General Psychology

Assignment for 2 Student Posts:

Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Validate an idea with your own experience.
Expand on your colleague's posting.


My Work:

Student:

"One of my favorite memories is when I went to the beach with my family. I was 13 and it was the first time I can remember going to the beach. I Can remember how the warm sand felt on my feet. I Can still smell the saltwater in the air, and I can feel the warm sun on my face. I can hear the waves crashing on the shore, the birds chirping in the sky, and kids laughing as they play in the sand. I enjoyed ocean so much, I didn't want to leave. Whenever I think about the beach, this memory comes to mind."

Me:

1. I was wondering if you liked the beach or the mountains,
2. I miss the beach greatly since we moved away.
3. Different places have different benefits, like by a Great Lake, in New England, etc.
4. I know that German is the biggest percentage of an ethnicity in the US.  They must have a different experience, maybe visit the beach like you did.  I personally don't know of family by the sea, but otherwise I was born in and mostly grew up in Florida, on the beach.  I have some German, I think.  I really like it and appreciate my heritage in different ways as an adult.  So, I'm not used to the sea by New England but also grew up in New Orleans and so am used the water in hot climates, something fun.  I learned to appreciate the sunshine, too, and feel comfortable about the heat in general, even if it were a dessert.
5. I personally would wear beach shoes at the beach because I don't care to step on whatever I used to step on, plants, etc., and worry about it.  I live in Orlando now and it feels like home to be back in Florida, since 2005/2006 with my parents.


Student:

One of my fondest memories was the night I got off the bus at Great Lakes, Illinois, the location of the Navy recruit training center. It was in April of 2005, a very cold night around seven o’clock. I’m with about forty other people, all bunched up in a little bus. As soon as I get off, the cold air just crushed my face. But I didn’t have long to feel cold, because I had a Navy RDC screaming at me to get in line. It was one of those moments when you think, “what did I get myself into?’. I’m a long way from home and I’m going to have to deal with this for 9 weeks. It was a long night that night, a lot of processing stuff. I got head my shaved, had to take a urinalysis test with a guy staring at me, got a c-bag full of goodies and marched down to the coldest building ever (which happened to be my barracks).

This memory was definitely life changing for me. I was an 18-year-old kid. First time being away from home like that. I got thrown into the fire of becoming a man. I will admit, I was pretty immature before I joined the military. It made me become a respectful man quickly. This memory helped me realize that to become something I want to be, I had to go through a tough time to get there. Things aren’t going to be easy in life. If I didn’t have this memory, I’d forget how far I’ve come since my youth, that that night I crossed over from being a boy to becoming a man.

Me:

1. Do you feel that there are other activities that give a similar experience as the military?
2. It made me think in the end how I changed to a Catholic high school and was in church choir as a child and teenager.  I felt it prepared me to enjoy life, but later I was picked on somehow.
3. I agree it was a good idea, not too late at 18.
4. I was in Army JROTC for a year in high school, and I became popular then, too, a good experience, though I was pursuing the creative and performing arts and could not stay.
5. It seems like people got out a lot when they graduated high school and are proud of it as life goes on for some reason.  Some people try to become models and actresses, and they say high school is a good time for that, too.  For me, I wish I posted online sooner, but I was so busy and did use e-mail, though people didn't like IM-ing me nor wanted to webcam then.  Later, strangers I didn't particularly like wanted my time and to do that.

Personal Evangelism

Assignment:

How would you alter the professor's summary of the gospel? What support do you have for your position? (It is okay to disagree if you can support your case biblically and theologically.) If he is correct, why do you think so?


My Work:

Finding Overtones

I think the professor is okay, but I think it doesn't matter and that there are better ways to summarize the significance of the gospel in human history.

I agree that God and people say divine aliens make their presence known on earth at different intervals throughout time.  Even if Jesus is accepted, it doesn't mean God's miracles have ended.  Most people are too asleep, as Asians would seem to think, too distracted and preoccupied by sin and the importance of things like a racial consensus emotionally as a people.  People want to preserve their race, and some people are mixed of certain either majority or minority races or heritages.

