Guns in America

There are extremely too many gun related violence's going go and it really needs to stop. I don't think that there is anything wrong with people owning guns, but I think we need to become a bit more aware of the people that are owning these guns. I know that there are restriction on who can own a gun and what not but I think their should a few more restrictions. They need to do a thorough background check and ensure that who they are selling guns too don't have any type of mental illnesses . Don't sell guns to criminals, stop pawn shops from selling guns, we need to do what ever needs to be done to get this problem under control as soon as possible. I even think we should start restricting how many guns a person can own. I know it doesn't seem fair for the people that collect guns and have a passion for them and are sane enough to keep them but its seems that it has come to that. Guns have become a big problem in America and its a serious problem that needs to be resolved soon.

Wikipedia- What Makes an Effective Introduction?

After reading a few well developed articles in Wikipedia, I've learned a couple of things that makes an effective introduction in an article. An introduction in a well developed article introduces the topic. It explains to you what the particular subject is or what it is about. It gives background. It states the facts. It gives you a clear outlook and understanding of the topic and make you want to continue reading to learn more.

I Learned Something New

As I have been reading my Wikipedia article I have been learning a ton of new things I never knew before. I always thought Cosmetology was just doing hair, nails and makeup. I never knew the depths of this specialty.

One thing I didn't know what that this career dealt with electrology. I had never even heard of that before, nor hearing it would make me think it relates to Cosmetology. Electrology is the practice of electrical epilation to permanently remove human hair.

After I learned exactly what it was, I still didn't think it should have anything to do with Cosmetology. I thought something like that should run along the lines of Dermatology.

My Wikipedia Topic

I know this is a little over due, but I just didn't know what I wanted my Wikipedia topic to be. There are so many things I am interested in and I just could seem to pick a topic. Even when I found different articles on Wikipedia, that I was interested in editing, they were pretty much done. They hardly needed any revising...

When I was younger, I used to love going to the hair salon with my mom and watching the hair stylist do hair. It was just something that interest me. I could braid hair very well at a very young age. I loved doing it and at the time I thought that that could be a career for me; braiding hair professionally.

I finally decided to do my topic on Cosmetology. Even though it is not my career choice now, it is something that I was interested in and something I do enjoy doing from time to time.

That wasn't Suppose to be Funny

For some reason, my best friend and I always find things that aren't necessarily funny funny. We laugh at the strangest things. Well, we tend to laugh at everything, but the strangest things are usually the funniest.

My friend has a scar on top of her lip. I had noticed it but I didn't really pay close attention to it like that. So one day when I was over her house, I asked her what happened, how did she get that scar, and she told me the story.

She told me that her mom had asked her to do something for her. She wanted to be rebellious and not do it. She told me that her mom had asked her to do once again and she told her mom to do it herself. Now, I still don't know if this is true or not, but she told me that her mom called her one more time and she said she told her mom that she wasn't going to do it. She told me that she walked in the living room, her mom called her and when she turned around, her mom threw a wrench, yes a wrench, at her and it hit her in the lip.

She told me that the wrench hit her so hard, she fell back and when she got up there was a hole, from where the wrench had hit her, on top of her lip. She said that there was blood everywhere. Her mom looked at her and said "see look what you made me do".

I couldn't help myself but laugh because it was just so funny to me. I knew her mom and her mom didn't seem like she would ever do anything like that.

That was the first story. I have one more for you. This story was also told to me by my friend.

My friend loves dogs. She has like 3 or 4 now but she had more. She used to have a dog named Prince. She always talked about how much she loved Prince.

One day she said she went outside to play with Prince. She said when she went outside it looked like he was sleeping. She tried to wake him by trying to scare him. Prince didn't move. She called his name and he still didn't respond. She push him and she said his mouth fell open and flys flew out.

After she told me that story she didn't talk to me for 3 three days because I started laughing so hard. She soon realized that how she found her dog was a little funny aas well.

Okay, those are just a couple of things I found funny. I hope you don't think I'm too weird for laughing at the things I do. I hope you enjoyed this post.

Men and Women Stereotypes.

I'm sure we have all heard at least one these stereotypes before. Men are stronger than women. Women are better cooks than men. Men are better at sports. Men drive better than women. The list goes on.

