Activity 3.5 Task2 Chapter 3 text book: Turning Point…
MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMEHT
Goal to quit smoking
Quitting smoking was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life.
I used to smoke for 7 years, when I realized that it was not a healthy habit. Once when I was sick I discovered by chance that I felt like I was experiencing the same withdrawal symptoms as if I was quitting smoking. Since I had tried to do it few times, I knew these sensations. The sickness gave me an idea when I was cured: “Why not pretend I was still sick when quitting smoking and facing real withdrawal symptoms?” I prepared myself mentally. I fixed a date to quit smoking and I really stopped. I avoided social events since a lot of people smoked.
One year later I decided to go to my friend’s party. Obviously, most of them smoked, so I was very tempted and smoked the weakest cigarette, hoping that it would not affect my desire to not smoke. Unfortunately, this one cigarette made me come back to my previous tract of smoking. I again become a cigarette smoker. Shortly after that I read an article about Silva’s visualization method which allows individuals to imagine themselves being successful in chosen field. So I started to imagine myself in different situations without smoking. In my imagination I didn’t avoid smoking people; I imagined I had pleasure without smoking in any situations. But again, I had to fix a day when to stop smoking.
I planned to go to catholic pilgrimage to the polish city Czestochawa with hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims. In such an event no one is allow to smoke. I had to decide to stop smoking at the day when the pilgrimage was about to start. And it was a year after the party when I started smoking again. A few days before the event I planned to take part in, I realized that an unforeseen obstacle would not let me fulfill my plan. I was very upset because my plans were about to fall dawn. But to my surprise, that day when the pilgrimage started, I woke up without feeling the need to smoke. My concern then was not to take a cigarette in my hand. I had no desire to smoke for the whole day. The second day passed and I didn’t feel any withdrawal symptoms; that was unusual. The third, fifth, tenth and following days passed and, again I didn’t experienced withdrawal symptoms. It became obvious that the visualization program worked. I realized that habits exist mostly in your brain so you have to convince your brain that you are free of bad habits; I’ve been successful up to present, decades when I really stopped smoking.
Monday, July 12, 2010
My Biggest Accomplishment
Activity 3.5 Task2 Chapter 3 text book: Turning Point…
MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMEHT
Goal to quit smoking
Quitting smoking was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life.
I used to smoke for 7 years, when I realized that it was not a healthy habit. Once when I was sick I discovered by chance that I felt like I was experiencing the same withdrawal symptoms as if I was quitting smoking. Since I had tried to do it few times, I knew these sensations. The sickness gave me an idea when I was cured: “Why not pretend I was still sick when quitting smoking and facing real withdrawal symptoms?” I prepared myself mentally. I fixed a date to quit smoking and I really stopped. I avoided social events since a lot of people smoked.
One year later I decided to go to my friend’s party. Obviously, most of them smoked, so I was very tempted and smoked the weakest cigarette, hoping that it would not affect my desire to not smoke. Unfortunately, this one cigarette made me come back to my previous tract of smoking. I again become a cigarette smoker. Shortly after that I read an article about Silva’s visualization method which allows individuals to imagine themselves being successful in chosen field. So I started to imagine myself in different situations without smoking. In my imagination I didn’t avoid smoking people; I imagined I had pleasure without smoking in any situations. But again, I had to fix a day when to stop smoking.
I planned to go to catholic pilgrimage to the polish city Czestochawa with hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims. In such an event no one is allow to smoke. I had to decide to stop smoking at the day when the pilgrimage was about to start. And it was a year after the party when I started smoking again. A few days before the event I planned to take part in, I realized that an unforeseen obstacle would not let me fulfill my plan. I was very upset because my plans were about to fall dawn. But to my surprise, that day when the pilgrimage started, I woke up without feeling the need to smoke. My concern then was not to take a cigarette in my hand. I had no desire to smoke for the whole day. The second day passed and I didn’t feel any withdrawal symptoms; that was unusual. The third, fifth, tenth and following days passed and, again I didn’t experienced withdrawal symptoms. It became obvious that the visualization program worked. I realized that habits exist mostly in your brain so you have to convince your brain that you are free of bad habits; I’ve been successful up to present, decades when I really stopped smoking.
MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMEHT
Goal to quit smoking
Quitting smoking was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life.
