Pop psychology

The experiments strengthens is obviously being able to control the enviroment. You cannot get this kind of advantge outside a lab. The scientists can set a the enviorment the way they would like it to be then set back and watch the results. If they see something they dont like they can change with ease. A couple economic terms she uses is "bubble", dividends, profits, crashes. She explains them well enough to someone who isnt well versed in these terms can understand and therfore understand the whole article and find out what she is trying to show us. One of the most recent economic problems that have  been the crash of 2008. Using this study we can find out what went wrong such as similarities and we can prevent some of those things from happening again.

My Dog Meeko

I have had my dog Meeko for about two years now. He has done so much for me in the past two years that I have a completely new found love for animals and humans. I got him just as my childhood dog passed away from cancer. He was a beagle, Meeko is an American bull dog mixed with pit bull. So this was a completely new kind of breed. After my first dog died we were searching for a new dog. Someone to fill in my dogs shoes. We looked at labs, golden retrievers and German Shepards. At the time my parents were absolutely against the idea of getting a pit bull. I always wanted a pit bull for the longest of time but they would absolutely not have it. The reputation that they carried filled my parents head and that made up their decision. Having met very few pitbulls they did not understand the breed. They went by what the media and other people have said about the breed. Then one day at church my mother was talking to a mother of 2 kids. She was telling my mom about the pitbull they bought at the flea market. They bought a small pit bull puppy for $200. My mom was surprized how could she have bought such a dog. She later went on to explain how they didnt know how treat the dog. The father would hit him after he would pee in the house. They fed him hotdogs and dog treats. They wanted to sell him. My mom said she would help them sell him. We went to their house later that night to take pictures of him and post them on a social media site. We were greeted by a puppy full of energy. Biting anything soft and squishy to relieve the pain from the growing teeth. We held him, took some pictures and left. We talked about the conditions that he was in and figured that he would be better off in our house till we could sell him. My father was not happy with the idea but when faced with the majority going against him he had no choice. We came back and the family happily gave him to us. We never sold him. After time flew by my dad has a new found love for pitbulls he admits he was wrong about the breed and now absolutely loves our Dog Meeko. Its funny how things work.

writing process before college

I felt that i wast using my opinion as much as i am now. I guess i have gotten better. i feel like writing a long essay isnt as a hard thing to do now. I now i can come up with enough substance and a more of a quality style of writning. I know i write my own way.

My career goals

Well I plan to get a business degree. Im going to start looking into culinary schools. I want to become a chef or sue chef. I really enjoy cooking and would love to get into it. Other than that i just want to focus on college and find something i want to do. I don't want to end up hating my life. This is a weird time in my life. Well every moment in life is weird. I would also like to get back into stand up comedy. I havent had the chance because of work. but im thinking of quitting and finding another job that i can have Mondays off. We will see.

12/13/14

Today I learned and saw somethings that were quite intriguing. I woke up this morning to go to work. I usually dont work on Saturday but since the holidays the drivers at my work have been backed up and started working Saturdays also. I had my friends sleep over so we can go to work in the morning together instead of driving back 40 mins to his house and then back here in the morning. So that is what we did. I get there and it was just us two and three other drivers that work there. Non of the part timers were there, i then knew work was going to be a little slow. During my time there i worked with a guy named pete. He looks like a burnt potato chip, or an Egyptian. Very strange looking fellow. Last night my boss said he had a drinking problem. So I thought about that while I worked with him. I thought he was a loser, i didnt really feel bad for him at all. To me he was an example of what not to do. I thought i shouldnt become like this piece of shit. I then thought that alcoholism was a disease and then waited to feel bad. That feeling never arose. Maybe because it was the morning.

I felt a funeral in my Brain.

