Technology Advancement

It is safe to say that in our society, technology is something that we need. Day by day, it continues to expand and enhance in ways most of us don’t understand.  Technology is at its highest level as of now, but there are millions of engineers across the world who are still looking for ways to better our technology.

Technology is no doubt our key to communication. Every email that you send and receive comes instantly, instead of having to traditionally place it in your mailbox. It also helps in quickly receiving other important notices, such as our paychecks, because who would want to wait days to receive their hard earned money? With technology resulting in quicker communication, it can also improve your ability to quickly exchange contact or any other information between one another.

There are other important benefits in having technology, like shortening the time frame on certain tasks we have to complete.

A lot of our work is becoming computer-based. Even schools are starting to rid the traditional pen and paper method. This can be very convenient, considering the fact that we no longer have to cut down so many of our trees for paper.

Sending important files through the mail can be risky. There are those who believe in going in other people’s mailboxes, so let’s decrease that by simply sending the file through a computer. Security is a major concern in our century, and we want to make sure everyone’s information is safe. Your privacy and security can be made sure of, if you send through a computer. Of course people have the ability to hack, but that chance is very low and not bound to happen. Anyone can go in your mailbox, not everyone can go through your computer.

Storage is another major factor in our society as well. The traditional cabinets full of paper work is indeed outdated, and is not useful. Technology has made it to where you are able to stay very organized and save everything in one folder. This makes it easier for large companies or individuals who have a lot of files, to quickly store them and let it be accessible at any time.

Technology is rapidly taking over the world, and this can for better or worse. If it is used responsibly, we can continue to build our country to where everything is a lot more simple and organized. Let’s all honor technology and those who work hard everyday to find ways to make our technology better.

 

 

 

Cover Letter

To whom it may concern,

 

For some time now, it has been my goal to secure a position in the sports medicine industry. I’m at a point in my life where I’m ready to pursue with it, and I do not want to settle for a “job”. I want a career, and I want to live the rest of my life doing something that I am very interested in.

At this point, I can say that I’ve worked hard to get to this level, and now its time for the final level. Receiving my degree in the medical field is superior, and I want to further in life with it. I want to serve your company in the best way possible, and I would be most grateful if chosen for a open position.

Regards,

Nasiir

 

Two Paragraph Essay About Me

I look at myself as one of a kind. You could never find someone that’s exactly like me. I’m a very honest and straight forward person, and that’s what my family and friends love about me. I always feel the need to give my honest opinion if asked to do so. This is a great strength about me that I would not change. Being honest can get you far in life, and plus no one likes a liar.

Being open-minded is another great trait that is apart of my personality. You don’t find many people who are open-minded and willing to try new things in life. Being open-minded can also tie into my creativity, which is a plus. Growing up, my sibling and I was taught to open up and try new things. I applaud my parents for that, because I’m not stuck in a box, like my peers. Being the outlier is always an advantage, and I would never change that about me.

Summer Assignment

There is no escaping the inevitable ups and downs of life. In fact, I wouldn’t want to- the good will always outweigh the bad, and the bad gives me an immense appreciation for the good. However, the challenge comes when you are faced with a bad situation with many possible outcomes accompanied by the uncertainty if everything will work out. It is no secret that it’s impossible to predict or control the future, despite how hard I may try. Through difficulty, I have learned that sometimes, my idea of an ideal situation is not what is best for me, and it is definitely not always what happens. Through what seems to some people as failure, I have learned how to overcome adversity and what I need to do in order to be successful and live up to my potential.
As a senior in high school, it is easy to look back upon my mistakes and know that I will never make them again, but it is not so simple when I find myself in tough situations. Since I was little, I have always considered myself academically strong. More often than not, my classes felt simple and didn’t require me to put in much effort or studying to excel. Unfortunately, this was not the case in my most recent math class. I have always been very social, which left me with a lot of friends that would be graduating in May of 2016. Being around so many people who were essentially done with high school put me in a negative mindset and I found myself distracted and unmotivated in school. A little bit of so called “senioritis” is normal for many second semester seniors, but this was the ending of my most important year of school yet, and I needed to finish strong.
I grew into the habit of telling myself I could always worry about fixing my grades later in the semester. As time passed on, I became less and less driven to try and do so and found it very difficult to do better despite my attempts. Before I knew it, it seemed like all my work was going to be worth nothing because of my failure to do all that I could in class. I had never imagined even coming close to failing a class before and now it appeared as though it was going to happen. Despite my anxieties and disappointment in myself, I refused to come out of my junior year without all of the credits I planned on earning.
As summer drew intimidatingly closer, I worked tirelessly to fix my mistakes. It always surprised me that one bad semester could have such an effect on my whole future- G.P.A., college, etc. This was a true test of my work ethic and potential to really accomplish something despite starting from a bad place. The satisfaction of reaching summer knowing that I passed all of my classes made all of the late nights and work made everything worth it. Although if I could go back and change my decisions I would, I am so grateful for the lessons I have learned. I know now that I will never put myself in a position like this again. While some may consider it failure, I consider it another step on my path to success.