I had an interesting revelation in my New Testament course this week.  I caught that the reason the New Testament is different from the Old Testament has to do with that Jesus may have been especially familiar with religion, the Jewish religion.  The New Testament is friendlier than the Old Testament.  The Old Testament speculates on "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."  I think the New Testament can be backed up as being friendly to appeal to other races of people, like Europeans and Asians.  The professor said the significance of the gospel is to understand we get punished for wrong things and that there are steps and categories of how this is, like we surrender to Jesus's way of life in the end after repenting and believing.  I think that's obvious, but "the cat's out of the bag" in that I caught that Europe and Asia were brought up mostly a little in the beginning of the Acts of the Bible.  I think Jesus meant to spread the word to Europe and Asia.  I think it is more of a focus than looking at it like it's about spreading the news in general, like it's more of a geographical journey, like evangelism is emphasized today to be about following history and spreading the news throughout Europe mostly.  I noticed that Asia and the Middle East other than the Near East where Jewish people are from is out of the picture.  Evangelism today is more about how exciting it was to spread through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, for example.  That's also when classical music seems to have been formed, like long group works of music, with a lot of it dedicated to religion if not initially.  True, music was important, like with King David in the Bible.  Europeans tired endlessly to record information, probably religious information.  So, basically, the professor is focusing on religion itself, whereas Evangelism as the focus of this course too means it is more about how the New Testament is made to appeal to Europeans.  It's a very cultural thing.  That's why Jesus makes everything sound so friendly, rather than "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."  See, in the Old Testament people were closer as it was more about the Near Eastern culture, sort of like the Ancient Greeks and Eurasians, for example.  Russia is partially Eurasian, I think, too, in addition to Germanic.  So, in the Old Testament, people were closer emotionally and therefore got into stronger arguments, too, so that's why it was so harsh in the Old Testament and more sentimentally of one's own race and heritage, rather than applying to others more.  The people were already close, like Jesus was said to know much about the Jewish religion, so that they had a feeling of togetherness to get through hard times and put more meaning into each thing they did.

The professor concentrates on a more negative aspect that is necessary in religion, like focusing on our sin and how hard it is to focus on converting others.  I think that times say that people who are difficult to deal with are not to be given attention as much as those who are nice.  It's sort of unfair.  Being an Evangelist is therefore more like being a police, where you care about the bad people.  It's true that England and Germany following it and maybe Russia in their own way tend to scope out the bad people.  Americans do it, too.  Ever hear over and over throughout our lives that the bad people get all the attention?  That encourages them.  People pretend to care about the underdog, but instead they focus on the lost sheep.  They ignore people who are good and deserve reward from God and pay attention to people who are causing trouble.  The professor doesn't notice any problem outside of saying Jesus is that good and God is that true and he doesn't apply it to all the modern world issues that people usually know about.  Perhaps we are all good, but it is definitely a problem I've often blogged about that it's true there is a problem that there are people who are treated badly because bad people feel embarrassed and want to say that good people are really channeling negative energy that puts them under pressure, makes them go out of control, and makes them unable to stop being annoying, like by talking in class and making others feel guilty for not being perfect, like they are more to blame in being bad somehow.  My experience growing up was that people were always onto you like you have to all make sure you are being good, not about being saved in general.  Bad people tend to get away with it because it's true that people were too critical religiously, but it left the good people in the dust to worry about nothing.  Then, we get told we are bad for being preoccupied with this and that other people know that to be good you need to do other things that we were too busy feeling bad about to think about to do, like to think more about what people we know want, ways to meditate on our own, the fact we can go out and help others by organizing poor food, etc. etc. etc.

The professor seemed to mostly talk about facts and elaborations on the ice breaker of religion.  He had it organized in different ways.  He explained the handouts.  It is what you basically need to know that some people may have not grown up with as much.  He puts it in a positive light.  You can think about it more and feel bad about Jesus dying, but I don't believe it's wise to say it's our fault as we weren't really born yet, like Jesus wasn't born until Christmas.  It's like how the New Testament is made over the Old Testament, and people today would not do what they did before.  It's like when animals evolved, they don't usually devolve.  True, though, dolphins are descendants of something like a rodent on land, for example, if you relate that example.  I also think that the professor described it like people describe religion mainly at Christmastime.  They say it over and over, like it's special but sometimes people making it seem like they are so much smarter and better than the people who are there listening, like teachers, priests, grandparents, relatives, etc. etc. etc.  It's very easy to grasp.  It's like music in that you listen to a song and are so excited you think you always have it there for you and you find you get bored of it, but if it's good enough you come back later, changed, but hungry for it again.

So, while I think the professor is to be respected, I'd mainly say most leaders and people are wrong in that religion can be made to make sense in a lot of important issues not to be complacent about, as Jesus said, like racism, age-im and generation-ism, prejudices among peers etc., how people feel about different kinds of careers and paychecks and things that seem to matter, things like feelings and just living day-to-day, making goals applicable to life such as a "bucket list," etc. etc.  So, instead of just saying it's about Jesus dying on the cross and turning to God again and again that you could be more specific and applicable to topics most people are uncomfortable about, it seems sometimes.  You can even be academic if you notice things like that the New Testament is made to be more friendly than the Old Testament because Jewish people were in pursuit of Europe, to get them to follow Christianity.  There are probably lots of things like that to notice, but this might be a big one.  If you don't notice those things, I still think the professor is coming from a place I don't know.  He did say that it's a summary of much work and translating the fine print to come up with the themes that God gives readers through the Bible.  People even might have started schools in general, like Europe/America, in order that people learn to read the Bible.  I think he basically did what he was supposed to, but if you're into all that gifted stuff maybe you'd come up with more personal things rather than a harsh description.  Another important point I noticed was that it was about spreading Christianity, but there wasn't description of what it was like before for Europeans and how this changed their lives, how they did it and why they are not as personal with it as the Jews if they follow it so much.


