picture for week 8 

Week 1

So for week one, we went to freerice.com. By defining words you can help donate rice to starving people. So in addition to helping others, I also learned some new vocabulary. Others should do this because its informative, and your helping others. 

Week 2

Posting your six-word memoir. Mine read, “After 18 years, I’m finally home.” Which has to deal with my moving in with my dad and such. It felt good to get that idea out there. But it was really hard to do so in just 6 words. Others should do it because it is cleansing but also challenging. 

Week 3

I chose a storycorp story when Alex Cohen interviews her father who grew up in the 60s and when he was in his 60s he became addicted to methanphedimeans. I think everyone should listen to this story because it shows that at any age, you can become addicted at age. 

Week 4

I went to Web of Language and read a story about how the University of Illinois has banned the use of the male pronoun. Mostly because when gender is undefined, we as a country had a tendency to revert to the male. So, from now on everything must be non-gender specific. This site was interesting and informative when it come to the English language. 

Week 5

I was madly in love with the panda from the fist video and while weird, the first video was pretty informative. I loved the second video. It was super amusing and informative. Gave me a better understanding. Everyone shoudl go watch them jsut because they’re funny. 

Week 6

When I went and read it, It was especially touching because it was about how Colleges are promoting random acts of kindness. The one about the pillows from Penn State struck a special cord with me. For my act of kindness, I would hand out stuffed animals in the hospitals. Everyone should read because the stories are inspiring. 

Week 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp710JYJ6vs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mmOL0qhm4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMXvudlK8VY

Week 8

My sources were all books, written pretty much before there was email. So, I couldn’t do this part of the extra credit. 

Week 9

I dressed up as an Eskimo for Halloween. For me, It related to the ideas in Indian Camp, how the Native American’s are beneath the white settlers. It also related very much to my paper, which had to deal with Surnames and Identity. 

Week 10

I voted in the presidential election which was empowering and made me feel like I had made a difference, especially because both the State I’m from, Pennsylvania and Florida were both swing states, so I really did feel like I was making a differenece. 

Week 11

I missed the deadline for submitting, but had I been able to submit I would have sent in my essay about Ireland. Which I’m very proud of. 

Week 14

http://www.1000000monkeys.com/snippet.html?branch=12173

I replied to someone else’s story =]