Spiritual View Reflection

A;I don't pray a lot, but there were still some things that fit me in the test.My results came out to be activist. I think that this is something that really fits me. I like challenging myself, and we do that a lot in sports and when I do my work. The things that I should do actively to connect to God should be doing things that I could really challenge myself like a sport, or do something spiritual that I can be passionate. B: I am not a very stronly connected Christian, so I think that I should first starting praying to God more often. Because i don't pray to God very ofter. Also to use my spiritual pathway I should become someone who becomes more active, like a LASA trip would be something that would help become more active.

Daily Reflection #6

Today we had a speech Mrs. Gunther about learning styles. I finished the learning skill test and I found out that I was a verbal and visual learner. I first thought that I was active learner who needs demonstrations or particpation on the activity, but after I took the test I realized that I only liked activities in class mostly because of it takes more time. Now that I know what we learn in class, I'm going to try use most of the advantages off my learning styles.

Daily Reflection #3

Today we talked about things that we value. we did a activity where we cut out the things that we truly value. It was interesting because many things on the top were about wealth and freedom. That was easy, however trying to finish the test that reflects to our jobs took me a long, so I was only half done with the test. While I was searching for the jobs that I wanted to be, I realized that my job choices were too broad. I want to study something about economy, and I looked for jobs like analyst or economists, but there wasn't a certain job that gives an broad prespective for a job. I realized that I should plan my future a little more deeply from this.

Daily Reflection #4

I missed class that day because of KAIAC tournament.

Daily Reflection #2

I missed class on the 24th that day because of APAC. So I was unable to listen to the lecture.

Daily Reflection #7

Today we searched about jobs. We went to a website that Mrs. Gunther gave us, and it was interesting because we all talking about getting a good job, but we did not know the requirement of the job, or the salary, or many things we were expected to know. Also many of jobs were divided into sub catagories. Today's class was intersting, but someone repeating the whole class. We spent half of our classtime looking at jobs as a example, when we just needed to know how to use it once. When I heard that we are going to get a research project for the unit, I was quite worried because I had a lot of things that I had to catch up with. I heard that this is the last class with Mrs. Gunther, and this was a intersting unit.

Daily Reflection #5

Today I worked on trying to catch up on work that I wasn't able to do. I did the personality test and it came out to become not as right. Even though I can be an energetic person who likes to talk a lot, I'm more of a person who stays back who enjoys listening to peopeles stories. It was also interesting how the learning styles didn't match from the personality test and the learning skill test. Sometimes when I take these tests, I feel like I'm not being honest with answers, and try to do what it makes my personality look better, so I think should take it with a person who knows me better.

Daily Reflection #1

I think the lesson was quite interesting to me, we don't usually have lessons like this, we don't usually have a guest speaker ,it was interactive and we had a lot of times to share our thoughts, and they really talked about our present and future, so that was intersting because I concentrate more on things that I think that can help me later on .This really talked about how I do in life these days. because it talked about making choices, and I'm in a situation where I have to make all these choices. I have to takes choices where I should do my homework, taking a rest in an appropriate time. I think that these lectures will really help me later on, so I'm excited have these speeches.

Assignment #10

I think the voice of the photo is hunger. It is shown very realistically with the kid in front. The kid has no fat. His body looks like a skeleton compared to his head. The women in the back looks very tried, she is holding a child so I think she got tired from trying to feed her son. Everyone is wearing no cloth, so itI think its the lack of supplies that the African kids are getting.

This painting is the "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" from Van Goh. The man is sitting down just thinking of something with a tired face. So I think the voice of the picture is tiredness. Starting with the face, the face shows many traits of tiredness. Such as wrinkles, he looks like he is alsleep because hes too tired to open his eyes. The background of the painting also makes it look tired. The background is dark and unclear.

This is the Mona Lisa from Leonardo Davinchi. The women is making a expression that looks she is smiling or not. The background of the painting is very serene and calm. It isn't to flashy but it is detailed and and everything seems to be in balance. I believe the voice the painting is showing is peace.

This is the photo of the second flag raising in Iwo Jima during the World War II. I think the voice of the photo is toughness. First looking at the flag, the flag is being blown by wind, but it is still standing straight. The navy are holding tight to the pole, stepping over things that looks like guns and destroyed machines. I think it shows how the Americans were doing in the war, even though it was touch war, they went throught the enemy and are still standing strong.

This photo is a picture that was posted online as the world's saddest dog. I think the voice of the picture is sadness. The look the dog is giving looks like he expects people to take him and take care of him. His eyes even looks a little teary, and it makes the dog look even more sad. He looks lost in the world by looking at the empty streets. The picture is focused well on the dog, and that helped it look more sad as well.