Analysis Essay

As we read through this excerpt, we run across many important rhetorical devices that have been used by Cesar Chavez to support his claim. Line one paragraph one states, “Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear in the real world.” This quote shows us how Chavez not only is supportive on nonviolence, but also how he used a huge historical figure as an example.

One important element used is tone. Cesar’s tone throughout this excerpt can come off as inspirational. His main goal is to get people to understand that nonviolence is the right way to handle the situation. “Our conviction is that human life is a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take it for any cause, however just it may be.” This quote gives the reader a spiritual connection. Pathos could also play a role, because talking spiritual can also bring out emotion in the reader. The tone of this section helped the spiritual effect.

Cesar Chavez also uses logic to talk about how nonviolence is not beneficial. In paragraph 11 line 2 Cesar states, “violence does not work in the long run and if it is temporarily successful, it replaces one violent form of power with another just as violent.” He also adds “people suffer from violence”, to make the reader actually feel what he’s saying, which could fall in role of pathos.

Another important rhetorical element used to support Chavez’s claim be subjectivity.Chavez supports the article in a way that doesn’t make it about his personal views. One example would be “We’re also convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.” By him using “we”, he groups it, so he’s not saying “I”.

Chavez got his point across using many different rhetorical devices. The whole tone of this excerpt was inspirational in a way. He combined his thoughts with Dr. King’s to develop his argument. There were lots of quotes in the article that could be used as examples, to give the reader a better understanding.

Blog Post #3

Section Summary: This section would have to be considered the most intense part of the book. Pat was deployed to Iraq to fight, and he ended up getting killed. When this news was explained to Marie, she was traumatized on the inside. Even though we knew she was hurt, Marie kept calm to hide how she was really feeling. As soon as the Army found out Pat was dead, they made sure to shut down all technology to prevent the news from getting out to the public. His murder was under investigation, and it was analyzed that he was shot in the head by friendly fire. His family had lots of questions, but not enough answers.
Quote #1: “Pat’s dead” (Krakauer 287). This itself is a very touching topic, because we can imagine how Pat’s family is feeling, and also the pain they have built up. This is basically the whole turning point of the story, because it’s where things get dark, deep and emotional. Some may argue that this is the most emotional section throughout the story. The author was so blunt when adding this to the story. There was no sugar coding anything, or trying to write around it. Marie pretty much knew what was coming to her. Marie handled the situation in a calm way.
Quote #2: “US soldiers had been physically and sexually harrassing Iraqi inmates, (Krakauer 294). This put a very bad image on the United States. It also could not be covered up, because it was already all over television. The United States are supposed to be considered as the “good guys” and here they are doing horrible things like this. Tillman would not be proud to hear news like this. The United States Army should feel embarrassed. This is a bad way they represensed the army, especially after the huge incident that occurred with Pat Tillman.
Quote #3: “The Cardinals honored Pat with a halftime Ceremony” (Krakauer 313). This was a good thing to cite, because it shows that the Cardinals still actually care for Tillman, even though he didn’t continue playing for them. It was also very respectful towards Pat Tillman’s family. The Cardinals earned a lot of respect for doing this. This also shows that Pat Tillman was a well respected player , while he was in the NFL. This is also a great political way to handle the situation, to show how the Cardinals actually care for their players and their retired players as well.
Imagery: “Tillman’s brain was still on the ground” (Krakauer 289) As soon as someone reads this, they can automatically picture this. Seeing someone’s brain in the floor is very disturbing, and could be hard to believe. This probably stuck with soldiers who saw it for a long time. The author added this more than likely to give readers a more realistic vision, so they could imagine or the soldiers felt as well. Something like this could really stick with someone, and it is not easy to forget. Most would vote that this is one of the most visual concepts throughout the entire story.
Rhetorical Elements:
#1: “Soon after the Cardinals’ tribute, she compiled a long list of questions that Lieutenant Colonel had failed to answer. (Krakauer 313) This can be viewed as repitition, because this isn’t the first time she came with questions. Some may argue that the author did this to make sure it stuck with the reader, throughout the story.
#2: “By this time, Pat’s mother had a feeling that something wasn’t right from the odd messages she heard on her answering machine” (Krakauer 286). This would be an example of foreshadow. The reader could understand the meaning, simply by the wording. She knew something was up. Pat’s mother was picturing bad things that could have happened, knowing she had a son in the army, which is highly dangerous.
Theme: The theme of this section in the story seems very dark, and emotional. Pat Tillman dies, the United States is still in war, and the US soldiers were abusing prisoners there. There are so many different negative things occurring throughout the section. This connects with the rest of the story, because the story starts off positive, and as you gradually get to this section, there’s a turning point. The author writing this section is important, because it kept the readers engaged and gave them something different than the other sections, to read about. Some would say that this section enhances the story overall.
Personal Response: This honestly is not my favorite section of all, simply because it wasn’t as exciting. I’m more for the enjoyment, not the sad stage. Others might argue against, as they may. However, the author did do an awesome job with involving emotion, so the audience can feel the pain that the characters feel. This section makes me speculate on life, showing me that even the most influential people can have bad turn outs.

