School

I read gattos pieces, I never thought that school taught me how not to think for myself

More Writing 1

Well, it has been about five weeks and I think my writing is getting better. I don't understand the Contact Zone essay. maybe i shouldn't do it.

Binta's and the Great Idea Discussion Questions

1. Binta’s father's idea didn't really surprise me because the story line. I thought he was going to ask the governor to invest in more fishermen equipment. I don’t really think that he was going to ask to adopt a child.

2. His idea was to adopt a child from the western civilization. I believe it was a great idea because he sees that people are not greedy by nature. It also shows how he puts family and children above anything else.

3. Soda’s father did not want her go to school because he feared that she would lose her perspective of family. I'm sure there are people who might still share that same train of thought. However if I had met someone like that I don’t think they would have expressed that feeling to my face. Soda wants to go to school so she can have more meaning in life and I believe her mother most support her because she wants her daughter to be happy.

4. In some western civilization, the art of sharing and caring about one another is lost. If Binta conform into western civilization she might even lose her sense of self worth. Being in the tight community that she's in, She would be surprise on how un-community like western civilization is.

5. I believe western people can learn the sense of a real society and a real community. Western society can that it takes more than one person is taking the responsibility of raising children and not the “only the strong survive” society.

6. I believe education can make people feel a sense of empowerment. If a child grows up to be a Doctor, They feel like they're going to help others. In Soda’s father case, he thought that his value of family would be overshadowed by the value of education.

7. I think that education is truly a gift and that there are some people that do not have the same gift as me.

Writing Sample

I'm a new student at Moraine Valley Community College. I graduated from the Dwight D. Eisenhower in the class of 2008. I am pursuing an Associate's Degree in science majoring in either Computer Science or Information Technology. I enjoy working with computers and helping others. My hobbies include boxing and ultimate fighting. My experiences in school mostly have been well rewarding however, I had some bumps in roads in my schooling career as well. My educational experiences opened up my love for technology. High school taught me how to work with hardware as well as software. The schooling experience however, did not really help me as a student or as a person. If schooling did anything it sometimes pressured me to doing things that I really didn't want to. My schooling taught me stuff; it didn't teach me how to think. There was even a year where they stop doing everything that they'd planned for the semester for two weeks and forced us to do ACT preparation. This meant that no matter what class you were in rather it was algebra, history, the biology, and even physical education; for two weeks the only thing we did in those classes was study for the ACT. The only way you got out of it and you were junior, was to have a class that was not a junior dominated class. So if you had Pre-Algebra, then you didn't have to do the ACT preparation. I guess on other than that experience, I guess I enjoyed high school besides of course the peer pressure and the other stuff that I rather not mention.

My First Blog

As you can see, I don't blog. It is good to see that COM 101 is already teaching me something new.