Waching daily Apr 29 2018

you know what most people have a bad day they start looking outside themselves

maybe the boss is upsetting me maybe the house is dirty

maybe traffic is too heavy maybe maybe maybe there's always these external

reasons why people are having a bad day well in this video I'm gonna point on a

few things that people do to themselves that make them have a bad day and when

you're having a bad day check this list of things that I'm going

to mention in this video and see what you're not doing

very simple most of the time it's these things that we're not doing that create

a lousy day for us so next time you feel unhappy in your day are you feeling

depressed or life is just got you down you can always say to yourself

Terry G told me to think about this these things here we go first one is how

much sleeping you're getting when you're in your teens you know 17 18 19 21 20 is

not really eating your teens that's it you know you could run out 4 or 5 hours

sleep no problem but as adults with children job responsibilities we all be

7 to 8 hours sleep of great sleep every day of the week every day of the week so

if you're feeling really rotten one day just check back the last couple of days

and see how much sleep you got because it's alright maybe to sleep three hours

or four hours one maybe even two nights I know for me I go crazy if I don't get

enough sleep but if you're sleep-deprived over three or four days

come Friday at the end of the week you're gonna be so tired and you're

gonna feel so down in the dumps that's number one check how much sleep you're

getting if you're not getting enough sleep

shame on you get to bed early get off the laptop get off the computer get off

the Netflix and get to bed and have a great night's sleep because you'll be

happier you will be happier number two pay attention to what you're eating if

you get up in the morning run out the door and just have a coffee in one of

those granola bar things and you're wondering why you feeling agitated are

you feeling anxious and you're not calm at work it's because you're not eating

properly one of main reasons people have Downer days is

because they're not eating properly you're not paying attention to what

you're putting into your body maybe you're putting two hives sugar too many

sugar drinks in your body maybe you're eating too many chips and chocolate bars

throughout the day this causes you to be anxious it causes you to be to feel more

stressed out it really does so pay attention to what you're eating drink

lots of water four to five glasses of water each day try and eat three square

meals a day vegetables with fruit a little bit of meat some chicken

try and do that but try and eat properly so next time you're having a bad day

you're feeling a little anxious see what you've eaten for that day and you might

be surprised because when you eat properly you'll feel calmer you'll think

better you'll feel better and your stress levels will go down because

you'll give your body fuel to take on the world and what is the number three

thing on my list the number three thing on my list is exercise are you

exercising enough nowadays a lot of people go to work and they sit on their

butt all day long and they really don't do a lot but eat junk food and maybe

drink a lot of coffee I know I see office workers around where I work and

that's what they're all doing drinking a lot of coffee sitting on their Duff all

day and they wonder why they feel lethargic or they feel tired or there's

no energy or they just feel down because working out or exercising really really

benefits you and if you could do a 10 15 20 minutes a day your whole spirits will

be uplifted and you'll feel better about your life in general and just a sidebar

did you know if you went for a 10 or 20 minute walk around the block the results

from that walking what is tremendous it reduces heart disease stroke it'll

reduce blood pressure it's good for diabetes and also it'll relieve stress

in your life and who knows if you take a friend with you you can talk about life

and have a little fun while you're walking so number three is exercise

exercise as much as you can during the week at least 15 to 20 minutes a day is

the recommended amount of time to exercise and number four is man

your stress levels just to start off with there's two kinds of stresses

there's a good stress and there's a bad stress number two the good stress would

be like going to the gym stressing your body out you're going to the gym your

key you're stressing yourself but it's a really good stress you get a lot of

positive positive results in that stress the second one is negative stresses like

when you get up in the morning not even out of the house and you've got a big

to-do list for that day so balancing your day or balancing your time during

that day and keeping an eye on your stress levels because if you get a

feeling of being overwhelmed or you put yourself on a big timeline during your

day it's gonna cause you stress so before you start your day or maybe the

night before make a list of things that you want to get accomplished that day

and maybe 1 2 3 4 in importance so feeling overwhelmed or managing your

stresses keep an eye on that keep an eye on those kind of things we all have

stress in our lives we all have responsibilities but a lot of times we

put our stresses the stresses of life we put on ourselves we really do so take a

look at that take a hard look at that and number five is fun do you have fun

like I'm not talking about the fun going drinking a bottle of wine or smoking a

few doobies I'm not talking about that kind of fun like I'm talking about maybe

call a friend up have a few laughs or go out for a walk or golf for dinner but

make time in your daily life to have some fun have some laughter in your life

look at the lighter side of life throughout the day and go out of your

way to have fun do that it's really important we have to make time for that

nowadays because we're always so busy ok I hope you find this video helpful and

if you did please comment below or subscribe to my channel this is the

untwisted voice of Terry Qi and as usual look after yourself because it shows and

have a great day thank you

For more infomation >> Having a Bad Day? Check this out.!! #118-Terry G- video-2018 - Duration: 6:22.

