Monday, December 2, 2013

Risky Business Final Draft

Teen trends online such as video games or social media can cause the actions of teens to be reckless and their decisions making to be what everyone else does. Teens will also want to be attractive to others.

            In the online world, it is a great place to express the vision of them without having to do it in person. Teens can follow up on what they see all over the Internet and can join the trend anytime. On social networking such as vine, YouTube, or instagram, you can make new friends and set a new idea of how someone thinks of you. About 93% of teens according to PewResearchCenter go online everyday. People are open to the new mindset of the generation and will be likely to dress, and try new things what everyone else are doing. When there are good things happening there are cons to these situations. It may risk your life, your attitude, and even the relationships you have with people.

            Online shopping has brought 35.6 million people to buying their clothes and merchandises online. About 50% of people said that social media influenced them to buy online. A lot of these teens aren’t loyal to the brands that they buy and buy a different variety of clothing. Many of them wants to dress like the people that are known and dress like what everyone that you see in the malls or when you go out with friends. Top sites like amazon or Nike targets these teens and promote it so everyone would crave for it.  Online shopping isn’t right for people because anyone can buy anything to have the “in-thing”. They shouldn’t change what they wear because of looking different then anyone else. Online shopping also has its good side because many people can buy things for cheap when buying the same item in their community is twice as much. It helps family have a higher standard of living.

            A huge trend that is growing in the world is video games. About 67% of U.S house holds play video games. When people play it allows them to express and release their feelings in the virtual world. Teens playing violent games such as Call of duty increase their aggressive thoughts and their feeling of empathy towards other. Video games shouldn’t be played a lot which makes the teen get addicted to it and wont be useful of what they could be doing.

            Teen Trends online effects what the teens do. When one trend dies, a new one will always pop up. When people try to stay original, they aren’t because that person is copying someone that they think is cool. Everyone will be and look similar no matter what.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Risky Business Essay


            Teen trends online such as video games or social media can cause the actions of teens to be reckless and their decisions making to be what everyone else does. Teens will also want to attract themselves to others.

            In the online world, it is a great place to express the vision of them without having to do it in person. Teens can follow up on what they see all over the Internet and can join the trend anytime they want. On social networking such as vine, YouTube, or instagram, you can make new friends and even set a new idea of how someone thinks of you. About 93% of teens according to PewResearchCenter go online everyday. These people are open to the new mindset of the generation and will be likely to dress, and try new things what everyone else are doing. When there are good things happening there are cons to these situations. It may risk your life, your attitude, and even the relationships you have with people.

            Online shopping has brought 35.6 million people to buying their clothes and merchandises online. About 50% of people said that social media influenced them to buy online. A lot of these teens aren’t loyal to the brands that they buy and buy a different variety of clothing. Many of them wants to dress like the people that are known and dress like what everyone that you see in the malls or when you go out with friends. Top sites like amazon or Nike targets these teens and promote it so everyone would crave for it.  Online shopping isn’t right for people because anyone can buy anything to have the “in-thing”. They shouldn’t change what they wear because of looking different then anyone else. Online shopping also has its good side because many people can buy things for cheap when buying the same item in their community is twice as much. It helps family have a higher standard of living.

            A huge trend that is growing in the world is video games. About 67% of U.S house holds play video games. When people play it allows them to express and release their feelings in the virtual world. Teens playing violent games such as Call of duty increase their aggressive thoughts and their feeling of empathy towards other. Video games shouldn’t be played a lot which makes the teen get addicted to it and wont be useful of what they could be doing.

            Teen Trends online effects what the teens do. When one trend dies, a new one will always pop up. When people try to stay original, they aren’t because that person is copying someone that they think is cool. They dress and do the things that other teens whose popular are doing.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

English Paragraphs


1.
 For 4 years now, not seeing his own children, not even being able to be there for the youngest son’s 1st birthday, it was now the time. As he raced across the basketball field, the only thing in his mind was how ecstatic his children will be for the next few weeks. All he can think about is how long he has never seen them how not even thinking of leaving.

2.
  After all the training that the docile team went through, they never want the outcome to be insipid as their last game. As the crowed jeered for the game winning point, the team couldn’t afford to be on their temerity side. It ended with the team captains spiking towards the opponent’s face and that’s when crowds rear took over the gigantic stadium.

