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Reflection

1. What did you learn by completing that assignment?

I learned about the importance of detail and chronological order.  

2. Are you a more confident writer?

I would say the right of the bat, I was already a confident writer. This assignment specifically did not help me immensely to become a more successful writer.

3. Can you identify the rhetorical purpose of the assignment and the audience it is meant for?

The rhetorical purpose is more or less just ethos because I relate to the audience through the emotion that I was feeling in that specific moment.

4. What genre is the assignment? What are the constraints? What is the formula for the genre? Structure?

The genre of the assignment is a personal essay describing a photo that I personally had. The constraints were that I had to describe a photo I had and not just any story. The formula was that we had to give background then explain what happened before the image was captured. The structure is essentially the same as the formula we had to follow.

5. Can you work/collaborate with other people? Did you discuss and share you work in class? Did you read your work in class? Did you participate on the discussion board?

We discussed our drafts in detail giving feedback and critiques were it was needed.

6. How will these skills transfer to your future writing?

These skills I accumulated transferred to my future writing by being consistent with organization and showing my voice in my work.

7. When you get writing assignments in the future, what are the first things you will do?

Look back and repeat the good and stop the poor. 

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Brief but Spectacular Script

I have two really important quotes for you. The first quote is, "If one person cannot enjoy reading a book over and over, then there is no use in reading at all." By Oscar Wilde The second quote is, "Never trust a person who has not brought a book with them." by Lemony Snicket.

CLAP

My first memory of reading was as a child. My mother would read these children's books to me and I remember just being mesmerized by the illustrations and the story itself. Reading is very inspirational. It can really just change your perspective on everything. You can open your mind to a completely new point of view and you see all these different worlds and all these different characteristics and people; and it's just amazing to see how an author can condense that down into just a single book. Honestly I could read almost anywhere. I could read in the car. I can read in my bed. I can find a corner in a coffee shop and just read there for hours. I love mysteries. I love fiction. Fiction is amazing. The things that authors can do with fiction novels are astounding and it's so amazing to see something completely new and different from our world. Yet middle readers are probably my favorite type of novel. I think children should read because it's fun. It really educates them to be more creative and see the world from a different point of view. It kind of creates this interest in something that isn't already there. I love reading books about dragons and magic spells and knights in shining armor. I don't know what kid wouldn't enjoy that.

My name is Ciara Leonhardt, and this is my brief but spectacular take on turning the pages.

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Brief But Spectacular Examples

Video #1: Sarah Kay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrY9n4O0tCo

1. Her purpose is to say thank you all the time and let everyone know how spoken poetry is accessible.

2. It is compelling because she starts with a relatable poem that draws us in.

3. Positive, upbeat, and uplifting.

4. It impacts me through understanding Ms. Kay’s brief but spectacular take on spoken-word poetry.

5. It matters because it enlightens the viewer on the topic.

Video #2: Richard Goldbloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oEMR36oww

1. His purpose is to express a viewpoint on forgetting/dementia.

2. It is compelling because of the emotion the speaker.

3. The tone is happy and humorous at times.

4. It impacts me through understanding Mr. Goldbloom’s brief but spectacular take on life in general.  

5. It matters because it enlightens the viewer on the topic.

Video #3: Lemony Snicket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhfgJ7HYxQ

1. His purpose is to tell us his opinion on writing.

2. It is so compelling because it is humorous and informative.

3. Humor!

4. It impacts me through understanding Mr. Snicket’s brief but spectacular take on a bewildering world.

5. It matters because it enlightens the viewer on the topic.

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Tell Me Something Good...

My country is prideful. Is rises strong in times of despair. 9/11, Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Las Vegas shootings in 2014, Orlando nightclub shootings in 2016, Charlottesville attack in 2017 and the several accounts of school shootings have all been attacks on our nation. But we have risen from the flames and the ashes and stood together in hopes that our pride and togetherness will silence our attackers. We bond together, helping one another in natural disasters: Hurricane Katrina and Harvey,  tornados that swept through the south, earthquakes that shake California and Alaska. We are stronger as one than we are separately. When we face our enemies as one, beware.

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/392/tell-me-something

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Buying Locally

1. Her inclusion of a personal story helps add to why it matters because it adds pathos to her writing.

2. Her counterarguments that she includes are the third world countries jobs would taken away and the American economy would diminish. Her arguments against these counterarguments are that the commitment to buying local would open up discussion for environmentalism and that buying local has more positive effects than negative.

