Learner Profile
Classmate Introduction: Carlos
I learned a lot about my new classmate Carlos. He is from Colombia and he can speak Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Carlos has a big family with his two brothers and one sister. He finished his high school in his country when he was 15 years old. Carlos has been living in New York for one and a half years. He is living in Queens Village, Jamaica. Carlos loves soccer, but he wants to study business administration. He really likes to travel and wants to visit Madrid, Spain and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Gig Profile #1
Steelworker
Denise Barber is a steelworker. Her job is driving and maneuvering the big Heister truck to pick up slabs with steel. This job has many risks. One of them is carpal tunnel, because she needs to operate a steer knob. It's very heavy and hard to control. Another of the risks is the machine failure. This hot steel is easy to burn everything up. If it happens, you just let the steel go and get away from there. You must think of yourself when the trouble happens. She had four jobs before she was a steelworker. Her first job to groom and train the horses. Because she has kids, she thought that is not a good place for kids. Then she quit. Her next two jobs are same that is working for plastic plant. Then she was laid off from them one by one and got a job for making vinyl gloves. It is too hard and get dirty easily, so she was laid off again. She works for Warren Consolidated Industries----WCI. They had a lot of bankruptcies. Many people walkout in '95 and some people died. She got a lot of money from this job. She finished negotiating a new contract with some co-workers. The contract can guarantee their working time and wage. And their company is also afraid of what happened in '95. So she loves her job. She thought a good work environment is very important. She always taught her kids don't working for others, they should work for themselves, and they should respect their work.
I think Denise's advises about working are totally correct and very important. Because we're living in this world, working will be an important part of our lives. Doing it well is good for our lives too. We can learn a lot from working that can't be learned from school. And we need to protect our rights about working. Bosses and workers are equal. Furthermore, we also should not do any damaging things to ourselves. Bosses do not expect to have heroes in their company. If we have some troubles when we work, we need to keep ourselves safe. But the most important is we should do our job well.
I think Denise's advises about working are totally correct and very important. Because we're living in this world, working will be an important part of our lives. Doing it well is good for our lives too. We can learn a lot from working that can't be learned from school. And we need to protect our rights about working. Bosses and workers are equal. Furthermore, we also should not do any damaging things to ourselves. Bosses do not expect to have heroes in their company. If we have some troubles when we work, we need to keep ourselves safe. But the most important is we should do our job well.
Gig Profile #2
Dog Trainer
I read the article Dog Trainer that talked about Lisa Pincus, who is the dog trainer. She began to work with trainers when she was twelve, as a part-time job. The trainer's job is to teach and guide dogs and owners how to make a good relationship between them. She has been working as a dog trainer for ten years. She loves dogs, so even she works seven days a week that she still so happy. She figured out that owner can not talk to dogs like their children, they should talk to dogs like they are dogs. People training dogs should use different tone and show the word by physical actions to dogs. This is one of training dog skills. When she was training the dog, she also training the owner. Training dogs, the owner shouldn't hit them. They should be patient to teach dogs. And another thing that owners should notice is owners can not roll the dog over and expose its stomach. Maybe humans do it because they feel that is funny. But the fact is that it is a provocation, and the dog perhaps will bite the owner. This activity is just fine with a little puppy. The last important thing about training dogs is consistency. Owners need to keep the rules with dogs, praise good behavior with dogs and immediately stop bad behavior with dogs. There is no doubt that Lisa is a nice dog trainer.
As far as I know, training dogs is also training owners. The dog trainer Lisa has a lot of good ways to guide dogs and owners to have a good relationship. I also have some experience about training dogs. My dog and I can keep peace, but it is more like friends. Actually, I don't want my dog to be like a servant. I don't like to be in charge it. So the result is the dog doesn't obey me completely. For example, my dog is a good boy at home, but if I walk outside with it, it just wants to find and occupy his domain. I didn't have a perfect training system to train my dog, so when I finished reading this article, I learned a lot of good ideas about training dogs. If I have a chance to have another dog, I'll try to do this way for training my dog.