3.
 After giving her victim an alcoholic libation, it was now time to get her wrathful revenge. Her victim, being the dogmatic person he is, refused to stay still. So she taped his babbling mouth shut. Then, without hesitation, he shot him across the temple of his mouth. she then just sat their seeing his light red blood seeping down his face.

4.
 After all the training that the docile went through, they couldn't afford to lose this one game. Every play that the team has executed, the crowd jeered to see who would win the finals. But one player has changed the outcome of the game. With 6 seconds remaining and the scores tied, Kobe Bryant took the final shot. The game ended with the opponent team who suddenly went on their temerity side. Kobe Bryant made history with his historical peformance.



5. When night came abroad, Jessica couldn't sleep right away. The ignominy tended to be on her mind. A libration made her emaciated. Jessica pushed her friend off the balcony without knowing what she was doing. After this happened, that is when Jessica became castigated.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Essay Prompt for WSU




           To be a leader and group contributor, I could help anyone that would need help or that would benefit the community. Being able to help someone as simple as talking or from taking action to do something, it means a lot to a person. As a young adult, taking part in a summer fun program to become a junior leader was a way I could give back when the same program in my neighborhood gave me so much and different kind of opportunities. Having to go to Molokai, a trip that I wouldn’t have to pay, I simply gave back by crating a video for the people who taught me things that other people wouldn’t have a chance.
            Creativity everywhere is open to everyone in a different view. People might think as me a weird person, but I think to be as a many minded person. Living in Hawaii is like being in paradise to those from the mainland. Nature is set everywhere for us to see. The skies are clear and the weather is the same every time. My mind is set on where endless ideas of what can be pictured through a video, camera, or actions that I take.
            A challenge that sticks out to the rest of my other challenges is fixing the relationships I had messed up with the mistake I did in middle school. Not going school for one day without a reason was something I wouldn’t forget.  Teachers, parents, school staff, and friends had their ideas about me change to a negative state. I went through consequences to repay for what I have did. The teachers and office staff people had a personal talk with me. What they have said had brought me to heart to change to make better decisions. With my parents it felt awkward because they knew that I was a better person than that. In the end, I found that my friends were worried, and we made promises it would never happen again.
            I have volunteered my time to pay back what my community has done. After being on the track team for 3 years at my middle school, It was a friendly environment to be around with. I spend my after school hours helping out my former team to prepare for their environment. Even at a younger age I spent my time around my community. I became a junior leader and used my summer to help kids out where I was once in their position. During high school, I do more work than the usual to volunteer for the teachers, in plays, videos, or even clean ups.
            In Hawaii, I really haven’t been through discrimination. Here, many people are mixed and are from all over different places, such as japan, china, and other different states. Even though I don’t have experience with discrimination, I am prepared. I would try not to let it get to me and have it ruin my experience if I get the chance to be at this wonderful university. I hear that at Washington St. people don’t really bully or discriminate and community is friendly.
            Surviving in the mainland without my family is something always on my mind. I would want to get through my college years hear smoothly and feel comfortable like how I am at home. I plan to make friends and open myself to the community, by doing this; I would get the help I need. Another goal I have set for my self is to lead find what I would like to do in the future, ace all the work and get into the field that I have desired for. The mainland especially WSU, offers so many opportunities, it wouldn’t be a smart decision to miss this chance.

WSU has six writing requirements, presented as a single question. In College Essay Organizer, we break them up into single requirements, since their word counts are individually labeled:
  • Leadership/group contributions: Describe examples of your leadership experience and share how you have significantly influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time. Consider responsibilities you have taken for initiatives in or out of school.
  • Knowledge or creativity in a field: Describe any of your special interests and how you have developed knowledge in these areas. Give examples of your creativity: the ability to see alternatives; take diverse perspectives; come up with many, varied, or original ideas; or willingness to try new things.
  • Dealing with adversity: Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to address this challenge. Include whether you turned to anyone in facing that challenge, the role that person played, and what you learned about yourself.
  • Community service: Explain what you have done to make your community a better place to live. Give examples of specific projects in which you have been involved over time.
  • Handling systemic challenges: Describe your experiences facing or witnessing discrimination. Tell us how you responded and what you learned from those experiences and how they prepared you to contribute to the WSU community.
  • Goals/task commitment: Articulate the goals you have established for yourself and your efforts to accomplish them. Give at least one specific example that demonstrates your work ethic/diligence.
Each of these requirements has a length of about a hundred words, which makes for a significant amount of writing, and perhaps more importantly, topic selection. As always, using College Essay Organizer's Essay RoadMap can show you how to cut down on the number of original essays you need to put together for multifaceted requirements such as this one.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

