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Vocabulary Plan

Improving Vocabulary

One of the best ways to improve our vocabulary, as most of us know, is by reading, reading anything, really--novels, short stories, poems, articles.  We are exposed to new words while we read and can begin to understand them by looking at the context provided.  The next step is to look them up, getting a fuller definition.  Then, we can use the words, including them in our writing not only in the word form we originally learned but in different word forms as well. 

During the quarter, you will need to include at least THREE words new to you in each essay assignment.  Please underline or mark in some way.  You can gather these from our texts or other sources.

We will be keeping a vocabulary list in our binders, where you write down words you’d like to know more fully and the different word forms they come in.  We’ll spend some class time doing this, but the rest will be completed outside of class.  While annotating, circle these words to come back to.  Obviously, the more words you gather and define, the more you’ll learn, and the more you’ll have to pull from for the writing assignments.

 

YOUR VOCABULARY SECTION WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS (You can gather words anywhere--our texts, ones from your other classes, etc.  Try to pick words that will serve you well in life and all your classes, so one that aren't too specific to a certain field.):

 

WORD                      WORD FORM                                            DEFINITION

Propulsive                              adj.                              having the power to propel or push forward

Propulsively                            adv.

Propel                                     verb

 

EXAMPLE:

            On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, Inauguration Day for our 44^th President, Barack Obama, millions celebrated, turning Washington DC and cities across the US into propulsive places whose energy and hope could not be denied.  Aretha Franklin’s rendition of “America” created a palpable wave of emotion that lead to Poet, Elizabeth Alexander, who was commissioned to write and recite an occasional poem, a genre that began to honor leaders and commemorate ceremonies.  Obama seems to be bringing poetry back to the public through Alexander, who as a 1-year-old was carried to see Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech almost in the very same place.  Once Obama was sworn in and officially announced as President Obama, the crowd’s fervent cries rang out and he began his commencement speech.  He said a lot, thanking our progenitors, acknowledging the gravity of our economic situation, promising to work with nations in need, pointing out environmentally responsible energy alternatives, recognizing the hard work of Americans, ultimately calling upon us to endure with “hope and virtue.”

 

 

 

MLA Checklist

MLA Checklist

• Is the heading in the upper left-hand corner of the first page?
• Does the heading include the following information in this order:

• Your name
• Your Instructor's name
• The course name
• The date formatted correctly:  Day Month Year 21 September 2018

• Does the paper have an original title (other than something like "Final Paper" or a novel title, or someone else’s work)?
• Is the title presented without being bolded, italicized, or placed in quotation marks?
• Is the title correctly capitalized?
• Does the paper have 1" margins on all sides?
• Is the text justified to the left-hand side, with a 1” tab at the start of each paragraph?
• Is the paper written in Times New Roman and in 12-pt. Font?
• Is the entire paper double-spaced (including any notes and the works cited page)? Make sure to eliminate any extra spaces that are set to automatically appear when you hit enter. Make sure you don’t have any extra spaces between paragraphs. Set “Before” and “After” spacing to “0.”
• Is your header correctly done? Are your last name and the page number in the upper right-hand corner of each page (0.5" from the top, or inserted using the "header" function in Word)? Is it in written in TNR 12?
• If you've used ANY sources, do you have a works cited page? Is it titled "Works Cited" (without the quotation marks)? Does it have a page number (that follows the last page of your paper) and your last name?
•  Does your works cited page conform to MLA format?

• Are the entries in your list of works cited in alphabetical order by the author's last name or other initial entry word(s)?
• Does each source have an entry on the works cited page?
• Have you italicized “containers” (novels, screenplays, journals, films, webpages)?
• Have you enclosed smaller pieces (articles, chapters, songs, poems) in quotation marks?
• Have you eliminated hyperlinks?

• Are your in-text references done correctly?

• Are all direct quotes in quotation marks?
• Do all paraphrases and summaries clearly indicate that they come from other sources?
• Does each in-text reference include a parenthetical citation that includes the author’s last name (unless the reference is obvious from the context of the sentence) and the page number from which the information was taken?
• If a quotation is 4 lines or more, is it block-quoted? (i.e. double-spaced, indented 1 inch from the left margin)
• Have you formatted dialogue from a film or play correctly?
• Have you clearly indicated where you found all outside information?

