No but seriously, I felt like the first essay was good as in it helped with prepping my brain for the next one that's coming up. I actually came up with the devices that I know how to explain well and connect it back to the purpose. For the last exam, I think that could had some ideas that is not common, but I am not sure if I had explained well enough for my graders to understand. Oops. I am sorry! But hey, I really hope that I did well, and didn't come to the class for the credits that I would get. Instead I want the precious time and experiences that I had went through with my fellow classmates and teacher.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
The 3 hours of my life ...
It was the day May 10th, 2017, where I would try not to flip out and stay as quiet as possible. The quietness could definitely help me keep calm. Yeah, it did it's Job. The three hours went by real fast like any other AP. But first up, rather than having my hands sore, my legs complained first. Anyway, my ability to take the test that day in that specific circumstance was really not that great. You could imagine it, allergy season that transforms your nose into a waterfall that constantly supplies you with pollen water? I really hope that would have better prepared myself better the night before by having more sleep than being nervous by the 101 terms that my friends were studying, and bringing a few more packs of tissues. But hey I know that I am well prepared since September from the moment I have been sitting in class.
Friday, March 10, 2017
My Book Bag
3/10/2017
When we are talking about back to school, everyone thinks about buying various types of new
supplies ranging from binders, pencils, pens, pencil cases, stacks of loose-leaf, and much more.
But it's really important to choose the right school bag that would last you through your whole school
year. For example, I own a sturdy school bag from the brand North Face. The bag has a color of sky
blue with two big pockets. The material is polyester which makes the bag so strong and weather
resistant. Starting from the big pocket it contains my blue staples one and a half inch binder, along
with my notes from various subjects. Down to 3 folders also from staples, two are blue and one is
black. All contains all my worksheets for my classes. The smallest items in my big pockets are my
planner around the size of 12 inches length and width with the picture of my high school on the
cover. Finally the smallest item is my black and white pencil case with 10 items varying from pencils
to highlighters. Down to my smaller pocket, as soon as it opens a sweet cherry blossom smell coming
from my hand sanitizer. Keeping your hands clean is a must in public like in school. This is where I
keep my necessities like tissues, my headphones, glasses case, and most importantly some snacks to
snack on throughout the day. As I get prepared for school, I would always feel like I am ready for
class and whatever makes me survive school until the end with all the items in my bag.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Discrimination
Argumentative Essay #3
Topic: Discrimination is still alive and well in our society
What is discrimination? It’s an action that treats people unfairly based on who they are. Some people would say that discrimination already ended when slavery was abolished. But the truth is that it is still happening everywhere around the world. Even at your workplace, your fellow colleagues are discriminated based on your skin color. You would see disproportions of racial line ups in hollywood movies, and more of caucasians in magazine covers. For college admissions, grades and sat scores tend to be higher for those of Asian Americans than any other races. You may not believe it, but open your eyes and take a peek to see how our society is actually like.
The first accomplishment in one’s life may be getting your college diploma. The college admission process is not an easy one, it takes a lot of consideration and time. However, would it hit you hard when you didn’t get accepted into your dream college because of your race? If you are an Asian American like I am, this category is for you. Since you were in school everyone thought that you the typical genius in math literally because you are Asian. You thought that this stereotype would be gone once you enter college, but things aren’t getting any better. Because college are also thinking that you are smarter than your peers, and decides to pinch your scores a bit higher making it a lot harder for you to get into college. In a typical case, when you compare a Asian American and other races, the Asian American would need 100 points higher on the SAT than the average score to get into the same college. It is not right to think this way, not all Asians are smart, you can’t compare all Asians together based on what one other Asian is good at. Everyone is different in their abilities, but their future is in stake because of how scores are way too high than the average for those who are struggling with low test scores.
When you step out into the world, and got your first job, you would like to show your best and collaborate with your colleagues. But what if you found out that you are getting paid a different amount than your colleague? It may happen in some cases, where you are assigned to a position that affects your pay due to your race. When this happens, people doubt your abilities and isolate away from you, thinking that they don’t want to hang out with people with a different status. Racial discrimination at workplaces may affect a person on a small scale, but slowly it would grow until it affects that person mentally.
Have you ever wondered why there is only one main race of models are appearing on magazine covers, or why is there very little diversity within hollywood movie casts? Hollywood movies are produced to make profit, the only way to make count as popular is when there are many views not only in the U.S but also worldwide. It’s assumable that when watching an American movie, there would be white people playing the roles. It would have been weird and out of place for viewers worldwide to see leading roles played by non-whites. This would have decreased the views and less profit for the movie producers. Magazines serve as a type of media influences to females out there. Females usually seek out tips from celebrities or the latest fashion from these magazines hoping to turn themselves towards the latest trends. When magazines feature models of other races rather than white caucasians, they believe that it might bring female consumers a negative exposure towards the way they think about their body figures. Like how they shouldn’t be continuing with the healthy lifestyle and continuing to work out. And because of these ridiculous reasonings, there are less colored models featuring on magazine covers.