The way she honors the memory of Schulz is quite interesting. She puts him in a light that seems like he was a genuis yet no one understood him. He created these wonderful cartoons not because he was a happy person, But because it was the only time he was happy. She talks about the genus in his cartoons. She says that the charterers represented the personality of the writer himself. for example she talks about snoopy. How he has a sort of thick skin. People yell at him and sometimes make him feel bad, yet he does not seem affected by it. He stays happy no matter what and seems to make his reality small and simple. She describes the strips in just what they say. She focuses on the writing and how brilliant it was. She makes you look at the text without really any other distractions that you would possibly get while looking at images also.  

How am i revising my draft.

Well i am going to revise my draft just like i have been doing for a while now. I start off by reading it out loud either to myself or someone that i live with. Then i begin to find out what kind of holes i have in the paper. If i go into a rant or not. If i do, do i have the right wording to bring it all back. I then read the intro and conclusion. I ask myself if it makes sense. I wrap it up with reading it again. I make sure it is the essay i want it to turn in.

Questions i have for my conferense

1. Does my thesis make any sense when referring to who James bond is as a person. 

2. Does James Bond seem like he is changing his image? If so why?

3. Does his change have something to do with the culture we see today?

Some questions i have for my reviewer

1. How can i  make this less random and make it central to what i am trying to say.

2. Do you agree with my thesis?

3. Does my conclusion make sense?

Holden raises hell

Gish Jen uses what a lot of critics say about the book to establish what other people feel about the book. She not only uses people who like the book but also people who hate it and she gives us many reasons why they do not like it. She also pairs these up with her opinion with what she thinks of the book. The strategies she uses to integrate her research is done in such a way that gives us more curiosity. She talks about the two men who have killed or have tried to kill while under the "influence" of this book. Showing us that this book affects people in drastic ways. As she talks about the flaws in the book she points out that these flaws really do not matter, They don't matter because even though the book is not perfect structure wise it still has made an impact on who the current generation or even the generation that book was made for, we can see this impact made in such a way that schools are having their children read this book.

Pre Writing for project 3

Writing about my movie is becoming a little difficult. Trying to cut off alot of dead weight and focus on the thesis can be a bit frustrating at times. I just need to keep reading it out load and find out where this paper is trying to go. Mens studies has a lot there. To me its finding the right tuning. Once I find that i can really get into it. there is alot of areas where i can explore.

Camillia Pagilia "Woodstock"

I believe that when Pagilia reads the song WoodStock she has it right. She seems to believe that song is really about one thing. A reformation about sex and culture. The song can really change meaning just by using a different instrument. If you were using a piccolo it would seem soft and the meaning could be about peace. Though if you were to use a Bass Guitar the meaning could become more aggressive. Changing the whole essence of the song. Same goes with time and place and even differnt bands. This song is so diverse and elastic. This song was performed at a time when people felt more of a love connection with each other. There was a huge drug movement and hippie movement. Much stronger than it is today. This grew stronger with government reforms trying to control the way people lived. If performed today it could possibly lose some of its meaning.

Glutton Intolerance

Some of the instances where he switches from talking facts to more of a conversational way is talking about BMI and how this could be a very flawed way of how we measure obesity. He later gives examples of how black people usually have a lower amount of stomach fat than white people given the same BMI as that white person show that this way is very flawed.
In the first paragraph he talks about how obesity is causing american money but in the last paragraph he talks about how we should target poverty because he says fat people are usually poor because of all the discrimination they get but also the tendencies they have such as not possibly not completing college and having more of chance of depression.

Hitting Bottom: Why America Should Outlaw Spanking

The author looks at Reasons against spanking kids as a reasonable look but also says that there could be some other way to deal with a bad kid. She talks about what we like to think the reason parents spank their child and what the potential reality is about parents who spank their kids. She says that she doesnt want people to view this as another way government is sticking their hands in your privet life. I believe there would be no way of enforcing this law unless you ask the kid if your are being spanked. I think this is more of a general sway of the society. She is trying to change the openness we have on spanking and force us to think about other ways we could deal with a child specifically kids under 4 years old. I completely agree. Kids under 4 really don't have any way of knowing that they are doing wrong and simply raising for voice is effective enough.