 

How can you manage gender discrimination in society? How Can We Stop Gender Discrimination?

 

How can you manage gender discrimination in society?

How Can We Stop Gender Discrimination?

1. Ensure equal access to education. ...
2. Empower women in the workplace. ...
3. Protect reproductive rights. ...
4. Strengthen legal protections. ...
5. Provide better medical care. ...
6. Achieve better political representation. ...
7. Prioritize the most marginalized.

Here we will brainstorm as many gender codes/expectations/rules/misconceptions/stereotypes as we can to generate possible ideas

 Here we will brainstorm as many gender
codes/expectations/rules/misconceptions/stereotypes as we can to generate possible ideas
to pursue in the essay:
Codes/rules/expectations for males:
 Males are soft if they are sensitive
 Men must always be tough to be a manly man
 Males must be the providers/breadwinners
 Males can’t like to read or write because it’s not considered tough
 Males can’t show emotions because that would be a sign of weakness
Codes/rules/expectations for females:
 Women need to look sexy in order to be beautiful.
 Girls should always be polite.
 Females need to be decorated in order to be beautiful or feminine

Sample PIE Paragraph on Gender

 

Since parents play the most crucial role in their child's life early on, it's necessary that they work hard to provide gender neutral toys or range of toys that are considered both "feminine" and "masculine" so their children are exposed to a wide range of ways of being and are not limited because of their gender.  Though "X: a Fabulous Child's Story" is fiction it can inspire us to think about what we surround our children with, not only in the game parents play, but what they buy and expose these young minds to.  Though the X-periment cost "23 billion dollars and 72 cents" getting your children a wide range of toys can be done.  The Official Instruction Manual recommends; "Buy plenty of everything" and so the Joneses "bought all kinds of toys" and X ends up being a well-liked and well-adjusted kid.  Similarly, in "I Don't want my Daughter to Feel Like She Has to Sacrifice Something," Eve Perlman, a real mother of two, discusses how girls can really delve into their true interests and how parents can help with that early on in terms of the toys they give them.  Pearlman includes Janet Fleming's advice from Conejo Valley Neighborhood for Learning who shares, "If I gave my daughter a doll, I also gave her a medical kit or briefcase."  She adds: "My son had dolls and trains" (122).  Here, we can clearly see that Fleming made a conscious effort to provide a range of toys for both her daughter and son, as toys can be very influential in terms of what kids like or idolize.  Kids play with these toys for hours and bring them everywhere they go.  Parents send messages to these young ones explicitly and implicitly about what is valued or not, so it's important to present this wide range of messages/choices to their developing minds.  

                  When I was little even though I had a twin sister, she was always given the blue clothes and toys and I was given the pink, maybe because I was smaller than her and supposedly more feminine.  This color was chosen for me and not what I would have chosen; I didn't like the frilly stuff maybe because I was given so much of it and maybe because it seemed daintier and....

 

Welcome to the Island Where People Forget to Die

On the Greek island of Ikaria, people are far more likely to live to 100, and diseases like lung cancer mysteriously disappear.

 

By Dan Buettner from the book The Blue Zones

One day in 1976, Stamatis Moraitis of Boynton Beach, Florida, felt short of breath. Climbing stairs was a chore; he had to quit working midday. After reviewing his X-rays, his doctor concluded that Moraitis had lung cancer. As he recalls, nine other doctors confirmed the diagnosis. They gave him nine months to live. He was in his mid-60s. Moraitis, a Greek war veteran who had arrived in the United States in 1943, considered staying and seeking aggressive treatment. That way, he and his wife, Elpiniki, could be close to his adult children. But he decided to return to his native island, Ikaria, where he could be buried with his ancestors in a cemetery that overlooked the Aegean Sea. He and Elpiniki moved in with his elderly parents, into a tiny, whitewashed house on two acres of stepped vineyards on the north side of Ikaria.

At first, Moraitis spent his days in bed. On Sunday mornings, he hobbled up the hill to a tiny Greek Orthodox chapel where his grand­father once served as a priest. When his childhood friends started showing up every afternoon, they’d talk for hours, an activity that invariably involved a bottle or two of locally produced wine. I might as well die happy, he thought.

