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Free Writing

1) By looking around my room the thing that catches my eyes is my king size bed. It occupies almost one third of this room. It is big and blue. It is tall enough to put many boxes in under it. I love this bed for it size, so I can roll to the right and left.

2) In my last shower I was thinking about today’s plan. I checked in my mind if I have finished all homework that was assigned and where I was going to watch NBA finals.

3) Last night I did not think much. I was just terrified by the idea of writing a 25 pages paper for the class. In addition, I was thinking that almost all my male classmates are athletics and they are huge comparing to me.

4) My favorite class in college I think it was Introduction to Theater and EDPS classes. In the theater class I have the opportunity to learn a lot of art culture here in Lincoln. I watched three different plays and many slides or video that professor gave to us in class. The EDPS class is an international education curse for international students. It is a type of introduction of American college life and getting to know what sources you have on campus curse. I basically know every place on campus because of this class. It is really helpful in the first year of adaptation here in America. In addition, I met many good friends there and we had a great time together. In high school my favorite classes were the history and geography. I am easy learner in history because I like to explore the past and know more about our past generations. The geography classes were great because I can understand more about why and how all these natural disaster are formed and my current location.

5) I am very friendly person, so rarely I argue with somebody. However, the last time I think it was in March when I decided to buy a car. I want to buy a brand new car or a car with less than 20,000 miles on it, but my parent think that it is unnecessary they wanted me to buy an old car that cost around 5,000 to 8,000 dollars. Therefore, It was a crazy month of me trying to convince them that a new car would be better for me because I was going to use it for a long period of time. Thankfully they accepted my idea.

6) My feelings right now are a mix of angry and sadness. I just watched the second game of NBA finals and the team that I am rooting for and they lose it. It has been more than three years that I did not watch an NBA finals game. I used to love watch basketball, but my team start to loose and I stopped to follow the games. However, these last couple games made me want to watch basketball again. It is a great way of entertainment and a time to socialize by watching the game with friends instead of using computer or using the cellphone all the time. My thinking is all about the homework right now. I have to finish it. I should probably start doing the homework earlier that I am doing now by tomorrow.

7) My home community is in Sao Paulo. It is the biggest city in the South American. Therefore, the city is a huge concentration of skyscrapers, cars, and people. My parents and my sister are there. It is totally different from Lincoln-NE although it has some points in common with the downtown Omaha-NE. The places I see are my house, the biggest avenue called “ Avenida Paulista”, Korean or Japanese town, many places that I used to play soccer, and the church that I used to go. I love my home community. However, Sao Paulo is still a development city. Therefore, the poverty lives with the richness causing instability. I have been assaulted in the streets. My home has been robbed. It is dangerous to walk or drive in the streets after 11.pm. All these problems helped me decided to leave the city that I love and hate at the same time.

8) I am very scared about this class. It seen that I will have to work hard a lot, but I like challenges. In addition, I hope I can make new friends and improve my English writing, speaking, and listening.

Critical Question

 My critical question is How has the progression of technology affected the social skills of society?  I choose it because this question can bring many sub-topics to discuss about it and it is also one of the most discussed questions in the world nowadays. I think my generation of 90’s experienced the transition of the no-tech world to the tech world. I remember very cleanly of playing with neighbor kids without even knowing them. Going to the streets and parks to have fun. However, nowadays I see many children that are always with the head down looking on their smartphone or tablets. It makes me think a lot if it is good and right to give to five years old kid a tablet or smartphone as present. I was a victim of the abuse of technology and the result is the eyeglasses in my head. I start to use computer at nine or eight. I was fascinated by the games, so I became addicted. However, my parents were able to take my game out of me when I start to play more than the normal. Most of the time computer of video game parents could hide or just turn it off, but now the cellphone or small videogame device are small and so hard to take out because sometimes you need to have the phone with you for cases of emergence. I think this question is asked all around the world because the famous scene is when a group of friend goes out to dinner and everybody is checking their phones. It is ridiculous because they were there to socialize with each other, instead of that they were just looking at their phone at looking about other’s people life. This question is perfect for the projects because it can be divided in three main topics. Therefore, I do not have to worry about on what to write about. In addition, it is a problem that is currently be discuss everywhere in the world and I am one of the victim and witness of how this technology are changing people’s life.

Question about the project

There will be some sort of hand out to read and to follow for the project?