3. For me, I found that the personal tribute was the most effective because it brings about why the issue matters.

4. The images added to the argument by providing visual stimulus but did not personally convince me more than her backed up evidence and touching pathos.

5. With the way the American society works, we  pretty much depend on having food available to us 24/7. This is of course convenient; however it does become extremely harmful to our environment and puts out small business and farms for good. As an American wanting to live the American dream, why would we purposely want to put other people's dream in the trash can and more money to giant corporations who are already sweeping the competition. I believe that buying locally can help persevere our depleting environment and make the small guy important again.

First and foremost buying locally can help persevere the environment. But how? With big farms, the use of chemicals are used to produce more produce and the amount of animals kept in small spaces are depleting the land quicker than before. Beautiful landscapes are being destroyed to make room for animal ranges and crops. Smaller farms are covering less ground and are focusing on potentially many crops instead of just one. There is also the issue of people buying food from far away just so they can have bananas in the middle of December. This contributes to the transportation problems of demolishing our air and water by polluting it with trains, planes and boats. Smaller farms that are local can be a quick car ride or sometimes even walking distance away not hurting our environment at such an accelerated rate.

Second, small farms and buying locally support the American idea of give to the little guy and not the big guy. Ever since the 1800's, the United States have been fighting against the idea of monopolies and the monopolies controlling everything. In fact, monopolies were diminished of power by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890, prohibiting them from gaining any substantial power and control. But we are still helping these "monopolies" in disguise by buying food from them. We can change this by going to farmer's markets, buying food that is particularly from independent farmer instead of name brand. Here are the little things that count.

Arguments for big corporations will say that it is better for the economy or that they are helping independent farmers. And in some cases, that is the truth. Following the idea of supply and demand, we as a country happen to always be in a huge demand of food and big corporations can supply that. Sometimes big corporations can be made of several independent farmers and just simply act as the middle man. But when was the last time we wanted a middle man. Buying locally cuts this problem right out. That way you know you are getting good quality food and and supporting the little guy and helping the environment.  

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Position Paper

The topic on if the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program is effective enough for children from ages 4-18 is not regularly discussed in 2018. A drug abuse, gang and violence prevention program created in 1983, over 200 million children have had the opportunity to go through the D.A.R.E. program (Scott Gilliam). My position on this ignored topic is that the D.A.R.E. program is an effective drug abuse resistance education program for K-12 grade students because it helps prevent drug use in elementary, middle, and high school students, it improves decision making and attitude towards drug usage, and it improves social interaction between police officers, students, and their schools. 

My experience with the D.A.R.E. program was overall influential and informative. A local police officer came into our school and gave a descriptive and interactive presentation on why drugs were harmful and life threatening. He showed images of the drugs themselves and thereafter showed before and after photos of people who abuse themselves with drugs. The most interactive part of his presentation were his videos, skits, and the dog they brought in. From that experience I always had one piercing question, why? Why would someone take their life away just to supplement their drug addiction? I carried this question with me all the time; sometimes it was the most prominent thought and other times just lingering in the back of my mind. I didn’t get to see the answers until high school through health class and another D.A.R.E. program. It was the stories of parents, friends, and other police officers who illuminated some light on the situation. It was struggling teenagers who had a lack of education on the subject.

In 1980’s Los Angeles, drug abuse, criminal activity, and a series of arrests were a normal thing that the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) had to deal with. In collaboration with LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District), the LAPD and them created the D.A.R.E. program to break this vicious cycle (“25 Years D.A.R.E. America," www.dare.com). Even though this program was directly for LA students, it is still relevent to students in many different states. This program’s intent was to teach resistance to drugs, skill training, and most importantly self-esteem building. The program focused primarily on marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, and inhalants calling them “gateway” drugs that would eventually lead to harder more dangerous drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin (Renee D. Singh et al.) This program was originally for elementary students but middle schools and high schools in 1986 and 1988, making the program more wide spread (Renee D. Singh et al.). The argument against the D.A.R.E. says that the program has little to no effective promise in preventing students from drug abuse or gang violence. In fact “...D.A.R.E., in 1998, failed to meet federal requirements that its program be "research based" and "effective" in order to receive federal grant money.” ("Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program: Notice of Final Principles of Effectiveness"). But I have found evidence to support my position.

