User:AshtonR

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

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 * Research Component

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 * week 1

My goal is to smoke ten cigarrettes to cut back from a pack a day. I will research heart disease and problems with smoking
 * week 2

My goal is to smoke eight cigarrettes a day. I will research lung cancer and the effects smoking has on the lungs and cardio and respitory.
 * week 3

My goal is to smoke six cigarrettes a day. I will research a helpline to quit smoking.
 * week 4

My goal is to smoke five cigarrettes a day. I will hopefully make a conference call to the smoking helpline. I will research the techniques the helpline gives me.
 * week 5

My goal is to smoke four cigarrettes a day. I will research ingredients in cigarettes.
 * week 6

My goal is to smoke three cigarrettes a day. I will research healthy habits on quitting.
 * week 7

My goal is to smoke two cigarrettes a day. I will research pictures and stories of people who have quit smoking or still smoke and the effects it had on them.
 * week 8

My goal is to smoke one cigarette that day and it will hopefully be the last cigarette I will ever smoke.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
Upon reaching the Olympic Sculpture Park I did not find myself in awe of the modern forms of art, in fact I found myself dissapointed with more than half the pieces. Also the pieces I found interesting were still the least bit visual stimulating. Yet, I digress. The purpose of this particular assignment was to find a sculpture that I utterly hated and try to prove myself to believe the exact opposite. I simply failed.

While walking through the park i stumbled upon the most ridiculous sculpture I had seen thus far and would see the remainder of the time I was there. The sculture was Bunyon's Chess. The sculpture looked as if i had been made from a few pieces beach wood and strapped in the air. It immediatly seemed to me that either the artist is not very good at all, or maybe he was at one time a brilliant artist whom had become vain with his own creations, after which he came to believe it would be perfectly fine to create any old thing and have it be as good as gold.

Now i had to try to make myself like Bunyon's Chess? "hmmm...simpple enough" i thought to myself. Wrong! I spent a few hours researching the piece Mark di Suvero, and the pieces creation in 1985. Though there was alot information on the creator and the piece, i could not find any unkown traits that would change my mind about having distaste for the piece. i tried.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site:"Smoking Cigarettes and Cardiovascular Disease." American Heart Association. 10 12 2009. American Heart Association, Web. 10 Dec 2009.
 * 2) Book:Rabin, Robert. "Regulating Tobacco". 1st. New York: Ocford University Press, 2001. Print.
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:Raymond Pearl

Science, New Series, Vol. 87, No. 2253. (Mar. 4, 1938), pp. 216-217.
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): "TRUTH" commercials


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

I did not accomplish my goal of quitting smoking. I still smoke around a half a pack a day.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1) My perseverance through the first few weeks was unyielding.
 * 2) After about the 6th week I found myself becoming irritable and easily distracted after lowering the amount I smoked a day.
 * 3) In the fute I plan to uphold goals io set in place for myself. I also plan to not let my meager attempts at hinder certain habits be enough to be called satisfactory. "will I try to quit smoking again?" my answer would most likely be no.