TIME-TRAVELER EVALUATION

Knowledge of Audience

I think I didn't do too well in this section. I should’ve done more research on what the people from the 1700’s would be more comfortable with. When Mr. Carty asked, “What’s a mall”? I seem shock and for a minute I didn’t know how to replied, but the good thing I did was recovering from that and didn’t give up.

Voice

My voice was clear and loud. I think I did the best on this section. I believe I didn’t use any filler at all, if I did it was probably for only one time or so. When you communicate with an audience I think the best thing to do is talk clear and loud even if you don’t know what you’re talking about or just ramble.

Body Language

I think I did quite well in this department also. I wasn’t stiff and I used my hands to demonstrate some things. Did you know base on a study that people who uses their hands often in everyday conversation and while they speak are smarter than those who don’t? Something to think about right.

Preparedness

I think I was quite prepared. I did bright a note card with me just in case I did forget something or two but I didn’t have to even look at it once. After my two minute of presentation I still had a lot to talk about so I think I’m pretty good if I can say so myself.

Overall Effectiveness

I think I wasn’t too boring. One thing I would change is to draw five fingers instead of four….. a moment of nervousness I guess. Hehe

Motivation is Key!

                            

How to deal with school grades pressure?

Either it is middle school, high school, or colleges every student at one time or another has experience the hardship of an unachieved grade point. For most students they have the pressure of getting the best grades they can get because of parent’s expectation, friends challenging, or even self-motivation.

With some it will be harder to maintain that high grade point average because of after school sports, outside jobs, and friends circle. So imagine if your grades start to drop, it would not only affect your school ethic but also other part of your circle. You might have to quiet that job or sport team because you’re failing. The pressure will began to creep up on you, and when it does don’t break down!

Most students make the mistake of trying so hard to get back on the horse after they fall. And once that doesn’t work out, they totally give up. Being motivated is the greatest aspect of every work ethic; if that were to disappear you won’t have any means of goals to achieve.

So held your head up high, and don’t ever lose that motivation to achieve!

What is Justice to you?

                                  

What is justice?

Justice is the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.

To different people the world justice can have different meaning to them. In general justice mean righteousness, but the right thing to one person can be the wrong thing to another.

For e.g. two cars is balance on a falling cliff. On the left side sits five people, while on the right side sits one person. The cliff is falling fast, if it was up to you which side would you pick to fall?

In this situation most people who think that it is just to scarifies the right side, which only holds one person, instead of the left side which holds five people.

But, certain people believe that it is unjust to scarify that one person on the right. They would throw question like, what makes it justice if we have to kill a person to save many others.

This proves that different people have different thought process which help them come up with different conclusion differ than other people.

Do you have charisma?

                             

What is charisma?

Charisma is a compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others or a divinely conferred power or talent.

Who can have charisma? 

When you ask someone, who comes to mind when you think of the word charisma?
They would most likely think of a celebrity. But celebrity is not the only people who have charisma. Ordinary people like you and me can have charisma, not just famous or well-known people.

Charisma is a very helpful skill that everyone should want to obtain. People with higher levels of charisma tend to be noticed, listened to, respected, and followed. They are the one that people seems to lend towards in situation.

They are usually very successful in whatever they aim to do. Even if they are not good at a certain subject they can go around it or sweet talk through charisma to obtain the unobtainable. And to add to that people who have charisma are usually easier to get along with.

Commas Can Make A Big Difference!

I remember when I was in 11^th grade; Mrs. Hewsen taught me the importance of punctuation.

A panda eat shoots and leaves.  What?

So, a panda eats, than he shoots something or someone than leaves?
Does that make sense to you?
I hope not.

Panda first off don’t have thumbs to shoot, nevertheless hold a gun, and where would they found one anyway. They can’t just walk into a store and buy one, can they? Huh..maybe pandas have a secret society we don’t know about now

Now try this.

A panda eat shoots, and leaves.

This makes so much more sense now. A panda eats shoots, which is a kind of bamboo if you didn’t know that, and leaves. This work for our human society knowledge of panda, because it is more common to happen, and it’s kind of common sense if you can say.

Commas Can Make A Big Difference!

The art of communicating

                                

Why do we need language?

Isn't body language enough? We can make hand signals and draw pictures. But why isn’t that enough?

A spoken language and a body language perform differently. They can overlap to some extent but they are different.  Our needs for body language such as facial expression exist to show emotions, but when that (emotion) doesn't get across what do we do? This is when a spoken language kicks in. By talking and communicating we can get across with others faster and more efficiently.  Both are important, neither can work in the others place.

Can you imagine having to use only our body to talk? Our “sign language” can only take us so far. There will be a point where you will have to get something across to another person but can’t. How frustrating would that be?

This is why sign language evolves into spoken language. We used both, hand-in-hands. I can’t remember ever speaking using only facial expressions. Or trying to survive a whole day just on “sign language”.

