reflective essay

1. Choose one post. (My favorite? My least favorite? The one that surprises me the most when I reread it?) Analyze it in detail. Explain the "behind-the-scenes" of how it was written, what it truly means, where its inspiration came from, etc.

well the question has been asked what is my favorite post if i have on at all. if not what is my least favorite post.  So ever since i like been writing the post i notice some changes. no i  think that these are good changes. one of the changes that i notice once i began writing weekly blogs is that my ability to write a full page in a fewminutes has improved a whole lot. that is for sure a plus because i really use to struggle with just writing what ever. that may also be because i never really got to pick what ever i want to write about but instead what ever the teacher tells me to rite about. when you give some one the choice to write what ever they want they do it the best they can because that's what they really want to write about. but if you just tell a student write about this topic. it really becomes a little difficult.so over all blogs has improved me as a rite in a very huge positive way.

now the question you been waiting for. what is my favorite blog if i even have one and if not what is my least favorite blog. well i am not sure if i have a favorite blog. that is because i really take pride in all my writing pieces even if they are not good to other people. when i write a blog it is normally what is on my mind that day or even at that time. so i feel like my blogs are random and just each weeek has a whole ne topic than from the one in the week in the past.

there are a few blogs that are not my best work. well i think that every blog that i posted can be a lot better. the reason they are not that good as i would like them to be is because i just seem to write about what ever at that time. so yeah they seem to be a little random.as the year goes on i really hope to improve my blog writing so that both me and the person that is reading my blogs can really one hundred percent understand what i am writing about and why i am writing about that topic. i feel that every thing i write about has a reason as well as a purpose for some one else. almost as if my writing will change anothers persons thoughts on that topic. that would be really cool.

when i re read my blogs which is not a lot the one thing that surprises me is my grammar and ho i talk. i feel like i dont use big words that make me sound smart and when i type i have a lot of error. that type of stuff really makes me look bad as a person. that is like the main reason why i dont like to share my writing with others. i think that al the people or readers will do is make fun of my work so i really just rush because i get nervous. also i dont know sometimes if i should write about topics because people might call me names or make fun of me. no one likes to be made fun of. so i choose not to write about the greatest topics instead i ill just write something totally random like say sports and ho a hockey team did tonight in the game. when i know i really want to write about why i like or dis like about ASTI. topics about school seem really good to write about i am just not sure if i should write about that stuff on blogger.

so when i blog what it truly means to me is freedom that can not be expressed. what i mean by that is i have the right to say or write something about him or her that place this place ect. then again if i write about him or her that place what would the out come be. will that person look at me different will i be welcomed at that place again. so to me its really a tricky question.

when i write blogs there has to be some insertion other wise i don't think i would right blogs. now just because there is does not mean i know it. and i don't really truly know what my inperstion is. i guess you can say its me getting a good grade in English class or making my mom proud. or even earning the respect from some one say a teacher. it really seems to vary.

now over all if i could be asked the question do you like blogging every eek i would say yes. the reason i would say yes would be because i just like to write. the thing that really makes it great and makes me wont to juist write these weekly blogs is the freedom that comes with it. we are able to write about what ever and not have to worry about this not fitting what the rubric says or stuff like that. last year was hard for me in English class because of ho it was runed. we would read the really boring books that had nothing to do with us and we would then be asked to write an essay on how this book connects to us. and really there is no true connection with me and tha book. now we are reading books that i feel have at least some connection with my daily life. also me beening able to write what i want is the greastest thing ever.

Night Essay

Throughout life individuals build their morale and their faith in humanity, and many people assume that all human beings have good intentions. In the book Night by Elie Weisel he explains his physical, mental, and spiritual journey as he spends three years of his young life in a concentration camp. He realizes the atrocities that humans have the potential to commit. As Elie spends time in the concentration camp his faith in humanity deteriorates and leaves him a state of depression and loneliness. Although Elie escaped death within the concentration camps he has still become deceased.

       
   The horror that Elie has seen in the concentration camps greatly changes his out look on life , the fate of his family and his on self fate. in the first part of the book it says “ i don't want to wait here. i am going to run into the electric wire. that would be better than slow agony in the flames.”(31) this is a perfect example of Elie deciding to end his own life  it was so bad that Elie thought him dieing would be better than to live another day.

In the Begin of the book it said that Elie was a religious man and trusted in God. Once this concentration camp started he began to question why this is happening to him. After Elie saw the crematory he losses his faith in God when he sees the burning of children within society. He thought God would save him from his misfortunes , but when he saw the burning of children he lost his faith completely. On page 73 is shows a strong example of how Elie begens to question his faith. It says “it is the end. god is no longer with us”(73). This shows that Elie is no becoming deceased. Once you lose your believe in something what is the point in living anyway.