I used to smoke for 7 years, when I realized that it was not a healthy habit. Once when I was sick I discovered by chance that I felt like I was experiencing the same withdrawal symptoms as if I was quitting smoking. Since I had tried to do it few times, I knew these sensations. The sickness gave me an idea when I was cured: “Why not pretend I was still sick when quitting smoking and facing real withdrawal symptoms?” I prepared myself mentally. I fixed a date to quit smoking and I really stopped. I avoided social events since a lot of people smoked.
One year later I decided to go to my friend’s party. Obviously, most of them smoked, so I was very tempted and smoked the weakest cigarette, hoping that it would not affect my desire to not smoke. Unfortunately, this one cigarette made me come back to my previous tract of smoking. I again become a cigarette smoker. Shortly after that I read an article about Silva’s visualization method which allows individuals to imagine themselves being successful in chosen field. So I started to imagine myself in different situations without smoking. In my imagination I didn’t avoid smoking people; I imagined I had pleasure without smoking in any situations. But again, I had to fix a day when to stop smoking.
I planned to go to catholic pilgrimage to the polish city Czestochawa with hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims. In such an event no one is allow to smoke. I had to decide to stop smoking at the day when the pilgrimage was about to start. And it was a year after the party when I started smoking again. A few days before the event I planned to take part in, I realized that an unforeseen obstacle would not let me fulfill my plan. I was very upset because my plans were about to fall dawn. But to my surprise, that day when the pilgrimage started, I woke up without feeling the need to smoke. My concern then was not to take a cigarette in my hand. I had no desire to smoke for the whole day. The second day passed and I didn’t feel any withdrawal symptoms; that was unusual. The third, fifth, tenth and following days passed and, again I didn’t experienced withdrawal symptoms. It became obvious that the visualization program worked. I realized that habits exist mostly in your brain so you have to convince your brain that you are free of bad habits; I’ve been successful up to present, decades when I really stopped smoking.
The Portable Skills Profile
My comment is based on activity 3.4 from the 3rd chapter of text book Turning Point…
Portable Skills Profile assures me what skill I’ve already had and on which skills I have lack.
I have some skills that will help me in my work career and at the interview. I will stay with my choice to be a Wed Designer , although in this process to analyze material in the text book I have realized that I could work in Education Field, I could work in Design related jobs, I could be a programmer and photographer. Actually photography is my hobby. I used to have a dark room in a vestibule and in a bathroom in my studio. I used to takes photos of my nieces in black and white; developed films; dried them and made photos.
My answer on task 2 is that my career goal is to be a Web Designer, though if my life condition will allow I will do certificate in photography.
My strongest cluster is a Communication Skills since I pay attention to the ideas, opinions, and questions of others; I listen without interrupting. Explain my point of view. Give my opinion. List goes on.
My weakest cluster is a Change-management Skill. Frankly, I lack most of those skills. Two example of lack of this cluster skills are: to have ability to respond coolly to emergency or crisis situation; to have healthy outlets to handle stress effectively etc.
The Portable Skills Profile is useful because you can find out what skills you have already, and what skills you shoul mastered to serve your in your future job.
Portable Skills Profile assures me what skill I’ve already had and on which skills I have lack.
I have some skills that will help me in my work career and at the interview. I will stay with my choice to be a Wed Designer , although in this process to analyze material in the text book I have realized that I could work in Education Field, I could work in Design related jobs, I could be a programmer and photographer. Actually photography is my hobby. I used to have a dark room in a vestibule and in a bathroom in my studio. I used to takes photos of my nieces in black and white; developed films; dried them and made photos.
My answer on task 2 is that my career goal is to be a Web Designer, though if my life condition will allow I will do certificate in photography.
My strongest cluster is a Communication Skills since I pay attention to the ideas, opinions, and questions of others; I listen without interrupting. Explain my point of view. Give my opinion. List goes on.
My weakest cluster is a Change-management Skill. Frankly, I lack most of those skills. Two example of lack of this cluster skills are: to have ability to respond coolly to emergency or crisis situation; to have healthy outlets to handle stress effectively etc.
The Portable Skills Profile is useful because you can find out what skills you have already, and what skills you shoul mastered to serve your in your future job.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
1.RACE: Sleep Dealer is obviously influenced by The Matrix (among other films). What connections do you see to The Matrix and like films? What differences do you see? What do these differences say about issues of race, for example Sleep Dealer is a Mexican-American production--What elements or themes in the film mark it as “particularly Latino” or “particularly Mexican”? What does Sleep Dealer have to say about the rural life versus urban life?
Well the obvious connection to the Matrix is the whole living in a virtual world where your energy is being wasted by machines. When they work in the Sleep Dealers, the workers themselves are tired and being used as an energy source, to power the machines which they work out of. it is similer in the Matrix because Neo and all the other humans are in a cocoon powering the machines. They are all in many ways a duracell battery for the machine world which they live in.
