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This virus has affected me in different type of ways, emotionally it has is been the biggest impact because I like being around people, and if I am not around people I get to be depressed. I start overthinking stuff when I should do try to be on facetime with my friends, or try to do go for a walks around my house. I try to be more helpful around the house, which sometimes is not enough, since my mom is not working. I just sleep most of the time and watch moves, witch now I don’t know what to watch . Financially is been a little to hard but not to much since I still live with my parents they pay the bills, but I have to pay for my tuition witch in that side is been a little difficult since I don't have a job but I hade save up some money so is not that bad. Witch school wise is been more difficult because my parents don’t understand the hole online courses and how much homework I have to do they distract me so much, and sometimes I have to do my homework in the night so I be in peace and nobody distracts me, which I leaving everything for the night doesn't help sometimes. I hope this virus is over soon because I have some family members who have been effected really badly. They can not work me and my family try to help them as much as we can but it does not help because we are on short on money as well. I hope everyone stays safe and me and my family continue practicing safety and do not go much unless it for groceries. I can not wait for this is over so things get back to normal.
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Blog Title: Final Reflection Hello everyone watching my blogs welcome back ! This week for blog seven I decide to do a reflection. My genre awareness for this class is the types of writings I have learned and the things I learn that I will take with me to my next english so I become a better writer. For example I learned how to compose an essay and what goes when you write a thesis ect. A rhetorical awareness is Rhetoric is basically the strategic use of communication to accomplish purposes with target audiences. It can be used for ethical and unethical purposes, but ought to be used for good ends and to enhance truthful and honest messages. This has changed in the course because I know what rhetorical awareness means how I can target my audience when I am writing an essay or research paper. It has helped me with my research paper because I know how to catch my audience. This course has helped me become a better writer because every week I had to do a blog. This will help me with my writing skills and I will learn each time different types of writing. My past academic writing was not great because of the fact that my first language is spanish. I had to get better at my english skills, especially my writing skills. This course has helped me become a better writer and enjoy english class instead of finding it difficult because of my first language. I have value writing that it is one of the best things to know in life because without being a good writer you will not be able to catch and express yourself the way you want to be. You will not be able to catch your advice if you do not become a great writer. I value writing a way to tell a story or something important you want the world to know. I plan to continue english class to become a better writer in the future. I plan to open my personal blog website. I really energy down the blogs because I was able to express myself in so many different ways. I plan to look back on this course and all the information I have to help me in the future with my english class , if I need help doing research paper. What do you consider to be your signature growth experience as a writer in this course? I consider myself that I have grown so much during this course because when I first came to this course I did not know how to even write an essay and now I am leaving how to write an essay and know how to do a research paper. I consider myself to be a flower who was first planted and now I have bloom into a beautiful flower. Who knows more about english and is exciting keep on learning about writing. Hello everyone for blog six we have to go back and reflect on our assignment five of last week. I have over-thought what I have said in my past blog in good and bad ways as well. I have good things and bad things about me coming out to my parents when I did that Christmas day. At the end of the day I am happy I did because I could finally let that move on with my life.
I know things could have turned out differently if I did not confess to my parents the truth that day. For example I would still think in the back of my head if they would ever accept me because I am bi-sexually. I also know that once I confessed to my parents some of my family members did not agree with it but my mother was always there supporting me. She always said it does not matter if some of the family does not agree, I will always support you “we are in this together”. Being said this I wonder if I did not tell my family would my other family that does not agree with this decision would still not look at me sideways because of my decision. I wonder if instead I should deny it and not come out of the closet, so my family would not judge me. I have a major what If is that if my mother did not accept me would I be okay with her decision. I am happy she put away her cultural difference. I know at first it might have been hard because I am mexican. In my culture that is big no no and that is a shame and not accepted. I thank my mom all the time because she had the courage to put her differences aside and accept who I am. I know that maybe I would like the senorio not to happen in christmas and would like to have something more intimate because I had so many emotions going through my head that day. I felt a bit embarrassed when I cried in front of my family. That is the only thing I would change if I could go back home. The reason why is because I feel ashamed sometimes of crying in front of people since I feel weak when I cry. I know crying is good but I do not like it. I wish it was more intimate so I could cry in my room comfortably. I also have a big question in the back of my mind and it is what if my mother and father have not had enough courage to ask me. What would I ever have enough courage to tell my parents in the future? This type of question makes me wonder sometimes but I know things happen for a reason and this had to come out like this, I sometimes might not be too happy how things happen exactly, but I would not change anything because I am happy it’s finally over and I can finally be at peace. I would have rewrite the dialogue by putting more detail in my senior the reason I did not put as much detail was because so many things happen that I would probably would have taken me a whole day and also it has been a very long time since the scenes has happened that I have forgot some things Hello guys in this is my fifth blog and I am so excited to share this story with you guys.
