Week 14
14) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. Introduction The focus of this blog, is to be a informative, and supporting blog. This blog will talk about how the English Composition I class is ran, and the importance of each blog. I will be going through each of my weekly blogs not summarizing them, but saying the importance, and how, each blog has guided, and taught me how to complete the semester, and become a better writer. Reflections Week 1) The Proust Questionnaire Our first blog of semester, we were able to introduce and meet many of our classmates for the first time. Doing our first blog really helped us learn a lot about our class mates. This also allowed each of us to learn the groove of due dates, and how we must manage our time, if we wish to succeed in this class. The Proust Questionnaire also thought me things about my self I remember answering questions and not knowing the answers to them even though they were about myself. It showed how we are going to have to learn more about ourselves, which set all of us on the rest of our life-choice blogs, and our Life-Choice Memoir. Week 2) Writing Process Quote Collage On week two, we were able to get a feel for how the class would be ran, we had to meet another due date, which showed that the due dates are going to have a pattern to them. This week we also learned a lot about the importance of our writing process, by looking at famous writers talk about their writing process. This week also reminded us how to use quotes correctly. Being reminded how to use quotes correctly really helped through the semester especially when I had to do my research paper. Week 3) Life Choice: The Powers That Be? On week three, we learned that we will have the same due will stay the same every week. Week three also provided us with skills on being able to read and annotate a reading which will provide us with skills needed in our research paper, and for many other activities in class. This blog also had us to begin thinking of the life choices that we make which will later become one of the main supporting blogs, in our Life-Choice Memoir. Week 4) Life Choice: To Tell the Truth? On week four our blogs were based off of another life choice question, this blog was a little bit different because we were not annotating a reading, but we annotated an audio clip, What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang). I've never had to do something like this before, but I found it to be very useful because I was able to hear the actual emotions that were suppose to be portrayed. This also helped set me up for my Life-Choice Memoir. Week 5) Life Choice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? on week five, I learned the importance, of having a theme, and how to show a story instead of tell a story. In the story my story Circles, I used Hills Like White Elephants, as a reference on how to show a story and not tell a story. Week 6) Life Choice: Is This My Tradition? Even though week six was another Life Choice blog that should of been more beneficial to my Life-Choice Memoir, I found this blog to be more helpful for my research paper, I decided to write about gun control and actual had to do research to back up my opinions. Blog six was almost like a mini informal research paper. 7) Life-Choice Memoir Reflection wow, week seven. Week seven was a very meaningful week, I finished my first draft of Circles, and I learned the importance of reflection. Blog seven really had me focus on the way I wrote my paper, and made me think if it was beneficial the way I did it. It also for the first time made me think on how I was going to improve my writing through revision. Week seven taught me a lot more than just how to reflect though. Week seven was the week I realized that I had to have better time management on my life, I will have to spend more time on my papers, and If I do not stay on top of my work I will not reach my grade goals. Week 8) Midterm Reflection week eight, I decided to relax for a week, I had to option to do a video blog, but honestly I just didn't feel comfortable doing it so I didn't. I could of learned some things from week eight, but I failed to take an advantage of my opportunity. Week 9) Summary of Where to Invade Next week 9 gave me a lot of experience in summarizing. This was an extremely crucial week because it lead me to try and organize my blogs in a creative way. It also gave me experience in picking out the important information out of a large amount of information. and condensing an entire video (Where to Invade Next) into paragraphs. This was a skill that I had to do for my research paper, not just for this class, but for my other classes as well. Week 10) Where to Invade Next? An Argument. This week I learned to importance of how to create a research question. I learned that I have to have a topic, then with the topic I need to make a research question, and then after the question I must argue my point. Week 10 to me was honestly just a fun blog in my eyes, I was about to argue my point which I enjoy doing to begin with. Week 11) Annotated Bibliography I'll be honest I did not enjoy this week, but I must say this was by far the most helpful week, when I had to work on my research paper I already had six sources summarized, evaluated, and I knew how I would use them in my research paper, These six sources were originally almost all of my sources in the first draft of WORK, Work work. Week 12) Research Paper Reflection The last required blog I had to complete, lucky number 12. This blog was identical to blog 6, I do recommend changing the question up a little bit, because I felt it strange to have to watch the video Reflective Writing, for a second time. Besides that week 12 allowed me to reflect on my research paper, and it's interesting comparing blog 6, and blog 12 to see the differences that people made.
