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Blog 8

If were being honest none of them lol, just because I still don’t really like writing, it has nothing to do with you. In fact, you actually made it way easier for me to be able to understand and help me write what I need to. I think my favorite was probably the first one we did, our summaries, I really liked reading that essay about not only geniuses’ can be writers. It really opened my eyes to what I can do and what is expected of me and why there are things that shouldn’t be expected from me. It was also nice how you eased us into it. My professor last semester, not saying anything bad about him I liked him too. But he kind of just gave us what he wanted and then a due date. The way you worked us through it I really appreciated. You are also very easy to talk to about everything.

I think my least favorite, is going to be this last one due on  may 5th just because its like a presentation, and I always hated those. I have to come up with slides and produce and entire presentation it just isn’t my cup of tea. I also hate speaking, I chose to take ACP speech my senior year of high school so that I wouldn’t have to do it in college, and I hated every single minute of it. It is the one thing I dislike more than English. That whole class was basically what this last project is going to be like. We had to do research projects and then all of our speeches branched off of that one. I hated it so much. But this project is probably going to be much better than that class lol.

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Blog 7

Today, the 19th of April and it’s my roommate Chaney’s birthday. And I really just wish that I was able to drive down to Evansville and hug her and be there with her. We as roommates had gone out to eat for each of our birthdays, and because of this corona virus we can’t do that and its sad. I really miss all of my friends; I especially can break the social distancing rules because my mom works night shift as a respiratory therapist on the COVID-19 floor of the VA hospital. So, of all of the people with COVID-19 that don’t know they have it, it most likely is my family. I don’t want to get other people sick, so I haven’t had human contact in a really long time. So last night my best friend and I watched a movie together, at first, we tried through zoom, but it kept buffering, so we decided to watch the movie separately but at the exact same time. So, we facetimed to talk and see each other’s reactions to the movie. It was fun and I can’t wait to do it again, next time with more people. It is really hard to be away from my friends like this, especially because one of them lives in the same town as me and he is literally only 5 minutes away. We have already made the plan to all meet up at the mall the day we can, we always would go to the mall even if we didn’t actually do any shopping. And the very next day I’m driving all 3 hours to go to Evansville to visit my other friends from college. I can’t wait, even though it probably won’t happen for months.

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blog post 6

In the paper, so far it’s going pretty well, however I am afraid that the way I have it written out. And the way I think it’s going to go isn’t going to be the way it turns out. I’m afraid that I won’t be able to transition from one point to another well and in a way that makes it understandable. I’m also afraid that my points and how I have them right now, won’t even make sense when I try to put them together. So, I think that I need to really start on the drafting process so that I can run into those issues earlier instead of later so that I have more time to fix those problems.  Other than that, I am afraid that my topic is going to seem or be very wide spread, in the fact that I am talking and writing about many points of focus in my paper. Such as background and reasons, however I think that it’s just the way I’m looking at it. When I go to write it, it will probably be hard for me to write about it, I’ll probably feel like I don’t have enough information but most of that’s just me and the way I think. So I think the safest thing for me to do will be to start writing as soon as possible, probably tomorrow. That way I can get over the hurdles at a nice pace and not rush things on the night before its due, like I tend to do. Oops

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Blog 5

My research project has been going smoothly so far, I hope it continues to do so. I’ve learned a lot about my topic, it is very interesting to me, I’ve learned about the background of the whole issue. I’ve learned about how vaccines actually affect the community and our health and the direct affect vaccines have to the number of cases of a specific disease. Its incredible what we have been able to do as a community and how far we have come. It’s also amazing to see how fast it can be undone and get out of control. It’s like completely starting over, and that aspect is sad because people can’t see past their insecurities to see what the world and their community needs. I’ve learned that researching is pretty individualistic for everything you are looking for. You have to be specific but flexible in the words you use to search and reading everything can be very time consuming and annoying too. I think that Ill argue why people should vaccinate by describing the background of the movement a little bit and why its not the way to go. I plan to then describe why people should vaccinate and list reasons, these reasons can be backed up by statistics that show the cases of measles, and end it with why this is a big thing at all. How people spread, not incorrect information but incomplete information and scare others into also not vaccinating. I might even be able to relate it to right now, with the corona virus. If there was a vaccine for this disease do you think it would have done the same damage?

