week .6

My writing is improving
Over time my writing has improved. Now I use vivid words, and a stronger vocabulary. I need to improve how long my writing is. I have improved a lot since the first day of school. I love answering my comments! You get to make your own choices on what you’re going to write about. Sometimes I get confused with punctuation. I usually start with a good sentence.This is my self-evaluation letter. I am going to explain how my writing has changed since my first day of class to my last essay. I am also going to explain some of my strengths and weaknesses as a writer and how I have improved my writing also about some goals that I have in able to be better in writing essays. Before I got into Eng105 I had been writing a lot of paragraphs. However I knew how to write an essay, but my strengths were and are limited. My narrative essay was much better than my others, it was organize and it explained all the steps as shown in the introduction. On the other hand, my first and second essays were choppy and disorganized. I think this happened because I tried to make them longer, so I missed some organization points.I have some strength as a writer. Such as; I can write longer and my vocabulary is improving. I always try to use transition words in my paragraphs and essays. Even though I try my best sometimes it isn't enough. And unfortunately that is why I can't succeed in getting my point across clearly. I have a lot of weaknesses. I also find it quite frustrating when I have a lot of spelling problems and when I can't close an essay correctly.I have been learning a lot on this first half of the semester. Starting with this essay I have learned how to self evaluate my work from the beginning to the end. Furthermore, what plan to do for self improvement is, I will take time to read my essays more and ask for the opinion of my classmates , teacher and other people that will be able to help me revise and evaluate myself as well. Lastly as I have been doing I will keep trying my best and giving it all I got to be able to succeed writing essays not just in class but in the future as well.

week 5 ...Curfews?

A teen curfew law was recently passed. This was a needed law to alleviate crime teenagers fall victim of. Minors under the age of 17 should be in their home at a very reasonable hour so they will be energetic, fresh and alert when attending school. I am convinced that the more freedom teenagers have the more opportunity they have to get into trouble. Although most parents feel that the government is taking their place in raising their kids - that's far from the truth. The government realizes that most teenagers are not receiving the right amount of discipline from home. Studies have shown that teenagers coming from a dysfunctional home their parents were either divorced separated, drug abusers or poverty stricken. Children must come from a home that is nurturing and loving in order to have a stable and functional behavior.

Studies have further shown that the majority of juvenile delinquents get into trouble around the age of 13, I believe that the curfew will elevate some of the problems that juveniles get into at night. Juveniles are more prone to get into trouble during the night than day primarily because parents are not taking account to where their

In conclusion, the government has realized the need of this curfew and has since charged some teenagers in breaking the law. This is not to say that major crimes committed are by teenagers, yet this law will bring structure to unsupervised minors as well as disobedient minors. This could very well contribute hand-in-hand to decrease criminal matters with teens. I'm convinced that every teenager will not comply with this curfew and that crime amongst children will not totally cease. Every effort the government makes to minimize crime is worth the law being enforced. Parents should be in total support of this law and should work with officials in making it effective. I'm not a parent, but totally supports the efforts the government is making to control our teenagers. Teenagers must have some discipline in their lives. With most teenagers coming from broken homes, they do not have that strict parental guidance that is needed. Therefore, if the parents fail to give children the proper guidance, then the government has to do what is necessary to reduce problems with today's juveniles.

Week 4...My way of writing has changed

When it comes to writing I really didn’t really have a good way of thinking or processing. Now, as this class goes on I have learned some things that help me with the process and found out how to plan before I write.

I have learned that I am a hands on learner. The play-doh activity brought me to realize that I think better when I’m messing with something. So when I was playing with the play-doh, it helped learn the steps to writing a paper which is much like the steps to making something out of play-doh. I had made a bowling ball, which was the main point, then I made three bowling pins which would represent the three main ideas in my paper.

Also, I have learned that I am a kinesthetic and visual learner. So the activity we did in class I tested my kinesthetic ability and did a scatter plot over my lit snap paper and brainstormed some ideas for the topic. It helped very well. Also I did the list which was very helpful because I didn’t have to write everything down at once just key terms.

Outlines, I know a lot of people don’t like them, but for me they help me. I like making outlines to guide me through my paper. Its something visual that I can look at to help me when I get stuck and helps keep my paper on track so I don’t get off topic.

So my way of writing has changed a bit since taking this class. At least, it’s for the better. I know how to think of the process for writing and how to go about it and also how I am able to learn better.

Week #3.. Computers and technology

We are becoming increasingly dependent on computers. They are used in businesses, hospitals, crime detection and even to fly planes. What things will they be used for in future? Is this dependence on computers a good thing or should we be more suspicious of their benefits?

Computers make our life easier, we can easily get information about any product we plan to buy or place we plan to visit over a second using personal computer and Internet. Scientists predict that in the nearest future it will be possible to smell a new perfume using Internet and watch 3D scenes at home like we do in the theater. According to forecasts of HR agencies machines will replace job of cashiers, civil and military pilots. Some corporations in Japan already selling housewife-robots, which help old people to keep their home clean.

Despite the fact that computers help us, they make us dependent. Apparently, people spend more time behind monitors that ever before. And some of them feel a need for more time to be spent with people in live contact. In addition, fall out of one of the important modules of specific computer can entail serious consequences.

Enough to mention computer problem, occurred in the end of 1990s, problem concerned with coming year 2000 and catastrophes that were predicted. Fortunately imminent disasters did not happen. However, it is difficult to imagine what could be if all the predictions had occurred.

We live in technological era, computers penetrated everywhere with all benefits they provide and all dangers they hide. However we are satisfied with them and sometimes we even thank them because they help us in communicating, studying, doing business, entertaining and saving lives in critical situations.

word of advice

Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrows dreams