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"Blow the trumpet at the new moon. At the full moon, on our feast day." -Psalm 81:3

"Again I will build you and you will be built, O Virgin Israel! You will again be adorned with your timbrels [small one-headed drums] and go forth in the dancing [chorus] of those who make merry." - Jeremiah 31:4

(I mentioned some things about music, and music is an important highlight of Biblical history, like the angels, and modern celebrations, also something that Christians strive to enjoy more and more, at church.)

Intermediate Composition

final draft

some interesting changes


Christina Barrett

Professor Geoffrey Richard Reiter

ENG 152 N3

10 March 2019

A Cultural Famine or Like When the Dinosaurs Died Out

          Modern culture went down like the Titanic in the late 1990s, an irretrievable mess occurring.  Trends that were very special became unpopular as the 2000s crept around the corner.  Culture can be found significant in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the Late Boomers were born and went through childhood.  Adulthood for Baby Boomers can be seen as the 1980s and early 1990s.  Children of Early Boomers did not experience much love and are now grown up with culture that sunk like the Titanic.  We should try to touch base on this issue by covering the bases that apply.

          According to Gordon, a big influential factor of even the 1960s was concentrated from England (no page numbers specified in the ebook.)  This is an important issue because even today England has released a lot of its feelings via the U.S., encouraging us in our pop culture to be more expressive.  For example, the Beetles, an English legend of a band, became popular in the 1960s, and even today kids are still dazed over them, in some way they can't seem to handle, as of yet, like life just isn't as sweet as it was for Baby Boomers or Late Baby Boomers.  Gordon also accredits the U.S. to folk music, like being integrated into pop and maybe how it is involved the style of new age music, and mentions the strikingly acclaimed city of New Orleans to spice things up some.  These are all obvious suggestions as to the sentiment Gordon has concerning the 1960s.  Then, he ends the chapter on music with references to popular icons in classical music, like the late Pavarotti.  So, Europe and music are important factors into what gave people the expectations they had of people who were born by the beginning of the 1960s.

          Schwartz says something big that changed the world in the 1990s was in the 1980s when computers were coming out (15.)  The 1990s are also known for the Cold War being fought off (64,) and war with the Middle East seemed to come to permeate the atmosphere.  Terrorism was another political term of the 2000s because of 9/11 in 2001; George Bush Jr. often spoke into the mid-2000s of our children coming  home.  Schwartz also posted a picture of the Spice Girls for the chapter on 1997 (309,) which was a big year as it was when modern PCs with the internet hit, which looked more like the TV screen than a calculator or old Pac Man game.  The kids from the 1980s and 1990s were happily sent off to have their own lives via work (404,) if all went well, or to follow our dreams in college or from childhood and for some the ability to do "anything you set your mind to."  In some ways, that wish came true, but in its intended sentiment it seems not to have, for some reason; people are competitive and want to hurt others before they settle down and decide not to fight anymore and don't care about other people.  So, there is an obvious descent of culture, like we had conflicts to represent our heyday and a sending off in bittersweet-ness, in accordance to what our lives were like.

          There are occurrences in life that are important that are affected in important times, all people being important, too.  One example is to think about Europe in the face of racism in the US and the musical skills had by the US and obviously certain countries in Europe, even as early as the 1960s, which shaped the world as Baby Boomers grew up then.  The 1980s kindled interest in computers and the online world, and the 1990s itself was a war between culture clashes and the stress of technology.  The end was that Baby Boomers grew up and lost responsibility and that people who grew up in the 1990s were hopefully sent off with well wishes as they entered independence and adulthood.  The experience of going through the 1990s was a tumultuous sequence of entertainment and the comforts and glorification of technology, which mainly ended up leading to bittersweet-ness and nostalgia from the past.

     

References:

Gordon, Dee. The Little Book of the 1960s. No Location, No Publisher, 2011.

Schwartz, Richard Alan. The 1990s. New York, Facts on File, 2008.

General Psychology

Visual Power Point Presentations #20-#26
Disagreement of an Extraction of a Our Personally Chosen Concept

Lacking Depth and Significance in a Great Time and Efforts

          I grasped overall that all the material was based on things like learning and specifically on how memory works overall biologically but on lose terms, an overarching series of lessons branching off from such an idea.  I disagree with the nature of this concept being significant to this extent of interest.  It seems as though it is all saying that we learn and how much we have to apply our critical thinking to recall memories.  I will discuss influences from the modules, but my main idea I'm getting at is how I noticed that it should be more about religion in that it means having exchanges that are either good or bad in ways that are significant to life, not a topic of psychology to discuss over all these examples; it isn't a scientific application in the end, and there's no experimental question/topic of something important to solve.  Simply put, it is too fancy but not especially well-organized, making it a challenge for the viewer to keep up more than necessary or seemingly significant, maybe for people who aren't interested in psychology or who don't have to take it as a major.

