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Unfortunately this will be our final blog post ladies and gentleman. I'm sad this has come to a end I really thought we had something good going. But like they say every ending starts a new beginning so that is a reliever. all and all I've had a great experience and I will dive into why so lets jump in. Enjoy!
This semester flew by it was a whirlwind full of learning, but taking this class really put a positive impact on my lifestyle. I just want to thank professor Mangini and my classmates for doing their part on having this effect on my life. Professor Mangini taught me a whole new form of life not just writing but life on really to just how to be a better person, I appreciate that he took the time to teach us because he cared about our learning, most just teach how to get there paycheck. From diving deep into the readings of the interesting passages he showed to talking about the alp sessions talking about why our world is messed up in many different ways. Also it really helped my work ethic from having the weekly blogs to revising my projects week in and week out. I wish I could take this class over again because of how much I enjoyed coming to each class to from just having Mangini talk about his or week or something funny happening in class, even though not to many people spoke. The class really stood out to me when we did the gratitude journal then had to do a research project on it, that project changed a whole perception of life for me. It brought me out of a rough time trying to adjust to these major life changes I was going through. I also loved the approach with the website and the interesting blogs, that approach felt easier to learn because we were creating our own product and then kept taking it and running from blog to blog. Now let's talk about ALP, that class helped me learn the material much easier. I feel like that gave me a deeper understanding of everything that was taught because we spent more time learning these things and getting my done in that setting, it’s a easier work environment than home. I’m thankful for all the experiences I have had in this class and I wish everyone the best in their lives.
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This week I had my section 2 and 3 revised by the man Dr Mangini himself. That really helped my writing process and my work. I produced a much better essay because I was so blind to these things. Help can come from anyone, always view the cristism has constrctive because if you dont your feelings will be hurt. But the truth hurts but it does help in many ways. We did this in ALP and i thought making a post out of it might help out you guys with your process's. So check out my shitty first drafts because we all have them. Enjoy!
This post has to do with my introduction, The idea was to start off with a little scene to warm up the audience, to grab their attention. But this is a scene from my three good things project, with the great day my brother and I had. So If this scene is good enough and fits my introduction then you could possibly see this in there.
It’s a Saturday morning, 8.45 am to be exact, I wake up to the smell of coffee and breakfast. The sizzling bacon makes me feel a sort of calmness knowing that it's alright I’m in a great place right now. I walk on downstairs to wake up nick so we can get on to 2k for the event, the night before we planned on waking up and getting on this. So he wakes up and says “Thanks just give me a minute to fully wake up” I then reply”Alright I'll set it up for you” Back down Nick goes, I walk back up stairs to eat some breakfast and get on the game. My mom knew I had a rough week so I think she did that out of niceness. I really appreciate her for that and it makes me feel loved in many ways. I thought to myself, I'm going to put this as one of my three good things today in my journal. So now Nick and I are on the game, I join his party and we get into the playground. The event is the “Reese's Park event” it is double xp and VC. So we get into the first game and we won, we went on a 9 game win streak. Then at 10 the event ended, Nick mentioned something about the sixers playing at 1 today against the pistons. I said Lets go to the game it's the first time since Embiid and drummond played since drummond tried talking all that shit from last game. Nick says” Yeah I'm down to go let's ask dad to email us the tixs.” So we have season tixs and have had them since 2012, Well I got my dad to email us the tixs and we are getting ready to go to the game. I ask Nick if we wanted to get chickfila before the game. I never seen someone's face light up more than his. So we leave chick fil a, Nick is on the aux playing straight hits. So the 40 minute drive felt like 10 minutes. Its 12:30 and we are pulling into the phillies parking lot because this sold out crowd already filled up the 76ers lot. So we got a pretty good walk in this blistering cold, 40 degrees. It hasn't been this cold all year, as I blow into my hands to warm them up. Nick asks “ do you think Embiid is going cook drummond after shit talked Embiid after last game?” I reply “ I bet he goes for 40 on him.” So at this point we are in line to get into the stadium. We get our tixs checked and entered the game, we take the escalator up to the second level. Our seats are halfcourt, row 1, seat 7, and 8. It's gametime, the announcer calls out the names and the crowd is going wild, trust the process chants are being shouted all throughout the arena. Embiid first play of the game bullies drummond and the dunks it home as everyone ooo’s and ahh’s. Fast forward to halftime and Embiid has 32! Sixers are flat out dominating the pistons today. Halftime is over and the game is going. Markelle Fultz drove the lane and rose up to put drummond on a poster but missed because he got fouled by drummond on the play. Man was the crowd jumping after that play. Now the 4th quarter hits and man this is a great game, I look over nick and say “ Embiid has 34 he could get 40 like I said.” He replies “ I think he might get 50 let alone 40” We both laughed and our eyes got glued back to court as the athletes run up and down the court trying to put the ball into the hoop. The game has ended, Nick and I walk back we talk about how Wmbiid only had 39, What's in store for our sixers, also if Brett brown is the right fit for this team. So we get in the car and drive off from a fantastic game and a great day we have had. In this blog post I will be doing some research on positive psychology for my research project. I will be using plenty of sources so seek them throughout the context of the post. During all this I've learned so much and I'm really appreciating that I get to take in all this information to help out my life in endless ways. Now lets hop into the research of it all, I hope you enjoy this wonderful process.
