Assigned Entry #6: My Blogging Experience

This isn't a goodbye...

Certainly blogging has been an amazing experience that taught me a lot. It taught me how to engage more my audience, taking in consideration who was my audience. Blogs were the place where we could put our rhetoric skills into practice so when we wrote our writing projects it could be noticeable that we were getting good at it. I seriously loved blogging because for me it wasn’t just another boring assignment on top of my tall, dusty pile of homework to do. It was an assignment that I actually had fun doing it and looked forward to doing it. Blooging helped expressed my feelings and thoughts and it helped me get away from all the stress of other homework.

One of my favorite things about blogging was looking through other people’s blogs. It’s incredible how every single person has a different writing style and tone. By just simply reading a person’s blog you can get an idea of that person’s personality. Some people have a more professional style while other bloggers express their thought in a more comfortable an engaging style. 

I personally learned that in order to make your blogging experience successful you must appeal to audience visually and have an articulate content. The first thing a person sees when he lands on your blog posts is the visual content. If it looks dull and boring your audience will not even consider spending one more second on your blog. Having good content is also as important because you want to be able to communicate your ideas in the best smoothly manner.

A suggestion I would give to Chris is to keep doing what he is already doing!:) Giving students the opportunity to express their feeling through blogging and at the same time helping them develop their writing skills. A piece of advice I would give to future students that will start blogging in this class would be to write from your heart, be honest while blogging and take this blogging experience seriously. Like I said in the beginning this isn’t a goodbye or a farewell because I honestly plan to write my own blog when I become an elementary teacher.





A date with the replay button

Ok so I’ve been running out of blogging ideas and I thought why not make a blog post on my favorite songs right now! These songs are so good and I definitely have them on repeat on my phone. I love these songs so much because their lyrics are amazing; they each have a deep meaning to them. So here they are I hope you love them as much as I do!J

*Stars- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

This song is simply wonderful! I love, love, love this song! Grace Potter has a beautiful voice but also the lyrics are breathtaking.

*Just give me a reason- P!nk ft. Nate Ruess

P!nk!!  I never before paid that much attention to her songs but this one grabbed my attention since the first time I heard it. I can’t get enough of it!!



*Feel Again- One Republic

This song from One Republic is incredible. It has such a good and positive vibe to it.

This song really helps brighten my day!

 



And believe me, I seriously do have a date with the replay button with these songs!!J

Assigned Entry #5: Media Synthesize

Ever since we have started to analyze media in the everyday life, I have started to pay more close attention to things that are affecting us. The media has a tremendous power on us and many of us don’t even notice it. The media is portraying men and women in wrong ways, and setting up immoral and hurtful stereotypes for us.

Men are often portrayed as the strong, well built, tough, and competitive person. They are either showed as the men with a suit and a tie that is business minded or the male that is ripped, without a shirt showing his desirable body. In commercials and ads men are seen as more powerful and superior than women.

Now when we turn over to the women, welll…. We can say that we have it different. Many of the media show women with beauty, elegance, and with now flaws in their face and body. This might sound like a nice thing to do for women, but instead of helping women the media is hurting many. Almost all of the women you see on these ads and commercial they are edited to look like they look, perfect. That is what the media want you to believe, but this is causing many insecurities in many teenage girls, leading them to take drastic and harmful decisions for their body. They are pressured to look a certain way just because the woman on the ad looks perfect. Becoming bulimic is the road that many teenage girls take.

Now you can see that media is not as good as everyone perceives it to be. Before watching the film Killing us softly 4 and Tough Guise I never realized how harmful media can be and now I have a whole new completely perspective about it. Like the film title states, “Killing us softly” the media is in reality killing us softly by hurting us emotionally and physically.

Unreal images in the media are creating unrealistic standards for both men and women. Unrealistic standards, which many will try to meet but they will get hurt in the journey to accomplish it because they are out of reach.

Field Experience

Recently I have been doing my field experience to become a teacher and it has been an awesome experience. I been observing and helping out in a second grade class at Desert Horizon Elementary. The kids are wonderful and they always find a way to put a smile on my face. Sometimes it can be so funny with the things that these kids come up with; one moment they are talking about something and the next second they change the subject to something completely different. They tell me crazy and funny stories that leave me wondering, how do these kids have this crazy and innocent imagination of them.



As I have been talking to Mrs. Markgraf, (the second grade teacher) I have learned that being a teacher is not as easy as it looks. Teachers need to learn how to control students behavior the right way, make lots and lots of lesson plans, attend numerous meeting and so much more that you couldn’t even imagine. I know that teaching the young ones is something that I will love, because children at this age are more willing to learn anything with so much enthusiasm.

