Essay Topic #2

For the second essay I had many different ideas that i wanted to write about but I am still a little unsure about it. When we did the pre write about what we thought we may wanted to write about it came down to doing A movie with a song. I love music and i love how different types of music and/or songs can remind you of a movie and it pretty much paints the picture for the movie.
Some examples i had were...
Pursuit of Happyness
Bucket List
The Notebook
P.S. I Love You
My Sister's Keeper
Freedom Writers
Changeling

Then for songs:
Dont Blink by Kenny Chesney
Live like you were Dying by Tim McGraw
Independence Day by Martina McBride
Who You'd be Today by Kenny Chesney
old Blue Chair by Kenny Chesney
Our Song by Taylor Swift


Im still trying to find some songs that go alone with the movies I have chosen. I have a little bit more research to do, but im liking where im getting with this.


<3

Writing Process / My Week

Writing Process...
Well lets see i really dont have a "set" writing process that i use all the time. I do like to make outlines and write down a lot of key points before i start my essay. I like to do peer reviews and even send to my mom and my sister to see what they think of it. I like getting other peoples opinions to help me out. I like to write everything out that i want to say with the key points and then organize everything together and then go back to see if there is anything i want to change or any words that i want to make seem more intelligent. I like to focus a great deal on my Introduction...the introduction is the first thing the reader will read to get the first impression on the paper. The introduction is what is going to make your paper in general sound good. The conclusion is the last thing the reader will read so you want to make that one sound very intelligent too. you want to make sure you make your last thoughts interesting and sum up the paper.


My Week...
Well i finally found out why my sickness keeps coming and going. I finally got a bunch of bloodwork done and found out i have Mono. What a wonderful thing. my white blood cells are low and i have to pretty much just let it run its course...because it took SO long for someone to finally figure out it was Mono. So its been petty stressful for me, i will feel great one day and then the next day i feel like i cant even get out of bed. It pretty much sucks...but on a better note i got a new computer ;] A netbook and i LOVE it. Its great to just carry around and the battery stays charged for a while! i came home for a day to see my mom and its been pretty relaxing and ive got some good rest.

and now since its sunday that means FOOTBALL!!!! Im watching my steelers play now so its getting hard to blog cus im always on the edge of my seat...! im also glad that my main man Troy does NOT need surgery! that was a huge relief, so im hoping he will be ready to come back on the field by maybe next week!!

have a wonderful Sunday ( the last Sunday of summer, pretty depressing )

GO STEELERS!!!! <3

"s i c k season"

Events of my wonderful day today...
went to sleep feeling like crap last night and woke up and wasnt feeling any better. I just havent got it, i will be great one day and then the next like dying. I layed in bed for most of the day and attempted studying. Worked on my English paper that i got so frusterated with that i changed the WHOLE paper at the last minute and am now doing an article by Adam Farhi called "Hollywood goes to School: Recognizing the Superteach Myth in Film." I understood the topic a little bit better so it was easier to put insight with it. The other article i chose i liked ALOT but wasnt analyzing it as well as i needed and should. Anyway...i practiced my speech that i have to do at 8 am tomorrow morning for Public Speaking (hopefully i wont be feeling as bad :[ ) and thennnnn went to the doctor. STORY OF MY LIFE. I have been to the doctor more times in the past couple of weeks than i have my whole life..i dont get it, i am NEVER sick..and this year had to be my year. Got to the doctor explained how everything keeps coming and going and that i have been taking all my medication and then go informed that it is 99% sure i have MONO. The doctor told me that when i first went to the Urgent Care about 4 weeks ago that when they just "pricked" my finger for the mono test that wasnt exactly how you do it....A real mono tests takes about 24 hours. She said i have every sign of having Mono and now doesnt know what stage i am in because i wasnt diagnosed correctly in the first place. Ugh. What wonderful news to hear...So tomorrow i have to go back again for bloodwork : ( Hopefully everything will just run its course and be over soon! Because i am so tired of this.
Anyway that was my day :] ha. what a joke.
I wish there was something i was at least looking forward too..but i feel like now its just feeling better. thats all i really want is to be 100 %. School is going pretty well though which is good, a little stressful but im getting through it!!


Well thats it for today!

LATER.