The act of discrimination is not only happening back in history, but also now. You may see it occurring upon your family members or even yourself. Adults may not be showing their emotions or stress, but they could have been discriminated at work. Your cousins who are now into their college applications are complaining about how unfair life is. The favorite magazines and hollywood productions are showing little to no diversity. Things should be changed, we are all the same regardless of our color. We should be given the same chances. We shouldn’t be feeling left out. We shouldn’t have our future ruined because of how we can’t get into colleges. Discrimination in our society should be stopped, and it should have never be existed.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Blog Entry #2
"Shame"
Dick Gregory, the author of "Shame" uses rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose. The devices that he used was tone and anaphora. Throughout the story, Gregory used various tones ranging from mournful to outrageous. This short story revolves around the point of view of a young boy who fall in love with a girl that was born into a home that has a different condition and race that he is in. However, the story continues with the boy's teacher insulted his family conditions based on his race.
As written in "Shame", "And furthermore, she said, looking right at me, her nostril getting big and her lips getting thin and her eyes opening wide, we know you don't have a daddy"(281 Gregory).
This quote discusses how the author shifted the tone of the story from enthusiastic to revealing and outrageous. The boy was enthusiastic to show off his best sides to Helene Tucker, but his teacher revealed to everyone in the class, that since his father was dead, he wouldn't be able to contribute money. The author's tone shift contributed to how the readers interpret the characters feelings based on the situations.
Another rhetorical device that was used in the story was anaphora. In the story of "Shame", "There was shame in wearing the brown and orange and white plaid mackinaw the welfare gave to three thousand boys. Why'd it have to be the same for every everybody so when you walked down the street the people could see you were on relief ?... There was shame in running over to Mister Ben's at the end of the day and asking for his rotten peaches, there was shame in asking Mrs. Simmons for a spoonful of sugar, there was shame in running out to meet the relief truck" (281 Gregory). The use of anaphora or the repeated use of the phrase "There was shame". emphasizes the amount of shame that the boy had about all the things that his race had to do in order for them to get on with their living in their society.
In the 19th century, slavery had continued fro a time period of 200 years. For economic benefits and inhumane reasons. Slaves had been brought to the southern plantations, to work on the cotton factories. These factories brought many monetary profits to the southern farmers the country as a whole. However, the slaves were treated like property to their white owners. They were sold in auctions, and worked under harsh conditions. Such as working under the blazing afternoon sun, waking up early in the morning, if a slight mistake is made, they would be whipped to death. These inhumane actions had continued to the race of African Americans for a period of 200 years. Even though the amendments had abolished any slavery to continue, segregation of blacks are still continuing in this society today.
"Shame"
Dick Gregory, the author of "Shame" uses rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose. The devices that he used was tone and anaphora. Throughout the story, Gregory used various tones ranging from mournful to outrageous. This short story revolves around the point of view of a young boy who fall in love with a girl that was born into a home that has a different condition and race that he is in. However, the story continues with the boy's teacher insulted his family conditions based on his race.
As written in "Shame", "And furthermore, she said, looking right at me, her nostril getting big and her lips getting thin and her eyes opening wide, we know you don't have a daddy"(281 Gregory).
This quote discusses how the author shifted the tone of the story from enthusiastic to revealing and outrageous. The boy was enthusiastic to show off his best sides to Helene Tucker, but his teacher revealed to everyone in the class, that since his father was dead, he wouldn't be able to contribute money. The author's tone shift contributed to how the readers interpret the characters feelings based on the situations.
Another rhetorical device that was used in the story was anaphora. In the story of "Shame", "There was shame in wearing the brown and orange and white plaid mackinaw the welfare gave to three thousand boys. Why'd it have to be the same for every everybody so when you walked down the street the people could see you were on relief ?... There was shame in running over to Mister Ben's at the end of the day and asking for his rotten peaches, there was shame in asking Mrs. Simmons for a spoonful of sugar, there was shame in running out to meet the relief truck" (281 Gregory). The use of anaphora or the repeated use of the phrase "There was shame". emphasizes the amount of shame that the boy had about all the things that his race had to do in order for them to get on with their living in their society.