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Essay #4 Walkthrough Video Lecture - Duration: 7:44.

Hello class and welcome to Music as Social Commentary Essay #4 walk through lecture.

okay I've done this with all of your previous essays. what I want to do

is show you what the assignment sheet page looks like ,where to focus your

attention, but of course first you must focus your attention on everything. And this is

a bit of a longer assignment sheet because this is a longer essay. This is

the large research essay that every English 1a class must accomplish, alright?

And you are ready for this. So it is worth a little bit more than your

previous essays have been. It is worth 20% of the course grade. Under consider

I'm gonna remind you that you read two very challenging articles. You read David

Hadju's "Music in the Meltdown" and you read Joan Morgan's "Fly girls- Bitches- and

Hoes: Notes from a Hip-Hop Feminist" Both articles are social commentaries okay?

Both of these writers are discussing a musical movement related to an important

social issue and both are arguing how we should react ,respond, and feel

about that particular social issue. They use music as their evidence, but they

also use scholarly material- reports- statistics, etc. to help make their

arguments. Hadju's claim is that we are living in dire economic times and that

the music that reflects the weak economy is terrible to the point of being

unlistenable; this is his thesis- that's his argument. And then as evidence he

brings in all those old folk songs and original blues songs and says see this

is what we do when we are sad. This is what we do when we are broke. And then he

compares that time period of the 1929 stock market crash to the 2009 home

market crash, where he talks about Big and Rich and Lil' Jeezy, and some other

artists and what they have talked about with the

bail out. So here is your prompt, and remember your job as the writer is to

address the essay prompt. So you're going to select a social issue or event that

has been discussed in music, either in the past, or currently and you're going

to construct a thesis arguing what that music is saying about this particular

social issue. Read the songs as an argument. What are they all advocating?

How are they telling us to feel- to respond ? And I think you should do this

part first because you want to pick no more than four songs to use in your

essay and they should all be supporting the same argument okay? They should all

be advocating the same thing all right? So homophobia is bad right, get off drugs,

homelessness is an issue we must address, child neglect is terrible. So you

want to make sure that you pick songs that are in support of the argument you

want to make. And then it is much easier to find research of a scholarly

nature okay, once you have the argument idea down, and your thesis down. Now this

is a large essay you will need eight sources total and I've divided that into

popular and scholarly sources, and you'll be watching a video on the difference

between the two. So things like interviews on YouTube, music reviews,

tweets okay, song lyrics, those are all popular source materials and you will

need to use about four okay? You can certainly use more than four but I would

not use more than four songs. Scholarly sources are the meat of your argument

they are your proof. So you're going to be interpreting what a particular artist

is saying in his or her music and then you're going to use the scholarly source

material to support that. So for example racial profiling okay? I've had a lot of

students write on this topic the idea that more men of color are imprisoned and

racially profiled then white males are is a fact, so maybe Jay-Z is

singing about this okay? And he's got a rap that he's doing about it, and then

you could find some statistics on racial profiling which you use in support of that

idea. That's really the happiest of marriages all right. You're gonna want to

revisit the library research module that is in your course. I've moved it so that

it's right below tools for the course, and there you will find all kinds of

help, and you can certainly ask the librarians directly for help okay? Once

you've picked your topic. And I've given you a list of topics that have been used

in prior classes with great success, but certainly you can have your own and you

have already done the proposal for me so I will be getting you information back

on that right away, letting you know if I think your topic is going to work okay?

The only topic that's off-limits is mine, right, the Cold War in the 1980s. And then

there is your rubric. So this is an 8 to 10 page paper- 12-point type font all

right. The essay has to have a works cited page that includes all of your source

materials. The essay's work cited page does not count as one of the eight pages

of writing that you need to do okay? Short papers will be docked. The essay

must use direct quotes from all sources and again you might think about

balancing your direct quotes with paraphrases and summaries. The essay must

have a clear thesis that discusses what the music tells readers to know- to think-

or feel about this clearly-defined social issue. It must be grammatically

correct- written at college level English expectations- and it must follow MLA

format. And remember this is your final essay out of class -you will do a final

essay for finals, but that is a much shorter and much more informal project.