The difference how ever is all to obvious as well. The main difference in both movies is of course is choice. Neo never had the option of going into the Matrix and know that he is being used as an abundant energy source. The main character in Sleep Dealers had a choice as to whether to stay on the farm or run away to the big city and work to make the money he felt he owed his family. Another difference is of course the graphics that make the Matrix look more advanced than Sleep Dealers. The only expplaination for this is that Sleep Dealers never really needed those special effects to tell the story.
The race issue I have with the film is that it shows that even in the future it seems tha Latin community is met with a great deal of arragance and distraught as they face today. Unfortunatly the message that I see here is that all a Mexican is good for is to work for the whole family. Other than that this seems like another crazy theory about everything that go's on in this world, especially in Mexico.
it seems to show many differences from rural life versus urban life, one of which is the nodes that they have surgically grafted into the bodies of the workers. In the rural part of town, that's not practiced much because it's more of a farmers land then it is a city land. That city life style is the urban life style that all the young people want. I loved this movie it was such a great film espcially the ending, I didn't see that one coming at all.
Well the obvious connection to the Matrix is the whole living in a virtual world where your energy is being wasted by machines. When they work in the Sleep Dealers, the workers themselves are tired and being used as an energy source, to power the machines which they work out of. it is similer in the Matrix because Neo and all the other humans are in a cocoon powering the machines. They are all in many ways a duracell battery for the machine world which they live in.
The difference how ever is all to obvious as well. The main difference in both movies is of course is choice. Neo never had the option of going into the Matrix and know that he is being used as an abundant energy source. The main character in Sleep Dealers had a choice as to whether to stay on the farm or run away to the big city and work to make the money he felt he owed his family. Another difference is of course the graphics that make the Matrix look more advanced than Sleep Dealers. The only expplaination for this is that Sleep Dealers never really needed those special effects to tell the story.
The race issue I have with the film is that it shows that even in the future it seems tha Latin community is met with a great deal of arragance and distraught as they face today. Unfortunatly the message that I see here is that all a Mexican is good for is to work for the whole family. Other than that this seems like another crazy theory about everything that go's on in this world, especially in Mexico.
it seems to show many differences from rural life versus urban life, one of which is the nodes that they have surgically grafted into the bodies of the workers. In the rural part of town, that's not practiced much because it's more of a farmers land then it is a city land. That city life style is the urban life style that all the young people want. I loved this movie it was such a great film espcially the ending, I didn't see that one coming at all.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Blog 21 (Part 1)
Well we are going to attempt to down load stuff to help us with our other stuff to get more stuff... No but seriously wish us luck...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
My Card Game(Yami Roll)
Ok so my Game is called Yami Roll, and it is called so because I like the name Yami(in Japanese is translated into Dark) and because it requires you to summon a number of monsters with Dice.
How you win: When you have defeated all of your opponents monsters, and make your opponent deck out, you win.
Let us start with how the game works. Each player must have:
1. A Deck of 20 monsters. (A deck is allowed to have up to 40 monsters in a deck. A deck is allowed only three of each card)
2. 2 Dice to Summon monsters. (To summon monsters, you must roll the two dice, and what ever number you roll, you get to summon a monster with that many "Roll Points")
3. There is also an optional Field Card deck that is not part of the 20 card minumum. This separate deck goes right on the far left of your deck and can only contain 5 Field cards. So instead of you being able to draw a regular monster, you draw a field card instead.
Note: You cannot draw a field card if you have no monsters in your deck to draw at the beginning of your turn. You can only draw one if you have at least one monster in your deck.
First you and your opponents shake hands. Then you decide who goes first by rolling any of your die. Then you make your Field. The field is very simple: You have your deck on your right hand side, a "Card Graveyard" on the top of your deck, and your monster Field card zone is basically the space in front of you and in this field you can summon up to 10 monster cards, and only one field card. Then you and your opponent must draw 5 cards from your decks to begin.
Here are the rules for how your turn goes:
1. Draw Phase: If it is you who goes first you draw a card. If you go second, then you do not draw a card.
2. Roll Summon Phase: Then you can roll the dice to make your "Roll Summon". Roll Summon is simple: What ever number you rolled, you can summon a monster in your hand with the same number as the number you rolled, or as I like to call it, "Roll Points".
