Blog/RJ Week15

      At the beginning of the semester, I thought this would be an easy class, but surprise surprise it was quite the work load and plenty of writing. There were times throughout the semester when I was ready to give up on this class, but I also told myself "I have taken harder classes than this and I have succeeded in them." I must say that my writing has improved a great amount. To be honest when I would read others' blogs, class discussions, essays,... etc. I became more self-awared and self-conscious about my writing, I knew then, that I had to "step up my game" and start writing like a college student and less like a high school student. Of course, my writing will always be a work in progress, but I am more than willing to work on it until I am completely please with my style of writing. I know for now that it has improved and all thanks to this class.
      The reading was easy yet hard at the same time, only because it had to be analyzed and I had think like a critical thinker. Thinking outside the box is quite the brain teaser, but it helped my critical thinking skills, which were also useful for my history class. I have said it before and I will say it again, I enjoy writing and it's something that I will always need as long as I am in school, and perhaps even after finishing school. Pursuing a career in psychology is more than just listening to people and help them resolve any problems or issues, I know there's an extraneous amount of writing. I am pleased to have taken this class.

Blog/RJ Week14

My thoughts on the research paper, well so far I haven't started on it yet and it's already wednesday, I plan on doing all my research today. I have an idea of what I want my paper to be on and I know where I can find most of the information. It's just a matter of finding my inner motivation and get started on it. Though I am excited to type up this paper because I plan on writing it on the educational system, I recently watched a documentary on it and I thought it was perfect to include in my paper, there's many different sources that can be found for this subject. I do hope that in the process I don't get writers block because that would be harmful to my grade for this paper.

Blog/RJ Week13

    Depending with whom I'm talking to through online communication then sometimes I may be more details and other times I am more brief and to the point. If it's an e-mail it's more brief and to the point and also professional because most of the time it is for jobs or something important. If I am chatting with a friend on Facebook than it's often times more detailed and relaxed writing, though slang from my part is hardly used, because I like spelling out every word to give sentences and conversation more life and vivacity. I usually write out exactly what I am thinking, whenever I chat with friends and most times I like exaggerating the letters in words like for example if someone gives me a good news, case in point, my friend gave me great news the other day telling me he got accepted into UCLA and I responded, "oooooohhh my gooodnesss, that is sooo amazingggg" something like that, but I guess you get the point right? I usually do that to show my excitement for something that I am told.
   People usually think I am happy all the time, because of my style of writing things. Which is true for the most part, I am happy and outgoing the majority of the time. Also because I like spelling out every word, people may think that I am smart well of course that's when I am not exaggerating the words I use. I will use different styles for different situations, like I mentioned before if I am writing an e-mail it will most likely be formal rather than informal and relaxed. But usually with friends it will be a more informal writing style, but it also depends who I am speaking with, like if it's an adult, a family member than I would be more formal just to keep the formality and respect towards that person, under no circumstances would I use foul language; though it is rare that I use it.

Blog/RJ Week12

       America is the one country that allows people to express their thoughts and perhaps feelings too in the way they see the world. Editorial cartoons are the one way that people get to express themselves without being judged or getting in trouble for it, they make fun of politics, giant corporations, and almost anything that happens around the world. If we take a second to think about it, editorial cartoons play quite a large part in American culture, I mean it's satirical but educational in a sense, it gives Americans a different perspective whether it be a political cartoon and it's either democratic or republican, or most of the time they are both made fun of, but the fact that people have the freedom of speech to express themselves in such a way; really gives us (the community) a sense of relief. 

     They are a communication medium in the sense that it's a way of cartoonist expressing their ideas of how they see the world. Although everyone thinks differently, people give their own opinion on them and their perspective of what they may think the cartoon means to them. As most of us can see, by newspaper editorials or online editorials; most of these cartoons are based on politics and some can be hilarious because they have truth to them. Other are just silly, they make fun of presidents, governors, and many other situations that happen in government or around the world. But it's safe to say that we can look at these and know that the cartoonist did not "get in trouble" for coming up with such cartoon. 

    As we all must have heard, Osama Bin Laden is dead... or so they say, but people are skeptical and want to see his death certificate, I was looking up some editorial cartoons when this political cartoon came up and it has Osama Bin Laden burning in hell and the devil signing his death certificate while saying "Donald Trump is demanding to see your death certificate". Here's a link so you guys can check it out if you want  http://www.cagle.com/news/OsamabinLadenDead/main.asp