EECU should have a photo card design!

All banks should a program to customize your own debit/credit card. I recently became a member of Educational Employees Credit Union and there is no way to personalize my very own debit card and I'm pretty sad. EECU should be able to photo card their cards SOON!

First Year Completed

OMG, my first year of college is OVEEEEEEERRRRR!!! =D It's an awesome feeling! I didn't think I'd make it through. But I am so proud to say that I made it. I hope next semester gets better. I still miss high school, but I will have to deal with it. Isn't life without a laptop so miserable? Lol. My laptop kind of died...and it's been like almost two months now. It's terrible. I have to use either my sister or my brother's. And man...sometimes when they're both on, I have to use that old and slow desktop we still have. Lol. It used to be worse, but whatever. I am just so excited about vacation and feeling GREAT right now. WHOOOOO!!!

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What would you do without music? I do not know about you, but music is LIFE for me. It's a NEED. Without music, there would be no fun. And the world would be quiet and fun parties and no slow dancing on the dance floor under a disco ball. I used to listen to music all the time and it would not be a distraction to complete my homework. But now... I cannot even focus or get my work done when I have music playing in the background. I get sidetracked and start singing along with the music. I feel like I have not listened to music in a long time. Have you tried some kind of Asian "ice cream" called Mochi? I want some right now. They are really good.

Okay... Some Letters to the Editor are more like informing and telling the reader to appreciate what is given or what done for the society and whatnot. The writer probably chooses to write this kind of Letter to the Editor in showing his gratitude for what has been done to better parkways. Some letters are informing readers to beware of what's happening in the world and end with an "action" clincher. The writer suggests ways that the reader can take action in order to lessen the wrongdoings in our society. These letters state what they want, what they think the changes should be, and their opinions on certain things that should be taken care of. Writers who choose to write about things they want to see change in the future care about the effects it can have on them and other people. The points in these letters are pretty clear and straightforward. They tend to use more of their personal experiences than outside sources.

Chapter 7 in FIAW focuses on the body of an essay. It discusses about the ways in which you are to summarize, quote, and paraphrase. Maybe in some ways, this chapter teaches the proper way to do these things. It talks about how to summarize and quote and then how to analyze. Every chapter in this thin book is very helpful to better your writing.

♫Gloriana's (Kissed You) Goodnight... ♪

Friday's Blog Work

So... I almost forgot to do this blog. I kind of freaked out when I realized I haven't done it. As you can tell...I realized at a very bad time. Lol. Anyways. I could do it tomorrow, but I would rather do it now. Tomorrow's FRIDAY! Already!!! So...I think that my sources are tying up together pretty well this time. I found a few sources that are talking about the same thing. Which points to what my argument could be. I don't know how to put my thesis is words yet, but I know I want to put how the English language is affecting native languages...possibly in a bad way, kind of. Native languages use different letter characters and tones to communicate with each other. These codes leave people who are not a part of this discourse community out. Rhetorical analysis...I am really going to have to show how my sources support my argument and how they are used to show what I am proving. Clear argument...I want you, as the reader, to understand that the English language may be the standard language in almost all over the world, but other native languages that are or were once important are disappearing and vanishing because of that one standard language. And I believe that native languages should be kept and not forgotten. Without native languages, cultures are becoming lost and younger generations will not know where they really came from. And I believe that is not a very good thing. I believe that everyone, even the younger ones in the future should know their elders' background an what kind of culture they come from. In order to maintain cultures and morals and values, families should take this seriously and make sure their younger children know what's important to them. It's important that we know how to communicate with our elders. They are the ones who look after us and whatnot.

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The discourse community that I am most interested in right now is the language discourse. My native language is Hmong. I communicate with my parents through the Hmong language. Well, my siblings too but we sometimes speak in English. Everyone in my family knows how to speak in Hmong because the only way we can really communicate with my mom is through the Hmong language. She does not really understand English. A lot of Hmong teenagers these days cannot speak in Hmong fluently. I am not exactly sure what it is that they cannot speak their native language. And not to be mean, but their English is not that proper either. Maybe it is the English language that affects their ability to speak fluently in Hmong? I do not know. Language is very important to us. If we did not have a common language in our lives, we would not understand what one is saying. In order to comprehend and cooperate with each other, we would need a common language to know what is going on and such. The fact that we live in America and the language we use every day with our peers and colleagues is English, can possibly be a factor that affects our native language.