    Once someone loses there mother and sister and is sure that they will lose their father what do they think? Well it seemed like Elie was not sure if he would be better to die or to live another day. There was a sense like that the concentration camps where pulling fathers and sons a part. Like in the book there was this action that had a boy kill his own father just for food. To me i think this would not tear a father and son apart but instead bring then closer. in the text is says “ don't talk like that father i don't want you to say that. keep the spoon and the knife. we shall see each other again.(71). To me this shows how close a father and son can be even if an item is so valuable it may decide life or death.

   
 Thought the whole book “Night” i never was sure up in tell the end if Elie was going to make it. Al the pain he went through. Every thing he saw threw his watered eyes. Him even questioning god the one he believed in. After All of that i would still think that this boy would change and try his best to erase it from is mind.just because Elie escaped physical death does not mean he will escaped mental death.

night essay

Throughout life individuals build their morale and their faith in humanity, and many people assume that all human beings have good intentions. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel he explains his physical, mental, and spiritual journey as he spends three years of his young life in a concentration camp. He realizes the atrocities that humans have the potential to commit. As Elie spends time in the concentration camp his faith in humanity deteriorates and leaves him a state of depression and loneliness. Although Elie escaped death within the concentration camps he has still become deceased.

          The horror that Elie has seen in the concentration camps greatly changes his out look on life , the fate of his family and his on self fate. in the first part of the book it says “ i don't want to wait here. i am going to run into the electric wire. that would be better than slow agony in the flames.”(31) this is a perfect example of Elie deciding to end his own life  it was so bad that Elie thought him dieing would be better than to live another day.

In the Begin of the book it said that Elie was a religious man and trusted in God. Once this concentration camp started he began to question why this is happening to him. After Elie saw the crematory he losses his faith in God when he sees the burning of children within society. He thought God would save him from his misfortunes , but when he saw the burning of children he lost his faith completely. On page 73 is shows a strong example of how Elie begins to question his faith. It says “it is the end. god is no longer with us”(73). This shows that Elie is no becoming deceased. Once you lose your believe in something what is the point in living anyway.

    Once someone loses there mother and sister and is sure that they will lose their father what do they think? Well it seemed like Elie was not sure if he would be better to die or to live another day. There was a sense like that the concentration camps where pulling fathers and sons a part. Like in the book there was this action that had a boy kill his own father just for food. To me i think this would not tear a father and son apart but instead bring then closer. in the text is says “ don't talk like that father i don't want you to say that. keep the spoon and the knife. we shall see each other again.(71). To me this shows how close a father and son can be even if an item is so valuable it may decide life or death. the

    Thought the whole book “Night” i never was sure up in tell the end if Elie was going to make it. Al the pain he went through. Every thing he saw threw his watered eyes. Him even questioning god the one he believed in. After All of that i would still think that this boy would change and try his best to erase it from is mind.just because Elie escaped physical death does not mean he will escaped mental death.

my free way to learn

Though some people may think all humans learn the same, the abilities to learn are endless. Some of the more major ways of learning are interpersonal, spatial, body kinesthetic, logical/ mathematical, music/rhythmic and verbal/linguistic intelligence. All of theses different types of learning styles are not for every person but there are a few that seem to fit my learning skills. An analysis of the learning styles exposes different abilities that people use to acquire intelligence.

          

    The first learning style that I seem to work well with is Interpersonal intelligence. Interpersonal intelligence is when people need to talk with one another and listen to each other in order to be successful in every thing they do. They have to interact with other people.  Doctor Thomas Armstrong once stated “We are also social animals who thrive and grow when involved with others” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com). This shows that without people physically seeing and interacting with one another, they are not able to grow. The way people can’t grow is by not talking to one another or not making a conversation among each other or just being unsocial.  Interpersonal learners such as myself need to be able to socialize in the real world in order to be successful. Doctor Thomas Armstrong said “Interpersonal intelligence is seen in how we notice distinction among others; in particular contrast in their moods, temperaments and intentions” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com).. This shows that interpersonal intelligence can be seen lots of ways. This is because peoples moods, temperaments and intentions are a big part of there life. Being an interpersonal learner helps me because I can feel safer talking with others in order to learn.

The second style that I and acquire use Spatial intelligence. Spatial intelligence is a learning ability that is most commonly seen in how people comprehend pictures and figures. Doctor Thomas Armstrong said once “to tap our spatial intelligence is commonly seen in how we comprehend shapes and images in three dimensions.” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com). This shows that the spatial intelligence is a good use for remembering things. For me, if I see an image it seems to stick in my memory even if that was not the intention. This is because our body interprets different ways of intelligence. When the eye sees an image or images in three dimensions it seems to stay in ones memory. Doctor Armstrong also stated “advances in neuroscience have now provided researchers with clear-cut proof of the role of Spatial Intelligence in the right hemisphere of the brain” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com). This shows that now there is evidence to back up the statement that people who see images can re see them in there mind. This is because the scientists have researched enough to find proof of spatial intelligence. Being a Spatial intelligence learner helps me because I can take a picture of an image in my mind and be able to play that image back in my mind later.

