Task Two Questions

Task Two Questions
1.What did you like and dislike about your education experience?
2.Was there a specific teacher/person that influenced your life choices?
3.What was the curriculum oriented toward?
4.Were you forced into a house wife or care taker type of role during your education?
5.How important was it for you to get your diploma?
6.What was society's views on education? important / not important
7.Did you education help you get all that you wanted out of life?
8.If you could, would you go back and get a college education?

I choose these questions for my mom because I want to know about her education experiences. I want to know if there was pressure to become a housewife or caretaker, which is what she ended up doing. She went to school in the Midwest region, so I'm interested to hear what it was like compared to my educational experiences. She's never mentioned a teacher/person that influenced her, so it would be nice to hear of one. Knowing how society views the diploma and college now, I want to know if it was viewed the same back then. I think this is going to be a fascinating and fun trip down memory lane for my mom. It's also going to give me an snapshot of my mom's past that I've never really heard about.

Casa: A Partial Rememberence of a Puerto Rican Childhood Response

I think as a child in any specific race, you tend to spend time with the same gender and you. Cofer's stories are mainly women because that's who she spend most of her time with, the women of her family. According to the passage, the men where always working or they had run off with some one else. I'm not sure the boys of her family would have the same type of stories. Their stories would revolve around sporting events and/or male oriented activities. I think the older men of her family would tell the stories, similar to the way her grandmother tells them. It seems in majority of families the older generations tend to share their life experiences. It's almost a privilege to be able to sit down and listen to them. I know if my grandmother was a live I would want to sit down and visit with her for task two.    

"Sister Flowers" Response

The last time I felt really important was about 2 1/2 years ago. I had just started working as a Personal Trainer at North Kansas City Hospital. They wanted to feature me in one of their quarterly outreach magazines, for my weight loss. This magazine would get send out to over 150,000 homes in the Kansas City North area. It didn't stop there, the hospital contacted several TV stations and 2 local newspapers. Next thing I know, I'm getting called to make TV appearances and reporters are wanting to interview me. I had never been in a situation like that before. It was scary and great at the same time. Between the magazine, newspapers and TV segments my life was flipped upside down. To this day I still get recognized as that guy. The guy that was on TV for losing a lot of weight and making the decision to help others change too.     

Self Evaluation Task One

What is the thesis for your paper?

As an obese person in a society of super models and rock hard bodies it’s been a daily struggle of acceptance and one of humiliation at times.

List the main points you make in your paper.

As a child, I knew I was different from the other kids because of my weight. 

I also had to deal with additional body changes due to the excess weight I had been carrying for years. They weren’t very flattering changes either.

Football was one sport that I found enjoyment in.

In my early twenties is when my weight really started to balloon out of control. With no organized sports programs and being able to eat and drink whatever I wanted too, year after year I was buying larger clothes.  

Being that big, life truly sucked. I wasn’t able to do the simplest things like use a seat belt, fit into booths at restaurants or sit in normal sized chairs. 

As time went on, I was trying to find my place in society that didn’t want me. Society made it loud and clear about not accepting me.

As I flipped through the channels, I came across a new reality TV show. It was called “The Biggest Loser”. Little did I know the impact it was going to have on my life. It was a TV show about extremely over-weight people, just like me.  This was the first time as an adult I felt accepted by society. 

The next day, I woke up with a yearning to change.

The scale delivered a blow that I had been preparing for my entire life. Like a prize fighter preparing for the biggest fight of this life, I was ready for it. In big red numbers the scale screamed 451. 

Pound by pound I was getting my life back, a life that I never knew I was missing. 

Whether society has accepted me or not, I don’t care anymore. I’ve accepted who I am and that’s what really matters.        

 

What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

There wasn't a lot of advice that I received from my peer group.  

What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

The most helpful information I received in class was understanding sentence fragments.

How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

I believe that I wrote 3 drafts all together. It was easier for me to do it in chunks.

What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

There's nothing that I would do differently. I feel I wrote a good paper.

What are most pleased with about this paper?

I feel that I did I good job putting this paper together. I stayed focus on the specific subject I was writing about.