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My first dorming experience. When I first decided to go away for college I was scared and excited at the same time. My mom and I talked about everything I had to do and my sister gave me a lot of advice since she recently just graduated college. The one thing we never really discussed was dorming, I didn’t think much about it or cared. I’ve shared a room with my older sister my whole life until she left for college, and when she did I felt like part of me was gone. So I thought to myself if I’ve shared a room with my sister my whole life I could do it for another four years without a problem. What I fail to realize and really think through was it wasn’t going to be my sister anymore, it was going to be this random person that I don’t even know. Now that actually sacred me, I hardly know this person and I have to be able to live with them in this small room and trust them with all my stuff basically. So I moved in, and not only did I have one other roommate but it so happen that there were too many students accepted and we were put into TRIPLES. Now who in their right mind would think that is a good idea? Not only are we forced to live with someone we don’t know and have to get a long with for at least a year, now there’s two people we have to deal with. Just when I thought this couldn’t any worse I was handed one roommate who was very nice but the other roommate I would describe as…… THE ROOMATE FROM HELL. My second roommate was just offal, she hated everyone and everything and no matter what my first roommate and I did she just hated us. In other words it wasn’t a good experience but then she second semester she didn’t come back and decided to stay home. I guess you can say we got lucky but then we had another roommate which was messy, rude and had no filter. She drove me up the wall! She used my stuff without asking, ate my food without even asking and kept me up till two in the morning being loud as if she was the only one in the room. So I decided this year to live in a different building where I have my room, I’ve already had two roommates I don’t think I would’ve survived with another. You never know what to expect, I can say this wasn’t the best college experience I’ve had.

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Why do women feel the need to change their body? So many women get surgeries or change their body image today in society. When I was younger I was taught to be as natural as I could be. My mother did not allow me to wear makeup, paint my nails (other than a nude or light pink) or even dye my hair. Now today in society girls as young as 10 start to do all these things. Doesn’t that take their innocence from them? Aren’t parents suppose to keep their children’s innocence for as long as they could? But that’s not how it is today in society. Girls at very young ages are allowed to do so many things that they shouldn’t be doing at least until they’re in high school or adults. It scares me to think that one day I will have a child (possibly a girl) and she would see this and want to be like every other girl who wears make up or dyes her hair 19893373 million times. But even as adults we are acting the same. We are “modifying” our bodies to look the “picture perfect” way. But what is the “picture perfect” image? Who decides that? Well in my opinion, society which is influenced by media. Media is telling us how we should look. Isn’t that scary? That SOCIETY and MEDIA gets to decide what “pretty” or “skinny” looks like. Like who are they to get to decide that? This is what drives women to change their body images. They start getting boob jobs, liposuction, face lifts, or Botox. Anything possible, women try to get done to their body because they think they have to look a certain way. What women fail to realize is that after having these surgeries they are a lot of risk and they fail to see that because they’re so worried about how they look right then and there. Women should love their bodies no mater how they look. No surgery, make up, hair dye, well make a women “picture perfect.” We need to realize that society and media have a huge impact in our lives but we should not allow it to affect our body image or our idea of what being “pretty” is.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

Going away for college is probably the hardest decision I’ve ever mad. Deciding to leave home for four years was very difficult for me. I did want to go away to college because I wanted to leave my town and home but the actual concept of being away from my home scared me. You don’t realize when you go off to college you’re really alone! You have to become an independent person and that isn’t for everyone. For me, being independent isn’t a problem at all. The problem was providing for my self with out having a job. That was the biggest worry I had. Then the second thing I was worried about was figuring out what I would major in. I didn’t want to go away unless I knew 100% what I wanted to major in. But I figured out what I wanted to major in so that part was easy. Then came the most emotional difficult part which was leaving my family. Leaving my family is very difficult because I have younger siblings, twin brothers that are one years old, a five-year-old brother, and an older brother and sister. Leaving my younger siblings would be so difficult because I’ve always helped my mom take care of them. My family means the world to me and leaving them just terrified me because they were the most important people in the world to me. So how do you leave the people you love? How do you leave the people you’ve grown up and went to school with since you were five? Well it honestly took a lot of me to make this decision but I can say it was the best decision I’ve made for my self. Being away has taken me out of my comfort zone and has completely opened my eyes to things I would have never seen if I didn’t leave home. First year and first semester was the most difficult time. I didn’t have a job, which I hated because I worked a lot at home, and I missed my family like crazy! So I cried and cried but then I met people and even met my boyfriend and that changed my life. I got a job and my boyfriends family became my own family. Second semester is where I found my self as an individual and everything I was missing I found here. I can say that being here away at college has changed me and is the best decision I’ve ever made. I’ve learned don’t let fear get in the way of something you want to do because you never know, it can be the best thing that’s ever happen to you.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

Reading other peoples ideas on project 1 made me open my mind more. I was very narrowed mind when choosing my topic, I only thought of the broad topics. After reading other classmates idea it opened my mind more and I saw topics I never would have never even thought about. I saw that it is difficult to narrow ideas down, that there are SO MANY ways you can go when trying to figure out where you want to go exactly. I think the most difficult part is going to be trying to illustrate their ideas and concepts and trying to make the audience understand their pictures.