This is really the culmination of all the work you've been doing this semester.

So I want you to look at your due dates below for

various things. And I want you to read through this closely. And I want you to

ask a lot of questions okay? The people that do best on this assignment are

those who have a very tightly constructed topic. They know what they

want to write on and they call it something okay, body shaming for example.

And they have songs in mind that discuss this idea, and discuss it in a manner

that they can quote from. And that is really how you begin, but do leave time

and you you've been given quite a bit of time for research okay, a week for doing

research and I think that that is about right. For eight to ten sources you're

going to need several hours okay, probably a good forty hours roughly.

So I would make sure that you get started with that right away,

and ask your questions along the way please, all right, good luck.

For more infomation >> Essay #4 Walkthrough Video Lecture - Duration: 7:44.

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Quotes, Paraphrase, and Summary Video Lecture - Duration: 5:30.

Hello class, I'm gonna go over with you today information about the differences

between quoting material- paraphrasing material -and summarizing material.You'll

be using summary, paraphrase and quotations quite a bit in English 1a and

beyond. Each of them has their own sort of special superpower, and each of them

has their limitations. Now where I'm looking is the Purdue OWL, the online

Writing Lab which I use quite a bit in place of a handbook for MLA, but it's

also full of other wonderful things so when you click on the Purdue Online

Writing Lab link in your tools for the course, keep in mind that there is a lot

here that can help you with grammar, plagiarism avoidance, writing abstracts

if you are in a science class, and other types of help. They are a really

wonderful resource. So we're going to practice this next with a writing

assignment, but real quickly some of the differences here that need to be noted

and the things that students get confused about are paraphrasing and

summarizing. So what is the difference between these two? We all pretty much

understand that quotes are word-for-word from the original text and that they

have quotation marks around them showing that it's a quote, unless of course they

are a long quote and then they follow a different format, and they have a

parenthetical citation at the end. So paraphrasing, I always think of the

phrasing part of this to remind me, like speaking okay?

So this is almost like saying- writing in the same words as the original, but what

you're doing is you're putting the material into your own words. It's really

kind of an interpretation okay? I ask students to do this quite a bit when we

begin to work on thesis development. And we're reading difficult and challenging

works and I will ask you- put the author's argument in your own words-

that's paraphrasing. Now paraphrasing material is also usually shorter than

the original okay. You do use a parenthetical citation with

a paraphrase just like you would a quote, because it's not an original idea of

yours alright. Lastly summaries summaries are usually

a little bit larger than paraphrases. They involve using your own words as well, but

they're much more general and they're much more broad. So every time you go to

a movie and someone asks you what the movie was about and you give them a plot

summary okay, " oh it was really great, you know, Black Panther was about the this

guy and he's a king and then this other guy comes and fights him for his kingdom

and he has this really smart sister." Whenever you do who was called a plot

summary you are summarizing, okay. Now you still need to attribute the ideas that

you're summarizing to the original text so summaries also get parenthetical

citations. This little part here about why do we use them is really interesting

because I like to think of them all combined together and here is what we

have an example of. So when you are writing your essays you can't use quote

after quote after quote, but you do have to situate your reader in a position

where they can read a quote and that is where summary comes into play. So maybe

you summarize a bit of this short story, or a bit of the novel, and then you use a

direct quote okay? Or maybe you're paraphrasing an idea and then you lead

into a direct quote okay? So let's look at the example real briefly where this

writer has intertwined summary paraphrase and quotation. So in his

famous and influential work the interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud

argues that dreams are the quote "Royal Road to the unconscious" and then there's

our parenthetical citation. So this is an introduction to the book and then these

are Sigmund Freud's words. Expressing encoded imagery the dreamers unfulfilled

wishes through a process known as quote "dream work" this is a paraphrase.

Obviously the writer did not come up with these ideas of coded imagery

and unfulfilled wishes, but he got those ideas from Freud,

so again parenthetical citation. According to Freud actual but

unacceptable desires are censored internally and subjected to coding

through layers of condensation and displacement before emerging in a kind of

rebus puzzle in the dream itself. Now this is a summary, so as you can see it's

only three sentences or three lines long but the chapter of the book is much

longer than that so the this person is giving us the gist -the gist- the quick

and dirty I call it- of what this chapter is about, but again, those ideas are

Freud's and not hers so a parenthetical citation after the

summary, okay? And how to use quotes paraphrases and summaries we will

practice this quite a bit. You're going to practice now with examples that I

will put onto a assignment for you for quoting directly- paraphrasing- and

summarizing, alright? Good luck.