Zootopia is an animated film that I would like to recommended to watch. The film based on the animals, from the largest elephant to the smallest shrew, the city of Zootopia is a city where various animals live and thrive. The city full of joys, until some evil guys who wanted power by making innocent animals become a predator. Meanwhile, a far away, there is a village called Bunny. Among the village, there is a bunny who has a dream of becoming a police officer. Her name is Judy Hopps. When Judy Hopps becomes the first one to join the police force, she quickly learns how tough it is to enforce the law. Determined to prove herself, Judy jumps at the opportunity to solve a mysterious case. While doing her job (traffic warden), she met a guy name Nick Wilde in the ice cream store with his child. He is a wily fox, who makes ice cream for living, he was a trouble maker, but he’s a nice guy. He and Judy become partner after Judy helped him from trouble. I recommended this film because I want people who thinks they are different to other to think deeper about themselves. Like Judy, the rabbits. She is really small creature compared to other animals but she has a dream of become a cop, even though she is small but she is proud of who she is and become whatever she wants.
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Who did I work with to compose my academic mindset project? Was this a good approach?
I wrote my academic mindset project alone. it was really hard because ive been thinking for weeks to have an idea to write on my project. It wasnt good approach to be honest because i may not wrote the right things on my projects. Its like im not stay on track on academic mindset. What was the most difficult part of my writing process? Why? What did I do to overcome the obstacles? The most difficult part of my writing process is what to write on my projects. I was really stuck for a week because of it. When did I write this project? Good approach? I finished it on the last minutes because I had some thinking to do. It wasn't a good approach, I could have write it while im thinking, but i didnt choose that way, so. Where did I write this project? Good approach? In my room. Yes it was a good approach because nobody was there to distract me Why did I choose to write about my chosen topic? At first im not even sure what to write for my projects. It was a randomly idea from my mind, so i used it as my academic mindset. How will I adapt/revise my writing process for future revision of the academic mindset assignment? There are many students who have different mindsets compared to others. There are two main mindsets which lead to debates merits of education, one of them is Growth and the other is Fixed mindset. In the article “Teachers, Parent Often Misuse Growth Mindsets Research” by The Hechinger Report, it mentions a person named Carol Dweck, who has claimed that students who have Growth mindset performs better than those who have Fixed mindset. In a similar article, the perils of “Growth Mindset” education: […] by Alfie Kohn, who says that we should fix the system instead of focusing on growth and fixed mindsets. He believed that Growth mindsets isn't a best way to make students performed better. In my opinion on this debate, I think that Carol Dweck makes a strong point about growth mindsets help students learn new things by embrace mistakes and never give up, but Mr. Kohn also points out that students need to obtain the right attitude in order to accomplish things instead of focusing on mindsets. Growth mindset help students explore and expand their knowledge even further where the universe is waiting. A growth mindset and fixed mindset have influenced in many ways.
Can a person be allowed to have both mindsets? Because I’m a person full of curiosity, I want to learn new things that are often neglected in the world, but sometime there is certain thing that i don't want to do. Mrs. Dweck said that people who have Growth mindset often ask questions and try new things instead of doing the same thing every day, which isn’t working as they expects. In contrast I am not a person who like to ask questions frequently because I want to try on my own before I ask them. In my high school career, I had so many questions and problems that I wanted to ask other, but instead of asking questions, I need to answer them before I asked. So would I be considered a Fixed mindset? It is because I don’t ask questions frequently? I’m not a person who are afraid of challenges, even though I don’t know what am I doing, but I’m actually like to try and embrace the results whether it’s good or bad. Life has different destinations for everyone, and human beings always have their own goals. It’s like the paths which students take, each student has their own path that was predetermined for them. Being a student is like a traveler, the one who goes on a journey to discover the new places. In the beginning of their journey, they have to decide which path they should take: The path of knowledge or illiteracy. Sometimes I feel very excited about new things and places that I’m going to face, but sometimes I feel scared of getting lost in a mindset of unfamiliar things. At a young age, I had to leave my home, my community to go to a new place. My middle school friends almost were not here. I was living in an entirely new environment when I moved to this country. I remembered imagine myself being a student facing many challenges: Everything changed about me ever since I moved to the States. I had to overcome challenges such us adapting to the American culture, learning the English language and getting through a day without any unwanted attention. Perhaps the most difficult challenges I had to went through were mainly from school. I was a shy kid and I was afraid of everything. The thoughts of losing my accomplishments, not being able to master English, failing classes in school and being isolated in a place where no one looked like me