I think that it's good that things like splenda gets a lot of attention because I think that people don't really get how much things like this can hurt them. People is just thinking about fat and suger but there are acctually other things that is just as bad as suger or fat.
I havn't heard of spelnda before but I believe it's a bad thing and I belive that people buy things daily that contains splenda thinking that it's a good thing.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Questions for Active Reading p.233
1. Examine the details Sanders gives about building a wall to divide a room. Can you clearly visualize what Sanders is doing at each step? Is each concept clearly defined? Why, at the end of the essay, does Sanders feel the need to describe so clearly each step in the process?
The angles must be right and you have to use good tools. I think it's very unclear what Sanders is doing at each step. Maybe because he was thinking back at what his father would have said.
2. How does Sanders use chronological order in this essay? What objects, images, or ideas connect the different periods of time that he describes?
Sanders is jumpig between time in this essay. He is using his father, grandfather and him self to jump between time. First he tells us about one of them and then he jumps to one other.
3. What is a "dawn stone"? Why does Sanders describe it in this essay, and what does it represent to him?
A "dawn sone" is an unworked stone, that served as the earliest hammers. He sais that it's been a long time since they started to use the dawn stones but the desing or imaginations haven't changed that much.
The angles must be right and you have to use good tools. I think it's very unclear what Sanders is doing at each step. Maybe because he was thinking back at what his father would have said.
2. How does Sanders use chronological order in this essay? What objects, images, or ideas connect the different periods of time that he describes?
Sanders is jumpig between time in this essay. He is using his father, grandfather and him self to jump between time. First he tells us about one of them and then he jumps to one other.
3. What is a "dawn stone"? Why does Sanders describe it in this essay, and what does it represent to him?
A "dawn sone" is an unworked stone, that served as the earliest hammers. He sais that it's been a long time since they started to use the dawn stones but the desing or imaginations haven't changed that much.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Journal Entry #5
1. This essay was written in 1971. What types of duties does Syfers describe as being performed by wives? To what degree do you believe these are still done primarily by women? Have these or other things about the husband/wife relationship changed in the last 37 years?
Syfers duties like iroing, taking care of the children, keeping track of children's doctor and dentist appointments, keeping sure that the children eat properly and are kept clean, wash the children's clothes, keeping them mended, making sure that the children are having an adeuquate social life with their peers, taking them to the park and zoo etc.
Other duties are taking care of the mans physical needs, keeping the house clean, cooking the meals etc. Almost everything. I believe that it's like this in a lot of homes. But not in mine. I think that some of it has changed because I think that my grandmas have been doing a lot more of these things than my mother is doing.
2. How would you describe Syfers’ writing style? Does she do things you would typically avoid in your own writing?
She is repeating herself over and over again. It works when she does it but I would probably avoid it.
3. Syfers was reacting to a social structure that she felt at the time was unfair. What types of injustice or unfairness do you see in the world nowadays that you think should be addressed? Syfers implies that men benefit from the servile position of women in the family. Who benefits from the injustices you see active in the world today?
Espsecially that so many people are poor while so many people have more money than they will ever use. I think that the rich people benefit in the world today.
Syfers duties like iroing, taking care of the children, keeping track of children's doctor and dentist appointments, keeping sure that the children eat properly and are kept clean, wash the children's clothes, keeping them mended, making sure that the children are having an adeuquate social life with their peers, taking them to the park and zoo etc.
Other duties are taking care of the mans physical needs, keeping the house clean, cooking the meals etc. Almost everything. I believe that it's like this in a lot of homes. But not in mine. I think that some of it has changed because I think that my grandmas have been doing a lot more of these things than my mother is doing.
2. How would you describe Syfers’ writing style? Does she do things you would typically avoid in your own writing?
She is repeating herself over and over again. It works when she does it but I would probably avoid it.
3. Syfers was reacting to a social structure that she felt at the time was unfair. What types of injustice or unfairness do you see in the world nowadays that you think should be addressed? Syfers implies that men benefit from the servile position of women in the family. Who benefits from the injustices you see active in the world today?
Espsecially that so many people are poor while so many people have more money than they will ever use. I think that the rich people benefit in the world today.
In the news #4
I think that it's both good and bad that you can test if you have the gen and might be in the risk of getting breastcancer in the future. It's good because then you know that you have to be more carefull and have to test you more often than other people. It's bad because you don't want to walk around knowing that you have a risk of getting sick, because I think that that can effect the way you're living because you think about the disease more than the life you're living. I also think that if you should be able to test if you have the gen, it should be free for all people because since it is so expensive everybody can not afford it.
