Three types of high school teachers I had were, the notes and test type, the lecture type, and the movie type. In many classes teachers simply read notes off of a screen and everyone copies them down. The teacher might indicate every now and then that something is going to be on the test but other than that pretty touch and go. Then there's the lecture teacher, who thinks you can write down every word they are saying and has like 3 things on each slide. These teachers are the ones who claim no one listens. Then the movie teachers who don't teach just make you watch a short film and do the quiz at the end and turn it in.

Friends

The types of friends I have in my life are, my best friend, my human diary, and my party friend. Each one of these types of friends wholes a special place in my heart, but you just can't do things with one person that you can do with another. My party friend is fun, we talk on weekends and some weekdays, but mostly weekends. We like to travel, turn up, and go have fun. My human diary is more of a on the phone friend. We don't see each other a lot, maybe 2-3 times a month, but we are on the phone 24/7. I tell her everything and she tells me everything. My best friend has been my friend for close to 20 years and we don't talk much but know where our hearts lie.

Blogs

Compared to the diagnostic essay, the illustrative essay was a bit of a challenge. The diagnostic essay was pretty easy because it was free hand, not as many restrictions, not as long, and not graded as harshly. After not writing in a while, I think I did pretty good on the new essay, but only because of the warm up diagnostic essay. The illustrative essay was differently more challenging. It was a longer essay, with more restrictions on grammar and sentence structure. My thesis was definitely stronger this essay after the added help. My work cited is a lot better after the lessons and such.

When to Cite

When writing any type of essay you should always cite information you got from somewhere else. If you did not come up with the information yourself it can be cited. It is important to cite because if you do not it is counted as cheating and will result in an F or in more serious cases, jail type and payout. Using someone's else words that they have ownership to is like stealing from a store. You should never use anything some one said without citing it.

MLA Formatting

I've been doing MLA formatting and work cited since freshman year in high school at Columbus High School. Each paper in every class had to be in MLA format or was marked wrong. This is the reason it comes so easy to me after doing it 4 year straight. My only issue is not knowing what to cite. Unless it is a research paper of some kind I do not believe you should have to cite. Who would you be citing, yourself? Also when it comes to MLA format remembering each step and everything that is on the paper is very hard so maybe so type of checklist would be helpful.

College Students

College students often struggle to balance their school work with the demands of everyday life. Everyday you wake up, running to the bathroom, then to the kitchen for coffee. School early this morning seems like a regret, until you are home by 5 in the evening completing  homework and still have at least 30 minutes to take a nap before your night shift. Working night shift is easy until you have to get off and go home and wake up at 6 AM. Life is hard and on Monday through Thursday you work your hardest, but when the weekend comes it's time for fun. Friday and Saturday you work day night and make sure to get off in time to go to the mall, and go out with friends. When it comes to the hard life of college teens, they make their life hard by not prioritizing and making smart decisions.

Life

No one is ever meant to be alone in life. I believe there is someone out there for everybody. During life everyone meets that person they think they will be friends with forever, but most friendships don't make it pass high school. A best friend is hard to come by because every individual has a different life and future, and everybody isn't meant to be apart of that. A lot of the time people will show you that they are not meant to be apart of your life with the flaw things that they do. Some will do little things that you will forgive, others will do things that break your heart. I believe it take times but everybody will find somebody.

Dream Best Friend

Wouldn't it be heavenly to have the perfect best friend. No drama, no lying, no worries of her sleeping with your men, no worries of jealously, or anything. Wouldn't it be ideal to be able to go to one single person that you can tell all your secrets and problems too. A best friend doesn't have to look like you or do things like you. They really just have to be here for you. People think that money, and material things help determine best friends and relationship, but the only person I would feel right calling best friend is someone who was there even when I didn't want them there.

Kindness

 My grandmother is the reason for my kindness. She has been kind to so many people my whole life and she is the reason I think about others. Four years ago my uncle went to prison for something he didn't do. A year later the state of Texas tried to take away rights for his two daughters, Shyla and Hanniah Anderson. There mother had committed suicide and they were put in the foster system by their aunt due to Hanniah's misbehavior. Grandma took them in. So many challenge were faced and I would have turned them back in! They were terrible, disrespectful, and bad mouth. Four years later I am happy to report that these two young ladies are doing extremely well, mentality and psychically. If it had not been for Grandma's kindness they would not be.