In my research, D.A.R.E. has actually helped students of all ages by preventing drug abuse and gang violence. “According to the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), participants in the D.A.R.E. program report lower alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use than students who did not receive the program.” (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, "Keepin' It Real,"). Out of the 40% of participants who had claimed they were victims of alcohol abuse, a total 32% reported they had stopped abusing themselves with alcohol (Christopher L. Ringwalt et. al). Studies also found that D.A.R.E. graduates are less likely to start smoking by 5 times and lower percentage of reports of tobacco usage in middle schoolers (Nasar U. Ahmed, Noushin S. Ahmed, C. Ray Bennett, and Joseph E. Hinds). Students who participated in the D.A.R.E. program were overall less likely to resort to drug abuse then their control counterpart.

The D.A.R.E. program also improved the participants involved attitude toward drugs and their decision making in difficult drug-related situations. It is shown in the “Peer-reviewed studies showing that D.A.R.E. did have beneficial effects on students’ knowledge of drugs, attitudes about drug use, social skills, decision-making skills, attitudes toward the police, and normative beliefs about the prevalence of drug use by peers in general.” (Sarah Birkeland, Erin Murphy-Graham, and Carol Weiss). Specifically, there was a study conducted by the University of Akron in 2002 showed that the D.A.R.E. participants’ decision-making skills were 6% higher than non-D.A.R.E. students ("Study Shows New DARE Program Helps Youths Decide against Using Drugs”) and another study deduced that “...D.A.R.E. graduates showed a 19% reduction in perceptions that their peers were using drugs and that such drug use was acceptable.” ("National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices").

Finally, D.A.R.E. refines the social interaction between students and police officers. Positive attitudes towards police officers were shown at a higher rate post-graduation of the D.A.R.E. program by a peer-reviewed study done in 2008 (Augustine Hammond, PhD, et al). The D.A.R.E. program had schools stating that the officers teaching the D.A.R.E. classes created a “a sense of safety and calm” environment especially after tragic events such as school shootings and street violence (Sarah Birkeland, Erin Murphy-Graham, and Carol Weiss).

In my final conclusion, I believe that the D.A.R.E. program is one of the most effective tools to prevent children to adolescent teens to young adults from drug abuse and gang violence. I do not believe this is the only tool however. Other programs such as “Keepin’ it Real” and rehabilitation are also effective tools in addition with the D.A.R.E. program. This program has helped troubled youth follow the path of least resistance and make for a brighter and smarter future.    

Works Cited

Nasar U. Ahmed, Noushin S. Ahmed, C. Ray Bennett, and Joseph E. Hinds, "Impact of a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program in Preventing the Initiation of Cigarette Smoking in Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Students," Journal of the National Medical Association, Apr. 2002

Sarah Birkeland, Erin Murphy-Graham, and Carol Weiss, "Good Reasons for Ignoring Good Evaluation: The Case of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program," Evaluation and Program Planning, Aug. 2005

Scott Gilliam, Director of Training for D.A.R.E. America, Nov. 15, 2013

Augustine Hammond, PhD, et al., "Do Adolescents Perceive Police Officers as Credible Instructors of Substance Abuse Prevention Programs," Health Education Research, Aug. 2008

Scott O. Lilienfeld, "Psychological Treatments that Casue Harm," Perspectives on Psychological Science, Mar. 2007

Donald R. Lynam et al., "Project DARE: No Effects at 10-Year Follow-Up," Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Aug. 1999

Christopher Ringwalt, DrPH, et al., "Past and Future Directions of the D.A.R.E. Program: An Evaluation Review," Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice website, Sep. 1994

Renee D. Singh et al., "A Summary and Synthesis of Contemporary Empirical Evidence Regarding the Effects of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program," Contemporary School Psychology, 2011

"National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices," Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) website (accessed March 4, 2018)

"Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program: Notice of Final Principles of Effectiveness," Department of Education website, June 1, 1998

"Study Shows New DARE Program Helps Youths Decide against Using Drugs," Press Release, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website, Oct. 29, 2002

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, "Keepin' It Real," nrepp.samhsa.gov (accessed March 3, 2018)

"25 Years D.A.R.E. America," www.dare.com (accessed March 4, 2018)

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Minimum Wage Debate

The issues covered are about the minimum wage conflict. The sides include both Republicans views and Democrats views. I feel that the minimum wage should not be raised because it brings about more problems than valuable solutions. 

