Hi! This is my eighth blog assignment. This is my overall website assessment and how I graded myself on each of my pages throughout my website. I am planning to make most of these changes by the end of November, if not then by the end of the semester.
Home Page Well-Being Assessment: sustaining Why?: I have all the requirements for the Home Page excluding a quote.How?: I will update my Home page by the end of November. About Page Well-Being Assessment: Suffering Why?: I don’t have a quote on my about page, I only have an image of me and me answering some of the questions but not all of the questions that were required.How?: I will update my Home page by the end of November with all of the questions answered and a quote. Contact Page Well-Being Assessment: Sustaining Why?: I have all the requirements excluding the quote, that’s all I would need to add. How?: I will update my Contact the end of November Narrative Project Page Well-Being Assessment: Suffering Why?: I am suffering tremendously on my Narrative Page I need to include direct links in my preface and meet all of the requirements including the six post that was due by midterm conference.How?: I will update my Narrative Project Page by the end of the semester. Blog Page Well-Being Assessment: Sustaining Why: I just have to add some direct links to some of my blog and insert a direct quote. How?: I will update my Narrative Project Page by the end of November.
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Hello everyone welcome, this is my seventh blog post which is actually a vlog. A vlog is just like a blog but it is in video form, it can show what you are actually like as a person. i had lots of fun doing this assignment because it really has me thinking about getting serious and starting my YouTube channel. Anyway we were ask a total of 5 questions reflecting on our writing experience. here is a link to a reflective writing video.
This week of English Composition 1, we were asked to watch these videos and interpret the scenes in them. Even though it was supposed to be on our Narrative Project, I decided to do it on a flash back that really happened in real life because I didn’t want to share it because it is very emotional to me. It allows me to do this by re seeing the visual images without to actually re live it. It allows me to see how I really felt and what was actually going on. It allows me to explore my heart by looking back at what actually happened to me and it shows me how a person shouldn’t treat someone else’s kids. As I look back I feel like I could’ve had the power to stop myself from this scene from happening to me, to speak up and tell someone in higher authority instead of putting my feelings, how I felt inside and out aside just so certain people wouldn’t have been carried away out of my life. This situation now has an impact on how I view certain people in my family and the hate that I feel for them. This scene allows me to meet the element of meaningful story telling by taking me back into my memories re feeling how I felt about everything going on in that moment and then how it made me see people from a different perspective now. This scene allows me to travel back into my heart of emotions, because back then I felt like something was wrong with me, like it was my fault. I felt hurt. Now I feel hurt but it seems like I don’t care because nothing has really change and I knew it wasn’t.
The purpose of this blog post is to create a description to create a theme from three readings. If you seem interested and want to know how i came about my roundtable click the links below: Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray) Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life | pp. 28 -34 | Short Assignments & Shitty First Drafts (Anne Lamott) I had just finished my first week of class, and decided to stop by Barnes and Nobles because I heard from my english teacher that there were going to be 3 famous authors,guest speaking. As i went to go sit down they introduce themselves as Don Murray, Mary Karr, and Anne Lamont. Here are some of their favorite writings:
They informed us that they were going to be talking about writing in general. This inspired me to start writing but there were a few questions i wondered about, where do I start, What to write about, where do I end, will my work ever be done. Anne Lamont said something that I thought was very interesting, she said “You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.” Then I went into a daze, I was sitting down in the library at 3pm on a monday thinking of some things i can write about but nothing came on paper, i did the same thing for a week and still nothing, then i remembered Anne saying “ try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind.” and finally creativity was on the paper. “In order to create creativity go to your quiet place and imagine the scene and the noises in that scene and write what you see.” I felt a tap on my shoulder , which got me out of my daze and back into reality. As Anne is talking she gets into story writing and a member from the audience asked about creating a plot and Anne says “Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you know and are getting to know better day by day, something is bound to happen.” then I asked a follow up question “ if the plot grows out of character then how do you create one?” “Find out what each character cares most about in the world because then you will have discovered what’s at stake. Find a way to express this discovery in action, and then let your people set about finding or holding onto or defending whatever it is. Then you can take them from good to bad and back again, or from bad to good, or from lost to found. But something must be at stake or you will have no tension and your readers will not turn the pages.” Anne continues talking and then she finally ends with helping us find our voice and then its Mary Karr turn. Karr starts by saying “Every writer I know who’s worth a damn spends way more time “losing” than “winning”—if success means typing a polished page that lands in print as is” I start to ask myself, out of my middle school year i was worried about winning and passing, was i even worth a damn... she then starts to say “every writer needs two selves, the generative self and the editor self. The editor self thinks only of saving the reader time and shaping a powerful emotional experience. She can’t turn her complaints and suspicions and doubt off.” then everyone in the room started to clap and Don takes a bite of his donut and says “Our critical skills are honed by examining literature, which is finished writing; language as it has been used by authors.” Then i stood up nervously and said “a writing piece is never finished” you could hear the shakiness in my voice which made me take a sip of my water. Karr had then made my nervousness go away by saying “ A writer can always go back to an earlier draft.” but then as don is talking I realize that he was trying to say “There must be time for the writing process to take place and time for it to end. The writer must work within the stimulating tension of unpressured time to think and dream and stare out windows, and pressured time—the deadline—to which the writer must deliver. My scene relates to Hills Like White Elephants because are theme kind of have a connection, and as you start to read you will see that she is having a baby and my mom is having a baby. The only difference is my story is finish but Hills Like White Elephants isn't. Let me take you back 6 years ago, it was a warm summer day and my sisters, and I were sitting in our two story brick apartment watching TV, on our phones, and listening to music. We were rudely interrupted by the house phone or should I say our apartment phone ringing. Do you get it an “apartment phone” because we lived in an apartment! It was our mom telling us to come outside to come help her with the groceries. We went outside to the warm air, I of course had no shoes on stepping on the hard sidewalk, into the street feeling the little pebbles getting pressed into my toes. While in the middle of putting the groceries into the house my mother said,
“hey girls I have something to tell you guys.” “What is it?” we said. She continued to tell us that she is expecting a baby and that we were going to be big sisters… my younger sister Alex got excited and was jumping for joy, my older sister Q had a smile on her face while poor old me thought to myself a baby really! With the blankest look on my face and tears of sadness and anger flowing down my eyes. My sisters and my mom looked at me and asked. “what is wrong? I said “why are you having a baby I don’t want another person in this two-bedroom apartment” my mother told me to shut up while my sisters laughed at me. During this time my mom and this man were together for about three to four years. He worked at my cousin car shop and my mother worked as a CNA and was making more money than him. In the beginning he was nice and cool and me and my sisters liked him but then when we saw his true colors we started to not like him and that’s why I reacted to the news that me and my sister received. I felt humiliated like I was taken for a joke, I felt like I was being betrayed, I immediately went into the apartment and laid on top of my bed that was a twin size and had purple and white flowers on it with a dash of pink. As I laid there I thought to myself who would have a baby by a bum! I mean come on this guy never graduated from high school, smoked cigarettes and worked at his friend car shop making no more than $20 for each car he finished. I couldn’t do nothing but fall asleep. On January 19 my baby sister, Jayla was born, by that time I was over it, I didn’t really care about having another sibling. Honestly I think it was the best/worst thing thus far that happened to me even though I dislike the fact that my “stepdad” spoils her and act like its only them 3 (my mom, my baby sister, and him) that he only has to feed when he goes out and get something from a fast food restaurant. Now my mom MS has worsened, and she can no longer have/work as a CNA and the MS just get worst. Now that I’m older I think to myself why was I really mad at my mom at the simplest fact that she was having a baby? Why was I so angry at myself also? Was this the best thing that happened to her? Well I do not know, but me having a baby sister was the best thing that happened to me because I got to see her growth! My scene relates to My Name is Margaret because in it i almost felt her exact same feeling. This emotion that i felt eventually led to happiness because i accepted the fact. Let me take you back 6 years ago, it was a warm summer day and my sisters, and I were sitting in our two story brick apartment watching TV, on our phones, and listening to music. We were rudely interrupted by the house phone or should I say our apartment phone ringing. Do you get it an “apartment phone” because we lived in an apartment! It was our mom telling us to come outside to come help her with the groceries. We went outside to the warm air, I of course had no shoes on stepping on the hard sidewalk, into the street feeling the little pebbles getting pressed into my toes. While in the middle of putting the groceries into the house my mother said,
