Better Than Ezra

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I recently responded to a flare sighting south of Panama City, FL. The SAR Mission Coordinator (SMC) received three separate reports from sources they deemed reliable. Each of the three reports was extremely similar and able to be correlated with the others. The flares were described as red and above the horizon with an upward trajectory. The flare cones from each source overlapped and provided a searchable overwater area for responding units. The local military units were questioned regarding…

I got the incredible opportunity to intern at Telemundo New Orleans. As a member of PRSSA I attended a networking night last semester, and got to talk to a lot of people. Telemundo caught my attention, so when I stopped and talk, I asked for information and they told me they send me an email. Some weeks later I got an email from a Loyola student that worked there, saying they wanted to talk an offer me an internship if I was interested. That same Friday I went to an interview and got it. I was…

The topic of discourse analysis has been the primary subject in Module One since the beginning of the semester. Throughout this module, we’ve learned what discourse analysis is, the different types of discourse analysis, and why it’s an important part of rhetoric and writing. Having read #heavymeta chapters “What is Discourse Analysis?” and “Multimodal Discourse Analysis”, written by authors James Paul Gee and Gunther Kress, respectively, it’s about time we’ve applied our newfound knowledge of…

Cursive should still be taught because studies show that 50 percent of literacy is cursive and it’s a tool that you can apply and gives you more options. Some examples to show that cursive should still be taught today are, you can write faster, you will need to write a signature, and you are more literate if you can read and write cursive. Although some people think cursive should not be taught is because everybody says that we don’t have any time for it or that we already use technology. Well,…

Being a soccer player would be an excellent job. There are many reasons why it is a great job, but the best reason is that it is fun. Being a soccer player has a lot of beneficial things. They’re helpful things about being a professional soccer player. First of all, soccer helps you build communication and teamwork skills, and this is good which could help you later in life. Soccer can teach you discipline. It is good that soccer teaches you discipline because you will encounter a hard problem…

concern. Compared to sympathy, using empathy improves a person's self-esteem by re-emphasizing self-awareness and the understanding that they are not alone in their feelings. For example, when a friend was feeling nervous for an upcoming exam, rather than telling her to not worry about it, I listened to what she said, acknowledged her efforts towards preparing for the exam and told her about how I felt when I was taking the exam. By using empathy, I not only channeled how I felt but felt…

be more specific with my requests and spam them with messages so they would see it and reply to it. The third competency that I did decently in was creativity. To me, creativity means to express yourself with your own original ideas, but it's even better if you combine those ideas with others. For instance, when I was working with my group we had to come up with a story for our two PSA topics, which was scapegoat and transfer. While we did plan out everything for our video, we ended up changing…

In correlation to what the author of “On Course,” Skip Downing pointed out, I firmly agree that reading is one of the most important skills to obtain. A challenge that I have had for a long time relates to number 19. “I lose concentration, and my mind wanders while I’m trying to read.” I tend to black out while I am reading every once and awhile. This means I have a tremendous amount of thoughts and such that distracts me while I am trying to focus. Over time I have improved thank to specific…

I am furious with myself for finishing this book. It was apparent within the first few pages that it was going to be grating with grammar mistakes and cookie cutter characters. What kept me reading was the interesting story idea. I truly wish someone else had written this book. The author hit it big with her first book, Gone Girl. (Disclosure – I wasn’t that big a fan of that book but it was at least readable) I imagine her publisher pushed her to crank out the next book and the result…