My attitude isn't entirely positive or negative by default. For example, my attitude towards this assignment is fairly negative, I'm inclined to think it's mindless busywork. My attitude towards Charles Swindoll poetry is also somewhat dismal. My attitude toward the idea of going home on the other hand is fairly positive. My attitude towards service learning isn't static. It may differ according wheather or not my cherios were stale that morning. I dont think it needs any specific improvement, and I feel even less need to write a paragraph about it. Everyone has probably influenced me in some way or the other, a full explanation would be fairly extensive.

service learning blog week 10

At the moment I'm working on a "self portriat" collage, a collection of images that somehow represent me. Next week we are going to start on actual self portriats, in any medium. I don't how broad "any medium" is actually meant to be. The portriants are going to be done from pictures of ourselves and several "expressive" objects that we are supposed to come up with. There isn't really that much to talk about here.

week 10 service learning blog

examples of communication

written: letters, books, newspaper

Written communication doesn't neccesarily express tone or sentiment. It can, but doesn't always. It depends on who's writing it.

verbal: song, conversation, radio

This form is the most immediate and direct. Since most speech is inherently public it can also be less accurate or honest as it is the most directly influenced by social norms and constraints.

noverbal: art, gestures, clothing

This type of communication is more abstract and difficult to dissect directly. I think most people find this more difficult to interpret than other forms.

communication skills

I have good written communication skills. I don't generally communicate well verbally, or converationally. It varies depending on who I'm communicating with. I don't effeciently communicate in "encounters". I don't know that my self projections are always accurate; I dont translate well.

service learning blog week 9

My attitude isn't a static thing, and I wouldn't describe it as wholly positive or negative. It fluctuates. For example my attitude towards this assignment is fairly negative, and my feelings towards Charley Swindoll's poetry is also dismal. My attitude towards going home on the other hand is comparatively positive. The same applies to my attitude toward service learning. Other people sometimes influence my attitude according to their own; I can't think of any examples that I particularly want to mention here, I think its a widely understood concept anyway.

service learning blog week 8 journal

This week in service learning I worked on a still life of an apple on a cutting board, focusing on technical drawing, shading, coloration etc. This is a particularly exhilirating assignment as you can imagine. I've noticed I'm slightly less interested in art projects when I have to do them. My art teacher is somewhat more rigid about assignments and time pacing than what I would generally expect.

service learning blog week 8: health hazards

I'm not sure what the potential hazards of my service learning site are, we meet on the school campus. Was a lead base used in the paint here? Perhaps a lingering poltrageist from the mental facility? A priest would be glad to drive out any demonic spirits. There were some 19th century rumours of internal combustion that I don't think were ever entirely disproved, so thats always a possibility. Also an astroid may or may not collide with the earth sometime in the next several hundred years.

The U.S. Department of Labor occupational safety and heatlh administration does not contain any information on internal combustion. They do however provide several procedures for sampling and analyzing of a premises in order to determine the sites cotton dust content. According to OSHA, this cotton dust can be potentially harmful and cause allergies. Rather than counting individual dust grains, the dust in an area instead be measured with a device called the Lumsden-Lynch vertical elutriator, which operates at a flow rate of 7.4 + or - 0.2 liters/minute.

service learning blog week 7

I'm not sure what career path I want to pursue, and not sure how my experiences influence my ambigious career. I was influenced considerably by reading books, which be obviously helpful if I did anything involving english. Also working, or sitting around, at my dad's art store put me around art and artist, which is something I'm interested in. It also gave me some basic idea of how retail works, though I'm not interested in retail. I think every experience you have influences you and everything in some way in another, so in summary living on earth for the past seventeen years will probably an influential experience towards whatever occupation I go into. I probably wont do anything in my daily life specifically for the purpose of adding valuable skills to my resume, to be honest.