In the ensuing months, Moraitis started to feel stronger. One day he planted some vegetables in the garden. He didn’t expect to live to harvest them, but he enjoyed being in the sunshine, breathing the ocean air.

Six months came and went. He didn’t die. Easing himself into the island routine, he woke up when he felt like it, worked in the vineyards until midafternoon, made lunch, and then took a long nap. In the evenings, he often walked to the local tavern, where he played dominoes past midnight. His health continued to improve. He added a couple of rooms to his parents’ home so his children could visit. He built up the vineyard until it produced 400 gallons of wine a year.

For more than a decade, I’ve been organizing a study of places where people live longest. In 2008, my colleagues Michel Poulain, PhD, a Belgian demographer, and Gianni Pes, MD, a researcher at the University of Sassari in Italy, and I began investigating Ikaria. Ninety-nine square miles and home to almost 10,000 Greek nationals, the island lies about 30 miles off the western coast of Turkey. We concluded that people on Ikaria were, in fact, two and a half times as likely to reach age 90 as Americans. Ikarian men, in particular, are nearly four times as likely as their American counterparts to reach 90. Ikarians were also living about eight to ten years longer before succumbing to cancers and cardiovascular disease, and they suffered less depression and about a quarter the rate of dementia.

Life on Ikaria

Seeking to learn more about the island’s reputation for long-lived residents, I called on Ilias Leriadis, one of Ikaria’s few physicians. On an outdoor patio, he set a table with kalamata olives, hummus, heavy Ikarian bread, and wine.

“People stay up late here,” Dr. Leriadis said. “We wake up late and always take naps. We simply don’t care about the clock.”

Dr. Leriadis also talked about local “mountain tea,” made from dried herbs endemic to the island, which is enjoyed as an end-of-the-day cocktail. He mentioned wild marjoram, sage, a type of mint tea, rosemary, and a drink made from boiling dandelion leaves and adding a little lemon. The teas double as traditional Greek remedies. Wild mint fights gingivitis and gastrointestinal disorders; rosemary is used to treat gout; artemisia is thought to improve blood circulation.

When Ioanna Chinou, a professor at the University of Athens School of Pharmacy and one of Europe’s top experts on the bioactive properties of herbs, tested Ikaria’s most commonly used herbs, she found that they showed strong antioxidant properties. Most also contained mild diuretics, which doctors use to treat hypertension. Perhaps by drinking tea, Ikarians have gently lowered their blood pressure all their lives.

On a trip the year before, I visited a slate-roofed house built into the slope at the top of a hill. I had come here after hearing of a couple married for more than 75 years. Thanasis and Eirini Karimalis clapped their hands at the thrill of having a visitor.

The couple were born in a nearby village; they married in their early 20s and raised five children on Thanasis’s pay as a lumberjack. Their daily routine: Wake naturally, work in the garden, have a late lunch, nap. At sunset, they either visited neighbors or neighbors visited them. Their diet was also typical: a breakfast of goat’s milk, wine, sage tea or coffee, honey and bread. Lunch was almost always beans, potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion, or a spinachlike green called horta), and seasonal vegetables from their garden; dinner was bread and goat’s milk. At Christmas and Easter, they would slaughter the family pig and enjoy small portions of larded pork for the next several months.

Just after sunset, another couple walked in, carrying a glass amphora of homemade wine. The ninety-somethings cheek-kissed one another and settled around the table. They gossiped, drank wine, and occasionally erupted into laughter.

The Healthy Magic of the Ikarian Diet

Meanwhile, my colleagues and additional researchers fanned out across the island and asked nonagenarians a battery of lifestyle questions. They were joined by Antonia Trichopoulou from the University of Athens Medical School, an expert on the Mediterranean diet.