In 2010 Christmas was the best day ever of my life my parents gave beautiful gift that was going to change my life forever. My parents gave me a teddy bear that had a scarf but in the scarf it had the following colors The color were red, yellow, green, and blue. Than it had a little not from my parents that said could you please answer a question. It said my lovely daughter we will love you no matter if you are bi-sexually or lesbian. I grabbed the teddy bear and I turn really red and I start crying. I run outside I could not believe the opportunity was finally here to tell my parent the truth I was bi- sexually I always wanted to dress a certain way bring my girlfriends over and feel comfortable. I wanted my parents to accept me and not judge me. My mom immediately came and gave me a huge and told me I love you no matter what you always be my daughter. I gave her hug back very tight and told her mother I am, I been hiding it for years since 6 grade. I finally knew I was lesbian and bi-sexually. I am sorry mother if I disappointed you. I just never had enough guts to tell you. She said you knew I always support you no matter what happens I know we have culture that is strict but I do not care you are my daughter and that will never change. We went back inside and everyone in my family gave me hug said we love you. This was a very memorable Christmas will be forever in my heart. Now go on express yourself how ever you want and bring who ever you want your going to feel great after this. Every since that day I express myself and tell my parents everything I feel and how I am talking to. I feel so good knowing they accept me and. Every time things get hard I grab my teddy bear that it is in my bed and grab and known everything is going to be okay. This was nine years ago and I can still remember this day like it was yesterday and every time I look at this teddy bear I have a smile know everything will be okay. Hello this week blog is about writing process roundtable. One Summer Friday afternoon in I had a important meeting at Starbucks. I was going to meet up with three authors that I really look up to I was going to interview them about writing why it is important to write as well as why and how they write their books. It was around 5pm and I was outside drinking coffee in the coffee table when Don Murray, Mary Karr, Anne Lamott arrive and sat down. I started off by asking.
Don Murray Me Should the student have a opportunity to write a draft or should they start the paper without draft ? Answer Don Murray "Implication No. 4. The student should have the opportunity to write all the drafts necessary for him to discover what he has to say on this particular subject. Each new draft, of course, is counted as equal to a new paper. You are not teaching a product, you are teaching a process" Me : Should you give time to write a paper to a student ? Don Murray "Implication No. 7. There must be time for the writing process to take place and time for it to end. The writer must work within the stimulating tension of unpressured time to think and dream and stare out windows, and pressured time—the deadline—to which the writer must deliver." Mary Karr me What should you do if you have zero's pages but irrage to finish the paper or the story what should you do ? Mary "In the beginning, when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor. Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot. You zigzag, and in the low moments, you just have to keep plodding on--saying the next small thing about which you feel strongly, trying to nestle down into that single instant of clear memory you know without shadow of doubt is both true and important to who you’ve become." Me : How long does it take to edit a book or paper how much effort is used ? Mary "For me, the last 20 percent of a book’s improvement takes 95 percent of the effort--all in the editing. I can honestly say not one page I’ve ever published appears anywhere close to how it came out in first draft. A poem might take sixty versions. I am not much of a writer, but I am a stubborn little bulldog of a reviser." Me can you rewrite paper or book is it okay ? "Rewriting on the page is safer than revision in, say, painting, where you can paint past a good place and wreck a canvas. Performers can’t revise at all. A writer can always go back to an earlier draft. The point is to have more curiosity about possible forms the work could take than sense of self-protection for your ego." Anne LamottMe How should I do a plot ? Anne For this post, I read A Fable for the Living to frame my blogging content.
Hello and welcome to my third blog post. For this assignment we were asked to read A Fable for the Living (Kevin Brockmeier) in order to get ideas on how we can write a letter to our author-selves. Dear x! You would feel better than this, maybe not yet, but you will. You just keep living until you are alive again.(Call the Midwife). This couple months, you haven’t been the best to yourself your been disappointment about everything and everyone and is time you become a better person to yourself and know what you are worth, know that even though everyone doesn't want to see you happy, you will try your best, that sometimes is better to move on, that is okay to cry, to show people your emotions. Let other people care for you and, even when you feel so down you have to let them in to help, so you don’t feel alone, so you know someone is always going to be there for you, and that no matter what you have to start trusting people, start doing something you've never done, be more productive of your day wake up early, and start your day with a smile, that even that you feel like the world is about to end, that you feel lonely, that nobody is there for you, that you think everyone is against you, that you feel like is better if your dead, is not. You are worth a lot and a lot of people depend on you, like your family that if it wasn't for you they would have nobody to help them with their English, that your brother wouldn't have nobody to truths, even though he makes you feel that your not worth it, you mean a lot to him that he cares for you, that's why he is always overprotective. Your parents are the ones that need you the most, because if it wasn't for you, they wouldn't know what was better for you brother. Your friends most of them are fake, but at least they show that they care about most of the time except for my friend her name is kimmy well she is not like the rest she is different she wants what's best for you, that she cares for your health that none of your friends have done. Motivating yourself to become a better person to you is more important than anything in your life, that is better for you to be happy than make others happy, because making others happy won't bring you happiness, that they are happy but your not your miserable, you wish you could be that happy and you try to show it but you know that deeply inside your not, your not happy with anything about you, not your body, face, attitude, and you wish you change that but you can’t because you can’t accept that. My three complaints that I want from this letter is one to learn to love yourself, two trust people a little more, and three try to overthink stuff. SIncerely. To my love self X! 1.What is your idea of perfect happiness?
