User:Emilykan

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

<< I've always wanted to have $1000 or more than $1000 in my bank account >>
 * Research Component

<< Saving Plans, methods on saving more money and spending less money, online coupons, comparison on prices, consumer behavior  >>
 * week 1

Start finding jobs, calculate my daily expenses on food, transportation fare, and others
 * week 2

Find ways to spend the least amount of money as possible, keep track on calculating my expenses, keep every record of my spending
 * week 3

Sell my stuff and keep looking for a part-time job if haven't gotten one
 * week 4

Calculate the amount of saving
 * week 5

Go to work if I get a job, and spend as much less money much as I can.
 * week 6

Keep working and keep track on spending
 * week 7

Prepare for presentation. Make PowerPoint
 * week 8

Have my bank statement ready with the total amount of $1000. Presentations.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
I've never been to Olympic Sculpture park before until I take this course and realized such wonderful place. It is a pleasure getting to observe about artistic sculptures from a British artist called Anthony Caro. It is interesting to look at sculptures something. People who don't know how to look at Art in an artistic way, they will think that it is just a couple pieces of wood. But it is amazing how it is structure and developed shapes or some kind of tools like steel tables. I'm more interested to look at his drawing because I personally have a better view on drawings. I looked at the website on his drawings. There are six drawings total in his website. In the drawing of Seated Women in 1951/1952, it is a naked women sketch on charcoal, pencil and wash on vellum. The contrast and the way he did the crosshatching are amazing. I can feel that when I look at this drawing the woman is looking up seems like she is hoping something good is going to happen. I wanted to get to know more about Anthony Caro, so I went into the biography section. He was born in 1924. He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in London. He was also an assistant for Henry Moore. People started to notice him when he put his sculpture in Whitechapel Gallery in 1963. His large abstract sculptures had made a huge influence in three-dimensional art. He is also an instructor in St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1953-1981. Steel, silver, bronze, lead, stoneware, wood and paper are usually the materials he used. He was award as the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. His exhibitions are in three museums in France, Rome, and Tokyo.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
 This is a Verizon Wireless Commercial that I found on YOUTUBE that I believe this is a fallacy commercial.

Summary: The commercial starts with the son wanting to talk to their parents who are addicted to text messaging on their phones that they just got from Verizon. There are also numerous of people who joined Verizon standing and watching their conversation. There is one guy talking and he is the lead of the group of Verizon network. The daughter complains that her mom has been leaving the message "I Love You" all over her facebook wall. The son tells his dad to clam down on the Twitter updates.

How is it a fallacy? Firstly, it is funny that how the commercial changed the characters from being in normal life, the kids are usually be sending messages and the parents stop them to oppositely the kids stop their parents playing with their phone too much. It manipulates audience a false message that it makes mid-age people or older people to text message, go on Facebook, and Twitter.

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
I've done some research that there's a couple website is available for college students to save up more money in a easier, faster way. For example, the Upromise.com is one of the great sources and I've already joined it and saved up at least $80 spending in grocery stores, and also saved up $20 in the certain restaurants that offered to get savings in their website. I've also created a saving account in Wells Fargo Bank whenever I use my Debit Card, it will automatically put one dollar into my saving account from my checking account. Unfortunately, I'm still working hard to find a job to get more income. Right now I'm only saving the money that my parents gave me.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: "The Simple Dollar » Little Steps: 100 Great Tips For Saving Money For Those Just Getting Started." The Simple Dollar. 2009. 06/02/2008, Web. 5 Dec 2009. .
 * 2) Book: Kay, Ellie. How to Save Money Every Day. Paperback, 2000. 220. Print.
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc):"How to Save Money at the Grocery Store." YouTube - How to Save Money at the Grocery Store. Web. 5 Dec 2009. .


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

<> I accomplished my goal to have $1000 in my bank account. I ended up to have more than $1000 in my account. I've been using as much as resources as I could to save money and earn money in a faster way. I just moved to West Seattle from Issaquah. I'm kind of a crazy shopper on clothes. I had eight bags of clothes sitting in my house for me to do something with them. Instead of throwing them away, I sold them in some Used Clothes Stores in the University District called Buffalo's Exchange and Recycle Fashion Store. Luckily, the stores took almost everything I brought in and I made about $250. Also, I sold my other stuff also on Craigslist and Ebay such as my Nintendo DS and Manuel Camera which worth about $450. My parents have always give me money in every certain time. All the money adds up together is about $1000. This is how I accomplish to have $1000 in my bank account. Also, I went to a job interview at Urban Outfitters but they didn't hire me. Finally, I got hired by Gap Inc. in downtown from my interview last week and successfully accomplished one of my plan in my schedule. I've also saved my money through using saving coupons from newspaper make deals for grocery stores and other stores.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)Successfully found a job although I didn't get most of my money from my paycheck. Everything went pretty well. I was a little frustrated on not finding a job and not having the chance to buy my favorite food.
 * 2)It will work out better if I already had a job before I start this project or already got a job after I started this project. I'd be more relax and don't have to sell stuff that I owned.
 * 3)I could apply more jobs in the beginning so I can have more opportunities on getting hired in anytime any place. I should manage myself to spend least money on food or only find good deals before purchase.

Self-Assessment
I've learned a lot from in school and outside of school information. I like it when we were talking about students' stories they have had in their past experience on their school life. It was interesting to know about things have happened in other states and countries. It is also good to learn how to prepare for a better college life and being more responsible as a person. The thing I most like about this class is to watch the video about hip hop music. I'm personally really into hip hop music. That was a great video that I didn't know about. I think I did well on turning in my homework on time, although I was absent a lot due to my health problem. But I will still do my homework on time and posting them on Wikiverity right here. It could be better if I can attend to class every week. I feel prepared at my studies at this point. My college life right now is not too hard and I'm actually enjoying on what I'm studying. I seemed like a quiet person in the class compare to other students but I have good relationships with some of the people in the class.