Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Mid-term Writing Test

Introduction


Having a good sex life is one thing that everyone wishes to achieve with a partner. Everybody wants to be satisfied sexually. But sometimes when people aren't with someone some of them usually satisfied themselves with pornography. Is it normal to watch pornography? With my english classmates we decided to do a survey on pornography. Our method is based on questions that will help us find out if our hypothesis is right or wrong. We wanted to know if college boys think that pornography is normal and that girls think that pornography is harmful.


Method


First of all our methods were quite simple. We asked easy question such as “yes or no” questions. These questions we’re very useful to help us discover our hypothesis. We also asked people their point of view on what is pornography according to them. Moreover we invited them to tell us their opinion on if it was normal that people watch pornography and they had to explain why they we’re thinking that way. We wanted as well know if college students were open-minded or close-minded talking about pornography with others people like parents, friends and partners. This issue really gave us a good idea of our hypothesis because it reveals if they’re comfortable with this particular subject. Another amusing question we posed was if they caught someone watching pornography how they would react. Therefore these were all interesting questions we had to ask to help us get our answer to our hypothesis.


Results


With all our questions related to our supposition we were able to respond to our hypothesis. It was incorrect because we noticed that girls think that it’s typical too to watch pornography. However when we asked the girls if it’s normal the only thing they didn’t understand is why people are watching pornography. But girls say that there’s nothing wrong with watching pornography. Besides most of the female students we’re open-minded talking porno with people (partners, friends) and even some of them we’re indifferent discussing this topic with their parents. Nearly everyone – including boys – would be ease to watch pornography with their love partners. In addition, before we could guess our final answer, one particularly helpful question was if they would judge someone that watches pornography and the majority of both sex said they wouldn’t.


Conclusion


Finally most of the college students thought that watching pornography it’s ordinary. It is something usual that everyone – at least once in their life – would experiment. Nonetheless if it becomes an obsession and frequently consumed well now it is a problem.


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Monday, October 5, 2009

Learning Express Library

Course 1.
Fundamentals of Writing 1: Prewriting


1. Interest Level: This course was very interresting and useful. I'm so pleased that I took the course. The fact that the course gave good examples and comparisons makes it a lot more easier to understand and to follow. The course shows you how to do the right writting process and to have a good way to structure your text.


2. Difficulty: Some of the exercises were more difficult than others, but they were well explained. But I was very surprised about the practices I had. It was so useful and it was about brainstorming exercices. Now I finally learned how to do brainstorming the good way. The course give a lot of tips to be able to start a text, or to find thesis,
3. What I Learned (3):
- Rule number one for brainstorming is, "Never stare at a blank piece of paper." If you look at nothing, you will think about nothing, and that will get you nowhere.
-By writting down a list of words, by doing free writing, asking questions, or clustering are all ways to get ideas of subject, topics. I had some useful tips for writting.
- "Write as quickly as possible and don't stop to worry about spelling. When the timer goes off, stop writing." That tip for brainstorming is so awesome and I can use wherever, whenever.


4. My score: 74%

5. Course Rating: 9/10 This course was so beneficial, helpful and it's something that I learned that I would always use in everyday life. Thank you Learning Express Library.


Course 2.
Vocabulary and Spelling course one:


1. Interest Level: That course was pretty intriguing because it helped you to figure out unfamiliar words from the context. By looking at the words and the context you can guess the meaning of the word. This course is suppose to improve vocabulary and spelling abilities. And it's surely helpful that I took this class.
2. Difficulty: It wasn't difficult at all. But one thing that I didn't really like is that we use the same words through all the exercices of each section of the course. So I kind of knew the meaning of the words. But the class is very simple to understand.


3. What I Learned (3):
- That there are three ways to learn vocabulary: from the sound, the structure and the context of the word.
- I learn a way to find the meaning of new words by dividing into syllables and it can help me recognize words.
-I learn that the sound of new words is important to someone who wants to learn a new language.


4. My score: 35/50 the test was a little hard. But I passed the test.



5. Course Rating: 7/10 the class was alright. Nonetheless sometimes it was difficult to find the meaning of the word because some of the questions there wasn't any context. But it was a great course.