[yourbeautifuldisaster42]

Picking out a topic for my project became such a tough one for me. I didn’t want to do the standard super hero theme or about how cafeteria food is just bad. I wanted to do something that can lead to such drastic ideas that make everyone think to other topics. I choose to do my topic on the differences in the schools from new York and Georgia. It sounds weird but you would find that it is an interesting topic when you look more into it. I have been in both high schools in Georgia and in new York and you would be shocked to know my own experience. When I was in Georgia, we had a lot of resources and teachers at hand whenever we need. There was so much to do. In the beginning of the year, we had lockers and we were all assigned books that we would keep there. We would go from class to class as the bell rung to signal when to leave. We would always have morning announcements through the tv that the students from the BVC club. We had homeroom so they would hand out important information or use that time to study for a little bit. On occasion, we would meet up in homeroom when we had a pep ralley. We would all walk into the gymnasium and gather into the correct section of bleachers. As for me, I would be in the marching band. I would play little songs to get the crowd excited for the game that will be played later on that night. There was many clubs and organization that ranged from so many interests and topics. They all were active and were well represented in the school.

But as I went to school in New York, I found that it was different. As I set foot into my first day of school, I noticed that my school shared the building with 5 other schools. I found it weird but didn’t mind it at all. I also noticed that I didn’t get any books for my subjects. Matter of fact, you didn’t get a locker or no supplies to help me through school. I noticed that if you had a notebook and a pen, you were pretty much set for your day. There were no football fields as well as not much clubs except for the music club and it wasn’t music for classical but for modern day. Our classes were only equipped with an old chalk board no central AC. Only one of the classrooms had a smart board and that was considered of our more “tech savvy” room that we had to share with the school next to us. It is sad to come from a school that has so much to teachers having to come out of pocet just for chalk. No real classes were taken because no one had the funding for it. They came up with creative classes title so they wouldn’t have to use the required materials it takes to learn the subject. And it is crazy to know that they title New York schools as the most well funded schools in America. So some may wonder, why did the money go?

[floreswritingblog-blog]

When I first read the first couple sentences of your blog, I had a rare facial expression as to what?why this topic? It seemed like a boring topic. After reading your background and the experience you had it all made sense. This is a very important topic! Something I would of never thought to research. Your ideas and concepts are good and I think you won't have much trouble doing research because there are many schools that face the exact same problem here in New York schools. Sounds like a good topic!

[captainvic822]

Project 1

For my project 1 out of all the topics in the world to conduct research on I decided to choose a topic that I really wanted to know more about. The topic I choose was child abuse. This topic could be a very tough and deep topic because sometimes just hearing about it can make people feel funny inside. I believe this topic can be very difficult because it can get very deep and what I mean by deep is that it can lead into many directions. For my project though I want to focus mainly why it leads to it? Also if it is a form of punishment for some adults for kids? Is there anger involved or enjoyment? The people who are the abusers did they have a trouble past? How does drugs and alcohol play a role? Could it be a mental illness that they have? Or can it jealousy? These are the questions that really brother me and why I want a o know about it and maybe it can lead to steps that can help prevent child abuse. The hardest part of my project might be getting the pictures and make sure my readers are understanding the meaning of it and can see my vision. I want them to really have emotions in my pictures and really feel the pain through the pictures. My goal is all about the audience because I want them to really understand what is going on. My topic is going be hard and tricky but I think I can pull it off and get it done the way I visioned it.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

I like your topic choice for project #1 because it was actually an idea i had as well for my project. This is a very broad topic, it can go many ways like all the questions you just addressed. Now which way are you planning to actually go? because it may be a tough decision to narrow it down to. I think once you know what your narrowing down your idea and specifically know what it leads to you can start thinking of images that show examples such as domestic abuse to their kids. With that image you could use a parent yelling or hitting a child and a bubble of the same image above the parent now beating the child. Illustrating that she was abused and is doing the same thing now to their child.

