causally determined, could we say he or she had the free will to choose them? As a proponent of soft determinism, Hume would answer yes. For Hume, the seeming incompatibility of determinism and free will is merely a…
in? what language do i dream in? Did i learn to read in spanish or English first? As far as I know (according to my parents) I learned how to read ,speak and write in Spanish first.Unfortunately, my father was never able to learn how to read but my mother did. My mother and 3 siblings took turns reading to me almost every night. When i started school apparently i took matters into my own hands and learned how to read short stories and demanded i read myself a bedtime story. Although i don't…
this holds true to me. For all of my life, I have always had a love for reading and writing. When I was young, my mom would read me bedtime stories. Sometimes I would take my older sister’s books that did not have any pictures and pretend to read them, coming up with my own fantastical plots and imagining that was the story written in the book. I would also pretend to write my own stories by scribbling “cursive” on the pages of my old notebooks. In first grade my teacher, Mrs. Stumph, would…
Throughout this semester I have changed my composing process, worked with multiple different writing prompts, and have completed various activities, such as working in groups and participating in discussions with my peers. This has helped me to understand and learn how to use my peers and other resources to aid me with our topics and improve our writings. I have also had to read from the book “Everyone’s an Author”, which was made by Andrea Lunsford, Michal Brody, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss,…
most famous African-American women figures. Many well known writers and people inspired Angelou to write some of her most famous pieces of work, also inspired her to get involved in the civil rights movement. Angelou has many famous works, however she is very well-known for: I know why the Caged Bird Sings. In that autobiography, Angelou pours out the first seventeen years of her life, then writes about her years following in another. Maya Angelou is a well known writer whose work will long be…
Reading and writing have never been my strong suit. I have struggled in both ever since I can remember. Throughout the making of my e-portfolio, I revealed the growth I have made as a reader and a writer. It is a journey that has taken me a while to reach, but I have come a long way and feel like I am finally getting my wings to soar. Throughout the semester, the assignments have definitely varied in difficulty. However, I have learned just as much from the easier assignments as I have from…
in my 5th grade year. For reading, I was taught to read an essay and if I don’t understand it then I reread it. Sometimes I take notes but when I do, I have a hard time picking out the main ideas and then rewriting the notes. When I’m writing an essay, I have a hard time keeping it clear for the reader to read. Strong vocabulary is also hard for me to include in my essays. I struggle with attempting to perfect my essays before they are even complete. I also build an emotional attachment to my…
legos, the ability to create anything you could imagine always inspired me. In my free time, I would build either Star Wars or Harry Potter lego sets. Eventually as I aged, following instructions became a bit boring so I began to build my own projects. Sometimes they had to do with the theme of Star Wars or Harry Potter, but other times they had nothing to do with anything and were instead figures or contraptions of my own imagination. I began to start bigger projects such as building a pirate…
Genotype-environment Effects Ever, since I was a child one of my strongest subjects, and biggest joys have been reading and writing both in my first and second language. I think that the most influential factors to this where the environment I was brought in and the influence on one of my parents, this being my dad. Passive-genotype àenvironment effects, this being where the influence of genetics become present, my dad have always been attracted to lecture and every time he came to visit us he…
writer. As an international student with English as my second language, every time I take an English course I tend to get anxious about my performance. In this circumstance, walking into Rhetorical and Composition II has not been an easy journey for me. Looking back on past English classes that I have taken, and comparing my work, I am impressed on how my writing skills have improved. This class in particular has been a fundamental step in improving my skills, and has allowed me to become an…