In Closing

To close out this year, blogging was a fun experience. There are some days where I absolutely hated blogging but then I made fun of it by adding pictures and designing my blog. Overall, by blogging and designing my blog, it took away the reality of actually doing work for class beucase I enjoyed it. In the future, I plan to continue to blog and use his a refrence for jobs and colleges.

What I Enjoy

Listen to: I think that people more like teen should listen to gospel music. That's the kind of music I listen. Maybe because my mother is a Preacher.

Eat this: Banana pudding is the best thing to eat. I think people should make banana pudding on every holiday.

Play this: Playing this violin is the best instrument in the world to play.

Watch This: A movie you should watch would be the Passion Of Christ. I suggest this to people because it opens your eyes to the real world.

Do This: Do the golden rule by treating people the way you want to be treated.

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Go Here: I think that everyone in the world should go to Wisconsin Dells. That's a wonderful place to go with family, friends, or a couple to swim and have fun.

Advice: You should always remember that tomorrow is never promised so you should live every day like it was your last.

Final Presentation

The pictures I used throughout this powerpoint helps express the way I feel. Also, it express how I have matured over the years as a writer.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4HHfdFii6zwbnRnN05UYmEwMXM/edit?usp=sharing

Senior Year

Senior year is like closing a book while opening a new one. Senior year is the year that everyone finally discover what they want to do in life and how to achieve those goals. However, unlike most my senior year went a little different...i

This year didn't turn out the way I had pictured it to be.

Lord Jesus help me make it another day.

The countdown is real.

Cons of Presenting

I will be giving a presentation in three week in English 102 class. My goal is to present my presentation the best way possible. The University of Tartu gives tips and suggestion along with a list of several ways to properly present a presentation. However, there is a video I found on YouTube of a young lady who gave a presentation in front of a crowd, Her presentation was based on trying to reduce the dropout rate in Rural Cambodia. Overall, her presentation wasn't good becuse she did not follow the suggestions that was given on this webiste above.

• Think audience.

When speaking, the presenter should put themselves in the audience shoes. While watching this video, it was obvious that she did not put herself in the shoes of her audience because if she did, she would have made her audience more engaged in her presentation by passing things out such as giving gifts or treats and/or asking questions,  As being a student and sitting through numerous presentation, that the main key. You as a presenter have to think what can you do to engage your audience and keep your audience entertained.

• Find your voice.

In this video, the presenter started off monotone and showed no emotions throughout her presentation. Also, she showed no enthusiasm in her voice while presenting. No one want to list to a presentation that is dry and boring. When a presentation is boring, that's when presenter looses their audience attention and their motivation to listen and participate.

• Practice, practice, practice.

After watching this video, I believe that this presenter did not practice her presentation before presenting. I say this because, while watching the video, the presenter barely made any eye contact because she was reading the paper that was placed on the podium. If she would have practiced, then there would have been no need to read what was on your paper verbatim.

Research Blog

The topic I choose to write my research paper about is the African American dropout rates. This paper over all was easy at first because I enjoy talking about this topic to other people. The reason why I enjoy talking about this topic to other people is because I plan on being a teacher and when I become a teacher, I plan to help decrease the dropout rates of African Americans.  I honestly, think the dropout rate is extremely high and until someone step up and try to solve the problem, it will be too late.  

After all, I feel like I did a good job researching this topic because of how important this topic mean to me. Also, I think this topic is interesting. Besides, this is an important topic in today’s society. As you look on the news, people mention how they feel about the African American dropout rate. Some state they believe something needs to be done and some state that it all depend on the student and what they plan to achieve throughout life. This paper was easy when finding sources but then it began to become stressful regarding I never wrote and eight to ten page paper by myself. Whenever I would write a paper, I would always have the help of others to assist me through my paper. Although some people gave me input on my paper like my teacher and my parents, I still feel as if my paper isn’t good enough because I had to write a total of eight to ten pages of research that I found on this topic by myself.

Some changes I would have made would have been to research additional sources that could have helped me prove my argument in my paper. I could have also asked more questions concerning the research paper and my topic as a whole. I thought I knew what to do but as I began to write my paper, I began to notice that I don’t know everything that I should know about making this paper meet the requirements needed. Since I haven’t really asked questions, I fell as that my paper isn’t good enough and it’s not what my teacher is looking for. Lastly, I think I could have changed the way I set up my paper meaning I could have changed the flow of my paper. I really didn’t know where to go but I had somewhat of an idea so in my conference with my teacher, I asked questions to make sure I was going into the right direction.