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Blog 4

I think that my biggest struggle right now probably would be finding what I need to actually know for my paper, trying to get the information I really need. Its kind of hard to find the perfect source for the information you need, it is certainly a lot of reading. I’m also kind of worried that I won’t have enough information for my whole paper or that the information won’t be tie together like I see it happening in my head. I know that I need to sit down and do more research so that that is no longer an issue, but I like to procrastinate. The annotated bibliography in itself I can do it just takes a long time to try and write it in the right way that it is supposed to be in. And forming all of the information in that way. Did that make any sense? This next week I am really going to sit down and do more research and start brainstorming and freewriting or formulating how it is going to work out. Finishing my introduction and conclusion and writing out my main points. I think that that will help me in seeing if the way I invasion it will work in the way I want it too, or if I need to alter it in any way. I think that this is how I can approach these issues. But like every paper, I’m always worried about it all the way through the process. However, the way you help us through the process makes it all easier to understand and helps me in the writing process and the whole process really.

           Ooo also, update, so you know how for one of the blogs I told you about my piercing and stuff, and that my dad didn’t know about one of them and that I was worried about his reaction. Well apparently he knew about it this whole time, my mom had told him and he made sure not to make a big deal out of it. He’s so sweet.

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Reflective Blog

Hi um sorry this is a bit late, no excuse for it other than I forgot that it was due. So as a reflective blog, I can write about anything I want, right? In that case, I would like to rant about my latest hardship, if you can call it one. I got my ears pierced on Saturday, I love them, I've wanted to get another piercing for 3 years, and my dad has never let me get them. Well I got his permission to get one, and so I got it done, except I got a second one as well, oops sorry dad. They hurt so much and they are still very painful right now, I expected to cry, like I did with all of my other piercings. Instead my face went numb from the pain, my entire face was twitching, and it was not a pretty sight. So, my dilemma is how I’m going to tell my dad that I got two piercings instead of one. My sister knows, my mom knows, and she was fine with it, but my dad is so strict with this so I’m scared to tell him. Has my mom already told him, should I even tell him? I think that I would be able to hide it from him if I really tried. But should I? Im really scared for how he is going to react when he finally finds out.

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Blog post 2

I really am interested in vaccinating your damn kids, its interesting how there was a large rise in the numbers of people didn’t vaccinate their kids lately and it got to the point, probably the largest consequence from this decision, that the measles virus, which I’m pretty sure the US eradicated came back and people are getting the measles again. Hm Maybe if you vaccinated your child, they wouldn’t have measles, maybe they wouldn’t have the flu. I think that its interesting why young people especially think that its better to not vaccinate their kids because they want their kids to be ‘better’ or ‘healthier’ than other kids. They don’t want their kids to be exposed to the “potentially harmful” materials and substances a vaccine is. No it’s the opposite, I wonder why your so healthy, maybe its because your parents decided to vaccinate you, do you want your kid to die at an early age from a simple cold because they have no immune system? Probably not. Vaccinate your kids. Because of people like you, now we have to deal with the measles all over again and other life-threatening diseases that we considerable cut down on. Don’t do it just vaccinate your kids. They won’t become autistic because of vaccines.

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Blog Post 1

1.     I think that, my points themselves are very strong. I have a pretty strong summary that hits all of the points that I wanted. I particularly like my point about originality, it includes all of the arguments that the essay and summary bring up and explains and elaborates on them well. I think that each of my paragraphs displays what I wanted to say and has all of the thoughts I want in them, however I sometimes feel like I can’t completely get them to make sense in a logical flow.

2.     I struggled with how all of my points get integrated with each other, how to make them all flow together and form a coherent thought, let alone a coherent paper. I tend to find that I will start a thought but then I won’t be able to connect that thought to another in a way that sound good or makes sense. I also had troubles with my transitions, it’s kind of is just the same problem from one thought to another but it’s hard to get a good transition sentence that actually looks like it should be there. I hope to better these

I asked my roommate to read through it today and she helped me pick out the areas that were weak and the areas that were strong. And she helped me fix my problems and helped me word my thoughts differently to make the sentence understandable. I also would like to get other people to look at my papers in the future.