My Favorite Writing

My Favorite Writing

Title: The 50th Law

Author: 50 Cent and Robert Greene

Page: 69

Date of Publication: 2009

The piece that I chose is an introduction to the book's third chapter about opportunism. It is a brief paragraph that describes why we should take each situation for what it is and come from it a better person.

My family is not the easiest to be around--they torment, they ridicule and they make my entire life about them. Everything that I have done in my life up until now has been about them and why I am doing things for myself instead of for them. With every day that passes I am learning that at this point in my life, it is okay for my life to be about me, but more importantly, I am learning that everything that has happened before today has helped me become the person that I am today.

This passage helps me see that not only is it okay for my life to be about me, but in order to be the best me I can be, I NEED to take each situation, each circumstance and each interaction for what it is, find the good in it and grow. That is all I can expect from myself and at the end of the day, it is all anyone can expect of me.

What makes good writing for me is inspiration and feeling. Good writing is about what emotions the writer invokes of the reader and this passage speaks to me and my situation more than most other things I read, which for me, makes it good writing.

Word of the Week #8

1. Dichotomous

2. Baumann, D., Henry, J., James, J., Jeffries, V., Rivaux, S. L., Sheets, J., et al. (2008). The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Risk: Understanding the Decision to Provide Services to Clients and to Remove Children. Child Welfare League of America

3. Logistic regression analysis allows for examination of potential predictors (e.g., race, risk, income) of a dichotomous outcome (e.g., whether to close a case or act on it, whether to provide FBSS or remove).

4. Adjective - divided or dividing into parts (dictionary.com)

5. The dichotomous voting results reflected attitudes toward current and potential political parties.

Word of the Week #7

1. Elided

2. Rothenberg, P. (Ed.) (2006). Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues. New York: Worth Publishers

3. Women are further elided through a popular and revealing analogy between 'women' and the colonised.

4. Verb - To omit (a vowel, consonant or syllable) in pronunciation; to surpress, omit ignore or pass over

5. Some individuals would prefer to elide the holocaust from our history books because they believe that it did not actually happen.

Word of the Week #6

1. Dichotomy

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. And if you claim that "it is my way or the highway," then you are bifurcating--you are creating a false dichotomy (unless, of course, we're really talking about a situation with no third possibility, such as being pregnant--you can't be a little bit pregnant; it's either/or).

4. Noun - separation of different or contradictory things, a separation into two divisions that differ widely from or contradict each other

5. The classroom had become a dichotomy during the debate on raising the legal drinking age.

Word of the Week #5

1. Bifurcating

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand
Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. And if you claim that "it is my way or the highway," then you are bifurcating--you are creating a false dichotomy (unless, of course, we're really talking about a situation with no third possiblity, such as being pregnant--you can't be a little bit pregnant; it's either/or).

4. trasitive and intransitive verb/adjective - divide in two, to be split or branched off into two parts, or split something into two parts.

5. When discussing politics in class, the teacher noticed that the class was bifurcating, those pro-choice and those pro-life.

Word of the Week #4

1. Tacit

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill

3. Wrong, because we also have civil codes of ethics, such as rules for employees in a workplace, politicians in local government, and students on a campus, and because we have a tacit understanding of moral expectations among professionals, among friends, and among family members.

4. Adjective - understood or implied without being stated openly

5. My employees at work have a tacit understanding that they need to correct their mistakes before I find out about them so they don't get in trouble.

Word of the Week #3

1. Repugnant

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill

3. A form of "moral grammar" is hardwired into our brain, and even children recognize that there is a difference between something being just a matter of cultural choice, and something being morally repugnant.

4. Adjective - distasteful, objectionable, or offensive

5. My sister made a repugnant comment that made me cringe.

Word of the Week #2

1. Banality

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. The conclusion reached by Ardent and published in her book Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is that the German public who had an inkling of what was going on and the Nazis who were actively engaged in the Endlosung, or the "Final Solution," were not evil in the sense that they (or most of them) deliberately sought to gain personal advantage by causing pain and suffering to others.

4. Adjective - devoid of freshness or originality (banal)

5. The banality of the speeches my managers give at meetings makes everyone fall asleep.

Super Bowl Ad

My Favorite Super Bowl Ad

I have always loved watching the Super Bowl, some years it is more for the commercials than the game, as I am a San Francisco 49ers fan and they have had some what of an off decade.

I can watch this commercial over and over for a few reasons. As an avid fan of rock, paper, scissors for settling arguments the commercial is relatable to a large audience, almost everyone has played the game at some point. It also is simple and entertaining, which is what all Super Bowl commercials should be. It does not try to complicate its message or story line, it has a simple message and gets it across well.

Word of the Week #1

1. Laurels

2. This word was found in a news article on the San Francisco Giants website (http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110130&content_id=16535000&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf)

3. "Call it resting on one's laurels, or call it wisely refraining from fixing what ain't broke."

4. Noun - honor won, as for achievement in a field or activity (I am glad I chose this word, I assumed it was a synonym for morals or beliefs)

5. Little Johnnie's basketball team had never been beaten, he was resting on their laurels to carry them through this tournament.

All About Me

I do not speak to my immediate family. My mother and my sister could be considered two peas in a pod. They are in love with every man that comes their way, they are dependent on them for attention, and ask everything of others but give nothing in return. I am the exact opposite of that. I wish things were different with my mother and sister, but recently I have discovered that they are not going to change, so I have to. I have to understand that there is nothing wrong with me for wanting to be independent and successful--ON MY OWN, WITHOUT A MAN! So, that is exactly what I am going to do and it is why I am here today.

This is my second time at San Jose State. The attended two years ago, thought I graduated and found out after graduation that there were errors in my transcript. After a long process of reapplying to school, here I am. I could not be happier to finally be back in school, figuring out my future and hopefully this time around finding out a lot more about myself.

I am a Public Relations major with a minor in communications. Until recently, I had no idea what I wanted to do with that. I decided on public relations by looking at a drop down menu of major options, having no real idea of what it is. My second semester into the program I fell in love, but I still had no idea what I was going to do with it. I am an avid sports fan. My dream job is to be the Director of Communications for the San Francisco Giants.

As a writer my biggest weakness is editing. I auto correct in my head and sometimes miss small errors. Being aware of this opportunity helps me slow down when editing and even read out loud so I have minimal errors (hopefully). My biggest strength is my ability to write for an audience and relate to them.

I have no favorite color, if I was forced to choose, I would select the color I wear most often which would be white. I love to cook and spend time with friends. I live with my grandparents right now and my grandma does most of the cooking, so I must say, eating her food is one of my favorite things to do.