Paige's Portfolio

Since I was four soccer was my favorite sport. For years I remember traveling as close as 1 hour to as far was 10 hours for soccer games. I played year round till junior year in high school. I was lucky to to have soccer come naturally for me. but also doing years and years of travel soccer also helped as well. I realized though I was more dominant in my left right foot. I took goal kicks with my root foot, direct kicks, and I usually cut the ball back to my right side to kick it. I noticed this sophomore year in high school. Now some people would say this is totally fine, your great with your right foot at least you have one super great side make sure you have the ball handled with that foot.  Instead of just leaving it at that I decided to take more chances with the left side. During practice I would dribble more with my left foot, cutting the ball with my left foot and taking shots with left foot. The results: HORRIBLE. What I could have done was admit that I was terrible with my left foot leave it at that. I knew that if I wanted to be better than a great soccer player and to be noticed more I was going to have to continue to practice with my left foot.

The next phase was incorporating my left foot in games. I starting dribbling with my left foot and cutting the ball with my left foot. The success was better but I wasn’t where I wanted to be. My coaches gave me feedback reminding me either to lean over the ball more or bend back depending where I was on the field. I struggled a lot with my left foot because it didn’t come naturally. I think for me it took a year until I felt truly comfortable with my left foot. During my senior year I think I ended up taking more shots on my left than on my right.

For this paper at first I didn’t get that much feedback from my peers comments but when discussing the paper in class i got a ton of ideas on how I could elaborate. For my paragraph where it talks about peoples identities being masked i need to expand my thoughts more or even so, do a better job at explaining what I’m trying to get at. It might help for me to re read my writing out loud. I definitely need to refocus and reword my thesis. Since I really liked the idea of talking about bandwagons I got feedback on that and it was suggested to move it forward in my piece and connect it with cyberbullying. I also realized that I don’t have a conclusion for my essay so i need to make sure I write one. And lastly I need to read my whole paper out loud so i can fix any grammatical errors that I will still have and my peers didn’t pick up on.

For my fist paper I talked about how emerging adulthood does benefit the individual. During my podcast I asked Paul, if he had felt that he had achieved the  critical life stages. He agreed and said that he did feel like he has achieved the critical life.  But he realized he still enjoyed the activities that he did when he was younger. I feel as though today peoples lives are “messy”. There isn’t necessarily a correct order life goes in anymore. It tends to now just be with what works with the specific person.

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https://www.theodysseyonline.com/social-medias-impact-society

I found my article online on the Odyssey.  The Odyssey is a site where it democratizes the content which allows people an opportunity to share whats important to people with honest perspective. My article called ” Social Media’s impact On Society” was published August 16, 2016. This article talks about the pros and cons of social media and the effects it has on society.

This source does provide information relevant to my topic since in our third essay we are going to be writing about the impact of the internet good and bad and since this article talks about the pros and cons of social media it will be beneficial. The thing I would be wary about that is a little biased towards the authors thinking in a way. This article is supported by evidence. The author chooses to show the evidence by a means of a side story and the story goes to support what the author is trying to say.

To evaluate my source I used the CRAAP test. The crap test is a way to see if the article is credible by checking to see if it fits the criteria: currency, relevance, authority,  accuracy, and purpose.. I’d say that yes the article is credible after my evaluation.

On these two pages I found a lot of things relatable. Specifically when on the first page he is talking about needing something to relieve me of the tension without making me anxious. I think a lot of people could relate to that.Another part that I thought was incredibly relatable was the part where you if your given a set of correct answers and then trying to diagnose yourself. There is always some sort of fear. Them most interesting thing I made note of was when he was planning his mob email and he decided that it was necessary to make the email seem lazy instead of instead of urgent. To me at first it didn’t seem that it would work.

2. I think in Bill Wasik’s piece really used to internet piece on connecting the media and bandwagon. The media would either react in a positive way with the turnouts of the mobs or about the mob in general. This prompted a bandwagon affect because people would then ” jump on the bandwagon” and join in on the mob. The internet is influential because it lets you escape the boredom. There are so many things to be accessed on the internet that you just want to keep using it.

3.I think was trying to tell us to make something out of your boredom. Take everything in control. He talks about using the media as platform. Wasik believes that  we all take control and tell our own stories instead of letting people tell them for us.

Many readers say that Americans do benefit from the digital world. Communication, Information and Innovation are all positives aspects we get with living in a digital world. Communication has no barriers these days. Time and location hold no boundaries when communicating with families, friends, coworkers anymore. Technology has allowed us to be able to communicate whenever and wherever we want. Another positive aspect to living in a digital world is how quickly information can be received. One click of a button and you can see videos, pictures, stories, podcasts about what’s going on in the world.  Lastly Innovation. Living in a digital world has allowed Innovation to soar. Now distractions don’t have to take complete control over your life. With meditation according to Winifred Gallagher the author of Rapt meditation is “the most promising solution to our attention problem is also the most ancient”.  Meditation makes the brain less sticky. Not only this it has been shown to boost your mood which fuels your attention.

Though finding techniques to not be distracted is important it doesn’t always work. It all comes down to executive function and without having a strong executive function young Americans are going to continue to be distracted by the digital world.

So I couldn’t figure out how to make my image of my brainstorming session available so that’s why my picture is not up of it!