Sunday, February 1, 2015
Multi-Genre Research Proposal
To start off, I decided to focus on a community project. My topic will be on Primary Education because it is so important in this everyday world. I have decided to interview a Pennfoster student, a high school student, and a teacher and ask them how their early education helped them be shaped into who they are today. I will do that over the weekend and during my classes when I have time to interview. So far what I know is that once you start doing something young it sticks to you especially if it's education because you're surrounded by peers who are striving for the same goal as you. I will gather my information online from the United Nations Millennium and books on testimonies from people who have been greatly impacted by their primary education. I thought that this topic was extremely meaningful because many people take education for granted and also because you learn many of the basic social skills in school and you learn new things everyday. Even though everyone develops on their own pace, primary school is a good head start for the future.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Living Thin: One Girl's Fight for a FULL Life By: Chelsea Donovan
Having read the post on Anorexia, it made me realize how many people struggle with everyday life without even the closest friends noticing. It was interesting because the most simple and blameless excuses are the most dangerous. It may lead into my project because some people take education for granted and so do people who take food for granted. It's a sad situation to be in.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Achieve Universal Primary Education
I have decided to keep my focus on education because it determines 99% of a person's future. It is encouraged all over to go to school and learn, while there are times it is taken for granted. Although there are many who want to go to school and can't, there is also a big chunk of people who do go to school and don't want to. This project is very useful to our own city because there are people who cannot go to school because they are not allowed to or the lack of opportunity/time. The problem is that there are many illiterate children and because of that, their future is jeopardized. One of the solutions was that UNICEF has opened schools and enrolled 3,917 children in Afghanistan, Bangladesh. Also 50 million people went out of poverty when they enrolled their children into school. It is an interesting matter because of all of the times that many students wake up in the mornings with dread of going to school some are waking up with an impossible dream of being in school. I am interested in this subject because it opens my eyes up to the blessings around me.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Start Something That Matters: Reading Response #2
1. Good Spread Peanut Butter
Mark & Alex are two guys who decided to help the world by providing to kids who suffer from malnutrition. But after spending time on their tour about MANA they decided that they could benefit the buyer with nutritious food while giving away MANA to the malnutrition kids. And that was how their story began. I admire them both for multiple reasons. One of them is the fact that they are trying to not only help the kids who suffer from malnutrition, but also to keep the healthier people to be healthy. It's really nice that both of the parties benefit. Another reason is that they are improving themselves day by day and perfecting their plan, striving for the best. I love how they chose peanut butter because I love it. Even though there are thousands of people who are allergic to it, I'm sure that they get enough profit. I admire them for still pursing their goal even though their car broke down, it really is rare to find people like that.
2. Sanitation Creations
Having a clean home and a clean restroom is something that we take for granted. Third world countries are struggling because they do not have clean water and to have a nice toilet is not spoken of because of the expense. Here in America we have Porta Potty's which are gross and smell bad but the developed Dungaroo is odorless and clean. To have the smallest comforts in life is often taken for granted even though they may be one of the most important things to own. This topic stood out to me because I can be a germ-freak. One example is using Germ-X whenever there is an opportunity. I thought that Liz Morris was really smart about the idea of Dungaroo's because it is a necessity especially when there are unsafe conditions that surround a person. I loved how she thought about others and not only herself.
3. CoverForCover - Fight Child Illiteracy With Fun Kid's Books
Baby showers certainly give off the right ideas to people and can help you publish two books! Children are parents' number one priority is wanting to supply them with only the best and when they see that there is something out of place they try to fix it and Mike Nemeth went all out on it. Having a good time is something that he would not like to miss out and certainly not during reading time with his child. His system is pretty neat: for each book a person buys he give one away to a low-income family so that their literacy rate would rise up rather than sink down. I personally love to read aloud to children and so when I saw this passage I was pretty happy. It was so great how the idea of making books grew from a baby shower. I really do think that it is in the most unusual places that you get great ideas from although there are some great ideas from normal situations.
