Reflections #5

Today in class, we went online and took a survey about our personality and learning style. The results I got were quite accurate. According to the survey, my personality code is ESFJ. It's interesting because It took a similar survey like this one, but instead I got ISTJ. ESFJ are people that are warm, friendly, and talkative (I'm not really talkative). I am enthusiastic and energetic person who loves to be with people. I have a close relationship with my friends and family. Apparently I'm sympathetic and caring and I like to help other. I am polite and trusting and try hard to please others and place my relationships high on my list of priorities (this is 100% true about me). I have strong values about how to behave. I tend to take all criticism personally so my feelings get easily hurt (this is also so true). I'm a practical person. I am organized and efficient.

I think for the most part, the description matches me pretty well. I'm not really talkative or energetic that much, but it's true that I'm very sensitive and practical!

Reflections #4

Today in class, we did this survey where we explored what occupation we may want to follow. After filling out tons of paperwork, my code was AES (artistic-enterprising-social). The top three jobs that I have the most interest in is an account executive, music director and interior designer. Other jobs (slightly different code) that I also have an interest is a producer, radio and T.V. and for motion pictures. According to the West-side Test Anxiety Scale, my test anxiety score is 3.3. I guess this score does represent me well.

Reflections #3

Today in class, we talked about talents and how they impact different people's lives. We read different scenarios of students about their opinions of what talents they had. We talked about career-planning fantasy and despair. How do we avoid these conditions? At the end of class, we ordered a whole list of values of its importance to us. To me, I felt that how I feel about myself is most important and having power is least important.

Reflections #2

In today's class, we talked mainly about careers. When I was asked what age people should start planning for their career, I answered that mentally, we should start preparing at around middle school, but physically getting prepared (applications/study abroad) should be around late high school, early college. We were also asked what factors we take in when choosing our career. Many people replied a job that is financially well-off and is something that we enjoy doing. I do agree with these two factors, but I think money is less important than our interests. We also talked about careers in a biblical way.

Reflections #1

Questions asked in class included what kind of choices we made when we were young and what kind of choices we make now. We came to the conclusion that the choices we make now are much more mature and thoughtful. We also answered questions such as if unbelievers make good choices or if believers always make good choices. I said that believes of God or not, we all make good and bad choices. We are all human. We also discussed Proverbs and listed choices God wants us to make, and choices that he doesn't want us to make.

Reflections

1. What are some of the aspects of Narrative writing and did you like using them?

Narrative writing is written in first person and tells some sort of story. I tend to write my stories in first person because it's just easier for me to convey my feelings to the readers that way. I don't have to write in any sort of "perspective" because it's me that's telling the story.

2. How did you determine what details were relevant and necessary to support your ideas?

As I read through my essay, I included details that contributed to the plot of the story and helped it advance forward in its pace. In each paragraph, I wrote sentences related to the topic sentence and added details that were interesting, necessary and connected to the plot.

3. How did you create a unique piece of writing and still meet the expectations of a Narrative essay?

I created a unique piece of writing by choosing an interesting plot that was different from others. With that plot, I chose unique word chooses and sentence structures. I still followed the expectations by writing it in first-person and telling a story.

4. How did you craft your writing to meet the audience expectations? What is easy or hard?

I believe that writing should be interesting when reading to any audience, so I tried my best to write my writing the most interesting possible. I kept it in a steady pace, not jumping or skipping parts, and tried to keep it logically flowing. That way, it would be easy for the audience to comprehend and follow along the story line.

It was definitely not easy. Any kind of writing is not easy (maybe expect chat messages or emails). Other than that, any kind of professional writing or school assignments are really challenging. The audience expects much and in order to meet those expectations, I had to keep in mind everything while I wrote. I had to make it interesting, moving, touching, and everything else that I would want to expect from one's writing.

5. How did your personal experience and faith shape the way you told this story?

I wrote about a musical experience that happened to me two years ago. My personal experience with music allowed me to write more accurately and connecting. I strongly believe in "practice makes almost perfection," so I used that theory to write about the experience I went through.

6. What would your life be like without the experience?

Without this experience, my life wouldn't be too effected, but I would have missed A LOT of fun and good experience. The scholarship I received was for Interlochen Arts Camp. Practicing for the scholarship itself and performing it in front of judges was a good experience for playing on stage. Attending Interlochen Arts Camp was a phenomenal experience. If I could, I would love to go there every year, but because of the expensive tuition and limited scholarship opportunities, I can't.

Articles

Article 1: http://search.finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107536/cut-your-spending-by-500-a-month.html?mod=bb-budgeting

"Cut Your Spending by $500 a Month" definitely expresses a good idea. Who doesn't want to save $500 a month? As the article states, "In today's tight economy, who doesn't want to free up some cash? Trim the fat but not the fun from your budget."There are a variety of topics--grocery bills, cars, phone bills, shopping wisely-- that give ideas on saving and spending. For example, in the topic of grocery bills, it states that monthly savings can be up to $183 by following these tips: shop once a week, give up the bottle, eat what's ripe and differentiate between clean and dirty. These ideas give a positive impact amongst its readers and educates them on saving money.

Article 2: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/the-worlds-most-powerful-women-503004/

"The World's Most Powerful Women" talks about how women are making marks in business and politics all around the world. Their influence and respect is growing. This is an amazing feat for women who were once strongly discriminated in history. This is an amazing idea to me because it shows our continual growing impact in this world. This list isn't about celebrities or popularity, it's about influence. No.1 on the list for the fourth consecutive year is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She is the leader of the world's fourth-largest economy. The list also includes the President of Argentina and the chief executive of Avon. Women have controlled a large part of this world, from business to impressive title holders.