profile story

The past couple of weeks I have been wrestling with ideas of who I could do my profile story on. Thankfully that match is over as I have decided on profiling Professor Keefe. You may know him from history class as that's how I met him. You may also think he's normal at first. Keefe has been known to pick up loose change on the ground during class, scream "OLE!" every time he says Spain, and for that pipe he sometimes holds with his mouth. What really interests me though is his dislike for computers. When I got his syllabus in my first class with professor Keefe it was typed with a type writer, which he explained was because he didn't use computers. In a world where technology specifically computers, have become almost mandatory to some people's daily lives how can anybody just choose not to use computers?

Bragg

Rick Bragg's style of writing and speaking are slightly different but very effective. With each story he tells, Bragg tries to bring meaning to the reader or listener. Whether Bragg is writing or speaking there is always an audience, but what he understands is that these audiences are different. The audience that is listening gets a little more personality because Bragg is there in front of them speaking. Meanwhile the audience that's reading automatically gets a more scholarly story in writing. Personality is the kind of thing that you can hide in a speech but that Rick Bragg cannot. His stories come the troubled family that he grew up with that inspired his writings and probably drove him to be so good at what he does. Anyone that watches this speech can tell how important Bragg finds family and how valuable his family is to him not only as a son, father, or grandson, but also as a writer.Without the situation Bragg grew up in and around who knows if he'd be half the writer he is today. While Bragg's writing may be great, his speaking may be even greater. His southern accent adds to each word that comes out of his mouth and his delightful sense of humor lightens the mood a bit. Bragg may come from a broken home, but he's one solid storyteller.