This semester in a nut shell..

This class has really helped me to become a better writer. I am not going to lie I did not like the post midterm blog topics but at the same time you have to do things that you do not like some times, and it made me a better writer. It is not easy for me to write but being able to blog instead of write paper after paper for it just to be thrown away has helped me. I feel like I have been writing for a purpose when I blog. Not only that but the projects we have done are not like every other classes projects. I love being able to have the freedom that we do in this class and it makes me want to actually improve myself and make myself a better writer because I am not forced to. It is just like reading I hate being told I have to read something but when it is my choice I actually enjoy reading. This class is definitely one that I enjoyed taking, I would actually say it was, by far, my favorite this semester. I cannot wait to continue working with the tutorials that we have been given in this class to improve my writing. I am sad that this class has to come to an end, but alas all good things must. Not only did I love having Lella as my teacher but I just loved everyone in my class. I feel like I have become close to some of them just through that class and now we are friends. I hope that I have more classes like this one my next three years of college at Lees. If I do it will make my time here much more enjoyable. Thank you Lella for everything you have done to help and teach me! It really means a lot! P.S. We still have to watch Star Wars! :)

Confused words game

When I played the game I got a perfect score which showed me that I really do not need much work with this topic. However, the game is good practice for people who may get the words confused easily. The timer adds pressure so that you have to not only think hard but you have to think fast. It trains you to be able to look at words and know the difference faster than you did before. In the long run this will be extremely helpful to anyone that plays it and is in need of help. I am glad I played just so I could get a feel of if I needed to work on this or not. It truly does imporve speed in not only getting the correct word but spelling it correctly as well. It is important when you are using these common words that you are able to spell them right because some people may think it is a completely different word opening up a totally different can of worms. All in all it is just really important to know exactly what word you are using and how it spell it. I have learned that it is not good to just try to use big words unless you truly know what they mean because if you do not then you just look stupid, and no one likes a dumb ass. There is no sense in trying to be something you are not. I am not an English major and trust me I am not affraid to tell people that.

Spelling: Common Letter Patterns

Common letter patterns are everywhere you look. It is good to know some of this patterns just so you know that they are there. It is not hard to recognize when you look at something wrote down what commonly used patterns are. However, when you are just going off memory it is a little bit harder. That is why it is good to memorize as amny of these patterns as you can. It is a lot easier to spell some words if you know there are common letter patterns in the word. If you do not know if there is a pattern there then it could really hurt you. That is the main reason that you would need to know these patterns. This tutorial helped me to see that I really do need yo work on momerizing at least some of these patterns instead of just trying to wing it. It is never good to write something unsure if you are spelling it right, unless you have spell check. The only reason I could think for someone not to want to learn these is because they think they know everything about writing, or they are just to lazy to take the time to look into what patterns are used. This is a really useful tutorial to watch and listen to, that is if you truly want help of course.

Comma Chameleon

Common Chameleon is a very easy game to play when you understand all of the places that they are supposed to go. For me it was a very easy game to play. It is another part of English that comes easy to me, but that is mainly because it was the only thing really taught to me. The game is just basically there to help with punctuation marks that most people learn in kindergarden and it is drilled into your head even as say a freshmen in college. Some people I am sure have more difficulty than others with this game but if you just take your time and look at it you will figure it out. It may take some time but it will eventually come to you.

Confused Words Tutorial

I have problems with words just for the simple fact that I am dyslexic but I try not to use that as an excuse for what I do wrong. I usually only get the to and too confused when I am writing. I do not really get confused I just have problems spelling the words correctly because of this problem. I try to work really hard on all the English I do just to make sure that I do not get the wrong word when I am using the commonly confused words. It makes it harder on me but it does not matter some things come easy to others. I am used to not being able to just write a paper so I know for me that it takes time and effort, therefore I know I have to focus to get things done. Like I said it does not come easy but to me I feel like that is what will make my writing better one day. People get words mixed up all the time so I do not feel quite as bad on this one. Most people even make up their own words half of the time and they do not even make sense. That or they throw out some random big words just to sound smarter than what they are.

Grammar Ninja

Grammar Ninja was hard for me because I was never really taught what words went had what meaning. The schools I was raised in were all about sports and not so much education. They did not teach the way they really should have. The only way I know math is because I am just good at it. English never was my strong suit. My sister would go over my work and tell me what was wrong in it and it mostly had to do with this type of stuff. I have to have one on one work in order to understand the proper parts of speech and all the grammar rules. I never was able to get that one on one time I needed so that is why this particular game was really hard for me. I hope someone got as much help from this as I did when they played it. I know now that I have to work extremely hard on this particular subject just from playing this game a few times.

Magical Capitals!!

The first grammar tutorial I played was Magical Capitals. I am usually really good with capitals because it would have to be the only thing about writing that is really common sense. Capitals is just something that comes easy for me I guess because it is like the important things. If just random words started getting capitalized I would probably have problems with them as well. This tutorial could really come in handy if a person was unsure of what is a proper noun or someone just starting out writing to know to capitalize days of the week and stuff like that. Capitalization is one of the easiest and most well know thing to correct for most people. It just comes easy and does not need a lot of explaining to understand the concept of what words need to be capitalized and what words do not.

The Dumbest Generation?? I think not..

The generation from 1980-1994 is considered by most people "The Dumbest Generation". I do not believe this just because we have better computers and more ways to learn does not make us dumb. What makes someone dumb is using all these new resources to be lazy and not have to do any work at all, or to just play video games. Not all people from this generation are lazy, and just like all the other generations there are a few. Ours may have more than most. People like to talk down about us because we have better things and it is not as hard for us to do a lot of things just because of the things that we have to use to our advantage. Honestly, I do not think that it is because our generation is dumb that we do the things we do. The things that have made us the way we are is the technology that the world keeps making. However, we could tell you how to use any phone, any computer, or use any gaming system ever made. Call that lazy and dumb if you want but I say you have to be really smart to be able to operates all of those different machines. It is not common knowledge to know all the things that we know in our generation but yet people still like to call us the dumb generation... It just does not make sense..

