Gaining from the Blog Assignment

What I am gaining from this Blog Assignment is, that it is easy for me to write a four hundred word essay now than it was for me in high school. By saying that it would takes me forever to write a four hundred essay back then because I would procrastinate a lot when I come home at 8:00 at night from football practice. I would be so tired from it and wake up early in the morning to practice, I did not even have enough time for it. Now I have more time on my hands since I am in college and not playing football and try and make any essay as good as possible. It is funny it would take me week at most to finish this, but now it would take me about two hours or so to finish it. I kind of enjoy writing an essay for this class, because it makes me brainstorm and finds me my peace when it is quiet. Also the one thing writing an essay is reading others, it is interesting how my classmates can write so many things from the topic you give us. When I get the topic during lab I ask Rashael “How do we do this”, she laughs and says “Just do it. Besides that I enjoy reading my classmates work, because we leave comments about it or how well they did. Sometimes I leave a long comment about what they talk about, I do not know if they read it or not, but I hope it will help them out. When I receive comments they are usually have seven words in it and that bothers me because with all that hard work you get a couple words of comments. I like it when Professor Still reads it, because his comments about it and they are not too short or not too long just the right amount. What stands out for me on our Blog Assignments is that how we came so far from it, because when we got our first blog I thought it would take me the whole day to finish it but its cake. When I wrote an essay about Mike Rowe’s interview we needed only four hundred words for it and I wrote five hundred twenty-eight words. That’s how engaged I was in the essay, because I like writing essays’ “now” and I also liked the questions he answered during the interview.

Mike Rowe

The introduction of the video says Mike Rowe is an opera singer and has done bits for the Baltimore Opera, also an air pitchman for QVC, and also a longtime host for “Dirty Jobs”. In his video he mentions about what jobs he seen. But let me start from start to beginning. He talks about the real problem is college and that we push kids go get a four-year degree and causes trillions of dollars’ in debt, they need a skill gap to do this. He mentions a welder that makes one-hundred dollars from Butler, North Dakota and said he loves it because it pays well. To me that’s good money for just welding and will not mine that. He also says that they are sleeping on community college, because he heard from his counselor when he was young its below your potential. He was kind of upset that he heard that and also “Work smart NOT hard”. So he changed it to “Work smart and hard”. Speaking of this Mike Rowe does not support that taxpayers should payoff student loans, for kids that have no hope paying it back.

            Also the cost of a degree has increased five hundred times since the 80’s and Mike Rowe cannot believe this is not daily headlines, because he says he is Anti-debt with this kind of stuff. You can do anything with your work ethics to manage this. He also mentions his grandfather could do anything with just an eighth grade education he had strong work ethics.

            The development of a strong work ethic is being too suspicious for being too easy and the wiliness to find and communicate. He asks a guy from Wisconsin cleans septic tanks and ask him what he do before this, he was a guidance counselor and was just tired of hearing other peoples’ “B.S.”. He owns his business and is very happy with because of his sting work ethics. With all this it reminds me of the farm near Cameron, I still want get a degree in Agribusiness. Because it’s the passion I have and I love to do it, by that I mean by selling cows. I sat in an office before and its boring, because I want strong work ethics.

            There is also jobs that concerns Mike Rowe, because of credentials of what people have. He went to Marine Corp Ball and talked with a medic from the Marines. He cannot find work because he does not have credentials and Mike Rowe hates when somebody can do it, but do not have the credentials. Also the interviewer says about earnings in 2012, that a person with a high school diploma makes $652 with unemployment of 8.3% and a person with a bachelor’s degree makes $1056 with unemployment of 4.5%.

            We have become efficient, but the more efficient we become a less work force we will have. Which is kind of a Karl Marx thing with it. Mike Rowe loves welders, because they are an industrial art in what they do. The opportunity for a welder is that they pay well and there is a underserve with it. Basically everything requires these things.

Article Review

This article talks about how technology has taken our social life. By that, it means we do not talk face to face anymore we just use technology to use it. For example, we can just say “wyd (what are you doing)” and etc. Also this article says it is an “opinion page” but gives informative issues about social media troubles. For example, it says in 1985 “ten percent of Americans said they had no one to fully conifer in.” It has reached twenty-five percent in the present time. What is interesting to me, is I know that technology has been a dominant reliability in the world. But I did not know how bad we use it every four minutes, that is just crazy to hear and also we check it two hundred twenty-one times a day. I mean can we just lay back and go outside and be active. Also in this article it says technology makes us lonelier, which for me I talk to everybody. I use my phone but I do not message them if they are right across form me. I know loneliness can cause anxiety and depression. We do not want that in our society were that can cause serious consequences. It says researchers say that technology does not make us lonelier, but they are tools. I do not believe that on bit when we this read this in class, I seen this happen before and it is not pretty. Because it says social media has a darker side to it. For instance, there is cyberbullying and that is problem with society. It can cause serious troubles and consequences because it can lead to depression and that is why I did not believe that technology cannot make lonely, if you see it yourself. There are also good things about technology, it’s a good resource to use. Mainly this articles says to me is we need to more active and layoff Facebook, Instagram, and etc. Because we have become addicted to it and we can lose ourselves. Also I will say it again we have relied on it too much. I really stated everything I said about informative facts, how its taken over our life, the dark side and the loneliness which it causes.

What I did this Past Summer?

The topic I will talk about today, is what I did this past summer. What I did this past summer? There was a lot of things I did this summer, I basically had a good summer. I graduated from C.H. Yoe High School and left a legacy there for future the Yoemen that will take the throne and probably win several state championships. I also traveled across “The South” by “vehicle”. The reason I say that, I traveled by vehicle because I listened to “On the road again” by Willie Nelson. I do not know why I play this song, its fun to hear over and over again. I guess it makes since when you travel state by state and have adventures with your family. But again I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to go see my dads’ family, we made pit stops while on our way there. By meaning that we took the long way to Atlanta, to tour around each state and have fun. We toured through Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Hattiesburgh, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Montgomery, Auburn, and finally Atlanta. The interesting thing about this trip was going through Vidor, Texas. I only experienced discrimination once in my life and it happen the second time in Vidor. I heard stories about Vidor on how they discriminate the Mexican-Americans and African-Americans, but I did not believe in it until some man said to my family and I “we don’t accept your kind”. It did not bother me one bit, because I still eat and go to sleep. Also I was spending time with my family. After all that confrontation, we still got our snacks and left to our trip to Atlanta. As soon as we got to Louisiana my sister wanted to go to Baton Rouge and New Orleans to go see the “Death Valley” and the “Superdome”. She is a big fan of LSU and Saints, that is why we took the long way. We continue on to our trip, we stopped at Hattiesburgh, Mississippi and ate dinner and spend the night there. As soon as we were ready to leave we caught a flat, but lucky me I remember to put the spare in the back. We got back on the road and later toured Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, it was cool seeing where Alabama plays at. The next town was Birmingham, that place had so much traffic I thought we would never get out of there it took three hours. It was exhausting and five hours later we got to Atlanta. We stayed there for a week and my uncles took us everywhere. They took us to Six Flags, Braves game, Zoo, Aquarium, Olympic Park, and Forest Park. It was fun spending time with them even though, I have not seen them in fourteen years. But again the best part of my summer was graduating and having “adventures” to Atlanta. On the way back home it was more ease, with all the crazy stuff happening from Atlanta to good ole Cameron, Texas.