Journal 5( Dive)

Journal 5

After watching the movie “Dive”, it really made me feel sad because I thought food always all the time. I can honestly say that I didn’t know that different stores exactly throw them food away and people sitting around hungry. It really made me open my eyes up about wasting food and just wants to just give the homeless people everything that I don’t eat. I have been at Wal-Mart and have seen the associate through lot of food in the dumpster. Late nights some people that get hungry go through their dumpster and get food to eat. And in society today people don’t care about other people. But when I see a homeless person I try to give them something it really hurts me when I see other people going in the trash looking for food to eat and I can afford food for my family. It really opens my eyes because I didn’t know all these people waste food like this. Now I have learned how to save food and only cook enough because of the fact the left overs is going to waste after 2-3 days. After seeing this video I have made myself to look out for the people with no food and helping them out giving up money or just telling them to wait and I will be back with some food for them. I also have been told that it’s a good idea that I’m doing and I have other people follow me because they are feeling the same way.   

American Dream Final

Rochell Battle

Professor Warren

ENC1102

5March 13

American Dream

 After listening to Mauricio Garcia presentation, his words highlighted some important areas in my life that I need to work on.  I can remember when I was younger; I did not know what I wanted out of life but after listening to other people and their experiences, my mind went to education. Education is the key to success therefore I had to buckle down in high school and stay on the right road. My vision after high school was to go to college and become an elementary school teacher (www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-vision-statement.htm). While listening to Garcia talk about his life history, I thought about the direction my life is going. He discussed different essential strategies that helped him travel around the world. According to Garcia (2013), when he was younger, he didn’t like to speak in front of a large crowd because of his communication skills. My favorite quote that he gave was “A life without purpose is life without meaning”. When he used that quote, I started to say wow, that really makes sense. I asked myself a question, what is my purpose in life? I had to think and pray to God because I want to know his purpose for my life to be revealed to me. 

 Garcia (2013) was very knowledgeable of current and past history. He discussed history relating to World War 1. He also experienced going to another country and learning about different cultures.  Garcia was very knowledgeable about campus activities and ways to enhance community involvement. He was probing to see what it takes to get people involved on the school campus. I like when he said not to be afraid of making mistakes because everyone make mistakes and they really don’t realize it until they ask people and get the correct understanding. If I really had more time allotted to listen to him, I would have told him to express some more wonderful stories to me because the information that he gave was extremely helpful.

            As life goes on, I have been looking for a purpose and waiting on God to guide me in the right directions. I decided to get myself together and start to look for something I wanted to do in life therefore I put some effort towards my goals seeking. I started to further my career in Child Development and I decided to read up on the different career paths. My heart always went back to children. I always had a passion for child education. One thing that I really enjoyed doing is helping other children with their goals and getting them in a habit staying focus and thinking about their life history.

             By having dreams and purpose, it makes a person focus on their life better. Motivation is an important factor that help keep your dreams alive (Farmer, 1985). People   have different goals in life therefore they need to go for their dreams and make something happen. I have worked on goals for a long time and some of them I followed and some I am still holding on to them to that right moment. Your mind has to be set in order to accomplish your goals in life. I have a lot of dreams that I want to do by the time I get in my old age. Having a list of things to do, it would help me to stay on the right track and keep going. People learn from their mistakes in life.

            Having a speaker to talk about life experiences was exciting to me because you really don’t find somebody like Garcia often. His speech had meaning to it and also can lead people into good things for their future. I believe that if I didn’t hear anything about something like this I would still be in a lost land and still wouldn’t how my life would be. The quotes that were given by him were successful thought and it could at least impact people in the long run. I think that someone should start out and talk to younger children so they can learn at an earlier age.

Overall, our guest speaker pointed out different obstacles that he had in his life. It gave me a flashback and a wake- up call to keep preserving until I reach all of my goals in life. I’m really glad that I took this class. It’s an eye opener. 

