Tutoring

We had a student that was from English 1020 and one of the teachers is also a tutor at the Writing center. The teacher explained to us that the girl had problems finding her own voice on with the paper and her structure needed work. When we read the paper we found the same problems the teacher explained. The first thing we talked about was structure. I gave her a simple refrence to use I wrote in a notebook the way the structure of the average paper should look. Starting with the introduction paragraph. Then I gave her the simple structure of a body paragraph which looked like this:

Plan

Support

Detail

Detail

Explanation

I explained what each of those meant. Then finally we talked about her problem with quotations. I read several of her quotes and simply asked this question, Does this support your thesis. Some she said No and the I said than this doesn't belong in your paper. It was as simple as that. I don't know if she was helped she seemed eager to leave but I know the information I gave her was helpful its up to her to use it.

Mythbusters

So the Mythbusters decided to put one of the most long debated physics questions to rest this week. The myth was when a bunch of birds are in a semi truck and they begin to fly around does the truck lighter because there not standing on the surface of the truck. So the Adam and Jamie brought a couple of birds and put them in a container as a trial experiment and to see if when the bird flapped around there was any difference in weight. The test proved that there is no difference however they moved up to larger scale experiments using a group of about 20 pigeons in a u-haul container with atmospheric pressure finders and a scale. When the birds began to fly around you could see that even though they were not sitting on any surface they force of the bird flapping its wing went from actual wait to air pressure because it forced the air downward. Meanwhile Tori, Grant, and Kari wanted to see if a boat moving at 25 miles per hour can be split down the middle by hitting a channel marker. It was reported in newspapers however results showed that a boat traveling that slow could not be cut in half by traveling only 25 m.p.h. This is important because we can actually see that some reporters don't go into full depth about the stories they write.

Mythbusters

Wednesday a new episode of mythbusters was on, this episode was about hypnosis and if you can blow out a candle using frequencies. A man back in the early 1900's claimed he could blow out a candle with the sound of his bird calls. The idea was that the waves with a low frequency will vibrate the air creating enough pressure to put the candle out. When trying this they couldn't do it they just couldn't get the frequency low enough and strong enough so they amplified it with a speaker and brought in a singer would could get it a little lower. They had done it successfully. Then the second myth was whether you can get someone to do something against there will when on hypnosis they successfully got Grant under hypnosis but he didn't follow those commands. Adam and Jamie wanted to join in on the myth so they tested whether you could remember more details about an event when under hypnosis then you could when not under hypnosis. They had to small time actors come in and play a scene with Jamie (Tori, Grant, and Kary were not aware of the joke) Jamie and the actor(posing as a delivery man) getting into an argument. After the scene they told them of the actors and gave them a test to see what they could remember all of them failed, then when under hypnosis they were able to remember key things from the scene. The Hypnosis myths are very important to society after testing the myth about can you remember things this could be applicable to real life such as crime solving. If there was a witness who saw something but there memory was fuzzy they could be put under hypnosis to describe more about the crime so I think thats really cool.

Mythbusters

Everyone has heard the old saying, Can you teach and old dog new tricks, right? Well the mythbusters decided to check this myth out. They got two, age nine, huskies (A very difficult dog to train) and Adam and Jamie each took one dog and a real dog trainer and worked for one week to train them to do five tricks sitting, heeling, staying, lying down, and shaking hands. Turns out you could teach old dogs new tricks. Meanwhile Grant, Kari, and Tory wanted to see if you can beat a guard dog. They set up fencing and put a safe in the middle of the fenced in area and they tested five different ways to keep the dog from attacking the first way was distracting it with a steak, it distracted the german shepard for a minute or two but once it turned around and saw the intruder it attacked. Next up acting submissive, and the third was acting aggressive both tested negative. The scent of wolf urine that made the dog hesitate for a second but then attacked. Using the urine of a female dog in heat it was put on a cloth and dragged outside of the fencing by the teamates the guard dog couldn't keep its mind off of it even after looking directly at the intruder so that was confirmed. The final dog myth can you out smart a bloodhound they tested zig-zagging, running through water, covering them and the floor with pepper, cleaning and changing clothes, covering in cologne or coffee, and running in an urban enviorment, those dogs are extremley smart and couldn't get fooled no matter how hard they tried each myth was busted. This show is so interesting it's entertaining and it's educational some episodes are more closley impacted on someones life than others. I say that because some do have alot to do with saftey and everyday things people do so it's kinda cool that well known myths that people say are being tested.

