Advice for next years students

Welcome to English 304!

You'll enjoy this class! It teaches you a lot of important information that you'll need as soon as you graduate but without overwhelming you. For example, anyone know how to complete a successful resume right now? What about a cover letter? You'll learn how to do both of those documents and if you already know, you'll get feedback so you can improve them.

My advice for the class is PAY ATTENTION! In class, you'll go over what is expected on assignments and when they are due and if you don't pay attention, you won't know what to do. Also, do your blog. They are not hard, just type up your ideas and reactions once a week.

My final suggestion is to utilize the weekly to-do lists on Angie's website. It tells you everything you'll be doing that week so there are no surprises. Also, if you have a particularly hectic week, you can budget your time appropriately so you don't get overly stressed!

Doing those things will help you be successful in English 304! Good Luck and Have Fun!!!

Dehumanizing Language

This week, we did research on dehumanizing language. We looked for examples of the language online and in articles. I looked up articles on Hitler and the nazi's. I thought that dehumanizing language would be easy to find from things that Hitler said but I was surprised to find the opposite. In the information I found, he is very careful to not use any type of language that would immediately offend someone. He choose his words carefully for the most part and when I think about, it makes sense. Hitler was a great speaker and extremely persuasive and he could not be that way if he went around being offensive to people. He was careful to reach everyone.

I found it was hard to find a lot of examples of dehumanizing language. Apparently, public speakers are fairly careful to not use this type of language too much.

Ethical lapses in the Workplace

The article seems like solid evidence that ethical lapses do affect the workplace and the productivity of the employees. However, this article does not shock me. These days people love scandal and gossip so when something unethical happens in their workplace, people are going to be distracted and talk to each other; therefore distracting others. I know that when an ethical lapse occurs in studio, we will talk about it with our fellow students and end up not getting any work done. According to the survey, I guess that's what happens in a workplace also.

I think that the article does a good job of describing how distracted the employees got and how they reacted to an ethical lapse in their workplace. We just assume that it happens but the article uses specific statistics to prove it.

Group Blog

I updated the group blog for this week's blog : )

Cheerleading Update

The cheerleading squad is going very well. We have a full routine, we have bonded as a team, and we have made significant progress. There are ten days until we leave for Daytona and I am very excited. We're not consistent yet, our performances go back and forth, good and bad, but we've managed to have more good than bad. We are improving and hopefully in the next ten days, we'll be able to become consistent.

We don't have music yet which is really important for me. I can follow the routine better if I know the music that goes with each part. Also, I'm not very good at dancing and having the music to lead me through the movements make the dance easier on me. I'm definitely looking forward to having music and will listen to it over and over so I have a good hold on it.

We set a date for our exhibition for the university. It is:

• Monday, April 7 from 8 to 9pm in Jervey

I'm really excited and I hope lots of people come to cheer us on!!! It makes it much easier to perform when there are people cheering us on, so the more the merrier!

This week's post

I wrote on the team blog for this week's post.

Class Presentations

I thought that almost all the presentations that we saw in class were interesting. The topics were all things that the presenters were really interested in. When someone really loves what they are talking about, it makes it that much more interesting to listen to.

I'd have to say that my favorite presenter was Leigh. She did a presentation on elementary education and the different stragedies that they use to decide how children learn and the best way to teach them. I thought it was a really good presentation because she got the audience involved and excited to see if they were left or right brained or how we learn. As a member of the audience, I had fun doing the different tests hearing what they said about my personality and also, if they were correct. I also liked it because my sister is a third grade teacher and the things Leigh talked about were techniques that my sister uses every year to help her children, the future generations, learn.