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.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
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.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
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.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
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.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
"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.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
"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.
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