A Different Me

since I was young I have always questioned the human behaviour, it was until I got into my 20s that my interest grew deeper. I began to question why people act the way they do and why every single person has a different reaction to different situation. I find it fascinating how different society and culture can affect someone's behaviour. for example I come from Somalia where in order to discipline your child you have to beat them, and I remember when we first arrived to Britain my mother would

Asian, Indian, or any other race except for Caucasian and Mexican. I didn't have a chance to talk to other children about their cultures or beliefs until I came to MSMS. Being at MSMS gives me the opportunity to speak to one of the most diverse student bodies in Mississippi. I am able to listen to the different languages spoken by the children here such as Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, and Spanish. I also get the chance to join cultural clubs established by the student body. Currently, I am a member

amuse me. Throughout my educational journey, I constantly hone my knowledge in computer science. There is not a day where I did not polish my skills.

is all of the things around me. The media, Life lessons, and different perspectives are the roots of my optimsm. I believe that the roots of my optimism have made me who i am today, Some people think the media is true, and some people think different. It all depends on the person. In my opinion there are true and false advertisements in the media. I grew up only looking at the writer or pop stars opinion, and not focusing on my own. As i got older the media taught me some important things,to focus

To develop my creative muscles, I completely put myself outside of my comfort zone by trying something that I would not have eaten if it was not for this class! For this assignment, I ate a slice of S’mores pizza. The pizza had melted marshmallows that served as the tomato sauce like on a regular pizza, it had chocolate sauce drizzled on top of the marshmallows like cheese would be on top pf tomato sauce, and it had graham crackers on top of the chocolate sauce like pepperoni would be on top of the

from my previous writing class would be learning how to paraphrase and learning to compare and contrast same articles by two different authors. I am going to write about the lessons I learned in my previous writing class. The first lesson was learning how to paraphrase. Paraphrasing is one of the difficult things for me when writing the research papers. It was so hard for me to summarize the articles because they were lengthy in nature. When I am trying to summarize an article or write my views, it

Reflecting back to the first semester of English 5A, I have made progress in my writing abilities but feel that I have more room for improvements. The class discussions and peer review were useful to me because I was able to get a different perspective on my essay and take different idea suggested. My goal for the second semester is to learn more about how to construct a strong thesis and be able to hook the audiences into my essay. After looking the rubric and reflecting on my essay, I could improve

to tell me how to synthesize the content of these two sources and also give a brief argument. The Myth of Helplessness and What I Learned about School Reform this two essays tells me about the different what is going on in the reality? So I took one topic of the two essays and I will write about and argue the social forms that are society goes through in the reality. “The Myth of Helplessness implies that some school systems do better that other ones, is because it may involve different variation

journey in life will be influenced by my passion for life. If I am ready every day for the unexpected and unknown, then I can reach my long-term goals. A daily challenge will be setting specific goals and sticking to them. If I let fear take a hold of me, then I could be derailed from my goals. Another core strength is my positive drive for life. Such as realizing the good things in my life, and what I am grateful for. I am aware that everyday has unexpected and unknown aspects, and things do not always

and make it persuasive showing why writing is important to my discourse community.Second is reading different articles that were connected to different discourse communities from each other. And writing a response to the article was great because it makes me think little and look deeper instead of