Retell: “Why We Love” written by Helen Fisher is the study of why humans love. So far in the book Fisher talks about a study she explores with college students. Have of the college students in here study are in love, and the other half have just broken up with their significant partner. Fisher uses an efficient technique to look at how the brain reacts to their significant other. During an M.R.I test she has the student look at a picture of their significant other and then she has the student look at a neutral picture, to see how the brain reacts to the memories with the significant other. Fisher writes about the brains reaction to heart break and the trauma that it personally causes to the brain. Fisher writes about a student named Barbara who started off as a student that was deeply in love with her boyfriend and what was supposed to her soon finance Tim. However during Barbara’s time in the study her and Tim broke up. Fisher noticed that after the Barbara’s break up from Tim that Barbara lost weight, became paranoid, depressed, and had a deep since of hatred. Fished concluded that the when someone is in a relationship that the brain becomes very dependent on that personal for energy and comfort. However when a sudden break up happens the brain yearns for that loving feeling so much that it is like a withdraw reaction.Respond: When first reading how the brain reacts after a break up I associated it with drug or alcohol withdraws. When the brain becomes so dependent on someone and loses that significant other they will do anything to get that partner back.Relate: Although, I have never been in a “serious” relationship I can see that being in love is like being on a drug that gives you a constant high. When author Helen Fisher describes the withdraws people get after being in love it really reminded me of the withdraws that people get when they first get off of drugs. Paranoia, annoyance, anger, rage, depression, and bitterness are the basic emotions that happen after someone has broken up with their partner.
Why We Love: Helen Fisher.... So far: Blog 15
Retell: “Why We Love” written by Helen Fisher is the study of why humans love. So far in the book Fisher talks about a study she explores with college students. Have of the college students in here study are in love, and the other half have just broken up with their significant partner. Fisher uses an efficient technique to look at how the brain reacts to their significant other. During an M.R.I test she has the student look at a picture of their significant other and then she has the student look at a neutral picture, to see how the brain reacts to the memories with the significant other. Fisher writes about the brains reaction to heart break and the trauma that it personally causes to the brain. Fisher writes about a student named Barbara who started off as a student that was deeply in love with her boyfriend and what was supposed to her soon finance Tim. However during Barbara’s time in the study her and Tim broke up. Fisher noticed that after the Barbara’s break up from Tim that Barbara lost weight, became paranoid, depressed, and had a deep since of hatred. Fished concluded that the when someone is in a relationship that the brain becomes very dependent on that personal for energy and comfort. However when a sudden break up happens the brain yearns for that loving feeling so much that it is like a withdraw reaction.Respond: When first reading how the brain reacts after a break up I associated it with drug or alcohol withdraws. When the brain becomes so dependent on someone and loses that significant other they will do anything to get that partner back.Relate: Although, I have never been in a “serious” relationship I can see that being in love is like being on a drug that gives you a constant high. When author Helen Fisher describes the withdraws people get after being in love it really reminded me of the withdraws that people get when they first get off of drugs. Paranoia, annoyance, anger, rage, depression, and bitterness are the basic emotions that happen after someone has broken up with their partner.
Final Propsal: Blog 14
This week in class our final proposals for the Inquiry project were due. My group and I still decided to keep the topic that we originally chose, which was the art of attraction. Our overall question is what are single dating books telling single individuals to do? To be completely honest I am very excited to research the art of dating books. In a dream world I would love to make an experiment out of my Inquiry project by having an actual single individual to try a dating book on. I would love to take a single individual and have them read the same dating books that I am and actually go "out on the prowl" and use the tips that they were advised, so that I can make conclusions based on accuracy instead of my and other love coaches general opinion about dating. However this experiment is not possible, however after reading my dating books I will talk to a professional dating coach and a professional marriage counselor. In the end I hope they will both give me a perspective about how relationships start and how relationships through the cracks and breaks of life end. My hypothesis is that what first fuels any relationship will be the thing that most people hid on a first date like their financial responsibilities in life. After reading each book I will blog about my finding to update my readers on the accuracy of my hypothesis.
Mother Tongue :Blog 13
This week in class I focused on writing an essay based on Mother Tongue by Amy Tan. For those who have never read Mother Tongue, the short narrative is about a girl growing up with a mother that does not speak proper English, she speaks what we would call "broken" English. In my essay I focused on the fact that American society being obsessed with perfection and not really accepting someone that does speak English. I personally think that American society judges people unfair when the speak broken English, because society tends to think that people that speak broken English are lower class and are not as smart as others. I think that we should stop judging people based on their English and recognize that English is not everyone's first language, and others may be proficient at speaking another language. At the end of the day English is not America's official language. If it was then Mandarin and Spanish could not be on the voting ballot.
