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  1. Jan 2018
    1. Wait awhile after you’ve finished a draft before looking at it again.

      All of my teachers when I was growing up stated this. It really is true though. This also applies to any type of decision making in life.

    2. Well, that’s a part of revision called editing. It’s another important final step in polishing your work. But if you haven’t thought through your ideas, then rephrasing them won’t make any difference.

      I wasn't aware that editing was part of revising. I always was under the impression that proofreading and editing were nearly if not the same thing.

    3. But I thought revision was just fixing the commas and spelling

      I thought that this was called "Editing". Revision to me is the reorganizing or adding content.

    1. "I wanted to put my arm around him, and tell him what he always told me, "Don't worry Dad, tomorrow will be a better day." This, I believe. I love how he closed this with a direct quote from his father that he was once told to comfort him when he was overwhelmed or had a lousy day.

    2. "My stepmother proved that to me." I love how he closed his essay. He closes it not with his belief but with the statement that his stepmother proved what he believed.

    3. "Rather, the whole thing just really confused me on what to believe." I love the fact that he is honest about the fact that he just can't make sense of his father's passing.

    4. "I believe in semi-permanent hair dye". I find it interesting that she begins her essay with what you believe is her belief until she finishes her introduction with her actual belief.

    5. "I believe in hypocrisy, just a little." Her belief was in her introduction paragraph. I thought she did a good job moving to her belief from the concept of semi-permanent hair dye. It wasn't really surprising. Her ending paragraph is a bit of a cliche. Her closing sentence is really good as it ties back to the introduction.

    6. "I believe that progress comes in unexpected leaps." is definitely his claim statement. It is about halfway through the essay. I don't think the belief was very surprising of a belief, I felt that it flowed rather nicely to when he stated what he believed in. He gave a great introduction into his past and the struggles he went through trying to learn due to dyslexia.

    1. Fortunately, smart consumers have been getting wise to this, pushing sales of diet drinks down for three straight years, at rates faster than regular soft drinks.

      I was actually surprised by this statistic. I'd be curious as what it is at now.

    1. Susan Neely is president and CEO of the American Beverage Association. Dr. Howell Wechsler is CEO of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.

      It appears to me that this article is written by those that it's about? Seems a bit biased, especially with the headline that this article has.

    1. After the meal, she appeared to doze, then opened her eyes and said,” What am I supposed to know? Do I know anything? Do I have a name?”

      This has to be one of the most painful things that someone can go through. Either watching someone they're close to or being the person who just can't remember anything about themselves or anyone else.

    2. She waved away the spoon when I brought it toward her and, holding up the piece of clear trash, she said, “Isn’t this a cute thing?” then continued to look at it for a long time. She pointed at the toe of my boot and said, “Whose head is that? Is it a baby’s?” She looked at the sunlight coming along the wall and asked me why they had done that, why they hadn’t left it the way it was. After the meal, she appeared to doze, then opened her eyes and said,” What am I supposed to know? Do I know anything? Do I have a name?”

      She seems to be struggling from sort of mental disorder or is hallucinating, possibly from medication.

    3. I was feeding my mother her breakfast at Emory Hospital

      Even without going further than this first sentence I know that this is going to be a story about a child that has to go through his mother's struggle at the Hospital.

    1. "I know it's wrong to think of Hugh as an absence, a thwarted shadow." The loaded words of "Thwarted shadow" and comparing that to the absence, shows how intense that absence was.

    2. "Instead of remembering Hugh as I knew him, I too often think of him in terms of what he never had a chance to be." I've never heard anyone say this that concisely. I think it's a really interesting way to remember someone, and definitely can be a very hard way to remember someone you were so close to.

    3. "It is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots." I feel that this is meaning that it's great to die in your own bed and at home rather than a hospital bed. But it's even better to die on the go working towards something.

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    1. They lie side by side in my lap, their palms turned up as if to catch this fleeing moment as it falls away. But as I peer down into them they begin to move on their own, to turn and shift. I watch the left hand slowly rise to place its palm against my heart. and watch the right rise swiftly to enfold the other.

      I infer that the author is stating that he wants to emulate his father and sees himself becoming like his father. Because the hands are moving on their own I infer that he feels like his father is now apart of him.

    2. I would like to be held by these hands, held by them as they were when I was a child and I seemed to fall within them wherever I might turn, I would like to feel them warm and broad against my back and would like to be pressed to the breast of this man with his faint perfume of aftershave, with the tiny brown moles on his neck, with the knot of his necktie slightly darkened by perspiration.