A great impression

A person that left a great impression on me is a person is a person who I played with in a team. He was the person who had skills to take the last hit. He was like the Michael Jordan in our team. He takes thing like practices hard and seriously. He takes his responsibilities seriously, so he is a balanced person in many area. He was a great student-athelte that I could follow.

Assignment #9

The author descibes your voice like its your identification of yourself. He tells us that the voice shouldn't change because of the subject. He talks about breeziness, when you try to write your writing folksly, it is still important write good english. He tells us that we shouldn't be using cliches, and it makes the writing boring and dull.You shouldn't writing things that are too verbose or complicated. The author also tells us to not be scared of imitating other writers.

I agree with the author about the imitation and cliche part, not exactly the way he believe it is true though. I think writers will be influenced then try to imitate it. I think when you keep hearing someones voice, your voice gets influenced by the author, so you get this voice that is similar to book. If you are using too much cliches, it makes the story dull, because there is nothing new. However I don't agree with the author with the voice shouldn't change when you write about anything. Because some types of writing shouldn't contain personal voice in it, like a lab report.

Blogging Assignment #8

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What is voice? What makes a voice unique? How would you describe your writing voice?

Voice is the tone of your writing. It is the emotion that the writer wants to show. Every voice is different because everyone all have different emotions. I think I have a very weak voice in writing. I'm not sure how well I express my emotions when I write, so I never get a strong grade in writing.

2. Pretend you are an object in the classroom such desk, pencil, chair, the teacher's shoe, anything! Imagine yourself having a bad day as this object. Write a 500 word narrative describing your bad day from the object's perspective.

First, I didn't mean to do the same topic as the example.

Today, it was the worst day of my life in my short few years of being a laptop. I’ve been in many bad moment. I was in a factory trying to put me in boxes, trapped in storage rooms for a long time, was unused for a long time, but today felt like the worst. I think the overload of work is getting on me, I have to run so much programs, I have turn on his music, check for viruses, write his work. I do everything for him!! Why do I have to show him movies and basketball games, is it my job to make him happy? I thought I was just helping him do his work..

First, my owner was eating candy while doing his writing project, and it was one of the really sticky sour ones, and sour candy is usually sticky because of the sugar covering the jelly, so I had to be contacted by his sticky, licked hands. It felt so bad and disgusting because I feel wet and sticky at the same time. After that, he starts sneezing like crazy, and he doesn’t he clean himself before typing again. Doesn't he know what personal hygiene is? Doesn't he know that he should sanitize his hands with hand sanitizer before he starts to type on his computer? The mixture of candy and germs was very unpleasant.

Another thing that he did to me is, he dropped me! He dropped me from at least a meter! How can he drop a laptop, doesn't he knows that laptops like us really needs to be careful with shock? At least he has fast hands so he at least saved me before I would crash right into the ground without any resistance. Most of our laptops are weak and need safe care, we would crash into pieces if we got dropped.

In the end, he even put me in the steaming car because he had to go do sports. I hate hot weather, I get heated up so easily. I think I can explode if it goes over the limit. I had very little battery and I just waited until I could get charged by my cable.I hate when I have to restart my self. I have to do so many things before I can, and it takes a lot of time. He didn't come until the evenings, and all he does is complain why I didn't have any battery and I have to wait until you upload. That guy is getting in my nuts these days.

Right now, I want to avenge on him so bad, I feel like I want to just get a virus and just mess up all his work, and then enjoy watching suffer for doing everything on me. I'm sure that he's going to get swine flue for being such an unsanitized person. I also hope that I won't received the treatment that I had received today or I'd rather just break myself up so I don't see him again. Today was the absolutely worst day.

Assignment 7

1.What are some of the aspects of narrative writing and did you like using them?

In my opinion, the writing is very descriptive and personal. Since it is your story, you can describe more things than when you look in third person view. Because you get to describe feelings and use adjectives to give an accurate explanation about one thing. I like how narrative writing is more personal then other writings, because you get to describe how you felt and you can make many descriptions out of that.

2.How did you determine what details were relevant and necessary to support your ideas?

I think I determined the relevance of the detail by looking how much it was related to the main idea and how it rightly it describes the moment. The details should be descriptive enough to bring the reader back into the moment and help the understanding your situation, but short enough so it does not drag the story. I think I did a bad job on that and used too much description in the writing.

3.How did you create a unique piece of writing?

