Prompt: Which criteria could have Kate used to determine which people she could trust?
I chose this prompt because trust is very important in our daily lives. Kate Abbott ultimate moves and decisions came down to, who and what to trust. Purpose: To persuade Audience: Classmates, blog visitors Focus: To introduce and elaborate on the things Kate Abbott could've done to determine who was trustworthy Style: Argumentative
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The movie Survivor is an action packed movie that took place in London. It follows the story line of the main character Kate Abbott (Mila Jovovich) who becomes a Diplomatic Service agent after most of her friends died in 9/11. While out at a restaurant for a friend’s birthday with employees from work the restaurant is bombed, but Abbott survives because of a last minute decision. After investigating the bombing it is discovered by Abbott that the bomber is the Watchmaker, and she is now his target. The movie follows Abbott as she learns more and more of the dangerous plan set to take place in Times Square on New Year’s Eve as she’s being hunted by a notorious, wanted killer and British authorities. While it was extremely difficult and challenging, Abbott managed to save the world from a terrorist attack.
I thought Survivor was a great movie that I would watch again. I have to admit that I wouldn’t have normally watched it if I saw it on Netflix but I’m glad I did. I would recommend the movie to others to watch. Kate Abbott: [answering the phone] Hello? Sam Parker: I always liked your instincts. Kate Abbott: Oh, Sam, you're alive! Sam Parker: Yeah. You, too, from what I hear. Kate Abbott: Mostly. So I guess this is what we're doing with our lives. Sam Parker: Yeah, it is. Kate, there were over a million people out there tonight, and you saved them all. Nero Franks, Trevor: The fire works in Dubai... that was you, wasn't it? Nash: [stabs him in the ear] You shouldn't have asked about that thing in Dubai. Nash: Kate... Kate Abbott: Times up! [stamps on his hands making him slide down and over a sky scraper roof plunging into Times Square far below] The movie I chose is a 1993 Sundance Film Festival film titled, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. It tells the story of a teenage, Brooklyn, New York native named Chantel Mitchell. She had a “nobody can tell me nothing”, hard New York attitude. She has big dreams of going to medical school, starting her own family, and leaving the poverty in New York that her friends have become accustom to. Things don’t really go as she was planning when she suddenly becomes pregnant and tries to hide it from everyone because it gets in the way of her dreams. In the end, she is able to fulfill her dreams of going to college and having a family.
Possible writing topics: Describe your determination and goals if you were about to be a teenage parent. Describe the importance of safe sex and why it should be practiced. Describe how different you think your life would be if you were a teenage parent? If you were, describe the obstacles you’ve had to overcome. When working on this project I worked with my mom and myself to compose my project. I thought my approach was a good approach because I have younger siblings and cousins who look up to me for me to see how they adapt to learning and growing. The most difficult part of my writing process was getting focused and actually sitting down and writing because I am a procrastinator who will literally procrastinate until the very last minute. I overcame it by finally just telling myself that in order to maintain a good grade I need to get it done. I wrote this project extremely later than I should have; it was not a good approach. I wrote this project at home, which also was not a good approach because it was difficult for me to get focused and write. I chose to write my chosen topic because I am a growth mindset and feel that it is important to elaborate on it for people who don’t know much about a growth mindset or mindsets in general. In the future if I chose to revise this project, I will definitely give myself ample time needed to start and finish the project, work somewhere that I can focus and get as much work and revision done as possible.
After reading Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners [...] (Chicago University), I found that my academic mindset is growth mindset. I chose growth mindset because in order to succeed in school, you must put in the effort required. I believe that with hard work and effort I am an amazing student. I’ve come to realize that my effort and level of focus shows in my work. If I’m focused and everything is going good for me, my work will reflect that. If I’m not focused, stressing out, have a million things going on then that will also reflect in my work. I tend to give bad quality work or academic effort when I’m not focused like I usually am. For some reason, I feel the need to perfect everything I do. I hate to say it, but yes, I am a perfectionist especially when it comes to my school work. I constantly try to improve myself from the last semester or last academic year to see what steps I could take to better myself as a student. A growth mindset is the best for me to achieve academic success at DCCC because my college years are all about growth in every aspect of my life. Keeping the “I can do this” mindset has always been the best for me when it came to school, only I can make myself successful. If I keep the mindset of always wanting to improve and better myself, that’s all I’ll do. I can’t wait for things to fall into place or work out in my favor; I have to make it happen, personally and academically. I’ve always said “there are two things in this world nobody can take from you, your talent and your education”. That’s the motto I’ve been living by since high school and it has kept me grounded and focused most of the time.
When most people hear of growth and fixed mindsets they have to research it a little bit. It’s not a common topic of many conversations. People with fixed mindsets believe that things like their intelligence and talents are just fixed traits that cannot be changed. People with growth mindsets see their abilities and qualities as things that can change and be developed.
When reading the article by Carol Dweck I think she explains growth mindset very good. In Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research, Carol Dweck Says she talks about how too much praise isn’t good and praising for the wrong things can be harmful as well. She speaks on how children of today’s society have fixed mindsets because they either receive too much praise, are praised for the wrong things or are nagged instead of helped when faced with challenges. Instead of giving too much praise or nagging too much, finding strategies and what works for someone will allow them to improve more. While telling someone they’ve done a good job and rewarding them with kind words doesn’t sound bad, in most cases it causes more harm than good. Giving children the proper basic skills or help they have room for infinite improvement and growth. Although I wasn’t a big fan of Alfie Kohn’s article, he made a few valid points in my opinion. In his article, The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system Alfie Kohn says “kids typically end up less interested in whatever they were rewarded or praised for doing, because now their goal is just to get the reward or praise”. I agree with that statement because it’s something that me and many other people do. If you know you’ll be rewarded for something, nine times out of ten, you’re only doing it for the reward. I think that was a great point to comment on. I believe I’m a growth mindset academic wise. When it comes to school work it’s completely up to me and what I can do. Do I start by telling them how much of an amazing person you were? Do I tell them how creative you were? Or how much you loved animals? Do I tell them how you loved to rap and found music as an escape? How can I describe one of the most unique people I’ve known in my life? You didn’t have a child until I was in high school so we spent most of my childhood together. The love and curiosity for animals we shared made our bond so much stronger.
