car and called us over. He told that one of the people that lived on the street complained about us playing because we hit some pucks into their yard. The cop told us we were not aloud to come back and play on the street anymore.

2.  The author was comparing life when he was a kid and when he played pond hockey to how things are now and how the rules are more strict. He uses subject-by-subject to get his point across. 

[John Butler]

1. They have stolen the fact that you have to be 21 to just go into some bars not that I drink or anything its just stupid

2.  The story is about how some people had more freedom than others today.  

[Davin Damante]

When i was a little grown man at the age of 8 you where allowed to fight and not get in that mutch trouble for hitting a kid unless u really hurt them. Today the gahanna police are Incompetent

[floodddavis]

1.When I was little they had seesaw on our play ground now days they dont have them anymore beacuse kids are getting hurt.

2.-Basis of comparison is the seesaw-Structure of organization is point by point

[fowsiamohamed12]

1. Lawyers haven't taken anything from me in particular but they've taken the ability to make people under the age of 18 to make their own do hecisions and choices.

2. The author was comparing & contrasting his childhood to his kid's childhood.

[Anna Burica]

1.  To me lawyers took away the freedom of kids who are younger than 18 to stay at the mall past 8 without an adult. My opinion is that its unfair to some kids who are 16 or 17, they couldve at least made it 10.

2. The comparison was the fathers childhood compared to his kids childhood, which is excatly on point.

[Savanna McClure]

1. I feel like lawyers aren't really taking anything from us because they have to follow laws and they don't want someone to get hurt on their property and them get sued.

2. The writer is using compare and contrast by comparing how it was when he was a kid, until now when he is an adult. I feel like the structure is point-by-point

[Israel Dorsey]

1. The lawyers have stolen simple things away from me like not being able to buy certain things because of the age limit.

 

2. In "How the Lawyers Stole Winter compares and contrast what he learned in his experiences in his early childhood. He sort of compared it to how us kids have it today. The struture of orginization is point-by-point and the writer is giving examples as the story going along.

[Noah Gregory]

They compair how kids from today are different from kids in the 1960's. How kids today are taught not to take risks and are not in there envirement. They are not taught to over come dangers and obsticals because adults are are afraid of law suits. Kids in the 1960's were taught to over come  obsticals and larn to adapt to the enviroment around them. Its like how you are not allowed to skate at public parks because the owners are affraid  if they get hurt they would sue.