What Puzzles Me

Last week I had you write about what you are thirsting to learn and why. This week I want you to write about what puzzles you (confuses you) about the world, school, life, this class, etc., and why. It DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ABOUT THIS CLASS, although it can be. Write a 3-paragraph descriptive essay on your blog about what puzzles you and why that thing or idea or person or place or whatever puzzles you and what you think you could say, do, or think about to make it less confusing for yourself.

There are a lot of things that puzzle me in this world, theres so much in the media, in art, history, and in the world that confuses me. Like how in the city when you look up why do the building look like they'll fall on you, or why does a smaller bag of goldfish taste so much better than the big bag. There is so many questions to ask, so much to learn; however, if I could find out the truth about something that puzzles me, the one things I always wonder about is history and the truth of everything thats happened, not the textbook version and not the stories they teach us in the classroom, but what really happened. In my mind this world is filled with corruption and false truths leading us to believe that the white supremacy is what this world is about however that is false. It puzzles me how Adolf Hitler received the Nobel Piece Prize over a Nazi woman who save over a thousand children by hiding them in her home. It puzzles me how we praise Christopher Columbus for "finding the new world" yet he brought diseases, raped the women, and destroyed what the Indians had discovered first. It puzzles me that we live in a world filled with illusions around us; artists get arrested for drawing on public property saying as though art is a crime; or how this is no longer a racist world yet a young man cant buy an expensive belt without being stopped and frisked. The world puzzles, why? Because the world is a full of lies and misconceptions. I would love for the textbooks and television shows to stop spreading half the story of history but give the real truth about what happened and how it happened and I guarantee people will realize how UNFREE this world is. 

What I am thirsting to Learn

In a world filled with everlasting opportunities, there is always room to learn. For myself, I have always been quite the multi-tasker; writing poetry, dancing, playing the violin and basketball. Yet there is still so much that I thirst to learn. Anything from taking a car apart and putting it back together, to learning how to sing, I would love to know it all. However, above all things there is one in particular I am thirsting to learn more than anything. I want to learn how to become an interior Designer.

From the moment I hit age ten I knew that I wanted to become an interior designer after watching the HGTV network and getting hooked in an instant. I've always had an eye for creating and I knew I never wanted to be the typical girl actress, model or fashionista so Interior Design is what caught my eye from the very beginning. I love the idea that these designers can see the potential in the smallest, ugliest or most rundown space and create into a masterpiece. Interior Designers are like Architectural magicians that have the ability to create and envision which is what I know I am capable of.
Not only do I thirst to learn about what it takes to be a designer because of how captivating the art is, but also because it is the career I want to pursue and make my own business out of. There is a quote that says "If you do what you love, youll never work a day in your life"; Well I watched my mom and dad take careers that they didn't love and it makes life that much more complicated for them. No matter if its not a great deal of pay or if its short or long hours I want to be able to call myself an Interior designer because it is what I love more than anything and what I thrive to learn.

Many people in life don't follow their dreams because they're too afraid, they get caught up in the wrong things or simply because life happens. I will make it my duty to never let anything or anyone get in the way of what I learn to learn, the thing I love, which is to design; To take an empty space and create a beautiful novel out of it. I want to be known, I want to create a style for future designs to recognize and appreciate. I thirst to learn the world of Interior Design because it is what thrills me and the one thing in life I look forward to.

How I Learn

Everyone learns differently. You are to write a 3-paragraph descriptive essay on your blog and call it "How I Learn." Here are the different learning styles that have been identified by a Harvard researcher:

1) Kinesthetic - body smart - use of body and body movement to learn
2) Linguistic - word smart - use of language and reading of words to learn
3) Logical - mathematical/numbers smart - use of numbers and numerical sequencing to learn
4) Interpersonal - people smart - use of communication and interaction with others to learn
5) Intrapersonal - myself smart - use of self-reflection and self-understanding to learn
6) Spatial - picture smart - use of two- or three-dimensional pictures of images to learn
7) Musical - music smart - use of rhythm and other musical elements to learn

There are many various ways to learn in this world; some are visual learners while others are listening or movement learners. I myself would consider the way I learn to be more Interpersonal than anything. I feel that I learn well when I can visually see something, therefore I would consider myself a    Spatial learner. Based on my style of learning, images, pictures, sculptures, graphs etc. is what helps me to better understand something and learn better. To be a Spatial - Picture smart - learner is when you have a visual style to organize information and communicate with others. Spatial learners can easy  visualize objects and visual descriptions and build in their minds from those images. Our sense of space gives us a good sense of direction and a clear idea. Being that I am also an artist, I am constantly creating or analyzing visuals which is why I'd be a Spatial learner more than anything. Every individual is unique which makes their learning style unique as well and it should be embraced 

write a 3-paragraph descriptive essay on this: What was the first research assignment you remember ever having? Were you in elementary school, middle school, or high school? Exactly what grade were you in? What do you remember learning about the research process? What did you choose to write about or was a topic assigned to you? Did the teacher who gave you the assignment teach you about the research process? Or was it the school librarian? Or both? What sources do you remember using? Encyclopedias? Books? Articles? The Internet? Other sources? As you did with the last writing prompt, describe the research process you went through. Did you enjoy it? Hate it? Find it fun? Find it boring? Find it tedious? If you answer this writing prompt in a 3-paragraph descriptive essay, you will get full credit for having written on your blog for this week.

The first research assignment I did was on Madame C.j. Walker.  I believe I was in the 6th grade at I.S. 61. What I remember learning about the research process is that Madame C.j. was the first female self made millionaire due to her cosmetics and hair products. I remember using wikipedia, encyclopedias, books focusing on her and various websites. The research process I went through was searching her biography and learning about her early life leading into her adult life. I researched how she began doing cosmetics and where her start to success began. I did not find it tedious because I was researching someone I had interest in because she was one of the first successful American women of all time. I highly enjoyed the assignment and learning so much about about Madame C.J. and her contribution to both African American History and the idea of feminism

research assignment

 When was the last time you were assigned a research project? In what subject was it? What did you do? How did you feel about it? What did you think about it? Was it hard? Easy? Interesting? Boring? A burden? A joy? What was your project about? Did your teacher give you a choice of topics or was a topic assigned to you? If you answer these questions, you will get full credit for the past week's blog posts. If you've already written on your blogs, great! You'll only have to write on your blog once next week as I want everyone to answer these questions. You don't have to answer every single question, just get to the gist of what I am asking. I am not grading your writing. I just want you to write.


The last time I was assigned a research project was last year in my english class. We were studying gender roles and I had to do a great deal of research on the roles of women throughout history and how they were discriminated against because of their gender. I loved the research project although it was a lot of work it was great to learn about women and their gender roles and make an argument on how women deserve to be treated equally. The teacher did give the class a choice between gender roles, The 1920's, and also about Prohibition, however gender roles seemed most intriguing to me because I am a proud young woman and I believe we should  be treated equally.