...Omar Gonzalez AP Language Mrs. Edwards “Connect the dots” Essay 15, December 2011 Today, I am an artist sponsored by Roseta Santiago, who is also an artist.It has been quite a journey full of surprises, mistakes, success, and disappointments. I never expected to make it this far, I could only dream of this to happen to me. Now that my dream is a reality, I am just going to live it and hopefully one day, I’ll make it to the top! As a kid in elementary school, I always loved to doodle on my notes and I would enjoy going to art class and making little clay pots and whatnot. I was just always drawing at home, school, and wherever I was. Even though I would draw a lot, I never thought or believed that it would get me somewhere in life, because you would never think of asking a kid what he or she want to be in life and getting the response: “I want to be an artist”. Once I got into middle school, I had this sudden interest in art because I was alright at it and I really didn’t like anything else. Although I liked it so much, I would still never think of telling people my interest in it. I always thought for the longest time that art was just a hobby, that it wouldn’t get me anywhere. As I went through seventh and eighth grade, my passion and interest in art grew even more. Still, I didn’t like art enough to think of it as an occupation because everyone else would always think to be a doctor or lawyer, I was still “exploring” my options. I got the opportunity to take art...
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...- I could not find my suggested next steps because the program kept giving me an error screen. So I could not even begin to say what they should be or in what direction to look. -I’m going to use the skills I mastered for the rest of the questions because those are the only ones I can view. The three skills I mastered were; sentence skills, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling, and the third was the craft of writing. These skills apply to my academic life because I have to apply all these skills in writing papers for classes. In order to write a quality paper, everything must be near perfect. I believe these skills give me a good base to work on a paper. -These skills apply to my professional life in a lot of ways. Each quarter we are to write reports on what we feel we could improve on as a department, having quality writing skills so everything looks more professional and you are taken seriously. My future profession which is to be a high school teacher also requires these skills, if you expect your students to have good writing skills you should develop them yourself first. -I was very surprised by the results. I say this because all throughout high school, English and writing was my weak spot. I always had trouble putting my thoughts onto paper and use proper grammar. My spelling was also terrible but after graduating high school I picked up reading and I believe that helped me greatly increase my...
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...At Lund International, our brands, and the products under them, are the focus of everything we do. And it shows. It shows in more than 150 product lines we offer, in the care and craft we put into every product we introduce, and in our tireless commitment to leadership and innovation (2008; Lund International). Lund International has chosen to branch their products Internationally with the main location being the country of Kava. Once we landed in Kava we realized this country was not as we had pictured it. Kava appeared to be a mess which could cause problems with branching Lund products. I arrived at the office to meet Alex who would be my boss and mentor but to my surprise the office was also a mess which now raised doubts about how successful this task would be. Alex was a one man show. There was no receptionist only Alex so it was clear that Alex and I would be a two man team, I guess you could say we were short staffed. As Alex was briefing me on the facts about Kava I realized there were numerous problems that would certainly cause problems for us. The population of Kava consisted of 50% of the individuals were under the age of 15 as well as several different languages including English, Spanish and French. Another fact was the economy being mostly petroleum, coffee, cocoa, spices, bananas, tourism, fishing and natural gas which proved there was not much competition in the truck accessory field. This normally would be a great thing but considering that over half...
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...I look up from my ‘Connect the Dots’ book and watch my mother tenderly stroke Grandfather’s hand. “Keep fighting, I know you can do it. You’ll be out of here soon Papa.” She urges forcefully, as if firm words could liberate the man from whirring ventilators and thumping heart pumps. Grandfather didn’t stir, he never did now. As if the machinery that drew his blood out of his veins and forced it back into him had stolen something vital with its twisted cold plastic. A frustrated thud on the door tears my attention to the door. I tilt my head. ‘Was it Aunt Kate this time? Or was it Uncle Evan?’ Both were quick to anger and favoured kinaesthetic expression. Grandfather liked to exclaim that it was the fire in their blood; from Grandmama of...
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...Office of Curriculum & Instruction SY: 2016-2017 Thematic Lesson Plan Theme: Land, Sea, Space, Air I Can Travel Everywhere! (Transportation)Rationale: The unit on transportation helps the students to know the importance of different kinds of transportation because it is part of their everyday lives. The students have experienced at this point of age ridding a school bus, driven to school by car, travel on a vacation on a plane or a boat. At this point of age the students learn through play and providing hands-on activities will draw them in to play and learn.Grade Level:1 Subject: English Language Arts/ Social Studies | Language Component The teacher will explain and discuss the importance of different kinds of mode of transport. While explaining the importance the teacher talks about cars, truck, bus, and airplanes how it is useful in their daily lives. We will be reading about the different mode of transport and see how people depend on transportation to help them do their jobs and get around the community, state, country, and world. Also, visuals will be provided so that students can differentiate the different modes. Explain to students that people use different forms of transportation (such as a car, bus, ferry, or airplane) to get from place to place. People also depend on transportation to help them do their jobs. Discuss different examples together. Firefighters use fire engines, emergency medical technicians use ambulances, and letter carriers use mail trucks...
