Secrets of a Writing Freak

 Here's a paragraph that I wrote last week about the episode, "Time Enough At Last" from the hit series, The Twilight Zone, for my final reflective essay for this class.      In  the episode, "Time Enough At Last" from the hit series,  The Twilight Zone, Bemis, the main character seems to suffer from an undeveloped super ego. A superego as defined by Sigmund Freud, the most famous psychology theorist, is, "the part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers." Whats this means is that a person with an underdevloped super ego will have, "little control over anti-social behaviour..." In this case, we can see Bemis seemed like a genuine person and all he wanted was to read his books in peace as well as connect with others while doing so. It can be seen when his wife rips up his copy of the poetry book. Even though she scribbled it and ripped it up before his very e...

     Thinking back to my first formal writing assignment, talking about how drive-thru funerals were a meanace. (Which I still believe they are)       I've recently gone through something similar, as my grandma recently passed away and her funeral was today, and my dad and I were only able to see the funeral virtually and was thinking about many different things and how maybe it is in instances when non-in-person funerals are somewhat okay. And as much I would have liked to go, I simply cannot as I've only got 2 weeks left of classes and it was held in Mexico and the semester must go on.     This  week I spoke with my classmates about their topics and one of them mentioned death. I made some dark humor jokes and all because I guess you could say is how I cope? Later this week when I was told she passed away only then I realized how weird time is. How you can be laughing with someone one day and then before you know it, they're gone. I us...

I really don't know what to write about for this week's blog. I'm currently out of ideas.  But I figured I could perhaps blog about blogs? Try to say "blog about blogs" three times fast. XD      According to Themeisle, a site on the history on tech-y things, says, "Most experts agree that the first blog was Links.net, created in 1994 by then-student Justin Hall as a place to publish his writing."  Blogging is actually newer than I expected. I expected blogging to be older than Jesus himself. I was expecting to find evidence of blogging egyptian hieroglyphics.      But what is blogging? According to google, blogging is "writing about (an event, situation, topic, etc.) in a blog."      If writing about something could be considered a blog, setting aside the online part. Could the hieroglyphics I mentioned earlier, or caveman paintings also be considered blogs? If so I feel like the bible could also be considered a really big...

    This week  in class when my classmates and I were revising a couple of sample paragraphs. We revised a paragraph talking about if a university had to pay more for buildings, if tuition would also therefore be more expensive. But my first thought was, would professors also be paid more? I did a quick google search to find if my assumption was correct.  This is what I found. Professors paychecks don't only come from tuition. Acording to, CollegeRaptor.com   in an aritcle called, "How Much Do Professors Make: A Quick Guide," they said, A professor’s salary can be increased by money earned through grants, published articles or books, summer teaching, sabbaticals to work with private or public organizations, overtime, and incentive payments. There also are annual raises which can impact pay especially for tenured professors. (explained below) If you're an adjuct professor, or a part-time faculty member who is hired on a contractual basis.  They get...

     In this blog post, I'll be writing a summary on facial recogintion as I'm writing my second formal writing paper on it. I haven't started it as I'm typing, but I thought it would be good to kill two birds with one stone and write a blog post about it? Perhaps I'm being lazy. :')      The general arguement made by Chistopher Koopman in his article, "Should we fear facial recognition?" is that facial recognition is to be feared. More specifically, Koopman argues that facial recognition is a violation of our right to privacy. He writes, "In July, a report from the Washington Post detailed how the FBI and ICE conduct facial searches on driver's license databases, scanning photos of millions without their consent." In this passage, Koopman explains how facial recognition can be used on us without our permission. Overall, Koopman's belief is that facial recognition could hurt us more in the long run than we expect.

       Something that I had never done until write now (yes it's a pun, you can laugh) was praise or critiquing a written piece. I have out loud, or in the fanfiction that I like to read sometimes when I'm bored, but never properly critiquing or praising.     My amazing teacher, (Ms. Lizzy) had us do an optional praising or critiquing for our first formal writing assignment. I'm kind of ahead as I worried I wouldn't have time to do it. I thought it was due on Wednesday, (luckily it's not due till Sunday so I'm not really worried on time yet) and I thought I'd experiment with an article that I'm not using for my essay as practice for future reference.      Today, I read a new article in class, about dark matter and ghosts. I personally believe in both but I thought it would be fun to not agree with the author or the physicists that the author was critiquing for not believing in ghosts but believing in dark matter.  Here's the link in cas...