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.