Writing strengths are….

• Being creative and more in depth with the topic.

• Adding strong opinions in the writing when necessary.
• I am a writer who can be critical in what I write, but does her best to pay attention to detail and focuses on the main points.
• Being able to explain the topic as thoroughly as possible.
  

What type of content are your top three posts (or most recent) on your timeline? Is this pretty typical for your timeline? What kinds of social groups/communities are you a part of? Compare what you see with what your peers see. Are there more similarities or differences? Answer: My typical post is posting about interest quotes, news, facts, food, cars, and also cute animals videos. My peers have the same kind of groups and timelines.

What is the relationship between what you see in your social media timeline and what you know or believe? Answer: The relationship is somewhat different to the timeline, but it also depends on what it is. Most social media post are videos, photos, memes, and news information that is either true or false.

How does your social presence compare with the professional/student biography that you created? Answer: There is more information added in the professional biography than the student biography, and the student biography is not as creative and not enough detail added.

                                                                               
Where do you find examples of bias in your social media timelines? Answer: When on social media, I am very critical on certain things that I would post on social media. When I see if the information looks like fake news or is fake news, I would never post or share the information.

Who do I potentially influence on social media?

Answer: Nobody as of now, I normally do not go on social media often to be a potential influence.

Who do I engage with most on social media?

Answer: Nobody at the moment.

10 values that is most important to me:

Authority

Self-Respect

Faith

Justice

Leadership

Loyalty

Respect

Success

Wealth

Wisdom

Who are you as a person?

Answer: A strong woman who hustles everyday to better herself , and knows her worth and importance in the world.

Who are you as a writer?

Answer: I am a writer that has an issue with grammar and spelling, but will always have an interest to write.

Who are you as a student?

Answer: A student who works hard in all of her classes to get the a passing grade that she deserves and stays motivated.

What roles do you play in society?

Answer: My role in society is to learn the Business field that I want to have and to promote my business by spreading awareness to help other when they need it most.

Author: The Times Editorial Board

Title: The Amazon is burning and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t care

Source: Los Angeles TimesLink: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-26/the-amazon-is-burning-and-its-more-important-than-you-realize

Fact: The Amazon rain forest, with it’s vast canopy of tress and other lush vegetation, removes about 5% of the global carbon that humans emit into the atmosphere every year.

Claim: China is replacing soy that it used to buy from U.S. farmers with soy from Brazilian farmers, which increases that rewards for cutting yet more of the rain forest.

Opinion: Bolsonaro was not receptive: he accused the leaders of embracing colonialism by telling Brazil what to do. But there’s nothing colonial in asking a neighbor to stop lighting fires that affect the rest of us.

Editorial: The Amazon is burning and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t care

Based on the featured article, “Editorial: The Amazon is burning and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t care,” by   The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, states that President Bolsonaro does not care about the forest burning and the land and is now waiting to be farmed and re-developed. The article also states that President Bolsonaro doesn’t care about having the forest being protected and wants it to burn down, which has already spread by the size of a football field in minutes. A meeting has been held in France, G-7, where international leaders has accused Bolsonaro for the land use and failed to flow the environmental policies. G-7 has spent more than $20 million dollars to aid Brazil and Bolivia with firefighting equipment. The article also states that French President  Emmanuel Macron has made a pledge to form an alliance to restore the reforestation. It seems that other countries are stepping up to help the Amazon rainforest, expect for Bolsonaro and Trump. Between President Trump’s trade war with China, and the deforestation of the Amazon, they both affect us all, and it is something that both President Bolsonaro and President Trump are oblivious about and completely disregarded the well-being of the world. The troubling effect of the Amazon is also putting an increase on Global Warming, and if we do not start now on trying to not only restore the Amazon, but also fix other environmental issues, our world will be able to last longer and continue to produce the resources that we are going to continue to need in the future. We must all help the world, and also need Leaders to step up and help one another to make the world a better place.

Link to the article: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-26/the-amazon-is-burning-and-its-more-important-than-you-realize

Are you a obliger, questioner, rebel, or upholder? Answer: Based on the “How do you find motivation” article, I am a questioner.

How are you going to thrive in this class? Answer: I will be thriving in the class by making sure that I always ask questions on a topic that I am not sure about that way I can do the assignments correctly. Another thing is to never second guess myself, and if I don’t do that, then I will be successful in the class.

The Detroit Zoo hopes to be entirely powered by renewable energy by 2021: By Ryan Prior, CNN News

Summary: In the featured article, “The Detroit Zoo hopes to be entirely powered by renewable energy by 2021,” the author, Ryan Prior, explains that the Detroit Zoo Chief life sciences officer, Scott Carter, has announced that the Zoo will be using 100% fully powered renewable energy. The renewable energy will be coming from windmills and solar panels, and will be starting with the reptile house first. MIGreenPower and the Zoo have partnered together and the DTE’s program has allowed there client’s to receive the energy from renewable sources. As of now, the DTE is expecting to receive wind only site’s online by the year 2020. Ryan Prior also explains in the article that the Zoo is going to go green in several ways by installing an anaerobic digestion, which has already diverted 500 tons of the waste by herbivores and food scraps from landfills. Diverting it will be converted to compost and energy. The Zoo has also switched over from solar/electric golf carts instead of gas, and completely eliminated the use of plastic water bottles. 

1. According to Alex Reid, what are the benefits of doing an online blog for a writing class? Answer: The benefits of doing an online blog for a writing class is being able to have more ideas on what topics you would want to write. Blogging also gives you the ability to control the length, format, and subject, which develops into informal writing. Other benefits of having a blog in writing class is practicing the important material of writing and improving your writing skills.
2. What are your feelings about keeping a blog, good and bad? Answer: For me blogging is more of a hobby, but it is beneficial for writing in general because of the opportunities of exploring interesting topics, and also having the freedom to write what you want to write, without having to worry about how long the topic needs to be or the font size. Blogging is a good way to be very creative in writing and can also lead to having more success on wanting to write, with less difficulties of finding a topic, while also improving your writing skills. The negative thing about blogging is the amount of time it will take to get use to using it for the first time and finding topics that would really interest me to write about.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.