What I Learned Analysis

Many are rich many are poor many have money many don’t. Have you ever had a moment where you did something selfish for desperation of money and karma hit you right back with a right hook?. And felt regret towards yourself. In the short story “Why, You Reckon” the author uses irony and dialogue, to show the audience that money can't buy happiness.

Another ideas that I loved was differentiation in understanding. They showed in their conversation that having different understanding on a subject help us to gain more about it.

Even though this is a memoir, it can teach us a lot about human experiences. What I’ve realized while reading this book is that every parents wants their kids to have a good life, and she teached me that with love and faith, you can do more things that other people thinks you can’t. Like James’ mother has done a lot to help her kids. She goes to work and takes care of them while spend time teach them how to be a good person. To me, I think the power she got were from the love to her kids, and her strong faith in who she called God. This is like my parents, because we’ve only came here for 4 years, they doesn’t know much English, so they doesn’t have a good jobs like other people. But they still spend times taking care of me and my siblings. This can shows that with love you can do things that other people can’t imagine.

The first chapter of Becoming a Learner had scared me honestly. We are going to school to further our education and some job titles don't even want what you had specialized in college. It scared me because I came to college to find a good job when I am done with and if doesn't all work out in the end you will be with no job and in college debt. You need skills to make someone want to hire which scares me because I sometimes lack of skills. “ The primary purpose of college isn't learning a specific set of professional skills; the primary purpose of college is to become a learner” most college students don't know where they are going yet or know what to study so they should take advantage of learning outside of the box the more you learn during

Things I wish I’d Always Know. The author is Eric Weinstein. What Eric Weinstein talks about here is what he has learned over the years as a writer. He has learned that you have to read, read, and read. He also has learned that you have to write, write, and write. You must follow the rule or freak it, but do what you do for a reason. To hell with originality. Transcend self-expressions. He talks about all five of these and has learned over his years of writing. What I learned from reading this is you have to read, write and be yourself. I think that he had a good story to tell. I also believe his hard work has paid off. I think that he taught his students a lot for them to want to move on with creative writing.

I currently belong to being American, mechanic, educated, generation X, retired military, Blue collar worker, car lover and veteran. As mentioned by sociologist Robin Williams (1965) Americans want to be successful, hardworking, highly efficient, practical, stand out amongst their peers, freedom, democracy, equality and want to be in a superior group (p.56,57). To want to be in a superior group goes against the term equality. The rest of these traits would not be dysfunctional to the group. Mechanics want to stand out amongst their peers, be efficient, highly knowledgeable, hard workers. Wanting to stand out could cause amosite amongst the group. When you are in the group of educated people you have broader understand of your surroundings,

According to Do Something.org, “Among high school students, 44% of girls and 15% of guys are attempting to lose weight”. This is because people aren’t confident in themselves. They aren’t confident in what they look like and don’t realize that no one is perfect. They compare themselves to other people and then just feel worse in the inside. Do Something says “75% of girls with low self-esteem reported engaging in negative activities like cutting, bullying, smoking, drinking, or disordered eating. This compares to 25% of girls with high self-esteem.” Also Do Something says that “7 in 10 girls believe that they are not good enough or don’t measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members.” Having low self esteem can really hurt you even if you

1. Can you think of a common stereotype of sociologists? What is it? After reading this box, do you still think it is valid?

Learning and how colleges and universities are failing their students is a main idea of the article Learning to Learn by Karl R. Wirth at Macalester College and Dexter Perkins at University of North Dakota. Wirth and Perkins begin the article by talking about how learning has been researched in the recent past in hopes of figuring out the best ways to learn. The article argues graduating students ae not being prepared for the workforce in practical ways; while students know facts, they are unable to communicate well and they are under the belief that they no longer have to learn since they are out of school. The article looks into learning classifications by researchers who have looked into learning. While every researcher has their own learning

Teddy is walking home from school at a rate of 12 sidewalk cracks per minute. Every 3 minutes, Teddy takes out his dead father’s gold pocket watch and resets the time to exactly 3:14. He has walked along these streets for years, the fossils of his footsteps imperceptibly embedded into the concrete. If the distance between Teddy’s home and school is approximately 247 jagged sidewalk cracks, how many lonely walks down this path will Teddy have to travel before he can forgive himself for never saying goodbye?

The value of understanding is important to me because I feel that if I make an effort to understand others, hopefully they will do the same for me. In order to understand, it involves looking at other’s points of view, implementing active listening and preventing assumptions.

When it comes to understanding, different people have particular ways of thinking and different ways of learning. In order to gain knowledge, people either prefer learning through reading about the topic or by learning through actually experiencing and interacting with what is being taught. Some people can just say that something is so easy to do, but in reality, they don't actually know that something is particularly easy until actually performing the task. In life there are so many topics that can only truly be understood by using the method of interaction. By learning with interaction and experience, it is the most important and most useful way of learning something to really understand it. Some of the many topics that require interactive learning to understand the full extent of the topic are learning about traditions, someone else's life situation, developing opinions, working, teaching, cooking, raising a family and driving.

The three inventions taken were What kind of student are you? What is your learning style? and Improving your study habits. The Improving your study habits shows me that “I am already working on improved my study habits”. Every day I go to the learning lab to study because it helps me to focus and be prepare for classes, then studying at home. Then I took a survey called “What Kind of Student Are You? “showed me the results of score Fifteen says that “I’m a very good student. Keep up the good work! “Even though I am still having a hard time taking a test, answering questions in class, and taking notes; I would need to work extra hard, and study hard

"The more we know the world around us, the more successful we will be." This quote, from the introduction of my high school chemistry book, was my driving force as a teenager to attend college. My expectations of college were to gain insight into a world that I had not yet discovered. I had high aspirations of receiving a good education and obtaining a good job when I graduated. But four years later when graduation day arrived, I felt unfulfilled. In evaluating my education, I realized that I learned how to get good, but not great grades. I learned how to study to make the most of my time. The focus I shared with many of my peers was not always to appreciate the information received, but rather,

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?