dominated my entire life in school. I was living with constant fears and struggling to find out who I really am on the inside. It took me a long time to take up the courage to ask myself this question “should I stay contained like this forever or go out of my comfort zone and explore?” Thanks to that question, I was able to develop a new mindset on my life. If I stop myself from trying new things, then I would stay in the same old spot for the rest of my life. I realized that I should go out and explore new challenges that life has offered so I could make mistakes and those mistakes will help me become a better person. Looking back, it has been 6 years since I left my country, I had the opportunity to become friends with foreign students who had the same experience as me during my ELL years. I learned to adapt new things and changes in life. I became more involved with my community which in turn granted me a best friend that motivated me to do things that are “impossible” in my life. I felt fearless and happy for not giving up on trying things. I believe that I can do anything if I set my mind to it. School had not been my final destination on my journey but it was a foundation that laid out the path of discovering new places, where I could grow and improve my mindset. In this world, human is really curious creature who have two different mindsets. One of them is growth mindset, and the other is fixed mindset. Both have different kind of mind: People who have growth mindset tend to seeks something new to learn, they embrace mistakes that they made and get improve. Fixed mindset is slightly going to the opposite way, but not quite, they think to themselves that they’re smart enough so they won’t challenge themselves, perhaps they’re not familiar with new things. In the article Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research , Carol Dweck Says (Carol Dweck) by The Hechinger Report, it tell the information about of what Carol Dweck had claimed toward the students. She has mentioned that parents shouldn’t praise their kids to get them excited after they did something really awesome. It is because when parents praise their kid too much, their failure in the future might impact their life. She also mentioned that people who have fixed mindset will stop trying when they see something aren’t familiar with them. In a similar article The Perils of "Growth Mindset Education" [...] (Alfie Kohn) by Alfie Kohn, the author himself claimed that fixed mindset aren’t the problems of student’s education. He claimed that we should change student’s attitude rather than worries about fixed mindset or growth mindset because those have been led by the teacher instead of learning to achieve things by themselves. After I read both articles I have thinks that growth mindset have a bigger chance to move forwards in life. It tend to seeks many challenges so you can earn knowledges.
Who did I work with to compose my hiraeth project? Was this a good approach?
I completed it with my own hands. It was really tough to write a whole essay in your own without help, but i managed to finished it. What was the most difficult part of my writing process? Why? What did I do to overcome the obstacles? The most difficult part of my writing process was the introduction. I was struggles how to connect my introduction to my middle part. I had a hard to time to decides what to write as a introduction, but I made it through without thinking hard enough. My introduction might be terrible, but its better than nothing. When did I write this project? Good approach? To be honest, i forgot when i started this project. I guess I started it on Monday at noon, but i only wrote the introduction, then i finished on the due date. Maybe its a good approach for me because at first, i dont have any ideas at all, but between monday and the due date; I've done some thinking of what to writes on my projects so i can add them later Where did I write this project? Good approach? I wrote it in my room. The room was empty, except me and my crappy computer. A bed next to me of course and a water bottle in case of thirsty. Its a good approach because i saw no sign of people talking or making noise, so its was great. Why did I choose to write about my chosen hiraeth? At first, i was going to write about a story about my cousins and i going wild at night playing hide and seek, but I changed my mind when I heard some people was going to tell the story of their grandparents. So i picked my grandparents as a story for my hiraeth project How will I adapt/revise my writing process for future revision of the hiraeth assignment. To make my works better, i need feedbacks from experts, so i know what i did wrong and i will try my best to revise it to be a better one On December 18, 2010, a day full of joy and a little bit of sadness. I sat down at the porch’s blue stairs, looking up at the sky and pondering. A sound of cicada has made me remember the time when my grandfather and I used to hang out. The sky seemed to get darker and darker to the point that I could see the sparkle in my eyes as I looking up to the stars. Little kids were running around my yard screaming like a bunch of zebras running away from the lions. A feeling of anxiety and fear surrounded me when the clouds covered the shiny moon. Perhaps, I was worrying about not being able to see my loved ever again. My parents were inside the house having the last conversation with my grandmother. As the sun begun to set, the time we spent with my grandmother slowly drained. The last day until midnight, we spent the most of it packing, and wishing our grandfather was there. As time went by, we packed our belongings and drove all the way to the airport; from there we said our goodbyes to our relative and friends one more time. Off we went to a faraway destination. On the midnight of July, my sisters were preparing for dinner as were are waiting for our family to gathered. My older brother was upstairs playing his