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Mini Proposal: Complete a 700 word (120 words per paragraph, 5 paragraphs) proposal for making improvements to the blog component of the course before I use it again.  For the intro describe the problem.  For the thesis, tell me what the solution is (its fine if it is a list that represents the topic sentences of the three body paragraphs




I think that the blog was a good idea. It let everyone get to know each other from another perspective. Just doing the blog every week with deadlines made it to complicated. As soon as the semester became more active I kind of lost touch with keeping the blogs all on schedule. Since everyone gets on the social sites having a class page from one of them is not a bad idea at all. We can easily go on their and post something. I do not know but it is like social sites are addictive. It can make everyone reply to the activities more. Giving us a reason to really do the homework and looking forward to completing it. It gets interesting but then it gets boring. 


I think the question are more responsive and it helped me work on my structure. Just going commenting back and forth i lost touch of that to. We should brainstorm more in class about everything the topic is pertaining to. Brainstorming and using every ones ideas to make your own helps you better your judgment from everyone else. The readings are very helpful but some of the questions was to overwhelming sometimes. It is not bad keeping up with it if you think out the box. 


The timing was not so bad. Just it was to much every week. I managed to get most of it completed. Just sometimes when you get lazy and then theirs all kinds of homework you have to do. It can get very nerve wrecking trying to maintain every ones site all at one time. Each teacher has a site for different things and some things are time consuming and it just makes everything hectic. But I had fun when it first started. We should just have a mixture of a freestyle and brainstorming blog. Like the freestyle can be on any topic that you want and the brainstorming can be a mixture of lessons from class.


The commenting back and forth it was helpful when the topics are confusing and controversial. I just stopped because sometimes the time was not there. I wish some of the topics were focused on freestyle and half on school. But the blog theme was nice and I did not mind doing it. Yes. you should keep using blogger. You can give them topics to write on and they can prove their point and see which one is more important. Just focusing on what can help their writing skills embraced. A lot of things can help them out when they can be comfortable and write strongly. Having some freedom of writing what you think but in a responsible manner can get everyone participating equally. 


The pros and cons out weight each other a little bit. It can also balance out. They can stop doing it because they do not have the time or they just do not care. And the positive outcomes from the new site would give them time to figure things out with more time like a blog one a week. So that would give them time when they have free time to do their blog in a timely manner. That gives everyone happy grades and they can express themselves more than  in a time consuming blog. The experience is nice when you are a person that likes expressing themselves out loud. This semester of doing the blogs was something new that i have not done before. It reminds me of twitter a little bit.

Week 13 Post

My problem is the lack of service that they have on campus. It is either internet service being down or cell phone service being out of reach. It affects everyone that needs access on campus and the students that use on a daily basis. Some students can not turn in their assignments, cannot get in touch with their relatives or other people they need to talk to, and you can loose out on homework time, because soem teachers post their assignments online. My solution to this problem is better service systems or putting satallites on soe buildings between the places where the service gives out the most.

Week 12

1.      

In  1. paragraph 8, Claitor writes, “The other teacher acted like an ass”.  Could this be because the other teacher was mismanaging his frustration that stemmed from dealing with the same problems affecting Claitor?  Yes I think he mismanaged his frustration and he should not of did that because he is not the only one going through that. If these teachers were to get together and propose that the university make some changes, what do you imagine the changes would be? Specifically: I think that they could of made something happen.

                     a.       Thing one they might propose: They might propose the classroom space. 

                                                               i.      And the chances of it actually happening with regard to cost, time frame, or other considerations. It might not because they have little funds to start of with.

b.      Thing two they might propose:  Classes being canceled.

                                                               i.      And the chances of it actually happening with regard to cost, time frame, or other considerations. They probably can manage classes if they use the space wisely.

2.       How do the problems that Claitor describes about her work affect the students that she teaches? It affects the students a lot because they have students that want to learn and make something out for themselves. And they can not because of the schools resources going to nothing.

3.       If these students were to get together and propose that the university make some changes, what do you imagine the changes would be?  Specifically:

a.       Thing one they might propose: Adding on more classes. 

                                                               i.      And the chances of it actually happening with regard to cost, time frame, or other considerations. It can happen if they argue to the right authority.

b.      Thing two they might propose. For the English classes back

                                                               i.      And the chances of it actually happening with regard to cost, time frame, or other considerations. It could happen but the money is short they would have to mangage the division of it.