[gilbertszn-blog]

BLog #5

For my first project, I have decided to discuss and find information of why there is a recession of African- American baseball players in the major leagues. As the years pass less and less of black baseball players appear to play in a professional team. They are many issues on why this is happening, but I’m also curious and interested to find out what’s being done to get this issue fixed. Baseball needs diversity in players and that includes having African- Americans in the game. I would like to hear any feedback my audience has about this issue on why it’s happening, and ways that could help this problem diminish. I plan to do some research on the statistics on African- Americans playing for Major League Baseball since the 1970’s. This way I can see it’s peak, it’s increase, and also its decrease. There was many legendary black players in the past and at this pace we won’t see many more in the near future. Players like Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Bob Gibson, Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, and many more had all in some way, shape or form changed baseball forever and changed the dynamics of the game in a positive way. I wonder how this issue impacts communities and families of African- Americans and their view on baseball. I ask many people what they think about baseball and they mostly answer it’s boring, or I’m not interested, because they don’t have a role model that can lead by example and open doors for blacks in baseball again. Every kid always has its idols and person they look up to. For example in basketball the face of the sport now is LeBron James, almost everyone wants to be like LeBron or follow his footsteps. He leads by good example. That could be a reason why basketball is becoming a mostly black dominated sport. Back to baseball, there are sports figures like All Star Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, but this isn’t going to help the cause on the lack of black baseball players in the game. Me growing up in a spanish and black community playing baseball as a kid I mostly played against spanish kids and noticed there wasn’t many black kids to play against. Matter of fact I have played against more white kids when I used to travel than black kids. So could there be a lack of motivation in trying baseball at young age? Why not give the sport a try before deciding to not like it or participate in it? I will try to find the best information I can to answer questions me or others may have regarding this issue.      

[floreswritingblog-blog]

Your idea on project 1 is a good idea and different, not something commonly researched which makes it different. I like how you are starting on researching the statistics in 1970 it shows how you can compare baseball from previous years to now so you are able to show the differences. Make sure you stay focus on the reasons why there is such a decrease of African American professional baseball players. It may be a little difficult because you might get a big range of ideas or they may just be opinions on why. Make sure you can tell what’s real facts ( that’s proven) rather then what people think the reason is.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

What do you want to be when you grow up? Is the most common question asked starting in elementary school. Now really think about this, how can a 7-year-old know what they want to do for the rest of their life? They obviously can’t. In society we have this “restriction” on having to know what we want to be when we grow up but why? When you’re in high school that’s when this issue starts becoming a bigger problem. It mainly starts in 11th grade like after SAT’s and then teachers and parents and uncles and aunts and EVERYONE in the world starts questioning, what are you going to school for? What do you want to be when you grow up? Honestly no one has a DAMN clue, were still teenagers! How are we asked to decide the rest of our life when were only 17/18 years’ old? It’s like when I was a senior in High school, I had no clue what I wanted to be or do. I didn’t want to go to college when I did really know what I wanted to do or know what to major in for the rest of my life, so why pay all this money for college when I didn’t know what I wanted to do. All my life I was asked so what do you want to be when you grow up and when the time finally came I had to decide I had no clue. So my junior year I decided to go into the military, my step dad was a former Marine and talked to me about the military and the benefits. He made it seem so awesome because of all the benefits and being able to travel but the only thing that really held me back was the actual PT (physical training) and the work that came with it like boot camp. So I was basically doing it for all the wrong reason more for the benefit and experience rather then because it was really what I wanted to do. Then came senior year and while all my friends were applying and getting accepted into college I was doing nothing just meeting with recruiters. Then half way in to senior year, I woke up one day and said I didn’t want to go into the military. That’s when I decided I wanted to be a teacher, my whole life I loved kids. When I was younger I would always say I wanted to be a teacher but I thought it was just a little kids dream so as I got older I really didn’t care for it. But It is what I wanted to do, so I applied to Buffalo State College a couple months before school ended and I got in! Now I am pursuing my dream. But it was so difficult to decide because I’ve had this pressure my whole life, constant questioning and nagging about what to be or what to do especially with the military career. I think in society we need to learn to stop nagging! And questioning constantly! In time we will all decide what we want to be or do.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