I also think that they should have an ageboundary that sais that you can't get tested before you are 18 years old. So then it will be the choise of the single person if she want's to get tested or not. Because I don't think that the perents should decide that.
I also think that they should have an ageboundary that sais that you can't get tested before you are 18 years old. So then it will be the choise of the single person if she want's to get tested or not. Because I don't think that the perents should decide that.
Questions for Active Reading p.108
1. In your own words, describe the "6 Myths of Creativity".
The first myth is that creativity comes from creative people, but in fact anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. The second myth is that people get creative by getting money. The truth is that people working and thinking of money at the same time is doing very little creative thinking. The third myth is that time pressure fuels creativity. The truth is that people were least creative when fighting the clock. The fourth myth is that people are more creative when they're sad or angry. The truth is that the happiest people comes up with the best ideas. The fifth myth is that internal competition fosters innovation. The truth is that people are more creative when they compete in a work group instead of collaborate. The sixth myth is that downsizing and restructuring foster creativity. The truth is that creativity suffers greatly during a downsizing.
2. How did Teresa Amabile, the Harvard Business School professor who studies creativity in the workplace, design her reserch? What kinds of information was she looking for? What seems especially surprising or interesting about her approach to reserch?
She collected daily journals from a lot of people who worked on creative projects, but she didn't tell them that she was focusing on creativity. Then she coded the e-mails for creativity by looking for moments when people struggled with a problem or came up with a new idea. One thing that seems surpsrising is that the study overturned some long-held beliefs about innovation in the workplace.
3. Who is the audience for Bill Breen's article? How can you tell?
I would say that the audience is people who work and people who are having their own businesses. People how want's to be more creative in doing their jobs and people who are owing a business and want their workers to get better and be more creative.
The first myth is that creativity comes from creative people, but in fact anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. The second myth is that people get creative by getting money. The truth is that people working and thinking of money at the same time is doing very little creative thinking. The third myth is that time pressure fuels creativity. The truth is that people were least creative when fighting the clock. The fourth myth is that people are more creative when they're sad or angry. The truth is that the happiest people comes up with the best ideas. The fifth myth is that internal competition fosters innovation. The truth is that people are more creative when they compete in a work group instead of collaborate. The sixth myth is that downsizing and restructuring foster creativity. The truth is that creativity suffers greatly during a downsizing.
2. How did Teresa Amabile, the Harvard Business School professor who studies creativity in the workplace, design her reserch? What kinds of information was she looking for? What seems especially surprising or interesting about her approach to reserch?
She collected daily journals from a lot of people who worked on creative projects, but she didn't tell them that she was focusing on creativity. Then she coded the e-mails for creativity by looking for moments when people struggled with a problem or came up with a new idea. One thing that seems surpsrising is that the study overturned some long-held beliefs about innovation in the workplace.
3. Who is the audience for Bill Breen's article? How can you tell?
I would say that the audience is people who work and people who are having their own businesses. People how want's to be more creative in doing their jobs and people who are owing a business and want their workers to get better and be more creative.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Journal Entry #4
1. What does Bartholomae mean when he says that students must "invent the university" when they write in college?
I think he means that students have to be able to change their way of writing depending on who de audience is and depending on what the topic is. I think he means that students have to try to put themselves in the audience position and try do understand how different people works. I also think that he means that students have to think more about what they are writing and try to write with more variety.
2. What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become "insiders" within academic discourse?
Students need to learn to extend themselves into the commonplaces, set phrases, rituals, gestures, habits of mind, tricks of persuasion, obligatory conclusions, and necessary connections that determine the “what might be said” and constitute knowledge within the various branches of our academic community.
3. Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae's opinion of these examples.
I think he means that students have to be able to change their way of writing depending on who de audience is and depending on what the topic is. I think he means that students have to try to put themselves in the audience position and try do understand how different people works. I also think that he means that students have to think more about what they are writing and try to write with more variety.
2. What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become "insiders" within academic discourse?
Students need to learn to extend themselves into the commonplaces, set phrases, rituals, gestures, habits of mind, tricks of persuasion, obligatory conclusions, and necessary connections that determine the “what might be said” and constitute knowledge within the various branches of our academic community.
3. Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae's opinion of these examples.
I think that their topics of what they did that they thought were creative was very different. I alss think that they first person is a lot more positive, and think that almost every time you come up with a new idea you're being creative. The vocabulary is very different, and a lot more qualificated in the second essay. Bartholomae's opinion is that he tinks that the first paper is not very elegant but it's tidy and smooth. About the other paper Bartholomae think that the style is difficult and highly qualified.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I believe that it's not too late
Can we continue to live like nothing has happened when the climate of the earth gets warmer and warmer? What should and can we do as individuals to save our planet? How much do we have to sacrifice? And how much are we willing to give?