Proposal for P.3

The proposal I want to do for my Project three is Mens studies on 007 Skyfall. I feel like there is a lot of material here to write about mens studies. James Bond I feel like he is a representation of a certain kind of man that cares about looking good, he is very emotionally sound and can fight and shoot his way through any situation. Putting on his suit is like putting on his powers. Though there is something a little different about James Bond in this film. There is a scene that represents this in a humorous way. James Bond gets captured by the main villain. (he does this voluntarily). While he is tied up to a chair the villain starts to get really close to him and starts to lightly touch him in a sexual manner. The villain says "there is a first time for everything" James Bond replies " what makes you think that this is my first time?". This little bit was very compelling for me showing me that even James bond has sort of a Gay past or at least hinted that he is not afraid of being open about little secrets that could portray him being something less than a man.

The Critical approach that interest me the most

Well I think that all critical approaches are all fairly interesting. They all have points that we can make about the society or the society of the film or book that you are doing your critical approach on and generally they would interest me all bout the same. Except mythical approach, I just hate myths...Anyways I guess if i really had to choose one though it would be objectification. I believe this one is the most insulting form of a critical approach and can reach over many genders and situation. Objectification can be quite subtle or it can be right in your face and it is the others responsibility to take it or to take action in the verbal bullet that is being shot at you.  Objectification forces the other person to think and respond.

Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, The young, the rich, and the Famous

The author was originally from Thailand she has lived in the US for about thirty years. In this Reading she points out some things about the american culture that we might not notice when compared to the culture she grew up in. A lot of her attention focuses on individualism. Individualism in America starts in an early age. She talks about when a baby falls the and begins to cry the parents usually lets him get up and has the baby relax be its self. The parents believe that this is how the baby becomes less dependent on the constant comfort of the parents whenever the baby faces a small trial. Another form of individualism is financial individualism. She talks about a family who are well of when it comes to money yet the parents still have the kids work for their money. Having the kid deliver newspapers and having the daughter help out in the familiy business from 10 to 5 showed that the parents were not giving out any handouts. She also makes really important comparisons to her Thai culture and the American culture.  Some of the comparisons were how we greet each other. In America we say "hey how are you". We then usually respond with fine or good how are you? What we don't do is then proceed to tell people exactly how we feel. In Thailand that is exactly what they would do when presented with that question. She also makes comparisons with how different families work with each other. We usually keep the grandparents with someone that we pay to care for them occasionally caring for them ourselves. In Thailand the whole family cares for the grandparents.

How I read complex material

When reading complex material I usually start by reading it for what it is. I don't start taking it apart until I have read the whole thing. After that I start to break it down. First focusing on the words or concepts that I don't understand. I start reading the sentences around it and I try to make connections with the material as a whole. I also try to look at it from different points of view. Such as how the writer will look at it. Or how someone who wants to criticize it will look at it. Complex material can be quite challenging but it can be done.

How I revised P.2 Draft

When I revised my narrative essay I read it to myself out loud. I realized a couple main things that I had to change about my essay. First off i realized I had a very good introduction, at least structure wise. As i read my middle and ending kind of had no structure to it. It seemed like I went off into a rant about the weirdness of our life. I decided I need to narrow this down a bit and make it have more sense in the overall essay. As I did that I reread my ending and paired it up with my intro and wrapping up my point.

Thesis Possibilities for your p.2 essay

I have a couple Thesis possibilities for my Narrative essay. While thinking about my story about a random event I thought about what i could say about it and what meaning i could get out of it. One of the Thesis I came up with was " Sometimes these randoms things that happen in your life may not have any meanings." This shows many things and i could go off on many ways to explain this or hypothetically talk about. I could talk about people and how we take these experiences in and how we can explain them. An example of that thesis is "People ignore certain because  we want to see patterns instead of pure randomness." This thesis also has a lot of substance and potential.

