EXTRA CREDIT WEEKS 1-11

To keep track of your extra credit, please post on your blog the following: What you did? What you learned? Why others should do the activity?

Week 1: Free Rice

By going to www.freerice.com, it was extremely easy to donate way more than 1000 grains of rice. It's as simple as pie. All you do is read the word and click on its closest synonym, and if you get it right, rice gets donated! After I got 1000 grains of rice by flipping through English words, I went on to do simple math problems and Spanish words. I learned several meanings of words that I didn't know the definition of before. Others need to do this activity because it takes so little effort and it has such a great benefit. It helps hungry people get rice, and it also helps our vocabulary and math skills!

Week 2: Six-word Memoir

My six word memoir was "Relax, take it easy, don't fret". I only wish I could take my own advise. All too often I find my self stressing out for no reason. I think others should do this activity to better understand themselves. In my case this helped show me what I wish I could do, areas I need improvement on. However, for other people I think it may show them how they picture themselves or what they like to do most in their lives.
"Always the last in from recess" That is a six-work memoir someone else published, I think it is awesome

Week 3: StoryCorps

A Summer Job, A Lifelong Romance

This was really easy, I went to npr.com and searched StoryCorps. Walter and Babette met in 1940. Her family owned a summer resort in NY and Walter worked there, that is how they met. They watched the sunset everyday, and walked to the village and had an ice cream sundae. One night he decided to propose to her. She is now 88 and he is 96. They have been married for 67 years. This is amazing to me because they were really young when they met and got engaged, and they are still in love over 67 years later. Others should do this because it is interesting to learn about other's life stories and experiences.

Week 4: The Web of Language

What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant

“Nameologists”. Corporations use them, why shouldn't parents? These “nameologists” help parents think of a name to "capture the essence of their latest product" AKA name their baby. I think this is a load of crap. If two people can't even think of a name for a child there is no way they are ready to have one. Coming up with a name can some times be a long grueling process, that I believe takes a high level of maturity. If you aren't mature enough to name your own child no way are you ready to have one. It is amazing to me what people now a days will waste their money on. Buy "the big book of babies names". Others should go to this web site because there are many other interesting articles on it that they can explore.

Week 5: You Tube
Rhetoric For Kids

The purpose of this YouTube video is to alert children of the rhetoric that they already use, as well as to teach them new tactics. I think Greg is really creepy (I think he's on drugs..not good) if I was a kid he would scare me. Quackers and Panda are also pretty creepy, if my puppets talked like that when I was a kid I would cry. Rhetoric is something that makes you want to do something else- AKA change your mind. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are the different ways we can change peoples minds. This is a funny video that I would tell other people to watch because it does teach us something.. in a really dumb-downed sort of way.

Ethos, Pathos, & Logos in Film

What kind of persuasion is used in these film examples?

MIB: Logos- Will Smith uses logic to say why the little girl is dangerous
The Breakfast Club: Pathos- The teacher makes us feel bad for the student
Monty Python: Logos- They attempt to used logic to determine if she is a witch or not
Monsters Inc: Pathos- The scene of the cute little girl makes us well up inside because we know she isn't dangerous
I liked this video much better than the little kids one. I would recommend people to watch this because it is humorous and makes you think at the same time.

Week 6: Do a Good Deed

I volunteer every Monday at the St. Petersburg free clinic. Local grocery stores (Publix for example) donate all of their fresh meat and produce that is about to expire, because the free clinic also has a food bank type thing. On Monday, one of the grocery stores donated a ton of flowers so we could hand them out to the free clinic go-ers in order to brighten their day. As I was leaving, my boss said I could take some of the flowers with me. They were roses which are one of my favorite types of flowers, and I was very excited to have them to brighten up my dorm room! As I was leaving the clinic walking to my car, an elderly woman inside the clinic commented on how beautiful my roses were. I knew that her problems were most likely much worse then mine and she would probably appreciate and enjoy them much more than I would so I said she could have my flowers. At first she seemed confused, and asked if she really could have them. I felt bad because it seemed like she was not nice to someone doing something nice for her. I said of coarse she could have them and left after receiving many thanks from her.

Week 7: Locate three youtube links that deal with your project two area for inquiry. Post these links on your blog.

This activity helped me better understand different topics with in my issue. I was happy to learn several other countries have banned tobacco use in public places. I was sad to learn they are having trouble enforcing the new policies. I am also very glad that many people in the country feel like a smoking ban is a good idea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl81Pq4aOOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYo5SgrzKuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGU4hpONJw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNMBSwoIGw

Week 8: Contact the Author of the Book You Used for Research for Your Paper

The Book I used was Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health. The book was written by Lynn T. Kozlowski, Jack E. Henningfield, and Janet Brigham. I emailed Jack E. Henningfield at "innovatorsawards@jhmi.edu ". I was able to find this email address online by discovering he is the director of the National Program of the Office of Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Awards Program. In the email I told him how much I enjoyed reading the book and that it helped me greatly with the research for my paper.

Week 9: Halloween

I dressed up as a cow girl for Halloween. This represents the Misfit in the fiction reading we did earlier in the semester. In my mind the misfit was a cowboy.

Week 10: Vote!!

I am from Michigan and I was originally going to get an absentee ballot but I registered in Pinellas County and tomorrow I will be taking the Eckerd bus to the polls!

Week 11: Submit a piece of your writing to the Eckerd Review. www.eckerd.edu/ecreview.

I submitted my nonfiction, college entry essay, titled "The Struggle". This essay tells a shortened version of my life, dealing especially with the hardships i faced in high school.