          It seems like it's a shying away from discussing hypnosis.  They keep talking about how we learn automatically and how things come as second nature, "like breathing out and breathing in."  They even seem scared to discuss it, and it's scattered all throughout the material, all "hokey pokey" but maybe in an interesting magazine sentiment for some.  This is probably a layer above instinct, like animals knowing so well somehow to have sex and then care for the resulting babies, like turtles walking to the water for the first time.  They also emphasize youth.  Don't pretend we all didn't see that, the picture of the little baby from Europe or Russia being surrounded by adults crying.  I noticed they presented this showing that people in Europe are more emotional and that people seek out to be emotional, though the US isn't in Europe.  I saw the picture of the American baby with the 2 ladies, and the boy didn't look as affected and the women looked cold emotionally to the baby.  They also didn't look as healthy, though they were skinnier at that time.  They showed that children just copy adults, to show they are innocent, but they didn't talk about that.  They just reiterated the fact that the children copied the adults, like we are to draw our own conclusions about that in between the lines as we read along.  Most of this session dealt with animals, the next step, from adult to baby to animal.  They did something basic about eating as the way to interact with animals, like food means something "extrinsic."  They controlled the animals by feeding them after they do what they want, sometimes for study and sometimes for work but always fun.  They went further too here with the animals and made it more complicated to get the food.  This goes into another topic of Operant Conditioning.

          Humans must be a patchwork quilt or hulk of Operant Conditioning and less instinct.  One topic that was discussed was discrimination.  People can't seem to focus on that, but it's anti-hypnotic; it seems the material hinted at racism because that word can mean that, typical of Americans to think something like that, some "what if" moment.  A lot of anti-development has been taking place racially with all the insecure white racism of people who couldn't contain themselves about their jealousy of people like who live in Europe and are also racially European.  Sort of the opposite of a success, they seem to just keep going doing educational science experiments with animals like a little magic trick to show preschoolers or small children, like instead of doing different things they keep repeating the same kinds of experiments.  It seems there's not much people want to do with animals other than raise them for a dog show, possibly, which sounds like an incentive to own a dog.

          They speak of "punishment," which can be translated as a way of doing evil conditioning, to animals or people.  They even think jail is a type of conditioning.

          You might want to bring up race when you talk about things like "discrimination" and "punishment" at an advanced level.  Most people are mixed, and most countries seem to be mixed race.  The US seems to be excessively Italian, hence they want to mark if someone is Latino or not, though they may be the same race.

          Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conditioning are an important concept they did not have much to teach about with all they said.  It happens emotionally, socially, and in important social interactions/meetings if you believe that.

          It also talks about intensity, like pain and helping.  This is also something smart to talk about that they might discuss in an honors or Ivy League class.

          How long memories last sounds sentimental, but they didn't state this opinion, makes me wonder what they're doing, maybe too high order thinking to discuss.  That's just some of the nature of my disagreement of these sections.

          A lot could be said of mnemonics, which is like the popularity of emojis and emoticons.  Then, it goes into deep meaning, like "sex" of ideas.  It is the joining of something popular, like emojis, with higher order thinking.

          Explicit and implicit memories were a little confusing, like it meant facts or procedures.  Explicit is simple, and implicit is more cognition.

          Memories can trigger certain feelings.  It gives meaning and helps us and signals more in our brains overall.  Again, the material doesn't say much about it psychologically but expects us to remember the little animal experiments.

          The slides tried to say we remember for school but didn't talk about how to memorize lectures and accomplish hunks of reading in shorter periods of time, in classes outside of our major interest, be it music or something else.

          Things like brain damage are natural excuses that exist in life.  Drinking, lack of sleep, and some injuries.

          "Passwords" is interesting, like a symbol that only you or a few know, too, like a social situation when you and a friend are on a rapport over others, which I've seen happen in a discriminatory way and sneaky and dishonest too, like a lazy trap as the result of an expected continuing friendship, which sets you off wondering how it is possible to get away with that and which leaves you open to get in more trouble somehow.  Who matters, anyway?  This is a basic psychology issue or religious question.  Yet, people are complacent to it and on the evil side.

          "Implanted memories" and "abuse" are similar or different in that it is a sign of some outside factor that you read into.

          So, basically, there's all this social drama and things like animals and how people look and think and race and such.  However, it's mostly finding filler information no one will remember.  Apparently, if it were important and not complacent you would already have this in your mind.

          Well, I took a look at Revelation again.  Chapter 15, verse 1 says, "Then I saw in the sky another mysterious sight, great and amazing.  There were seven angels with seven plagues..."  It seems this book and the slides are complaining like this.  Then it says it was the last, and it makes me wonder if people will ever be able to get anything done in the way they are, like it's the Tower of Babel.

New Testament Survey

Assignment:

In chapters 13-16 of our text, our author discusses the context and content of the book of Acts. For the forum this week, each student should choose one of the assigned chapters and discuss which concept in that respective chapter helps you understand Acts better.


My Answer:

Chapter 13


Spreading to Europe


Quote #1
"In the two centuries prior to Christ’s coming, Roman influence had slowly but steadily expanded both on the south European mainland and in coastal regions of the Mediterranean. MACEDONIA, where Paul would plant  his first church on European soil, came under Roman sway in 168 BC; ACHAIA, where CORINTH was located, in 146 BC; and the province of Asia, whose capital was EPHESUS, in 133 BC."

