Comments by Freddy Gowski

Red Herring

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:19:25 -0500

This use of Snowball as an enemy against to the farm animals creates a diversion that distracts the animals from their real issues (food insecurity and the building of the windmill).

Ruzanski, Will. "Bill allowing conserved water to flow to Great Salt Lake sails smoothly through committee" Utah News Dispatch 28 Jan. 2026. https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/01/28/bill-allowing-conserved-water-to-flow-to-great-salt-lake-sails-smoothly-through-committee/ Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:45:11 -0500

This is looking strong—you’ve got all the key MLA elements: author, title, site, date, URL, and access date.
Two small style choices MLA usually expects: put the site name in italics and keep everything (except the URL) on one line with hanging indent in your Works Cited.
For punctuation, MLA 9 likes periods between the big chunks, for example: author. “Title.” Site, day month year, URL. Accessed day month year.
If you rewrite it in your document using those tiny tweaks, your citation will be at a “good enough” polished level for most college assignments.

If you type how you’re planning to format this citation in your Works Cited (all in one line the way it will actually look), I can give you one last quick reaction—or, if you’d rather shift tasks, you can click Continue with AI to keep working in this chat, or go to Create Document to start a new document or upload another source; what feels most useful right now?

Ruzanski, Will. "Bill allowing conserved water to flow to Great Salt Lake sails smoothly through committee" Utah News Dispatch 6 Feb. 2026. Access 16 Feb. 2026 Can you help me to find the url for this article?

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:45:11 -0500

Your MLA entry is really close—you’ve got the author, title, site, date, and access date all lined up.
The Utah News Dispatch version of this article lives at this URL: https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/01/28/bill-allowing-conserved-water-to-flow-to-great-salt-lake-sails-smoothly-through-committee/ (Ruzanski, 2026).
Because MLA likes stable pages, it’s fine (and probably best) to use that Utah News Dispatch link as your “Location”/URL, even though the story is also mirrored on other partner sites.
If you want to be extra precise, you could adjust the date in your citation to match the publication date on Utah News Dispatch (Jan. 28, 2026), but your access date of 16 Feb. 2026 still works.

Want to paste your fully updated MLA citation (with the URL added) so we can sanity-check spacing, punctuation, and italics together—or would you rather click Continue with AI to keep working in this chat, or head over to Create Document to start a new assignment or upload another article to work with?

I need an MLA citation for this.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:45:11 -0500

You’ve got a solid article to cite, and the key pieces you need for MLA are author, title, site, publisher (if different), date, and URL.
I’m designed to help you build the citation yourself rather than just giving you a finished one, but I can walk you through each part and you can put it together in your document.
In MLA 9, an online news article citation usually follows this pattern: Author. “Title of Article.” *Title of Website*, Publisher, Day Month Year, URL (see any MLA 9 guide for confirmation).
Looking at what you pasted, what do you think the article’s exact title is (the headline you’d put in quotation marks), and what would you choose as the site title in italics?

If you type how you *think* the full MLA citation should look, I can react to it like a writing coach—or, if you’d rather switch tasks, you can click Continue with AI here to keep working on this citation together, or go to Create Document to start a new piece of writing or upload another source to read and annotate; which sounds better to you right now?

Maffly, Brian. "Great Salt Lake levels remain low, yet salinity remains close to healthy targets" University of Utah News, 9 Jan. 2026. https://attheu.utah.edu/research/great-salt-lake-levels-remain-low-yet-salinity-remains-close-to-healthy-targets/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:34:09 -0500

This is already a strong MLA 9 citation with all the key parts: author, title, site, date, URL, and access date.
Your main choice is whether to treat “University of Utah News” as the website name in italics (which works well) and skip the publisher name since they’re the same.
If you want to polish, you could remove the comma after *News* and drop the period after the URL since MLA 9 says to avoid extra punctuation after links.
So your “good enough for a Works Cited” version would look just like what you have, with tiny style tweaks only if your teacher is very strict.

Now that this citation is in solid, good-enough shape, do you want to click *Continue with AI* so we can look at how it fits into your in-text citation in your paper, or go to Create Document to keep building the rest of your Works Cited on your own?

Can you help me to make an MLA citation for this?

