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A Reflection On Note Taking Styles

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 A Reflection On Note Taking Styles  One Word, One Phrase, One Sentence This had to be my least favorite of all the note-taking skills we practiced in this unit. I found it very difficult to use my notes in a discussion setting, and it did not facilitate helpful learning skills. When referring to my notes and how I explained my choices of words, phrases, and sentences, the notes themselves did not help me collaborate with my peers nor did they help me when writing my final blog. I believe that using this method within another not taking style would be more beneficial than the original style itself. As well as the note-taking method itself, I do not think the enforced discussion method was helpful at all. The strictness and blandness of the discussion almost warrant  the exercise useless and irrelevant to our learning. I do believe this style helped me in one way, and that was that it showed me I prefer and need less structured notes and open discussion on topics to bene...
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The Government Should Stay Neutral on Obesity

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The Government Should Stay Neutral on Obesity      When we focus on the topic at hand, the subject of obesity, we must not only look at personal responsibility and government responsibility but the options that are given to us as citizens, to begin with. Now more than ever has the US society become lazy. With countless options like fast food restaurants, takeout, and delivery becoming more prominent in the average U.S. citizen's diet, the lack of proper diet decisions has become more evident in the past decade. Because of convenience, we have swapped out homemade meals for fast food with ingredients that we have never heard of and could be detrimental to our health. People should have the right to do what they want, but they should be responsible for the consequences of their own actions, and they shouldn’t have to pay higher health care costs to cover the irresponsibility of other people. Although focusing on the topic of obesity, this holds true for many things. Such ...
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Is Pop Culture Good For You?

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  Is Pop Culture Good For You?  The question of whether pop culture is good for you or not is a hard one. Also, as a person in a generation that is addicted to their phones, but also someone that grew up very old-fashioned, I have trouble answering this prompt. So, to satisfy both sides of my opinion, I will argue that pop culture is both bad and good for society. Pop Culture IS Good For You Pop culture is good for you. Well, not you specifically, but society overall. As author Malcolm Gladwell states in his article, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted (2010), “But it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger,” he shows us how pop culture had helped people connect over common topics. When we utilize pop culture and social media to breach the barriers of social activism, we can reach many more people than those in our ...
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My Literary Autobiography

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I cannot remember a time in my life as a child that did not have books in it. I was the typical girl that loved princess stories and Barbie books. I always wanted to read a book before bed with one of my parents, which usually ended up being my dad. This was because he was much more willing to climb into my child-sized loft bed with two inches of headroom and read me my fairytales than my mother was willing. I remember what my favorite book was almost 12 years later; my Pocahontas pop-up book. I would snuggle up to him and play with the picture tabs as he read me the story. My mother would make me read the story and would animate the pictures for me. Clearly, they had very different parenting and literary teaching styles for their 6-year-old daughter. PAGE ONE OF POCAHONTAS POP-UP BOOK As I got older though, I started to fall into the trap of “I hate reading” because I never got to read what I wanted and had to read these much more realistic books and novels for school. I didn’t li...
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