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...In paragraph 1, how does Jobs use the strategy of understatement to downplay the importance of what he is about to reveal? The way that Jobs uses understatement is because he makes it seem as if he was not an important person in the world or that his stories are little tales that won't make a difference in our lives. Reread the first story: what is the significance of this first anecdote? What lesson should the listener take away from it? This is significant because Jobs is talking about his beginnings how he was starting. The reader should learn that in the present he is making the dots and that in the present the dots do not add up but in the future the dots are going to add up and everything is going to make sense. What lesson(s) does...
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...Steve Jobs demonstrates pathos primarily by building on different emotions that correspond with the audience. Pathos is persuading by appealing to the emotions of the listeners. A way to appeal to a group’s pathos is to connect using emotions in order to build bridges and assure them you understand their journey (Lunsford 33). Steve Jobs accomplishes this argument by recounting his failures, particularly how he founded Apple and built it for over ten years to a two billion company, only to be fired from his own company. Jobs’ firing was a public failure that left him devastated. Anybody can relate to failure, especially young college adults. However, Jobs contends that character is built in the face of adversity; "Getting fired from Apple...
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...Nicole Tiemann Unit 3, Assignment 1 - Video Summary 1 1.07 Ports that we would use to connect our USB devices, Printers, Speakers, Microphone, External Hard Drive and the NIC (network interface card.) * Serial Port uses 1 bit @ a time and is usually Male with 9 or 25 pins. * Parallel Port uses 8 bits @ a time and is usually Female with 25 pins. * Game Ports are Female with 15 pins shown as two rows. The serial, parallel and the game ports have all been replaced by USB ports. * Mouse used to use a serial connector but now generally uses a PS/2. * Keyboard used to use a 5 pin but now uses a PS/2 connector, USB or wireless connection. * NIC connects parallel communication to serial. NIC connects to the network cable thru an RJ45 connector. * Modem is a dial-up connection to the internet but is the slowest connection out there and it connects solely thru the telephone. It converts analog to digital, then digital to analog and uses RJ-11 connector. * Video port mainly uses two types being VGA and DVI. You may also have a S-Video that’s round with 4 or 7 pins and connects to the TV. VGA: D-Type, 15 pins as 3 rows DVI: Digital Visual Interface * USB (Universal Serial Bus) which are hot swappable, meaning you can plug things into the computer while the computer is running and the computer will recognize without having to reboot the computer. There are two different types of USB connectors: USB1:...
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...Steve used many techniques in his speech to inspire and connect with the graduates at Stanford University. He used emotional appeals in all three of his stories. The emotional appeals connect to the graduates, because it creates a sense of sadness. He told the story of how he dropped out of college, how he was fired from a company that he created, and how he could’ve died from cancer. All of the stories combine to show how even if there are troubles in someone’s life, they can overcome it with hard work and become successful no matter what they went through. Emotional appeals connect to the audience, because the audience might have gone through a similar situation and it could motivate them to become more successful. Steve also used logos when he described how his company started in his garage and it became a $2 billion company. The logos helps connect to the students, because it lets them know that Steve was truly successful and that he started at the very bottom to get to where he is today and that the students could do the same as long as they work hard. The successfulness of Steve provided ethos, because he is an example of what it takes to become successful and that no matter what is negative experience happen, you can always overcome it. In life you cannot look forward and see what is going to happen, but in the future, you can look back and see how all of the dots connected to make you into who you are...
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...Summaries: Printers were the main topic of this video clip. There were three separate printers that were mentioned throughout the video: the Dot Matrix Printer, the Inkjet Printer, and the Laser Printer. After learning how to identify the printers, the video progressed into how to identify the four different connectors: centronics, parallel, USB, and SCSI. The main purpose of this video was to demonstrate how to properly connect a printer in order to enhance its performance. Topics: A Printer_Hardware 1. Dot Matrix 2. Inkjet Printer 3. Laser Printer 4. Six steps in Laser printing 5. Problems with Laser Printers 6. Printer Interfaces 7. Installing a Printer 8. Improving performance 9. Spooling 10. Queue Definitions: 1. Dot Matrix – a grid of dots that are filled selectively to produce an image on a screen or paper. 2. Inkjet Printer - a printer in which the characters are formed by minute jets of ink. 3. Laser Printer – a printer, linked to a computer, producing good-quality printed material by using a laser to form a pattern of electrostatically charged dots on a light-sensitive drum, which attract toner (or dry ink powder). The toner is transferred to a piece of paper and fixed by a heating process. 4. Spooling – Software that manages sending jobs to the printer. When an application prints a document, the formatted output is stored on disk, and the print spooler feeds the print images to the printer in the background...