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“Mutt Love Rescue” Review

I believe I find the website very compelling filling the website with images of puppies and easy to follow website. The words "mutt love rescue" appeal to only a certain type of crowd, rescue dog lovers, but does not exclude anyone else. The words overall are strong and one-sided to push you to one side. The images of the dogs look sad and are giving puppy eyes to really make you want to adopt a rescue. The Save a Life page is very persuasive in their argument that you are "saving" the dog's life by adopting it. The is a pretty big statement. To revise this website, I would give the theme or style more clean and bright since the muddy yellow does not ring a tone with me. Specifically adding more modern aspects to the website like video testimonies instead of written and better image quality and more photos of just one dog. 

http://www.muttloverescue.org/index.html

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The Sound of Everyone Enjoying Themselves

This fun family film has the sound of wonder, longing, and romance. It is the family film that everyone can enjoy and love over and over again. The Sound of Music (director Robert Wise) is the perfect film to watch with your family on movie night. The film incorporates all different elements to make it enjoyable for the whole family. Music, romance, adventure, and drama are all a part of this film and it makes it more enjoyable and entertaining. The film is about a young woman, Maria, is currently on her way to becoming a nun. Her free spirit however makes her a terrible nun and the sisters and Mother Superior notice her difficult transition. The Mother Superior gives her an opportunity to become a governess for a Naval widower and family of seven children to give Maria her much needed freedom. When she arrives to the Captain Von Trapp household, it is apparent that the widower runs his household like one of his naval ships, with whistles, command, and no song or happiness really. Defying his rules from the very beginning, Maria makes the brave decision to change the atmosphere of this household. Taking place during the Golden Age of Salzburg, Austria leading up to the beginning of World War 2, this film takes a huge historical event and makes it the center of this film in the second act. A big bold move for this film but it addresses an issue that is not normally addressed which is the Austrian viewpoint. Austria was one of the first countries to be taken over by the Nazis and seeing how terrifying that was is shown in the scene hiding in the grave yard from the brooding Nazis. The film is filled with renowned actors and actresses such as Christopher Plummer (playing Captain Von Trapp), Julie Andrews (playing Maria), Peggy Wood (playing Mother Superior), Eleanor Parker (playing the Baroness) and Richard Hayden (playing Max Detweiler). All actors and actresses committed to characters and their chemistry with the lead actors with say the children is well balanced and is what makes the movie the most enjoyable. Scenes like the picnic, the play, and the ball are fantastic examples of the chemistry and the energy exchanged between the actors and actresses. Director Robert Wise is most well-known for his other musical film West Side Story and action film Star Trek. He did a fantastic job using the full city to his visual advantage and great combination of the musical numbers with the dramatic scene as well.  His vision of this film was direct and precisely perfect. Overall, I would give this film a solid 5 out of 5 stars with a whopping two thumbs up. The film tells a true story of a family of singers during the beginning of the second World War and it is an important that everyone should know. I really enjoyed this family fun film and so did the rest of the family!

Works Cited The Sound of Music . Dir. Robert Wise. Perf. Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews. 1965. Musical.

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Review of Movie Review

I believe that he covered each part adequately however, I really wish he could’ve talked more about the allegory of the film itself and how he saw it. I feel that he couldn’t talk about because it would reveal spoilers. I however did not see this film as a “divine comedy dressed as a psychological thriller”. I believe it is a psychological thriller about the impending future of this planet. 

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Movie Review of “mother!”  by A.O. Scott

