Two for the price of a lesser grade

Last last class, we received our last test and I wasn't surprise with the grade I received. I was overcome by the low grade but I hope to make it up in the upcoming extra credit. So, as I recalled, last last class we discussed Chapter 12, which involved classifications. Classification involved, persons, places, things, or ideas into groups or classes based on their characteristics. It was an interesting class period due to an exercise about categories dealt in a garage sale.

The Lateness

Hello everyone. So sorry that this blog is late, I have just been getting back into the swing of things as I recovered. Well with my sickness at bay, I managed to do the moodle session. I feel lost at the moment. Even just missing one day of class, really through me off. As I did the moodle session, I did comprehend what it was describing about compare and contrast. To find the similarities means to compare a subject to another. To find the differences, you contrast with the subject. Contrast really makes me think of my art class back in my junior year of high school.
Like primary and secondary colors, or using different mediums. Like I saw the differences between using charcoal and oil pastels. The feeling, most especially the effects were very different. Such as charcoal was soft on paper, and oil pastels were much more heavier, like crayons. I miss those days. Well, compare and contrast help us see the similarties and differerences of our subject. With Thung Tran using compare and contrast in the writing process worksheet, proved to be very beneficial. I will for use it to help with my essays. I hope all of you have a good weekend. If anyone can help fill me in on what happened on Tuesday, with notes or any summaries of events, it would really help. Please email or I will be in the library on Thursday. Thank you!

~Christina

Compare and Contrast

Compare and contrast is the method used to show similarity and differences between subjects. Like Thung, she used this method to compare and contrast woman in America and Vietnamese being a wife and/or mother. She made a clear point of her subjects. Growing up in America, made it easy for her to compare it to her own culture.








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Can you believe it?

Can you believe it? People thought that white supremacy was going to prevail in this 2008 Presidential Election, but in the end it was the minority who won. I know there is still the KKK and other groups somewhere out there and that Barack Obama's life is in great danger because of it, but can you believe that after 143 years after the battle over slavery and 40 years after the Civil Rights Movement, a black man is elected President of the United States. I sure can't because those event were not to long ago if you actually think about it. But I believe the people voted for him because they believe in him, like how people believed in Dr. Martin Luther King and Mahatma Ghandi. Which I find incredible because I saw how many supporters Obama had and the numbers just blew me away. This election just proved to me that majority of the people today don't care about what race you are or what your background is, but care about what you can do for them. I am really glad I live in this time in history. There are so many things going on, its absolutely amazing.

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I knew I deserved it.

If you have been reading some of my blogs in the past you would know I have not been putting my best effort in achieving all that I possibly can. And since I've got so much to worry about, I haven't studied for a single test lately for this class.So I feel I deserved the grade I received on the test that was given back to us on Tuesday.

Honestly, I feel kind of lost in the class at times especially with the tests because we don't cover some of the chapters in class but in the moodle session so I get confused sometimes. So since I haven't been studying the chapters we cover in the moodle room I well review them from now on so I can bring my grade back up to what it should be.

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40 Page Short Story

For the past 2 years I've been reading and following the Twilight Saga

by Stephanie Meyer. I think her writing and the details that she could

come up with is genius. At the same time she adds humor that we,

readers can relate to.

I'm so inspired by her writing that I feel that I want to write the 40

page short story instead of the Final Exam. In high school,

I made an attempt in writing plays and short stories.

This won't be easy but it's a challenge that I feel I can do.

Being in college, I feel like I need to step up.

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Thursday...

Well I knew on Thursday we had to moodle so I went online and did. You guys already know that we just had to discuss what's comparison and contrast is and give examples. Also, we had to discuss about someone's (I forgot her name) Writing Process Worksheet. They were both easy moodles and I hope you guys didn't have too much trouble.

Well after moodling, basically my day ended. I just went home, waited for dinner, ate, and went to bed. Now its Friday and I'm in school blogging with my friend's laptop. Ok well, I'm going to end it now and I'll see you guys Thursday since we have no school Tuesday right?

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