Humanities Class

Before the 6th grade, I really enjoyed math and I believed I was even good at it. Then to add to my excitement about math, I made a perfect score on my 6th grade Taks test. However, the next year (my 7th grade year) my teacher was a new teacher and you could tell she was struggling. She was a very nice teacher, and I loved her so much, I just struggled to understand what she was teaching. The next year, I transferred to a new school. Here, the teachers were not certified but they tried to help with everything they possibly could; however, their ability to help us was pretty limited. At my new school, we did all of our work on computers for half of the day and attended college classes at Panola and TSTC the rest of day. While I truly loved this

About four years ago, I was just starting my first year of high school. During my previous tenure in middle school, I was basically an average student with multiple C’s and barely passing classes. So when I entered high school, I was not that enthusiastic about it and I continued the trend of not really caring about my grades in the 9th grade. As I became more aware of the opportunities I could get by receiving good grades, I began to actually care more about school and tried to get good grades. I began to do something that I never did before,

When I was younger, I’ve always done well in school. I got things done and did them well, got high scores, and that’s how I got into the gifted program. Only a few months ago I started questioning my efforts.

When I stop to think about the memory’s that I have made during my first semester of college; there are both good and bad pieces or times that present themselves. Often with many things there are gray areas, and writing would fall in there for me. I fortunately understand now that I have times where I can over look many of my writing flaws. Such as sentence structure! This by far was my biggest problem in this class, and I fully understand why. Personally I have times that will type up a paragraph and never notice the mistake. That is until someone points it out to me. It’s almost like my brain knows that something is wrong with it, but for some unknown reason it won’t register when I’m revising my paper. So as a writer I have realized that I need to take advantage of people around me and get their feedback on my essay’s; because

During my sophomore year, a new and positive change started unfolding for me. I started to work with my teacher Ms. Kaput after school in order to improve my grades. I started getting better grades on my homework as well as on my quizzes and tests. I became impressed and interested with math and that motivated me to study hard in math. In addition to Math, my grades improved in other classes I was

When writing my papers in English I was never sure what topic, I wanted to write about. I rotated between two, one being “The Mistreatment of Animals in Zoos” and the second and my main topic being “Is College Worth the Cost.” When writing these papers, I noticed something about myself. I had grown as a writer compared to when I first walked into English 1100, I had some writing experience but not much my grammar lacked and I was the queen of sentence fragments. Throughout the semester during English 1100, my writing skills improved. From learning, how to format works cited page correctly to learning how to analyze a source. My writing improved wonders with each paper. My paper I, I struggled extremely with formatting issues and how to

1.  ( T or F ) Aristotle considered plot more important than character or thought. True

Throughout this course, we have been asked "What is humanities"? Humanities is the study of human beings by culture, the arts including theater, dance, and music. Within the humanities there are different eras that are represented such as the information age. The Information Age is a time period in our history where the traditional industry shifted to the Industrial Revolution. The Information Age is a great example of how progressively advanced a country can be in with-in a time period. This advancement in the Information Age has a discrepancy; such as the commencement of technology and the definition of digital, new methods of interaction between different people and devices. The physical component of the Information Age is a very important

I chose to take LABR 1F99 as one of my elective classes mainly because I think it will help me to get a better understanding of how our world functions. I believe that there is always a reason why people chose to perform a certain work, people choices influence not only their individual lives but the political environment as well. As a future politician I think the knowledge that this class will provide me will shape my mind in way so I can see what has to be changed on a government level in order to create a better, safer living conditions for its citizens.

After the first couple of months, improvements in my school work were beginning to show, and I liked it. My vocabulary abilities were revealing themselves as well. For example, when I would read homework in other classes the words that would sometimes confuse me began to make sense. I would also listen to other people’s conversations on the street and it seemed as if the vocabulary words that I had just studied the week before, could be heard. It was the weirdest thing. Likewise, my grammar was developing nicely. For instance, when I would read books I could see the different ways sentences were portrayed. Things that I never picked up before were coming to me so much easier. This class that

Today is our last day! I see you are missing Week 8 Assignments. You can still turn these in, but I cannot accept them after today. I want you to finish strong, so try to get me the assignments today!

​ In my classes, I am doing well but I am still struggling. I am keeping up with the people in my classes. My grades are are fair but I have trouble maintaining them. My current GPA is a 3.0. I struggle in my classes especially English and Engineering. The actions I am willing to take is to study and do my homework every night. By midterms I should be able to know formulas and writing tips that will help me during the tests. In English, I have trouble with the essays and sometime understanding what the prompt is asking. To make sure I am not "rolling the dice" on my grades, I will check my grades often. If I see that my grade has dropped I will make sure I turn in missing assignments and also doing test corrections. My grades connects

A very popular saying, “hindsight is twenty-twenty,”. This is especially true when looking back at your old work in any class. There are many factors that can be attributed to this from stress, to short-term memory loss and actual improvement. By looking back on your work, it impossible to find many of your mistakes and improve on them, thus teaching yourself not to make them. By reviewing my composition process, composition techniques, use of rhetoric and work in other types of media I can improve my writing.

When someone talked about a humanities class, my thoughts automatically drifted to the arts. I am not someone who is fond of art; it’s nice to look at, but I never cared about why it was made. This class was so much more than just art; it was a history lesson. The most important thing I learned this semester was about myself. I have learned to never judge a book by its cover as I could miss out on something great, and I will take this lesson with me in life.

1. Why are you taking this course? I am taking this course as a prerequisite for my AA degree, I am still an undecided major, but I think I will major in business because there are many career opportunities in that area. I also think that taking a humanities class is an important prerequisite for students to view how certain developments of different cultures came into play and how some literary works of culture may still be used to this day. 2. Tell me what you like best AND least about this course. So far, I liked learning about the five gifts of humanities, how people can view themselves as an Apollonian or Dionysian, understanding Olympian gods and goddesses, and different myths. What I like least about the course is trying to understand