Rebecca Laessig My Life as a Writer I don't consider myself to be the greatest writer. My grammar has a lot to be improved upon and I always seem to be at a loss for words. with that said, writing is a bit of a challenge for me. I don't hate writing, but I don't necessarily enjoy it either. in my paper, I will write about my accomplishments, routine writings, and major strengths and how they help develop my writing skills today.
Because Bullock's grandmother only received formal education until eighth grade, and his mother a high school graduate, and his father being a high school dropout, he was taught by his grandmother to love learning. By then, through his grandmother's motivation, he was the first in his family to ever graduate from college. In this essay, Bullock shows to us the great motivation that his grandmother has done to him over the past years or, in the years where he was still studying. Him learning to read in a very early age was one of the effects of his grandmother's great perseverance on him towards reading and learning. As he went on with his reading journey, he later on stumbled upon the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard who was all over the papers of Cleveland at that time.
Carr also reveals how it is the innate bias of the human mind to be distracted, or rather our predisposition to be as aware of as much as possible, which was once critical to our survival. But by reading from the printed book, we are able to focus and gain greater control over our attention and mind. After reading Nicholas Carr’s article, I couldn’t agree more for several reasons. First, is his point about the Net, with its constant distractions and interruptions, is turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers. Second, is his point about the human brain adapting to the information tools we use.
The first essay I read was “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. What I saw on the subject of knowledge and power was that she seemed to have a lot of knowledge of her whole neighbor hood an how everyone and everything came to play. The power she seemed to have was how she had everyone at her command so to say. Because no one seem to make a moved without her say so on the matter weather it when she got into the cab or when she didn’t want to go into the toy store, and no one else moved until she did. She also talked a lot about miss more and ragged on her a lot which was mostly bad talk.
My Writing History When I was a small child I was exposed greatly to poetry as my mother was a very skillful poet. From an early age I learned not to conform or constrict writing, in a sense if you feel it write it freely. This is how my mother wrote every poem in her vast collection and how she began to teach myself and my brothers as children to be creative and free with anything we wrote. Of course as we grew older this particular style of writing grew to cause many problems going through school with our teachers and our writing assignments. I can remember going through middle school writing summarizations of books or short stories, usually dreadfully boring ones that you didn’t wish to read much less re-write any type of summarization.
I’ve had an experience in which the minutes I took weren’t written effectively, therefore everyone ended up going in different directions & then had to meet again for the same original purpose. Whereas if the meeting minutes are written well, everyone gets the same notes and are all on the same page. Everything that I’ve learned in school and even on my job has helped me in my adult life to be able to write resumes, cover letters, applications, etc. Even in my personal life as a mom, everyday my son comes to me for pen and paper. Because He’s only 23 months, He scribbles all over the paper but I still feel that it’s my obligation as a parent to take his hand and guide him.
Kids are no longer pushed to excel in schools. The school system tries to convince children that they are all doing well when it is not true. When schools allow students to retake all their tests for better grades, students will not strive for perfection on their first attempt. If they do not have letter grades or finals, it is difficult to evaluate student success. These policies will keep children’s feelings from being hurt, but if Eunice cannot do poorly, she has no motivation to do better.
She had to go through the struggle of a home, school, and social life. This is why I loved this book. Sometimes I want to be invisible, but others won’t let me. Melinda goes through this every day. I kept reading and reading because I wanted her to have the happy ending she deserved.
Being the first person in my family to get a college degree makes me feel so good. Setting example for children and letting them see that mommy can do it is priceless. The things that we do in life as far as school wise are thing we can take us to the next level is just a lot of us lose hope we are not sure where to go. I though getting a high school diploma was fine for me. I felt school was not for me because I have dyslexic and, I feel people just don’t want to help me.
The reason I choose to continue my education is because I felt it was time for me the receive an education so that I could look back and tell myself I did something worthwhile! I’m always stressing to young Soldiers that they need an education and not to waste their time doing nothing, to do something with their time and make it worthwhile not to just be sitting around and playing video games so I took my own advice and decide to do something to where I can say I accomplished something! I have a few learning styles that I knew I had but wasn’t sure if this was what I was using and after doing the tests and learned that I was. My first one is Visual (Spatial) Learning Style which explains that I like using images, pictures, and colors to organize information which is so true because do like thoughts things to help me explain something to someone! I know I learned that from being in the military!