Reflect on today's experience.

Today we talked about our comparison and contrasta essay. Mrs. Crawford gave us a sheet with all the things that we should conseder when we write our essay. Fist of all she explain what the MLA format was because like she shai ther are a lot of stundents like me who do not know how to do a MLA format. Then we talked about not using first person for this essay and only use third person lik he, she, or they. We also have to be very specific with our examples. Another thing that we discussed was developed introduction, like how we should have a very clear thesis sentece or statement. Well this was almost everything we did on class and let me tell you that if helped me a lot because I was having a hard time trying to figure out what to do or even how to start my essyas but the most important thing was that I learned the things that I am not suppose to type on this essay. I am kind of scare because this essay is more diffucult well al least for me because the last two essay were not that hard but when we are talking about describing two different things I forget almost every thing. But after this experience at class I find it more easier.

Reflect on today's experience.

This time we did not stayed in class, we went to the writing center to create two accounts, one for Myspace and the other for Facebook. Well not all of the students because some of them have to go make their survey about our English book. I did not had a problem with the Myspace accoutn because I already had one before and Mrs. Crawford said that it was of to use it, but then when I try to make a Facebook account I waste a lot of time and then they said that they will send me an e-mail or something like that so I had to wait more than the usuall. When I was done with it I logged in just to checked how it looks like, at the beggining it looked ok because you know it has almost the same things that Myapace. After that I try to get use to it and it was a little harder than I thought because I wanted to costumized it like the way I wanted. I lookes on google and other websites trying to find the perfect layout or background for my Facebook profile , so a few minutes later one of my friends told me that you can not do that with Facebook. So then I was confused will all the stuff. I asked one of the tutor for help, because I could not find the way to add the Writing Center to my Myspace and Facebook. I started adding all my friend from Myspace to Facebook and I found out that almos all the class had Facebook accounts well exept for me. So all the Facebooks account look the same to me and I think Facebook is more like professional and Myspace is like more for friends well but that is just my opinion. I began to find all the appliances that bot of them have in common, and I releze that they have a lot of staffs in common and a few things different so I think I will have a hard time with my essay. But I enjoyed this experience because now I have new friends and I found out that now I will be able to check if there are some appoinments available just by checking into my Facebook and see my recently added friends " Mr. Writing Center". I hope we will have more of this experiences so we can find out new things.

summarize today's articles.

The articles just talked about Brazilian obesity, researche shows that the number of brazilians suffering from obesity is growing and beauties in tiny bikinis are getting smaller and smaller, acording to them. A study coordinator names Deborah Malta said that obesity among women had stabilized in privious studies, and how there is an expressive increase. Is also says in the article that some 13% of the vrazilians asults are abese. Almost 47.3% of adult males and 39.5% of females are consideres overwight, but this figures are still low compared with some nations like U.S. where more than a third of all adults are consider obese. One of the things that sound very interesting to me was that although Brazilians are getting fatter, they are eating less red meat and more fruits and vegetables. They are smoking less and taking more presentive tests such as mammograms and pap smears. But it also said here that they are using less sunscreen and drinking more, especially to excess and often when driving. In my personal point of view I am not sure if that is really the cause of the obesity. This article contains a lot of good information to all the people and like Berti say in this article " if we do not teach people how to eat properly and exercese, them in 10 years no one will have the money to pay the hospital bills that will be arise." It also talks about the girl from Ipamema who they said is not necessarily tall and tan and young, lovely but could possibly be short, pale , fat and ugly. And when the New Yourk Times reported in 2005 that Brazilians were getting fatter, the correspondence come under attack. In deed, Malta call the earlier report "disrespectfull" and prefers to emphasize the Brazilians are relatively slim compares with thier counterparts in the west. And like she told Times " this is not just Brazilians that are getting fatter, this is a world wide phemomenon.
so like Malta said it is also disrespectful for me too not because I am fat but because I have very close friends from me who are overweight". I agree with her that this is not just the Brazilians. We should not be judging people, but what we shoul do is prevent the obesity like she said by teaching people how to eat more healthy. We should start doing something now before is too late to control it.

summarize today's articles.