So first of all lets define positive psychology and what it exactly means. The information I gathered from What is Positive Psychology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program) taught me that positive psychology is focus on your day to day well being but there are three categories are your Positive experiences, positive states and traits, positive institutions. But your probably wondering about who was the founder this subject, that is the famous Penn psychologist Dr. Martin Segilman. He also created the three good things project which I did in blog post 10. A big thing that teaches is gratitude. What best represents gratitude in my opinion is “the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself and represents a general state of thankfulness and/or appreciation” (Sansone & Sansone, 2010). I pulled this quote from What is Positive Psychology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program). But another thing that branches off the both of them which is very important is Well being. There are many different meanings to well being but my personal one is The state of mindfulness, appreciation and awareness of all the things that are going on in your life. But according to Psychology Today, happiness, vitality, calmness,optimism,involvement,self-awareness, self-acceptance,self-worth,competence,development,purpose, significance, congruence, and connection. In the midst of all this research it is helping me be more aware of these things, but also becoming better at this whole gathering information and finding ways to better my writing. Positive psychology has been being researched since the 1960s but the reason they have started to do research on it was because Dr. Segilman was tired of psychology focusing on the negatives in life, according to Positive psychology program. Which I find interesting because that means we have only scratched the surface on fully discovering all the information to this positive psychology research. I will definitely stay up to date with this info to better myself for the future. But lets take a look into Mindfulness and talk about that because that is very important to the work of positive psychology. "Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us." - Mindfullness.org. Mindfulness plays a big part in that three good things project, at least I got that take away from that project. That is the recent research I have completed but not nearly close to where I want to be with all my research. We will now start to take a turn in things and focus on a very important topic in today's world, Positive psychology. In the three good things project, I will be recording three things I am grateful for each day. I personally think it has helped me and so has these readings about the positive psychology: What is Positive Pyschology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program), Greater Good in Action: Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life (UC Berkeley's Project Home Page), and Three Good Things (Greater Good in Action). Here are the three things I was grateful for the past seven days. Enjoy!
Journal I 10/30 1.ALP Class I am grateful for my ALP class for the reason being of my teacher professor Mangini because he taught us about how positive psychology can help us in ways to make our life happier. It makes me feel grateful to know that there are people out there wanting to make lives better on a day to day basis. 2. Dinner I was grateful for my mom asking us what we want for to do for dinner that night, it shows she has our interests in mind. She is cooking dinner for me and my two brothers after a rough day at work. It makes me feel loved for that fact of what my mom will do for us. 3.Brothers I am so grateful for being so close to my brothers, we always talk about whats going on in the sports world. We debate and have great conversations it makes me feel less lonely and its great we can connect through something we all have a passion for. Journal II 10/31 1. David I love having a caring brother he is always there for me no matter what. He is someone I can talk my problems out with and I do the same for him. We also talked about our podcast and what we can do with it. All makes me feel motivated and that someone genuinely cares about me. 2. Alyssa I am so grateful for my girlfriend, although she is away at college she always finds the time to talk to me over the phone, we have some really great conversations about our future. It makes me feel secure, loved and very appreciated. I am so glad to have her in my life. 3.Father I am grateful for my dad,we discussed about getting sushi in the future and when my doctors appointment is for my knee. I look forward to getting sushi with him. It shows that he cares about me even though he is busy a lot. Journal III 11/1 1. Kaden’s Birthday I am grateful for being able to go out to dinner and celebrate my step brother's birthday. We went to red lobster and the biscuits were phenomenal. He turned 6 and having him in my life is showing me how important it is to raise a child in today's world. 2. David pt II David and I talked out our problems and it really relieved me so much over the stuff I have been stressing we both go through a lot so its good we are there for each other. I really enjoy having a brother like him. 3. Nick Nick is my little brother and we played video games together. It took things off my mind and we had a great time bonding while playing some 2k. It makes me feel relaxed and grateful for having a brother to have a great time with. Journal IV 11/2 1.Math I was grateful for my math teacher giving us a study guide for and reviewing it in class to prepare for our test monday. It really helped me become more knowledgeable of our material. 