As far as I know, training dogs is also training owners. The dog trainer Lisa has a lot of good ways to guide dogs and owners to have a good relationship. I also have some experience about training dogs. My dog and I can keep peace, but it is more like friends. Actually, I don't want my dog to be like a servant. I don't like to be in charge it. So the result is the dog doesn't obey me completely. For example, my dog is a good boy at home, but if I walk outside with it, it just wants to find and occupy his domain. I didn't have a perfect training system to train my dog, so when I finished reading this article, I learned a lot of good ideas about training dogs. If I have a chance to have another dog, I'll try to do this way for training my dog.
Classification essay
Art jobs
Imagine if everything had souls and could talk with each other, and you could discover some small human hiding behind your brush pot. How would you feel? I will excited if that happened in my world. It is my dream world but doesn't exist in the real world. It is the reason why I am interested at painting, animation and movie. I can create my own world in these art fields. I can control the story's direction. So, I am going to pay attention to these careers----Painter, Animator and Director. I think they will help me get closer my dream.
One kind of job that attract me is Painter. People who are good at observing something and like imagine something will very be suitable for painting. For me, having a cup coffee and looking around to observe something interesting and imagining what will go on in future, that will be fantastic. Then, I can paint it on canvas and add more amazing colors. I love this job for a couple reasons: First, it will be have some art values, even for my personal art values. Painting can record what kind of mood I had at that moment. Another reason that lead me to love it is that the world in painting is different from reality. There is something in the painting that is your want. The third reason is about spirit. People love painting because they would like enjoy their lives, and painting also will help people enjoy their lives. To be a great painter, people need to observe everything and practice painting frequently. Often see masters' paintings that will helpful who want to be a good painter. Great art will gives wide view for people.
Another job that I would like to do is Animator. It is a very important department of animation. It control whole animation because animator's job is making everything move in the animation. They give characters lives, This career requires creative people. I love this job because I can build children's dreams, and also mine. Amazing things could happen in animation. It can make fun for people, also it has some moral lessons for children, and for people. As an animation, It is just a collection from million's painting. So it contains the great art values. To be a great animator, to enjoy lives is first. Because people are enjoy their lives that will be optimistic and have more passions to pay attention at creating animation. For hard skills, this career needs people to analysis everything's motions clearly and understand the scene art. If animators do it carefully that will be make the story completely and have more interesting points.
The third career that I dream of is Director. Everyone knows what a director is. A director will be artist and have more ability about management. It is the most important position in the whole production of film. It is a big dream for me because a director can create a new world, and everything and people are real. The movie's art values are more easily understood by people, because it is more close to real life. The movie contain philosophy and moral to tell people. But to be a director is not easy thing. It requires people have good ability to manage every department film production. Having a good relationship with different people is also important ability for directors. Furthermore, a good director should think about some good ideas to earn box-office.
Being a Painter, an Animator or a Director will give me power to create and control my own world. The colorful world contains many lovely things and the dark world has some evil and monsters. There also will have many exciting stories and charming characters. That's it. If you want to create a fantastic world that is built by yourself, think about these careers.
One kind of job that attract me is Painter. People who are good at observing something and like imagine something will very be suitable for painting. For me, having a cup coffee and looking around to observe something interesting and imagining what will go on in future, that will be fantastic. Then, I can paint it on canvas and add more amazing colors. I love this job for a couple reasons: First, it will be have some art values, even for my personal art values. Painting can record what kind of mood I had at that moment. Another reason that lead me to love it is that the world in painting is different from reality. There is something in the painting that is your want. The third reason is about spirit. People love painting because they would like enjoy their lives, and painting also will help people enjoy their lives. To be a great painter, people need to observe everything and practice painting frequently. Often see masters' paintings that will helpful who want to be a good painter. Great art will gives wide view for people.
Another job that I would like to do is Animator. It is a very important department of animation. It control whole animation because animator's job is making everything move in the animation. They give characters lives, This career requires creative people. I love this job because I can build children's dreams, and also mine. Amazing things could happen in animation. It can make fun for people, also it has some moral lessons for children, and for people. As an animation, It is just a collection from million's painting. So it contains the great art values. To be a great animator, to enjoy lives is first. Because people are enjoy their lives that will be optimistic and have more passions to pay attention at creating animation. For hard skills, this career needs people to analysis everything's motions clearly and understand the scene art. If animators do it carefully that will be make the story completely and have more interesting points.