In conclusion, the learning styles that I acquire expose different abilities that all help me in a way that I can be a successful learner. The importance or self awareness is very crucial because if I don’t know my learning habits then how am I going to be successful in the learning habits that fit. Well the learning styles that most people acquire are a lot different from one another. I have some goals for my three learning styles and that is simply to succeed in all of the learning styles I feel like I acquire.

response to middle school.

i miss middle school just as much as Bany Juaregui. In one of her blog posts she states:

   I remembered the times I had with friends at middle school. I remember always hanging out, not really doing work. I never studied for test and I did my homework about five minutes before class, I never really needed to do anything because middle school was so easy.

First i would like to say that i went to Chipman middle school in Alameda. I went to that school for all three years. it was not a bad school but it was not the greatest middle school ever. i guess when i first got there i thought it would be very difficult. It later turned out to be a super fun experience.

The statement that bany makes is one that i can kind of agree with. well i first agree with having a blast in middle school and hanging out with great Friends also. There was a nice feeling i would have as i walked don the halls. it was a lot different than fifth grade. The only part that was the same was the way my classmates acted. Other than that it was like another world. We had lockers instead of desk Cobbie's. we had p.e every day and not only one day out of the week. e even had a class for every subject. it was great.

I really can not agree when Bany says there was not a lot of work or he never had to study for test. All that i really seem to disagree with. when i was in middle school it was not that easy. if we didn't do our homework we would not get good grades on the test because that was a form of studying. it was very important for us to make sure we did our homework and understand what we were doing. Middle school for me was no piece of cake. it was very hard for me to make that adjustment. but after that first year of middle school things started to get brighter. everything was coming to me. i was not having such a hard time like i did in the first year. i really feel that my second year was a huge leap.

Bany says he misses middle school because he did not have to do any work. well i really do miss middle school but it was not because i had no work to do. part of his problem was because he must still be use to those middle school ways. so i think it is very important for him to make the transition from not doing work to doing homework every night for the rest of high school and collage also. there will not be a no studying test and passing happing in high school is the real deal. there is no fooling around as a teacher would say.

so i really hope that Bany makes the change of not doing homework at the last minutes because that will make life hard and also studying for your test and not take it lightly. High school should not be taken as a joke so get serious and make a good name for your self.

Quick write-video games

The effect that video games have on people who play them can be both viewed in a positive way and a negative way.An example of this would be a ten year old boy who plays sport games such as NBA2k10 and Madden NFL.That ten year old boy is not likely to do something bad because that's not what the video game is doing. He is more likely to go to the park and shoot hoops or play catch with a football. No if you take that same ten year old boy and let him play a game like "grand theft auto" he is more likely to want to kill , hurt and steal things from people. that's what he saw in the game and it was OK then so why would it not be OK for him to do in the real world.

The way video games might have a effect on society also matters on ho you look at that video game. If people are playing sports games or cartoon games i can not really see harm in that. If people are playing video games like shot em up type then i see the word  harm written all over the cover. i feel that if you play such a harmful game for a over period of time it does something to your brain. It is almost like you are living in that harmful game. then that's when the video game stops being a video game and becomes your daily life.

The effect video games might have on someones culture is also depends on ho you look at it.there are some video games that really seem to have a big impact on ones culture. For example there are games that are made to kill Indians. the people that kill the Indians are cowboys. that to me seems highly offencive. But Indians has nothing to do with culture. yes but the Indian culture in these video games are being mocked and turned into a joke and its not OK.

so overall i do feel like video games has an effect on this world. but it truly all depends on ho you look at that game , who is playing that  game and why was that game made for. The most important part about playing video games is to play them not let them play you.

response to andy

I found this quote in Andy's blog.

Maybe I should just deactivate my account? Or just delete it totally? But, I would feel so left out in updates about my friends. In addition, I would also feel left out when my friends talk about Facebook and I did not see the post or comment. I do not know what to do. I wonder how long Facebook will be part of my life. 5 years? 10 years? 50 years? We'll have to see...  

Well i would first like to say that i love facbook. My freshman year at ASTI every one was telling me john get a facebook so e can talk. So i did and every since then i have been using facbook to talk with my friends and do other stuff to like play games and practice my computer farming skills. That's ill farmvill of course.

Next i would like to ask Andy why do you think you are going to miss out on something that your friends may post or comment. If they really had something to tell you that was important i think they would call you or tell you at school. So don't feel like your being left out because truly you are not.

You also said you are not sure what you should do. Well i think you should just limit your self to using facebook. There is no reason why you should deactivate your account because you must enjoy it. so hy erase something in your life that you seem to enjoy so much. What i mean by limit is limit your time you spent on facebook. Maybe you can do your homework first and then spent maybe an hour on facebook. That way you make sure your homework is complete. Also if you only spent an hour on facebook that lives other time for reading , hanging out ith friends, or even going to sleep.

You say you don't know how long facebook will be a part of your life. My answer to that would be as long as you want it to be. Facebook may end up being ith you for the rest of your life and that's OK. As long as you limit your self using facebook there is nothing wrong. so i hope i was helpful and wish you the best ith your facebook  problem.