What I Go Through

My writing, is not all that complex in the way I go about writing. Writing with me starts with putting my thoughts down on paper. Taking those thoughts, I start thinking about a story and trying to make that story make sense. My first ideas are put into the rough draft, where ideas are there and the paper is saying what I want to say but it's not 100% the way it should be. After revising the first draft, I look at what Stephanie put and I go from there correcting my mistakes. I take her comments and I build from there. The way I go about correcting her comments, I either take out stuff that may be not important, I may take stuff and re-word it, other times I will take the information and place it in a different part of my paper. Finally, after correcting my paper I go over it by reading it several times and when the paper makes sense to me, I turn it back in.

So far this semester, I haven't had the privilege of receiving peer response like we got back in 110. I know that there will be plenty of that soon when we begin to write our papers after spring break. I will use what the peers have written about my paper and also what Stephanie has to say about it and use it greatly when I go to write my paper again.

Just a Few Hours

I'm currently in my 2nd semester at this great place we call ICC and already I'm seeing the difficulty that this school can present. I was taking 15 credit hours last semester to accomodate with me playing soccer for the school. I was experienced with an easy semester but it did have its difficulties especially trying to do all the work while playing soccer.

Now I'm currently taking 17 credit hours and I'm swamped with school work. I never once in my mind ever think how much more work I would be facing this semester. I was blind sided at first and still kind of am with all this work. I tried making my schedule easier for my life style by having classes at 10 to 1 but I still seem to never have enough time throughout the rest of the day to complete my work. IT's an eye opener already and I'm only taking 2 more credit hours and one of those credit hours is an online class but still Im struggling to keep up. Every weekend so far I have been doing homework friday, saturday, and sundays, all day. SO I basically have no life this semester. Not saying that's a bad thing but I would like a break here and there. It's only been a month and I'm behind.

I'm starting to accept my work schedule and I am starting to to be able to catch and keep up with my work. I am still behind but I'm getting there.

Case Study Numero Dos

English 111 just started so there isn't much to write on about how my writing in the class has progressed. This weeks blog will be focusing on the physical part of my amazing writing skills. Writing for me, since I live at home, is still restricted mainly to my home computer. SOOO, all the writing that you read is done in the comfort of my home. I haven't been able to write anywhere else since I have yet to get a lap top but I'm saving up for when I go off to school away from my house. I can't really compare of what is better and what isn't but from my experiences of writing at my house has a mixed feeling of good and bad. It all depends on how I'm feeling for that particular writing. For example when we did the Travel Essays back in 110, I had a blast doing that and participating in the activities required but like now where we have to read 70 pages to write up a summary, is not all that engaging for me. I'm not much of a reader and on top of that we have to write a short summary on it. I know it's not all that bad but it's the whole getting into it and that flaw, getting engaged, is what is my problem when it comes to writing at my house. The whole writing speed depends on what materials I had for that writing assignment, like this blog, I thought about what I was going to write about and it's only taken me 3 minutes to get to this point. But when I just jump into a writing, that's when the mistakes start happening, I lose my spot, train of thought, and being able to finish in a timely manner. What I like writing on the computer best is that it's much more efficient than pen and paper. The whole writing with two hands instead of one, backspacing, which I do a lot, and what I like best word check. There is much more to making my writing at home on the computer much better but those were the thoughts that came to mind.

Poverty Causes Crime?

For the past couple class periods in sociology we have been discussing about positive and negative correlations between to things. Positive correlation is basically cause and effect; if one thing increases the other decreases or one increases the other increases and so on. Negative correlation is that one cause can not be related to the effect. The topic that came up was Poverty and Crime. We were discussing why crime is more rampant in areas with higher poverty. Areas that mainly consist of middle to upper class have very minimal crime rates. So is it the poverty that drives someone to committ a crime or is it just the person who happens to live in poverty.

There are many questions and arguements you can make about this correlation. Does poverty really cause people to committ crimes. I think the reason why crime is so high in poverty ridden areas is because people who grow up with very little will always feel like they can never get more than they had so in order to get more they must committ crimes of some sort in order to gain. I feel like that its just the person that commits the crime poverty or not, it was their choice to do. Poverty didnt force the person to do, it just happens to be their mindset on committing crimes.

There are many questions to be answered, why do you think people commit crimes, is it really because of poverty?