Final Thought

As we bring this term to an end I have a great deal of mixed emotions.  I am glad it is over and that I did turn in paper that got me full credit for the work that went into it. 

When you get used to something you tend to miss it when its gone.  That is how I feel about this class.  I will miss it.  It has brought me to have a better understanding of the different writing processes that are out there.

I have a greater passion now for writing now then I did in the past.  I did walk away with a vast knowledge of proper use of different techniques.  I am forever grateful for all that I have learned and I owe a deal great of gratitude to my Professor Julie who was always there willing and able to help us out.

Thank you for all that you have done for me this term Professor Julie and with that being said, wishing all a great holiday and a Happy New Year.

Do you feel nervous, accomplished, or just plain tired?

As we enter week 9, which means that there is only one more week left. I have many feelings.

I am nervous, do feel accomplished and I am tired.  I am nervous because you put your work up for all to view you do feel nervous about their reaction.  You are worried did you do a good job, have captured what you set out to do.  How will your audience and Professor review your work? 

I feel accomplished because this is what these last 9 weeks have been about.  Bringing the final paper to light.  I know I have worked hard and done a great deal of research on this topic and I am glad that it is time to get the feedback that we have building for each week.

I also feel tired because after 9 weeks and many hours of research and changes I am just tired of changing things not knowing whether the changes are for the good or bad.

As I close this term out though I have learned a great deal of tools that will further carry me through the online learning process.  I came in not knowing what a research paper was or how to begin one and I walk away with a research paper on a topic that does not get much attention.  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is not a topic that gets a lot of attention due to the fact that it means that a mother has been abusing alcohol while pregnant.  Although it goes way beyond her poor choice and takes a look at how children born with this disease will have very challenging lives and how communities are turning their back on them thinking its not there problem that their parent chose to drink while pregnant.  In reality I have learned that it does affect the community also.  It affects them in areas of schools, health care cost, jails, and a host of other problems that they have to deal with.  Who is speaking up for these babies that were given a raw deal from the point of conception?

Thank you all for these last nine weeks and I did think this was going to be corny but I have come to enjoy this blog thin.  Till next week which is the final week stay blessed and have a great week.

How do you feel about the comments, or lack of comments, that have been made to your blog posts?

As we enter week eight of our term and I review all that I have done this term, I do not mind that no one has commented on made any post to my blog.  At first it did bother me because I would follow people and then comment on their post and thought that they would do the same.  Then I realized that they may have many things going on in their lives and for them to just be able to post to their blog may have been difficult.

I understand now that each and everyone of our lives are different and unique in its own way.  I just wish all my classmates the best in their writing ability.   If you care to comment then do so and if not its okay also.  If I read a blog and I want to comment on then I will.  Sometimes I get to busy also to even do that.

Keeping up with blog after this term will happen since its already started and its not going to go away, why not get more practice writing buy using this forum.   I guess I will have to pick and chose the topics I care to talk about but then I can do that now.  I just really like having some direction with it but we shall see what happens.

Have a great week and soon this term will be over.

How do you feel about peer reviews? What have your experiences with them been like?

As we prepare for our peer reviews on our rough drafts there was a time when I would be overwhelmed about this. I did not like to be critiqued about my writing but since I have been at KU I have learned that its good to get other people opinions regarding your writing.

I learned that they can bring a different approach to the process something that you may have missed or even something that you may add that will help the paper.

It is difficult to get a review that is not what you were expecting but I have learned to look at it as this is one persons opinion may it be wrong or right these are just suggestions that they feel will make the paper better does not mean I have to use them or incorporate it into my paper.

My last six weeks in Kaplan University

I have chose to write about Topic One:

Share what you have personally been dealing with the last six weeks.

In the last six weeks I have endured a great deal with all the writing projects and the research that I have been involved in.  It has been very exhausting and trying to come up with a great research paper that will keep me in the A status has been very overwhelming.

I sometimes find that I may not meet the outcomes that my professors are looking for.  I strive so hard to do the the material and get the research right and then I doubt my abilities to bring it together.  I do realize that we are our hardest critics and that I should relax and feel competent about the work that I am producing but it is hard sometimes.

Week 5-Prewriting

As we enter week five and start to talk about the different methods that we can use to start our final paper rough draft it has become a bit overwhelming.

