Blog Prompt: Compose a reflection about your experiences in this class. Please do not write about the merits of the course or your course grade. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. This semester has an interesting rollercoaster I say this because I've never really had much confidence with writing so having to write papers like our narrative and research paper was extremely nerve racking because I've never had to do that before
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I revised this Research project again and I think this one is the best one that I have written. Here is my third and final reedit to my intro for my research project
Everyone wants to have a positive life, everyone wants to have a good sense of well being in order to maintain a positive view on their life. This is what Dr. Martin Seligman the father of positive psychology did he created this experiment called the 'Three Good Things" to help see that by doing this experiment if people would see a more positive view on their life and make them have gratitude for what they have. For me personally this experiment did work like I thought it would. I feel if someone wants to make their life more positive they should do it by writing three good things that happened to them for that day. The "Three Good Things" is where you write three good things that has happened to you for that day for a week or more. The point of doing this is to make them feel more positive or feel more gratitude for what they have. The question that is to be answered after this experiment is "Can the Three Good Things gratitude process have a positive impact on my well-being?". Well in my experience the three good things did have a positive impact on my well being because I felt more happy after doing this experiment. The first time I did this I didn't feel that it worked but I feel like I didn't really do the exercise like I should have, that's why I said in my first draft that it didn't work. What I did realize after this was even the little things make a big difference too because the little things are just as important as the big things are. Here is the link to read my final and finished product of my research project called " Making life better, does it work?"
Reedited Intro for Research Project
Everyone wants to have a positive life, everyone wants to have a good sense of well being in order to maintain a positive view on their life.This is what Dr. Martin Seligman the father of positive psychology did he created this experiment called the 'Three Good Things" to help see that by doing this experiment if people would see a more positive view on their life and make them have gratitude for what they have. For me personally this experiment didn't work like I thought it would. I feel if someone wants to make their life more positive they would do something better than write three good things that happened to them for that day.The "Three Good Things" is where you write three good things that has happened to you for that day for a week or more to see if they feel more positive or feel more gratitude for what they have. The question that is to be answered after this experiment is "Can the Three Good Things gratitude process have a positive impact on my well-being?". Well in my experience the three good things did not have a positive impact on my well being because I don't have a lot of time write three good things everyday because I have lots to do and to me it seems like another chore for me which makes it boring and not interesting to want to do. Blog Prompt: Write about your research project. Consider posting sections of the project, updates on research, annotating sources, questions you are struggling/succeeding in answering, comparisons to other research writing you have completed, impact on your life, overall reflections, writing goals, intrinsic goals, etc
Intro to Research Project: Everyone wants to have a positive life, everyone wants to have a good sense of well being in order to maintain a positive view on life. This is what Dr. Martin Seligman the father of positive psychology did he created this experiment called the 'Three Good Things" to help people see a more positive view on their life and make them have gratitude for what they have. I think this experiment isn't gonna work because to me it takes a lot to get someone to make their life more positive and stick with it but I shall se for myself because what you have to do for the "Three Good Things" where you write three good things that has happened to you for that day for a week to see if they see anymore positive or feel more gratitude for what they have. The question that is to be answered after this experiment is over is "Can the Three Good Things gratitude process have a positive impact on my well-being?". Well in my experience the three good things did not have a positive impact on my well being because I don't have a lot of time write three good things everyday because it seems like another chore for me to do and it makes it boring and not interesting to do. Blog Prompt: Write about your research project. Consider posting sections of the project, updates on research, annotating sources, questions you are struggling/succeeding in answering, comparisons to other research writing you have completed, impact on your life, overall reflections, writing goals, intrinsic goals, etc. This blog will be me discussing the research project. The research project is us as a class having to do this well known Psychology experiment called " Three good things" which is where everyday you write three good things that happened to you. The purpose of this project is to make your life more positive and help you well being and make you have more gratitude for what you have in your life. I personally didn't see any improvement in my day to day life plus to me I already have so many things I have to do so it just felt like another chore I had to do and it wasn't as interesting to want to do. Plus it kind of make my interest for this project go down hill. I think I'll give this project another shot but I'm going to do things a little different instead of one week Ill make it three weeks and instead of three good things everyday Ill make it every 3 days or so list 7 good things and see if the results change at all.
Blog #10 will be a seven day (10/30-11/05) journal entry about three good things that happened to me. I think this is a good idea because it gives you the chance to think about the positive in your life rather than the negative. Something I have learned is something good always comes out of something bad. It might not be big but its something to be happy about. Here are some links to help us and you better understand positive psychology and the reason behind the three good things experiment What is Positive Pyschology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program), Greater Good in Action: Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life (UC Berkeley's Project Home Page), and Three Good Things (Greater Good in Action) October 30, 2018
Blog #9 is about the draft #1 narrative project about how revised it, how we felt about taking that story and changing the decision, tense, and point of view. Plus how we would revise it and which one we want to turn in as our final product. To help us get a better understanding of revising and rewriting we read What is Fan Fiction -- and why is it making people nervous? (Stephen Downes) and listened to the podcast called Rewinding and Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Head (Hidden Brain Podcast) and read my first draft paper called "Her Decision ( Draft # 1)".
In this last blog for the semester I will be telling you about my experience in this class that I didn't have to read an article for in order to write. (lol) This is all 100% my own thoughts and feelings.