Peer Revision

Sydney was my peer revision partner. When we started we did not what to follow the instructions because it sounds corny to read aloud your essay to a stranger. In the end, I was glad we did. Reading the essay out loud helped in many ways. I could hear all my grammar mistakes, and spelling issues. Also I could hear where I needed to add more content or take out things and more others around.Adding to the process more time would allow more editing and time to fix mistakes. More than one person and point of view could also add more to the process and producing a better paper.

Diction

The most frustrating thing to me about writing is diction. Diction is more advanced word selection. When I write the words come to me but they are elementary, middle school level and I have to constantly go back and switch out my words. Knowing I have this problem throughout the years has happened a lot. I’m just no good at spelling so I guess I don’t know a lot of words and it makes it more difficult to find words. I’ve used presenting and drafting over the years to correct this problem but soon I will have to start learning words. I plan to get some type of app on my phone so I learn a new word every day.

Setting the right Example

Jermaine Unique McNeal is the reason I do the right thing. My son is the only reason I do anything right in life, before him I made a lot of terrible decisions that caused a lot of harm to myself and others. Everyone tried to get me to see reason but I would not listen for any reason. When I found out he was there and I had to bring him into the world and teach him I had to change what I wanted him to know. He was the only reason I changed my life and to this day saved me from myself. I do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do because that is the example I set for my son, what I want him to do as well. 

My father deserves spectacular results by Van Jones

Van Jones father died before Barack Obama became president and his dream was to see his father proud. It is sad for a son to bury his father but it’s better than it being the other way around. Jones lives by what his father taught his while he was around and has become successful off of this. Coming from a background in slavery his father was a black principal which just sounds impossible to me in though times but he made it possible for many kids to grow up and have education because of his hard structure. Having a firm father kept what Jones was doing stable enough that he made it working for Obama in the White House after the election even though it wasn’t his dream he believes it will make his father proud but results will make him prouder.

Seeing beyond our differences by Sheri White

Sheri White grew up in times of racism and her parents where Indian and white. Her mother was a dark Indian and her father a pale white man. Though she never noticed that until she was older, it took a huge impact on her life before she was even born. This is a prime example about racism not being born into people but raised to be racist. She did not see anything wrong with her father and her mother but even her grandpa feared for them when they were married in 1996 because of the people in this world. Later she came out to her parents as a lesbian and after beating racism another obstacle in the future. Until this day she still believes that no matter the appearance everybody is the same, and maybe if people though like that life wouldn’t be how it is.

Life is an act of literacy creation by Luis Urrea

In this I believe paper Luis Urrea believes that all ideas and good things for writing comes from the world. Urrea believes that if you listen and pay attention to the world around you that was made of writing you would learn to write. He learned this from an old healer women. The beauty is the eye of the beholder, nature is spiritual itself to those who will listen to its wisdom. This might not be true of everybody but he has tried many methods and this is the one that works for him. He believe that God made the word though a writing and the omens of the world will help him write.

Six Ways to Succeed in College

The six college success secrets are show up for every class, no cells phones, work harder outside the class room, keeping a good relationship with your profession, making your classmates, and saying goodbye to high school. I am repeating college for the second time, I was in a wreck that caused me to drop out of my sophomore year 2^nd semester. On my first go around I wished I had read that article first. I never came to class, I didn’t talk to my teachers or the students, and I loved my cell phone and earphones. I passed but not until the end and because of keeping up with homework and my professions were very nice, also I’m a great self-learner. This time I will stay focused and keep things very simple and come to every class. For my return to school I will not need to be told to do any of these because I have already learned the hard way.

English 101

In English 101 this semester I would like to become a better writer. When I was a child I use to love to write but my grammar and skills needed a lot of work. Through the years I have picked up many more skills and experiences that will led me to one day write a novel. The skills I need to improve are diction, editing, and grammar. When it comes to writing the words, besides lack of diction, I am a very creative person, but diction is what adds more to writing, take it to new levels. Diction is the thing I want to work on the most because, I feel like the words you choose are where the empathy from the writer meets the reader.

Introduction

When you introduce someone, you know a lot about this person, their name, where they live, which college they go to, or how many family members they have. When introducing yourself, it's whatever you want to say. A lot of people tell others lies to comfort themselves and refused judgement, some tell only the things that seems to be going well in their lives, and others don't say anything. Well I'm Asia and I tell it all. I am a very open and honest person who does not care much about what I say, or what you will say back to me about it. I am a single mother of one, and my son shapes my world present and future. All decisions I make in life are centered around him and his future. Most of all I am full of surprises, just wait and see.