Since it is my story, and not someone elses. It is already unique. I think that the experience of playing in front of many people is not an experience that you get to have in your ordinary life. It can give the readers how it felt for the freshman who just had their first game of volleyball. Every writing that people write is unique because nobody is not going to have the same descriptions as what you did unless they plagiarized your work.

4.How did you craft your writing to meet the audience expectations? What is easy or hard?

I had many ideas in my mind while I was writing about this topic. However, I had too many ideas and I didn't know what ideas I should use. It gave me a really tough time because I had to find ideas that actually help readers to understand my situation. For example, you have a ball. You can describe many things about the ball such as its shape, color, weight, but you have to find something unique to describe the ball more clearly. It doesn't really help if you write something everyone knows.

5.How did your personal experience and faith shape the way you told this story?
Because it is a recent memory, and I remembered many things about the moment. Since it's not a journal where I record every single thing I remembered, I had to cut many things out of the story. It was hard for to me to choose what to take out and make the story flow.

6.What would your life be like without the experience?
This experience is really important to me. Because it was my first time doing a sport in front of people, or representing our school for KAIAC. Without this memory I wouldn't have debuted in KAIAC, since it's a first game. My life would be really plain without sports.

Assignment 6

1.
I.In the first article they talk about movies use hooks to grab attention of people. Movie uses hooks to hang the viewers by ending a scene with a question, and starting a new scene with an answer to the question with sounds and images.

II. The introduction should start with a hook, and then have a thesis to identifies the purpose of the writing, and then write you story. They explain a writing like fishing, you let the readers grab the bait, introduction. After you reel them with the story.

III. The hook is very important in literature, because you have to grab the readers attention, and that is very important because they will be lost in the story and will not be as interested in the story. The readers also might make the standard of the quality of your book by the hook, so you should write one well. Usually good books have a good hook.

2.I think that it has a good hook because it did grab my attention, because I think that it made me interested in the disease the man has, and what the man done. Books use literature grab the readers interested in the start, so they will interested in rest of the story. Movies use it between scenes

3.
Book The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
The book title hooked me because some incident to a dog happened, and since it is in the night-time, you get this feeling it is something dangerous like murder or thievery will happen to the dog

Movie trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQM31QCufI GI Joe'
The trailer used hooks in ways like showing many action scenes, or saying things like when everyone fails we don't", and them shows weapons that enchance you in many ways.

News article: Arms found on ship bound from NKorea to Iran http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5idgfbE56iwzRHHYGg95JBjJmsrrA
This hooks me becuase North Korea is a country who have nuclear weapons and is a country next to us. Since they are selling weapons, it shows that they are doing something dangerous.

Assignment 5

Create a story using your ten vocabulary words. Your scenario should include what you did or did not do during your “swine flu vacation”. Your story should be at least two paragraphs in length. A paragraph counts as 6-8 sentences.


I disdained our unexpected swine flue vacation it than I expected to be. At first, I was glad that we got to miss school for one week because I also got sick even though it was not swine flu, and I became so angular after laying in bed for a whole day feeling really bad. That was the only thing that was actually good, because after that I had to do all the homework that the school had gave us during the vacation. I was ambivalent about the date our school was going to reopen, so I had to start doing my homework after I felt better. I had to even finish my homework in times like the taciturn and serene midnights or places like my dad's office because we were moving.

Even though I lamented because of the amount of homework we recieved, it was for beneficial for our family because we had time to move. So if you think as a family this was actually a really nice break, because if we moved while we go to school, we might have not been able to help because we had no time to move except for my mom, so we would not be able to organize the house for ages, because everyone works in our family. We did not have enough time to make the house ostentatious, but the break gave us enough time to embellish our new house enough to make it livable.

Things that I could not do because of swine flu is sports and play, because even though I wanted to go to school to play basketball, or go practice volleyball as a team. We could not because the school was closed. I could not play because, even though I couldnt concentrate on my homework and wanted to play, I still needed to study even though it was really ineffectice to study without concentrating.

Nouns assignment #4

Link did not work so I had to post the news article


S. Korea`s new flu cases approach 3,000 mark

South Korea`s health authorities confirmed Sunday 106 more cases of new flu, or Type A Influenza, bringing the total number of South Koreans testing positive for the highly-contagious virus to 2,925, according to Yonhap News.
The Sunday toll is the latest clear sign that the Mexico-originated flu, originally called "swine flu," is spreading beyond control in South Korea. So far, two South Koreans, a man in his 50s and a 63-year-old woman, have died of the virus.

The government remains on high alert as the virus could spread faster in the next couple of weeks as students head back to school after summer vacations.