Engggllaaasshhh....

The English language has many more "languages" than people really think...
In our everyday lives we use many type of English whether it's talking to your friends and using abbreviations or using slang thats a type of English because you do it constantly. Sometimes you really dont stop and think about how many different ways you can talk to people. If you go in for a job interview you are obviously not going to talk in slang and use incorrect sentences or vulgar language. You are going to talk very proper and respectful, something you probably dont do when your just sitting around your friends conversating. If you think about how you talk to your grandparents and then how you talk to your professors it's crazy how a person can change their whole entire vocabulary. If you play a sport or are in a band you might talk different to your teammates or your band members in a way where outsiders cant really understand what you are saying.
Our everyday English is constantly changing and we alter how we talk by the type of people we are around.
Some people whether they are from North or South may have learned different English terms in different ways so when people meet one person may not understand what they other is talking about and they may be talking about the same thing. Word usage is a big thing for the English language and how you use your words and how you say them in general changes how the language is portrayed.

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I can admit i use allottt of slang!!! i am constantly abbreviating words and not using proper words like for exaple "She and I"..i always say Me and put myself first and im always being corrected.

aggrevated :/

So i really thought i wasnt going to have a problem balancing school and work...its kicking me in the face now!! I like work ( working at forever 21 ) but the late hours are really aggrevating sometimes, especially when your on your feet for 8 hours running around a store and then have to go home finish schoolwork and then wake up for an 8 am class! : ( I'm going to pull through it though! im trying, i just get stressed out so easily and it frusturates me. In the end though i know school comes first; before anything! Im just trying to make myself remember that.
Let me start on my first essay....
yesterday i was sitting there reading the essay and writing as i thought of stuff..had about 3 pages almost done and was critiquing it to make sure everything was sounding ok and intelligent when my computer just up and FROZE..i clicked the save button like 300000 times and even when you exit out of a word document its SUPPOSED to ask you if you want to save it first...well my damn essay just dissappeared, out of no where! That started it....so i sat for about an hour pissed off because i knew i couldnt rewrite it and make it sound like it did, and finally i got the urge to start on it again...By the time i got some of it done i was ready for bed because i had a long day in general. Well today i did some in between one of my classes and my last class gets out at 4:45 and i had to be at work at 5.....I knew i was going to be up late tonight trying to fix everything and make it sound ok, but didnt know i wasnt going to get out of work till 11:45!!! :/ So im just frusterated and tired as hell trying to make this draft look good so i dont look like a bad/ careless writer because im really NOT! i promise! And it sucks, but im promising myself my final is going to be like 200000 times better :]
OTHER THAN THAT STRESS....
Everything else has been going pretty good! I stayed with my mom for 2 days for labor day at our beachhouse which was fun because it was relaxing and comfortable.
And im thinking after tomorrows classes are over i will be in a better mood because i dont have friday classes...

But i do have to finish this draft andddd study for 2 quizes i have tomorrow also
someone please bring me a RedBull ! :D

Later!

Paper Topic & Some Random personal thoughts...

For My first Paper i am deciding to use the Newspaper Article Despite the Positive rhetoric about Women's Sports, Female Athletes face a culture os Sexual Harrassment by Leslie Heywood. One thing that caught my eye right off the bat when i was reading the article to see if i was interested or not was the fact that Leslie states that she claims that sexual exploitation of female athletes jeopardizes some of the benefits of sports for women. I point blankly agreed 100%. I have been a female/ student athlete playing softball and volleyball for a long as i can remember. I played all through middle and high school and played year around for travel. I wasnt able to play for UNCw for numerous reasons but did play for the Club Softball team my freshman year. ( knee surgery, possible shoulder surgery..) I feel like i can relate to this article so It will be easier to write a paper on it and know what i am talking about when writing. :] Sometime women are more hesistant to speak out when it comes to sports and problems or issues pertaining to it. Women are more stubborn when it comes to constructive critisism at times...This article tells it all and tell about the women athletes who get hassassed every single day becuase one they are women, weight and appearance, and last but not least because some are better than men :D Im excited now! i like this topic.