“The couple live in a grand, oddly-shaped Victorian house in the middle of a tree-ringed meadow — less a McMansion than a perennial fixer-upper. The work of home improvement, of literal homemaking, you might say, falls to the young wife. Her husband, who has been around longer than she has, is absorbed in his work. He’s a poet, and the torment of creation distracts him from her needs, at times rendering him all but oblivious to her presence. Neither partner is given a name. They are played by Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem. The movie is called “Mother!” The first line of dialogue is “Baby?”The missus walks around in her nightgown, lonely and confused, especially when her hubby starts bringing home guests. “Who are these people?” she asks him. She never receives an adequate answer — they are big fans of the poet’s work, though — and for a while her bewilderment is ours as well. But we, at least, are in a position to analyze the abundantly available clues and figure out who everybody is, the poet and his lady included. Or if not quite who they are, then at least what they represent. Because though this extravagant conversation piece of a movie, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, feints toward psychological thriller territory and spends a delicious half-hour or so in the realm of domestic farce, it plants its flag defiantly on the wind-swept peak of religious (and ecological) allegory.I don’t mean this in the vague, Superman-is-really-a-messiah-figure term paper sense of the word. At a certain point — it will vary according to your Sunday school attendance or what you remember from freshman English — you will find yourself in possession of the key to the analogical storage room where the Real Meaning resides. Up until that point, you might have thought this was a marital melodrama set in a nightmarish version of a ’50s academic marriage. When Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer show up, you might mistake “Mother!” for a savage, scrambled “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” adaptation. But then, sometime between the first violent death and the collapse of the kitchen sink, you realize that something else is going on.Here I must confess a different kind of puzzlement. Is there such a thing as interpretive spoiler? Is it wrong to reveal a movie’s conceit, rather than elements of its story? Ordinarily, such questions would be absurd, but Mr. Aronofsky ingeniously braids his movie’s hermeneutic structure into its plot, making it hard to say what it’s about without revealing what happens. All of the suspense and most of the fun in “Mother!” — and don’t listen to anyone who natters on about how intense or disturbing it is; it’s a hoot! — has to do with the elaboration and execution of a central idea.Once you grasp that idea, you are left wondering just how far Mr. Aronofsky will go with it. The answer is all the way and then some — from Genesis to Revelation and back again. The house is referred to early in the film as “paradise”; Ms. Lawrence refers to a relatively minor mess as an “apocalypse.” These are more teasers than jokes, and the punch lines arrive with mesmerizing literalness. Holy Eucharist, Batman! Not that Mr. Aronofsky follows any known doctrinal path, any more than he did in “Noah,” which upset some believers by taking liberties with its scriptural source. “Mother!” casts a wider net, gathering influences from cinema — Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Gaspar Noé — from literature and, most strikingly, from painting. Mr. Aronofsky and his usual cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, conduct a master class in light, shadow and Renaissance art. Ms. Lawrence glows like an Italian Madonna, while the deep lines in Mr. Bardem’s face and the sorrowful cast of his eyes suggest El Greco. The infernal chaos of the climactic sequences are pure Hieronymus Bosch, updated for the age of Kristen Wiig and automatic weaponry. It falls to the actors to endow this highly symbolic, pictorially overloaded environment with a sense of human reality — with flesh and blood and feeling. Mr. Bardem, alpha male and omega man, is the kind of actor who can endow an abstraction with gravity and tenderness. (He did pretty much that in “No Country for Old Men.”) The enigmatic nature of his character in “Mother!” allows him to relax, to be playful and charismatic, and to disappear. Mr. Harris and especially Ms. Pfeiffer bring a jolt of shtick and a whisper of camp, qualities that you may miss terribly when they depart.Ms. Lawrence, for her part, bears an impossible burden. In dramatic terms, she is a passive, reactive protagonist, a cipher and, in the strict sense of the word, an icon. Called upon to embody all of womankind — and a lot else besides — she is denied the chance to be human, and her blankness empties the film of emotional power. What it has, instead, is extravagant sensation and churning intellectual energy. Mr. Aronofsky is a virtuoso of mood and timing, a devoted student of form and technique straining to be a credible visionary. But as wild and provocative as his images can be, there is something missing — an element of strangeness, of difficulty, of the kind of inspiration that overrides mere cleverness. On the other hand, “Mother!” made me laugh harder and more frequently than just about any other movie I’ve seen this year. I don’t say this derisively. Mr. Aronofsky’s visual wit and dexterous, disciplined camera movements create frissons of comic terror. His gift for escalation — evident in the marvelous crescendo of frenzied action that occupies most of the movie’s second half — may be unmatched in his generation of filmmakers.It’s not clear that his gifts match his ambitions. He wants to be Kubrick, but maybe what we need is a new Blake Edwards. At a time when film comedy is mostly a verbal and psychical affair — the domain of writers and clowns — there is a dearth of funny directors with Mr. Aronofsky’s sophisticated chops. If he didn’t take himself so seriously, he could be a great comic filmmaker. But maybe “Mother!” proves that he already is.”