However, there are a few things I still have to do regarding my research paper. I have to do things such as making sure I cited my sources correctly throughout my paper. I think that I didn’t cite my sources correctly. I don’t think I cited my paper correctly because I was never taught how to cite my paper so I never feel comfortable citing in my paper. Also, throughout my paper I used lower class wording that’s I need to go back and change.  I used words such as nice instead of decent, pleasant, or good quality.

While searching this topic, I learned more than I thought. I found some interesting facts that I didn’t know about. I found fascinating news about certain people who has dropped out of school. For example, I found out that my father and two of my uncle’s decided to drop out of high school. After interviewing them, I learned lot interesting facts about the three of them. Also, while researching found different stories of students who have dropped out or who decided to drop out but never had the chance. After hearing different stories, I thought everyone had a unique story of their own and I found it amusing. Lastly, I didn’t realize the percentage of students who have different races were high as well. They weren’t as high as African Americans but their percentage was high also. For example, the dropout rates for Hispanics are high as well and I thought that was interesting.

However, overall, this who process was beyond stressful. I think that from researching for sources to doing work cited then writing a paper was too much work. I think that if we weren’t rushed than our paper, I know mines would be, much better than it is.

The Proposal

There are people today who watch the new on the regular basis. A huge topic on the news today is the African American dropout rates that are ragging daily. I know for a fact that this topic is important to several people in society because of the post I’ve been reading, the interviews I’ve read, as well as the video clips I’ve saw. I believe that something is going to have to happen based on the number of students who dropped out of school or the ones who want to drop out of school. It’s not a good look on our country as a whole. I hope and pray something will change and that this paper would change the life of someone.

This topic is extremely important in today’s society.  After hearing about the drastic number of students, mainly African Americans who have dropped out, this topic has really touched me in several ways. For instance, I’m going off to college in less than three months majoring in education. As many people may have noticed, the dropout rates are very important to the education world. I can remember the first time telling a teacher what I was going to college majoring in. She told me that teaching isn’t an easy task because the board is becoming very strict because of the dropout rates that are raging by the day. After hearing that, I grew interest in this problem and I believed this was the perfect job for me. I state this because for one, I love children of all ages and for two, I believe my job is to change the world by dealing with children. I also believe that there are multiple factors that lead students to want to dropout and so there for I believe it’s my job to help those because I feel where they’re coming from. I’m feel their pain because I was born in Chicago and my neighborhood was full of students who has dropped out of school at an early age for several reason. Also, I have family members who has dropped out of school as well. After hearing that from the teacher, seeing thing on the web, and hearing things on the news, I feel that this is the task that I was put on this earth to do.

In this paper I would argue that there’s a change that will have to take place. I say this because I believe this because there’s a huge problem that the percentage of African-American dropout rates is over 50%. This means half of the African-American population has dropped out of school. This leads to not being able to find jobs, provide for their family, and surviving in this world known as survival of the fittest. This paper will not focus on the factors of science. There’s no need to talk about science because it does not relate to the topic of education.

There’s a number of people that could benefit from the information provided on this specific topic. For instance, some people this topic can relate to would be teachers. I believe this topic would touch teachers because hopefully they will realize that children depend on them. For example, students depend on teachers for help on their work, school related problems, and things as such. Also, I believe that black families could also benefit from this topic because they could see the different things that could cause dropouts such as where they family live, the income of their family, and how close their family is to one another. Lastly, this topic could reach out to several school boards. I say this because when school realize the different reasons why student tend to dropout, they could strategize how to stop or lower the dropout rates of students.

There are several sources that I would use that would be relevant to my paper. For example, I plan to interview at least three people. While in the interview I plan to record them by voice on my phone. Also, I would do a survey of people who has not dropped out of as well as those who has dropped out of school. I believe that both the interviews and the surveys will show results that seem to be accurate. Also, I would use both the interviews and the surveys in the paper to support my topic and argument. Lastly, the sources that I found will also be added into my paper as back up and support as well.