Example- I have a monster in my hand that takes 8 Roll Points, and I just rolled a 5 and a 3 on my dice, so that means I can summon this monster from my hand.
Note: You don not accumulate Roll Points in this game. What ever number you roll, if you cannot summon this turn, you just skip your Summon, and move unto "Battle Mode". You must get the exact number of "Points" to summon a monster.
3. Battle Phase: If you have monsters this turn, you must battle at least once with your opponents monsters depending on how much Damage Power that card has, is declared the winner of the battle between the two monsters. If your opponent has no monsters on the field, you can attack him/her directly with your monsters, and your opponent must send from his deck to the graveyard cards equal to the number of Roll Points it takes to Summon the card.
Example- The monster which I just summoned had 8 Roll Points, and my opponent has no monsters on the field, I can attack directly, and my opponent loses 8 cards from the top of his deck.
Note: If a player has gone first in this match, then he cannot attack this turn. He can go into Battle Phase after his opponent's first turn.
4.End Phase: You end your turn and your opponent goes now.
There are different types to monsters as well that players can use to there advantage.
1. Light
2. Dark
3. Fire
4. Water
5. Earth
6. Wind
Depending on what type of field card you have, these cards gain a 500 Damage Power Field Bonus. Any additional card affects can be found on the card itself.
So if any of you have any questions, comments, or concerns just comment below. I would have a sample card but my scanner doesn't want to scan anymore so sorry.
How you win: When you have defeated all of your opponents monsters, and make your opponent deck out, you win.
Let us start with how the game works. Each player must have:
1. A Deck of 20 monsters. (A deck is allowed to have up to 40 monsters in a deck. A deck is allowed only three of each card)
2. 2 Dice to Summon monsters. (To summon monsters, you must roll the two dice, and what ever number you roll, you get to summon a monster with that many "Roll Points")
3. There is also an optional Field Card deck that is not part of the 20 card minumum. This separate deck goes right on the far left of your deck and can only contain 5 Field cards. So instead of you being able to draw a regular monster, you draw a field card instead.
Note: You cannot draw a field card if you have no monsters in your deck to draw at the beginning of your turn. You can only draw one if you have at least one monster in your deck.
First you and your opponents shake hands. Then you decide who goes first by rolling any of your die. Then you make your Field. The field is very simple: You have your deck on your right hand side, a "Card Graveyard" on the top of your deck, and your monster Field card zone is basically the space in front of you and in this field you can summon up to 10 monster cards, and only one field card. Then you and your opponent must draw 5 cards from your decks to begin.
Here are the rules for how your turn goes:
1. Draw Phase: If it is you who goes first you draw a card. If you go second, then you do not draw a card.
2. Roll Summon Phase: Then you can roll the dice to make your "Roll Summon". Roll Summon is simple: What ever number you rolled, you can summon a monster in your hand with the same number as the number you rolled, or as I like to call it, "Roll Points".
Example- I have a monster in my hand that takes 8 Roll Points, and I just rolled a 5 and a 3 on my dice, so that means I can summon this monster from my hand.
Note: You don not accumulate Roll Points in this game. What ever number you roll, if you cannot summon this turn, you just skip your Summon, and move unto "Battle Mode". You must get the exact number of "Points" to summon a monster.
3. Battle Phase: If you have monsters this turn, you must battle at least once with your opponents monsters depending on how much Damage Power that card has, is declared the winner of the battle between the two monsters. If your opponent has no monsters on the field, you can attack him/her directly with your monsters, and your opponent must send from his deck to the graveyard cards equal to the number of Roll Points it takes to Summon the card.
Example- The monster which I just summoned had 8 Roll Points, and my opponent has no monsters on the field, I can attack directly, and my opponent loses 8 cards from the top of his deck.
Note: If a player has gone first in this match, then he cannot attack this turn. He can go into Battle Phase after his opponent's first turn.
4.End Phase: You end your turn and your opponent goes now.
There are different types to monsters as well that players can use to there advantage.
1. Light
2. Dark
3. Fire
4. Water
5. Earth
6. Wind
Depending on what type of field card you have, these cards gain a 500 Damage Power Field Bonus. Any additional card affects can be found on the card itself.
So if any of you have any questions, comments, or concerns just comment below. I would have a sample card but my scanner doesn't want to scan anymore so sorry.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
What do we do now?
Ok so we got the movie's, we got the program to do this project, we have the nerve to actually do it... I don't think there is nothing else to do except do it and we're basically done... The movie we are basing this project on are Network, V for Vendetta, and Fight Club, and maybe just maybe The Davinci Code...
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