Future Career

There have been many changes and shifts in my life, which made who I am today. Experiences I have went through has altered what I believe are my strengths and what used to be my strengths. Growing up I was open to many things such as being a cop, doctor, and even an artist. I wanted to be a cop because I loved having obstacles and catching the bad guys when I was little. A doctor because of the people that left my life I always liked taking care of people in return. I even wanted to be an artist because I loved drawing, took many drawing classes, but soon all these skills and interest began to fade. I feel like anyone can be whom he or she wanted as long as they put their heart into it. All these shifts left me to become and engineer because I love working with people, putting creative ideas into my work, and just creating something that everyone can benefit from. I began to identify all these strengths by noticing the person I am and how people see me. All these are reasons, which led me to this career because I felt like I always put m heart into projects, and I'm good at it. I developed a strong connection with people and some even say I would make a good engineer one day. People around me definitely gave me more motivation into what I was doing because someone else agrees with my point of view. 

Teamwork!

In this week of discussion I felt like group production was what got me most interested. In order to have a successful group everyone has their own role and the amount they contribute to the group. If one person was to not act upon their role the whole group will not reach their goal. Like this week I got to meet up with the group for the first time, we basically made decisions by the group’s choice that way no one is left out. The more perspective we have on a topic it will always make our arguments stronger. With new ideas and points of views to choose from, it makes it easier for the group to achieve their goals. I feel like reading the chapter about how to assign jobs to each person definitely helped make our group production a lot better. I also though leadership roles also play a big role because without the right leader there is no coordination and it will be harder to understand what is the point that they are reaching. For this group production is very important and the way your project comes out depends on how every body contributes not just one person.

Dr. Novello

Dr. Novello was born with a mindset that she wasn't going to let anyone stop her from doing anything. She was dedicated and always strived to do her best at anything she puts her mind and heart into. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew she had a disadvantage due to her poor health and living situations. However, she used that as a motivation to push her to achieve bigger and better things in life. Her main focus was to identify and reduce the increasing rates of AIDS, violence, alcohol, and tobacco. To do this, she went out to the public to speak her mind out. She was never quiet; she was known to have a big voice. She sets her mind to educate the public about smoking among children and teens; she goes to schools and work with educational boards. She took notice in Camel cigarette ads and taught that to the kids. Because she has a background with working with UNICEF and health institutes, most of the things she says would be considered concrete and honest.

Inductive Arguement

 I am a person that is always looking for places to eat is often introduced to many new places to eat.There is this sushi place, Sushi Infinity, I‘ve been waiting to try for couple of months because I’ve been seeing many ads for this restaurant with a low price. It was about 2 weeks ago when I decided to ask my friend which is also a food critic to go eat there with me. When I told her she wasn’t too amazed because she had it before and actually introduced me to another place, Old Town Sushi that had way cheaper prices with the same or maybe even better quality of food. She basically persuaded me because she explained the quality of their raw meat, she definitely knows her food. Once I heard it wasn’t as fresh as the other place I quickly changed my mind. With good facts she persuaded me to eat at another restaurant and I believe that is what helps make your argument strong. 

Developing a Strong Conclusion

In order to make a conclusion stronger there is many times when you have to decide what are the quantity and the quality of the statement. A good way is rewriting statements into standard form making it less broad and easier to understand for readers. In quantity it is categorized as universal or particular. This means, if the topic your talking about has to do with a whole population or a specific sample your taking out. This will give the reader a better understanding because you’re more specific on the topic. For example, you can talk about cats in an essay. If you single out tigers from cats it will let the leader know your just talking about tigers rather than all cats. The other category is quality, which is a positive or negative. Identifying the quality lets the reader know the point your trying to put out. The quality is where you establish your points with words such as no. Therefore identifying these categories gives the reader a better understanding of your arguments because it provides key words. 

"Perspectives of the Death Penalty"

I believe what Sister Helen Perjean has a good reasoning and how we should forgive ones who sin. She puts out how we should not hate for hate and evil for evil therefore we should not murder for murder. This phrase supports the reason why death penalty should be banned. The law should not have the power to decide who can live or not. I think it’s a good enough punishment for life in prison, what makes us different from the murderer when were basically doing the same thing. In the reading they believe crime would decrease due to death penalty but I believe there will always be crime. For Christians they might believe in the death penalty, but religion cant always be used because there are no facts behind it. Therefore religion is not moral because no facts prove what is right and wrong. I stand strong with banning the death penalty because it doesn't make us any better than the ones we decide to kill.