2. Work I deliver pizzas for a place called cimmeras, even though it rained people were giving generous tips I ended up making the most I ever have. I made $138 in 5 hours, I was very grateful for it and it taught me to be more giving and generous. 3. Mom My mom stayed up till 9:30pm after a long day of work to talk to me about how my night went and we had a great conversation. I felt as if she was proud of me because of how well my night went at work which makes me feel great about myself. Journal V 11/3 1. Nick Me and nick spent the whole day together, we woke up at 9 and played some 2K because there was a daily event we both agreed to play. Then we went to the sixers game at 1, but we got chickfila before and it was really good. Then we went home and around 7 we ate wings and watched south park. I haven't spent the whole day with him in a while and I had the greatest time. We laughed all day and it made me so grateful to have a brother like him. 2. Joel Embiid So we went to the sixers game but the only reason it was so good, was because of Joel Embiid. He dropped 39 points and 32 of them in the first half. He had beef with the other center so that made it very fun. But I am grateful for him to make my day much more eventful. 3. Fire So that night my friends and I had a fire. We drank some beer and smoked a little around the fire. We joked around had a lot of good laughs, and reminesed the times we had down at senior week. That pretty much capped off the great weekend I had. It made feel hope for my days to be better, as in to get more interesting. Journal VI 11/4 1.David David and I spent the whole morning playing some 2K, we were winning so much so that made it fun. But no matter what I appreciate the fact that we are playing together, I don't really care what happens in the game. It makes me feel more happy to spend time with him. 2.Mom My mom went food shopping and we ended up all getting 5 guys. Now we have more food to eat but My brothers, Mom, and I all sat down and had a great meal together. I missed that it makes me feel like a family again even though of all the stuff that has happened. 3.Dad My Dad and I talked on the phone for a good amount. We talked about getting sushi, the sixers, eagles, and what he was doing. I appreciated him going out of his way to talk to me while he was out and about food shopping for home. Journal VII 11/5 1.Mom Mom made chicken cutlets today and those are my favorite, but I appreciate her doing this because she didnt get done work till 6 and still made dinner. My mom is a warrior for waking up at 5 am and not getting done work till 6 and still have time to do these things for us.I am so grateful for that women. 2. DCCC So after class I had to wait for david to get done his classes. So I went up to the stem center and jumped on the computer to bang these journals out on the computer. I also finished up my work for another class. It makes me feel lucky to even be able to attend a college and get access to all these wonderful things. 3.David I am grateful for David driving me to school today. This helps me save money for gas but also spending time with him and getting to talk about all these amazing topics with him. It really makes me feel more confident within myself expressing my opinions. In this blog post I will be doing this via Vlog from youtube. I will be going over my second draft of my narrative project. In it I will answer a few questions but here are a few readings that helped me answer them: What is Fan Fiction -- and why is it making people nervous? (Stephen Downes), a link to Rewinding and Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Head (Hidden Brain Podcast). Now lets get into the video. Enjoy! In this blog post I have produced something abnormal compared to my other post. I think everyone is going to enjoy this unique approach. Please give me your feedback on ways I can improve this though.Enjoy! In this post I will be sharing a poem I constructed from my narrative project. I took out words and phrases from my narrative
project to make this poem. What is a Found Poem? | Sample Found Poem | Visual Examples of Found Poems these readings helped create my poem in the best way I can. I hope you all can enjoy this reading as much as I had making it. Change Is Now Here comes the referee shaking, holding the glowing orange ball, Something doesn’t feel right, like I have a string on it, It has landed in my hands, All these goosebumps flow down my body. Uh-oh, I felt this sharp pain in my knee. I see everyone staring at me, lying on this cold but dusty hardwood floor. I sit here in despair, heartbroken, This is tearing me apart… I felt helpless, the nerves are a little shaky. I felt so detached like someone just took away my sense of being. I might never be the same again. Section II: Do you think the narrative provides enough descriptive language to create a compelling found poem?~ I personally do believe my narrative uses enough descriptive language to where the audience understands me. Do you think the descriptive language more so creates a setting or delivers the subtext of a theme?~ I think it creates a little bit of both but you have to dive deep to fully understand. In this blog post I will be revising my blog post 5. With the help of My Mother Gives me a Writing Lesson (Martin Lee), I was able to use a few tips from it and revise my post. I hope the changes were for the best. Enjoy!
