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Reading Narrative
As a child my mother read to me many times. It was almost a ritual in my home. She would read me books like Goosebumps, scary movies and books were my favorite. My mother would also read me the Dr. Sues and I grew up hearing the Harry Potter series. With my other reading experiences; I would judge on the text whether I needed to read the whole selection or not. It would depend on the questions asked for the piece. Say if there was a selection where they only ask for definitions in the first three paragraphs and that is it. I would not read the whole selection based on those questions.
While I was younger I was taught to read the questions, to get an idea of what to look for, then read the passage. It has helped me threw the years with critical thinking and comprehension of what I was to read. Books that have a mystery and action to them draw me in. These types of books draw me in to read them more. Mythes and Syfy have always been an interest to me like scary movies where a huge demonic creature trying to reach our world and control the innocent little girl it has possessed. It’s a theme that interests and fills my curiosity. I have only listened to audiobooks through school during a teaching session. I have no idea on how teachers would go about purchasing the audiobooks. I have never needed them.
Reading was and is a necessity to my success in all my life. From elementary school to the day I die being able to comprehend what I have read is essential. It helps expand and improve my intellectual health, it contributes to my overall health and wellness. I have no diagnoses with a reading disability that would restrict me from anything.
Having the Creator Mindset Paper
Its time for everyone to look around them and think about how we cope when we have a tough situation at hand. How do you react? Sometimes I get stressed and cannot handle what was dealt to me. Everyone tries to make the best effort, but do we actually put in steps to turn that around? Determining whether we are the Victim or a Creator? Being a Creator is using your surroundings and the ideas around you to your advantage, but a Victim blames others for things that go wrong in their life and tries to give away their responsibilities (Downing 43). Individuals have the ability and capabilities to be a Creator and have the balance of a Victim, if possible identifying those things can help you think like a Creator.
Reading the blog You are the Prime Mover really makes you sit and take a second and think (Mirman). Like which student would you be? Earlier years I would be the student that did not make an effort, but now I can say I’m the student that did not just wait for items to be handed to her and he/she took the initiative and used her responsibilities as a student. The student made the decision to get what she needed done using the resources available to them to their advantage. Both students had a dead line to fulfill. They knew they had a task and one only tried to make an effort.
Playing the Victim is almost natural to everyone without noticing you’ve done it. When I hurt my knee towards the end of my junior year in high school, I was lazing my way through my classes. And I would make excuses for my knee when knowing I needed time to get place-to-place on crutches that I needed to be prepared and be punctual. I would blame the teachers for the work I missed and classes that were easy became a little harder. Since I was missing time in class the materials was like cuneiform. And sports was off limits because of my injury, my stress reliever disappeared. Things became difficult for me, falling behind made me re-evaluate my
priorities. I began to ask more questions about the items I missed and the material I didn't understand, my grades increased gradually. I’m glad I made the change before my grade point average dropped. Realizing I was letting my injury take the best of me and me not getting a hold of my grades made me ashamed of my regression when I know progress is the only way to get me closer to my goals and closer to a career choice. I was lost from my path and staying on the path is key for my success for the future, so I can be happy in the end.
My mother, Laura Fox, is a Creator. She has always been. She deals with a variety of demands and struggles to get her through the day. It's amazing the things she can do, she can settle and recuperate herself dealing with the tasks at hand and make them to her advantage. Having the ability to turn negative issues into a positive outcome is a desirable trait for anyone to have. My mother was on her way for a walk and she was taking the dogs with her. I stayed home I had a doctor’s appointment that morning but before she could make it down the stairs a thud came to my ears. My mother had fallen, she missed the last step off the porch. I was the only one home and rush through the house out the door and I find mama on the ground holding her ankle and somehow still maintaining control over the dogs. I pick her up and help her back inside to the couch. Instead of this being my doctor’s appointment, she ended up taking the spot. We found out she had fractured her ankle in several areas. Few weeks later my mother’s tasks didn't seise, even if she wanted them to. She had deadlines for school and she had to still take my younger brother to and from school. I would help also but she still could balance everything out to accommodate for her ankle and her daily tasks. She would prepare and cook the whole family
dinner; she did what she knew she had to so everyone would be set and did not let her ankle get in the way of it all.
People have the capabilities to be a Creator, but getting out of the Victim mindset will help you succeed in the long run. This semester I’m choosing not to be a normal bystander and deciding to use my full potential to help me adapt the Creator mindset to achieve my goals. I want to keep up with work and maintain a great work ethic. While managing my work schedule I want to obtain a 3.6 grade point average along with continuing my study habits. After I’m done doing my homework I review my notes from the book and from the lecture of the day and I take quizzes in the back of the book to help me review. I want my first semester in a college setting to be a great one and me getting my procrastination out the way and having a set schedule for my studies and homework, social life, and work will help me with that goal. Trying to use and apply the material at hand so I can put those to my goals for the semester.
Works Cited
Downing, Skip. On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 42-44. Print.
Mirman, David. "Do You Think like a Victim or a Creator?" You Are the Prime Mover. N.p., 2 Jan. 2012. Web. 9 Sept. 2015. < http://youaretheprimemover.com/2012/do-you-think-like-a-victim-or-a-creator>.