The third career that I dream of is Director. Everyone knows what a director is. A director will be artist and have more ability about management. It is the most important position in the whole production of film. It is a big dream for me because a director can create a new world, and everything and people are real. The movie's art values are more easily understood by people, because it is more close to real life. The movie contain philosophy and moral to tell people. But to be a director is not easy thing. It requires people have good ability to manage every department film production. Having a good relationship with different people is also important ability for directors. Furthermore, a good director should think about some good ideas to earn box-office.
Being a Painter, an Animator or a Director will give me power to create and control my own world. The colorful world contains many lovely things and the dark world has some evil and monsters. There also will have many exciting stories and charming characters. That's it. If you want to create a fantastic world that is built by yourself, think about these careers.
Process Essay
How to Choose a Job
Had your parents often asked you, when you was a child, what was your dream or what do you want to do in the future? I think most of us have given them answers when they asked. However, when we grown up, did you still remember that dream? Maybe reality already mixed up our dreams, and we are lost the directions about ourselves’ futures. Many students have no idea about what they can do in the future, because they did not have any social experiences. Nevertheless, I think all of us know that what we are interested in now. So, I have some advice about how to choose a major that is related to your career in the future. Just follow these steps, I think you can find a right job: find out what you are interested in, find some jobs related to your interests, and then collect some information about these majors’ development and future.
First and foremost, you need to know your interests. I think it is not too difficult. What do you most care about? If you prefer to pay attention to fashion and are good at dressing yourself up, maybe you will be a great designer. It is a talent. Another way to find your interest is to figure out which work you do that is easier than others. If you can finish a account in a short time, you must have good logic ability. So maybe accounting or economics are best choice to you. Maybe you can be the next Warren Buffett. The third way to find out which major do you like is listen to your friend, parents or teachers how to describe your ability. You can get a lot good ideas from them. This is the first and very important step before you beginning to find a job.
The next step of choosing a major is to search your interests online and find some job related to them. Every career has so many different job that require different skills’ employees to do. So you should find some job related to your interests or skills. And then, you should focus on these jobs’ requirements and figure out which job adapt to you. After that, you just have a look these jobs’ salary and choose some of them. Through this selection process, I think there will be just a few jobs on your choice list.
Finally, you should collect a lot of information in order to know what are these major’s development and future. If it so popular, maybe you can find a job easily, but the promotion will be a hard competition. If it is not popular and the company just needs a few employees who are good at this major, it will be hard to find a job. But if you are hired in this company and do this job, I think the promotion for you will be easier than other popular jobs. In sum, you also should focus on this job's situation now and in the future. I think this step will help you keep this job a long time.
Just follow these steps, I think this is a nice order to have and keep a job which adapt to you.
First and foremost, you need to know your interests. I think it is not too difficult. What do you most care about? If you prefer to pay attention to fashion and are good at dressing yourself up, maybe you will be a great designer. It is a talent. Another way to find your interest is to figure out which work you do that is easier than others. If you can finish a account in a short time, you must have good logic ability. So maybe accounting or economics are best choice to you. Maybe you can be the next Warren Buffett. The third way to find out which major do you like is listen to your friend, parents or teachers how to describe your ability. You can get a lot good ideas from them. This is the first and very important step before you beginning to find a job.
The next step of choosing a major is to search your interests online and find some job related to them. Every career has so many different job that require different skills’ employees to do. So you should find some job related to your interests or skills. And then, you should focus on these jobs’ requirements and figure out which job adapt to you. After that, you just have a look these jobs’ salary and choose some of them. Through this selection process, I think there will be just a few jobs on your choice list.