Those are questions that some of us hear daily and some of us just don’t care about. But I believe that we have to take those questions seriously. Both human and animals will get affected by the climate changes. The effects caused by heat-waves and the effects on the spreads of infections are problems that’s worrying. If the average temperature is rising it will be possible to grow more kinds of crops but we will also get changes in the flora and fauna that will affect the whole ecosystem. And without snow, ice and the unique assets of a country, many countries will lose a lot of their tourists.
The ice around the poles are melting faster and faster and I think that all of us knows that this will make the level of the oceans rise and places that are located in areas near the water will be more vulnerable when the sea levels rises. We will also start to see more landslides and hurricanes as an effect of the environmental changes.
Since I was little I’ve always have a special relationship with the nature and the environment. When I watched the news together with my parents and they were talking about the ozone layer getting thinner and that we in the future would be able to count the days of snow during the Swedish winter, I always started crying. I just want to cry when hear the news today as well. I love going out in the forest with my family to pick flowers, berries and mushrooms and I get very emotional affected when I know that in a few years, I might not be able to do those things - things that I grew up doing and things that are a big part of my life.
I believe that it’s impossible to keep on living like nothing has happened when the climate is changing. All of us have to take responsibility for what’s going on around us. To just keep on living the way we use to do is not going to work out when the conditions are changing. Reality will finally catch up with the people who are running. It’s time to stop squander and start sacrificing.
But I believe that it’s not too late. If we just stop blaming each other and try doing something ourselves we can still make a change.
We can start sorting our waste products, buy fewer clothes, take the bus instead of the car and turn of the lights when we walk out the room. We can take the train on our vacation instead of the aircraft, we can take the bike to the store, we can take the food out of the freezer one day before we’re supposed to eat it to let it defrost instead of just putting the food in the microwave and we can use better energy sources.
I believe that everybody can do something and if every single person does one thing that will be a lot in the whole race. I believe that nobody wants to take the blame of the death of the world but as it looks now, everybody is responsible.
I try to do my best in these questions. I try to take the bus and the bike instead of the car, I try to turn off the lights when I don’t need them and I try to sort my waste products. And I don’t find it that hard.
I believe that everybody wants to make a difference and I believe that today is the day to make it.
Those are questions that some of us hear daily and some of us just don’t care about. But I believe that we have to take those questions seriously. Both human and animals will get affected by the climate changes. The effects caused by heat-waves and the effects on the spreads of infections are problems that’s worrying. If the average temperature is rising it will be possible to grow more kinds of crops but we will also get changes in the flora and fauna that will affect the whole ecosystem. And without snow, ice and the unique assets of a country, many countries will lose a lot of their tourists.
The ice around the poles are melting faster and faster and I think that all of us knows that this will make the level of the oceans rise and places that are located in areas near the water will be more vulnerable when the sea levels rises. We will also start to see more landslides and hurricanes as an effect of the environmental changes.
Since I was little I’ve always have a special relationship with the nature and the environment. When I watched the news together with my parents and they were talking about the ozone layer getting thinner and that we in the future would be able to count the days of snow during the Swedish winter, I always started crying. I just want to cry when hear the news today as well. I love going out in the forest with my family to pick flowers, berries and mushrooms and I get very emotional affected when I know that in a few years, I might not be able to do those things - things that I grew up doing and things that are a big part of my life.
I believe that it’s impossible to keep on living like nothing has happened when the climate is changing. All of us have to take responsibility for what’s going on around us. To just keep on living the way we use to do is not going to work out when the conditions are changing. Reality will finally catch up with the people who are running. It’s time to stop squander and start sacrificing.
But I believe that it’s not too late. If we just stop blaming each other and try doing something ourselves we can still make a change.
We can start sorting our waste products, buy fewer clothes, take the bus instead of the car and turn of the lights when we walk out the room. We can take the train on our vacation instead of the aircraft, we can take the bike to the store, we can take the food out of the freezer one day before we’re supposed to eat it to let it defrost instead of just putting the food in the microwave and we can use better energy sources.
I believe that everybody can do something and if every single person does one thing that will be a lot in the whole race. I believe that nobody wants to take the blame of the death of the world but as it looks now, everybody is responsible.
I try to do my best in these questions. I try to take the bus and the bike instead of the car, I try to turn off the lights when I don’t need them and I try to sort my waste products. And I don’t find it that hard.
I believe that everybody wants to make a difference and I believe that today is the day to make it.
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