4.       What are the causes of the problems that Claitor describes?  funds are short, They are trying to do to much to the school and they  do not care about how it affects everyone else.

a.       What other causes might there be for the situation? They do not care.

b.      What arguments might be made by someone opposing Claitor’s argument (Rebuttals and backing)? That teachers sometimes do not care.

5.       How do looking at the causes individually (analyzing part by part) help you think (or rethink) about what to propose to the university: It helps me realize what some teachers really go through. 

a.       On the part of the teachers? Getting paid less and classroom space

b.      On the part of the students? not getting the proper learning environment

(add any additional thoughts here, rather than going back to revise those sections)

Week 11 Scenario

1) No i do not think that person is intelligent because they cheated on their test and did not put potential in their school efforts at all. An intelligent person puts effort and apply knowledge into what they are doing.

2)Bill gates was a drop out of school but they have a lot of intelligent people that do not go to school and they know how to use their talents wisely.

3)No, that decision was not intelligent. We see people that are very intelligent and they do not think with their minds half of the time. Like people that are intelligent and they can not afford to go to school as for people who are intelligent and waste their time in school. it might affect the criteria if it is not based on how intelligence changes its appearance.

Monday Nov. 7 Online Class Assignment

1.       After reviewing the information about the drafting introduction on page 3, review your own intro and decide what you can do to:

2.       I can make the intro paragraph sound more professional. I can be more prepared of the ideas that I have planned out and make the paragraph more presentable.

3.       Review your topic sentences of your body paragraphs:

a.       Whether you are doing org. plan 1 or 2, your topic sentences should contain the criteria that you are discussing in the paragraph.  (Review bottom of page 4 and all of page 5). 

b.      Yes my topic sentences are focusing on everything that my paragraph is talking about.

c.       If you have any main topic sentences (do at least two here) that don’t contain the criteria of your definition that you are about to discuss in your paragraph, paste the old sentence, then write the revision of it that you will change in your next draft, like this:

                                                              i.      OLD SENTENCE:   Basically you can forget about all the ideas and knowledge that you have learned to get the degree.

                                                            ii.      NEW SENTENCE   You can forget about all the ideas that you have learned :now with criteria clearly stated so we know what to expect out of this paragraph

                                                          iii.      Doing the minimum amount of work that is needed is just putting you in the crowd that is doing things just to get by

                                                           iv.      The work that is needed on a successful scale is putting you above the people that do the minimum to pass by.

4.       Now, go through your body paragraphs and make sure that in the evidence sections of them, you are “developing” the criterion you are discussing, which means: explaining/defining each criterion for your definition.  By the end of your paper, we should be able to tell a) your definitions, b) the criteria for those definitions, and c) the definitions of those criteria. (Look at page 5, description of BP1).

a.       Find your shortest body paragraph.  This is a quick way to determine which one needs more development. 

b.      Paste it in.

c.       Then paste in a revision of it that contains more details and explanations of the criterion under discussion.

5.        

Even professionals that were not serious about earning a degree but we still call them professionals. They get degrees to say that they just went to school and did not waste their time. But at the same time they did because their mind was not set and made up. They made a decision to just stick it out and get that piece of paper that would make everyone proud of them. In order to get knowledge you just have to embrace it equally.

They have professionals in this society that has degrees and they do not know what to do with it. Some have many degrees and they do not know what they want to practice in. Forgetting about some of the lessons that you have learned is one of the hardest possibilities that can happen. Some get degrees and they practice and do very well in it because they  did their time at school and was not playing around at all. If you embrace everything equally then the outcome should be sufficient.

6.       Look over one of your rebuttal areas.  If you have one (and you should; “considering the opposition” or “other viewpoints” is on the rubric) look for a way to revise it to be more developed, if you don’t have one, make one now to add into your next draft.  Review page 6 and the ways that you 1) acknowledge opposition to your argument, 2) but prove how the opposition is not strong enough to invalidate your argument.

a.       Paste in the old and new rebuttal sections

b.      Or say that you hadn’t gotten around to that yet in your first draft and make one up now to include in your next draft.

