Listen and Learn

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It was one thing to read the book My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor but getting to sit there and listen to her talk was a very interesting thing for me. This is one of the first times I have read a book and got to see the author talk about their life and some of the things they wrote about. Sonia Sotomayor did give us all very important in advice that will help us in our lives. Like when she talked about her family it made me think about how I can take things for granted sometimes. How I should think about what my family has done for me. I do not think that I will get to go and see someone like Sonia Sotomayor again and I am happy that I went and got to have the opportunity to I listen to her talk.

Think More

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What is Critical Thinking? It is when you look at the meaning of something with more thought to it, to see all the different things that it can mean. I use Critical Thinking in all of my classes throughout the week. When we are having a class discussions they do not just want us to think about the surface of obvious stuff they want us to go into more detail about it and to understand it in many ways. The two other world that I was going over this week are perpendicular lines and parallel lines. Perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at the same point to make a right angle. Parallel lines are two lines that run next to each other and will never hit or cross each other at any point.

Half Way there

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When I look at my mid-term grades I was very happy with them. For most of the classes my grades were I would like them to be. In some classes I need to work on getting my grades up just a bit. I make sure that the grades that are where I want them do not go down. I think that I am doing well right now but I see what I need to work on and in what classes. I think that if I keep doing my homework and staying on top of my work and not waiting for the last minute to do it I will keep my grades up. When I look back at what I have got done so far this semester I am happy with my work not to say that I did not hit a couple of hick ups or anything like that.

From the bumps that I hit in the road I now know what not to do. Like when I walk into my math midterm think that I already know everything that I needed to know so I did not look over my notes that well. It did show when I got my test back because I did not do very good at all. I now know that just because you know what you are doing in class does not mean that you should not still study. The biggest goal that I have for the second half of the semester is to end it with all Bs or higher. That means that I need to bring two of my class grades up and my other classes are where I want them to be so I just need to work hard in those classes so they do not go down. If I can end this semester with all Bs I will very happy with that

Go To See

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This week I went to see the play Shakespeare in Hollywood by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sheila Hockey Garvey.  I liked the play because it took Shakespeare’s characters and puts them in a new situation. I really enjoyed this play because in high school I worked in crew so I did not get to see the plays my school put on in the audience. I liked seeing how good of actors that college kids could be. They must have put a lot of hard work into the play and it showed in the performance. The set was also very good and I know how much goes into that. I will most definitely be go to see another play this year.

Mastery of words

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Mastery is to learn how to do something well without making mistakes. I think that this word goes well with being in college because we are all trying to master something in our life. We are trying to master our majors so we can one day get a job and know what we are doing.  Two words that I was trying to master this week were sign and semiotics.  Sign means something that shows the meaning of a different object. Semiotics is knowing way something means that like the reason that something means something.

A Book to Remember

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One of the first homework assignments that we got as a freshman at Southern was that we had to read the book My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor over the summer. I think that this was a good book to read because it showed us that everyone has challenges that they will have to face and that you should all ways try to make your dream come true.  As you read this book you got to see some of the challenges that Sonia Sotomayor faced in her life. Like one challenge that she had to deal with was her diabetes and how she had to learn to give herself her insulin shots. Her dream was to live the American dream which I would say that she did. I think what you could learn from this book is that if you are willing to put the work into something in your life you can make it far. Even if it is hard at times or if people think that you cannot do it that you will have to show them that you can and will do it. That no matter what your dream is that you just might be able to live it.

                For my six word memoir I used Live Life As You Want To. I think that this goes with the book My Beloved World because she had to live her life as she wanted to. I think if you do not live your life as you want to then you will one day regret the things that you have not done in your life and you will think all of the time what if. I think that I follow this well because I live life as I want to and I stand up for the things that I believe in. I live my life as I want to and I do not let other make choose for me.

A+ work

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The two blogs that I found to be an a or a+ quality are the blog On the Path to Success by Kelly Robinson  and the other blog is Inside the Owls Best by Jacqueline Reis.  I think that they make their blogs very interesting to read and they give you the information that you needed to know. Their writing style is easy to follow and fun to read. When you go on to their blog page they are very easy to look at they are not like over done with too much stuff going on. They both have a pattern on the border of their blogs that goes with the background color of their blog page. I liked how this looked and thought it was a good way to make your blog page look good. It also made the page interesting to look at without making it distracting.  In the blog Inside the Owls Nest they used a good picture to go with what she was writing about. The pictures made the blog interesting because they were colorful and used lots of fonts but still related to what she was writing about. They were placed well in the blog and got your attention. Their blogs were easy to understand and got still got their points across. I think that is a good thing because people like to be able to look at something and get the information they need from it right away in a blog. It is not like a book where you want to read lots of information with a lot of details and description. A blog should just be bursts of information to get your point across. I think these two blogs did a good job of doing that. These blogs were attractive and had good information and did not go overboard so I think they are a or a+ blogs

http://kellyrobinson19.blogspot.com/

http://scsu17.blogspot.com/