In the 19th century, slavery had continued fro a time period of 200 years. For economic benefits and inhumane reasons. Slaves had been brought to the southern plantations, to work on the cotton factories. These factories brought many monetary profits to the southern farmers the country as a whole. However, the slaves were treated like property to their white owners. They were sold in auctions, and worked under harsh conditions. Such as working under the blazing afternoon sun, waking up early in the morning, if a slight mistake is made, they would be whipped to death. These inhumane actions had continued to the race of African Americans for a period of 200 years. Even though the amendments had abolished any slavery to continue, segregation of blacks are still continuing in this society today.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Blog #1
Blog #1
9/23/2016
Animal Testing
The scientific field had became so advanced as the world progressed. A controversial topic that could be found in this field is animal testing. Many live saving drugs are tested through animals. However, labs had been testing the animals in an inhumane way. So inhumane that it couldn't be considered as testing any more, but animal abuse. Animals that are being tested on in labs include: monkeys, rabbits, white mice, and dogs have been suffering from being contained in small cages that can't fit them. Rabbits are having their skins peeled off for experimenting without given any painkillers. Monkeys are chained up and forced to inhale cigarette smoke, for testing the aftermath of smoking. The animals are then left in the labs to die after the experiments. Can you even imagine if the animals that are being mistreated on are your own pet dogs or cats?
However, pet owners probably don't have to worry anymore because labs could choose to replace the animals with an alternative. Other labs have found artificial human skin cells that are produced from petri dishes to replace the animals from suffering. It is a completely beneficial way to solve the problem, because labs could waste less money from purchasing the animals. And they could invest less money and less time to produce the human skin cells. The PETA Organization that is a nonprofit able organization that have scientific data that proves that, drugs that were tested on animals have brought many consumers side effects that could be fatal. The drugs may not have any effects on animals but on humans because of how the DNA structures of animals are different from humans. On the other hand, the human skin cells are more efficient on being out more accurate testing, because they are made from human cells. Labs should stop testing on animals and start testing with skin cells that could bring benefits to the medical field.
There are three strategies from Zinsser's Memoir have been used in the speech. The colon, mood changer, and creditability could be found throughout the speech. The colon are used to list items in a sentence. In this speech, the colon is used to list the animals that are being mistreated. The colon is different from any others such as the dash, it serves its own sole purpose of listing items. Unlike the dash it helps to connect the previous sentence with the next. Colons must be used in this case because a comma couldn't have replaced it, there would be too many commas in one sentence. Mood changers could be also called transition words. Words like however, but, and on the other hand are used to present a different point of view. It was written when the solution of the problem was presented. Zinsser had always said that no one is going to believe you if you had no creditable resource. The creditable source that was put into the speech would be from the PETA organization, that is a non profit governmental organization, where they protest about animal abuse and animal testing.
9/23/2016
Animal Testing
The scientific field had became so advanced as the world progressed. A controversial topic that could be found in this field is animal testing. Many live saving drugs are tested through animals. However, labs had been testing the animals in an inhumane way. So inhumane that it couldn't be considered as testing any more, but animal abuse. Animals that are being tested on in labs include: monkeys, rabbits, white mice, and dogs have been suffering from being contained in small cages that can't fit them. Rabbits are having their skins peeled off for experimenting without given any painkillers. Monkeys are chained up and forced to inhale cigarette smoke, for testing the aftermath of smoking. The animals are then left in the labs to die after the experiments. Can you even imagine if the animals that are being mistreated on are your own pet dogs or cats?
However, pet owners probably don't have to worry anymore because labs could choose to replace the animals with an alternative. Other labs have found artificial human skin cells that are produced from petri dishes to replace the animals from suffering. It is a completely beneficial way to solve the problem, because labs could waste less money from purchasing the animals. And they could invest less money and less time to produce the human skin cells. The PETA Organization that is a nonprofit able organization that have scientific data that proves that, drugs that were tested on animals have brought many consumers side effects that could be fatal. The drugs may not have any effects on animals but on humans because of how the DNA structures of animals are different from humans. On the other hand, the human skin cells are more efficient on being out more accurate testing, because they are made from human cells. Labs should stop testing on animals and start testing with skin cells that could bring benefits to the medical field.
There are three strategies from Zinsser's Memoir have been used in the speech. The colon, mood changer, and creditability could be found throughout the speech. The colon are used to list items in a sentence. In this speech, the colon is used to list the animals that are being mistreated. The colon is different from any others such as the dash, it serves its own sole purpose of listing items. Unlike the dash it helps to connect the previous sentence with the next. Colons must be used in this case because a comma couldn't have replaced it, there would be too many commas in one sentence. Mood changers could be also called transition words. Words like however, but, and on the other hand are used to present a different point of view. It was written when the solution of the problem was presented. Zinsser had always said that no one is going to believe you if you had no creditable resource. The creditable source that was put into the speech would be from the PETA organization, that is a non profit governmental organization, where they protest about animal abuse and animal testing.
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