User:Nicolem

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

My goal is to get a new electric guitar that costs $300.
 * Research Component

A guitar usually used to be defined as a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides. It first was descended from the Roman cithara around 40 A.D.. There's are two different types of guitars: Acoustic and Electric. It's related to the lute and usually has 6 strings which you can pluck with yout fingers or strum with the pick. If i complete the project befor the quarter before time, i'm going to learn a new song.


 * week 1

My goal for this week is to save 20 bucks this week from my saving and from my family.
 * week 2

Going to save 10 bucks more to have enough to put the guitar in layaway.
 * week 3

Going to save 20 more bucks.
 * week 4

Is going to save 40 bucks this week.
 * week 5

Is thinking about getting a different and cheaper guitar.
 * week 6

Going to hopefully find a new guitar.
 * week 7

Going to buy it.
 * week 8

Going to practice on it.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
I have chosen the Persephone Unbound by Beverly Pepper, and oh my gosh! it's amazingly a bad sculptor. It just looks like an ultimately bad grayish stomp. I was like "what was the artist thinking when they thought of and made this really bad sculptor"?. I probably will appreciate it when i get older, but right now i think i won't ever like it. It just looks like she gave up on this art, i don't know if it's old age, but it's bad. I didn't really think i would find something that i didn't like there, but this one stucked out literally for me, it was the least coolest one. I read it was done in 1999, but looks more like the 60's to me. It looks like it's old fashion, not up to date at all. Well that's how i feel about it, she could have done better, I've hope so. I probably make a goal to like the object, even though it will be very hard for what it is, but i won't give up. There was awesome sculptors that were there, The sculptor I loved the most was the one that looked like a maze slash space ship, which was pretty cool. And there was also the huge endangered forest tree, which was also awesome. The look and smell of it was so rainforest-ish. That's the best i can describe it. It was huge, i'm still wondering how they got it in the spot they have it in right now, very spectacular i would say.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
Bandwagon argument- Bandwagon argument because it trying to persuade the guys that they would be way awesome in basketball if they had these shoes. Bandwagon argument- Bandwagon argument because they making out as this is the best deodorant ever.

Truth through humor- Truth through humor because the got get ramed in the gut for eating Stride gum.  Truth through humor because the guy brings his girlfriend over and try out the pole but its not what she think and she sure finds out the hard way.

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
My "always wanted to" is going a bit well besides me deciding for a acoustic instead of an electric guitar, I'm deciding to go and buy me a new acoustic guitar instead because the acoustic guitar is cheaper and it will keep me occupied while I'm in Seattle since I haven't brought my other guitars from Louisiana with me. And plus it not as loud as the electric, which is a good thing because i don't want to get kicked out of my apartment. When i get it i want to practice some of the songs i used to play at home and more. And when i get the acoustic, I'm going to present my guitar by taking a picture of it and probably showing an old video of me playing my electric guitar. And hoping everyone would like the video.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

To get a new acoustic guitar.


 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site:Guitar Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about guitar." Encyclopedia - Online Dictionary | Encyclopedia.com: Get facts, articles, pictures, video. Columbia Encyclopedia, 2008. Web. 16 Oct. 2009. .
 * 2) Book:Guitar -, collection of open-content textbooks." Wikibooks. NickPenguin, 5 Oct. 2009. Web. 16 Oct. 2009. .
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc):YouTube - AFI - The Leaving Song Pt. II." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Interscope, 2003. Web. 16 Oct. 2009. .


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

<>I've gotten really close to getting my acoustic, but the holidays slipped in and crashed me down. I was going to go and get the acoustic this week and what i seen was nothing, Black Friday screwed me.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well

What went well was me having the money for the acoustic, ready to go and buy it.
 * 2)What went poorly

What went poorly was when i went to go get it, there weren't anymore.
 * 3)Future strategies

The future strategies i will use next time is to go to a place where there is layaway, so they can keep my things to the side, so i can go back and pick them up. And try to make more time into what i am doing in the future and also be aware of the holidays.

Self-Assessment
What have I've learned here in this class?, Well i learn the different "Logical Fallacies". Such as: Non Sequitur, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Argument From Ignorance, Truth Through Humor, Truth Through Irony, Oversimplification, Allness, Proof by Example, False Dilemma, Slippery Slope, Dubious Authority, Bandwagon Argument. We also learned the Misuses of Languages, Such as: Lifting words or statements out of context, Weasel words, Obfuscation, Loaded language, Glittering Generality, Apple Polish, and Targeting Women. I learn how to identify each of it in the media and everyday life and how Manipulation can twist and turn into a person mind without you acknowledging it. I learned about the different authors and books that I've never heard of before which is interesting. And also about past history that the books haven't taught me.I've learned a new term "Negative Capability" that i should keep in my head also. I've learned the better ways for reaching for my goals and how to think ahead. There are things that i learned in this class that i will eventually need in the future and use in my future English classes.