Quote #2
"Take language. The native Roman language was Latin. Yet the language of culture and commerce was Greek. From Spain, or even Britain, in the west to Syria in the east, a traveler was well advised to brush up on Greek. It was spoken by at least the ruling and trading classes nearly everywhere, while Latin was not. This linguistic uniformity was not just convenient from a trader’s or tourist’s point of view; it was also important for the missionary expansion of the early church."


Basically, Christianity actually spread through all races: "black, white, and Asian."  Jewish Christians are from the Near East and are considerably white, while Ephesus of Asia, as the book names, is a part of Turkey, which probably borders white and Asian.  Though, today it is considered white because it is in the Middle East.

What helps me understand this whole chapter so far is that it mentions Europe and Asia, which it spread through, Christianity.  The world as a whole is not just for "colored" or "tan" flushed people but for all races, as Jesus has dictated, though he was very Jewish and did not speak of the ways of other races, like Asia, who is the most distant.  So, I followed along and collected the main ideas and undertones in relation to this.  I know chapter 16 mentions Europe, too, I think.

Basically, Rome had a considerably rich culture, probably with things like its Latin scripts.  However, the world was mostly Greek in relation to Biblical connected influences maybe.  That is why Greek became so big, before.  It is glorified seemingly by its rulers, as said in this chapter, even if they were sinners who would today be considered "damned" and so more than others who are lectured into the Christian religion.

I pondered as I wandered and thought Christians being killed in this chapter had something to do with racism involving Europe and maybe Asia.  Maybe, it's why Hitler killed the Jews, which I think I read about in one of these chapters.  Whites/Asians seemed to believe Jesus was Lord, and when he was crucified the Lord died.  However, they may be unconvinced by the outspokenness of the Christian religion.  The book affirms Christianity was spited, like Jesus by the officials but without explanation or supposition as to reasons why.

So, Greek was adopted by other cultures, along with its popularity and religion.  It may be why people like the angels with the shepherds, found only in the Gospel of Luke.  Perhaps, Christianity was unpopular because Greek was already favored, maybe in defense of maybe other cultures taking over with their "magical" powers.  The book goes on to explain the unpopularity of Christianity and the success of Greek culture.  Think it's also why we celebrate the Olympics.

People were spiritual in Stoicism.  They were selfless and tried to "solve their own problems."  Cynicism means more headstrong, which sounds like the result of being too Stoic and needing a change for the opposite in the world somehow.  Skepticism is like "knowledge seekers" or "thinkers" of the MBTI, in psychology.

I noticed that the New Testament was more "user friendly" for Europeans, whereas the Old Testament was more bloodthirsty and rich in past culture pre-Christ.  They recorded their result of conflict in distress as "an eye for an eye" and "a tooth for a tooth."  They sacrificed and had more drama like this.  The New Testament seems to point to an invitation to Europe, with all its "forgiveness" and "lovey dovey" sentimentality laced in it.

People, like the Jewish Christians, were still celebratory like the Latin Americans on El Dia de los Muertos.  Their celebrations weren't foreign but a part of their race.  They smiled at the celebration of Jesus, for fulfilling predictions and performing miracles, for speaking about one of the strongest things, love, etc. etc. etc.  It was like celebrating your own birthday or an anniversary.  It was a part of you, not just something on the calendar you hope answers the rest of your problems.

Christians tried to make their new cultures nicer than Jewish cultures, to entice/invite Europeans, which is what I drew myself.  The book says the Jews were in hostile environments, before.

I checked many sources and not much speaks of cultures earlier than the Middle East maybe in Europe.

The book makes the travels of the early Christians sound like "all that."  Europe might have common things with early Christians.  It is hard to know if Asians are considered accepted.  Are Jews excited that Europeans are mixed with Asians, at least some?  Is that why they are "boasting" to them?  They just don't realize it.

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General Psychology

Instructions:

By Thursday, write about a very important memory that you have. Note the details of this memory, which could include sensory information (sight, smell, noises, touch sensations, taste) and also the quality or intensity of this sensory information. Does this memory have significant life meaning to you? Does this contribute to your easy ability to recall it? How might this memory be altered if you had a problem with the areas of your brain responsible for memory?


My Work:

"Sight-Seeing"

My favorite memory in things like being in places like Saint Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuing city in the US, as a kid is probably just walking around outside; I actually lived there age 9, 10, and 11, which is 1995-1998.

The sight was so comforting and felt so real; there were little shops and some of the buildings restaurants, all around.  They were preserved from a long time ago; that's why it felt so real culturally, like being more European.  The smell of nature wasn't much, but you can smell the food cooking outside, at least along Saint George Street downtown.  The noises were not much to remember.  You can hear church chimes in the downtown area, as well.  Touch sensations were not a big part of it, but you can feel the historical significance of the fort made of shells and rocks, with pieces chipped away.  Taste-wise, if you eat there, it can be very savory; I particularly liked chocolate chip cookies, then.

The quality of these senses was very quaint and overly satisfying.  The intensity seemed extremely impressionable.

To note the senses of the experience helps me recall some of the same feelings more, rather than just speculating on my thoughts at the time, as the environment was the trigger factor, if not the ancient human influence.