Personal Thoughts...
On another note...something that has been stuck in my head lately is this vido my professor had us watch in Social Work the other day. Its called World On Fire by Sarah Mclachlan...so if anyone has any time, Go watch it!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWybv7vTJ38#watch-main-area. The video is amazing..i felt as if it changed my life right when i watched it...at the end i was the one in the classroom that was sniffling :/ you can say i have a tender heart. I tried to put the video on here but i couldnt figure out how to do it without their being an error on the page...anyone who can tell me how? The video is just really touching, it makes people understand the world around us and how we treat eachother and the world itself.
About the sickness !
Went to the doctor ( an actual Physicians office ) and got diagnosed AGAIN with 4 more different types of meds including a steroid shot which was really helped! ugh. Hopefully all of this will go away soon...once again people make sure you WASH YOUR HANDS after everything!! Lol.


much loveeeee <3

So much for getting better from being sick...ugh. I'm so tired of being sick!! Ive been taking my meds and everything was going fine until i woke up this morning and couldn't even sit up without feeling horrible. :/ Im going to the doctor tomorrow morning though so hopefully some good can come out of this! Anywayyyy My STEELERS did their thing tonight on the field and crushed some Panthers assss :] Thats my team and no matter how bad i feel i will never miss a game!

I really hope i will feel better tomorrow because i really want to go to the beach! I havent been in like 2 weeks and i want to go before it starts gettin chilly outside.

I dont know about anyone else but this week flew by! I cant believe its already labor day weekend! wow...i feel like 2009 just started and now its almost half way over...where does the time go?! If i dont have to work sunday and monday im guna go to my moms beachhouse and go out on the boat and have a stressfree couple of days! Thats something i really need.....school isnt bad its just so stressful, i know its life but i try to get too much done at once and then i stress myself out to the maxxxx.

But just wanted to blog a little before i go to bed! I need some nice sleep even though im sad that its Thirsty Thursday and i didnt get to go out with all my ladiess because i get to be the sick one :[

SWEET DREAMS EVERYONE <3>

pS....Yes i had to add a pic of my main man on the field. i am his number 1 fan ! Troy Polamalu is THE best :D

Monday Madnessss

So I really dread Mondays, but thankfully today wasnt bad at all except for the fact that I really dont like government. :/ My teacher is actually really cool i am just not interested in the class at all so it makes it even worse. I have to write a 5 page paper on a current event that deals with American National Government that is due on friday and it has gave me hell! Im doing the Health Insurance Reform Bill and it has already stressed me out and ive had a headache for two days now! If anyone knows anything interesting that i should know about Health Insurance feel free to let me know! :] Im loving all my other classes and excited about this blogging thing because its cool to just write about your feelings and your day! <3

First Assignment

Well since i caught the flu...like every other person at UNCW, im a tad late on this assignment. I was feeling fine and then all of a sudden almost passed out and when i went to Urgent Care was told i had a 103 fever and it was good that i came in when i did....Wow.

Anyway for my first two blog assignments I went on a couple different websites because i am rather new at this and really didnt understand it at the beginning but i read some different blogs and then decided on some that interested me more than others.

The first one came from a celebrity site where i started reading blogs on Michael Vick.http://www.tvguide.com/news/Michael-Vicks-Abused-14091.aspx..I dont understand how ANYONE can like him or say good things about him. Yea, he is an awesome football player but an aweful person. I've heard many different ideas for how Vick would be allowed to play football again and one that made me laugh was that if he could run from one side of the football field to the other and back with pounds of meat stuck on him and 50 hungry pitbulls chasing him and not catching him, he could play. I love it. I think Vick should be killed by a damn dog...its what he deserves. His whole thing about changing and getting a "second chance" is bullshit. HE is a bad person and doesnt deserve anything. Especially not money

from the NFL.

The second blog i read that interested me was on this website where people can actually mail in their secrets anonymously on a post card! http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ I thought it was kind of crazy, but interesting. Some of them are really funny and the others sort of caught my attention because someone actually sent in one with their face on it and a message that said something like "i still remeber your birthday each year even if you dont remember me." Thats too sweet :] There is so many different emotions expressed on each post card and every one shares a different experience or feeling. Some are a tad depressing and others are scary sounding.. You can read alot of peoples secrets!!

Kameron :]

hopefully i will get better at this!!