"It`s highly likely that the number of patients could surge as students return to schools this week," said an official at the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

The official urged people to wash their hands frequently with soap and water and try to avoid close contact with sick people. If anyone has flu-like symptoms, he or she should visit a hospital for diagnosis, according to the official.



Singular
Man
Woman
Virus
Government
Soap
Water
Hospital
diagnosis
Official
School
alert
sign

Plural
Patients
Students
People
Hands
Symptoms
authorities
South Koreans
Weeks
Summer vacations

What is the importance of nouns?
Nouns are important, because if we do not have nouns in our life, we would not be able to refer to someone, or define anyone that we want to direct to.
How do they affect our everyday lives?
It would affect our everyday lives dramatically, because you have no way tell that you are referring to someone. So if you say something like "go in line" in front of 30 people in a public facility, it would be extremely hard to point out who you are referring to.
Would the English language be limited without nouns? Why or why not?
Yes, because your sentences will become very short and it would be hard to expand. Like you can't have any subjects or objects, so your sentence would go more than something like "very confused", because you can't use "I", and there is no reason to put "am".
How do nouns affect other languages?
Yes, every language needs nouns so it could refer to something. For example, in Korea we also use nouns, even though it would be as weird as English when we do not have any nouns, but nouns are still a very important part of literacy.

Assignment 3#

1.Master plan: Who succeeds Jackson?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=Jackson-090818

It talks about how important Phil Jackson is to the LA Lakers, and shows thought of people who might be taking over the team after he retires and leaves his coaching career. It has strong ideas because it was focused on finding a good coach, and it has theme that tells us that Phil Jackson is very good coach and its hard to find a successor of him
2/War Zone Wal-Mart Wages Battle for Va. Store
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8320405

The articles is talking about if the walmart store should be open or not in a battle field where over 16000 people had died. I think it had good idea because it was very descriptive, showing that the USA is in a econimcal crisis and it would help if a place where you could make many jobs, or why its not good to make a store there. It wrote about well develop ideas, it shows how it is not going to change if they move it a little more.

Pakistan Burn Victims Turn Beauticians

"Pakistan Burn Victims Turn Beauticians' is about two poor women who had damage their faces because of acid attacks or fire from others who live out their lives as beautifully as beauticians trying to help other victims in Pakistan. I think the story was about how true beauty is from the heart. I think the article was written with good ideas. The writer had a clear focus of writing about the life story of two victims who became beauticians. The story gave many small details about the story and they all connect into one central theme. Like details about the girl with no face, and how many people asked for help for being poured acid in the face, it all connected to the theme. The writer did not give us massive amounts of details to make us bored, but just gave some that specific and supportive to the story and that helps grabbing the readers intrest.

Tracks of life

Psi
Champion
The first Korean song that I listened to when I came to Korea, I didn't listen to the song often, but it reminds me when I first came to Korea

Mcfly
Room on the 3rd Floor
I think this was my first favorite song, and still a band that I still enjoy listening to. I think it was the first time I enjoyed listening to music.

Daniel Powter
Bad Day
It reminds me of a bad day im fourth grade when there was a fire in my house.

SG Wannabe내사람
Favorite Korean artist 6-7th grade, listened to their song a lot

Beatles
Let It Be
This was the english song they tought most in my Korean middle school, so it reminded me of time in Korean middle schools.

Neyo
Because of You
One of my favorite R&B songs.I started listening to this song as I came to TCIS.

K.Will
눈물이 뚝뚝(Tears dropping)
It was one of the songs that I listened to a lot during my summer break. Favorite artist these days

All American Rejects
Swing SwingFirst song I played in a band as a bass

Writing 9 Assignment #1

*What characteristics describe “good” writing

.A good writing should have a strong voice about your opinion, and a strong voice appeals to the writer more strongly. It should also have good coherence with the whole essay, so it does not go off topic and the flow of the sentences should be smooth. Strong vocabulary always helps to describe the writing. Your words should not be repeating all the time. Also, you can try to use new words, but you should make sure that it is not forced. The paragraphs should be more organized. For example, you should not be starting a new support when you are not done with the first one.

*What is the process of writing?

The process of writing that we learned in school is brain storming, writing, revision, editing, and then publishing. Brain storming is where you choose your ideas. Writing is just your first draft of what you write. Revising is for improving your essay, and it could be done with a group or just your self. Editing is the same thing as revising, but you are fixing things like grammar, spelling, and puntcuation. Finnally, you publish the writing, publishing is anyway to share your writing to other people. But if you just think of the process more simply, you are just thinking what to write, write, you review what you what you write, and present it to others.