College prompts

Georgetown

ESSAY QUESTIONS

Responses to two essay prompts are required parts of the Application for Admission: Part Two. Anticipating you would like to know the questions in advance to allow yourself sufficient time to craft your essays, we are happy to provide you with the prompts. (Please note that you must submit a completed Part Two of the application by the deadline; we provide the prompts in advance as a courtesy.)
ESSAY ONE (ALL APPLICANTS):
As Georgetown is a diverse community, the Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you.
ESSAY TWO (SPECIFIC TO THE ONE SCHOOL TO WHICH YOU ARE APPLYING):
Applicants to Georgetown College: Please relate your interest in studying at Georgetown University to your goals. How do these thoughts relate to your chosen course of study? (If you are applying to major in the FLL or in a science, please specifically address those interests.)
Applicants to the School of Nursing & Health Studies: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying health care. Please specifically address your intended major (Health Care Management & Policy, Human Science, International Health, Nursing).
Applicants to the Walsh School of Foreign Service: Briefly discuss a current global issue, indicating why you consider it important and what you suggest should be done to deal with it.
Applicants to the McDonough School of Business: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying business.
USC

USC uses the Common Application, which will ask you to write an essay in response to one of the prompts shown below. Your essay should be approximately 250-500 words and demonstrate your ability to express yourself in a clear, organized manner. This will help admission counselors get to know you and assess how well you might fit in at USC.
  • Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
  • Discuss some issue of personal, local, national or international concern and its importance to you.
  • Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
  • Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
  • A range of academic interests, personal perspectives and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
  • Topic of your choice
Washington St.

A. Personal Statement (Required)

The Personal Statement is our best means of getting to know you and your best means of creating a context for your academic performance. When you write your personal statement, tell us about those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your academic record. Tell us about the experiences that don’t show up on your transcript:
  • a character-defining moment,
  • the cultural awareness you’ve developed,
  • a challenge faced,
  • a personal hardship or barrier overcome.

Directions

Choose either A or B. Please do not exceed 650 words.
A. Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.
OR
B. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

Tips

  • Some of the best statements are written as personal stories. We welcome your imaginative interpretation.
  • You may define experience broadly. For example, in option B, experience could be a meeting with an influential person, a news story that spurred you to action, a family event, or something that might be insignificant to someone else that had particular meaning for you. If you don’t think that any one experience shaped your character, don’t worry. Simply choose an experience that tells us something about you.

B. Short Response (Required)

Directions

Choose one of the following two topics and write a short essay. Please do not exceed 500 words.
  1. The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?
  2. Describe an experience of cultural difference or insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?

Tip

  • You may define culture broadly in Topic #2. For example, it may include ethnicity, customs, values, and ideas, all of which contribute to experiences that students can share with others in college. As you reply to this question, reflect on what you have learned — about yourself and society — from an experience of cultural difference.

C. Additional Information About Yourself or Your Circumstances (Optional)

Directions

Recommended length: Please do not exceed 250 words.
You are not required to write anything in this section, but feel free to include additional information if something has particular significance to you. For example, you may use this space if:
  • You are hoping to be placed in a specific major soon
  • A personal or professional goal is particularly important to you
  • You have experienced personal hardships in attaining your education
  • Your activities have been limited because of work or family obligations
  • Unusual limitations or opportunities unique to the schools you attended

D. Additional Space (Optional)

Directions

You may use this space if you need to further explain or clarify answers you have given elsewhere in this application, or if you wish to share information that may assist the Office of Admissions. If appropriate, include the application question number to which your comment(s) refer. Please do not exceed 150 words.