Finally, you should collect a lot of information in order to know what are these major’s development and future. If it so popular, maybe you can find a job easily, but the promotion will be a hard competition. If it is not popular and the company just needs a few employees who are good at this major, it will be hard to find a job. But if you are hired in this company and do this job, I think the promotion for you will be easier than other popular jobs. In sum, you also should focus on this job's situation now and in the future. I think this step will help you keep this job a long time.
Just follow these steps, I think this is a nice order to have and keep a job which adapt to you.
CAT-W #1
Children Become Obese
According to the article "why are children becoming obese", I learned a lot of reasons about why children getting fat: Children can't control themselves to eat junk food and snacks; they always sit down and stay at home. They even don't want to walking outside. Some of them are related their parents gene; another bad habit of them is they always can't get an adequate sleep.
I think the most important reason about children becoming obese is their eating habits. I agree with author about this idea a lot. These days, there are a lot industries which produce processed food. There are contain a lot additives. So processed food tastes more delicious than real food, and can allure people always to eat and think the food in their mind again and again. Other reason that lead children always eating is their free time. If they don't want to go outside, they more like to watch TV or play a game with some snacks and junk food. In addition, when they enjoy that time, they never feel full.
During the War period, American in order to provide high quality meal for soldiers, they beginning to produce processed food. Producer adding many nutrition and additives in the food that could make soldiers can taste a little bit then get a lot calories and nutrition. The industries develop so fast. As a result, the price of processed food got lower gradually. So that why people like to buy them, because they're cheap and delicious, also contain a lot nutrition. It's sounds good. But the consequences of that is people can't control themselves and stop eating them, even children. Aftermath, they're got fat easily.
I had bad eating habits in past too. When I was a high school student, I always preferred to eating snacks and junk food. Because I felt like there nothing to do at studying time. Everyone so nervous at that time. Because we had to face to high level test that same as SAT in the United States. Then we were studied in school and no class here, we were preferred to studying with eating snacks. The delicious food could make us have a lot energy to focus on study. Of course we were also got a lot calories during that time.
So, self control is more important way that can stop become obese. Give up these junk food, to focus on real food that will make us healthy.
I think the most important reason about children becoming obese is their eating habits. I agree with author about this idea a lot. These days, there are a lot industries which produce processed food. There are contain a lot additives. So processed food tastes more delicious than real food, and can allure people always to eat and think the food in their mind again and again. Other reason that lead children always eating is their free time. If they don't want to go outside, they more like to watch TV or play a game with some snacks and junk food. In addition, when they enjoy that time, they never feel full.
During the War period, American in order to provide high quality meal for soldiers, they beginning to produce processed food. Producer adding many nutrition and additives in the food that could make soldiers can taste a little bit then get a lot calories and nutrition. The industries develop so fast. As a result, the price of processed food got lower gradually. So that why people like to buy them, because they're cheap and delicious, also contain a lot nutrition. It's sounds good. But the consequences of that is people can't control themselves and stop eating them, even children. Aftermath, they're got fat easily.
I had bad eating habits in past too. When I was a high school student, I always preferred to eating snacks and junk food. Because I felt like there nothing to do at studying time. Everyone so nervous at that time. Because we had to face to high level test that same as SAT in the United States. Then we were studied in school and no class here, we were preferred to studying with eating snacks. The delicious food could make us have a lot energy to focus on study. Of course we were also got a lot calories during that time.
So, self control is more important way that can stop become obese. Give up these junk food, to focus on real food that will make us healthy.
CAT-W #2
Technology and College
According to the article "Technology and the College Generation" by Courtney Rubin, professors prefer to use e-mail to connect with students, but students like to use social networking. When professors change assignment and send it by e-mail to students, students can't receive notices immediately, because students don't check their e-mail. Reynol Junco, an associate professor of library science at Purdue, conducted an experiment to test students. He found that students just spend less time on check e-mail. Another professor told his student that he would like students to text him, but students just received a message from him is "check your e-mail for an update on the assignment."
I think social networking is more convenient than e-mail, because so many advertises send e-mail to the e-mail box. E-mail also hard to make a group. Another reason of students don't like to use e-mail is it really boring, because it doesn't have more flexible applications.
