100!

I think this journal thing is a very good habit. Although I sometimes forgot to do my journal and it is very difficult for me to remember to do them, I still think writing these journal entries helped me a lot. It helps me develop a habit of doing something continuously without stop. It also help me develop my opinions and thoughts. I find this helpful because when I look at the short answers and essay part on the tests, they are all just like my journal entries and because I already have a developed and matured idea and thought on the topic, I can develop even further during a test and I would be ready when a short answer question pop up. Even though I didn't have all one hundred journal entries, I am still pretty close and I am proud of the fact that I continue this for so long and did it almost everyday. This has been a great experience and I am glad that I didn't do all the journals at once at the last day not only because I couldn't finish a hundred journal entries in one day but also because it is a better exercise to have a developed thought each day after discussion with the class and to put it down at the end of the day then to rush through a hundred journal entries.

Finl Exam

I am not very confident and believe I would get a perfect score but I believe I would get a decent score. I am familiar with most of the stories we've read and I have read them all one more time to review the content and literary element in it. However, I am a bit confused and not sure about the 102 Minutes story because the names and the story are confusing and I couldn't really understand it. However, I still have a decent knowledge on it. I've also look over the Talking Skull folk tale thoroughly several times because I couldn't understand the meaning of "Talking brought me here." the first few times I read it but then I think it means that they bragged about something they are not sure about and that's why they got killed in the bush. I'm not quite sure about the meaning of the bush, is it the forest or an actual shrub. I am pretty confident that I would get a decent score on this test and would be surprised if I did not because I have spent a lot of effort and time on reviewing the vocabulary, story's content and literary element, and going through the folk tale. I would also be pretty surprised if I get a perfect score or close because I am not that confident. However, I have good feelings about this test and believe it would boost up my grade.

Group Work

I like group works more because during group project you only have one specific job to do and you can make it perfect. You can dedicate all your energy and thought to that specific area of the project and make it work. But I dislike group project with an irresponsible teammate. Usually what happens when I am pair with an irresponsible teammate is that I try to focus all my energy to perfect my part of the project but I still get a really low grade because my teammate decides to slack off. During a large group, we can focus our energy on a smaller part and when one person decides to not do anything it wouldn't hurt as much. However, we must learn to cooperate with anyone. For example, if you are to be selected to cooperate with a person you dislike or does literally nothing, you just have to treat it like a more difficult project and focus half your energy on doing their part for them. Although you might not get a good score but that's the downside of working with a person that does little to nothing or working on a difficult project. I think group works is really helpful in that we can learn to divide and distribute roles to members withing the group and that teaches us leadership. We can also learn to cooperate so in the future we would know how to.

Strangers Together

During a crisis situation, although people don't know each other and are totally strangers to each other, they must work together to survive. This is because people will do anything to survive, it's human and any animal instinct to use any technique, work with anything to survive. During "102 Minutes", the two strangers must work together to survive until the rescue team come and rescue them. The author points out that these two people are strangers and alone to show that even two people that knew nothing about each other would trust each other and accomplish something when it is absolutely necessary to work together.I can't really think of any experiences where I have been in a dangerous, risky, or near-death experience so I wold not have been in that kind of situation with a stranger too. However, this kind of situation is in the movie all the time, where two people are caught in a situation where the killer or monster is approaching and they must work together to survive or kill the beast. In this kind of movie, the characters usually become good friend. I would also expect this in real life. Even if you are in a situation with a person you hate, at first you might refuse to talk to him, but when you're life is on the verge then you will do whatever it takes and after this event you might become good friends with him becaue you would understand him more.