What makes a "hot" guy "hot? :Blog 12
This week in class we are reading what is proposed to be the first tale in anglo-saxon the language that was first started in English, which is Beowulf. Although we are reading Beowulf in class, I am not going to discuss any more details on Beowulf, but I thought that you should know what we are mainly doing in English class. In English class we are also working on our second Inquiry project. My group and I have collectively decided that we want to study the qualities that make a “hot” man. For every girl there is a “hot” attractive guy out there, and my group and I want to discover what each of us looks for in a guy to deem him attractive. My goal for studying what makes a “hot” guy is to uncover the truth behind my ideal guy. I personally would like to have a well researched list on qualities that I find attractive in a guy. My only question for my readers is why books do you think we can read to help us with our study.
English: Blog 11
This week in English we are study the history of the English language and the different languages we use in our daily lives. The more I study the English language the more I start to discover how many different language I speak in my life. For example my father is from the British Virgin Islands, so he has an island accent and sometimes uses strange phrases. For example when someone does something crazy or stupid he might say “are you got in your head” which means why did you do that, are you stupid? Another place I use a different language would be at the salon. Whenever I get my hair done I might use words or phrases like touch up, relaxer, hot comb, edges, kitchens, press, or naps. And whenever I text my friends I use a lot of acronyms like omg, lol, g2g, brb, gtl, fml, and lmao. On my mother’s side of the family they speak pig Latin, usually when they speak in pig Latin it means they don’t want me or anyone else to know what they are talking about. One day I hope to learn how to actually speak pig Latin so that I will be able to understand what they are talk about.
End of Sememster Blog
This year piece of writing that I am most proud of would have to be my “Snapshot Narrative.”This is my best work because for the first time I got to dig back into my memory and think about myself, which is unusual with high school writing because you’re usually talking about someone back in history, your family, or someone that has inspired you. With my “Snapshot Narrative” I got to use sensory details, so the setting, character descriptions, sound, smell, and touch was all up to me. With writing “Snapshot Narrative” the writer can tell the reader as little or as much as the they wise with this piece I didn’t have to write a full out story on the before and after on how I got to a particular place, I just let the reader enter my story and leave my story. My “Snapshot Narrative” gave me excuse to not use formal grammar and language, because the short was told my an eight year olds perspective I was able to actually talk like an eight year old and grammatical write like an eight year old. Overall I had very good time writing this piece and I was able to become an eight year old again and explore a different style of writing.
I think I am getting very good at learning how to capture other authors and philosophers quotes. I think that I can capture other peoples thoughts and explain my reaction with a more mature approach. Before correctly learning how to use a quote I would just enter a quote anywhere in my essay or paragraph then I would immediately dispute the quote to thinking that I sounded better. However after learning how to correctly input a quote into my essay I have found it is to correctly position your quote and correctly the other authors quote to make sure that the reader understands both positions on the subject you are referring to. Within my “Tragedy Project” I was able to use different point of views on tragedy to conclude my point on what tragedy really is.
I know that at the end of the semester we briefly covered how to write grammatically correct but I would like to expand my knowledge on more grammatically errors and how to stay aware of them. I think that we should go more in depth with comma’s and how to correctly place them, apostrophe’s and how to correctly place them, tense structure, and sentence structure. As for material that we can cover to get ready for college I think that we practice reading difficult readings, and we should make easy tips so if we come across difficult readings in college we have some tips to remember so that we are able to comprehend what the reading is saying and so that we know the main idea’s in the reading.
Proper Grammar Project and Inquiry Project
This week in English class we are wrapping up our Inquiry Project and we are starting a new project called the Proper Grammar project. For the Proper Grammar project we will be partnering up with someone in our class to make a poster on common grammar mistakes most students make. For my project I am partnered with Serena Robinson and our common grammar mistake is missing words. An example of missing words would be if I was writing a sentence but I was missing a word in the sentence. For the Inquiry Project this week I am writing two annotated bibliography for the books that I have read “All I Ask” by Barbara Keaton and “The Wedding” by Nicholas Sparks. It has been really hard for me to write both of my bibliography because it is hard for me to make a short summary of each book without going to in depth or without spoiling the book for future readers. This weekend I plan to finish annotating my three sources so that I will not have to worry about them on Monday.
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