Maxwell's English Blog

 When I was little, I had gotten asked about what I wanted to do with my life. At the time I had wanted to be a designer for LEGO as I had been playing with them for all of my life. During the conversation, I had said I didn't know, again I was little so I was still thinking about it. Over the years my plans in life have changed, I now want to become a director when I get older. It took time to really plan what I really wanted to be when I would get older and older, and that question has had me thinking everyday.

 When I had gone to church camp about two years ago, I had truly felt like I belonged. It was a whole sleep away camp of church, fun, and love. So on the last day of camp everyone I had met and became friends with circled around the campfire and shared our favorite memories from the week. I was very happy to be with everyone and I felt like I was going to be leaving a second home. It truly was a great week to feel belonged.

 The vocabulary word that I think will be most useful in my future is discerning. The word discerning means something different or change. I feel like in the future as everything is evolving more and more it will be changing. If I were in a situation where we were describing cars and how they have changed over the years, I would use the word discerning. As it would indicate that cars are much different than the once were.

 The "So what" method really showed me how lots of people want to know what specifically they want to hear. They want to know how the evidence can support the claim very clearly. When i wrote my "so whats" I would write down what specifically they were adding on too and what way they intended to write it in. To make sure that whoever would read it would follow along on how it could be matched. One thing I had not fully understood about commentary until recently was how it shaped the meanings.

 When reviewing other argument essays today in class, there were two things that i can apply to my writing. The way they were using commentary and the claims stood out to me when reading. They had listed down what they had to say and would break it down into detail. I would understand how they would want the readers to visualize what they were saying. I can see how I would use this in my on writing since it can help with what i have to say.

 The Ins and outs of understanding an assignment are very helpful. They have you know what you have to accomplish and finish right when it comes to certain problems that need to be solved. Without using them or not fully understanding, you can have lots of mistakes in the end and turn in something that is not right at all. This shows how doing something and not doing something about it can affect you positive or negative. Thats why you should always pay attention and learn for the future in cases just like these.

 One time my friend and i were talking to this older group of women asking where the bathroom was at. My friend had walked up to them and started with "Yo." The women starred at him and said "excuse me?" "Do not Yo me, I am an elder." I starred at my friend as he kept talking to her "sorry, we just wanted to know where the restrooms were at, bro." I stood there waiting for him to stop talking because I knew these women were not going to take it the nice way. They had started yelling at me and my friend fro being more respectful when it came to choices of words and who you were talking too. After that we learned to always chose your words before talking out loud.

 Where did humans actually come from? Scientists believed that early humans had evolved from monkeys and apes. People who believe in God and Jesus believe that humans were put on earth by God so that life could be made. I've always wondered how the first humans would look at us, what humans have become. Would they be scared or would they adapt, that is the real question.

 The hardest thing about making a argument is for the listener to understand. If they dont understand then they wont get it. If they dont get it then they will think you are lying. Then that makes them think you are just trying to lie your way through to shut them up. Its annoying and difficult since your saying it in your way of words which one might not understand.

 A fear I have overcome is heights. I used to be scared of high up places like roller coaster drops and tall buildings. Over the years, I did not like going on roller coasters or drop towers, id stay far away from them. Something then changed inside of me, i started to feel my fear fade away. Nowadays i love roller coasters and go on them all the time. I still dont like drop coasters, but when i went to New York I was on very tall buildings.