Monday, April 28, 2008

vocabulary words " The Divorce Generation Grows Up"

Rendezvous

Noun

I didn't konw what the word meant until i have look it up by the link above. from the article i was figure that the word have to do with come terms destiny or facing destiny.

the rendezvous with my store manager was about a promotion that he want to award me with.

vocabulary words " The Divorce Generation Grows Up"

Churned

Verb

From the article and prior knowledge i was able to conclude that the word meant to mix or stir but they werent talking about butter. From the atricle they used the word to describe depressing statistics about divorce.

All the butter that's finished and ready to be sold had to be churned during the processing stage.

Vocab words from " The Divorce Generation Grows Up"

Abandonment

Verb

From this Newsweek article i was able identify the word abandonment because it a words now toady that use often. the word abandonment, in the article, was accompanied with words like neglect, adultery, and even felony. Based on prior knowledge i knew that the to neglect and disown.

Many of the childern up for adoption felt the abandonment of their biological parents.

weekly calender



To do list:

1.Finish writing my researech papar for this wed for English 103. due April 30th

2. Finish gather resource for my speech that being delivered by me next weekdue. due April 30th

3.study for quiz on wednesday for math and complete homework for wednesday. due April 30th

4. rent a video about Vietnam and finish reading The Thing They Carried so i can start writing my papar compare and contrasting the book from the film. due May 7th

Friday, April 25, 2008

4/21-4/25 Reflection post

This week I have an tremendous amount of homework most of which require research for my english class and speech class. For my essay in my english critical thinking class i had to read several essay's and apply certain critical thinking modals to my essay that i'm currently writing. In the process I used highlighting which helped me to highlight main points and qoutes that were useful to my research. highlighting is also a form of outlining for me beacause i used different color to symbolize the importance of the imformation as i read. After i had finished reading i was able to go back and organize the information in an oultine. In any critical thinking class it is very crucial to make marginal notes as you read because most of the read require you to think and give your evaluated unstanding of what you just read and come up with your own conclusion/ analysis. SQ3R is very effective if your taking any type of critical thinking course or anything you read overall because you have to read and re-read, scan, pose questions, and challenge what the author is saying from an unbias viewpoint which help you to under the read on a different level.This is what my research paper requires and my responsiblity is to conduct an analysis of the killings in My Lai during the Vietnam war and look at the arguement on both side of the debate of why American soldiers were killing innocent villagers.

What strategies I used:
SQ3R
Highlighting
Marginal Notes
Annotation
outlining
those are my favorite reading strategies and the one's i used during this assignment.

The Vocabulary word from " China feels the heat"

Anonymity

Noun

From the Newsweek magazine: by read the sentence and noticing the context in which the was used i was able to interpret that the word was in relation to being in incognito.

The secret service agent need to be in anonymity when on a case to be able to uncover important information

The Vocabulary word from " China feels the heat"

Ire

Noun

From this sentence: If China craves international legitimacy, the regime fears the nationalist ire of the people even more. I took a guess to what the word meant which i had guessed outrage of some type

The Ire from the basketball coach when half the team was last for practice before the Championship game put the team on edge.

Vocab words from "China feels the heat"

Xenophobic

Noun

Based from this article in a Newsweek magazine i was able to get an idea of what the word meant because of the racial issue and discrimination going on in china

The Nazi regime created a very Xenophobic society

Monday, April 21, 2008

To do list



1. Finish my rough draft to turn in on Wednesday for English 103
2. Start and finish my research proposal to turn in on wednesady for Speech 101
3. Finish assigned math homework for wednesday
4. Study for Vocab test on wednesday

Monday, April 7, 2008

To do list



To do List:
1. Finish my speech proposal for wednesday
2.Read an article from the book "Torture" for a presentation on Wed.