The tip is off we won and I end up with the ball, the ball is so soft and cushiony but it feels like I have a string on it the way I'm handling it. So I come off the screen and pull up. Shoot. Swishh goes the net the crowd on its feet. I've been waiting for this moment for the longest time. Fast forward to the second quarter we hold the lead 17-14. Down the court we come I pass it to the center and he shoots. Clank! Off the rim it goes the other team is leaking out I'm getting back they shoot a three and miss I go up for the rebound and down I come. POP! Uh-oh I felt this sharp pain and I'm lying here on this cold dusty hardwood court. This pain is unlike no other I'm slamming the floor hoping for it to stop but that's not going to happen. I scope out the scene and I see everyone staring at me but the game is still going on then I see my mom. She is so worried and runs out on the court with my Dad and then they stop the game and help me up. I keep thinking to myself why? Why? Why did I play? Why didn't I just sit out for this pointless game? We walk over to the sideline the grab me a bag of ice and I just sit here watching my team go on without me. Im furious but sad, confused but angry at myself. It all started on a Saturday in March.Its game day and the nerves are going, my stomach is full of butterflies. But this isn't no ordinary game this is the championship. Me and my brother nick play for the same team in this rec league and we pull up to the gym calm and confident we are ready for whatever comes our way, or at least we think that. The gym smells like fresh wax with a sweaty aroma in the air. I scout out the gym the other team has only lost once all season and today we have to do something we haven't done all season, beat them twice.I hurt my knee the week before pretty bad. It was very weak it felt like my leg would give out all week and right now I'm contemplating on playing. But I can't let down my brother and the rest of the team so I am going to play. That decision unfortunately ended changing my life in a way I never imagined. The changes I made were pretty drastic. I tried out a new form writing called in media res. Its when you open up the story straight to the climax of the scene, I found it very helpful in my story to attract the readers attention from the get go. This blog post I will recreate a past scene of my life that has had a big affect on my life today in a negative way. Here are a few readings that have helped me construct this blog, What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang) and My Name is Margaret. Now I will show you this brief but very vital moment in my life.
Its game day and the nerves are going, my stomach is full of butterflies. But this isn't no ordinary game this is the championship. Me and my brother nick play for the same team in this rec league and we pull up to the gym calm and confident we are ready for whatever comes our way, or at least we think that. The gym smells like fresh wax with a sweaty aroma in the air. I scout out the gym the other team has only lost once all season and today we have to do something we haven't done all season, beat them twice.I hurt my knee the week before pretty bad. It was very weak it felt like my leg would give out all week and right now I'm contemplating on playing. But I can't let down my brother and the rest of the team so I am going to play. Tip off is in 5 minutes and I'm putting on biofreeze to help my knee feel better. But anyways Its game time and i'm ready for the action we take the court. I see some friends but for the next 4 quarters they are the enemies. The tip is off we won and I end up with the ball, the ball is so soft and cushiony but it feels like I have a string on it the way I'm handling it. So I come off the screen and pull up. Shoot. Swishh goes the net the crowd on its feet. I've been waiting for this moment for the longest time. Fast forward to the second quarter we hold the lead 17-14. Down the court we come I pass it to the center and he shoots. Clank! Off the rim it goes the other team is leaking out Im getting back they shoot a three and miss I go up for the rebound and down I come. POP! Uh-oh I felt this sharp pain and I'm lying here on this cold dusty hardwood court. This pain is unlike no other Im slamming the floor hoping for it to stop but that's not going to happen. I scope out the scene and I see everyone staring at me but the game is still going on then I see my mom. She is so worried and runs out on the court with my Dad and then they stop the game and help me up. I keep thinking to myself why? Why? Why did I play? Why didn't I just sit out for this pointless game? We walk over to the sideline the grab me a bag of ice and I just sit here watching my team go on without me. I'm furious but sad, confused but angry at myself. First game ends and we win I get up to motivate my team but I can no longer walk on my left leg. So I sit here talk to nick telling him “Lets go bro go out there and get this dub we didn't come all this way to lose” Nick replies, “Bet.” I trust him to help us come out on top. But we ended up winning the second game which means we have won the championship! I was so proud of them but the bad news is I tore my ACL, Meniscus, and fractured my tibia spine bone… I will need surgery and it takes 8-10 months to recover. |
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