My writing process for essay 2
was better than one, even though I enjoyed essay one better. I had to plan more
than essay one because it was more in depth. I took notes in class and I looked
information up to have a better understanding of everything. Once I had all my
information I started my paper. I have not finished correcting my rough draft
yet but I will get it done soon.
My anticipations for essay three
is hopefully. I can finally see the light at the end of tunnel; we are almost
done writing essays for English! I believe I will like essay three better
because I can write about pretty much anything and everything. For essay three
I plan on writing about abortion, I am going to use the story “Hills like White
Elephants.” I think I am going to write about the effects on women after they
have had an abortion and if they regret having one or not. I also am going to
include what influenced their decision making.
I am doing well with keeping up
with the blogs and I am almost done writing them. I usually write them on my
computer and forget to eventually post them. Another thing that I am pretty
good at is getting the papers done when they are supposed to. One thing I could
improve on is learning to love poetry. I do not find it very interesting and
sometime hard to understand maybe this class will teach me to love poetry
again.
It's sad that Spring Break is
over, and of course I waited till the last minute to do all of my homework. I did
not travel anywhere over Spring Break. It honestly didn’t even feel like a break
because I was doing so much! One thing I did do over break was my best friend
Blake and I started to make care packages for the Navy Aircraft Carrier, USS
George H.W. Bush. There will be boxes around campus soon, so that people can
donate food and other items like Chap Stick and magazines. I’m really excited
to send them, I know that they will appreciate it and I am so thankful for them
for fighting for our country.
I finally finished my rough
draft on my symbolism paper. It was not hard, it was just hard finding the time
to actually sit down and do it. I used many symbols like the fire escape, blue
roses, the movies, and the glass unicorn. I was searching for information on
the internet and found so much more explanations on the symbols that I never
would have thought about. Peer reviews are Tuesday and Thursday which are
helpful but also somewhat boring. I am so ready for summer.
For my second outside of class
activity, I went the Capital One Seminar. It was quite interesting and had very
good advice. I went to the one entitled “Job Success” the two people who taught
it made a lot of sense. They said it was all common sense and it really was,
but not many people think about it when they are in the situation.
Many things can help you with
success in a job. One key point they talked about was shaping a conversation.
Say a boss came up to you and was telling you that you did something wrong, you
can turn the situation around and say something like “Thank you so much for the
advice I really appreciate it and I want to become better at my job.” So now
the boss looks at you differently, the boss feels like a mentor to you and
wants you to do better because your success now reflects on your boss and your
boss knows that you can take criticism. They also said that you can ask your
boss to do projects but you have to stay focused because many other problems
will come arise and just stick to your main project and finish it and then you
can go back a focus on the other ones. Self-image is very important on the job
because you want to be known as the person that is great to work with and
smiles all the time not that person who looks mad all the time and is not a
pleasure to work with.
Overall the seminar was very
helpful and really gave great advice. I will use it after college when I get
into my career. The people who taught the seminar said it wasn’t rocket science
and it’s not you just have to remember how to handle a situation when you are
in it.
For my first outside of class
activity, I went to a Spanish movie for my Spanish class. It was called The
Orphanage. It was hard to follow but in the end the teacher explained all of
it. Basically a woman bought an Orphanage that she use to go to and she was
trying to bring it back and open it up again. During the process of trying to
reopen the orphanage, her son then goes missing, and the ghost children that use to live at the orphanage
had her kid and she had to search for him. The end was very hard to understand
and is up to interpretation. The movie was in Spanish with English subtitles,
it is a very good movie but like I said before it was a little hard to follow.
I would suggest it to people who like scary movies.