      The author is missing his father deeply. He's missing the ability to be physically close to him. From this statement it's very apparent that his father had passed away. I presume that the father passed in his childhood as the author's warm memories of his father are during his childhood and hasn't talked about him when he was older.

    3. More and more frequently since I entered my fifties I have begun to see my father's hands out at the ends of my arms.

      I loved this statement. I infer that he is stating that he is becoming more and more like his father every day.

    1. AlthoughIknowhowtodoeverythingoneneedstoknow-changeairplanes,findmyexitofftheinterstate,chargegas,sendafax-thereissomethingmissing.

      In this instance I think that the author is missing more than just the treat. I feel that the author is missing some connection to her family's traditions.

    2. Thishurtmygrandfather’sfeelings

      I initially found it odd that it hurt his feelings as he was the one who decided to sell it. But I think there's more to the 100 dollars. I presume that the family was in dire need of the money at the time. This would have been an amazing legacy of the great-grandfather.

    3. Beforemygreat-grandfatherdied,hesoldtherecipeforthemintsyruptosomeoneintownforonehundreddollars.

      This seems like an incredibly little amount of money for a recipe that famous in his local area. I presume that he sold it in the 50's or 60's.

    1. If enough people had spoken for the river, we might have saved it. If enough people had believed that our scarred country was worth defending, we might have dug in our heels and fought. Our attachments to the land were all private. We had no shared lore, no literature, no art to root us there, to give us courage, to help us stand our ground.

      I think it's quite apparent that the author isn't only deeply attached to the Buckeye's because of their father's passing but they also seem to be holding onto them as a reminder of a place that has ceased to exist.

    2. So he fondled those buckeyes as if they were charms, carrying them with him when our family moved from Ohio at the end of my childhood, bearing them to new homes in Louisiana, then Oklahoma, Ontario, and Mississippi, carrying them still on his final day

      It's touching how committed the father was to always having these buckeyes because he was so fearful of losing the ability to use his hands.

    3. I keep in a wooden box on my desk the two buckeyes that were in his pocket when he died.

      The author keeps the two buckeyes to always have something to physically hold that ties him to his father.

  3. Dec 2017
    1. With freedom of conscience assured, conflict becomes less likely.

      This is a fantastic point. Conflict, and more importantly a revolution is much less likely to happen if freedom of conscience or choice is made available.

    2. The early Republic welcomed public worship. Church services were held in the U.S. Capitol and Treasury buildings every Sunday. The imagery in many federal buildings remains unmistakably biblical.

      This is interesting, I had never known about this.

    1. Paul Williams, voted yes to the federal money, but he added wording saying that the Salvation Army couldn't use the facility to hold prayer services or proselytize because of the separation of church and state.

      I think the logic behind this makes sense. Because it's funded through federal money the facility shouldn't be favoring one religion. The salvation army is part of the Christian Church. Their mission is to "preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination." I think it's fair to believe that the federal government shouldn't be funding a religious organization. I think that Williams' proposal was an alright compromise. He didn't state that the inhabitants couldn't pray, he stated that the facility couldn't be used to "hold prayer services."

  4. Oct 2017
    1. I wanted to put my arm around him, and tell him what he always told me, “Don’t worry Dad, tomorrow will be a better day.” This, I believe.

      I really like this view. It's the 16 year old reassuring his dad using his dad's favorite motivational phrase "Tomorrow will be a better day"

    2. the Cubs win the World Series

      We've already witnessed this!

    3. Instead, he was upset about the world his generation is turning over to mine, a world he fears has a dark and difficult future – if it has a future at all.

      I can understand this fear, now more than ever. With the rise of global warming as well as global tensions that are on the rise. It can be frightening to look towards the future and envision the world.

    1. solipsistic

      I wasn't aware of what this word meant, and had to look it up. Apparently it "is sometimes expressed as the view that "I am the only mind which exists,"

  5. Mar 2017
    1. “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed[a] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

      I feel that this shows how important it was to "Job" to confess and realize when you've done something wrong.

  6. Feb 2017
    1. Our work to date suggests that a significant percentage of the activities performed by even those in the highest-paid occupations (for example, financial planners, physicians, and senior executives) can be automated by adapting current technology

      I thought that this was an interesting finding that goes against what we view automation doing.