What do you want to be when you grow up? Is the most common question asked starting in elementary school. Now really think about this, how can a 7-year-old know what they want to do for the rest of their life? They obviously can’t. In society we have this “restriction” on having to know what we want to be when we grow up but why? When you’re in high school that’s when this issue starts becoming a bigger problem. It mainly starts in 11th grade like after SAT’s and then teachers and parents and uncles and aunts and EVERYONE in the world starts questioning, what are you going to school for? What do you want to be when you grow up? Honestly no one has a DAMN clue, were still teenagers! How are we asked to decide the rest of our life when were only 17/18 years’ old? It’s like when I was a senior in High school, I had no clue what I wanted to be or do. I didn’t want to go to college when I did really know what I wanted to do or know what to major in for the rest of my life, so why pay all this money for college when I didn’t know what I wanted to do. All my life I was asked so what do you want to be when you grow up and when the time finally came I had to decide I had no clue. So my junior year I decided to go into the military, my step dad was a former Marine and talked to me about the military and the benefits. He made it seem so awesome because of all the benefits and being able to travel but the only thing that really held me back was the actual PT (physical training) and the work that came with it like boot camp. So I was basically doing it for all the wrong reason more for the benefit and experience rather then because it was really what I wanted to do. Then came senior year and while all my friends were applying and getting accepted into college I was doing nothing just meeting with recruiters. Then half way in to senior year, I woke up one day and said I didn’t want to go into the military. That’s when I decided I wanted to be a teacher, my whole life I loved kids. When I was younger I would always say I wanted to be a teacher but I thought it was just a little kids dream so as I got older I really didn’t care for it. But It is what I wanted to do, so I applied to Buffalo State College a couple months before school ended and I got in! Now I am pursuing my dream. But it was so difficult to decide because I’ve had this pressure my whole life, constant questioning and nagging about what to be or what to do especially with the military career. I think in society we need to learn to stop nagging! And questioning constantly! In time we will all decide what we want to be or do.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

Aren’t we supposed to feel safe?

 I would think that everyone has heard about or at least have gotten an email concerning what has been going on campus. Isn’t it scary? Well it’s terrifying to me especially. Being away from home is tough enough but now were on campus away from our families by our selves and we expect to feel safe in our “new home.” But are we really? How is it that we feel scared to walk back to our dorms and fear what could happen to us when were on campus. One of the incidents that occurred happen to be right in front of my building, that’s what scares me the most honestly. The place where I’m supposed to feel safe, my “home,” I don’t because people decided to be foolish.  Many people are arguing about who’s “fault” it basically is and what people fail to see is it’s the people who actually did it not the UPD or RA’s. How can it be their fault honestly? Yes they’re ways we can secure this school more and try and make it a safer campus but it’s not their fault that these incidents occurred.  Another problem that people are addressing is that they are blaming “city kids.” Now how can you blame this on a group up people implying that because they’re from the city it’s there fault because they are the ones doing these crimes. Why are people targeting one type of group of people? We are arguing and blaming the wrong people and many of us don’t realize that. I would hope that our campus would be a safer place but we also fail to realize that this is the real world now, we are adults, and crimes are going to occur. It’s sad that they have to happen right here on campus but this isn’t high school where were watched all day by adults. There is more freedom here and that’s why people are doing these things because no one is watching them all day, its something that is difficult to stop from happening. But what we can do is put more cameras and security up because if these incidents do occur at least we can catch them. If people are being caught then less people will stop committing this crimes or actions because they know they’re going to get caught, its common sense really.

[floreswritingblog-blog]

To be completely honest I’ll start by saying that I am not a fan of writing. Writing is not one of my strengths and it’s not something I enjoy. When it comes to writing I have certain strengths, but it depends what type of paper I am writing. If I am not writing a scholarly paper and I’m writing a personal paper then that’s a breeze for me. When it comes to writing something about me or even a story about my life it’s easy because I am a good speaker and it’s just like speaking to an audience, it’s pretty simple. When it comes to writing about a book or an article, I get stuck, it’s like my brain shuts down its quit odd actually. To be honest I think it’s just because I know I have to put more effort and open my mind up more. One of my BIGGEST weaknesses is starting a paper. I’ve struggled with this for many years, it’s like I get a brain fart and I don’t know what to say or do. I could honestly sit there with a blank paper for a full hour with no ideas. That’s something I hope to be able to learn to do in this class, to just go right into it and start a paper after the planning and preparation. My favorite topics to write about are usually topics that have to do with women such as abortions or disorders or anything that’s a big impact in society for women. I also like to write about topics that I could relate to. As I said before writing about me is my favorite topic because you can never be wrong on what you write because it’s your life and you only know what has really occurred, so how can you be wrong? There are many things I like to do for fun. I like to read, go to the gym, and babysit my little brothers (especially because I love children). Reading has defiantly helped me become a better writer because it has opened my eyes to how a writer should write and use good vocabulary. In this class my goal is to be able to start a paper without having such a difficultly doing so and I hope to achieve these goals but that also requires my effort to ask more questions so things could be more clear, to also ask my instructor whenever I’m stuck with something. From this class I hope to achieve this goal and hope my instructor guides me to be able to achieve my goal.