October 2020

Personal and Academic Strengths

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I feel like my personal strengths include confidence, self-assurance, and being understanding. I’m very confident in myself and I know who I am and what I want to be. I also have a very high moral compass so this definitely brings me to be self-assured and I never sway from my morals no matter what the situation or circumstances are. I also take pride in being an understanding person. I always remind myself of the saying “it is better to be understanding than understood”. I think it very important to have this because in everyday life you face challenges and disagreements where if you are trying to understand where someone else is coming from and their situation instead of trying to prove your point, you can learn a lot more.

My strengths academically include having good time management (even though it might not reflect well in this class) and forming good study habits through organizing. In high school, I developed good time management skills because I always wanted to be able to hang out with my friends but also stay on top of my studies. So I learned ways where I was able to do both. But also, I have no problem saying no to going out if I do have school needs. I feel like I have good study habits which I formed from being organized. Keeping a planner with everything I need to do is very helpful and helps me to know

 

Works Cited and Paraphrasing Practice

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Bokat-lindell, Spencer. “Valentine’s Day: A Festival of Love or a Giant Scam?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/valentines-day-galentines.html.

“It’s perhaps just as well that the holiday’s history remains disputed. Either thousands or hundreds of years later, Americans seem likewise unable to agree on whether Valentine’s Day is a hallowed celebration, a marketing scam that entrenches the hegemony of the nuclear family or just a harmless convention that everyone needs to calm down about. Here’s a bouquet of perspectives to help you figure out your feelings about the tradition, which, unlike most relationships, is not going to end” (Bokat-lindell).

According to a New York Times article, “Americans seem likewise unable to agree of whether Valentine’s Day is a hallowed celebration…or a harmless convention that everyone needs to calm down about” (Bokat-lindell).

Valentine’s Day is a holiday where most Americans can’t agree if it is a holiday celebrated in love or just “a marketing scam that entrenches the hegemony of the nuclear family” (Bokat-lindell).

Argumentative Essay Topic

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Finding ways to make the online learning process easier and more adaptable by having more leniency on due dates, etc. Also, creating a standard way for lessons to be given more efficiently. For example, I really like how for this class, each week we can see clearly what we need to do and when we need to turn it in and all of the given information. It is not confusing at all and is very straightforward and easy to find. Whereas, I have other classes that make it extremely difficult to follow along with the curriculum as well as keeping up with assignments and due dates. So by possibly having a standard structure that professors can follow would make the learning change easier.

My audience would be any student participating in online instruction as well as any teachers providing the instruction. Possible hierarchy of institutions, schools, etc. Anyone that has a part in online schooling.

I chose this topic because this is something that I have experienced, and according to my GroupMe’s that other students struggle with this as well. Even halfway through the semester, this is still something I struggle with. But I think there is a way that professors can make it easier on the students, as well as students being able to develop skills such as time management, organization, flexibility, etc.