Thursday, December 16, 2010

blog 10

WOW!! Finally the last blog. After eight long weeks, hw, stress, and essays, i can finally breathe and say i did it. I accomplished alot and i learned alot of new things that are going to help me get thru the rest of my life. English 101 was very hard at first. But after putting alot of effort and mind to all my work, i did it.

Kristen you were a great teacher. At first i thought that you were a mean teacher with all the homework you gave us but now i have come to understand that everything you made us do was for our own good and our future. I am very grateful that you made us work hard and go to the next level. Thank you very much.

Right now i can honestly say that i have gone thru alot in life. im very young but i have had to act as an adult and make alot of grown up decisions. I have been working since i was 16 and once i graduated high school, i took a year off from college but i had bills and other responsabilities to take care of. Ive been working nonstop for 3 years now. I now hold a full time management position in retail.

I decided to come back to school because its the only way that i will get farther and where i want to get in life. I started with wanting to do early child education but now i recently changed it to healtcare interepretor. i have alot of goals in my life for myself. and slowly but surely i will accomplish all of them. I will continue next semester with my carrer and in the summer i will do CNA.

Thank you very much for making us work harder and harder. it will pay off in the long run and thanks for having so much patience with us!

Blog 9

The essay on the ad was also another challenge in my life. I was up most of the night trying to figure out how to put everything together. I was very thankful for the packet that really helped me get thru my paper.
The ad that i choose was on Teen Vogue Magazine. It was a sexy ad advertising a girl, clothing, and a motorcyle. I found it interesting because it had alot of the appeals that the packet had in there. I could talk alot on it because it was a whole ad that had alot going on. At first i couldnt put it together because i was confused but once i sat down and really put some thought to it, my ideas were coming naturally.
But at the end, once i was done with the essay, i said to myslef, wow, another thing that i learned and accomplished in my life.

Blog 8

English was always my easy and favorite subject. It somehow always came naturally to me and always did great on my papers. This was my first semester of college and I took English 101. At first, I was very excited because i thought to myself that it was going to be an easy A.
Once we actually started to do work and get homework and essays, my mind changed. As much as I tried to do my essays in the form they were required, i couldnt. MLA was my biggest hit.  I had never been introduced to it and it made my life a living hell for a while. Works cited also was one of my biggest challenges, even when i got help, i couldnt do it for the next time.
The next challenge that i had was TS/CD. I remember the first time that the article was handed to us, i didnt know what i was doing. i knew i was trying but in my mind i knew it wasnt right.
After eight weeks, of learning and reshaping my whole english thought, i finally feel comfortable with my writtig, and TS/CD has really made my life much easier when it comes to writting my papers.
I feel like i really accomplished all the guidelines that were stated on the syllabus even if i stayed up some nights trying to finsish my homework.

Blog 7

Im 19 years old, I have been working for three years and I have  never had a resume before. I got hired at my company when I was 16 years old. It was more of a "lets see if i get hired' thing and to my luck i got hired right on the spot. Now that I had to do my resume, it was a challenge. Filing out the paper work that was step-by-step was easy. But once i had to actually do it on microsoft word, I was stuck on it for a very long time. I had to get help from my sister and she is 1 year younger than me. After a couple phone calls and some research online to see the proper setting on it, i finally figured it out.
I am very greatful that now I have it done because I know it will do me very well for my future!

blog 6

Humor gives life a little more style. Without humor life would be plain simple and boring. When I hear something funny, I usually have to laugh out loud and relieve some energy from my body. They say laughter makes you live longer so i atleast try to laugh hard once a day lol.
Humor can be in different ways. whether experiencing something funny while you are there, remembering a past funny experience, hearing a joke or reading something funny.
The cocaine article was something different. I had never read anything like it before. The man was seriously not thinking when he called the police to report his cocaine stolen, he pretty much turned himself in. But it was deffenetly a humor article and I had fun while doing my ts/cd.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

blog #5

I guess I can say that the Compare/Contrast Essay was a bit challenging. But like everything, life is a challenge itself. One of the problems was identifying the three readings that I wanted to use for my essay. The three readings had to have things in common and also differences. One thing that I looked out for through out the readings were experiences that I could relate to in my life.

With this in mind, I chose Cutler's "Whodunit-The Media", Goldwasser's "What's the matter with kids Today" and Penrod's "Anti-Intelectualis".Once I read the stories, I put the book to the side and meditated on what I had just read. Somehow, I could relate with the teenagers in the stories, since I was still a teenager not to long ago.

Once I had all my ideas prepared, the hardest part was getting the essay started. I did not know where to start or how to put the information together so it could flow correctly. But once I started going, I did not get up until my essay was done. Like I mentioned earlier, life is all about challenges, but when we think about it, we can overcome anything.