Google interest topic: Athletic Training

I picked Athletic Training to reflect on because it not only is my major but I love being able to have the chance to be an Athletic Trainer (AT).
The Athletic Training Education Blog goes through all the policies to becoming an AT, but it also does a lot of complaining about the way something's are being done. No, no one person should not say they are better than anyone else even if they may happen to hold true to that. It just is not the polite thing to do. However, going back and complaining about someone doing that is not the way it should be handled. Some situations are not meant to spread through any kind of social networking, including blogs. It is like when people say someone is immature and then keep bring it up just because they can. In that case you are becoming the immature person in the situation. It is not right to bring your problems with another person, or another person entirely into the picture for no reason. This blog is not about what it should be. It is about all kinds of problems that come with Athletic Training and not the good things which are good that it covers one thing, but it should cover both sides of the book. It is ridiculous to look at something you love to death and it is totally talked down about. It is not a good time.

Reflection: Hyperbole and a hlaf

Hyperbole and a half I thought I could relate to but I actually could not. I am not sure what it would feel like to wake up one day and just be depressed but I do know what it feels like to have a reason to be depressed. It is not fun to wake and not want to move but you have to. This blog I feel targets the people who suffer from depression. In the end it tells you that if you are unhappy without a cause that you should not let anyone bring you down, and anyone who tries to is just not worth all the pain that you are taking by it mentally. Depression is not something that just goes away overnight. It takes time and a lot of hard work to get yourself back to the right state of mind. Some people just do not understand how someone could be depressed, but truth is some depressed people do not know why they are depressed. Depression is sometimes a thing that you cannot control. I have learned through my depression that when you turn to God and put it in his hands it all ends up working itself out. Yes, I still have the days when I do not feel like getting out of bed and when I just want to shut the world out but you just have to keep standing strong. No matter what happens you have to know that you can overcome depression. This blog would really help the unskeptical depressed person, you know the one that just will not listen to anyone, to realize that there is a way out of all the pain and agoney you just have to put some effort in it. Most importantly you have to remember that depression does not only hurt you it hurts your family and friends alike.

Reflective: Steve, don't eat it!

Steve, don't eat it, in my opinion, was not a very good blog. It did inform you of different types of cultures eating habits, but at the same time it does this in a negative and disgusting way. It points out all the nasty things that different people and cultures my actually enjoy. When I was growing up my aunt always told me that you never say "gross" or "nasty" about someone else's eating habits because you would not like it if they said the same about you. I just feel like this blog could have been written with a little more compassion towards the targeted people who enjoy those foods. I am also aware that it tells you some of the bad things that are in the foods, and makes you aware of just how unhealthy the foods may be. However, in these blogs fast food was not incorporated. It is by far just as unhealthy as anything else that they may have mentioned. Just because it is popular, it was not mentioned though because the writer did not want to step on to many peoples toes so he/she wrote about the unpopular foods. This to me just felt like a target for these people telling them that they are strange and different just because they eat differently than most people may. To me judge someone because of what they eat is just not acceptable. Maybe it was just the way I was raised but I do not feel like this something that should have been blogged about because a lot of people can potentially read this.

One persons amusement is another persons sadness..

On August 29th, 2005 hurricane Katrina passed by New Orleans causing all kinds of irreptible damage. Six Flags, being so well known in Georgia, was destroyed at the New Orleans campus. This company brings in millions of dollars each year, however, this particular location has been abandon for over six years now. The park now only carries sadness and heartache for those who once know the enjoyment it once brought to so many people. Adults and children alike have a love for what the Six Flags parks bring to the name amusement.

After being submerged in several feet of water for many, many months there was no rush in getting the park opened again. Over 250 jobs are offered in one Six Flags location putting so many people out of a job. However, there was just no way to get it opened. The thought of trying to reopen it now is not even in the question because there is just so much work that would need to be done and it is hard to say if an event such as Katrina will happen again or not. The damage that was caused by the hurricane brought so many problems to the park. Now that the water is dried up the weeds are over growing everything in path, including roller coasters.

The park once being a up beat, lively attraction for New Orleans quickly turned into a deserted, lonely pile of metal. The only thing that still exist in the park is the rides and thr people that stop in to write a little graffiti on the walls. It is hard to believe by looking at these pictures that this park was once a park just like Six Flags over Georgia. It is sad to look at this and think about all the distruction that took place six years ago and just how many people did infact end up losing thier jobs. Maybe one day this ghost town will reopen its doors to once again bring joy and hope to a young souls mind.

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That Should Be Me...

Justin Bieber's "That Should Be Me" has t be my all time favorite song. The first time I listened to this song I was riding in the car with Laci Gronlund and I remember we listened to it a lot because she kept saying that this song fit the situation I was going through at the time. However, what most people do not realize no matter what they think about their current situation nine times out of ten this song would describe it. The time of life between college and high school is when most people find someone that means a lot to them personally and to lose that person, it does not matter how strong you are, deep down you are thinking "that should be me." It is not easy to sit back and let someone that means the world to you walk away but in the long run it could be better for both of you. I was always told in life that the people leave your life for a reason, but sometimes you just do not want to believe that. When I listen to this song it brings back so many memories. It makes me miss all the good times I used to have and long talks on the phone. This song brings back the good memories that I have experienced in my life time. High school was by far the best four years of my life. In time you learn to love and when to let go. This song shows how hard it is to move on, but in reality moving on is the best thing that could ever happen in a relationship.