- A.O. Scott

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FlashMob

Freeze Flash Mob

Purpose: To entertain (anyone's) day

What happens:

Contact Dean and/or Chancellor

Orientation Week for Freshman/Big Athletic Events (Homecoming Game/Senior Night)

Or just any random day

Bell Tower Ring (random times: 8, 10, and 12 o’clock)

Everyone freezes at correct time (it is up to the individual what your pose is)

After time is up, continue as if nothing has happened

Specific Details:

No music plays except in video after ward; we’d play Black Beetles

Blue Devil Productions would produce it

No costumes or props

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Marriage Proposals

To start, I looked up statistics and facts about average American marriage proposals. Following the statistics, I then looked internet articles on American marriage proposals. The main consensus on what I saw was that American are spending a lot of money and time on their marriage proposals; and some even more so than their own weddings themselves. To compare and contrast proposals from "back-in-the-day" to today's proposal. I asked one of my friends how their parents got engaged and to explain it in detail. They told me that the mother actually proposed to the father by writing the question on the back windshield but he did not see so he planned his own proposal with roses and he popped the question later that day.  I found an extravagant proposal on YouTube that explicitly shows how ridiculous proposals are today. In this wedding proposal the man starts out the day by giving his significant other a huge box of chocolate and a card. He then takes her to a surprise location and has her put a blindfold on. It is revealed that they are going sky diving. They do the appropriate training and then go sky diving. After sky diving and taking some pictures, their daughter hand him a present which he reveals as the engagement ring and he goes down to one knee and proposes. Seeing the difference between the two proposals makes it more clear that proposals have definitely changed with time. Proposals used to be this simplistic thing where a person would explain their love for the other person and ask them to spend the rest of their life together. But now, proposals are the extra sometimes expensive planned out events that can take the course of the day. Even more recent is the need to post the proposal to social media in order to gain satisfaction or in hopes to go viral.     

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Monopoly Reflection

I guess for me it can be very distracting reading everything online. I focus and understand the content best when I read it all the way through with no stops. I normally do not take notes unless I feel it is really important. The amount of time I can focus is no more than about an hour at a time. 

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Resume

Ciara Leonhardt 1105 3rd E Street.

Menomonie, WI 54752

leonhardtc2970@my.uwstout.edu

Objective: To obtain a job in the Graphic Design field or Advertising field

Education: Honors Diploma from Kettle Moraine High School (2013-2017)

University of Wisconsin Stout (2017-present)

-working on a Bachelor of Graphic Design and Interactive Media  

Experience: Lorleberg's True Value Hardware and Rental (2014-present)

-cashier and sales associate

-helps customers and trains employees

MainStage Academy of Dance (2014)

-designed a t-shirt for the Nutcracker production

University of Wisconsin Stout Sports (2017-current)

-sets up and takes down camera equiment

-films sporting events

Skills: passionate, hardworking and good work-ethic, time manages well,  responsibility,  respectful, open-minded, determined, is a team player, innovative,  and is a fast learner.

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Application Letter

1105 3rd E Street

Menomonie, WI 54752

February 6, 2018

Advantage Solutions

18100 Von Karman

California, United States

Dear Human Resources Coordinator of Advantage Solutions,

I am writing in response to your Monster.com posting for an event specialist job as a retail demonstrator promoting best in class products at your local retailer’s position.  I believe that I have skills and experience that would enable me to contribute to your organization, and I am very interested in this particular position.

I am a freshman at University of Wisconsin Stout, majoring in Graphic Design and Interactive Media, graduating in May 2021. The enclosed resume provides details of my skills, education, and work experience. One item of particular interest to you is my experience in advertising with MainStage Academy of Dance. This experience of putting up posters and helping design t-shirts has taught me how to place advertisements accordingly and how to incorporate designs to make a coherent theme in one’s advertising. My experience in retail has also advised me how to be the best at customer satisfaction and assisting. All my jobs have helped me learn and understand to communicate effectively with colleges and vendors.

I would welcome the opportunity to put my experience and abilities to work for Advantage Solutions and to discuss the position further with you. I can be reached by my email address leonhardtc2970@gmail.com. Thank you for considering my application.

Sincerely,

Ciara Leonhardt

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