You can be a smart and intelligent person with or without a Baccalaureate degree. A degree just makes you feel good when you have achieved something pasted high school. It makes you feel worthier and accomplished at life. But does this make you intelligent? No, it does not because someone that cheated themselves in life can achieve the same degree that you just received.  They have serious and not to serious people. Some just come to college to satisfy their parents. And some come to benefit their lives. Your intelligence of the knowledge that you obtain and put to use makes the wise out comes that exist.

A degree does not make a person. It only shows that you went to school and did something with your life. Being intelligent brings the best part out of a person. Anything that is accomplished beyond college is worth more to everyone around you and you too. You can be serious but they are always people that are just sitting.

7.        

THESE FOUR STEPS should allow you to get a start on your revision even though you aren’t getting your papers back from me until office hours Tuesday (if you want to come by) or class Wednesday.  They ask you to look at a few areas in order to complete this sheet, but they will also provide a good system for working with your entire paper over the course of the next week and a half, as sort of a self review process.  You can also use these considerations to ask your peer review partner about.

# 10

Claim: Yes, earning a Baccalaureate degree is a wonderful feeling but no it does not make you intelligent.

Reason: because a lot of people just do the miniumum things in school to just get by.And intelligence is the ability to understand and deal with new situations. So anyone can be intelligent without having a degree and some are in college past a baccalaureate degree and their smarts are not all there.

 Warrant: There are some professionals that have many degrees but data is changing everyday and they may not know something that a student going to school may know.

ON Self Respect

Discussion questions for “On Self Respect” by Joan Didion

1)       Didion uses allusions to literature (that we may or may not have read) in order to support or illustrate her points.  What effect does this have on the reader?  Is it helpful? Is it alienating?

the effects that it has on the reader is larger accepted it makes the reader see how passionate she is about expressing how she feels on the way she thinks about things. The reader can either understand where she is coming from or they can be lost because they can not think past their own life itself. It can be helpful because they can understand how she is feeling and they can relate some way to how they can respond to it. Maybe. it can be alienating because someone can be feeling the same way and they do not know about it and they can misplace themselves beyond the world.

 

 

 

 

2)      List some statements that she clearly makes about having, or not having, self respect.  Are these based on assumptions that people would generally agree with?  For instance, she uses the example of committing adultery without asking forgiveness to illustrate “courage of their mistakes” and “character”.  What do we make of that?

 

Some statements are I hate careless people it takes two to make an accident. I put my head in a paper bag.   Yes people can agree with it because accidents happen sometimes it can be one or two people. But for the purpose that she is in it is definately two people.  I think that it can happen if someone ownes up to their mistakes and admit that they did do something wrong. Some people do not own up to what they do and it is not good at all. Just because you did something wrong the world does not hold it against you it take your conscienceness to eat you up inside.

 

 

 

3)      She maintains that having self respect is a “discipline,” a “habit of mind”.  She says that having self respect is a discipline “that can never be faked but can be developed , trained, coaxed forth”.  She also says that disciplines represent values that lie underneath them.  How are her statements about self respect as a discipline connected to the idea of building writing skills as a discipline or a habit of mind?

 

It connects hand in hand. You can be disciplined at both because you have to have the wants to be a well behaved writer and learn from the ways that you do write. And it takes a disciplined person to own up to what they do and the way that they do it.And you wrting skilla build up as the years go by just like self respect. You are not going to respect yourself as a person if you are not well developed in your eyes. Just like a person who loves writing they think that they are not very good until they are complimented on.

Post discussion #4

 On page 610, there are two paragraphs in which Rich discusses her conception of responsibility to yourself.  Explain the ways that this passage applies to not only women, but men also, as well as  those who have traditionally been underrepresented in the university, such as minorities or folks in low income brackets. 

2)      Answer question number 5 at the end of the essay.

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-This passage applies to both sexes because we tend to leave our voice our and let everyone else think for us. Sometimes we try to hear ourselves think but not out loud. We want to be heard but it is stuck underneath fear and misconception. We all have our different ways of livng and some people just don't understand. We don't understand each other because we don't communicate back and forth. People of different races or ethnics are misunderstood and taken for granted. Our respect for each other is less of a thought because we do not know them or we think about how other people is going to look at us. When they see us with someone:outside of our confront zone. We think a red flag goes up and we get scared. But the passage is just saying you don't have to fit in all the time and it is good to branch out beyond your ordinary wall you stand behind. And the ones that are just school people nobody knows them so its not like they exist. because their words are never going to be unwritten unless they spread the word.  