Finding your passion is either really easy or extremely difficult. Throughout my life I just wanted to help people, but I did not know how exactly (and still don't). There are questions like, "If you did not have to worry about money, what would you do with your time?" I would also like to add on to if you had all of the education required because I think that it would be the neatest thing to go and work on people with your team for example being a surgeon. I mean you'd have to be pretty humble to go out there and volunteer to do surgeries in third world countries instead of making bank at home. An example of a cause that I would serve would be Operation Smile because you get to make a person's insecurity go away in a surgery and know that you had a part in helping them. I think of it as a combination of both little things and big things in life.
Mark & Alex are two guys who decided to help the world by providing to kids who suffer from malnutrition. But after spending time on their tour about MANA they decided that they could benefit the buyer with nutritious food while giving away MANA to the malnutrition kids. And that was how their story began. I admire them both for multiple reasons. One of them is the fact that they are trying to not only help the kids who suffer from malnutrition, but also to keep the healthier people to be healthy. It's really nice that both of the parties benefit. Another reason is that they are improving themselves day by day and perfecting their plan, striving for the best. I love how they chose peanut butter because I love it. Even though there are thousands of people who are allergic to it, I'm sure that they get enough profit. I admire them for still pursing their goal even though their car broke down, it really is rare to find people like that.
2. Sanitation Creations
Having a clean home and a clean restroom is something that we take for granted. Third world countries are struggling because they do not have clean water and to have a nice toilet is not spoken of because of the expense. Here in America we have Porta Potty's which are gross and smell bad but the developed Dungaroo is odorless and clean. To have the smallest comforts in life is often taken for granted even though they may be one of the most important things to own. This topic stood out to me because I can be a germ-freak. One example is using Germ-X whenever there is an opportunity. I thought that Liz Morris was really smart about the idea of Dungaroo's because it is a necessity especially when there are unsafe conditions that surround a person. I loved how she thought about others and not only herself.
3. CoverForCover - Fight Child Illiteracy With Fun Kid's Books
Baby showers certainly give off the right ideas to people and can help you publish two books! Children are parents' number one priority is wanting to supply them with only the best and when they see that there is something out of place they try to fix it and Mike Nemeth went all out on it. Having a good time is something that he would not like to miss out and certainly not during reading time with his child. His system is pretty neat: for each book a person buys he give one away to a low-income family so that their literacy rate would rise up rather than sink down. I personally love to read aloud to children and so when I saw this passage I was pretty happy. It was so great how the idea of making books grew from a baby shower. I really do think that it is in the most unusual places that you get great ideas from although there are some great ideas from normal situations.
Finding your passion is either really easy or extremely difficult. Throughout my life I just wanted to help people, but I did not know how exactly (and still don't). There are questions like, "If you did not have to worry about money, what would you do with your time?" I would also like to add on to if you had all of the education required because I think that it would be the neatest thing to go and work on people with your team for example being a surgeon. I mean you'd have to be pretty humble to go out there and volunteer to do surgeries in third world countries instead of making bank at home. An example of a cause that I would serve would be Operation Smile because you get to make a person's insecurity go away in a surgery and know that you had a part in helping them. I think of it as a combination of both little things and big things in life.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Article 1 Response
This article on the seven grammar rules was a bit of an eye opener. I can connect to the "between you and I" using I instead of me. I almost nailed it, except I need to work on it in my speech. I usually correct myself to just get into habit. I have mastered the it's, you're or who's and vice versa. It comes really easy to me and unless I'm in a hurry, I catch them.
The main points of this article was to tell people what are the most common grammatical errors are the simple ones. It was to encourage writers to write better and to progress in their writing. I thought that Ben Yagoda did a good job on describing the difficulties and mistakes of writing. It was well written and to the point; without cutting corners.
1. The subjunctive
This one is pretty simple. When you're writing about a non-true situation — usually following the word if or the verb wish — the verb to be is rendered as were.
I did not stumble upon this fact even though I have been hearing it around me for the longest time ever. Reading it in his post it all made sense to me, like a puzzle piece fitting perfectly together. I thought that it was important because it truly is the little things and words in life that matter.
It's pretty amazing that you can compose the 7 important facts in a list because once it gets down to it, it gets tough. With practice, grammar should be a piece of cake.
The main points of this article was to tell people what are the most common grammatical errors are the simple ones. It was to encourage writers to write better and to progress in their writing. I thought that Ben Yagoda did a good job on describing the difficulties and mistakes of writing. It was well written and to the point; without cutting corners.