Is there really anything that makes a man superior to a woman and is there anything thing that makes a woman superior to a man. I have met plenty of men that are better cooks than women and I have met plenty, and I do mean plenty, of women that are way better drivers than men.

I think some people take stereotypes way too seriously. I personally don't think one is worse that the other. Some women are better at doing a "mans" job and some men are better at doing a "woman's" job.

MLA Style

As stated in The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, English, foreign languages, and some other humanities use the documentation style of the Modern Language Association. When using MLA. Style you twice acknowledge the sources of borrowed material. You do it in your text, a brief parenthetical citation right after the borrowed material. Also at the end of your paper in  a complete list of works cited. The in-text citations should correspond with the list of works cited and vis versa.

Neat People vs. Sloppy People

You would think the only difference between a neat person and a sloppy person is, well, a neat person is neat and a sloopy person is sloppy. You know, neat people always have to have everything in order and organized. Sloppy people don't really care. They don't see their mess as being a mess. They see it more as organized junk.

Suzanne Britt went into depth when she explained the differences between neat people and sloppy people in her essay Neat People vs. Sloppy People. She talked about a few things I didn't even think classified the two as being different. For instance, she said that neat people would throw away sentimental things like birthday cards. I didn't know a birthday from your grandma could take up so much space. 

I've heard that the first steps to getting help is admitting you have a problem, so hello my name is Precious Golden and I am a sloppy person. 

But being a sloppy person isn't so bad. Yeah we may have to dig through a few piles of junk just to find a piece of paper we had just the day before, but that's not so bad, once you get used to it. Okay yeah, sloppy may hold on to a lot of things, but that's because it means something to us. 

Needless to say, sloppy people and neat people are different in many ways. A neat person can tell you the exact spot where to find something in there house, while a sloppy person would have to get back to you on that when they find it themselves.

So tell me, are you a neat person or a sloppy person?

What I've Learned From Doc 1

When we first began this assignment, I didn't know much about what an online professional image was. I knew it had something to do with social media and other things you post online, but I wasn't completely sure. I learned that it was all that and more.

Your online professional image is a representation of who you are. Whatever you post online about yourself can be seen by people all over the world. I learned that even if you try to remove something online, it is never completely gone. I also learned that there are ways you can clean up your image too.

In order to avoid having to clean up your image, be careful about what you post online. Not only what you post,  but your friends as well. Be sure they aren't posting anything you wouldn't want your name attached to. Remember that what is online about you now could come back to haunt you in the future.  

How to Handle a Reader

How do you handle a reader? Not necessarily saying the reader, themselves,  needs to be handled, but the reader's comments. How do you respond to a reader?

There are a lot of ways you can handle a reader's comments. You could go off on them. You could ignore what they are saying.  There are a lot things you can do. Even though you could handle the reader's in that way, we all know that those aren't the best ways.

The best way to handle a reader is to be cordial. It may have taken you a lot of time and energy to write a paper, but it also takes time for someone to read your paper as well. I think if someone takes the time to read your paper and comment on it, you should take it into consideration and read their comments.

You worked hard on your paper so you want it to be perfect, why not take some of that advice that could make your paper better. Now I'm not saying that you have to listen to everything the reader is saying, because you don't. If you don't agree with something, simply diasgree. If you don't feel what they are saying is going to better your paper, you don't have to take anything they say into consideration.

Be cordial with your readers. Respect them and be thankful that they are trying to help you. Letting them help you now will allow you to help someone  else later.

Peer Evaluating

Like I have stated in a previous post, I don't really consider myself a good writer. I still struggle with writing sometimes. Since I don't consider myself as a good writer, I never felt I had any authority to evaluate anyone else's paper.

When Mr Hamon told us we had to evaluate another groups paper I was kind of hesitant. Like I said, I'm not that good of a writer so I didn't feel comfortable evaluating another paper. Also, I didn't want anyone to read my group's paper either. I was very afraid I wasn't going to know what I was talking about when making comments. I was also afraid that that the group evaluating my group's paper was going to have a lot to say about it. 

When we began evaluating, I was a little nervous. I simply read the essay and made a few comments that I thought were necessary. When I went to check on my group's paper, I thought there was going to be red flags everywhere. 

