Donya's Thoughts…

2009Archive

Dec 01

How well did I learn the skills I set out to employ? I believe I already had the skills of research to begin with, so there wasnt really much to improve on, or to reflect on how well I did this skill.  But I did learn more about citing the websites you received info from! [...]

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Nov 21

The interview pit stop of the road called  Eminent Person Project was definitely without any pot holes or speed bumps. Of course, looking back at everything.. the only thing I would have changed would be the extreme pushover I resembled in the email …I had emailed Jan Seymour after researching possible places to find people [...]

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Nov 20

The night of the notables was a very thrilling as well as a scary experience. SO scary in fact, that it beats giving speeches by a landslide! I know, just a bit weird, but ’tis the truth! I guess, it was something about there being people that you really don’t know,and that you want to [...]

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Nov 11

Literally. Take this VERY competitive soccer player, Elizabeth Lambert. As you might have seen on the sports news, this very violent defender was playing against Brigham Young University, when all of a sudden Lambert engages in some less than friendly contact with her opponents… punching, tackling (the player, not the ball)and even ponytail pulling! All [...]

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Nov 04

They took away what should have been my eyes (But I remembered Milton’s Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears). They took away what should have been my tongue, (But I had talked with God when I was young). He would not let them take [...]

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Oct 30

Reflect upon the past, look forward to the future and remain in the present That is in my view, the theme statement I gathered after reading Alistair MacLeod’s short story.  In this piece of literature MacLeod tended to look at all of points of time . The boy in the story was unsure of whether [...]

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Oct 16

Grüß dich friends. (Hello in German) After a lot of battling back and forth about who would be my eminent person, ( I don’t think that my strong decisive nature has come forth yet.. ) I have finally come across this remarkable individual named Helen Keller. And so commences my dispensing of information about her… [...]

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Oct 02

SOCIALS: BBC – World Edition BBC or, British Broadcasting Corporation is one of the oldest and largest news broadcaster. It focuses on all the world’s headlines, giving in-depth and informative reports. Not only is it a newspaper ( available in major cities) but also a Radio Station and a Television Network.  In it’s televised broadcast, [...]

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Sep 28

This is my mission statement; it represents who I really am. I will strive to incorporate the following attributes into my life: creative way of looking at things – “To be creative”, as Arthur Koestler said, ” is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are found in the same individual.” [...]

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