Assigned Entry #4: Capitalism Rhetoric

When I first heard the title of the documentary we were going to see in class, my first thought was that it was just another of those boring documentaries shown in history class that you wanted to sleep through. As I started watching the film, my attitude toward the film flip-flopped a whole 180-degree. It opened my eyes to a lot of issues that have occurred or are happening now. What Michael Moore was basically trying to get across to his audience is that America is headed straight down the toilet if a change doesn’t occur with corporate and government dominance over the everyday lives of Americans. Moore film uses a famous and controversial word to get his point across, Capitalism. He is basically describing our country’s economic system to a one that is run by private and corporate ownership, which defines Capitalism.



One of the part of the film that first caught my attention was when at the beginning Michael Moore compares the U.S. government to the Roman Empire. He states that the imbalance and the irresponsible behavior of public officials is what made the Roman Empire fall and eventually the U.S. will one day fall too if it keeps going this pathway. It is obvious that when Moore mentions irresponsible behavior of public officials, he is referring to ex President Bush.

The documentary takes us back to almost 24 years ago when life was good. When everyone was living a life with no economical worries. When the middle class families only needed one person in their household (men) to work. When everyone could afford luxuries and family vacations. When the rich needed to pay a top tax rate of 90% and they still lived good. All this went downhill when Ronal Regan took office as president and cut the rich taxes in half. Everything Regan did was good for America’s stock markets and Americas CEO’s. Is this what America really needed? A president that was leading the country to capitalism?

As I was researching more on this film, I found something that really left me thinking about it. The intriguing information was that many big corporation and Americas CEO’s greatest fear is democracy, where in a one person, one vote system a rich person has the same power as a poor person. This meaning, that for all these big business this is no bueno.

 

Running: Cheaper than Therapy

We all know that running is not everybody’s favorite form of exercise. Well believe it or not, running is the most beneficial form of exercise to your body. Most importantly it keeps you healthy and helps your body n many ways. Hopefully by the end of this, you might look at running in a completely different way motivating you to start running!

First of all who doesn’t want to loose those extra pounds you have been wishing to get rid of. Running in one of the top and fastest activities for burning fat. Running doesn’t need to be boring, you can make it fun.

Along with loosing weight, come all the benefits of bettering your health. Running can lower your risk of high cholesterol, improve your lung function, lower your risk of developing blood clots and many more benefits. After a long day at work or at school, running might be a great choice to do. It can relieve lots of stress you been accumulating all day. It gives your body much more energy, and I can say this by experience. Stress can cause a number of health and mood problems, so running is great for relieving this.  

I personally enjoy running and whenever I have the chance, I always love to go for a run around my neighborhood. The reason I really love it and enjoy doing it, is because in high school I used to run cross country and track. Everyday we would run no less than 6 miles and it just became a habit for me, and I LOVE IT!!

Before a Race



 

Assigned Entry #3: ASU 7 1/2 week courses

Article: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/02/22/20110222arizona-state-university-shorter-classes.html?nclick_check=1#comments

Those 15-week fall/spring semester courses at colleges and universities that we are

all used to are slowly fading away and turning into the next “big thing.” Every semester different colleges and especially Arizona State University are integrating more classes that are only 7 ½ weeks long, meaning only taking a class that is half of time that we are used to. This also means that the instruction and the learning are to happen in a more faster and accelerated way. The decision of developing more classes like this is because these classes are filling up more quickly, and students are becoming more attracted to these types of classes.

My opinion

My opinion on these types of classes is that maybe they are not a great idea. Personally I’m much of slower learner and prefer the instruction to go in a more leisurely way. Professors would be in a rush to teach everything they have to teach and I feel like the students won’t learn everything they need to learn. I already complain of how fast the professors teach, now image a 7 ½ week class! I would go nuts!

Different Views

Many students have different viewpoint about these classes, some think it is the best thing colleges and universities could have done and others are like me, don’t like it and would never in the world would take a class like that one. Many say the schedule would be more flexible for them and for the teachers and they would finish school way faster. On the other hand, many argue that these classes would not adequately prepare the students for their future career if they rush through it.

Like one person mentioned in the article’s comment space, “It seems like a crammed course, where you just get the hours in, in order to get the grade and get out as fast as you can.” I totally agree with this person, the brain needs time to consume all the information, and process it.