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So this is my first blog that I'm doing on my own will, I always looked at writing as a thing to do for a better grade, but this is not the purpose of my blog. This blog I want to talk about the crazy Thanks-giving weekend that happened, and maybe it will make me feel a little bit better talking about it, and getting it off my chest. Summary So my Thanks giving weekend started off great as I hope everyone else did. I enjoy my Saturday off from school, and work and enjoyed time at my girlfriends family's house considering we spent last Thanks-giving at my family's house. The Thanks-giving weekend started out great, we sat around the TV watching the football games watching beer, waiting for the feast to be finished. Once the feast was finished we did what many families did and ate our turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and other holiday foods that the typical American's eat. After thanks giving was my friend Danny's 21st birthday, so we were going to take him out for his 21st birthday, while doing so we pre-gamed at his birthday party that his family through for him. That party ended at about 9:30 after that we took him to my friend Tim's house and we all pre-gamed even more waiting for midnight to take Danny out for his first legal drink. When 12 O-clock happened we walked Danny to a local bar called John Morton's. When we got to the bar I paid for my friends first shot as part of a tradition he had to take a Four-horseman, which is honestly a terrible drink, but it's a tradition. when we were there we happen to stumble across my brother Will, who basically is the king of bars. Bar's are his place of comfort, and control. After about 30 minutes of hanging out with him and my friends Danny, Marc, Tim, and I left and went to Barnaby's and we left my friend James at John Morton's because he was not 21 and could not get into Barnaby's. Once our Uber delivered Danny, Marc, Tim and I to Barnaby's we Treated out friend Danny to more Shots, and drinks. We were all having a great time socializing and have a fun time. 2.00 pm creeped up quicker than we could of imagined and it was time to order another Uber to take us back to Tim's house to debrief our night. Once the Uber took Danny, Tim, Marc, and I back to Tim's house our friend James' called asking if he could come back to Tim's house. We invited James' back to the house. About 20 minutes passed and James was welcomed into the house, and then Will and his friend followed in the house a few minutes later, after there walk from John Mortons. Uninvited but we still welcomed Will and his friend into the house as we were debriefing and getting ready to part ways to get sleep for the next day, My brother will got up and walked out side, I followed him outside thinking we could walk home together as we never really hang out. As I walked out of the door I was unprovokely struck in the face by Will. As what i believe to be only a few seconds of passed I regained Consciousness and was able to put my legs up to prevent him from gaining a mount on me to ground in pound. In the daze of the moment I was kicking him off me for what felt like a minute until my friends opened the door saw what was happening and grabbed him off of me. When this happened knowing that he carries a fire arm I ran dawn the street and called 991, as I hide in someone's back yard. The Aftermath When I got to the ER I was given a few stitches in my lip, received a CAT Scan, and had to have an emergency Dentist appointment first thing Monday morning. The Dentist had to give me a Bridge on my teeth which acts as Braces in a sense to stabilize my teeth in hopes that my teeth can be saved, The dentist reminded me that More than likely I'm going to lose both of my front teeth but This gives me a chance to save at least one of them, or in a miracle both. After this happened I realized that my brother definitely has something mentally wrong with him, for him to unprovoked knock my front two teeth out, and then try to possibly kill me. I had to get a restraining order on him, which also takes away his right to bear arms. I'm going to have to sue my brother for what is already over $5,000 in medical bill and if I do need to get my teeth replaced, will be more towards $20,000. And I also had to get paper's for him to be mentally evaluated. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Week 9
9) Summary of Where to Invade Next [Category: Where to Invade Next, Summary]: Please complete the following:
Summary In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore "invaded" Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland. When he went to every country he decided to steal their ideas, and plant the american flag in every country after he stole their ideas. Italy When Michael Moore decided to invade Italy he thought that we should steal their idea of two hour lunch breaks, and spending time with our families. Italians are also entitled to four weeks of vacation. France When Michael Moore invaded France he decided to Focus on the school lunches and how they received a much more nutritious and appetizing lunch during school hours for a cheaper price than Americans. The people of France also have a lower teenage pregnancy rate than Americans because they do not believe in teaching abstinence. Finland While in Finland Michael decided to steal the idea of no homework, and shorter school days along with no using multiple choice questions in order to achieve having the best schooling system in the world. In Finland all schools perform at the same level and receive the same education there is no "shopping for school" in Finland. Slovenia Slovenia provides free schooling for everyone, even foreigners. This allows students to graduate from school with out having to worry about being in debt, it allows everyone to prosper and live a more enjoyable life. Germany When Michael invaded Germany I believe this is where he found the most valuable policies. In Germany the middle class is a thriving. "work is work, when work is over it's over" This allows their people to work the 36 hour weeks and when their work week is over they do not have to worry about work. It is actually illegal to contact someone on vacation, and during off-work hours in Germany. Portugal While I personally don't believe this idea should be stolen Michael Moore believed that Portugal has a lot to offer with the legalization of all drugs such as pills, heroin, cocaine, and any other drugs that a person desires. Norway While I personally don't believe this idea either should be stolen Michael Moore believed that Norway has a great prison system where regardless the significance of the crime a person will not receive the death penalty and that they will not serve more than a 21 sentence. Tunisia While invading Tunisia Michael Moore was surprised to see that Tunisia offer free birth control to everyone, including iud, condoms, pills, and even abortion. he was also informed on how the dictatorship was over thrown and then the next government "stepped down" after denying women the right to vote. Iceland After invading Iceland Michael Moore found out that, Iceland has a forced diversity workforce, where you have quotas in your work force, where it must be a no more than 60% of one sex in the workforce. I am not a fan of quotas because it forces people who aren't always the most eligible to get the job anyway and is completely unfair to the person more eligible for the job. |
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