computer. My dad was outside fixing our black bike, which was really old one. I was all alone in the corner playing with my coins. My other siblings were watching TV. Suddenly, the silence covered the whole space when the phone rang. My sister picked up the phone call from my uncle and went outside to talk. By the time the call has ended, my sister was really scared and terrified, as the tears running down on her face. Her tone suddenly changed as well. I was scared and desolated when I heard something that I've never wanted to hear. Nobody smiled but everyone cried. After everything that my sister said about our grandfather's condition, we rushed to our grandparents’ house. The wind became stronger as we were trying to get to my grandparents’ house. The memories among my head of my grandfather was significant. It was the moment I started to realize how much I love him. Even though I didn’t see him much because all of the paper works we needed to do to for our immigration. I started to remember how he taught me to read a book and helped my hand writing to improve. I remembered one time when I was a little kid, my sister was mad at me for getting a bad grade in writing class. I was scolded by a teacher when I wrote number nine as a letter G in the alphabet. It was embarrassing to begin with. As the time went by my grandfather bought some books and read them to me every night in his tiny room. The color of the room was blue. The air condition made the room chilly during those summer nights. The bed with four legs was placed in the corner. My grandfather and I looked into each other’s eyes, sitting on the wooden chair, with a dark brown wooden table in front of us. A yellow pencil and a piece of paper laid on the table ready to be used. My grandfather was getting older as I looked at him. His hair was really white. He looked at me and said “I’ll help you with your hand writing”. I was a really quiet person, even now, so I didn’t say anything. His voice was getting softer and softer as he began to speaks. I was really scared at first because I thought I was going to get a punishment. We spent a couple of hours trying to get my hand writing better. As we tried to improve my handwriting, he told me a story about his life when he was young. He told me as much stories as he remembered. He told me a story where he walked home with my mom and waited for her when the school has ended. The road they walked was full of lights hovering above their heads, like Christmas lights. The atmosphere in the room was unforgettable, he told me funny stories and how he met my grandmother. As the conversation went on, we started hearing cicada making noises behind the walls. Suddenly, he stood up and opened the window wide open and he told me to look outside to see the beautiful landscape. The sky was covered in darkness as the moon brighten the houses. The sky was full of stars, as he looked up above, tiny sparkle appeared in his beautiful eyes. It was the best moment of my life that I had spending time with my grandfather, a person I loved the most is now in heaven with God. Even though I wasn’t with him during the last minutes of his life, I bet he would feel the same way too. I remember when I was little, my cousins and I would gathered at my grandparents’ house to have a sleep over and to get ready for a the beach on the next day. We went on vacation once a year when my aunt came home from america for a holiday vacation. On that faithful day, my cousins and I played hide and seek at my grandparents. We were really excited because we rarely see each other often, so we started to play hide and seek, and many other games. It was really dark outside. Since it was about midnight when we started to play hide and seek. It took placed in the very small room; whoever was the seekers has to start from there. There was no light completely dark, if someone were to scare us, we would’ve panicked and ran like someone who have been chased by a dog. But things got a little scarier when we saw a doll was hanging in the middle of the room. It’s creepy because it reminded us a character from Child's Place. It’s a movie that about a doll that was alive and trying to kill humans. Whoever put that up there have no heart at all because it freaked us out when we saw it. Anyways, we continued to play hide and seek because we did not believe that it was going to move or going to hurt us. We were scarred for a while, but it wasn’t big deal, so we played for couple of hours and then got back to the house to pack our belongings for the next day, then we slept for a couple of hours until 4 or 5am, after that we hopped onto the bus and went on an adventure to a faraway destination. When I hear the word Hireath, which I’ve never heard of before. I was totally confused and was curious what its mean, until I google it and found out that the word Hireath is something important in your life that had happened to you and you wanted to go back, but you can’t. It also defined as homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed in Welsh word. I wasn’t uncertain of what I going to write about Hireath. Honestly, I’ve never been homesick before because my family are still with me in a beautiful home full of joy. Sometime things get messy, but we figured something out with the right way to solved it . Even through some of my siblings are separated from us, but were still keeping in touch. Maybe a story about me and my cousins would be considering as a homesickness because we have many memories with each other when we were little kids that I wanted to go back to where it was. I can also make up stories that somewhat connected to my family, which I could add more details into it. Maybe a stories when I and my family gathered together, a stories full of joy and children are running around screaming like a bunch of people who are running away from a dog chase, a story which you want to go back so badly.
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