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The video Reflective Writing describes a useful way to write a reflective writing piece. I just finished my first draft of my research paper Lunch-time Blues, and I have a lot to edit and revise. My research paper provided an argument on how America should change the school lunches being served to students. In this blog post I will reflect on my research paper, along with how I wrote it and how I can revise it.
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In my English class, we watched The Power of Believing you can Improve, a ted talk presented by Carol Dweck. In this Ted talk Dweck discusses the power of the word "yet". After studying nationwide she noticed that kids followed a tendency where if they failed, instead of improving they would cheat, or find something worse to make themselves look better. This is what occurs in people who have a fixed mindset, and they run from improvement and trying. Dweck tells the audience about the growth mindset, where kids engage in activity, learn from mistakes, and develop abilities. This can be achieved by using "yet". By using this people are rewarded by progression, effort, strategy, and their progress. Yet does not encourage people to just strive for the end product and to not just judge based off of the end product. After seeing this Ted talk I hope to change my work ethic, and to have a growth mindset. I strive to constantly be approving and not stuck on a grade, or award to judge my work. Carol Dweck says, "Lets not waste anymore lives!" and I hope to no longer waste my life with a fixed mindset. My Psychology teacher has this in her room, and this demonstrates the power of "yet"! As I have stated in my blog post, Cheerleading: The Beginning of the Season, my team traveled to Tom's River, New Jersey this passed weekend. Despite my doubts and nerves for this competition my team performed really well and I am ecstatic about it! For the high school I am on two teams, each being in a different division. The one team, traditional medium, only had one fall which is amazing considering last week we had around ten falls. We ended up placing fourth in the region, and received our bid to go to nationals.
The other team I am on, super large game day, did absolutely amazing! This is our first year competing in this division so we went in not sure what to expect. We ended up receiving out bid and placing second, falling short of only .4 points to the team that won nationals last year. If we continue to work hard we may be able to go down to Florida and place really well! I am super excited to see how far both the teams go this year because we already improved so much in just a few months! Introduction
In France, children aren't served food from a large bin, they are served a four course meal that meats the proper nutrition recommendations. America is far behind in teaching education and you can notice this flaw in the obesity rate. In this blog post, I will provide four sources along with summaries, and evaluation on the sources that re-inforce my opinion. My research question is: Should America change their school lunches to follow the French model? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Source 1:
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In my English Composition I class for the rest of the year I have set new goals for myself. I am going to use these goals to keep a consistent work ethic and try to make my writing better. Also, these goals will help me to learn as much as I can this semester. As I reach my goals I am going to revise them or create more for myself to reach for. My goals are:
This year I'm the captain of the varsity cheerleading team at Ridley High School. This year has been a rough start since we lost a lot of our team from last year. Last season our team consisted of twelve girls and we were a very talented group of girls. Sometimes peoples attitudes affected our team work ethic and this caused us to fall short of our goal at the end of the season. Our problem last year was that we were good enough but when we performed we would never do what we needed to do correctly and it was really frustrating. At nationals we made it to finals but when we performed for our final time we were a mess, which caused us to not place as well as we could have. At the end of our season we lost seven of our twelve teammates because they were seniors.
