My college experience at UTD

My college esperience at UTD has been one of the most wonderful experiences in all my life. I have learned from it and grown as a person. My first impression was that college life was going to be hard, but once you get the hang of it, everything falls in place.

One of the classes I learned the most from is my Rhetoric 1302. I would say that it was the hardest of all my classes. Never in my life was I assigned that much homework. The first day of class I had tons of omework due. One of the big issues I had was managing my time. Like our teacher said, it is not high school anymore and your teachers are not going to be always telling you what to do and reminding you when assignments are due. Little did I know of the truth of this words. At first I really had trouble in this class. Essays were not my strongest part and this class was all about essays. Thankfuly I had a good teacher that taught me a lot of strategies to write college level essays. Some of those are: do not start a sentence with "but", unless you know how to do it, choose your words wisely, do not use passive voices or fallacies that can bring the ethic of your essay down, always quote, and many more.

Like I said Rhetoric 1302 was my hardest class but it was the class that I learned the most from. Thnks Proffesor Henson.

My Day at Six Flags

I had a fabulous day at Six Flags on Friday the sixteenth. All the Bridge kids were invited, but some of them didn't go. I went with my crew: Fanny, Mayra, Okary and Viri. At first I thought it was going to be boring because no one wanted to get in the Titan with me. I was going to go in only with Okary, but at the end I convinced Fanny to go in with me too.

After going in the Titan Fanny was unstopable. At first she was super scared because she never got on the big rides before, but after the Titan we went to almost all the big roller coasters. At the end of the day we went to buy a funnel cake and some fries with chesse. We were the last ones to come to the bus but we were happy and somewhat tired. The funnest day I've had in my college life.

Open Letter to President Obama

This letter is directed to President Barack Obama.

President Obama, I wanted to addressed that illegal Immigration is a problem that is affecting between eleven and twenty million people in the United States. This is from ten to twenty percent of the entire population of the United Sates. Almost a quarter of the of the people living in this country are and will continue to be illegal unless you do something about it.

You have so often addressed this issue but unfortunately you have done nothing about it. You mentioned it in your public speeches but the illegal immigrant population do not see any action. You are focusing on things that to my concern and the concern of all this illegal people are not as relevant or important as is legalizing immigrants.

If you think about it immigrants are the people that do the work that white people would never do. Those jobs that most white people will consider filthy are the sustenance of the thousands of immigrant families that come here in search of a better life. I would only suggest that you take this issue more seriously and stop talking and start doing something about it.

Sincerely: Luzmaria Cuevas

Geography

My major is Geography. I want to travel the world without actually spending thousands of dollars. This subject was appealing to me because I like to discover new things. It is really fascinating how there is different people, cultures, languages, and religions all over the world. Studding Geography will help me get a glimpse of all those differences out there.

I did not have an idea of what question can I come out with about my major. Well at the end I thought about one: what is the difference between migration and immigration? This is one of the topics that most of the people get confused on. Migration is the movement of people and animals from one country to the other without never settling in a surtain place. Immigration is when animals or people move from one place to the other and settle there for the rest of their life or for a long period of time.

There is more to it than just this. I hope that I can fine the way to explain it so that people can retain it and do not confuse this two terms anymore.

Homelessness

John Grisham published "My Turn: Somewhere for Everyone" on February 1998 in Newsweek magazine. In this article Grisham argues that homelessness is a problem that society has not address with the proper importance. in In this article Grisham estates that Americans and most of the people only see homeless people as "winos" or "hobos" but what societies do not see is that the majority o the times this people do not have a home or anybody to look up for them. I do agree with Grisham in the aspect that the community does not take this problem seriously. The high class population does not take the time to see beyond the cover and anly judges by the looks.

I am a very sensitive person and I cannot stand to see a homeless person and just pass by her and prettend that I did not see her. I was close to be homeless. Around three months ago http://https//www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/Somewhere.html

The Pesuit of Happiness

Like the declaration of Independence says, we all as human beings have the right to live, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is human nature to always look for happiness. We are all different and have different perspectives when it comes to happiness. While some of us can happiness in enjoying life, being with our family or being with our loved ones, some might find it in having a huge house, a brand new car, jewelry and all that material things. We do have to accept that happiness, even if we see it differently, is a combination of the two. You cannot only live of love even if it is the greatest love ever seen. On the other hand you cannot only live of the material things you can buy. We need to have both, the sufficient ammount of money to live without worries and the sufficient ammount of love to enjoy the money. We all persue happiness in different ways but at the end we will always look for a balance on the two ends: the material things and the sentimental feelings.

"Who Killed King Kong?"

The article "Who Killed King Kong?" by X.J. Kennedy is talking about how King Kong, even though he dies in the movie, is not dead in the mind of the American people. Kennedy addresses that even if a quarter century has gone by, Kong still lives in today's world. He explains that we find a connection with the giant ape. We see our inner feelings release when Kong releases his as well, such as when he turns against the shooting helicopters. Kennedy shows this point of view by saying, "And so we kill him again and again, in much-spliced celluloid; while the ape in us expires from day to day, obscure in desperation." This is telling us that we have not let King Kong die not because he is "unkillable", but because we reflect on him. All our inside frustration comes out when we see Kong killing all the people that did him wrong. I choose this quote because I agree with Kennedy. Since we cannot release our emotions the way we want we need someone more powerful to do it for us. Kong gives us that pleasure and will continue to do so probably for the rest of our life.