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Entry#10: Week 1 and now were almost done!

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  Hey guys, this week I will be talking about my transition from week one to now the last week of English 102.   Looking back on week one to now week 14, I've noticed a big transition within myself.  For it to be my second time around blogging, I must admit this experience can never get old. I find myself wanting to blog on blogger more than be on social media. On blogger, I feel more free and open to talk about my personal life experiences and my opinions on certain topics. Recently I've been more free and open about certain situations I never once was open to talk about. During week one of this class, I was nervous to even speak in front of a large group of people, now majority of my talking is done in front of twelve to twenty-five people max. Writing long essays has never really been my thing until I been in this class. My professor showed me how to use the rhetorical triangle properly in my essays. The rhetorical triangle is a triangle broken up into three appea...

Entry#9: Media Synthesis

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Hey guys, this week is all about media. In my English 102 class, I have been asked to write an essay about the power of media. Since I have been working on this essay, I have noticed the littlest things pertaining to media. Just yesterday I was talking to my brother about something on the news and when i tried to pull the article up, I couldn't. I had to pull the article up on Facebook . The fact that the news station that I was using didn't have the article on their own website but instead on Facebook took me by surprise. Normally when searching for the news , you are to go directly to the source which in my case was the news stations website. The fact that you can get recent news fast on social media sites and not the website is completely backwards to me. I've also noticed through out writing this essay, for people who are really not social media savvy can get the news from other sources like YouTube. My cousin is a prime example of this, she would rather watch a you tu...

Entry#8 Give your self confidence a boost!

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    Hi guys this week we're gong to talk about having self confidence and what we could do to boost it. Self confidence is a feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgement. Many times we are judged by the way we look, this can really down our self confidence. I always go by the saying "When you look good you feel good" because its so true!! When my hair and eyebrows are not done, I feel like the ugliest person on earth. But when my hair, nails, and outfit are on point, my self confidence is on a all time high.  I recently was having a moment when I had low self confidence especially after having my son. After carrying a baby for almost ten months, my body went through drastic changes. What helped me get through this phase was exercise and doing things that I loved to do. I loved to run, exercise and listen to all kinds of music . Of course the results weren't shown over night. With consistency and patience, I gained my self confidence and lost a fe...

Entry #7: #It'sthewaywetalk

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Welcome back guys, this week I have been asked in my English 102 class to read an article containing hashtags. I read the article " How #Hashtags changed the way we Talk"  and honestly I was  amazed on how Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon used hashtags. I liked the examples the writer was displaying. She used pictures from social media sites and videos. I personally participated in using hashtags on twitter when the trend first came out. I would say it is a short way to say things in a sentence without writing a whole sentence. When I participated in the trend I found that if you click on the hashtag, whatever is  hash-tagged pops up in the search engine.   What i found amazing was the hand gesture that went with it. I think the hand gesture is doing a bit much with the words"Hashtag". The author was comparing hashtags to English and I must admit that hashtags are the way to communicate on Twitter and Instagram. I think she was persuading  her audien...