    2. Interior designers could spend less time taking measurements, developing illustrations, and ordering materials, and more time developing innovative design concepts based on clients’ desires.

      I thought that this was a great point on one of the benefits to AI that will definitely be used in my essay.

    3. Michael Chui is a principal at the McKinsey Global Institute, where James Manyika is a director; Mehdi Miremadi is a principal in McKinsey’s Chicago office.

      McKinsey is a management firm that analyzes in order to determine management decisions. I feel that because of this the article has great credibility and the author's are definitely qualified.

    4. What will be the impact of automation efforts like these, multiplied many times across different sectors of the economy?1 1. Leading perspectives on the changes under way include Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, New York: W. W. Norton, 2014; Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, “The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?,” Oxford Martin School Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, September 17, 2013, futuretech.ox.ac.uk; and David H. Autor, “Why are there still so many jobs? The history and future of workplace automation,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2015, Volume 29, Number 3, pp. 3–30, aeaweb.org/jep. Can we look forward to vast improvements in productivity, freedom from boring work, and improved quality of life? Should we fear threats to jobs, disruptions to organizations, and strains on the social fabric

      This is the articles thesis and the questions that it answers. The purpose of this article is to determine the changes that automation will change in jobs.

    1. Robot Part Types

      The article is definitely not the most thorough as it doesn't go beyond basic information even after clicking into each link.

    2. Mechanisms and Kinematics - The mechanism is the arrangement of the connected parts. The kinematic structure of a robot refers to the indentification of the joint connection between its links. It can be usefully represented by abstract diagrams.

      One thing that takes away slightly from the website is that it is only talking about Robotic Arms however however there aren't many robots that are beyond a lab that are anything other than an arm. As well as the information still being very useful information.

    3. Robotic Parts Explained

      This parts list comes from a robotic company that sells Robot Parts showing that the information is accurate

    1. Virtual LRC

      Really disliked this search engine, looked and performed very outdated as well as not having very good results. I searched "Parts of a robot" and was given some really horrendous results. I later attempted searching "What are the components that make up a robot" and was presented with slightly better results however they weren't up to par with the other search engines.

    2. Refseek

      This website wouldn't load for me. Nothing I searched came up with anything other than a white screen. Thinking it's a problem with the site. Hopefully they fix it as it sounds like a really great source.

    3. If you want your work to be of high quality, then you certainly need to gather information from genuine and reliable sources.

      I think this is a very good point because your sources need to be of the same quality as you want your paper to be.

    4. Google Scholar

      Google Scholar for me in the past has been the best search engine that I have tried. Incredibly fast and returns really good sources.

    1. Site search: Many Web sites have their own site search feature, but you may find that Google site search will return more pages. When doing research, it's best to go directly to the source, and site search is a great way to do that. Example: site:www.intel.com rapid storage technology.

      I think that this is incredibly useful if you have a good source but their search function is really bad, or if they don't have one which is often the case.

    2. The wildcard operator (*): Google calls it the fill in the blank operator. For example, amusement * will return pages with amusement and any other term(s) the Google search engine deems relevant. You can't use wildcards for parts of words. So for example, amusement p* is invalid.

      Thinking that this wouldn't be too useful for research.

    3. Of course, you must have the phrase exactly right

      I think that this could be extremely useful if you remembered the headline to an article but don't remember the source.

    4. For example, when searching for the insect caterpillar, references to the company Caterpillar, Inc. will also be returned. Use Caterpillar -Inc to exclude references to the company or Caterpillar -Inc -Cat to further refine the search.

      I had no idea that you can do this, this should be helpful going forward in future research projects and out of school.

    1. Throughout history, times of rapid technological progress have stoked fears of jobs losses. More than 80 years ago, the renowned English economist John Maynard Keynes warned of a “new disease” of “technological unemployment.”

      I'm intrigued about how many jobs this "rapid technological progress" replaced. I feel that that as technology progresses more job avenues and higher opportunities are created because although they eliminated mindless work someone still needs to maintain the machines and develop the code.

    2. Yet replacing America’s truck fleet would require a trillion-dollar investment, Mr. Chui said, adding “if you could buy a self-driving truck, which you can’t.”

      Wouldn't this also create more jobs to build, sell, and maintain those trillion-dollar trucks.

    3. Today, there are 46 million Americans over 65, or 15 percent of the population. By 2060, the size of the over-65 group is projected to reach 98 million people, or 24 percent of the population.

      I find this very surprising. What would this be due to? Increased life expectancy?