I do know what I want to say and the style I would have to say that probably works for me is free writing.  I just write and hope that when I start to organize these notes that I can figure out what it is I want to say. 

Writing a a research paper had been a daunting experience for me so far.  I have been all over the Internet trying to gain some type of direction and I have found some good ideas, I guess I am going to have to start incorporating what I have found out.  Just so afraid that I may not get this right and with the rough draft looming (which is due in a week) I get more nervous. 

I am going to try and relax and really figure this out.  Having the research is not enough not to organize all of these notes and stuff.  So much to incorporate.  Give me strenght.

Just a thought

You have the ability to command anything.  Here is something you can say to command that negative thoughts leave you.

"Be gone.!  You have no part in me.  I am Spitit, I harbor only the good and perfect thoughts of Spirit."

Never were truer words spoken.

Plagiarism

Sorry I just read the questions this weeks blog topics and I want to add to it since my blog did not cover this portion.

Plagiarism is just wrong.  It is important to give credit for the work we cite because if it was us that had written something we would want it cited properly.  I am sure nobody would want their work used and not given credit for it.  Although this may happen it is wrong and I think the person that does it should be held accountable for it. 

I have been taught through my professors at KU if in doubt cite it.  It is better to have to many than not enough so I do try to follow that guideline.   I am pretty good at giving credit for the authors work.

I have learned a great deal on this subject matter since going back to school and i am sure I have done this in the past using people works without knowing that I was plagiarism.  Now that I know I am very careful in this area.

Research, Citations, & Plagiarism

I do not have problems with the research and plagiarism part of this discussion.  I am quite confident that I can research and avoid plagiarism.  What I have problems with is citations.  I am not sure how to resite or when to place it in a paper.  I struggle with this area.  I do seem to get it right but I am often worrying if I am doing it right.  What also gives me such grief is the reference page.  I am always confused about that page.  I know we put it in alpha order and stuff but how to do it correctly is what gives me trouble.  I have lost points on past papers due to referece page.  Any suggestions would ve glady appreciated.

November 1, 2010

You are a partnership with the law of attraction, and it is through this partnership between the two of you that you are creating your life.  Each person has their own personal partnership with the law of attraction.  You use the law for yourself; everyone else uses the law of attraction for themselves.  You cannot use the law of attraction on someone else, against their free will.  And when you think abut it thank goodness the law operates this way.  If it did not then anybody else could create something in your life that you did not want.

You create through your thoughts and feelings and no-one but you can think your thoughts or feel your feelings

October 31, 2010

Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to, and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile.

To inspire in others a desire to change for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.

Halloween

Halloween is a very sad time for me.  Halloween represents my mothers birthday whom is no longer with us.  It has been 22 long hard and painful years since her passing.  I miss her more now than ever before as I watch my children grow into adults because she never got to see three of them. 

I often fell cheated because I did not get to know her parents and now my children will never know their grandmother.  I sometimes even question god as to why did he have to take her from me and leave my children without a grandmother.  Yes they had a grandmother on their fathers side but she just passed away also so they really don't have a Nana now.  I feel sad because they don't have a grandmother who they can visit and do special things with that children look forward to when they go to grandma house.

I have a very small family and the holidays are very painful for me because I always like big family gatherings and I have never had the pleasure of having that.  So the last three months of the year brings me down and even though I try to put on a brave face for my children the pain inside is sometimes unbearable.  I wish things were different and my children could have experienced family gatherings with lots of family members.

My darling mother I miss you more today than yesterday and I know you are looking down on us but I sure wish you were here to celebrate your birthday.  Happy Birthday Mommy and god knows I miss you so much.  You left me way to soon and I cry quietly for the void you have left in my heart and family.

Virtual learning

I would first like to start this off by saying when I first decided to go back to school I chose online because I had not been in school for over 30 years and I was a bit intimidated at going to school on campus.  I felt that online learning was best for me because I could learn at my on pace.

I have been at Kaplan University for 2 years now (well I have just started my second year) and I am quite happy with my chose.

The anonymity is not something that I am pleased with but I feel as though we get to know our classmates and Professors over the course of ten weeks and you do get to form a bond with them.

