RESEARCH the BUZZ KILL

Personally I don't like writing research papers. It's not that I can't support a political side or whatever or that I don't care about what's going on in the world today and how to handle it. I just enjoy writing fictional type things so much more. I write in my spare time and hope to make a career out of it, but I'd much prefer to bring out emotions in the reader rather than inform them or make a point or arguement. I think that manipulating how someone feels is a very rare talent where as anyone can pick a side and show facts on why they're right or someone else is wrong. Sure my writing isn't solving world hunger or ending tyrany is foreign countries, but I rest that responsibility on my shoulders. I think those who can write a research paper the most passionetly are the ones who should take action and help find a resolution to the topic they fight for so well. I choose to write about cruelity in slaughterhouses for animals. I choose it because it is a topic that I believe I can clearly choose a side, provide facts, and have sympathy towards what I'm defending. It's practically impossible to put any sort of fictional spin on a Research paper because it's simply an information download combined with opinions and solutions, however part of writing is also to write with tones and I believe that a Research paper should have a strong tone to help get points across, so that's what I plan to do

ABC's with Freire!

Freire states "Knowledge only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other." Freire uses synonyms like "restless, impatient, continuing," and "hopeful" to get his point across because he is emphasizing how one must obtain knowledge properly. Freire is trying to say that the only way to learn is to go over things over and over again until it is burned into your head and, perhaps, when you follow these guidelines he has placed for everyone, all people bettering themselves through education will somehow unite as one community.
Comparing my Science teacher, Mr. Bosher, with Freire's idea of learning in some forms is similar and, in other ways it is very different. Freire's philosophy toward learing seems to be more dilligent and a "practice makes perfect" kind of teaching style. Where Mr. Bosher did believe in homework and studying, he didn't practice that form of teaching in class. He prefered a more enlightening approach where he would show you something out of the ordinary in an attempt to make that experience stick in your mind. I've always been more of a visual and verbal learner, than a work horse for studying, so I would probably have struggled with Freire as a teacher. Saying that one learning style is the best is impossible to determine because no one person learns the same way or at the same pace. It doesn't make Freire wrong in the sense that studying and working extra hard won't work for someone because it definetly does, however, it isn't superior to other styles of getting the knowledge of one into the mind of the next

IDK Weather I'll Do It or Not

Weather can affect the learning process for a lot of people. Obviously, with inclimate weather such as the snow that has plagued Richmond the past few weeks it poses a problem students missing classes. True some teachers put the assignments on Blackboard or they email it to you or whatever, but problems appear when whether or not the assignment gets done rides on whether technology is working for you or you simply find the will to do the task on your own. Maybe you find yourself stuck in your house with no power. If the assignment is clearly communicated to you in time you can be stuck doing nothing simply because you don’t know what to do.
Just a flip of thought; how about those who choose to take their classes online. Yes, the snow won’t bother you as long as you have kept your power or have a generator or some way to get to a computer, but how about when it’s sunny and seventy degrees out and all your buddies are in town. Suddenly the weather is enticing you not to finish your work; you go out and have a good time, and you now have a lower grade in your class.
Personally I would never take a class online for precisely that reason. I don’t trust myself to follow up with online work which brings me to a very important point. When weather traps people out of school, it becomes up to the student to learn material and apply it to his work and this is exactly what many students avoid because they know that they won’t do what they need to unless they are placed in the learning environment that school provides for them.

"The Giant Step"

I enjoyed “The Giant Step” and how it showed a person taking what bad cards he was dealt in life and through his high spirits and patience he eventually was given what he longed for. Through the descriptions of how the boy lived, it seemed as though he had no other siblings and that it was only him and his mother in a small apartment, so he had a single mom. He never mentions a father and his mom is always home so my guess is that maybe his dad died in the service and his family receive compensation of some sort from the government. When he finally gets his surgery it seems as though he’s taken what the doctor said about being an “overachiever” and taken that negative comment and used it as fuel to drive him to achieve his goals. Knowing that he could afford such a surgery as this proposes that he might not have become a doctor, but he did get a job where he had the money to afford the surgery and also when he first stands up after his surgery he now has a wife who is the first to realize that both of her husbands feet are touching the ground. When he finally is able to buy those shoes that he always fantasies about in the windows of the shoe stores, I like that he thinks back on all the time he spent with those other shoes and shows a touch of respect for the tools that carried him to his happy ending. I think the story inspires people to never stop trying harder and no matter what curve balls life throws at you, you need to keep on swinging and hope for the best.