My ideal of perfect happiness is to learn to love yourself 2.What is your greatest fear ? Getting my heart broken and losing my family. 3.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My best trait Im very nice person Im a generous person. 4.What is the trait you most deplore in others? Honest, Friendly 5.Which living person do you most admire? My dad, because of the things he has done for his family 6.What is your greatest extravagance? Food and makeup 7.What is your current state of mind? Passing math and english class 8.What do you consider the most overrated virtue? When they to nice, to not make an excusse to hurt their feelings, to friendly 9.On what occasion do you lie? When I don't want to hurt someone's feelings 10.What do you most dislike about your appearance? My body 11.Which living person do you most despise? At the moment nobody, but i hate when people look at me some type of way. 12.What is the quality you most like in a man? Their simile 13.What is the quality you most like in a woman? Their smile, I have a thing for smiles 14.Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Life is a risk 15.What or who is the greatest love of your life? My family 16.When and where were you the happiest? When my best friend was living with me, with her baby. 17.Which talent would you most like to have? Be good at cooking 18.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would like to change, my body 19.What do you consider your greatest achievement? Finish High School with honor roll, and graduation with my CDA with also honor roll. 20.If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I woulndt like to come back, but if i really have to i would become a teacup puppy 21.Where would you most like to live? Mexico 22.What is your most treasured possession? My makeup, car 23.What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Fight for a man, that dosent want to be with you. 24.What is your favorite occupation? Going to the gym 25.What is your most marked characteristic? Evrything 26.What do you most value in your friends? Honesty 27.Who are your favorite writers? Dante, Alighieri for now. 28.Who is your hero of fiction? My hero would be my dad 29.Which historical figure do you most identify with? Jenni Rivera 30.Who are your heroes in real life? Don't have one 31.What are your favorite names? Alondra 32.What is it that you most dislike? Fake people 33.What is your greatest regret? Never saying I Love You to my mother when she was really sick. 34.How would you like to die? The way i'm thinking of dying is sleeping whether I take a pill or i hire a hitman, listening to some music so the last thing I remember are happy moments. 35.What is your motto? La vida es un riesgo(Life is a risk). To motiviate to do things good and bad. For this week we had to read A Fable for the Living. This story was about a love one that past away and how she really miss him and letters she would write to herself. I can connect to this theme because I have a family member who past away who I always think about and miss you. I can also relate because I have diary journal which the lady would write letters to herself. I also learned that you get happy when you write a letter to the love one that has past because it helps you heal move one, and not carry that pain in your heart.
Dear Alondra, I want to start by apologize for my bad behavior and the negative side of me. I never made a full potential to keep my success going instead I would give up in the process. I also have this reckless behavior of doing things not thinking them through. Also big part is my negative side of thinking it eats me at times when I know their is light in the tunnel. I am not a optimistic person for example if when their is a full glass of water in perspective the glass is always empty. I have put this feeling and thought in my closet and kept them lock inside for a while and now I can let them out with out a problem it is such a relief. My life is like tree it grows and its beautiful but it has a lot of rough edges, those rough edges they represent depression and negative that has happen in my life. After reading this story I realize how important it is to writing to yourself. How it can cure your emotions and heal you. I promise instead of thinking negative I will remain positive and keep thinking positive. I will write letter to myself every time I start thinking negative and thinking that I do not have enough potential to become successful. I will keep this letters and think back see how successful I become by having letters written to myself. The second thing I have to do is forgiving myself for my reckless behavior and start thinking before my actions. I will not beat up myself for the reckless bad behavior I have done instead thinking through and realize the consequence. The third step I will take is not be upset and hard on myself instead get up and realize that I am young and I make mistake's but that I will keep positive attitude and know the come will be great and will show me a lesson. This was not easy but thank you for listening to me. I hope we can get through things and make things work out. I hope I can achieve this and become better writer to yourself and kept a habit so it helps you in the future. Sincerely Alondra. |
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