E. Journal of Activities & Achievements

Directions

Using the grid provided on the application, identify and describe up to five of your most significant activities and achievements during grades 9-12. Write about why this activity or achievement had meaning for you. Tell us about your highest level of achievement or honor you attained; any responsibilities you had; and the contribution you believe you made to your school, community, or organization. Don’t just describe the activity or achievement: tell us what it says about you.
Recommended length: 100-200 words for each activity.
Your journal should include activities, skills, achievements, or qualities from any of the following categories:
  • Leadership in or outside of school-e.g., athletics, student government, cultural clubs, band, scouting, community service, employment
  • Activities in which you have worked to better your school or community
  • Exceptional achievement in an academic field or artistic pursuit
  • Personal endeavors that enrich the mind-e.g., independent research or reading, private dance or music lessons, weekend language/culture school

Format for the Writing SectionA. Personal Statement (Required)

The Personal Statement is our best means of getting to know you and your best means of creating a context for your academic performance. When you write your personal statement, tell us about those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your academic record. Tell us about the experiences that don’t show up on your transcript:
  • a character-defining moment,
  • the cultural awareness you’ve developed,
  • a challenge faced,
  • a personal hardship or barrier overcome.

Directions

Choose either A or B. Please do not exceed 650 words.
A. Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.
OR
B. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

Tips

  • Some of the best statements are written as personal stories. We welcome your imaginative interpretation.
  • You may define experience broadly. For example, in option B, experience could be a meeting with an influential person, a news story that spurred you to action, a family event, or something that might be insignificant to someone else that had particular meaning for you. If you don’t think that any one experience shaped your character, don’t worry. Simply choose an experience that tells us something about you.

B. Short Response (Required)

Directions

Choose one of the following two topics and write a short essay. Please do not exceed 500 words.
  1. The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?
  2. Describe an experience of cultural difference or insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?

Tip

  • You may define culture broadly in Topic #2. For example, it may include ethnicity, customs, values, and ideas, all of which contribute to experiences that students can share with others in college. As you reply to this question, reflect on what you have learned — about yourself and society — from an experience of cultural difference.

C. Additional Information About Yourself or Your Circumstances (Optional)

Directions

Recommended length: Please do not exceed 250 words.
You are not required to write anything in this section, but feel free to include additional information if something has particular significance to you. For example, you may use this space if:
  • You are hoping to be placed in a specific major soon
  • A personal or professional goal is particularly important to you
  • You have experienced personal hardships in attaining your education
  • Your activities have been limited because of work or family obligations
  • Unusual limitations or opportunities unique to the schools you attended

D. Additional Space (Optional)

Directions

You may use this space if you need to further explain or clarify answers you have given elsewhere in this application, or if you wish to share information that may assist the Office of Admissions. If appropriate, include the application question number to which your comment(s) refer. Please do not exceed 150 words.

E. Journal of Activities & Achievements

Directions

Using the grid provided on the application, identify and describe up to five of your most significant activities and achievements during grades 9-12. Write about why this activity or achievement had meaning for you. Tell us about your highest level of achievement or honor you attained; any responsibilities you had; and the contribution you believe you made to your school, community, or organization. Don’t just describe the activity or achievement: tell us what it says about you.
Recommended length: 100-200 words for each activity.
Your journal should include activities, skills, achievements, or qualities from any of the following categories:
  • Leadership in or outside of school-e.g., athletics, student government, cultural clubs, band, scouting, community service, employment
  • Activities in which you have worked to better your school or community
  • Exceptional achievement in an academic field or artistic pursuit
  • Personal endeavors that enrich the mind-e.g., independent research or reading, private dance or music lessons, weekend language/culture school

Format for the Writing Section

  • Content as well as spelling, grammar, and punctuation are considered.
  • If you’re applying online, compose in a word processing program such as Word, then copy and paste into the windows provided. Double-spacing, italics, and other formatting will be lost, but this will not affect the evaluation of your application.
  • We've observed that most students write a polished formal essay for the Personal Statement yet submit a more casual Short Response and Journal of Activities & Achievements. Give every part of the Writing Section your very best effort, presenting yourself in standard, formal English.
  • Proffreed, proofreed, PROOFREAD