Before I went to college, I didn't care about e-mail. For me, it is just a tool that receives some verify e-mail about some website sign in, or just so many advertises from every field. Garbage e-mails were hard to clean by me. I can even receive ten more or twenty more e-mails daily. If I don't check it for a whole month, I will have a hundred more. I prefer to use social networking. It can receive notice immediately.
However, e-mail more safety than other social networking. I will try my best to check it daily.
I think social networking is more convenient than e-mail, because so many advertises send e-mail to the e-mail box. E-mail also hard to make a group. Another reason of students don't like to use e-mail is it really boring, because it doesn't have more flexible applications.
Before I went to college, I didn't care about e-mail. For me, it is just a tool that receives some verify e-mail about some website sign in, or just so many advertises from every field. Garbage e-mails were hard to clean by me. I can even receive ten more or twenty more e-mails daily. If I don't check it for a whole month, I will have a hundred more. I prefer to use social networking. It can receive notice immediately.
However, e-mail more safety than other social networking. I will try my best to check it daily.
Reaction Essay
Piano
A piano keyboard has 88 keys. They contain 36 black keys and 52 white keys. When a player presses keys on the keyboard, many small hammers beat the piano wires inside, and the melody comes out. Musicians play pianos to create a lot of famous music. These songs can open peoples' hearts and give people enlightenment, because musicians invest a lot of inspiration and felling when they create the music. When people play piano with musicians' feeling, they can learn a lot of musicians' experience. These experiences can teach people to know life.
Different kinds of music give people different enlightenment. Ludwig van Beethoven is a famous musician from Germany. His song named Fate Symphony teaches people to feel fate's complication. This song has a very strong melody. It reflects the complexity and difficulty of life. However, Fate Symphony teaches us that we need face to our hard life and fight with hardship; we need to become stronger. It encourages people to have determination in fighting with reality. Johann Baptist Strauss's An der schonen blauen Donau op. 314 gives people hope and confidence to live. The melody is very soft with happy feelings. We can feel that people enjoy their life when we listen to this song. Life's dilemma doesn't matter. Hope and confidence will help us become stronger. When life is peaceful and people enjoy their lives, people are falling in love with their lovers. Mariage D'amour played by Richard Clayderman. This song teaches people to feel romantic loves. They can know how to love and how to treasure this gift of lovers. These three songs give us a lot of enlightenment about life.
I have experienced playing piano with musicians' feeling that gives me enlightenment. Rhythm is like time that runs through the whole song. It teaches me how to treasure time, because I just have decades of life. With musician's feeling to play piano, I can feel that life is very complicated when I play like ups and downs. Melody is like a kind of life with its own stories. These songs give me so much different life experience. Furthermore, these experiences make my life more meaningful and deeper. Through them I can learn more knowledge during the finite lifetime.
Different kinds of music give people different enlightenment. Ludwig van Beethoven is a famous musician from Germany. His song named Fate Symphony teaches people to feel fate's complication. This song has a very strong melody. It reflects the complexity and difficulty of life. However, Fate Symphony teaches us that we need face to our hard life and fight with hardship; we need to become stronger. It encourages people to have determination in fighting with reality. Johann Baptist Strauss's An der schonen blauen Donau op. 314 gives people hope and confidence to live. The melody is very soft with happy feelings. We can feel that people enjoy their life when we listen to this song. Life's dilemma doesn't matter. Hope and confidence will help us become stronger. When life is peaceful and people enjoy their lives, people are falling in love with their lovers. Mariage D'amour played by Richard Clayderman. This song teaches people to feel romantic loves. They can know how to love and how to treasure this gift of lovers. These three songs give us a lot of enlightenment about life.
I have experienced playing piano with musicians' feeling that gives me enlightenment. Rhythm is like time that runs through the whole song. It teaches me how to treasure time, because I just have decades of life. With musician's feeling to play piano, I can feel that life is very complicated when I play like ups and downs. Melody is like a kind of life with its own stories. These songs give me so much different life experience. Furthermore, these experiences make my life more meaningful and deeper. Through them I can learn more knowledge during the finite lifetime.