If I was traumatized possibly and exposed to an alternative out of this around the same time, I might forget it because I found something much better.  Actually, I moved from Florida for the first time form here and did forget a lot of how I used to be, more intuitive and with a bigger imagination, thinking when I lived here.  The lessons I learned along the way were worth it, but I wish some things were different or changed differently.  I was really taken care of in Saint Augustine, with the Spanish influence.  I moved to New Orleans, with French influence.  After meeting more people from the city, I started to like it.  I miss some of the values, security, and physical features I had before leaving Saint Augustine.  I guess it was a learning experience, especially overcoming some social complications.  I mainly felt alone, lost friends and didn't have the artistic and cultural stimuli of where I am from in Florida.  I didn't really adapt to New Orleans like people from there, and I felt subordinate, almost, as a person.  People from New Orleans were more accepted living there in many ways and didn't feel as pressured, nor shy, nor confused.  I guess they were very alive in their way, regardless of things like how they looked, like size, hair color, and type of ways of thinking.

Personal Evangelism

Assignment:

Forum on Biblical/Theological Basis of Personal Evangelism

Which biblical passage or theological concept is the most compelling for a basis or foundation for doing personal evangelism?  Why?  Let's discuss.

My Work:

Racism, or Sin

The theological concept that man sins or that people are imperfect seems like a very "compelling" "basis or foundation for doing personal evangelism."  Sure, God being almighty in and of itself is important and that Jesus is the only way is pretty basic.  The Bible has key terms and passages, too.

It is one cold and bitter topic that people are not perfect.  They go flailing about passing judgment and mostly relying on racism.  I see Swedish-looking girls back and forth with their bitter grimaces and spite towards life making a big percentage of them spited-ly overweight.  They don't even know that's a sin because it's not one of the 10 Commandments.  This is just the typical scene that pops up on any day out and about.  I would like to administer personal evangelism to people like this.

Then, there's the internet.  I keep getting dark, dull looking guys spamming me their threatening presence over me, when I can't get an emission from people I'm willing to hold a conversation with sometime.  Why them?  Can't they tell I don't want to fool with them?  I wanted other people to talk to me.  These men have no consideration when most nice people don't want to speak to me in case it wastes my time.  These men need to be restrained and taught personal evangelism.

Overall, the world could use a lesson on their biggest sin, racism.  I saw that Obama was even feeling uncomfortable while I watched him talk to Ellen DeGeneres on her show through the TV.  I felt so sorry for him.  I know Ellen DeGeneres had more success with Hillary Clinton live on her show.  A lot of people were supportive of Obama, but Trump seems to be more successful at getting people to like and trust him.  It's just too weird/suspicious.  I know Ellen DeGeneres has been famous longer, too, but most people don't feel belittled for instance by actors in Hollywood just because they aren't one of them.  Ellen DeGeneres pretty much seems like someone to trust, but she's a remote figure and distant person, who everyone wishes they knew or they are from an older bunch and say chuck it.

I think that sin is what will catch the attention of people and it is like a rapid fire at most people to try to get them to believe their sin being real, which seems is unsuccessful.  Racism is a source of most of this.  It is like the root of all evil.  You can have money or time, but you can't necessarily have racial security.  It's like God is a beggar here.  Sometimes, I don't feel God is fair.  Even people who aren't white are racist because they can be racist to mixed race people.  I guess what I'm getting at is that sin is an attractive topic to fight with with theological personal evangelism, maybe the topic itself of interest.  What would Jesus say to an Asian person?  Would he make Asians more accepted?  Are we all going to Hell because of racism?  Does race make someone have to suffer, like worse than a wild animal, like a monkey/primate?  No matter what you do you can't get out of racism.  I can't find a single person.

I think God took for granted racism.  He doesn't mention it, but it's such a big problem for a person to be of another race than white.  No one is helping.  It's "Hell on earth."  I think people need to administer personal evangelism in Christianity against racism, but I bet the holy/religious men are racist.  We should force this sin out of people.  No one has a problem with it because "it's not their problem."  They're white.  They are complacent, as Jesus would say.  Jesus died for our sins, but this was just floating as an excuse of complacency that was not considered something that was possible to exist as a sin.  It wasn't even a topic.  People thought race meant other kinds of white people.  Even black people are thrown in as white while Asians are left out.  I think that is a sin.  It's even more prevalent than sin itself and if it is even considered a sin.

People need to realize they just sin in general.  There are many other examples.  Racism is sin, and I just explained it as such.  I have a feeling what I said can be overlooked as something else, like a fight or uncontrolled cry for help, according to people who don't have to care who know they are considered white.  I'm just saying that sin is my focus for personal evangelism and I found this to be a big part of it.

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New Testament Survey

Assignment:

"In chapters 6 and 7 of our text, our author gives good summaries of both Luke and John's Gospels. For the forum this week, each student should choose one of those Gospels (either Luke or John) and discuss which concept in that respective chapter helps you understand that particular Gospel better."