Guilty Conscience??

First off, how would you define a guilty conscience?

Maybe it’s that nagging in the back of their head, telling you that you did something wrong. Or, is it a feeling of knowing that you shouldn’t have done something that you did. And now that you did it, you should be punished.

There are many different interpretation of a guilty conscience. But, when it all comes down to it, it’s “you” that is doing all the action.

A guilty conscience is you, yourself, telling you that you should redeem yourselves. You did something you shouldn’t have. No one else is forcing you. It’s your subconscious trying to straighten you up!

Is having a guilty conscience a good thing?

Well, you can argue both ways.

The person being “victimize” by their guilty conscience would argue “no”, that is if they didn’t learn their lesson. But, if they did learn their lesson they would say that it helps them not want to make the same mistake again. That the guilt was eating them from the inside out, so, they would never way down that path again.

But, unfortunately not everyone suffer from a guilty conscience.

So, do you have a guilty conscience?

Dumber & Dumber day by day!!

                           

Every day we are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction. We are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us and we are progressively unable to engage in a long-form thinking process. It could be that we constantly being on our smart phones, or using a calculator for the simplest math problem.

Problem: <<< literally a problem…. No kidding
54/9 = …..Let me get my calculator

Are we relaying too much on technology; to the point where we are unable to think for ours? I know that everyone has this thought in mind; it’s just that no one actually say it out loud.

My brain is constantly battling itself; one side is saying that it’s ok, while the other demands me to stop relaying so much on technology.

Left brain-

It’s okay. The world is changing-everything is technical nowadays. If we don’t catch up with the latest technology we will fall behind.

Right brain-

NO NO NO! It’s NOT okay! Our generation is relaying TOO much on technology. To the point where we are becoming incompertent without it.

---So, what are your thoughts and opinions?? Do you believe that we can somehow manage to limit our usage of technology to where we can balance between the two??

Poverty Effects on People

After reading parts of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, I came to realize that poverty is a major part to a person’s development. With the economy being so bad today, poverty has taken a toll; it affected hundreds of millions of people throughout the world.

Let say a person has been born into the lower working class family. He/she will then have to work twice as hard as anyone else just to get by. They would have to eat from hand to mouth, with little to no savings. But, in my theory, a person who has experience poverty, if desired, and work hard enough, will make it big someday. A person who had experience a life of stricken poverty will learn to cherish what they have and work for a bigger and higher goals. They know what it is like to be poor and will not take anything for granted.

That is to say that that person have “luck” on their side. If a chance wasn't offer or given to them, than you might ask, “What’s the point in trying”? To make it big you have to be given a chance. It isn't easy to go from a lower working class family to a middle class or even an upper class. You first have to be given a chance and make it happen afterward. And when I say to make it “big, “big” is in the eye of the beholder. 

Passive Resistance

                            

         While reading Herman Melville “Bartleby”, a story told from a lawyer first person point of view towards Bartleby, a disconnected scrivener. In the beginning when Bartleby first apply for the job, he acted all proper and hardworking, but soon after his true nature appears. He then prefers to not do any examining of his writing, something every scrivener has to do. Then, he stops copying all at once. Nada, zip, zero! I can’t stop myself but feels frustrated and irritated towards Bartleby, for the lawyer. Yes, you read it right, I say for the lawyer. The lawyer had to put up with all of Bartleby crap, and he risk the risk of losing the control of his business and workers.

        The lawyer state that the worst resistant is passive resistant, and that is what Bartleby did. He did not use force or strong language towards the lawyer; instead he smoothly denied or rejects the offer of working. If a person were to use force or “bad” language against you, if you fight back, in society it’s would be consider acceptable. But here, Bartleby elegantly and genteelly oppose. If the lawyer were to fire or punish him, society would deem that “unacceptable”.

        After reading the short story, I can’t help myself but think that, was it possible that Bartleby was just putting up a front from the beginning? Was his mannerism and behavior a fake from the beginning? Recall that I said, I have these thoughts after finishing reading the story. While reading the story everything Bartleby does seem so legit, but after, that’s another case.

So, what’s your thought on this?

What is your instrument of torture?

                       

Today we read Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit”, which states that people are each other instrument of torture, “Hell is other people”.

If I were to be asked if that is true, I would first agree, but then later retract. Why? People of course are the reasons why there are high crime rates, war is cause by people, and people ultimately will produce more people. And have you ever heard of the phrase, “Don’t blame the gun, blame the person that pulls the trigger”.

But, "there’s always a but to everything in life". Can you imagine a world without other people? I didn't want to pull religion into this but, God made Adam and Eve, and then other people came along later for a reason. It is true that the people around you can shape your life, but don’t forget that you can also shape theirs. Just like how you can pick who's your friend, and who's your enemy. I believed you pick your own hell!