Journal 4

On Tuesday we visit a presentation by a man name Mauricio Garcia’s. Mr. Mauricio had so many ways to inspired into many people lives and also teaching people things that they don’t know. He really put a point on this because I used to be like he to stand up in front of a big crowd because of how he talk and they used to make fun of him. He also talks about the life when he was younger and he came from another country and how it was different.   I really don’t like to sit down and listen to somebody but he really put a lot of key points out there. While he was talking I really was trying to understand what was giving because something that he was saying it didn't make sense to me because I’m young. Some things were understandable and I had to really think about what he was saying. I have never really known what I wanted to be in life I started off with one thing and then change my mind for another. This presentation gave me a little more knowledge and to think about what I want to be in life and to have more goals and to think about it first not just to go right into it. I learn a little bit from him because sometime I used to be afraid of asking questions and also just to mistakes  I don’t like that. I really enjoyed because it has open up me and to communicate better between people. 

Social Media Essay

Rochell Battle

Professor Warren

ENC 1102

12 February 2013

Social Media

Social media has become a common way of life. In the beginning, there were sites such as MySpace, Bebo, & Facebook. Social media has captivated the attention of every living generation. Children are using the internet for more of entertainment and less of education purposes.

            Social media has influenced a great amount of children therefore parents should monitor the different social media websites. The outside world is becoming scarcer than ever because people would rather sit in doors and communicate with strangers that they will most likely never meet then to go outdoors and meet new people face to face. Social media has taken over the minds and lives of our younger society.

Instant fame is the name of the game and more than a little is aspiring to gain it, doing whatever it takes while using the powerful tool of social media. People try to display themselves as prefect individuals but in reality, they are totally the opposite. The worse thing about it is younger children try so hard to portray what they are shown. It’s obvious if there were more positive people being constantly pushed down their throats like they do the negative people, our generation would have a better understanding of what is right and what is wrong. They no longer understand that you are not supposed to be perfect. There is an old saying “too much of anything can kill you”, a lot of famous people have killed their careers from exposing too much. Not only have famous people killed their career, normal people have broken up their families, relationships, and friendships all in the name of social media. The world need to aware that the federal government is managing these sites (USA.gov. 2013).

In recent years, studies have shown students who used social networking sites while studying scored 20% lower on tests. Students who used social media had an average GPA of 3.06 when there are non-users who had an average GPA of 3.82. Parents and teachers both have stressed their concern on how much time children are now spending on the internet. Although some like to argue by saying the use is for educational purposes, the point is invalid. There is no way teens who already complain about doing school work spend that much time on the internet for educational use; the proof is in the numbers (ProCon.org).

There has been a shift in the way families’ have communicated in the past and how they communicate now. It’s very common to get Facebook wall posts instead of phone calls. Things that could be said face to face are now texted, tweeted, or received by instant messages. People tend to state that they are lonely and use social networking as an outlet to their loneliness, but in all honestly they are lonely because they chose to be (ProCon.org).

Social networking has created this idea of another world. People have conversations, relationships, best friends, and even play competitive sports online. The only different is there isn’t any physical connection, so to speak. People have gotten so wrapped up in the idea of things that they never experience what it’s really like. Social networking display things in life differently than what it really is. For example, people have this idea that love is supposed to be perfect. Relationships that is dysfunctional in real life but displayed perfect online. They never tweet about the breakups, arguments, or any other things a normal relationship will have to overcome. So, now we have females 13 and up looking for something that is really not attainable. They want the perfect outcome results right then and there without putting in any effort. But, what they don’t understand is everything takes time; nothing is accomplished overnight (Dwyer, 2007).

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Overall, social media has been around for many years and it is here to stay. Every place of business, home, school, boy, girl, mother, and father use social media in some shape of form. Our society is growing faster when it comes to technology. Social networking targets at all types of audience. Children and Parents are able to communicate more than ever by having some type of technology devices such as cell phones, computers, I-pads, and tablets. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Dwyer, C. (2007) “Digital Relationships in the 'MySpace' Generation: Results From a Qualitative Study.”Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, 2007.

http://socialnetworking.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005132#10

USA.gov. (2013).Verify U.S. Federal Government Social Media Accounts

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/verify-social-media.shtml

 

Journal 3

Rochell Battle

11 February 2013

ENC 1102

Professor Warren

Digital Nation

Digital Nation is a common thing in the United States. Watching the video it seems that most of the children had a lot going on wanted to watch Television or just sitting on a video game all day. Most of the time children have a hard time when it’s time to use the computer because instead of them doing their work when getting on the computer they get on it to do games. It does also will hurt them through life growing up as to be an adult. I like that the younger children are using the laptop in school it also teaching the more strategies to teach them while they are younger. Most parents need to understand that computers are bad for their eyes it could harm them.  During the movie most people go to their work area and also playing the game on the Television instead of doing their work. There is more important things they should be doing instead of playing games they can do fun activities on the computer and help them the work that is giving in school. Digital has gotten out of control and it needs to stop or something could happens because also looking at the games that is dealing with fighting the children can also pick up a bad thing about what’s going on in the game or in the street. People would understand a little bit if they would understand about the safety of each child. 

