English 1100
1/28/2016
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The first sport I became decent at was tennis. I started playing in middle school with a couple friends whenever we had free time. I was never amazing at it, but after practicing with friends for a couple of years I became kind of decent at it. So when high school came around, I joined the team and made the varsity team in freshman year and played all four years.
Tennis sin't my passion however. I suppose the thing I do most in my free time is play video games with friends, specifically, a game called League of Legends. The best way to explain this game would be in this 1-minute video:
If you watched the video, you can see how this game encourages communication and teamwork, which is why I love this game. I've met people from all over the world because of this game, and we always have a blast playing together.
Lets talk about lies. Everyone has told a lie before, don't hide it. What's the biggest lie I've told? Now, I've lied, but almost all of the lies I've told were little white lies just to get me out of trouble; I couldn't recall anything crazy. So, I suppose the biggest lie I've told was to my parents was that I'd stay in town for Halloween, but my friends and I went a town over to hang out with other friends for the night since my high school had kids coming in from that town too.
Yeah, I did. Believe it or not, I have not told any bigger of a lie. I've never had a reason to.
Moving forward, everyone does one of two things when they write. They either have to make an outline in preparation for their paper, or they're like me, where they just let the words flow out straight from their brain onto their computer screen.
I can see how outlines can be helpful, but I just don't like writing them because in the time I could write and outline, I could probably get a paragraph done, maybe two. It's more efficient for me at least. I believe I write fairly well, I write well enough to get passing grades in my English courses. The thing I want to learn most in the course I'm currently taking is how to read and comprehend the older text and literature.
Why don't we talk about books now? I don't read a lot of books to be honest. The most recent book I've read was called Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
This book is about a prince of a village who gets tired of his pampered life and want to seek "true enlightenment". So he goes travelling and living in different places and cultures to see which will give him "enlightenment". It was a good read, but that book was required to read in my Word Literature class in high school.
Social media is becoming bigger and bigger each year. I do have a bunch social media accounts, I have a Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. Although, I don't use my Facebook or Twitter at all, I grew bored of them really fast. I post on Snapchat every now and then, but I'm not too crazy about it. As for Instagram, I don't post anything, I just follow the pages that interest me (like most people do) and look at their pictures, because I like pictures.
This semester in class, the most important thing that I think we're going to learn is how to read and understand The Good Lord Bird. I'm not a fan of historical texts, I just find them kind of boring.
In these books and novels, there is a protagonist which we can refer to as the "hero". What is the definition of a "hero"? I believe that a hero is someone who does what he/she because it is the right thing to do for the people. Hero's are supposed to be selfless and caring.
Everybody makes mistakes, nobody's perfect. Some people just don't make as many mistakes. Myself however, makes mistake all the time. The most recent mistake I've made was last Monday actually. There was a big snowstorm over the weekend and I thought we had class on Monday. I get to campus on Monday and it's dead. There are no students anywhere and the parking lots. Little did I know that classes don't start again until 5 p.m. that evening due to the weather. I learned to always check your e-mail and check with a friend concerning school openings after a storm.
Overall, as a writer, I would rate myself a "B". I now I can write some good essays depending on the topic, other times I get really bad writers block and just write out anything related to the topic and my writing can get vague on those points. For the most part, I believe my writing to short but to the point.
Tennis sin't my passion however. I suppose the thing I do most in my free time is play video games with friends, specifically, a game called League of Legends. The best way to explain this game would be in this 1-minute video:
Lets talk about lies. Everyone has told a lie before, don't hide it. What's the biggest lie I've told? Now, I've lied, but almost all of the lies I've told were little white lies just to get me out of trouble; I couldn't recall anything crazy. So, I suppose the biggest lie I've told was to my parents was that I'd stay in town for Halloween, but my friends and I went a town over to hang out with other friends for the night since my high school had kids coming in from that town too.
Yeah, I did. Believe it or not, I have not told any bigger of a lie. I've never had a reason to.
Moving forward, everyone does one of two things when they write. They either have to make an outline in preparation for their paper, or they're like me, where they just let the words flow out straight from their brain onto their computer screen.
I can see how outlines can be helpful, but I just don't like writing them because in the time I could write and outline, I could probably get a paragraph done, maybe two. It's more efficient for me at least. I believe I write fairly well, I write well enough to get passing grades in my English courses. The thing I want to learn most in the course I'm currently taking is how to read and comprehend the older text and literature.
Why don't we talk about books now? I don't read a lot of books to be honest. The most recent book I've read was called Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
This book is about a prince of a village who gets tired of his pampered life and want to seek "true enlightenment". So he goes travelling and living in different places and cultures to see which will give him "enlightenment". It was a good read, but that book was required to read in my Word Literature class in high school.
Social media is becoming bigger and bigger each year. I do have a bunch social media accounts, I have a Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. Although, I don't use my Facebook or Twitter at all, I grew bored of them really fast. I post on Snapchat every now and then, but I'm not too crazy about it. As for Instagram, I don't post anything, I just follow the pages that interest me (like most people do) and look at their pictures, because I like pictures.
This semester in class, the most important thing that I think we're going to learn is how to read and understand The Good Lord Bird. I'm not a fan of historical texts, I just find them kind of boring.
In these books and novels, there is a protagonist which we can refer to as the "hero". What is the definition of a "hero"? I believe that a hero is someone who does what he/she because it is the right thing to do for the people. Hero's are supposed to be selfless and caring.
Everybody makes mistakes, nobody's perfect. Some people just don't make as many mistakes. Myself however, makes mistake all the time. The most recent mistake I've made was last Monday actually. There was a big snowstorm over the weekend and I thought we had class on Monday. I get to campus on Monday and it's dead. There are no students anywhere and the parking lots. Little did I know that classes don't start again until 5 p.m. that evening due to the weather. I learned to always check your e-mail and check with a friend concerning school openings after a storm.
Overall, as a writer, I would rate myself a "B". I now I can write some good essays depending on the topic, other times I get really bad writers block and just write out anything related to the topic and my writing can get vague on those points. For the most part, I believe my writing to short but to the point.