My Post:

A Popular World Icon to Believe In

My answer is very ideal, typical, and obvious.  Actually, even when I was in 5th grade we were to give a speech on our favorite gospel and read some of it.  I chose Luke and read about the birth of Jesus.  Not until later/now did I realize the angels bringing the news of Jesus to the shepherds were only in Luke, as far as I could tell when I looked at each gospel.  Probably the biggest thing for us growing up and children of any age was the angels in Luke showing up to the shepherds interested in Jesus being born.  Some people even like an angel at the top of their tree.  The star could symbolize the star in Matthew, too, even.  Some people love the cold of Christmas, but they still use the angels all over as merchandise and as a seasonal sign of peace, like the dove in Noah's ark.  The angels and the star with the wise men are also in Christmas carols.  Christmas is both a religious and popular season.  Mostly, it is based on religion.  If you were an ancient Jew, it would be more natural for you.  It's like celebrating life, like the Spanish do in their popular celebrations, El Dia de los Muertos, mainly that I know of.  It's not like the Catholic church, where you chant in Latin from a distance.  It's like a birthday party where everyone is happy and one person, like Jesus as God, is the focus.  That may be why it is such a strong celebration today.  I noticed other seasons aren't as popular as winter, and I figured that was why.

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Intermediate College Composition

I asked for some help, but so far this is what I have.

Instructions:

• Paragraph #1: Introduction (Your issue’s background and rhetorical situation, leading to an open-ended statement or question about your claim)
• Paragraph #2: Position #1 (A summary, incorporating at least one scholarly source, of a position in the debate)
• Paragraph #3: Position #2 (A summary, incorporating at least one scholarly source, of a second position in the debate)
• Paragraph #4: Conclusion (Wrap up the main idea of the paper and describe its significance)

My Essay:

     Modern culture went down like the Titanic in the late 1990s.  Things that were very special became unpopular as the 2000s crept around the corner.  Culture can be found significant in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the Late Boomers were born and went through childhood.  Adulthood for Baby Boomers can be seen as the 1980s and early 1990s.  Children of Early Boomers did not experience much love and are now grown up with culture sunk like the Titanic.  We should try to touch base on this issue.

     According to Gordon, a big influential factor of even the 1960s was concentrated from England (no page numbers specified in the ebook.)  This is an important issue because even today England has released a lot of its feelings via the U.S.  For example, the Beetles became popular in the 1960s, and even today kids are still dazed over them, in some way they can't seem to handle, as of yet.  Gordon also accredits the U.S. to folk music and mentions the strikingly acclaimed city of New Orleans.  These are all obvious suggestions as to the sentiment Gordon has concerning the 1960s.  Then, he ends the chapter on music with references to popular icons in classical music, like the late Pavarotti.  So, Europe and music are important factors into what gave people the expectations they had of people who were born by the beginnng of the 1960s.

     Schwartz says something big that changed the world in the 1990s was in the 1980s when computers were coming out (15.)  The 1990s are also known for the Cold War being fought off (64,) and war with the Middle East seemed to come to permeate the atmosphere.  Terrorism was another political term of the 2000s because of 9/11 in 2001.  George Bush Jr. often spoke into the mid-2000s of our children coming  home.  Schwartz also posted a picture of the Spice Girls for the chapter on 1997 (309,) which was a big year as it was when modern PCs with the internet hit, which looked more like the TV screen than a calculator or old Pac Man game.  The kids from the 1980s and 1990s were happily sent off to have their own lives via work (404,) if all went well, or to follow our dreams in college or from childhood and for some the ability to do "anything you set your mind to."  So, there is an obvious descent of culture, like we had conflicts to represent our heyday and a sending off in bittersweet-ness, in accordance to what our lives were like.

     There are things in life that are important that are affected in important times, all people being important too.  One thing is Europe in the face of racism in the US and the musical skills had by the US and obviously certain countries in Europe, even as early as the 1960s, which shaped the world as Baby Boomers grew up then.  The 1980s kindled interest in computers and the online world, and the 1990s itself was a war between culture clashes and the stress of technology.  The end was that Baby Boomers grew up and lost responsibility and that people who grew up in the 1990s were hopefully sent off with well wishes as they entered independence and adulthood.  The experience of going through the 1990s was a tumultuous sequence of entertainment and the comforts and glorification of technology, which mainly ended up leading to bittersweet-ness and nostalgia from the past.

     

References:

Gordon, Dee. The Little Book of the 1960s. No Location, No Publisher, 2011.

Schwartz, Richard Alan. The 1990s. New York, Facts on File, 2008.

Genreal Psychology

Post by Thursday classical conditioning and operant conditioning, including the difference between the two types of conditioning. What seems like a more influential consequence to you personally... Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, or negative punishment?  Why?  Include a personal experience of your a conditioned response to a particular environmental trigger and tell us how you learned that response.


Conditioning - ^Special^ ^Needs^

Classical & Operant Conditioning

Classical conditioning is when multiple factors trigger a response in a living thing and become associated.

Operant conditioning is when outside factors are figured in the minds of living things in order that they make personal applications with it concerning something that matters in their life.