“hey girls I have something to tell you guys.” “What is it?” we said. She continued to tell us that she is expecting a baby and that we were going to be big sisters… my younger sister Alex got excited and was jumping for joy, my older sister Q had a smile on her face while poor old me thought to myself a baby really! With the blankest look on my face and tears of sadness and anger flowing down my eyes. My sisters and my mom looked at me and asked, “what is wrong?” I said “why are you having a baby I don’t want another person in this two-bedroom apartment” my mother told me to shut up while my sisters laughed at me. During this time my mom and this man were together for about three to four years. He worked at my cousin car shop and my mother worked as a CNA and was making more money than him. In the beginning he was nice and cool and me and my sisters liked him but then when we saw his true colors we started to not like him and that’s why I reacted to the news that me and my sister received. I felt humiliated like I was taken for a joke, I felt like I was being betrayed, I immediately went into the apartment and laid on top of my bed that was a twin size and had purple and white flowers on it with a dash of pink. As I laid there I thought to myself who would have a baby by a bum! I mean come on this guy never graduated from high school, smoked cigarettes and worked at his friend car shop making no more than $20 for each car he finished. I couldn’t do nothing but fall asleep. On January 19 my baby sister, Jayla was born, by that time I was over it, I didn’t really care about having another sibling. Honestly I think it was the best/worst thing thus far that happened to me even though I dislike the fact that my “stepdad” spoils her and act like its only them 3 (my mom, my baby sister, and him) that he only has to feed when he goes out and get something from a fast food restaurant. Now my mom MS has worsened, and she can no longer have/work as a CNA and the MS just get worst. Now that I’m older I think to myself why was I really mad at my mom at the simplest fact that she was having a baby? Why was I so angry at myself also? Was this the best thing that happened to her? Well I do not know, but me having a baby sister was the best thing that happened to me because I got to see her growth! Identity __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? I believe there is no such thing as "perfect happiness" maybe because I simply don't know my idea of perfect happiness or maybe because my perfect happiness isn't always going to be perfect because there is always going to be something I want to change.
__2.__What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear I would have to say is dying . I do not know why I fear this it is just something that I am afraid of and it is a serious thing. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My anxiety in water (pool or an ocean). Every time I am in a pool or an ocean my anxiety get to me because I have Aqua phobia. this type of anxiety stops me from doing certain things like, learning how to swim, going to the deep in of the pool or even being in 5ft, and also going on water rides at a water park. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? I admire myself, it's the fact that I am very determined and I have a vision, if I have a certain goal my mind is set to reach that goal. if I want something specific I will do everything in my desire to get it. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? I don't have one. __7.__What is your current state of mind? Wondering if I'm ever going to be as successful as I want to be. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I lie when I am trying to figure out if someone is talking shit about me or someone close to me to see if they are going to lie. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? I dislike the fact that my forehead is big and it most likely because people always have something to say about it. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? There isn't a certain person but I despise people who think they are the shit and people who ignore you for no reason. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? I like a mature, direct, and a self confident man. Someone who is self confident. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? A woman who is strong, independent and doesn't give a shit, those are the type that I mostly hang out with. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? " it don't matter." "I don't care". __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? I don't have a greatest love but when I do find one it would be my kids. __16.__When and where were you happiest? I was the happiest when I was a child because I got what I wanted and I didn't have any bills. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I wouldn't change anything about myself because there is a reason why god made me who I am. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? My greatest achievement thus far is buying my own car. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would be a successful hard working millionaire. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I would like to live in Atlanta Georgia or LAX because there is just more and greater opportunities there. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? I would have to say being homeless with no one to care about me. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? My favorite occupation would be being a rapper that is successful and is a celebrity because that is my biggest dream and I would also say having a job where I could just sit down and not take orders from anyone. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? My most marked characteristic is being able to look people up by the first name and finding them on social media, basically being a FBI agent/Detective. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? I value their honesty, because I dislike fake people. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? I love Lil Baby, Nini Simone,and NBA Youngboy. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? Batman. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? My mom, dad, gammy. __31.__What are your favorite names? I cant say, because I'm saving them for when I have kids. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? When people smack while eating and slow walkers. __33.__What is your greatest regret? Not promoting me rapping. __34.__How would you like to die? I would like to die old and knowing that I made my mark on earth. __35.__What is your motto? " remind yourself nobody's built like you, you design yourself" |
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