Blog # 26

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. For me, Thanksgiving is steeped in tradition. The family gets up some what kind of early and starts preparing food in the kitchen. By the night time the family start to arrive, all bringing their own special Thanksgiving dishes, and the ladies hanging out in the kitchen while the guys get ready the table ready and the settings in place while the teens and the rest start going out and picking up the younger kids and making there tables all ready because believe me family I do have and the others that aren’t able to give a hand get the living room ready so the others can watch the football games in the family room. After all is eating the pies are out of the oven and the wine is busted out to drink after the desert is eating me and my other cousins set out to the stores that are still open and make drinking for the older ones of course lets keep this twenty one and above,
in other words everyone tells something that they are thankful for, and then we all eat too much and complain about being stuffed and tired, later is dessert, and then cleanup.
It is a lot of work, but there really is something to be said about having all of the family together, and it is something that happens every year. That brings everyone together in a time of peace and happiness. Another thing that could be said is that It really means a lot to me, it's the one day a year where people should really think about everything they have and what they are thankful for. It's a holiday where families actually get together. People also give back, and donate food and other things to the needy. I think it really brings the world together. And the food is great too friends and family is what is needed in this end of the year one of the holidays I say I think it does bring out the best in people. And who does not like that feeling cause if you say no then there is something totally wrong with you or you are just not a giving or nice person. Janked up if you ask me but lets not end this in a bad way.
Thanksgiving is a time for peace and tendercare.

Blog # 25

Today in class we had to go in with a rough draft of our paper and had to have a class discussion about our papers have a unique question and tell about where we are on our paper and how to mange to fix it up to make it look good in the end.
Another thing we talked about was we were giving some notes now how the next essay was going to be done and what the requirements were on doing so called essay about the annotated bibliography also we had an example about cyber bullying what we have to do on this paper was look at the author and how they expanded their thoughts through on out their paper they wrote another thing also is that we have to do is go out there and research the person and the other articles they had wrote before and what not.
But to some up the day in that class period we went through the old stuff and came through new ones and said what was needed to be said and information was given to the class as so was needed also on how to work on the new assignment.

Blog # 24

Reflecting on the writing center experience I had for this essay about MySpace and face book compare and contrast essay was with a breeze not saying that it was too hard nor too easy but just right. I went in to go get help on getting some ideas on how to start this ledged paper.
I went in to the writing center not knowing how I would start even get to the middle none the less end the paper. But when I got in there I figured out something that they are there to help you out all you really got to do is ask.
My writing center experience was a great one not only cause this paper was the hardest one we had to write but the longest one also can not forget that our teacher Mrs. Crawford gave us quite some time to have it ready by.
Back to what I saying this experience made me think of other ways to get some more juicy information in to my paper from the three topics I wrote about.
The comparison or contrast essay was quite a hard one the assignment had you telling which one was the best one that you picked in between both, in my paper I said MySpace had way more options to choice from but in the end both sites were equally dangerous just that one was more famous for here about it also another thing was that in the writing center they helped me figure out another topic like the one about how face book has groups out there who are mostly people who need lawyers out there to help get out of something or get something out of it and in MySpace they do have similar stuff about that same group but not as popular on there.
And the last thing I figured out in there was the age groups and why are the motivations on why they tend to us it more or less and when they are usually logged on where they can get the connection to log on and even who they add and why they do so. Just like I got it off this video we watched in class about those two sites saying the reason why the guys add more girls is to horded them meaning just to have them there so they can have more friends them the others out there.

November 6 2009

Today in class we had to go to the writing lab and type up and example of what MLA format style looks like. In doing so in this process we learned how to format our papers in the way the teacher requires us to do so. Well what I learned to day was a refresh mark of what I had to do in high school in that BCIS class ha even though I pretty much had forgotten about all of that it was not too bad. The experience I took out of that class time was that now I know what would be to write down for our next essay on the MySpace and Facebook compare or contrast. Also and the reminder to go back and re read what was written down and look for any mistakes that might have been made to revise in other words. Oh yes can not forget about the contractions out there those are not appropriate for the paper we must turn in unless someone out there is looking for a low grade. Over all the experience today in class was a good one towards the essay that we have to do now I know more or less how to really format it and also now I have an idea of how to start and end my paper.

Blog # 22

Today in class it was group three and fours turn to present there articles over on facebook and MySpace and how they talk about other person’s mishaps. These two big topics have been around in our daily course in class for a few weeks now even to the point where we have to write a paper about them. Well in the articles that we went over where about how MySpace and facebook are a big influence in people lives who actually use it. Out there in these websites there are applications and groups that actually can get money in to jobs like the groups on MySpace for lawyers to get a client on divorce and use it to find someone who are in the process of getting one or even when it comes down to which or the parents will have to custody of the children will now a days they are even looking through their MySpace pictures to see how is lying or not about who can be a better guardian for them what I mean about that is that they can go through varies questions and lie but if you post something on there that can hurt your chances of what you do not want people to know well a friend can easily look through your page and find some other things about you.
And other article that was talked about had to do with varies professor at colleges and university’s about how they have a facebook and how they find that this website is actually very time consuming and others how do own on usually just get on and off to check up on there things.
Well another article of one from my group and it talked about how a professor was nervous on what his students thought about him or something like that well what he would do is he would friend his student on there so he can see how they really are try to get an idea on how to talk to them and approach them while he is standing up there trying to teach them something new.
My whole outtake on this articles are that be careful what you do on these sites do not lie about anything because sooner or later you can get caught up in it and when you least expect everything you had planed out for yourself will back fire on you and end up with nothing left.

Blog # 21

Alright well what went on today in my English class was that we had to sit through this video that lasted the whole class period and then some, well what this lady was speaking about was about MySpace and face book and how they are affecting everyone’s lives now a days and how it use to be when there was not no internet and cell phones basically how It use to be with out all the high tech technology that there is now.
Well this ladie who went through the video with us was a speaker for some place which I do not know of but I am pretty sure she was a speaker for some where since she had a whole presentation ready and slides to go with the topics she was talking about.
Well the handheld learning conference was what went on and what happened through this whole clip was that she talked for about almost and hour about how MySpace, face book, Bebo and other sites out there have changed how people have an outlook on the outside life of outside your house and doing outside activities.
Also what was mentioned in this presentation was that this man did a study on different generation of birds and he compared them to people in each generation and how the birds from now are limited on where they can speared out there wings and fly around other then to the birds from years back they could fly around and about with out basically a care in the world because they had more space were more freely in there environment and that should tell you something about how things are now and how parents either shelled there young’s or how they just do not want to go outside and do something other then being in doors.
In my opinion this is pretty much dumb how are you going to tell your kids no you can not go outside cause they are paranoid well in the first place teach your kids to have some common sense in to know what is wrong from right and when they get stuck in a predicament to know how to get themselves out with out causing a bigger one I mean no one out there is really that dumb to make a problem bigger without knowing in the first place what would happen if they did so.

Blog # 20

Well so today in my class we went through the process of what we are excepted from in our next essay over MySpace and face book on comparison or contrast basically it went over how to focus on what we need for it.
Well the thing that is very helpful with it is that it tells us exactly what the comparison or contrast essay needs to be up to its fullest potential.
What I got out of this experience in class was that it gave me an idea of what is what I want to write about and how its going down on the paper. Another thing we did in class was made a list of what was the same or the difference in between the two topics but since they are to different website that offer almost the same thing it will be quite a challenge on diffracting them. But what I am planning on doing is probably compare on what they have in common one is just better then the other in my opinion but then again its my choice against anyone else’s and no one can really say what I can and can not dislike about something.