This team presented four articles, the first one I am going to talk is about "does facebook replace face time or enhance it" this one talks about Jenny a mother of three children, ages 4 to 14 and rarely finds time for visitis, Phone calls or even e-mail, the full mom in upstate New Yourk regularly updates her status on facebook. A frind of hers said that after 24 years, of being friends now their friendship is relegated to the online world, filtered through facebook. Nelly Jenny's friend said that facebook has brought her closer to her already close friend, who she has little time to see because of the kids and work. She now know more about them that she did when she was in regular contact with them. So based on this first article I asumed that for some people facebook is a good thing to keep people in contact even though if they live far away from them. The sencond article is about "facebook sparks supicion among students" basicly this article says how easy to get you in trouble with you partner because if you are texting or calling another person, probably nobody will know that your talking with other person but on facebook you can see almost everything. It also says that couples are finding that old flames and flirty friends on the social networking site have a unique ability to stir jealousy and suspicious. The third one say that colleges scan facebook during admission. Students need to be more carefull with what they post about themselves online, because many college admissions officers are looking at students' online profiles before they make their final decision. It also says that about a quater of the universities polled in a recent survey where it said their admissions officers research prospective students' social networking profiles before extending scholarships to students. That means that a picture from a weekend party might cost a student a spot on a premier campus. And like Mark D. said that most colleges will do whatever it takes to recruit the right type of students to thier respecteve institution. The last article I do not know why but it is my favorite because research suggest that because of spending too mucho hours on facebook make students' grades go low and I would not talk a lot about this article because in my opinion our gredes does not depend on the hours we waste on facebook because I am always on facebook, myspace, metroflog, messenger and my grades are not decreasing but they are getting better avery day because I study hard. This has nothing to do with facebook, it all depend on the kind of student you are.

Reflecting On Today's Experience

Today when we went to the English Lab I did not know what Ms. Crawford was talking about I just know that she said something about a radio station named Pandora. Maybe you will laugh of me but I though she was talking about this mexican group name Pandora too. So I was so exited to know the answer, so when we began to seach this web site I relize that it has something similar to You Tube, but as we know you can see all the videos you can without limitation and Pandora give you just a certain amount of song. If I am not wrong I guess you can just listen to six or seven song per day. Thats why I did not like Pandora that much. Then after Pandora we went to this website named Lastfm, is almost the same thing as Pandora but you can listen to more videos and it also have more option to choose from both of them have things in common like they have to be with ratio station in which one you can see all kinds of videos of your favorites artist. Thats almost all the details about this two ratio stations. But the thing that I like the most was going to google and looked for our adress to see a picture of our house, that is the one that I liked the most because alot of the pictures were from years ago and the houses lookes so different. And one of my friends showed me his house I mean a picture of his house so at least know I know where my friends live and how their houses looked like. At the end of the class I went to my house and I checked all the websites that we use in the class, it is interesting how can you see a picture of your house. But all of them have things alike for example Pandora and the Lastfm were radiobstations that that let people listen to what they want to hear, like their personal likes for music. Is rare that I will say this but know I am alway in any of those two websites listening to my Wisin y Yandel music. But google its like a way to help people find thing or make your life easyier. This is what I think about this three web sites.

Reflection On My Writing Center Experience.

On my first visit to the writing center my tutor was this man named Renato, he helped me a lot and he also gave me different ways to add more details to my essay. But last time when I went to the writing center again my tutor was "mmmm" I do not even remember the name of the guy, the only thing I remember about him was the way he treated me. At the beginning he introduce himself, and we went to sit in front of the desk. I showed my rough paper and I also showed him the name of the vlog that I choose. He did not even looked at them and he gave me this paper that he used before with other three students, I did not like that because I know that we have the same English class but my vlog was not the same as the others. In my point of view I really did not received any help from my tutor. So I decided to do what my group told me to do. I remember them telling me about my vlog, most of them told me about my details. That I have to add more of them but the thing was that I did not know what detail to add. So one of them told me to described the background like to say in what place they were at a room, park , school, thing like that. and they recomend me to use my five senses to be more specific with all the details. lt also helped me a lot what my teacher said about how she want us to make our paragraphs. So I looked at my vlog and started writing every little detail that appeard in the first minute that include all the backgroung, sounds and facial expressions of the girls who were in the vlog. When I was in the middle of my essay It was like more easyier so I had a great time explaining all the details. It was like reading a book to a blind people and you have to be very specific in all the details of the background and sounds well everything. This was my great experience with the writing center .

Commenting On Other People's Blogs.

In my personal opinion this assignment was a good way to connect our experiences with the other studets. I wrote a comment to Angel , I read his blog and I felt a connection with him because he talked about how dirrerent those two assignments were and how hard was to find an appoinment at the writing center. I also have to passed through all of that but I am glad I made it. The other comment that I wrote was for Anna , I also read her blog about how she use to feel when our teacher said that we will have to make presentations in front of the whole class. I also felt a closed connection with her too because at the beginning of the English class I was scare. I am that kind of girl who does not like to talk in front of the whole class. And its worse when the student start asking questions about our presentation and I am like "what do I answer know" based on what I read about her blog I think she also have trouble speaking in front of the class too. I am also like that I been here for a lot of years and I still get nervouse because when I am nervouse I forget almost everything. So what I want you to know is that in some ways we have a connections with other people's blogs.