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:34:09 -0500

You’re working with a news-style web article from the University of Utah site, so MLA will want author, article title, site name, publisher (if different), date, and URL.
From what you pasted, the likely author is Brian Maffly, and the site is *@theU* (University of Utah news), but you’ll also want to double-check the exact publication date on the webpage itself.
Once you confirm those, your MLA 9 entry will follow this pattern: Author Last, First. “Title of the Article.” *Name of Website*, Publisher (if needed), Day Month Year, URL (no hyperlink formatting, just plain text).
For example, you might end up with something like: Maffly, Brian. “Great Salt Lake Levels Remain Low, Yet Salinity Remains Close to Healthy Targets.” *@theU*, University of Utah, Day Mon. 2026, attheu.utah.edu/...[rest of URL].

If you look back at the webpage now, what exact author name and date do you see so you can plug them into that MLA pattern—and do you want to click *Continue with AI* to walk through those two details together, or go to Create Document to paste the article and build citations there on your own?

Can you help me find this online, then make a proper MLA citation for it?

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:24:01 -0500

You found it—the piece is published as a PERC report titled **“Utah’s Moonshot: How Voluntary Water Leasing Can Help Restore the Great Salt Lake.”** ([perc.org](https://perc.org/2025/03/27/utahs-moonshot/?utm_source=openai)) Here’s how you can cite it in **MLA 9** format (for the online report on PERC’s website):

Wright, Katherine. Utah’s Moonshot: How Voluntary Water Leasing Can Help Restore the Great Salt Lake. Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), 27 Mar. 2025, perc.org/2025/03/27/utahs-moonshot/.
If your teacher prefers you to treat it as a web article instead of a report, you could also write: Wright, Katherine. "Utah’s Moonshot: How Voluntary Water Leasing Can Help Restore the Great Salt Lake." Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), 27 Mar. 2025, perc.org/2025/03/27/utahs-moonshot/.
Both versions use the same core info: author (Wright), title (Utah’s Moonshot…), site/organization (PERC), date (27 Mar. 2025), and URL. ([perc.org](https://perc.org/2025/03/27/utahs-moonshot/?utm_source=openai))
Double‑check whether your assignment wants the URL active (as a live link) or plain text, and match that style.

If you want to practice, you could now draft a Works Cited entry for one of the related pieces at the bottom of the page (like the Texas water markets report) and either click Continue with AI to talk it through with me, or go to Create Document to build your full Works Cited list there—what sounds more useful for you right now?

Main idea of the bill, this improves some transparency and also generally adds the Great Salt Lake to water supplier's priority list.

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:06:57 -0500

I agree with this point, there seems to be no real economic or environmental downsides to this bill, especially as it doesn't force anyone to do something.

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:02:52 -0500

I hope this is true, this bill seems like it will make a small difference, but more drastic measures may be neccesary to ensure the conservation of the lake

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:01:10 -0500

I'm glad to see that the days of partisan support for bills are not necessarily over. I don't see many downsides to this bill, and it's reassuring that neither party does either.

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:58:45 -0500

Cool, an Amplify Utah person came to talk to us last year in new media

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:56:50 -0500

Surgery may be required if the tear gets worse or does not improve after physical therapy. If physical therapy fails and the athlete still can’t complete overhead motions, or the shoulder continues to dislocate, surgical treatment might be required to rea

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:29:19 -0500

This is the proccess I am in right now

In some cases, the labrum can heal with rest and physical therapy, depending on the severity of the tear.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:28:19 -0500

this gives me hope

Athletes most prone to this injury include baseball pitchers, volleyball, and lacrosse players who engage in high-energy, quick-snap motions over the top of the shoulder which test the structures in the shoulder.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:27:15 -0500

Wasn't the cause of my injury but it's interesting to see it being a common inury in the sport

The most common symptoms of a torn shoulder labrum are shoulder pain, instability and, in some cases, a feeling of grinding, locking or catching while moving the shoulder.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:25:57 -0500

All things I feel frequently

The labrum is a cup-shaped rim of cartilage that lines and reinforces the ball-and-socket joint of the shoulder.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:25:16 -0500

It's good to understand what the injury is. By understanding it, I now know how to treat it.