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...Serial Ports * Transmits data one bit at a time and are usually male * 9 – 25 pins Parallel Ports * Transmits data 8 bits at a time and are usually female * 25 pins Game Ports * Are usually female * 15 pins in two rows Both parallel and game ports have been replaced by USB Early Mice used a serial connector; Keyboards used 5 pin DIN connector Modern mice and keyboards are either PS/2, USB, or wireless NIC (Network Interface Card) * Converts parallel communication to serial * Uses RJ-45 connector Modem * Slowest possible way to connect to the internet * Connects to phone line * 56 Kbps * V.92 supports faster speeds * Converts analog to digital * Converts digital to analog * Uses RS-11 converter Video VGA * Analog interface * D type, 15 pin/3 rows DVI * Digital Video Interface CS-Video * Round with 4 or 7 pins * Connects to TV USB * Univeral Serial Bus * Hot swappable * USB1 * Transmits at 12 Mbps * 3 meters * USB2 * 480 Mbps * 5 Meters * A-Connector * Larger, plugs into PC * B-Connector * Smaller, plugs into device * Narrow SCSI * 50 pin * Type A * Wide SCSI * 68 pin * Type B * IEEE 1394 – Firewire * Serial * Foot * Hot swappable * Used for streaming media * Expected to replace SCSI * Multimedia (color coded) ...
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...short-term memory C: Used to process data 5. A: The CPU tells the RAM which address holds the data that the CPU wants to read. 6. C: Character set 7. D: The binary equivalent of decimal 123456789 8. A: An actuator arm 9. B: Provides a convenient way to name a set of data for easier operations like copying and moving C: Name give users an easy way to reference the data D: Gives the CPU an easy way to identify the data it wants to read from RAM 10. C: By reading the files and auto generating directory structure for the files, for use on your classmate’s local computer 11. C: Changing the disk’s surface so that later the light will reflect differently for 0 or 1 12. B: Used for long-term memory D: Connects to the CPU over a bus using a cable 13. A: Actuator arm C: Platters 14. A: RAM D:USB flash drive 15. D: The binary equivalent of decimal 123456789 16. D: By closing an electrical circuit connected to the key when the key is pressed 17. B: Two dimensions: movement as two numbers: one in the direction of the X axis of an X,Y graph and the other on the y axis. 18. C: Input of commands that control the computer 19. A: 1280 is the number of items top to bottom in a grid on the screen. D: 1024 is the number of items top to bottom in a grid on the screen. 20. A: Information that identifies each individual pixel on the computer display List the Words Inside Acronyms Random-access memory (Ram): A type of...
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...as they began to go into the “real world”. No matter where, why, or when a speech is given, in order for the speech to be good, it must use contextual and textual rhetorical analysis such as ethos, logos, pathos, and have proper structure and style. Structurally, Steve Jobs had an extremely well formed speech. Jobs related three stories he felt had taught him major life lessons which helped form who he has become today. These stories are related by him in chronological order of his life. His first story was about “connecting the dots”. He explained some of his struggles in regards to the successes of his early life and ended this first anecdote by saying, “Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever -- because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.” Jobs’ second story is about “love and loss”. He shared about his love for his work and how work lead him to meet his wife, but Jobs went on to tell about losing his job and how the love he had for his work is what kept him going. He ends this narrative by saying, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe...
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...have to play better than anyone else.” 4. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” 5. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” 6. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” 7. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” 8. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” 9. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” 10. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” Jophen E. Hilario. OCTOBER 03, 2013 CH101P Mrs. Austero “QOUTES” 1. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” 2. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” 3. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it...
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...Reflective Essay Everyone in life needs a few guidelines to follow. Motivation is one of these guidelines. I personally think it is necessary to life, just like the air we breathe and the water we drink. If we look at motivation a little closer, we can see that it is defined as the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. It is what causes us to act, whether it is getting a glass of water to reduce thirst or reading a book to gain knowledge. A couple of days ago a great man, who gave me a lot of motivation in life and a new vision to my future, died. Steve Jobs was a brilliant entrepreneur who had everyone’s eyes on him for the goals he achieved and the great success he accomplished. Getting to know this person will definitely add a benefit to everybody’s life. Steve was born on February 24th, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. His parents’ only wish was for him to grow up and go to college. When he turned 17 he did go to college but soon he dropped out not knowing what he wanted to become in life. He stayed around for almost 18 months only taking the courses he thought were interesting and beneficial. Years later, he and his friend Steve Wozniak spent all their money on developing the computer into an all day used machine that is cheap and handy to everyone. Because Jobs liked what he did and because he had enough motivation, his workplace (the garage of his parents’ house) grew to a multibillion...
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