She estimated that the Ikarian diet, compared with the standard American diet, might yield up to four additional years of life expectancy. Low intake of saturated fats from meat and dairy was associated with lower risk of heart disease; olive oil reduced bad cholesterol and raised good cholesterol. Goat’s milk contained serotonin-boosting tryptophan and was easily digestible for older people. Some wild greens had ten times as many antioxidants as red wine. Wine—in moderation—prompts the body to absorb more flavonoids, a type of antioxidant. Local sourdough bread might reduce a meal’s glycemic load. You could even argue that potatoes contributed heart-healthy potassium, vitamin B6, and fiber. And because islanders eat greens from their gardens, they consume fewer pesticides and more nutrients.

Ikarians’ sleep and sex habits might also affect their long lives. A 2008 paper by the University of Athens Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health found that napping at least three days weekly was associated with a 37 percent reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease. In a preliminary study of older Ikarian men, 80 percent claimed to have sex regularly, a habit also linked to longevity. A quarter of that group said they were doing so with “good duration” and “achievement.”

When Thea Parikos moved from America to Ikaria and opened a guesthouse, she stopped shopping for most groceries, instead planting a huge garden that provided most of their fruits and vegetables. She lost weight without trying to. I asked her if she thought her diet would make her family live longer. “Yes,” she said. “But we don’t think about it that way. It’s bigger than that.”

Although unemployment is high—perhaps as high as 40 percent—most everyone has access to a family garden and livestock, Parikos told me. People who work might have several jobs. Someone involved in tourism, for example, might also be a painter. “We may not have money for luxuries, but we will have food on the table and still have fun with family and friends,” she said. “We may not be in a hurry to get work done during the day, so we work into the night. At the end of the day, we don’t go home to sit on the couch.”

Ask the very old on Ikaria how they’ve lived past 90, and they’ll usually talk about the clean air and the wine. Or, as one 101-year-old woman put it, “We just forget to die.” They have no idea how they’ve lived so long.

But if you pay careful attention, it appears that a dozen subtly powerful, mutually enhancing, and pervasive factors are at work. It’s easy to get enough rest if no one else wakes up early and the village goes dead during afternoon nap time. It helps that the cheapest, most accessible foods are also the most healthful—and that your ancestors have spent centuries developing ways to make them taste good. It’s hard to get through the day without walking up 20 hills. You’re not likely to ever feel the stress of arriving late. And at day’s end, you’ll share a cup of herbal tea with your neighbor. Even if you’re anti­social, you’ll never be entirely alone.

The last time I spoke to Moraitis was in July 2012. Elpiniki had died in the spring, and now he lived alone. I had one last question: How does he think he recovered from lung cancer?

“It just went away,” he said. “I actually went back to America about 25 years after moving here to see if the doctors could explain it.” I had heard this part of the story before. It had become a piece of the folklore of Ikaria. Still, I asked, “What happened?”

“My doctors were all dead.”

Moraitis died in his home on February 3, 2013, at the age of 98, according to official records. By his own reckoning, he was 102.

Dan Buettner’s latest book, The Blue Zones Solution, reveals how Americans can adopt healthier lifestyles. It will be published this spring.

andrea frazzeta/luz/redux Stamatis Moraitis, in his late 90s, tends to his vineyard on the island of Ikaria.

Six months came and went. He didn’t die. Easing himself into the island routine, he woke up when he felt like it, worked in the vineyards until midafternoon, made lunch, and then took a long nap. In the evenings, he often walked to the local tavern, where he played dominoes past midnight. His health continued to improve. He added a couple of rooms to his parents’ home so his children could visit. He built up the vineyard until it produced 400 gallons of wine a year.

For more than a decade, I’ve been organizing a study of places where people live longest. In 2008, my colleagues Michel Poulain, PhD, a Belgian demographer, and Gianni Pes, MD, a researcher at the University of Sassari in Italy, and I began investigating Ikaria. Ninety-nine square miles and home to almost 10,000 Greek nationals, the island lies about 30 miles off the western coast of Turkey. We concluded that people on Ikaria were, in fact, two and a half times as likely to reach age 90 as Americans. Ikarian men, in particular, are nearly four times as likely as their American counterparts to reach 90. Ikarians were also living about eight to ten years longer before succumbing to cancers and cardiovascular disease, and they suffered less depression and about a quarter the rate of dementia.

