Project Proposal

     I guess my project on body image falls more into the community category. I will be interviewing someone who had struggled with her self image a few years ago, but is in recovery. Someone else I'll be interviewing will be a nutritionist, the information requested will be about the importance of a healthy body as well as a healthy mind. Both of these interviews will be done in the next couple weeks.
    I know how society looks at girls and the judgment it portrays. I also know that it will completely come from the opposite direction and say everyone is beautiful and it doesn't matter what you look like. I would like to know more on stats and factual information.
    I will be gathering information from magazines and news articles. I have plenty of magazines with adds for losing weight. Also, I work at a gym, so I will have plenty of healthy sources there. Ill be looking at some surveys as well as taking one or two myself. I will probably be asking family members, friends, and other students.
   I found this topic meaningful because I have grown up around heath. My whole life is surrounded with nutrition and exercise. I also know how people bash each other on social media due to the simple factor of looking different. It's upsetting looking at it in all points of perspective and that's the reason I chose to do this topic; I want to put my word out there on how the body image is viewed by society.

Multigenre Project Topic... Maybe?

    The title itself stuck out to me, "Princess Perfection". When I see the word 'princess', I assume it has to be interesting, right? As I was reading the project, I found the paper was about how Disney has portrayed the body images of Disney princesses as, 'normal'.
    The topic was very interested and I think I have decided to do my topic on society's outlook on body image and how what models, actresses, and the overall "look" is not what society thinks is "beautiful."

Reducing Child Mortality

     I read Article 4, which was to reduce child mortality. I specifically picked this topic because of how partial I am to children under the age of five. The UNICEF's goal was to reduce the mortality rate of children under the age of five by sixty-six percent. They didn't reach their goal; by 2015, the rate dropped by forty-seven percent between their starting year, 1990 and 2015.
     The mortality rate was so high in third world countries due to the range of diseases. However, in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Timor-Laste and United Republic of Tanzania have decreased their mortality rates by two thirds or more since the year 1990.
     I think it is so cool how the UN is partnering with so many different groups to create new organizations to help these children. I also love that these people working together to create a better world feel so strongly about it that they are actually changing the world.
     Not one of the billions of kids under the age of five have deserved it. For some of them, they will have gone through more in the first four years on this earth than we have in our entire lives; and because of these reasons, I picked the topic of Child Mortality: It means enough to some people that they make a difference for the whole world, not just the children they're protecting. Because even from reading Article 4, my life was still touched.

   

Start Something That Matters

     From the stories of winner hyperlink, my favorite was actually the winner of the $50,000 grant. Just a young kid with the dream of helping people; he created a way for the people who need water in Chile to receive it. By trailing a pipe line over hill, trees, forests and so on, he was able to connect a water source to those who are very distant from it. I liked this topic because there are so many people in poverty who have so little, but he dropped everything he had in the United States to help people that he didn't even know.
     With the The Do Good Fund hyperlink, I watched They Gave A Homeless Man A Pizza... It made me pretty emotional. I have a soft heart in general, but I major soft spot for homeless people. In the video I watched, this man walked around the city and asked 3 different people for a slice of their pizza when they had two additional pieces available. Each person he asked said no. After the experiment, one of the other guys bought a pizza and gave it to a homeless man. When the original guy walked up to the homeless man, he asked the man for a piece of pizza. The homeless man said yes. 1/4 of the people the guy asked said yes; and it was a homeless man; someone with nothing and he gave up the only food he had. That shows you where humanity is going.
    

If you did not have to worry about money, what would you do with your time?

      I would definitely not be hesitant to give or lend people money. It makes them feel good to receive money and when I make someone feel good, it makes me feel good.

What kind of work would you want to do?

     I would want to help mothers with children who are in need or single parents in general because I know how hard it is to make ends meat and deal with other struggles of the world first hand.

What cause would you serve

      Homeless shelters and/or safe houses because they need someone, not just money.

    

Article 1 Response: 7 Grammar Rules

     The article about the seven grammar rules are the most common grammatically incorrect ways to write a sentence. Each rule described the way the sentence is usually written and the way that sentence should be written. All of the described rules are easy to break and aren't always easy to catch.
    As I read through the article I, being a grammar Nazi, have also made these mistakes. I also found that even titles in movies and jingles are grammatically incorrect, such as:


* Honey, I shrunk shrank the kids and * I wish I was were an Oscar Mayer wiener.


When I think about it I understand all of the rules and why they are this way. A couple mistakes that I make include not making certain verbs passed tense and saying something like," My friend made salsa, guacamole, and brought chips" instead of "My friend made salsa and guacamole and brought chips to go with them"


     I will keep these in mind as I speak and write and continue to correct others on their words even though I still make the same mistakes. Ha.


My laptop is not allowing me to add a picture to my post. Sorry!

Springking Pixie Dust

I watched a PechaKucha on a man’s experience from working at Disney World. The focus on his presentation was on treating everyone better than what you would in the real world and how Walt Disney wanted it to be like another realm. He mentioned how not only the guests, but the workers as well were treated impeccably and when you go there, all the workers do everything in their power to improve your experience at Disney World.

                The people around me didn’t enjoy the topic they watched, so I tried to find one that seemed would keep my interest. I chose well and the presentation was attention grabbing and I was focused on it the whole time. His topic was broad enough for him to fill out the whole presentation and keep the listener’s focus and his pictures worked well with the track. Each picture was explained or related to what he was talking about in each part. However, the presenter did say “um” often, at first it was distracting, but his topic was well enough explained that it didn’t bother me. I enjoyed watching the PechaKucha, but I would not be up for making my own only because I dislike my voice.

Chinese college life vs. American college life

     Taking your ACT, getting your score back, filling out the application for the college of your dreams, scholarship essays, itching to graduate: a typical American high schooler's preparation for college. Take a stretch across the world, and things are quite different there. The college life for an American student takes a leap of differences compared to the life of a college student in China.

         In an Article by Siqi Wang on the Daily Iowan on the International Programs Website (URL below), she's provided plenty of stats and experiences. On average, nine million students in China expect to go to college after graduation. Of this nine million, only 75% actually get accepted to do so. Like the ACT, they take a college acceptance test prior to graduating. This test is called the GAOKAO. The test-- as well as everything else school related-- is highly competitive. Once admitted to college, there's still major differences. These differences include studying, majors, transportation, and living arrangements.
        How often do American college students study? It really is based off the student. The time is flexible and if you're struggling, you may spend more time than you would if you find the class to be really easy. Our flexible study time teaches us self-discipline. In China, students go to an enforced mandatory study hall from 6-10pm. This teaches the students time management. China also has a one major rule. This rule prevents students from switching majors. They also decide on their major prior to entering college. They have to think long and hard to be sure it is what they really want to do. In America, it is easier to pursue what we want to do in life. We are able to switch our majors in a day and we can also choose to have more than one. We also rely on cars to get us places. We might just walk or ride a bike around campus, but when it comes to going across town, we drive our own car. In China, no one has cars. Luckily the colleges are usually in big cities, so you can mostly walk to get where you're going. China's college living arrangements are similar to ours, however we usually stay in the dorms our freshman and sometimes sophomore year, then we would get a place of our own. in China, they live in the dorms all four years.
       Things are significantly different in America compared to in China, but we are all reaching for the same goal: being successful at doing what we want. We just go around the goal in different ways.

 
 http://cetacademicprograms.com/2011/11/08/college-life-china-vs-usa/