My 2nd Year Confirmation Retreat
1. At Oxidental Camp site
2. Confirmation retreat
3. Everyone in my confirmation class was there
4. stayed for one weekend from Friday through Sunday
5. Different events for each day
6. Did group work and created a cinnamon roll by everyone holding hands and going in a circle
7. The big group talks that the confirmation leaders gave us that touched our lives.
8. Scavenger hunt Saturday night
9. Gathering around the bonfire and having someone read a passage from the bible
10. Getting our love letters from our parents
11. More activities on Sunday for team bonding in relation of God
12. Sunday mass where we got our confirmation cross
Friday, September 29, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Introduction 1
Does the environment really effect our way of speaking with people? Does it change our communication due to the language and age? The answer to both of these questions are yes, because our brain was developed to exchange communication with another by the difference of age and environment. The way we speak in professional environments in front of mature adults has a different effect to speaking with our peers at school. Our families also has a different effect to our language because we might be more comfortable speaking our native language with one another due to the connection to our culture. For example, we might be teaching our baby cousins our native language so that when they grow up they can speak it along with us to show respect to their culture. Our environment definitely has a huge effect on the way we speak towards one another.
Introduction 2
"Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us," said Julia Penelope. The world offers us many different ways of using language due to language courses and classes. The environment forces and lets our minds know what is surrounding us and how we should adjust to the language around us. In a professional environment, our language has changed from the regular slang to the language used by others in our environment. For example, if someone worked at a hospital, they would use the hospital language where they use abbreviations and substitutes for certain words. If we were speaking with our peers at school, we would use our normal language where we use slang terminology because we will feel more comfortable to use it around our peers. At family gatherings, one might use their native language as part of communicating with their families. Our language really depends on where we are and who we are with and that's how our brain determines what language to use.
Does the environment really effect our way of speaking with people? Does it change our communication due to the language and age? The answer to both of these questions are yes, because our brain was developed to exchange communication with another by the difference of age and environment. The way we speak in professional environments in front of mature adults has a different effect to speaking with our peers at school. Our families also has a different effect to our language because we might be more comfortable speaking our native language with one another due to the connection to our culture. For example, we might be teaching our baby cousins our native language so that when they grow up they can speak it along with us to show respect to their culture. Our environment definitely has a huge effect on the way we speak towards one another.
Introduction 2
"Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us," said Julia Penelope. The world offers us many different ways of using language due to language courses and classes. The environment forces and lets our minds know what is surrounding us and how we should adjust to the language around us. In a professional environment, our language has changed from the regular slang to the language used by others in our environment. For example, if someone worked at a hospital, they would use the hospital language where they use abbreviations and substitutes for certain words. If we were speaking with our peers at school, we would use our normal language where we use slang terminology because we will feel more comfortable to use it around our peers. At family gatherings, one might use their native language as part of communicating with their families. Our language really depends on where we are and who we are with and that's how our brain determines what language to use.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Both essays are talking about the main languages of their native tongue. The essay from Welsh was put in a very formal form while the other one was about informal. It was usually support from her experience and the one from Welsh was from research rather than experience. They are both informative about the mother tongue. The one in the Welsh was more demanding where you had to learn the language when the other one was just like a bonus to learn the language. Both essays are good but very different from each other.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006
My reading compared to Adler's reading is about the same because I do read between the lines and I think about what the author really means rather than just reading to pass through time and getting it over with. The only difference between me and Adler is probably marking the book. Marking the book is something I don't normally do because I believe that if I buy a book as expensive as $30-$200 I wouldn't want to ruin it by simply writing on it. If I buy a paperback book that I simply need to write on or need something to remind me of what I was thinking at the time, I would do it. Otherwise, I regularly wouldn't.
The way that Adler reads a book is by going through each word and sentence one by one and really thinking about it. He either underlines the words and phrases he likes or the most important points of the paragraph. He will put foot notes on the margin to remind himself what he was thinking or questioning about at the time. This is something I would do if I was marking my book. I would simply highlight most of the important parts of the book and leave myself foot notes on what I was thinking at the time. Our differences in reading are simply mere but like I said, marking a book is something I normally don't do.
The way that Adler reads a book is by going through each word and sentence one by one and really thinking about it. He either underlines the words and phrases he likes or the most important points of the paragraph. He will put foot notes on the margin to remind himself what he was thinking or questioning about at the time. This is something I would do if I was marking my book. I would simply highlight most of the important parts of the book and leave myself foot notes on what I was thinking at the time. Our differences in reading are simply mere but like I said, marking a book is something I normally don't do.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Karla Flores
This story is rather interesting because I have never heard most of these excuses. I, myself have used one of the excuses which was the “family emergency” but the other ones seem like a classic. The categories that Segal identifies in the story were: the family, the best friend, the evils of dorm life, the evils of technology, and the totally bizarre. Each type of category has it’s own type of excuse and it seems all very true unless you have heard them over and over like a teacher would.
Some of the excuses were rather exaggerated because we know that people wouldn’t really lie about having their grandfather/grandmother die just to get out of a deadline. Family excuses are usually the most believable ones and the least believable would probably the most bizarre ones. Although the bizarre excuses don’t seem real, they can be the most legitimate excuse they can have.
The technology problems are the most technical problems because most computers or any electronic device are not perfect and they do have bugs on them. It’s harder to work with technology these days but most of the time it’s very useful and very easy. We just need to find the best type of technology to use and a warranty to back it up. Dorm life is not as believable as the rest of the excuses because they are the most common excuse used by college students these days. The excuses Segal stated on this paper seemed more exaggerated than usual and should be looked into more carefully.
This story is rather interesting because I have never heard most of these excuses. I, myself have used one of the excuses which was the “family emergency” but the other ones seem like a classic. The categories that Segal identifies in the story were: the family, the best friend, the evils of dorm life, the evils of technology, and the totally bizarre. Each type of category has it’s own type of excuse and it seems all very true unless you have heard them over and over like a teacher would.
Some of the excuses were rather exaggerated because we know that people wouldn’t really lie about having their grandfather/grandmother die just to get out of a deadline. Family excuses are usually the most believable ones and the least believable would probably the most bizarre ones. Although the bizarre excuses don’t seem real, they can be the most legitimate excuse they can have.
The technology problems are the most technical problems because most computers or any electronic device are not perfect and they do have bugs on them. It’s harder to work with technology these days but most of the time it’s very useful and very easy. We just need to find the best type of technology to use and a warranty to back it up. Dorm life is not as believable as the rest of the excuses because they are the most common excuse used by college students these days. The excuses Segal stated on this paper seemed more exaggerated than usual and should be looked into more carefully.
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