What am i gonna do????

Through the course of my years in schooling I have encountered many different teachers, methods of teaching, class material and curriculum. There has always been a similarity in all of this, every note and class and teacher was a stepping stone to the next level. The next level might be from 5th to 6th grade, middle to highschool, or a prerequisite to the next class in college. This is the education system I am accustomed to. What is the the next step for me now? It seems to be reading my self for the real world, for years outside of class rooms and text books where hard work pays in cash and not letter grades. So as for my research paper i want to look back on american education systems as a whole. I want to know the what knowledge was essential to the students of the past. I want to compare and contrast today's educated societies to those who came before. Incomes and educations will be corrilated and be determined to be causes of one another in my research.

Language is TOUGH

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  Language. What is language? Language if you ask me is something that everybody has, and everybody learns. Some people might learn 2 or 3 different languages but we all use it everyday. Language can be incorporated into work, social life, and everything else that we do during our everyday life.
• Some languages
• -French-Spanish-German-Italian-English

I am going to put stories of people dealing with language, I am going to share my story, and i am going to get statistics about language and how much one language is being used somewhere.I will also talk about some tools of language.

I forgot, so sue me...

For my final paper.. I'm thinking about writing about students. Like, the difficulties of being a kid, and the stress we have. What society and adults put on us. How we're affected. Something along those lines.
As far as actually getting information, I'm thinking about starting with talking to one of the Ed Psych professors, and getting information from the multicultural center.

Something totally random, but I wanted to share:
I got a Creative Zen Vision: M over the weekend. And it's freaking awesome. It has lots of cool features. I just wanted to share my excitement with you.

Ok so...

This College Composition class given to me by Kutztown University is by far my favorite class this semester. I enjoy the lack of actual work that we do and I like that this class is mostly interacting with eachother and talking. I liked the first paper topic, but not the second one. It was quite confusing and I know I just rambled on and on about random stuff. Oh well, we'll see what happens with this research!
So, I've been thinking more about what I am going to write for this "research blog" paper, and I have come to the conclusion that I am sort of stumped. I want to do immigration and the work ethics/values that go along with it, however, I'm not sure where to start.. HELP!

"College" Comp Class

"College" Comp class has been so fun!I say "college" because when we are in class, it doesnt seem like a traditional college class. In fact, it is just the opposite - untraditional. We sit in a circle, speak when not spoken to, and instead of answering the quetions of the professor, we answer questions of each other. Not to mention that we basically pick our own topics for our papers, of which we only had 2 this semester (with 1 pending). I WILL BE SAD WHEN ITS OVER :-(
As far as the researarch of this next paper, i am sort of confused b/c it doesnt really seem like a research paper...when i think of research i think of finding information about something that i am 100% oblivious about. But if this is what i have to do, then i guess i shall start by searching for statistics about work and education...???

Circle it up!

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  When I hear English 023 the first thing that comes to my mind is CIRCLE IT UP! The very first day of class we were all shocked (and some what disgusted) to hear that we had to sit in a circle. The first few class periods after that we walked in to the room sat in rows, and prayed that those three little words wouldn't be uttered again... but they were... Now everyone walks into class, sits in the circle, and gets ready to talk....
  
  
  
• My favorite topic of discussion in this class was language. Especially June Jordan's essay on Black English. I guess I felt connected to this essay because I had a similar reaction the first time I tried reading "The Color Purple" . I think language interests me so much because people are able to use so many different forms of it, and can change the form they are using in the blink of an eye.

I hate it when I don't know what to write...

So here's the deal or no deal, which ever you prefer. I feel pretty cluless when it comes to writing this post. I really can't remember what we talked about in class so far this semester. I know of some general ideas

• work
• immigration
• culture
• values
• literacy
• teaching

We read articles on teaching...on Black English....on High School...so maybe one of the things "we" could look at is the range of theories of teaching.

but I can't think os something specific. This is probably also due to the fact that I'm really hungry and tired right now. I think the rain factor killed my mood. But don't worry somehow I will prevail.

What an interesting class its been

Every Modays and Wednesdays I wake up and say to myself... I wonder what we are going to talk about in English today. Starting with culture then going to immigration and somehow ending up talking about Mahoney's 10 year. :) But that huge argument about self-grading was the icing on the cake of a great semester! I've honestly never had a class that had so many group discussions. I think I speak for everyone when I say that it helps us pay attention a lot more when we aren't being lectured the ENTIRE 80 minutes! However, writing a paper on the value of work kind of sucked but other than that, your doing a wonderful job Mahoney!!

Well, I don't quite understand this assignment yet but after reading some of the others I got sort of the idea. College Composition is nothing like what I was expecting coming into Kutztown. I depicted it as being an average english class, even sitting in rows. Here we have group discussions and are in a big circle. It's cool, but alittle out of the norm. Even the amount of writing is less then expected but more then hoped. Although, when I go to comp class, I never have a full idea on what to expect in the class until after it all happens and the confusion slowly drains away. I hope I did this correct and if not...at least I did it at all.

Looking Back

Looking back on class this semester so far, we've discussed a variety of topics. Some of these include: different cultures, different languages, the struggle of writing, what goes on in school, work experiences, the struggle with work, and immigration. I've found all these topics to be interesting, and the papers we have been required to write according to these topics were also. I enjoy the methods we use, as far as class discussions compared to lecturing and note taking. It keeps the class attention and interest going. Good Job, Mahoney.