 

EWRT AS and AT class improve my English

Last Name      : -

Name              :

Instructor       : Professor

Course Name  : EWRT D01AT (reflective essay)

Date                : 06 /20/ 2022

 I believe that after taking EWRT1AS and EWRT 1AT class which really improve my English writing and reading skill that benefit not only for myself but also the people around me.  I am glad that whatever I have learned in my English class, I can share my knowledge and experiences, learning strategies to my other friends. I am not good at writing skill, but I asked help for myself that by visiting office hour of my professor, going tutoring center and attending workshops that really help improve my English reading and writing. I was born in Myanmar the education system was not the same as here it is hard for me to keep up my assignment at the beginning.  In the past quarter, before taking EWRT 1AS and EWRT1AT class, I had given up many classes because I had a hard time to write a good summary or essay. When I signed up the EWRT 1AS class, I was not confident enough myself. I was hesitated asked myself many times can I do it or can I able to manage my assignment? I am not good at writing but when taking this EWRT1AS class at the beginning I am still lost my idea where to start and what to write. I was a slow learner, but I tried to read the paragraph and article in different way which make me easier to understand.

All the students who are taking English class can get help from the “Student Success Center”. I am really impressed the education system here which provided a lot of help and resources. Any student who needs help can go to the “Student Success Center” and getting help from the student tutor, instructor, and professor. I have attended workshop at student success center that improving my English writing skill, vocabulary, get new idea and strategies of develop the essay paragraph, and manage time writing. I strongly recommend to my friend attending workshop is very useful for the English learner student. At workshop I gained many different idea and strategies sharing by the student who are taking the different level of English class. It is very useful I love to go every week and participate their discussion.

I explore the different strategy to improve my reading skills. I found the different reading strategy which make me easier to understand. I scanned the paragraph and paste in the audio application I listened and read multiple times. After listening my reading assignment multiples times, I can understand more deeply also easier to write the summary and response in the discussion. Reading lesson make me a lot of improvement and gain the idea for the summary and easier to response the discussion.

Annotating the article and summary help improve my reading and writing skill. According to Professor Anne Argyriou stating in the feedback of my reading and annotation assignment that “Once you have your summary comments, include more of your thoughts as to which might be important and why in future annotations. That way, you can return to the text when looking for ideas to write about” based on my professor feedback and guidance which help me more deeper understanding and encouraged me to read more. When doing the annotation paragraph that help me easier to understand the passages also, I gained more idea to summarize the essay. Reading and annotation not only progress my reading skill but also profb2icient vocabulary and improve my writing skill. While taking EWRT 1 AS and EWRT 1 AT class I realized that I had made a lot of improvement compared to the previous quarter. I really like the annotating and, I love to participate the discussion session that progress my thinking and writing skill.

Moreover, I really like the PIE graphic organizer that format better paragraphs which help me easier to organize my essay. PIE graphic organizer helped with organizing my writing and implementing ideas that is the best the strategy for me. Although, my essay was not perfect enough I tried to correct based on the feedback that I received from professor and my classmate, I revised the essay which help me improve my writing skills. Although I still not a good writer, I become a good reader after taking EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1 AT class. In the past I did not like to read the books but now I am interested to read the novel, fiction book eager to know more and willing to improve my English than before. I was so happy because I feel get more courage to learn advance writing class in next quarter.

I did not like the online learning system because we cannot have face to face interaction with friend liked school campus. The disadvantages are after zoom session finished all the students were going offline very fast. Even if I want to ask about assignment, I had to send email to my friend and waiting until they reply. Compared to in person class, I can ask the professor and discuss with other student at the same time. Another reason that I don’t like the zoom class because I had to wait until the other student finish talking. Online student feedback is limited as we can ask the teacher one student at a time. Because of pandemic all the school still conducting online learning system. I found the advantages and disadvantages from online learning. At the beginning of online learning system, I had a hard time because I am not familiar and how to use zoom effectively. Although I don’t really like online learning system when the time passed, I was feeling comfortable and familiar taking the online class. The benefit of online learning system is I don’t need to drive to school it save the time and money. I can stay home spend time with family, can have more time on my study. When trying to view in positive way because of pandemic I can save more time, gained knowledge how to use the virtual technology effectively. Though our daily life does not go back to normalcy we can find the best way to deal the pandemic.