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Obesity in Society Today

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/risks.html

This makes you think about two sides of the story. It is up to the human mind to perceive something wrong or right.

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blogging

I have to say that this is definitely the first time that any instructor has ever had us utilize a social media site to keep up with work. At first, I found it a little unorthodox, and expected it to not be used in any manner that social media normally is used. Looking back, a social media site such as tumblr is the best way to channel academic writing. For once, real world, academic, and social writing habits of mine have converged, and I believe that it has been a large contributor to my growth as a writer.

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Image from http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/DrugsDontHurt.jpg.

This post can make anyone think. To those guilty of the habit, it can do a lot more.

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Found this on the ground on campus and I think all yall know what’s good with helping ya boi Matt out!

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What’s to take from this read

I must start off by saying that the first thing I got out of this piece was a prime example of how not to write an entertainment-purposed piece. His vocabulary was far too ostentatious to keep the writing from straying away from its purpose. At times, his choice of words became distracting. However, Swales is definitely a bright guy. What he highlights in six concepts, in my opinion, is a better form of a learning and cooperating community than already in place in public schools and even many universities. I do believe that it is better for a cooperating community to be founded by unique and diverse groups of the motivated. People learn faster when they are able to embrace their own way of thinking amongst others. It improves one’s flexibility to work with different people of different mentalities.

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Writing Across the University

This article has lifted a lot of weight of my shoulders. It has helped my understand just how much freedom we really do have in our writings, even when we feel limited. What made this so relatable is the idea that most everyone one of us experienced a repetitive and recurring style of writing in high school. Like many other aspects of public high schools nowadays, it was such a flawed ideology to limit the minds of a writer to a 5 paragraph template that may as well have its own government with the amount of laws that must be followed. I always thought that that there should be other ways of writing for the same material that we are expected to write in a certain conformity. Though it is important that us, as students, still hold true to writing under what’s expected to us, it is nice to read this article and get a more concrete belief that we do indeed have the freedom to write “correctly” in our forms at will.

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jeffbulanda

Throughout high school and the rest of my years of schooling, I have always learned that there are certain and specific rules regarding essays and writing.I have always learned that a proper essay has five paragraphs: an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a closing paragraph. I’ve learned,…

"Ignorance"

I am also working on a song describing what it was like to be confused by music for so long.

“Ignorance”

Time in and out I’ve watched the pieces, hey verse

Watched the puzzle, grow and fall into place

No relation, correlation’s hold pre-chorus

Curious patience, creations of gold

But the puzzle, puzzle chorus

Creates dissonance

And my brothers, Brothers – sing

In reverence

Did it all come to you so clear? verse

The pieces I carve don’t seem to fit here

No relation, correlation’s hold pre-chorus

In frustration, I can’t create gold

Cause the puzzle, puzzle chorus

Creates dissonance

And my wonders, wonders – oh

So ignorant

Is ignorance bliss? Bliss bridge

Is ignorance bliss? Bliss

Knowledge is bliss, bliss

Creating a scene, the curves will give way verse

The pieces I carve never seem to stay

Satisfaction falls from me tenfold pre-chorus

Who’s to say that the pieces cannot mold

As the puzzle, puzzle chorus

Creates dissonance

And the others, others

vibe in resonance

The pieces finally fit bridge 2

The pieces finally fit

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Exploring Music

My narrative explained how my curiosity for understanding poetry and my curiosity for how music fits together. I must say that it has taken me a rather long time to even consider myself literate in music, but it is a rewarding feeling. I have a poem that expresses how I've developed as a lyricist and musician, called "Puzzle, No Dissonance"

Puzzle, No Dissonance

I will put together a puzzle that another man made

But I could never create my own

I can make the pieces fit

But I cannot create pieces that fit

I tried to make a puzzle, I had no picture in mind

Though it is of free will, I cannot set my will free

I can appreciate the man’s puzzle

But what I appreciate puzzles me

Another man couldn’t teach me

For the puzzles are puzzling

I know that my puzzle is dissonance

Why must I only create dissonance?

His puzzle is complete, what a scene

The beautiful sunset is moving

And my eyes are open

To the curvature of the pieces tucked within each other

Maybe I should create a sunset first

Let the curves create them selves

The sunset is what matters

The curves just make it work

The curves came to me

All I did was come to the sunset

Let it shed light on the words

And pieces that brought the puzzle together

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Lamott Shitty First Drafts

What the author is trying to get at in this article is simply an age old concept that we've only taken into consideration in alternate scenarios. Yes, it is understandable, when what comes off our fingertips isn't exactly what comes to mind, things can get a little frustrating, which goes back to my very first journal entry, claiming that there is no end to any true writer's writing. No form of writing will 100% be complete and 100% state what is within the writer's endless spiral of creation. Every time we go back to our writing, we find something else that we could easily change, and sometimes say to ourselves:

But, in support of everything that we have all just read, push forth! Before we can even say practice makes perfect, we must first get it over with. What's beautiful about writing is that we are humanly allowed to make as many touch-ups as we desire. Remember, your thoughts won't be portrayed onto paper perfectly the first time.

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Malcolm X

Reading this article is by far the most I have ever learned about Malcolm X. In this article, Malcolm X writes about, from his perspective, his growth as a reader and writer. The final product of his passage is a wonderful example of how much he has grown through his own willpower. For someone to write with such competence and finesse about his past illiteracy is very eye-opening.

The foundation of Malcolm X's literacy began as in prison, as a disciple of Elijah Muhammad. He began with a rather unorthodox method to reading, in which he copied everything in the books down, and then read the words over and over again until he understood them. It was his fascination with the slight literacy he had obtained that kept him going. He loved being able to understand new words and felt proud of being able to read and understand what he was reading. He became obsessed with the library, and would take masses of books back to his room for the sheer desire of understanding. He would even read with the slightest amount of light available after it was time to go to bed, hiding the fact that he was reading from the passing security guards.

He began to read more and more around the realm of black history. With his desire to read and his interest in his heritage colliding, Malcolm X's research had come into full force. This is just another example of how reading has sparked someone's interest to grow into something monumental.

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Sponsorship in Literacy

It's funny to think about how we have always learned that in the past literacy has been treated as such an exclusive ability. This selection has successfully changed my own point-of-view on the passing down of literacy. Never before had I considered such a hierarchical flow of knowledge where, for a change, the people sought the help of those higher than them to learn. When I read this, it makes me reconsider some others in the past's motives for taking the social position that they did. For example, after reading this, did you consider possibly, that slaves that ended up working their way into the master house did so for their desire to learn how to read? The slaves that got caught learning how to read behind their master's back, did they do so because they refused to work their way into the privilege of learning it in the master house? Or were they not capable of making it into the master house? Even more monumentally, how differently do you consider many people's motives for joining the church? It seems to me that more people in the past than I previously considered wore the company's letters in exchange for the ability to play the game. Also, what kind of benefits could we consider available for these sponsors by teaching people how to read? Furthermore, why do people of today's age not have that much desperation to learn? It is sad to think of this way, but maybe society has been spoiled by just handing this empowering gift out every day to every one.

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Literacy & Metaphors

Scribner uses 3 separate metaphors to illuminate the true meaning of literacy. Literacy, according to Scribner, is based on one's ability to adapt, personal power, and grace. In his passage "Literacy in 3 Metaphors" reminds us that it takes more than just the physical ability to read and write, but an inner belief, ability, and connection to the text that is either before them or within their fingers, ready to be written. It is not that you are able, but what inside you makes you able.

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