14V

Investment 

What does Investment mean? When I search the term Investment the def. they gave was the action or process of investing money for profit or material result, but since were talking about education I feel that the word means the time you spend on your studies and the outcome you get will be great. 

Two related Words 

portfolio-a flat case for carrying documents or drawings, the investments that are owned by a person or organization 

stagflation-an economic situation in which prices of goods and services continually increase, many people do not have jobs, and businesses are not very successful 

14B. Thankful

Since its Thanksgiving its that time period that we want to know what we are thankful for. To me the biggest thing that I am thankful for is that I am able to live another day because I'm still living. But I'm also glad that I get to see the world more and what it has to offer me in the future. But also how I can adapt to it. 

Another thing that I am thankful is that I am to continue my education because not be many can do this because of financial problems at home and they can afford the tuition of the school led alone the room and board if they choose to live on campus. I know for me I'm thankful that I have a carrying mother who believes in her child that he will do good in life. Even though she gets on my nerves I'm thankful fr having a strong mother that is able to put me through college and still manage to do things that we want to do. 

There's a lot to be thankful for that its hard to name because you want to make it sound nice but you don’t think about it fully.   

14A. Stress

Wow Finals are approaching really fast, it is very true what people say that college semesters go by very quickly because in the next two weeks finals will be here.  

It sort of feels early to start thinking about finals because back in high school our finals would be in June not in December but I know its something that I will adjust to. But for the next weeks I know that I will experience some serious stress with cramming in all the last minute assignments and make up some things to pass the class, but I know that if I go in with a great mind set and a positive attitude I know that I will be ok. 

For this week we only had two days of classes because of Thanksgiving, and for me I took this time to think and reflect on myself and give myself some "me time". Reason why I did  that is because I want to be less stress and to be calm but that’s just hope because I know in reality I'm going to be very stress. 

So that is the reason that this week im having some "me time" because it is important that people take time for themselves because without I feel that you will lose yourself in the madness. So these are the reasons why I take me time and trying to be less stress with everything before the madness and craziness starts. 

But overall the only thing that I trying to do is to keep my calm on everything especially on my family because I don't want them to be stress because I'm stressing over things that are completely out f their element. 

13B. Final project

Creativity is one of the most important aspect of this video project. Even though everybody has some creativity in them I feel that I lack that because I usually go with the simple things that gets things done. So for this part on the video I will kind of be lacking in, but I feel that if I put in  lot more effect into my project I know that there will be some creativity in my project.  See the Idea that I was thinking about was making a skit for my topic which is how to deal with stress. Reason why I thought about making a skit is because its creativity and it shows what the problem is and how they deal it with it and what the outcome looks like. So since part of the guidelines in the project is to be creativity and what not creativity about creating a skit about my topic. I feel that by me creating a skit it does express creativity in my video.  

the plot of my skit is a young student being over whelm with all the course work they had due in the following week and then a friend of the student passes by them and the they have a conservation and in that conversation that friends gives the student some advice about how they can deal with stress and how they can handle it. I feel by that it does express creativity. I also was thinking about putting some background music to make the scene more dramatic and more intense and that can be creative. hopefully this project I can be able to express some creativity on this video.  

13V. Purpose

Purpose 

What is purpose 

well when I googled the word Purpose the def they gave me was the reason why something is done or used, the aim or intention of something, the feeling of being determined to do or achieve something, the aim or goal of a person : what a person is trying to do, become, etc. which is highly important in college today 

Two similar words 

Desire-   to long or hope for :  exhibit or feel desire for  

Wish- to want (something) to be true or to happen 

theses are the words that relate to the work Purpose 

13.I

for this weeks involvement I attend a meeting I set up with the math tutor and lets say its was a great experience. Reason why it was great was because they were so very patient with me and was able to fully explain some of the mistakes I was doing and how I should approach theses questions in the future. I felt that they were more understandable than my professor is and that shows a lot to me because Im paying for a class that a professor doesn't fully explain the material being presented to the class, I do recommend students to pay a visit to the math center located in the basement of Englment.  

13A. final project

For this WEEK'S Blogs A post our professor is asking her students what college level thinking are we putting in to our final draft of our video projects. 

My video topic for my final video is How to Deal With Stress? Even though it’s a good topic to talk about because there is a lot to talk about especially with finals coming up and how mostly all freshman's had difficulty registering for class for next semester. Bu the question that I have running through my mind is how can I make this into a college level thinking.  

So the ideas that I have came up with were making a skit to show how students  are facing adversity in there studies and how they can overcome the struggle and succeeding into their course work.  

The other idea that I had was setting up an interview with the counseling services and how they see students coming in for a meeting so they can talk about how stress they are feeling about life and they studies, and ask the counselor for a typical response(s) they might tell that student.  

With these ideas that I have came up with my thing is how can I might this into college level thinking because our professor doesn't want us to interview students because she feels that its too basic and now really a college level thinking. What she wants from us is us thinking critical and having different aspects to the problem or question. 

But somehow I know that I can make whatever idea I use into college level thinking because I am determine to pass the course and get a good grade on the assignment and to prove that I am capable of doing this project unlike my last project for our midterm video projects    

12I. Classes

For the week of November11 and November15 involvement I was able to register for class for next semester. I was really glad that I was able to register early so I could pick out the classes that I wanted and the right time I wanted also. The courses that I will be taking next semester are  

• ENG 112 
• MAT 107 
• Spanish 100 
• Biology 100 
• Social Work 200 

I feel that next semester I would feel more free due to the fact that I was able to pick my classes. I do look forward to next semester also fir a new beginning  

12v. Interdisciplinary Perspective

Interdisciplinary Perspective 

when I search the term interdisciplinary this is what I found on Wiki. 

Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g. a research project). It is about creating something new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them. It is related to an interdiscipline or an interdisciplinary field, which is an organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged 

And this is what I found on Dictionary.com  

: involving two or more academic, scientific, or artistic areas of knowledge : involving two or more disciplines 

 

12B. Re-thinking

During this weeks reading a few INQ questions came through my mind. Some of the questions that I came up with were  

• How important is a Liberal Arts Education 
• Why is it that many people look at this degree as a throw away 

Through this weeks reading I definitely was second guessing weather or not if I should continue a to stay at Southern and receive a Liberal Arts and Social Work degree or go to a trait school and start my practice as a Social Worker. These thoughts were consistently running through my mind. Reason is because part of me didnt want to continue learning things that I may not be interest in because that’s not what I was paying for. I just want to start learning things I Social Work because that’s what I was paying. And also I was having self doubt on whether or not I can do it. These were the reason why I was having these thoughts 

But after reading the articles and starting thinking on how beneficial a liberal arts education is made me believe that I was at the right place. Reason is because what if through the years I start to feel that I don’t want to become a Social Worker by taking classes at Southern I could be able to change my major to whatever interested me in my courses. That’s I why I was re-thinking my thinking and was glad that I chose to attend a school that offer both a liberal education as well an education that would let me practice my field.      

12a. Liberal Arts Education

What is the value of a Liberal Arts Education? Well too the value of this type of Education consist of a student being a well rounded individual. But its true value is that it teaches student of to thinking openly, meaning that there able to think more that what they are capable of, making them more flexible. It gives a more broad range of knowledge. Also besides thinking skills students are also giving the chance to improve there vocabulary and by doing so they able to advance their communication skills and having an upbeat or cognitive conversation. This is the value of a Liberal Arts Education. 

However there is also a downside to having a Liberal Arts degree. For starters its one the degrees that takes the longest, not because its hard but its because your learning everything. The importance of this degree is that your learning multiple degrees such as, english, social work, communication, and etc. For example if someone is a Social Work major its important that you’re a well rounded person who is able to be flexible ith their conversations and thinking skills. Also its important to know another language because you may have clients that barely speak any English and by you having a Liberal Arts degree with your Social Work degree your still able to communicate you that person because you probably took a language during your studies. 

Having a Liberal Arts Educations brings you out if your confront zone in short words to say, and that’s what major job companies want from there employees and by having an LAD you stand out of the crowd and you have a better chance getting that job you always wanted. 

As you can see having a Liberal Arts Education has many advantages as well as having disadvantages. 

 

11B. Questions and Answers

For this week all the students in Prof Guarino's classes had to come up with questions and answers. Even though she has many students I was able to brows through most of all her students by using her blog as a resource (her blog, www.inq101fall2013.blogspot.com) and I was able to read some of the blogs that her students have posted. And I must say there were so many great questions that her students were asking. I felt that they understood what the prof. was asking in her blog B post for this week, and how they were great at predicting at what a pop quiz question might be. I know that our prof. would be proud of her student. 

However there was one blog post that stood out to me and that was http://liveloveandlaugh1.blogspot.com/. I felt that her questions were questions that our prof. would ask on a pop questions. It required some serious thinking and had us coming up with arguments as well.  her questions werent to broad and not straight to the point like my questions were. I feel that she excelled what the prof wanted and gave both a great question but in this case questions and also she gave great responses that were very well written.  

With http://liveloveandlaugh1.blogspot.com/ blog B post this week I can indeed see some of her questions in one of our pop quizzes. Reason is because it while reading her questions I saw myself coming up with responses of my own and how I can relate them to other readings we did in the past in this course. 

Now that I have some knowledge on how some of the questions will be presented on a pop quiz I feel that I would be ready for my quizzes in the future and feel confident too. 

11A. INQ Question

Without the invention of Computers, do you believe people would be more creativity? Explain your answer. 

I believe that people would be less creativity without the invention of computers. Reason is because they has been many things that have been invented with the help of a person having a computer. In todays day and age children are able to create app with computers and how creative is a childs mind. Also I believe that since kids are being creative by using computers to create these apps then imagie what they can do when they get older. 

Also without the inventions of computers we would have cell phones because in order to understand the complexity of the interior design of the the software we would need to the basic knowledge and that’s what the computer is used for.  

Also we would have the internet either. And the internet is highly important to society because it has the answers that everybody needs. Now that’s creative. A person creating a instrument that tells people what they are doing wrong and how they can better themselves.   

I personally feel that my question is a high school question. Reason why I feel that my question is a high school questions is because its to broad and to predictable and that’s not what college questions are. I also feel that it very opinionated, and that’s not a very good college questions because to me college questions are going in depth with things and creating arguments and other things. And with this question I feel that you don’t have to go in depth with this question because its very broad and striaght to the point.  

This is what I can up with as my question and my response to my question and how I felt about it.  

11V. Innovation

when I searched the term Innovation I found that it meant, The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as consequence, new that "breaks in to" the market or into society. One usually associates to new phenomena that are important in some way. A definition of the term, in line with these aspects, would be the following: "An innovation is something original, new, and important - in whatever field - that breaks in to (or obtains a foothold in) a market or society 

Two Similar Words 

Fantasy: something that is produced by the imagination : an idea about doing something that is far removed from normal reality 

Origination:  to begin to exist : to be produced or created