"Silver Blaze"

1) Sherlock Holmes believed that many people are not able to put aside what is truth and theory. People often hear theories and opinions in their everyday life and some accept these theories and some actually look into finding the truth. If people were to always keep all the opinions of others soon they will be left with nothing. There is no proof of what they say until you search for the truth. People eventually get all their facts from people instead of something that they can support themselves. For this Sherlock Holmes believe if there are facts to a problem, you will soon find the truth if you look hard enough.

I actually have experienced this with some of my friends. Most which watches a lot of television and believes almost every single thing coming from the news. When you hear of news reporters they completely think the information they give them is completely the truth. What they didn't know is that there is a lot of things they hide behind those cameras. Things they have to censor in order to protect the government. I showed him many newspapers and research on videos showed him all the cover-ups, providing him with facts that we shouldn't always trust the media because there are a lot of lies behind it. People won’t believe you or let go of their answers until they see it themselves. Therefore people need to do more research and not always believe in what they hear from others. 

Discussion 3

I believe the most important part of group work would probably be group roles. These roles involve the, Information seeker, Information giver Initiator, Elaborator, and Administrator, each has a specific role in the group. this is the best way to divide work between each group member that way the work is evenly contributed. since each person is assigned to a role they are more focused on their own goals so facts will be more in depth. work is easier when each person is given a goal so when they present to each other the information is fully detailed giving more options to the table to choose from. when ideas are presented thats when they start working as a group, choosing the topics everyone is interested in and forming a well organized presentation. this process help groups communicate because each person has to present their own task to the group. I feel like this way of group working is most effective because everyone is able to contribute to fulfill the goals of the group. 

Discussion 2

A time that I was about to lose my friend through a decision that I stand strong for was I was against smoking and drinking. I felt like smoking and drinking has so much side affects that can harm someone in the future. In high school smoking and drinking would actually be an act of coolness. Not sure why but I always stood against my beliefs until my friend broke up in his first relationship. There wasn't much ha time that I was about to lose my friend through a decision that I stand strong for was I was against smoking and drinking. I felt like smoking and drinking has so much side affects that can harm someone in the future. In high school smoking and drinking would actually be an act of coolness. Not sure why but I always stood against my beliefs until my friend broke up in his first relationship. There wasn't much he could do to take away the pain mainly tried drinking for the first time and eventually smoking. The more he did it more he changed in his personality such as his attitude towards others and the fact he didn't care no more. I stood my ground and explained how he changed after he was influenced at least 4-5 times a week. I was almost on the edge of our relationship until I felt like the only way was to step away and let him learn himself. I wanted to understand how the people around him cared about him so much that if he loses us in the end he would be alone. When he began realizing what he had before he tried to quit and going back to his old ways. Today he still recovering slowly not as influenced as before which is a lot better. Critical thinking helped me evolve into standing strong to what I believe and think of ways we can take a problem and help solve it in a kindly manner. Standing strong for what I believe helped change my friend and might have saved a life. 

Discussion 1

President Barack Obama seems to be leaning toward the direction of equal rights for same sex marriages therefore his stance is consistent. I feel like marriage should not be judged as long as the family is stable any one should have the rights to get married. President Obama was only against same sex marriage because it was against his religion but as he became president he understood how homosexuals should not be treated differently than others. Just because he is against gay marriage due to the federal law it doesn't mean he cant support them on the personal level. Obama tries his best to support same-sex couples by giving them the rights they deserve because everyone is the same no matter what sexual orientation they represent. 

President Obama would definitely respond to Nava and Dawidoff’s argument by agreeing with them because he supports the idea that sam-sex couples shouldn't stop others from gaining their rights. Therefore I believe president Obama will take their sides.

Introductory Post

Hi Everyone,

       Im currently a junior and majoring in Industrial Technology. I have good experience in communication skills because my work requires it. I'm friendly and always open to meeting new people. I love to travel a lot and just learn about other cultures because its interesting learning how different people live their life. I also enjoy food, on my free time I can say I hunt for new places to eat with friends. I'm very active so pretty much open to any sports but prefer basketball the most. I don't really follow much sports anymore just because I've been really busy with school and work. I listen to many types of music such as jazz, hip-hop, and rock. I'm originally from San Francisco so I go back every other week or just when I have time off work. Something I've been wanting to do is probably start snowboarding. Its been a hobby I want to get better at so lets hope I can make it happen this year!
This is just a little bit of info about me, hope I can get to know all you guys better!

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