surrealism

1. 1. Pencil.

2. Drawing the curvy street.

3. Shading

4. Pretty much, everything I drew was neat and shaded well.

5. 80

1. i used chalk, and pencil.
2. makin the patterns
3. mixing the ocean colors
4. Yes, everything is neat, and well executed.
5. 95, because i met all of the requirements.

Parallel Blog post #2

Summary: Section two of the story mainly focused on Tillman’s career with the Cardinals. It started off with the negatives that were happening during his career. His first game against the Giants was terrible. He played part of the reason why the Cardinals had lost that game. After that game, he knew he had to get on top of his game, so he practiced harder and stronger preparing for the rest of the season. During one of the Cardinals games, Bin Laden had set a terrorists attack on the US. Laden’s intentions was to get US to invade Afghanistan and attack back, but the US did not. There was also election going on throughout a point in time during this section. In this section, Pat Tillman made the biggest decision throughout his life. Tillman decided to turn down a multi-million dollar contract to enlist in the army. He and Kevin joined and was new to everything. They continued learning the basics, like how to shoot guns and such.

Quotes: #1- “The season is ready to begin. This week I plan on spending a shitload of time watching film & preparing for Sunday.”(Krakauer 101). Pat was ecstatic to be starting off the new season. He had intentions on greatly supporting his team and satisfying the coach by playing well. This is what Pat worked so hard for. He was fully prepared for the season coming up, and as we could clearly see, Tillman took this sport very seriously.

#2- “What a f**** nightmare” (Krakuer 102). This was the night of the Cardinals versus Giants game. Pat did felt like he did absolutely terrible. He had missed an important tackle that caused the Giants to score a touchdown. Tillman felt like everything was his fault. He felt like he had let everyone down. This made Tillman want to work and practice even harder and stronger than what he was before.Tillman did not want to make these mistakes again. This game really scarred Tillman. After this game, Pat didnt really make any major mistakes like he had did in this game. Pat Tillman was back and better now. The moral of it is, the quote shows how affected Tillman was from the situation and how serious it was taken by Pat.

#3- “It will be interesting to see how this little adventure pans out.” (Krakuer 144). At this point, Tillman has given up his most valuable thing in life (football) for the army. This is the biggest step Tillman has ever taken. Tillman felt like him enlisting for the army was the right thing to do. His family supported him throughout the way. Pat turned down a multi million dollar contract with the Cardinals to enlist. This shows us how much he also cared about his country. He went from making millions to barely making a thousand per month. That’s a dramatic decrease.

Imagery: There was a lot of imagery going on throughout this section, because of all the football games, and Tillman joining the army. One would say that the most interesting one would be the cowboys vs. cardinals game.Page 103, paragraph 3 discusses the cowboys games. Reading this passage gets the reader really into it, because of how detailed the author made it. It gives the reader a feeling, like they are actually in the game themselves, or watching it in person. It makes you bite your nails and has you wondering what’s going to happen next as you’re reading that part. Overall, the author did great on imagery throughout the story, especially this section of the story.

Rhetorical Elem./Devices: “Emotional Words” are used throughout the first half of the section. “What a F***** nightmare” (Krakuer 102). These had to be the most emotional words in the section. Tillman felt so bad for letting not only his team down but himself also. Tillman was stuck on this situation for a while. It had really hurt him.

Theme: The author’s purpose of writing this section was to show readers how you can love something, but can put it aside for something far more important. Pat Tillman put aside what he loved playing (football) to join the army. He never thought he’d do it, but he did. The author showed us that Tillman had a lot of guts to do such a thing. If Tillman did it, than anyone can do it. This was on of the most important sections throughout the story so far.

Personal Response: This section was well put together. Everything was organized and easy to understand. One would say that the imagery was great throughout this section and would be left very satisfied. There was also a lot of transitioning going on in this section. The author didnt stay on one topic, he switched it up and hit different key points. For example, he would first be discussing Pat’s early football career, next he would transition to the president election, then to Pat joining the army. Great way to actually keep the readers engaged in the story.