Entry #8. Trying Someting New.

I've always been very athletic and outgoing when it comes to trying new things. I've been in karate, dance classes and played soccer throughout my childhood. On my senior year I had decided that I wanted to graduate early but it would cost me to no longer play soccer. I had considered playing for a club team but I didn't have the money or the time so the gym would have to do. Once I graduated from high school in December of the year 2013 I decided to go straight to college. Several people had told me to play for GCC but I wasn't really convinced and didn't really have time with school, work and the gym. During this previous summer, I met a young couple at the gym and soon became really close to them. After a few months of knowing them, they told me that they had a softball team and that they were looking for people to join the team. It took me a while to make up my mind if I should join or not but once I saw that my dad and my brother joined I thought I should try it to.

I had never played softball in my life, I understood the game because my sister would play softball when we were younger but I'd never played. I was determined to learn and become a decent player. Over the practices I started to become good catcher but I struggled with my batting. My problem with my batting was that I didn't have the patience.

Over the season I became really close to everyone and I learned a lot. I really liked it and I honestly can't wait until the season starts again.

Entry #7. Stereotypes of Men.

Today, I was looking through a website called Dumb Men and I noticed that it was about different type of Stereotypes of Men. For those that don't know what stereotypes are, stereotypes it's a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: such as ALL blondes are dumb or ALL men are strong.

The website Dumb Men was all about stereotypes of men in advertising. It provided several times of commercials and videos of the typical men. For example, there was a commercial of a guy trying to decorate the bathroom with tiles since the stereotype is that men can build and consruct home improvement projects but he failed.This meant, that stupid men can't construct home improvement projects. There was also another commercial about the dad cooking hambuger patties, they are so easy to make and he can't even get that right. Those were only two of the many commercials a watched but these to were the ones that caught my attention the most.

I really enjoyed watching the first video that I talked about because it was intresting. Typically need know how to do all the buliding and construction but then again that's only a stereotype bcause that's how it usually is but that's not always the circumstance. His commercial is meant for the guys that aren't good with constructing home improvement projects and how it makes them look stupid. The mood of this video seems serious yet funny.

Entry #6. Securities in School.

Last week in my English 102 class I got my assigned my second essay. The purpose of my essay is to persuade and inform my audience about a topic in your community that affects you in some sort of way. It took me a while to get ideas on what i was going to write about but i finally came up with to topics. I cam up with the topic of security at my work since I work at a gas station so the security can definitely improve by having a security system at work or my other topic was about the security at school. It doesn't matter what kind of school, it can be a elementary, middle, high, college or university school but the security can always improve. I finally decided to choose the topic that was related to the securities in schools because I believe that all students should be safe at school and it relates to a large group of people. I know that buying a security system for ALL schools might become too expensive since the budget is really tight right now. I came to a conclusion that we can use a simple ID to improve the safety. Lots of school already provide students with a picture ID that is used for checking out books and purchasing lunch in the cafeteria. ID can really help the security but just  wearing it. Wearing an ID will increase safety because it becomes easier to identify who's allowed in school or not. I encourage students and staff to start wearing their IDs.

Entry #5. Local Story Response.

I was assigned to read an article and write about it in my English class. The article was called University to Offer More Short Classes. This article was strongly criticized buy students and staff, some people think it's a good thing and others think the opposite. I think it's a good thing and because it will allow students to save money and time. allowing classes to be only 71/2 weeks long will allow students to finish 2 regular years in one year, the time will decrease by half. This will allow everyone to save lots of money. Having short classes will also benefit students because it will allow them to work around their schedule so it will provide students to get other stuff done as well. I think having short classes will definitely benefit everyone. Although not everyone agrees with this decision I think it's worth a try to try out something different that might benefit all of us.

Entry #4. Time for a Change.

Over the passed month I've been really slacking off with my daily exercise. I've been so busy with school, homework and softball. It's been a little over a month since I've gone to the gym for a whole week on a daily basis. I just feel so tired and not in the mood to do anything but I know that's not right. The holiday season is coming and I need to watch what I eat. It gets so hard when you have your whole family eating all that fattening delicious food while you're trying to maintain your weight. All I have to do is focus on what I do I eat and try to go to the gym as much as I can. I have to really organize my schedule.

Entry #3 Slanted Reporting.

Last week, in class I learned about slanted reporting, which is picking out the information, the good and the bad, and how much information is revealed. I went online to find a good example of slanted reporting and I found one on abortion. It's called Every Reason for an Abortion Is a Good Reason. This article stated that there is't anything wrong with abortions. It's every women's choice but they also have to take responsibilities for their actions.

I personally think that this article is slanted reporting because it only says the good things about abortion or the benefits but that the dangers and risks of this action. This article is personally intended for women deciding to make an abortion or not. I honestly don't really agree or disagree with this topic, but I know that there's a lot of people that do get offended but this subject. What this does to the credible source is that people start to doubt it and no one is going to believe it anymore. It all has to do on how people see things and how open minded they are. 

Entry #2. Love.

This week in my hybrid English 102 class I was asked to write an informative essay of something I was curious of. It took me a while to really figure out something that would be interesting and would catch the readers attention. After lots of thinking I finally came up with the idea of talking about love. Love is something different to everyone. To some people it's just a simple game and to others its just a moment of impact. Love happens in so many ways, to some it can be at first sight. To others it might take some more time for it to develop. Some love is more defined than others. Love can mean so many things, such as friendship, relationship or even just appriciation. There's so many different things and characteristics about love. Love has so many different definitions because to people it means different things, it just has to do with the way love is viewed.