Addressing the Writing Process

The writing process itself is really important and valuable to me. I think that writing is becoming more meaningful to me now than never before. Not only because I am doing it more consistently but also because I am doing it in a foreign language. There are several things that I enjoy during the writing process. One of them is the fact that I can mold my writing in the way I want. It is true that when writing academic papers, everyone has to respect several grammatical, structural, and organizational rules; but in terms of word choice there is a variety of words and phrases that an individual can use in different manners in order to express something. In my opinion the writing process is what I call “the mankind dilemma”. “The man kind dilemma” emerges when people try to define or establish equality in random situations, and it is based on two arguments: all men are equal —according to the Declaration of Independence and Christianity—; and every single man is different— in terms of human physiology and human anatomy. In the same way, the results of the writing process is always equal on the structural elements that an individual must have on a paper (introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion, grammar criteria, etc), but it is different on selection of expressions, words, and bias that a person can use. That is the reason why one paper written by one student is never the same as the one his or her classmate wrote.      For me the more complex task during writing is my unfluent and inaccurate way of typing. When writing a paper, I organize my ideas and structure at a high-speed level, but my slow typing pace does not help me fully develop them especially during the thirty minutes essay and the ten minutes paragraphs. I have always thought that my typing skills were fine, but when I took a typing diagnostic test, I realized that I should start to work on improving my typing skills and to not procrastinate more on this defining aspect of writing. So, since took that diagnostic typing test, I have been trying to correct this problem by practicing typing every day and during my free time. Furthermore, writing the conclusion of a paper is one of the things that I still having trouble with. Because the function of a conclusion is to restate and summarize the main details explained on the entire essay, I find a little bit difficult to say the same ideas in different words. In order to get rid of this problem I have been trying to read more and to use the new words I learn, so I can have a wide range of vocabulary. Thus, I feel that I should end this paragraph at this point due to the scarcity of more ideas. 

Fireworks: The Friendly Pollutants

As everyone knows, the past weekend the United States celebrated their 237 Independence Anniversary. And in this important holiday, there are many fun activities that people do in order to celebrate this memorable day. During this celebration there is one thing that it is certain, fireworks are the main attraction for kids as well as elderly people. Masses of people gather together on the most important streets of every American state to spend good time with family and friends and to be delighted with parades, but most importantly to observe a colorful display of fireworks. Even the actual President of the United States of America—Mr. Barack Hussein Obama II— had the chance to be delighted with an amazing show of fireworks in Washington.

Fireworks play relevant role during every important festivity or celebration since their invention by the Chinese during the seventh century, but the wonderful displays of colors have a high cost. I am not talking about in terms of economy but in terms of environmental consequences. I wonder how country leaders have the courage to give speeches about pollution and its environmental impact. I wonder how people argue about the pollution that cars, and big factories produce— and I am not saying I support these types of pollution— when they are the ones that help their kids light up the wicks of the fireworks they buy.

Since the beginnings of history of the human race, the environment has experienced great changes. Starting with the burning of wood on the first years of the primitive men; the exploitation of coal by the Chinese, and later introduced to Europe by Marco Polo on the thirteen century; and ending with the exploitation of petroleum, natural gas, and the radioactive energy. Men have polluted the world in their attempt of finding ways to have a better life, but it is necessary to point out that these are justifiable reasons for the pollution of the environment.

Going back to the subject, I found out that men have been using fireworks for more than 1300 years. 1300 years of irresponsibly contamination of the air and not significant action has been taken in order to eradicate the widespread use of this colorful and attractive pollutant agent. So, are the environmental changes that the world is facing due to the men’s journey of finding sources of energy, or maybe because of an unnecessary pollution generated in order to satisfy men’s pleasure? What do you think?

^_^ : Hey Ernie, What are you passionate about?

I feel really passionate about music. Many people may think that someone is passionate about music when a person spends his or her entire day listening to music, but I think that is not my case. When I was a child, my father made my siblings and me took some Piano lessons, but the only one who really got to like it was my older sister. I really liked the piano, but I think that I was to young to be diligent in that subject. I remember that I just  wanted to play with my friends instead of going to the piano lessons. Also, my brother and I took some recorder (a type of flaute) lessons, but we quit and we stopped playing the recorder. However, As I was growing in the LDS church, I realize that music was what motivated me to stay firm in the gospel and is a good way to invite the spirit. Thus, I started to appreciate music.

In addition, I have been influenced from several music composers that have scored movie soundtracks, such as John Williams and Hans Zimmer. As I started to listening to get immersed in music, I felt that humming songs was not enough. So, I became interested in learning how to play musical instruments. I gave the piano a second chance, and I learned how to play some LDS hymns and some main themes of movies (especially Superman and Star Wars) in the piano. Moreover, I started to play the Recorder again. While I continue my musical experiments, I learned how to play the basics of guitar, zampoña (also called Andean pan flute),ukulele, and charango. Nowdays, I just have access to a guitar and a piano, so I tried to keep my "musical spirit" alive by playing these instruments.

Summer Semester's Goals

There are several things I want to accomplish this semester. First of all, I want to write a good and strong five paragraph essay in thirty minutes. In addition, I want to use the academic words from lists of  words for Academic B. Furthermore, I want  to enhance the use of grammar rules in my essays by practicing and reviewing the feedback from Miss. Snow, as well as the feedback from Mr. Hart. These are the things that I want to work during the semester and improve by the end of the semester.