Paper!!

I have one week to have my paper proposal done yet I still don't know what to write about. My problem is I don't watch these movies that was the first zombie/horror film I have ever seen in my life and to write a paper about something I know nothing about is very difficult. I don't really want to write about race, religion, gender, or social class because I believe that's going to be redundant. So now I thought about writing about real zombies from the voodoo religion I understand it is suppose to be a research paper my problem is I don't know a thesis I could write for this I have been looking up information for this specific subject. Well it's finally over I gave up fast food for Lent which is extremely difficult and I already know what I'm doing next year Pepsi. My weekend is gonna be boring I worked today and I work tomorrow then I go to my uncles house to enjoy Easter with my whole family. After reading this I hope anyone can assist me in an idea for a thesis for my paper this paper is going to be difficult for me like the last essay and considering I need to get an A on it to keep a B in the class I can use the assistance. In all honesty I don't understand how if I lose a total of 200 points in the class my grade is reduced to a B 2099 out of 2300 is a B just doesn't make sense to me.

Reading week 11

Today was the first day of class in just about 2 weeks we had a lot of catching up so we kinda talked about each reading quickly. The main reading I'd like to talk about is "What Makes a Great Movie." The reading was pretty interesting but I'd like to talk about my feelings on my perfect movie personally I like thrillers and revenge movies my favioret actor is Denzel Washington. Some titles I love are Inside Man, Man on Fire, Deja Vu, Count of Monte Cristo, Carlito's Way, and I'm sure a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. Movies like Count of Monte Cristo are amazing the tactics and intellegence to calculate the revenge of each man that screwed you over just makes me happy if you have any movies like that let me know. Inside Man and Deja Vu were to great thrillers I could not figure out Inside Man for the life of me I was not joking about like a week of trying to figure it all out. My all time favioret Man on Fire great acting great plot great revenge he was not going to die until he got that girl back and then finally gave himself up for her it was an emotional roller coaster. I dont know why I just went on for 10 sentences about my favioret movies but i could watch them over and over and it's worth noting. Another reading we had was "I, Robot" now that was a horrible movie I don't understand why we read it but the author talks about there is to much information to take in however I don't really agree with that statement it's pretty simple maybe if your studying it up and down but for the average person who watches movies it's not like if I get up to get a pop in the middle of it im lost the rest of the movie like Matrix and other movies tend to be. The movie was horrible to me. The final thing I have to say about his comments is I agree with him saying the movies can be almost mind altering any movie that makes you think for a while to me is a great movie however I dont think I, Robot does that.

Mythbusters

This week on Mythbusters they did something a little different. Fans emailed them complaining that some myths they tested earlier in the season were flawed and explained what they could have done to retry and re bust or confirm the myths. First myth they retested was the Sniper myth in which a Vietnamese and an American sniper were trying to take one another out. Supposedly the American shot the Vietnamese through the scope and straight into his eye killing him. When previously tested the myth was presumed busted however complaints that they were using the wrong type of scope that the Vietnamese had and wrong type of firearm the American had. The Mythbusters retry the myth and come to a almost similar conclusion the only bullet that penetrated all the glass and went into the dummies skull was an armor piercing bullet which generally snipers didn't have however they still decided to call it plausible instead of busted. Next myth was if two hammers collided would they explode originally they called it busted fans argued that they can't use new hammers because the myth was from back in the day. One fan a blacksmith sent them old tempered pre-WWII hammers and they used a rig to continuously slam them into one another. The most that happened was a few chips came off of one hammer. It didnt explode like the myth is said however the fragments could be deadly it was busted though. Mythbusters is an amazing show it shows the physics of everyday life and I just love how crazy some myths can be. It's as if the simplest myth they can make fun. It's important to everyday life some of these myths are cost saving when it comes to fuel economy and some are about saftey issues. They are wide ranging yet all intresting.