The Difference
The difference is that classical conditioning is more naturally *hypnotic and operant conditioning is more "handmade."  (*I realize in my 1st module review, I was told that conditioning of some sort, operant or dog salivating, was not hypnotic, but I was wondering again if it could be said it was in a natural way, instead.  I'm not sure if the class knows.)


My Punishment/Reinforcement Preference

To me, positive punishment seems the most appropriate.  You enter a person's life yourself sincerely and judge them honestly as a person, rather than
positive reinforcement messing around giving them distracting presents out of nowhere,
negative reinforcement taking away healthy/necessary challenges to build strength over for later,
or negative punishment taking away something special that they shouldn't have to give up for this.


My Experience

When I moved from the Fort Lauderdale (SE FL) area to Jacksonville (NE FL,) I was 5 years old.  I used to just stand there unable to think or concentrate, when we were given directions to put papers in certain shelves, I remember.  In preschool, I was very much at home and everything made sense.  I realized that each of these cities in East Coast Florida were very different.

Personal Evangelism

My Response to a Poster on the Assignment of Evangelizing Children

Organized Activities

You made me think more of when I went to youth ralleys in  junior high and high school.  I thought they were overly modern and a shock, but if everyone else wants that might as well enjoy what I can.

As kids, I remember we had field day, which was about teamwork and physical activity, also did it at Catholic schools.

I remember vacation Bible school, too, and that was great.  I was probably 11 years old.  We made a bottle with liquids that separate, red and off-white, and when you shake it it mixes together, representing the Red Sea I think.  I remember singing songs and the teachers couldn't sing, like "The Lord told Noah to build him an arky arky…"

Personal Evangelism

Assignment:

In your opinion and based on your reading and study, what are some of the key do's and do-not's of working with children?

My Work:

Resources for Children

The Start of My Understanding of Life

When I was about 3, I remember being in a religious or educational office and seeing a model of a baby in a womb, and I knew it was a fresh generation of kids who were cuter and fresher than mine.  It seemed like my life went down the drain.  Later on, I remember [omitted] flirting with [omitted] but with me being more impersonal, but I took it personally though do not believe it was anything to do with a difference of race than flat out prejudice, "out with the old and in with the new."  I think this was a beautiful experience and way of learning about life.  I would teach my children about sex in a good way since it's not the 1980s.

My First Religious Experience

My first memory of religion that made a lasting impression was the preschool teachers somehow acting like I would do what Jesus did someday, dying on a cross, if I was worth anything, like we all do it.  I was 3.  I told my family, and the preschool teacher acted all stuck up like she said she "hears through walls" and I juggled that thought.  No one cared I was scared and on the inside was feeling bad.  I guess I had to "put up with it," in addition to "solving my own problems."  I've told people to impress them but did not get much of a response, like they were unimpressed.  I saw on TV this year that in the old days Central Florida crucified a bunch of African Americans.  I would not recommend repeating this wayward experience.

School and Music

One of the biggest things in humanity is the creation of maybe more advanced school and music for the purpose of Christianity.  It still fascinates me.  A lot of art for people is religious, too.  I recommend this miracle.  I wanted to be a singer when I was 7, and my aunt gave me some Wee Sing books and tapes.  My mom always played them in the car, including when we went to pick up my dad from work.  I knew them all well.  One was religious.  A lot of people my age go all ditzy when they think of songs like, "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the Lord, red and yellow, black and white..."  The Protestant church seems to have the best overall quality of literature, like those things we read in high school.  I liked the picture books and special Bibles for children.  The art was good, and I wanted to see which one I wanted to be.  I recommend doing things like this growing up.

Purity

Children have been acclaimed for their pure love, at least for Caucasians or Aryans etc.  It's like they're little angels, sweet and innocent, and people wonder about what could go wrong.  The text says we deserve death if we are not seen as 100% perfect, like if we accidentally do something.  Children need to know about how people discriminate this way.  Though the text says we die for sin, we are saved by Jesus.  Children like to talk a lot.  Sometimes, that's considered bad, and sometimes it's considered attractive! the same thing can be considered a life sin for some children and something that attracts people for other children.  I recommend that we remember about children in our lives, that children are special and we want everything to go a certain way.  Protestants sound good with religion.  My mom got down and did religion with me at home, too.

"Do's and Don't's"

Public Schools

We should not put children in religious schools necessarily because public schools are more like the real world and are more comfortable.  Though, traditionally, they looked down on you in Bible school for knowing you went to a public school, even if it was for money reasons.  Most Catholic schools are a waste in that they let the kids talk out of turn and don't teach well...

Traditions

- We should maybe try some of the rosary rather than doing it all in one sitting.  I did that at my church, and they seemed prejudiced and racist, a few years ago.

- Sure, we remember Jesus in the winter for Christmas and into the New Year.  Advent is a good opportunity to be religious, singing Christmas songs that include religious ones.  I recommend some children's religious songs, too.  I didn't get to perform it much on stage, but it's fun for the normal kids.

- We could discuss our favorite saints or verses in the Bible, but kids usually get interested in that themselves.

Remember the Easter Bunny!

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