I do feel that the self directed course outline is great because it does allow me to work at my own pace and it does show that I am learning from this type of environment , although hard I am keeping up and enjoying working by myself to achieve my degree.

Wendesday October 27, 2010

Congratulations on completing your term on the DEAN’S HONORS list. You should be very proud of your HARD WORK and Dedication to complete your degree. And before you know it, YOU will be graduating and starting a new career. Another term Well Done!!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! From my Kaplan Advisor

Tuesday October 26, 2010

♥ I may not be the most beautiful, or the sexiest, nor do I have the perfect body. I might not be everyone's first choice, but i'm a great choice. I don't pretend to be someone that i'm not, because i'm good at being me. I might not be proud of some of the things i've done in the past, but i'm proud of who I am today!! Take me as I am or ...watch me walk away! Post this if you are proud of being u. ♥

Monday October 25, 2010

Beginning to ask questions about life is a sign you are having a major breakthrough.

The Truth of Life is right here for everybody, as it has always been, but only the ones who ask questions receive the answers and discover the truth.  When we ask questions, deeply wanting to know the answers, we will attract the answers in a form that we can understand.

To receive answers in life, you must begin to ask.

Sunday October 24, 2010

The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Saturday October 23, 2010

Each of is attracting in every moment of our lives.  So when you feel that the law isn't working for you because you don't have what you want, realize that the law is responding to you.  You are either attracting what you want or you are attracting the absence of what you want.

The law is still working.

How profound is this.

Love don't live here anymore

Was listening to the radio and heard this song, how profound was it.  It just reminded me that I have not loved anyone beside my children and myself in the last 10 years.  Love has not been my friend for a long time.  Last time I loved I spent five years in a relationship and then it was all gone in a matter of minutes.  Made me very bitter but I want to love again just do not know how. So afraid of the pain coming again.  I know I should not judge past relationships with presents but I can't seem to get the courage or strength to start a new relationship without wondering when will the bottom fall out of this. 

How do you get past the pain and open yourself for love again?  Wish I knew.

2nd week 2nd year

As we begin our second week of a new term it brings all kinds of mixed emotions.  You start to look at the work load and wonder if you are up to it and can you do enough to pass.  I am excubert about this term as with the past and also nervous but I am sure will prevail.

Have a blessed week.

Sunday

Whatever feelings you have within you are attracting your tomorrow.

Worry attracts more worry.  Anxiety attracts more anxiety.  Unhappiness attracts more unhappiness.  Dissatisfaction attracts more dissatisfaction.

And...

Joy attracts more joy.  Happiness attracts more happiness.  Peace attracts more peace.  Gratitude attracts more gratitude.  Kindness attracts more kindness.  Love attracts more love.

Your job is an inside one.  To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside.  How easy is that?

Saturday (what happened)

Today was not a good day for me.  I got into a big argument with my son all of 20 years.  it came to the point that I have asked toleave my home and I am not really happy with that decision but I have to draw the line at some point and demand my respect.

Please tell me what would you do if your 20 year old child disrespected you with words and then disrepected his 16 year old sister.  (let me just say he said some ugly things that was not called for without going into it further)?

Weekends

I spend my weekends working on school work and catching up with my daughter I also enjoy cooking and just relaxing.  What do you like to do on your weekends?

Embracing Our Past

Well I have had the pleasure of bringing my past into my future for a short time.  Some one that I was married to over thiryt years ago called me out of the blue today.  Was shocked to say the least.  Really was not sure why he chose this time, this day and at that moment to call me but he did.  We talked for a really long time and I realized when I got off the phone why I left him in the first place.  It seemed to me that he had not change in over thirty years and was stuck back in a time warp that not a come full circle yet.  Wow when we sit back and look at some of the decisions we made I often wonder what was I thinking.  Glad I did realize that I was not going to be his forever or till death do us part before it was too late.  I wish you well Stanley but do not invade my life again please.

The miners are rescued

It has given me great joy to learn that after 69 days the miners were rescused and now they can get back to living their lives and reunite with their family.

Second year in college

As I begin my second year here at Kaplan University it never seems to amaze that 30 weeks ago I had no college credits and I was nervous about going back to school and then online at that.  I have manage to obtain the Dean's List twice and the President's List once.  I am truly blessed at this time in my life.