Exercise 2

"Most of us, I think, can swing both ways in our feelings towards pigeons, an ambivalence that doesn't seem to apply to other "pests" because pigeons occupy an odd category of creatures that we can both love and hate, animals that are untidy and irritating yet, at times, utterly enchanting."

"Yet these two feelings, our separation and connection to the natural world, are always in conflict, even among those who have tutored themselves to believe in one rather than the other.  This seems especially true when confronted with creatures like pigeons, who aren't easy to hate and aren't easy to love, who both foul the nest and yet possess the beauty of a gray river stone, smoothed by the timeless movement of current."

      I think the central question he was trying to ask is that is bad writing to one bad to others. The thesis seemed to be that some people might like your style or your certain paper.  Just like the pigeons, some might not like your paper but some might see a beauty to it like the pigeon.  This is what I thought the thesis was and it seems to make sense to me.  The author was trying to understand that some people might not like your writing just like how some people are fans of Obama and some are not. 

     When you right a research paper a good method you can use are using personal experiences and observations along with facts to not bore the reader.  Facts a lot of times are boring if that is all you keep reading

     I never really created a research paper that has personal experiences in it and observations.  In mt recent years of schooling, research papers were papers that you researched a topic in books or websites and they seemed quite boring.  The pigeon essay uses the authors personal experiences and observations which makes it unlike of what I thought a reseach paper really is.  I will be more interested in research if I can add my own expeirences.  This way it can make the paper and research more fun, which will most likely create a better paper. 

     I thought I can relate or extract the message out of this essay.  I am not totally sure that my assumption is correct but I think it can definitely relate.  I learned a lot about pigeons reading this essay.  I never really thought in depth about the pigeons and there skill to make you hate them or love them.  I learned that nature will always be there and people are going to have different views on the way they look at nature.