We had a few mistakes but it wasn't anything that couldn't easily be fixed. I was honestly more attentive to my portion of the essay. I wanted to see what I had done wrong and needed to be fixed. 

To my surprise,  I didn't have too many errors in my paragraph. I was very shocked but more relieved that I had wrote something that was okay, besides a few spelling errors and the use of contractions. 

In the end, I was pretty happy I got the chance to evaluate another group'spaper. I was kind of nervous that the people in the other group were going to say something like " you don't know what you're talking about," but that didn't happen. I think the group even took what I had to say into consideration. I know that doing things like this is only going to help me become a better writer, which is the outcome I want to have at the end of the semester.

What do I want to be?

I can be pretty indecisive at times. I changed what I wanted to be four times while I was in high school, and all four of those times was when I was in the 9th grade. I went from wanting to do acrobatics in the circus, to wanting to be a  wedding planner, to wanting to be a dental surgeon. Then I got to the point to where I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was undecided, until I got to the 11th grade.

When I got my class schedules for junior year, I noticed I had a class called Marketing Co-op. I didn't know what this class was. I didn't know who taught the class and I was ready to change that class before I got in it and before I got to see what it was all about.

When I got in the class and I saw who the teacher was, I knew at that moment I had to change my class.( I will have to share a story about this teacher in another post.) The teacher started introducing himself and started talking to the class, and to be honest everything he was saying went in one ear and out the other for me. I just did not want to be in this class. But, in the midst of his speech he said something that caught my attention. He told us that we would be the class operating the school store.

When he told us this it was bitter sweet for me. I was super excited that I would be one of the students operating the school store. While at the same time, I did not want to be in this teacher's class. I put my personal feeling aside and I decided to stay in the class because I wanted to run the school store.

This class was, by far, my favorite class out of off the elective classes I had taken. Mr. Brown, my teacher, taught us the ins and outs to running a business. He let us do everything and I do mean everything in that store. From merchandising, to managing, he let us do it all.

Mr. Brown even let us watch episodes of Shark Tank and The Apprentice. Those two shows became my two favorite shows. After being in that class for a while, I figured out what I wanted to do.

I want to be a business woman. I want to own my own business. Managing a store in high school really opened my eyes to something new. It sparked a new interest for me. Everything has a business aspect. I want to further my education in business so that I can be the one to handle all the business.

I have a dream of owning my own business one day, I just don't know what that business is going to be yet. But, whatever it is I know that I am going to prosper and and I am looking forward to starting my journey to becoming a successful business woman.

Using Writing as a Tool for Learning

I never really understood what writing to learn actually meant. I have heard the term quite a few times this year but I never got an actual explanation of the meaning, until I read the online essay Writing to Learn. After reading that, I got a pretty clear understanding of what writing to learn meant, and I realize exactly how I have used writing as a tool for learning.

I have used the "pen in hand" tactic, talked about in the essay, quite a few times. Whenever I read something and I come across words I don't know, I write them down and look up the meaning. The same goes for when I need a better understanding of what I have just read. I will jot down key notes from the reading and extend my research off those notes. Even though I didn't know it then, I know it now. I use writing as a tool for learning. Writing is what helps me get a better understanding of what I read. Writing is the most essential tool for learning.

What is a Friend?

What is a friend? Better yet, what is a real friend? What qualities should a real friend possess?

Just out of curiosity I looked up the meaning of the word friend today. I read quite a few meanings, and  I don't think I came across two definitions that were the same. Most of the definitions stated something about being able to have fun and hangout with a person.  But we all know that there is much more to a friend than just being able to hangout and have fun.

Everyone has their own meaning of what a friend is.  It's taken me a while, but I think I've got a good sense of what a real friend is to me. My definition of a real friend is pretty simple.

A real friend is someone who excepts you for who you are. He or she is someone you can talk to about anything. A real friend is someone you can tell your mistakes and they be free of judgment. 

They are going to tell you the truth even if it may hurts you. A real friend is someone that knows when you are hurting even when no one else does.  They will always be there for you no matter what. A real friend knows you and like you just because you're you.