Ira Sukrungruang, Chop Suey

This narrative is a short one yet still is able to pack a punch and leave the reader with certain emotions that makes this narrative special. The awkward encounter with the man at the end of the story leaves you with a sense of awkwardness and annoyance. If I was at that bowling alley and I would have seen that racist remark that man made I would have told him off. Yet to avoid giving the man what he wanted, which is a reaction, she humbly says thank you. While reading the dialog between the man and the mother Sukrungruang uses ellipses in between the man talking. This shows that the man is ignorant and trying to talk to her like if she was lower than her. This sets the pace of how this man is speaking towards and you begin to realize the growing tension as he finishes off his racist statement. The narrator also does a good job at setting the differences between his mother and himself. When describing how he threw the bowling ball he uses adjectives and clunky language such as "thud" and lobbed". When describing how she threw the bowling he used more exact language. He talked about it like it was steps she was staking. Executing with preciseness.

Mint Snowball

In Mint Snowball Naomi Shihab Nye uses sentence fragments throughout her essay to describe certain things. Especially in the first two paragraph. I feel like the reason why she uses these fragments is to set a sort of immature or innocent mood towards the time her great grandfather was making his mint ice cream. She puts a picture in your mind of a time where there was no worry about anything. Just pure potential and ignorance. No one here is trying to correct anything. They are just living their life and a happy way. As she wraps up what has happened to the Snowball Mint recipe she changes her mood from this innocent kind of feeling to a feeling of being scared and lost. She compares the lost recipe to her self. Not feeling in place in this world. Feeling that she should be used in a different manner than she is right now. She says she knows how to do things yet she is angry and unsatisfied over a lot of things. She wants to find meaning in another place and wonders if it is ever possible.

Me talk pretty one day

While reading this narrative my first thought on who was the villain was the teacher. David describes her as this confusing women who who bad and good moments. Constantly embarrassing and humbling other students to the point of having some of them cry themselves to sleep. He uses an important comparison to describe the mood in the school. The comparison was the feeling of competition in his french class in New York and how the students felt for each other in the school he was currently in. They felt united. They all knew each other's pain being inflicted from this teacher that was hard on them. The true villain wasn't this teacher but the language. It was essentially the French giving David and the other students a very hard time. When fall was coming around he felt hopeless. Thinking that he will never understand the teacher completely and he will never understand the French language like he thought he did. Though one day he crossed a certain barrier. Crossing this barrier was very subtle and not very dramatic like we all would like to image but once he did he could finally understand everything this teacher told him. Once these insults that the teacher would dish out to him and the other students sounded horrible and complete nonsense, now sounded like honey to his ears and he completely changed the way he felt about them. He instead wanted to hear every insult and word the teacher had to say. Being  bilingual I can understand where David is coming from. It is really nice knowing to languages because you can see how languages work. Noticing  the differences makes me realize how strange they both are.

Something that happened before i was 12

When I was around 7 I witnessed a certain even that still to this day plays in a loop in my head. At the time we lived in Saint Charles in some town homes. The place was very nice. We had a public pool and a indoor recreational center that people could rent out and host parties and other events. It was a beautiful summer day and my sister and I were walking around that area and saw a big group of people walking in. It seemed to be open to the public, so having nothing to do at the time we ran back home to grab our father and ask him to take us to see what was going on. We went inside and there seemed to be a play going on. Nobody said anything to us and we just sat down with the rest of the people. A man in a black robe covering his face comes out. He puts both his hands on a stake that has been placed in the center of the stage. Then another person comes out with a whip and proceeds to whip this man. He begins to scream in pain. People just stood and watched. Me and my father look at each other and left immediately, never knowing the reason why that just happened. This event didn't change who I was as a person but yet still has some meaning to me because that day i realized that life can be very weird. I picked this expirence in my life because it was one of the first things that happend to me that i could not really explain. It left a long lasting image in my head that I can still see to this day.