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2. If you are in a position of power, you are happy.

8. If something is destined to happen, it will happen without your interference.

      In the first statement, I strongly disagree because I do not believe that being in a position of power will cause someone to be happy. I believe this because having a higher power does not directly correlate to how happy someone is. I believe that many other things, like one’s faith, friends, or family, can contribute to one’s happiness. I know that some people believe that money and power will give someone happiness, but once they get that money and power, they just want more. This shows how greedy someone is since even after they receive the money and power they wished for, they still aren’t happy.

      I disagree with this next statement as well because I believe that even if something is destined to happen, doesn’t mean that our decisions will not affect this event. For example, if you are destined to go to college, meaning your parents went and they are expecting the same of you, but you decide to slack off in school, then you won’t go to college. This shows that even though someone may be predetermined to do something, doesn't mean your actions won’t get in the way of this event.  

hits and misses

   Throughout this year, I have had many pieces of writing that I have enjoyed doing and done well in, but I have also had several pieces of work that were not that fun for me to do and that I did not do so good on. One of my writings that I did not enjoy was my research paper. I waited to almost the last minute to pick my topic, so my topic did not interest me that much. This made it harder to enjoy working on this project and since I didn’t want research my subject, I did not learn as much from this project. I struggled with finding reliable sources and the hardest part was annotating those sources. Although I had trouble and did not enjoy doing some projects this year, I did enjoy doing some.

    My favorite writing project this year was my free post blog post about Big Brother. I really enjoyed this assignment because I got to choose the topic and it was shorter than a true paper, but long enough to thoroughly express all of my ideas. I really enjoyed writing this post and felt like I could practice my writing skills. Overall, this year I have grown as a writer by learning from my good and bad writing projects.  

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Kolin- New York Times Prompt

prompt- Where do you want to go to college?

  My ideas and interests may change in the future, but currently I want to be a biomedical engineer. A biomedical engineer is in both the engineering field and the medical field. Biomedical engineers work with doctors to research and develop new and more advanced technology in order to solve clinical problems. They make things like artificial organs and prosthetic limbs, and they also make things like computer programming systems that diagnose patients more accurately and faster.This field has always interested me, even though I have just recently learned the name of the field. I have always loved math and science, so I knew I wanted to go into either the engineering field or the medical field, so biomedical engineering is perfect for me since it touches on all of my interests.
   This profession requires up to a master's degree, but I am very interested in getting a PhD. To receive my bachelor's degree, I will probably go to LSU honors college on tops for four years and major in general engineering.Then, I will go to Georgia Technical Institute to receive my master's degree. I will go here for two years and major in biomedical engineering and minor in computer programming. Then I will attend John Hopkins University for my PhD. The average time it takes to get a PhD is 8 years, but my goal is to do it in only 4 years.  

reading strategies

  Throughout this challenging novel of Purple Hibiscus, I have learned many reading strategies to fully understand the text and remain completely interested in the novel. One thing that helps me is annotating. This helps me to not only remember my ideas about the book, but it makes me really think about what the author is trying to portray through the text. I like to highlight important phrases and concepts, and I also like to highlight quotes that I really like. Then, I write out my ideas about the highlighted portions in the margins. This helps me to really read the novel instead of just skimming over the text and not truly understanding what the author is trying to portray.
    The only problems I have had is missing some of the thing that are important throughout the text. I usually get most to all of the important details, but I do miss some sometimes. When this happens, it's not a big deal at all because we go over the major ideas in class. It helps to talk about the ideas we noticed in our tables, but the formal discussions help the most. This helps for me to realize new ideas and different sides to some of the concepts throughout the novel.

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