Journal 2

My opinion of reality television is out of control. The reason why I say this is because of the things they have prompting on shows. They need to realize that there are children that are watching them. Some television shows have negatives that are allowing children to pick up on it. There shouldn't be any television shows that are showing their body parts. Even when I look at the children channel they have things on there that the children is doing that I know that many children picks up from just watching it. People are on here make a fool on their selves by going on these show acting up and talking about people fighting people. These shows are just like the real world and it’s not good because when these shows are showing it gives some people to think that they can go out and also does the same thing. I wish that I could just tell the people to just take good care of them and also do what’s best for them. If I had a day to sit down and talk to people I will because maybe they need some understanding that everyone watches the television and also children. By looking at certain television shows I think they have too much going on. Some of them have on point of showing them. So therefore I think people need to watch what they put on television and have more respect for people and their family. I love looking at television.    

Gallery Final Essay

Rochell Battle

ENC1102

Professor Warren

28 January 2013

Art is full of different colors

On January 15, 2013, I visited an art gallery that was created by people that had been in a college-wide Photography Competition. As I began to walk through the art gallery, I saw beautiful pictures that were colorful and old time black and white. There were three pictures that caught my attention therefore I decided to use the three eye catching pictures. My first picture was “Mini Jax”, which caught my attention because it reminded me of the beautiful background colors in the downtown area. My second picture was City Life”, it really caught my attention because the picture represents the area that I grow up in. The last picture was “The Entrance”, this was a bright pink picture that describes a man with a gun to the back of a women head.

“The camera is a tool that allows you to see with your soul”, this quote was written by Rob Gibson.

The first picture that I chose was “Mini Jax” by John Shippee. Looking at this picture, I knew what this was and also thought about writing about it.  When I look at the picture it was were colorful. This picture was filling with a brown and also with a little off white color. The buildings were tall and also level with many windows all over the building.  Is very colorful and also looks like a place called downtown Jacksonville. I really like this picture because of the colors and the buildings are made just like the ones Downtown. I like a colorful picture that I can look at and explain the picture in details. The road is made the same way downtown and with the same colors. I see that it has a bank. It looks like the JEA building that is brown. This is a fine piece of art you have a good view to what’s going on and could tell good details.

This second picture that I chose was “City life” by Charde’ laRoche. When I first saw this picture I felt like this is where I live and this is so beautiful.  I chose this picture because we stay in the city every day. The clouds are beautiful and blue with a little red inside. The buildings are the same color as the buildings downtown. I like this photo because of the colors they use, are as downtown. The bridge that I see in this picture is called the Main Street Bridge. You also see the landing in the picture that has the same color red and a shade of white color. In this picture you also see the big Wells Fargo bank logo on the top of the building.  

The last picture that I chose was “The Entrance” by Susan Tassin. When I first saw this picture all I could think was wow. What is going on? And why would somebody do that to her in her house I would have been scared. I dislike this picture because of the looks on it that someone is behind a lady holding a gun. This picture is filling of colors like a red and brown and a white that’s come from the book that she was reading. It has me thinking how this person ended up like they did. This picture looks like that someone could come inside the area without her knowing. She is reading a book so she could have been into the book and wasn't paying attention to anything. She may not have known that someone was there and someone was just playing that she was reading and nothing could happen. I would really like to know the whole story about this picture and the true details. I would have been scared if somebody would have done that to me. I would like to know what happens after that and more details.

In conclusion, I felt like all my pictures had some type of meaning. The Mini Jax picture is an outline of the Jacksonville downtown area. I also liked the “City Life” picture because it describes business offices, bridges and more of the downtown area. The last picture that caught my attention was “The Entrance”, this particular picture had a criminal background. This picture was examined to be a mug shot of an undercover man that came up behind an innocent woman while she was reading a book. Overall the three beautiful pictures had meaning to them. They all express different meanings but they shared some of the same concepts towards real world.