This season we started off alright, we had five returning varsity girls, some girls from JV, and many freshmen with talent. Things got worse when one of our returning girls had to get back surgery, leaving her out all season, and another retuning girl quit. This left us with three returning varsity girls to lead our team and help the freshmen. This summer was rough and we never had our full team there so we were unable to progress how we normally do during the summer. This put us at a very bad position where we were very behind. We were left with two months practically to teach everything and get our team ready. All the new girls were coming from previous cheer teams where their skills weren't as advanced. We focused our time on teaching girls higher skills and we got everyone up to speed. We had our first competition this passed weekend and things did not go well. SO many stunts fell and we were all over the place. I decided to use this as a learning experience and just a starting point. I hope that as our season goes on we get better every performance. Every year we go to Florida for nationals if we make it and this weekend is our competition to qualify. I hope that things go better this weekend and we grow as a team and get our bid to go to Florida for my senior year! Introduction
Where to Invade Next is a documentary on how America can learn from other countries around the world to fix some problems. A summary father documentary can be found in my blog post: Summary of Where to Invade Next. In this blog posts I will write arguments on certain topics presented in the movie. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Topic: American Nutrition Education Research Question: Should America focus more on teaching nutrition in schooling? Argument: America should focus more on teaching nutrition in schooling because this may lead to better nutrition of adults. In America obesity is very common, being found in one in every three adults. Obesity leads to medical problems which can lead the life expectancy to decrease. If nutrition is taught more often at a young age kids grow up with a health background and know how to take care of their bodies. Topic: American Schooling Research Question: Should America change its education approach to increase scores? Argument: American should change their approach in education because kids need time to grow as people. America is considered mediocre compared to other countries, yet we spend a lot of money. In Finland kids go to school for less hours and are not given homework and they are amongst the top of the countries in education. Considering an approach like this may help to raise education levels in America. If kids are spending less time on school they have more time to spend on activities and grow as people to help develop their minds. Topic: America Woman Clincs Research Question: Should America make woman health clinics more available? Argument: America should make health clinics for woman more available because it allows woman and men to be equal. Also, when woman become pregnant and are not able to support the baby they should have the option to get an abortion. A woman should have the freedom to choose what they want to do with their bodies without men dictating them. In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore “invades” countries around the world attempting to bring ideas back to the United States. He wants to find ways to make America better and allow the country to grow without going to war and fighting. To begin his journey he travelled to Italy where he discussed workers conditions. He met with business owners and learned workers in Italy are given eight weeks paid vacation each year(In America paid vacation is not required). They believe that vacation relieves stress and without stress no one will get sick, and this seems to work because Italy's average life expectancy is five years longer than America's. In his next invasion of France he went to learn more about what the kids are taught in elementary school. Their schools consider lunch a class where a chef makes them nutritious meals everyday, which teaches the kids proper nutrition and food etiquette. Educating kids in this area helps to promote lifelong health amongst the population. When Moore traveled to Finland next he wanted to learn how they climbed to the top country in education. There trick was revealed as it was to have the kids spend less time in school and give them no homework. They believed this gave kids time to do other activities and have them grow as people more which strengthens their brains. Before this change in schooling policies Finland was at the bottom of education with America but with these changes they reached the top in a few years. Next on his invasion, he went to Slovenia, where kids go to college for free. This country allows Americans to come and go to college for free along with everyone else, and offer a better education. In America most people coming out of college are drowning in debts which prevents them from having stable funds of money and this can hold people back from many things. His next tip he picked up was from Germany where workers are stress free. It is a law that people are not allowed to work more than 36 hours a week and when they leave work, they’re not allowed to be contacted. Having this policy helps workers disconnect from work ad enjoy their life and families more, but also leads to more production during work. In portugal, Moore learned about a different way the police worked. Here it is legal to have drugs and you will not be arrested for drug possession. Their drug rate is a lot lower than the United States and they believe this is because people are not criminalized for having drugs. Moore wanted to learn more about Norway, so when he travelled here he learned about their prison system. Here jail is about rehabilitation and letting people grow from their mistakes. Each criminal has their own room and takes classes from math to culinary arts. This allows criminals to grow and in Norway, their rearrest rate within 5 years is a lot lower than America's. Moore’s invasions continued as he traveled to Tunisia where women are treated equal with men. Women's health clinics are easily available and abortion is legal allowing woman to control their own bodies. In Moore’s final invasion he went to Iceland where woman are truly equal among businesses. Iceland was the first country to elect a woman democratic president and now women are equal in all businesses. After Moore travels to all these countries he realizes that all of these ideas are from America originally. America has the potential to grow without help but just needs to realize it.
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