Probably writing? Cause "I'm" interested in it. Our papers were relevant to everything we discussed. English major...and writing is my favorite part.

• link: traits of effective writing
• different types of writing
• different reasons why one writes
• different authors and writers--look at the different writing styles
  

What comes to mind

When I think about the class and the unique things we did this year, immigration and are past job experiences comes to mind. This made me realize how a past work experience helps determine the career I wanted to pursue in. I had learned through this class is the different cultures and teaching techniques. The unique things in this class is how we share opinions with each other rather than just listening to the professor and taking notes.

The Future

When I think about the class and the things we did this year, what comes to mind is the thought of jobs. When we were talking about work it made me think of all the great things that happened duiring my experiences as a young worker. But now I have to admit that I am addicted to shopping. So going to college and being a marketing major will help me start a career that I will enjoy and love. I am addicted to shopping and I would love to work at Aeropostale corporation in the future. My mother knows that once we step in to the stores that I will not be coming out for a long time.

The Reflection of Class so far

During the past classes for College Composition I've noticed that we discuss a lot of things that happen today or what happened in the past. For example, Black English and the value of work and how it is taken for granted. I have related to both these issues to the point that I actually liked talking about it in class. As we all discussed these issue during the pass classes we all saw that the time passed. I also noticed that I also had my own point of view of things that we did in class.

This Class

This class is certainly very different. Some of the time I forget that we are in an English class when we are talking about immigration ,past jobs,and the value of work but we also talk about english relevant things like literacy. Its an ok class because the people there are pretty down to earth. It also helps that the professor isnt on a high horse , oh and what happened to the first paper we did?

the B L O G.. not to be confused with THE BLOB

Its hard to think that we are now down to the last few weeks of our class. From the begining of this class untill now it has been nothing less than a interesting experience. Our topics that we have spoken about have been rather unique, ect. formatting our own paper. Even the set up of our room stands untraditional with desks set up in a circle. I enjoy most about this class that we discuss amoungest eachother. We are not narrowed to just answering questions from our professor, but can even question eachother. When we talked about immigration we intergrated all of our first hand views and even other views of people outside of the classroom to see an overall look at a topic.

So I've been thinking a lot about reality lately. Its difficult to think about it, being such a abstract concept. I s'pose the most important thing to do when addressing abstract concepts is to define them. So I figure, not in any textbook official sense, that reality is simply anything that is real. Reality is anything that exists. the whole difficulty with reality is that to understand anything we must rely on our individual perceptions. Obviously no one's perceptions are exactly the same, thus reality is relative. subject to change. But is there a true reality.
what happens to reality in time. is the past fiction? (certainly the future is) but how can we rest our reality on memories, when we know how faulty they can be.
so if something is constantly changing, and relative to each person, does it even exist? is reality real?


ok cool. i have some direction now. in reference to reality i want to know what the status of global warming is. i want to know if its a real threat, or a political scam. I want to know if it has a human origin, or if its a natural occurrence. I want to get to the bottom line. My coworker/ 6th grade teacher recently read a well researched book outlining global warming as a scam. In opposition, i heard al gore just put out a movie called "an inconvenient truth" about the reality of global warming. I intend to use that book and movie, as well as conversations with geography professors and internet research to get to the bottom of the debacle.

English 023

When I think of this class I think of the mess that was the second paper assignment. Then I think back on the self grading dilemma but I did learn some useful revising techniques so far this semester. This being said, I'm happy with how things are going, but then again we didn't start the research paper yet.

We talked a lot about work this semester and since I'm a business major I was most interested in this particular topic. I would like to do my research on finance and how people spend their money or something like that.... I can't wait until Christmas...

Possible Topic

• Technology Is Good for Finance
• Technology In Finance is good in forms of online banking, online ordering, and selection.

K 9 Handling

So my major starting next fall is going to be Criminal Justice. I'm do not have large amounts of mucle and I don't have huge body mass like a lot of cops have nowadays, but I'm certainly not the laziest. I want to be a police officer, but also a K9 Handler. I love dogs, Police K9 Training, and that whole bit. It's hard to get the K9 handling position so I have to work hard, but I think my chances are pretty good. I got bitten over the summer by one, and it was everything I wished for. ---By the way---I was bitten at a training camp.---It wasn't like I was running from the cops or anything. Don't worry about that. I guess you can say I am a dog freak, but oh well.

...THESE ARE THE DAYS...

These Are The Days, The Time is now...There is no past, There is only future...There is only here, There is only now.

-culture
-musical theatre
-society/views
-grading??
-Jordan's Essay on Black English.. {the color purple}
-culture's effect on musical theatre!!??

Throughout the semester we have discussed many topics, one that comes to mind is my brilliant idea of self-grading. I will talk about this later...because we all know we never want to talk about this issue ever. again.

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

Ok, so the doctor's on Grey's Anatomy don't save all lives, but they do know how to. This tv show is my addiction. Everybody knows not to call or distract me Thursday nights at 9:00. I am a Grey's Anatomy FREAK and I'm not afraid to admit it!

Here I sit, broken hearted...ooops, they painted the bathrooms in LYTLE

Ok, not really broken hearted, but maybe a little preocupied. You see, I am a political junkie. I love election time. I get all excited about things like CSPAN. This year...the political rhetoric of campaign ads is crazy. This makes me think about audience and rhetoric.