How do you define a real friend? Do you have anyone you can call your real friend? Do you consider yourself a real friend?

Task # 1

Our first assignment in my English 1101 class is to write a persuasive essay on creating an online professional image. What exactly is an online professional image, you might ask. Well the answer is simple. I just don't know it yet. But, with the help of my group, I am sure we will figure it out in the amount of time given to us. Now, I'm not completely oblivious to what an online professional image is. I know a little something. I know that you could potential jeopardize your professional image if you are not cautious about what you put on social media. Yeah that's right, what you put online now can be traced back to you 15 years from now. So be careful about what you put on social media. Don't put anything on social media that you would later regret or that would possibly come back to haunt you.

Writing to Learn.

I want to start with a little bit of my writing background. Now I must admit, writing has never been my forte. I have struggled with writing ever since I was in middle school. Its not that I didn't like writing, it was just always hard for me. I had trouble with catching the readers attention, staying on topic, I even had a little trouble with punctuation. Whenever the teacher would go over the writing assignment, I was the student that raised their hand after every explanation to get a further explanation. Yeah, I was that student. I would even stay after school to get some extra help with my papers. After doing that for a while and still not making an A on a paper, I asked my mom the get me a tutor and she did. I met with my tutor twice a week to practice writhing. I must say that that was one of the best thing my mom did for me in all my school years. My tutor helped me with writing better than my own teacher. She gave me a better understanding of the entire writing process. My tutor even said the same thing Mr. Hamon said on the first day of class. In order to get better at writing you must write everyday. We write to learn, so write everyday. Now, did I write everyday? No. So I thought. She said write to learn and I was. I took  notes everyday in class. Writing notes helped me learn. So I kind of thought it was the same thing. I say all this to say,  I do believe writing is the most essential way to learning. With every subject we study we have to write. Notes, and paper or anything we write. And I must admit, I do get better at it every time I write.  When I got in Mr. Hamons class and he said we were going to be writing everyday, all I could do was think back to my writing days in middle school. I wasn't really excited about that at first, but I started to think of this as being a second opportunity to become a proficient writer. I am glad that I am taking this writing class and I cant believe I'm saying this, but I am looking forward to learning new writing skills in this class this year.

My Love for Food.

I love food. Its just that simple. Food has always had a special place in my heart and my stomach, of course. I've had a love for food ever since I was little.  And I'm not just talking about eating food, I'm talking about cooking it as well. I remember the first time my mom let me help her make something. It was a chocolate cake. I remember it like it was yesterday; flour all over the floor, milk spilled on the counter and egg shells in the batter. It was a disaster needless to say. I was angry at myself the entire time because I wasn't doing anything right and the mess kept getting bigger and bigger. I was ready to give up and just forget and the cake, then my mom told me if I didn't help her finish I couldn't lick the spoon. I think you all know what I decided to do. I could just hear that chocolate covered spoon calling my name. Anyway, to make a long story short the cake came out great. Everyone that ate a piece of the cake loved it, and I was totally surprised. I just knew that the cake wasn't going to be good because I kept messing up while making it. Seeing everyone's reaction to my cake made me feel good. It felt great that I had made something that people actually enjoyed eating. That was the day I knew cooking was one of my passions. From that day forward I asked my mom if I could help her cook all the time. I learned so many different things about food by helping my mom cook. It was just something about experimenting with different herbs and spices that made cooking so exciting and interesting. Putting different foods together to see what goes best with what is so much fun to me. Noting knowing exactly how a new dish was going to come out never scared me. I was just always so excited  and ready to eat my food. I love food and I always will. I will always continue to create new things and try new cuisines. I hope I will be able to make my fellow classmates something one day so that they'll know I'm not just all talk. Keep food in your life, its good for the soul and necessary for life. If you every get lost just remember keep calm and eat some food.

Meeting Me

Hello! My Name is Precious Golden. I am a freshman here at Middle Georgia State University. I graduated from Central High School. Go Chargers! I am majoring in Business Administration. I love spending time with my family and friends. I am a very sweet and caring person. Although I'm not that good, I enjoy playing tennis. I love to cook, especially new dishes I've never tried before. I am looking forward to meeting new people this year and getting introduced to new things.