If Angelina could talk about her experience in this English class, she would say its the best English class she has ever taken. She loves to read but not so much write because of middle and high school teachers. She was always told how to write her paper and if she didn't or missed one thing from the long list of how to write the paper well, she would fail and with that writing seemed boring to her and not worth the effort to try. When she came into English composition 1 she should it was gonna be the same way but she was certainly wrong and thank goodness for that. With this class she could write whatever her little heart wanted without all the restrictions and regulations. For once she could write about whatever she wanted and didn't have to worry about messing up the format or making sure her story answered the prompt or the prompt question. With this class she could be the true writer she knows she can be. I mean all she did and still does is read when she has time, with all that reading she could write a great book but she never learned that in school growing up so she never had practice to write for herself but she believes that this class will give her the right tools to do that for her. As the semester progresses she wants to continue to learn how to make better descriptive scenes since she doesn't like how some of her scenes sound and wants to improve on them. Her favorite assignments the narrative project because she of her choice she made in draft 1 but in the second she gets to see how her life would change if she did the opposite which really makes you think about how your life could have gone if you did opposite of what major or minor situation was. What she is looking forwarded to is doing the research paper because she loves to do research and get to learn about things more or better. Her three primary goals for this class are one, keeping up with class work and make sure its turned in on time since life is a little busy for her and will get a lot busy for her next year. Two, learn to write better descriptive scenes and Three, just enjoy writing and remember writing is a process not a product. In this blog I will put my found poem, A found poem is a poem you find in a written paper in this case its my first draft of my narrative paper. The found poem shows if you have enough description in your paper for the reader to get a good mental image of the scene you are writing about. Here I will put my found poem that I created from my narrative project paper.
In this blog I'm going to reedit my last blog called "Should I dance or should I go?" the reason why I'm doing this is because my English teacher is making me :( just kidding its to learn how to make my writing better now that I got feedback on what I have to do in order to make it better and the scene more life like. Here is the link I read to give me a better idea on how to write better My Mother Gives me a Writing Lesson (Martin Lee) Should I dance or should I go? (Reedited) There are lots of things I wanted to do in life like graduate high school, go sky diving, swim with sharks ( es I am that type of person) and maybe write my own fiction novels like Stephine Meyer, Richelle Mead, and Stephine Perkins but the one thing I never saw myself doing is dancing!!!!! Like no not in like a million years I cant dance I look stupid even trying to dance. So why on gods green earth would I dance? or even try to dance? or take a dance class? But somehow I let my best friend Caylie convince me otherwise. " I am so excited to be starting this class arn't you? " Caylie says all happy go lucky I looked at her annoyed " No not really, explain to me again why I let you talk me into doing this stupid class?" " Because its better than dealing with tennis couches" Caylie says cheerfully" " ok yes I get that, But what I don't get is why you dragged me into this?" I say whining She stops dead in her tracks and a huge smile spreads across her face " There it is the dance room " she says with so much excitement I make an face and say " Ya I can really smell the dance which smells a lot like the football players after practice, sweat masked with two cans of Axe body spray" She looks at me now annoyed and says " Can you at least try to sound excited this is a new thing for both us who knows it might be good for us?" "Or it can be really bad and I could get seriously injured then I cant walk correctly for months then my parents will sue the school for me getting hurt then it will go live then they shut the dance class down all because you forced me into doing this" I say as serious and concerned as possible She looks at me and starts laughing " your so dramatic and have such an imagination" I smile widely at her remark and says " Ya I know but you gotta love me" she rolls her eyes at me so I know that I'm right. She opens the door to the dance room and we walk in , and of course it smells like gym class but with mirrors on three of the four walls that took up the whole wall with bars across the mirrors " Well at least I always a mirror to fix my hair and make up in " I say sarcastically She looks at me and says " Really? your hair and face are not the most thing in the world" I ignore her comment and look around the room seeing girls are coming out of the changing room, others are stretching on the cold, but very dirty marble floor and other stretch using the bar. I see one girl bring her leg up to her head while standing up I nudge caylie in the arm and say " Did you see that she brought her leg to her head, umm ya I'm really in the wrong class" She rolled her eyes at me and said " Oh come on she has probably been dancing for years so that's how she can do that" " Well it seems painful just looking at it" I say to her concerned " Can you just relax and see what the class is like before you judge it, who knows you might love it and wanna do it for the rest of high school" she says annoyed again " Or I'll hate it, and hate you for it " I say jokingly The teacher comes over to us and says " Hello ladies I'm Mrs. H class is about to start and we are gonna be stretching, its ok if you cant do some because you are new and may not have stretched the way we do so just try what you can and it helps to stretch at home so if you could go get change into whatever type of work out clothes you would feel comfortable stretching and dancing in that will be great because you do get graded on changing" so with that we go and change and by the time we come out the class is already stretching. We join the stretching and by the time that was over my body was sore and we hadn't even started dancing yet. The teacher starts teaching the dance and as I danced and practiced it over and over every day I fell in love with it I danced all through out high school and once I moved to Austin and started my new school I joined my school's dance team and I performed multiple times at our dance shows that we had three times a year plus during half time at the homecoming football game every year. I was happy I finally found something I was good at and that made me feel like I could do anything. I don't dance anymore but I do dance just to enjoy the music and relive my dance days. Dancing made me a whole new person and showed me not to be afraid to show people what I could do. |
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