By this the author means that we are there to better ourselves, but the way we came up in society. The contract is us going to class, staying out each others ways, and maintaining you best in that class. We have a contract of us just being there but the teacher doesn't have to push us to be there. The larger ethnic agreement is the one that does and is the best at that class is the experiment of how the class will flow.The difference the intelligence a person has and is raised up with. You can be smart and have wits but can have smarts with no thinking abilities.

Post Discussion 3

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I read over my assignment topic about three times to I can fully grasp the question that the topic is asking me.And I look over it a few times after. I think it would benefit looking over it again because you might of missed an important detail and you did not know about it.Rereading all you information again can help you be a stronger writer on the subject that you are talking on. It does not hurt to reread what you have worked on and you could possibly catch some mistakes that you have made. You can consider that drafting part because you can use hands on information and not just what everyone else thinks. Andyou can look at evidence to support that a personal experience is and what you suppose to maintain on your response in a paper. The most useful tidbit is the myths of writing it helped me realize that you do not have to be scared to write and you should just let it flow. and it will eventually come to you. The part that I did not understand was the decoding literature. Are they talking about the different usage of words or its meaning.
The comparison is that they both talk about making the topic clear to the audience and sticking to the subject. The rubric is strictly on how to do the paper and to follow it by step and the section is making a list of the most common things.

#2 Discussion prompt

1. Homemade items can be good because you can save money. And they can last a lot longer than store bought items. Like when you sew your own clothing they seem to last longer than a shirt or a pair of jeans you bought. They can be taken less seriously than store bought things because we pay for things we can not make.   Like jeans and decorations,we want the nice things so we don't have to make them. They seem more expensive in value when we have to take it out our pocket and pay for it. Yes. I can think of a lot of people that have went to community colleges and succeeded more than going to a university. And If you have street more and book smarts some companies are looking for that and they can get a job like that. Malcolm X was just saying that you can go far in life when you have some knowledge. And you can succeed past the minimum rate than you would see on a normal class room setting. And you can be free from struggling if you make something out of your self. You just have to be determined and have the will power. If i was locked up in a jail cell I would increase my science abilities because i want to be a Nurse. And you have to be good at what you do. I would try and go to school for my nursing degree and I would need to sharpen up my other skills. I would need to make myself better. And I would use my new found literacy to practice and learn more about my field that I would like to study.

Discussion Question: Answers for Prompt 1

What sort of benefits could there be to drafting your papers with your own world view leading your thought processes?

       The ways that we can benefit is we can see what we are writing in a natural view. We would not have to think about what we are writing and just let it flow naturally. Our mind has a lot of thoughts that are already there, but we over think ourselves when we are timed in writing. We can benefit from it because our mind can think freely and it would have less of a destraction from the outside world. We can use the experieces that is happening around us to make our paper seem better and more understandable. And your thought process would be based on what your first mind says and not what you think others would like to hear.


To what extent is she right, and to what extent can you argue that students can keep their original world views intact during and after education, sort of “play both fields”?

     At some part she is right because a lot of students gets destracted with their daily lives and school purposes. You have to balance both of the outcomes of succeeding. You can have a normal life with school and your personal life, but for some people is hard to maintain. So i do agree with her because people are struggleing to balance it all out. I am not saying that it can not be done because it surely can. Having just one ordinary life in college is boring. When you see people around you enjoying the best experiences that college has to offer. You would want to experience something just like that. So It is possible, but it depends on the person and how they can cope with certain situations. Balance is the key to success and hardworking of course.

All Bout me

Well I would like to start off by introducing myself again. My name is edesha wheeler. I am from the sunset area Near opelousas. I am cominig to UL to be a Registered Nurse. My passion is to be a Pediatric nurse and work with the babies, because I love children. I had a job babysitting everytime my family would give a party. I used babysat twenty kids or more. And i handled it pretty well. And that is when i decided i wanted to learn more about them and all the cases that can come up. I am the baby of the family, so i am the last one to come out of the house hold. And they are very proud to say that. I like to watch 106 & park. I Have alot of friends and I am not afraid to meet new people. I have a very outgoing personality. I might be quiet at first but I like to laugh and smile. I listen to about any type of music. It just has to be interesting to me.Umm.

hi

MY name is edesha and i am new to this. I cant wait to start blogging