1. The subjunctive
This one is pretty simple. When you're writing about a non-true situation — usually following the word if or the verb wish — the verb to be is rendered as were.
I did not stumble upon this fact even though I have been hearing it around me for the longest time ever. Reading it in his post it all made sense to me, like a puzzle piece fitting perfectly together. I thought that it was important because it truly is the little things and words in life that matter.
It's pretty amazing that you can compose the 7 important facts in a list because once it gets down to it, it gets tough. With practice, grammar should be a piece of cake.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
PechaKucha: The Power of Yes
Tiffany Lentz did a very well job overall on the PechaKucha. She explained in great deal her insecurities and risks that she took to overcome her fears. She glided was throughout on her explanations and had a reason behind every task, even if it was as simple as just doing it.
She may have to improve with going a little bit slower on her presentation. It's funny because most people go too slow and she goes 2-3 seconds ahead; it may not seem like a great difference but it does turn out to be. When she does talk ahead it get kind of off because I can't see the next picture so my brain doesn't want to click. Her visuals had a lot of humor which no one minds at all I'm sure.
I noticed that Tiffany Lentz had passion, and that passion let her go far in life. Her nonconformity but persistence let her go far in life. Just like any other presentation it has its ups and downs so I'm not quite sure about the presentation as a whole. I think that 10 slides will be a breeze and I hope that that'll be true.
She may have to improve with going a little bit slower on her presentation. It's funny because most people go too slow and she goes 2-3 seconds ahead; it may not seem like a great difference but it does turn out to be. When she does talk ahead it get kind of off because I can't see the next picture so my brain doesn't want to click. Her visuals had a lot of humor which no one minds at all I'm sure.
I noticed that Tiffany Lentz had passion, and that passion let her go far in life. Her nonconformity but persistence let her go far in life. Just like any other presentation it has its ups and downs so I'm not quite sure about the presentation as a whole. I think that 10 slides will be a breeze and I hope that that'll be true.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Face to Face: My Reaction
Amna Chaudhary: "I never really thought about taking the scarf off."
In high school, meeting people who are a one hundred percent sure of their religion is rare. In Amna's story it was the last week of her senior year that she started wearing her scarf. The scarf was a big indication of her particular belief. One factor that made me determine that she was used to the scarf and considered it a norm was because she said, "It'd be like someone getting ready in the morning and going to school and not putting a shirt on, kind of." She said that gesturing her feelings on not wearing one. I was pretty surprised because she was not influenced by her surroundings and truly made that a part of her everyday life. I feel like it took a lot of gut to change herself in the way that she thought for the better.
Khaled Abou El Fadl: "They don't feel comfortable sitting next to you."
In this day and time you would think that fear of being looked upon being a terrorist would pass. Unfortunately it has not. Like Khaled Abou El Fadl, he is a person's fear. Sitting next to a person like him immediately scares everything out of them. So he started wearing suits everywhere he went; to get a better impression of himself. I think that it is so ridiculous on how much what others think of you can define you. It is a horrible thing though because you lose a lot. One of the things that you lose it your identity. It's one hectic world out there with all of the superstitions.
In high school, meeting people who are a one hundred percent sure of their religion is rare. In Amna's story it was the last week of her senior year that she started wearing her scarf. The scarf was a big indication of her particular belief. One factor that made me determine that she was used to the scarf and considered it a norm was because she said, "It'd be like someone getting ready in the morning and going to school and not putting a shirt on, kind of." She said that gesturing her feelings on not wearing one. I was pretty surprised because she was not influenced by her surroundings and truly made that a part of her everyday life. I feel like it took a lot of gut to change herself in the way that she thought for the better.
Khaled Abou El Fadl: "They don't feel comfortable sitting next to you."
In this day and time you would think that fear of being looked upon being a terrorist would pass. Unfortunately it has not. Like Khaled Abou El Fadl, he is a person's fear. Sitting next to a person like him immediately scares everything out of them. So he started wearing suits everywhere he went; to get a better impression of himself. I think that it is so ridiculous on how much what others think of you can define you. It is a horrible thing though because you lose a lot. One of the things that you lose it your identity. It's one hectic world out there with all of the superstitions.
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