I remember June 11, 2012 very vividly… The weather was great, it was the last day of 9th grade and I was so happy and ready to start my summer. I just saw you the day before when you and mom-mom were arguing about where your sneakers were. It was the next day and nobody had heard from you. You didn’t even go back home last night and you went out without your backpack. You never go out without it which was a red flag, but we didn’t want to jump to conclusions and think the worse. We all knew something wasn’t right and something was off, we felt it in our stomach’s. As me and my mom are in the nail salon drying our nails, we have family members calling all around looking for you then my mom got the call as she’s drying her nails… They had your body at the morgue. My uncle who has been there since the day I was born is no longer with us. At this point, my mom is in the middle of the nail salon screaming and balling out in tears, because her brother was murdered the night before. All I could do was hold and comfort her while I was just as hurt, but my mom has always been there for me. I had to put myself aside and be there for her. Only 11 years apart in age, my uncle and I have always been close which made June 11, 2012 one of the worst days of my young life. We were more like brother and sister than uncle and niece. He was the last of his siblings to have a child, my grandma waited so long. Only for him to be taken away from his daughter when she was only six months old, and just days before his 24th birthday and his first father’s day. My uncle spent his life helping raise his nieces and nephews and was unable to raise his own child. I got a sleeve tattooed in remembrance of my uncle and even got his exact signature and his portrait tattooed on my back because he has always had my back. I carry around the note you wrote me when I graduated 6th grade. I got that note tattooed too, in your exact signature. The most important things that reminded me of you, I got tattooed because I always need you with me. I’ve made a few decisions and choices that should’ve landed me in some bad places in my life but I’m not. I can’t help to think that my guardian angel that’s tattooed on my back is who has had my back in those situations. You always urged me to make the right decisions even though you didn’t. When you were taken from us you were just getting yourself on the right track for your daughter and your family but sometimes it’s too late. Karma is real. While you were an amazing person, you weren’t perfect. Unfortunately, that bad you’ve done caught up to you just when you were in process of becoming a better you. None of those reasons gave anyone the right to take your life, you were still human. It’s hard to say I don’t still feel like you’ll pop up like you always did. I still think I’ll come downstairs and you’ll be on the couch sleep. What once was will never be again. As I write this trying to hold back my tears I realize, our family will never be the same. Your mom will never physically have three children again. Your daughter will never physically have a father. All we have are memories. Questions about my draft:
The video illustrates Hiraeth because it's talking about yearning for a better city and just wanting things to get better as a community. Wanting your city to feel like home again and for the sense killings and murders of innocent people to stop.
I remember June 11, 2012 like it was yesterday… The weather was great, it was the last day of 9th grade and I was so happy and ready to start my summer. I just saw you the day before when you and grandma were arguing about where your sneakers were. It was the next day and nobody had heard from you. You didn’t even go back home last night and you went out without your backpack. You never go out without it which was a red flag, but we didn’t want to jump to conclusions and think the worse. We all knew something wasn’t right and something was off, we felt it in our stomach’s. As me and my mom are in the nail salon drying our nails, we have family members calling all around looking for you then my mom got the call as she’s drying her nails… They had your body at the morgue. My uncle who has been there since the day I was born is no longer with us. At this point, my mom is in the middle of the nail salon screaming and balling out in tears, because her brother was murdered the night before. All I could do was hold and comfort her while I was just as hurt, but my mom has always been there for me. I had to put myself aside and be there for her. Only 11 years apart in age, my uncle and I have always been close which made June 11, 2012 one of the worst days of my young life. He was the last of his siblings to have a child, my grandma waited so long. Only for him to be taken away from his daughter when she was only six months old, and just days before his 24th birthday and his first father’s day. My uncle spent his life helping raise his nieces and nephews and was unable to raise his own child. I got a sleeve tattooed in remembrance of my uncle and even got his exact signature and his portrait tattooed on my back because he has always had my back. Home isn't always a place, it can be a person. The person who helped shape you and help you become who you are today.
Hiraeth? Well, first of all, I’m still having a hard time pronouncing the word correctly. When I first heard the word, I wasn’t sure what it could mean. I didn’t even know where to start; I honestly thought it was some type of food maybe. I eventually googled what it meant and of course I had the definition completely wrong. After looking at a few different sites, the overall definition of a Hiraeth is basically feeling homesick and/or yearning or longing for a certain feeling. Hiraeth is the want to go back to a time or place that may never be again, if it ever was. The first thing that came to my mind when thinking of Hiraeth that people could relate to was Titanic the movie. Everyone wants the love story of Rose and Jack, despite how it ended. The yearn to want someone who loves you regardless of your background or social class is something every human wants. How could you not want a love like that? The vibe of romance and love that Rose and Jack gives off is absolutely, it hard not to want that in your own life. The feeling of being loved by someone, belonging to someone, being loved unconditionally is what we all hope for one day. Most of us seem to have a move-like idea of what love is, but is it realistic? A yearning to want a love like a movie is everyone’s fantasy/dream. |
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