I do not exactly know what other cultures are like, but in the Asian culture (specifically Hmong), we kind of have some strict values and morals. We really have to respect our elders and have ways of entering houses, such as taking off out shoes. To communicate with our elders, we really have to know how to speak in Hmong. Elders often make fun of kids who do not speak in their native language. They think that it's wrong to not know your native language and your culture. We're not allowed to date someone with the same last name. That would be like dating your own sister/brother. But the strange thing is that you can date your cousin. Someone with the same last name as you might not be related to you at all, but you can't date them. But a cousin, different last name and related...allowed to date. That is strange, don't you think? Kind of weird too. A code we use before eating is washing our hands. Hands tend to be dirty and before eating, it is important that we wash them before putting food in our mouth.

 

For my research, I am looking for articles that show or discuss about how the English language is affecting native languages. The fact that the English language is being taught all over the world, teenagers are losing their native language. And that is forgetting out morals and values.

Midterm Portfolio Revision Process

So do you like your soda cold or room temperature? Cold, right? Because I know I like it cold. But here I am...drinking a Big K Cola at room temperature. I just took it out of the box. I wish it was cold, but I was thirsty so yeah.

Midterm Portfolio...the time has come again to prepare for our English midterm. For the second revision, I am trying to connect my ideas again. It seems like that is my issue with writing. I tend to have trouble with getting my ideas together and making them flow well. So once again, I will have to really focus on the RHETORICALITY part of my essay and make sure to connect them ideas. I feel like my paper does not have enough summarizing. I am considering on putting more of the summaries into my paper. "More summary" was actually one of the comments I received from one of my peers. Apparently, I did not summarize enough of my sources into my first project. I know that summarizing is an important part of the academic writing world. But the point is not to summarize what the text says. You have to have some kind of point in what you are summarizing. For example, if you summarize the text and do not point out the significance of what you just stated, there is not much of a purpose in what you summarized. Now, I used to think that quoting from the text and analyzing it were the most important factors of writing intellectually. That is what I focused on mostly my senior year in high school, but I have learned that everything you write is almost all very important. For instance, reflection. You do not only state whether you agree or disagree, you explain your side and critique the others. Kind of like evaluating your sources. So for my second revision, I plan to critique and put more of "separate thinking/thoughts" into my paper. I believe that if I put a lot of thinking into my sources and how my ideas all connect together, my midterm portfolio will begin to look pretty awesome.

Now, let's listen to another country song. =) One day, I am going to go on a road trip with my sister. Until then, I will keep the faith up. ღ Scotty McCreery's "The Trouble With Girls".

FIAW Chapter 5

I want a little puppy.

When I read these chapters, they seem like really serious stuff. But you know what? They are very good information. We read some really interesting stuff in this class. These books give deeper meanings into what academic writing is like and such. What I have learned more about in this chapter five of FIAW is how an academic writer reads to understand the "issues, situations, and questions that lead other writers to make claims" (83). Academic writers take their time to read and fully understand the point they want their readers to catch up on. They write in a way that makes their readers respond or react in different ways. They also come up with questions that will lead their readers or other writers to other ideas and make them their claims. An important factor in writing is to make sure that you state a thesis. A true thesis is "an assertion that academic writers make at the beginning of what they write and then support with evidence throughout their essay" (83). Academic writers state their main point or what they want to prove in one sentence. And following the thesis would be body paragraphs that include evidence that supports their claim. We have learned a lot about this in this class. But reading more about it in different ways bring to my mind new things, and new views of what a thesis really is. The more you read about something, the more you understand the real meaning of what it is.

This chapter suggests three ways to how to develop a working thesis. The first way is the correcting-misinterpretations model. This model is used to correct writers that write their thesis in a form that is more of a factual claim.The second is the filling-the-gap model. This model helps writers to include discussions that other writers had forgotten to confer in their writing. The third is the modifying-what-others-have-said model. This model contributes the writer's thoughts with other writers' to form a thesis. These models give such good examples of how you can develop a thesis in your own writing. This reading has given me a deeper meaning of how to develop a thesis, and good ways to form a good thesis. These models can help me develop better thesis in the future.

I love cute little things. <3

I have good news! Tomorrow...I only have ONE class! =D And that is Music class. No English on Fridays, like usual, and my other two classes are cancelled. So tomorrow is going to go by fast. Have a good night! zZzZZZzzzzZzzzzZzZZzzz...