Communicate as a Professional
Using the eloquent use of grammar is to help you out and receiving good credibility for it can drastically change how others see you. Making the change now is the right way to go. Many jobs judge the resumes you turn in and that gives them all the materials they need to know about you and how much you would take care of your position as an employee there; no matter what position you’re applying to the language in your writings matter. A sample from Kyle Weins, “Sloppy is as sloppy does,” say if you are showing up for an interview in paint covered jeans with a white T-shirt; first look many professional businesses won’t even take you in for the scheduled interview (Weins ). From both of these articles have professional opinions on the subject that have effected them personally through their place of business. Individuals always need to remember not to use vernacular, or the language that we are so comfortable with using. “We project ourselves through our written words,” Through our work shows the devised or, plan of ourselves within out choice and collaboration of words used throughout life (Adams ).
Good grammar will get you through all the tough spots in your career and so will good communication to others. The grammar is how you come across either in your writing or speaking with others. It can tell a lot about you and your education that you have been taught throughout the years of living. Your good grammar is like the bread to your butter for your papers, the most use of good grammar you are using can be perceived as the higher level of education you have had. There are ways for communicating with others for different surroundings, like your home and job. There is casual conversation and that is the way you will talk with your family or friends and you have business or professional talk that would be for employers and professors. It will help be an aid for advancement and a types of sophistication.
I will need to take classes on public speaking to help get myself comfortable with talking with people in a moderate to big crowd. Speaking in front of a class makes me shake with anxiety down to my voice. Also I could practice with smaller groups first on my own and build my way up. Practicing is for my benefit to build up for my future ahead for my career. The classes I have to take for my college career is a tool for my benefit, like participating in group projects and creating my own lectures to preform for my professor throughout the years. I could try taking stress management classes to reduce my stress of public speaking, using the class as a eustress helping me overcome my speaking phobia would be a great tool.
Works Cited
Weins, Kyle. "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why." Harvard Business Review: HRB Blo Network. 20 July 2012. <http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html>
Adams, Susan. "Why Grammar Counts at Work." Forbes. 20 July 2012.
< http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/07/20/why-grammar-counts-at-work/ >.
"Summary." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 8 Jan. 2014. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.
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Multi-tasking
From the ages of 13-18 years old, teens use about six different types of social media at the same time. The article didn’t give any examples of these social media sites but, I will say in 2015, teens mainly use Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. Around when the article was written some of the sites might vary. Though younger people have an easier time “multitasking,” they usually are slower and have issues concentrating on the tasks at hand. Overtime individuals have issues with memory and focusing on the task. The mind has an issue with completing two or more tasks at one time. It would be quicker to do one task then move back and forth on multiple projects. When the brain needs to choose on a task the brain does not respond as quickly as it would be working on one objective. Like the more intensive the activity, the longer it would take the brain to receive, comprehend, and react.
Many students that had about eight or more text messages through this video got lower scores on their tests after. There were many different variations of people’s responsiveness to the test after the video was shown. But a younger experiment that was done “The Marshmallow Experiment,” and it help analyze the self control of children. It revealed that the children at the age of four had more self control to wait to eat the marshmallow but, soon usually about after 15 minutes of waiting either they ate the marshmallow or they would wait and get two marshmallows. It showed that kids that waited seemed to do better throughout their life. They did better on testes, schools, and their jobs.
Like Sarah elaborates on more is that people are never really the "Multitaskers" they claim to be the brain cannot process different activities at one time. To get things done, regardless of how vigorous the activity is, the brain needs to stop and register the different objectives at hand and adjust itself. Working constantly on multiple activities weigh on the brain with memory and your ability to ignore distractions. The individual that usually works one a task then moves to next has a stronger ability to avoid being distracted and remembers more when it comes to tests and the daily demands of life. Examples like when reading the normal reader can’t read their text and their phone simultaneously again the brain would have to take time and relax, receive, comprehend, adjust, and then put into action of replying to that text message or going back to the place of reading.
The theory of multi-tasking is the mind believing it is completing different tasks at one time but, we are not computers. Our brain does not have the capability to complete more than one task at a time. Unlike the human brain completing many tasks at one time is part of a computer’s programing and is necessary to get the simple job of bringing up a web browser or clicking on a bottom that brings you to another web page. We have made the illusion to ourselves that we are able to complete tasks at once but, overtime if you take the time to notice we stop what we are doing to respond to the other objective, and then we recuperate ourselves and resume with the original activity.
Everyday, when I’m doing my homework I run the television and music. I believe I can multi-task and get my work done in a good amount of time. I notice that I do get off track and I might stop and pay attention to the television or I stop and listen and sing with the music. It never really works out that way; you invent it in your head. I think we put it in our heads that we can multi-task without any issue at all, no distractions or anything sometimes like me my distractions get the best of me and it takes me long to get something done. A story where I think I can multi-task is walking and talking. I believe I got that down; I can talk on the phone and walk like down the street and be okay. Normally with those two activities is enough, otherwise it becomes harder for me to jump back and forth.
Works Cited
Sparks, Sarah. "Studies on Multitasking Highlight Value of Self-Control." Education Week.
New Research on Multitasking Points to Role of Self-Control, 15 May 2012. Web. 3 Nov. 2015.