Childhood Experience

Childhood Experience

Self-Evaluation of Presentation

1) The content that I was trying to convey seemed to come across clearly.

2)The introduction was effective, I began my presentation with some back story so that the details would make sense. I had a distinct conclusion, although I did not restate my thesis.

3)The body section flowed smoothly and was present in chronological order.

4)The transitions were used effectively. I did not use the words "lesson" but "point".

5)I ended my presentation with quotation by saying that I would retry my activity, what I did not get across is that I would do it with my new lessons in mind.

6)My delivery was good, due to my lack of preparation I did not exactly have outstanding timing. It sounds like my volume was good and speed of speech was understandable. My gestures were descriptive and added good realism to the presentation.

7) Overall my weaknesses include lack of preparation/ lack of sleep. This in turn made my thought process slower, which created unnecessary pauses in speech and filler "um", "SO". My strengths included ability to address audience, and hold good posture and gestures throughout.

Rainbow-War

1) In the beginning of the movie the red only trusted red, because it was their culture the did not know what other colors were like and the never got a decent chance to be introduced to them so they only wanted what they were comfortable with.

2)In the end, it was better for the three kingdoms to be together. They all got to experience new colors and cultures. All peoples showed visible signs of happiness which were not there previously.

3)Yes, There will always be problems it is something that is ingrained in the spirit. No solution solves all problems. It may be for land, color, food, overpopulation. In conflict theory there is absolutely no solution.

4) I think it could be said there is some correlation between the events in the video and what is currently going on in Afghanistan. We the US are infiltrating just cause we don't like whats going on. There is no greater purpose to war than fiscal gain.

5)The message of the video is don't just immediately just another culture, especially before you give it a go.

Discrimination

When I moved to UT 6 years ago, I went to my first day of school and started talking to the kids I had in my classes. I discovered that every person I was going to talk to would automatically start the conversation with two different intros: "Are you Mormon?" or "Are you LDS?". It was an odd feeling, like I didn't belong. Once I got over the culture shock I noticed some of the kids were asking because they themselves were not Mormon.

I discovered that people become very sensitive about discrimination when I was attending cottonwood high school. I had an American government class there was only one African American fella in there and he sat far across the room from me. One day when the teacher stepped out 3 guys that sat by him started spewing slurs out of their mouths. It made me sick. The poor kid up and left. I never saw him in class again or even school.

Creativity

After listening to Sir Ken Robins lecture on creativity I feel that the three most important ideas include, If you are not prepared to be wrong nothing new can occur. Intelligence has three main characteristics it is diverse, we learn through sight, sound, and kinesthetics. And the idea that we must re-think the fundamentals of how we educate. This speech as a whole was EXTREMELY thought provoking and I enjoyed the perspective.

Mind Mapping

Taking Notes

Two things that will help me take better notes is using the Cornell page setup I think the recall section is good for organization. Also, regularly going over notes and reducing them will help to only focus on important info.