My essay for Ms. De La Rosa's Honors English Class

HYPNOTISM

Your eyes are getting sleepy, your vision hazy, and your thoughts blurry… hypnotized! Hypnotism, is it real or simply a faked illusion? Some say it’s real, others don’t believe. And hardly anyone knows what it is or what it does or how to do it.

Hypnosis is a state of consciousness where your mind is dissociated from the immediate surroundings. It is a “trance” state associated with deep relaxation, focus, and absorbed feelings. The American Psychological association describes hypnosis as a cooperative interaction in which the participant responds to the suggestions of the hypnotist. Hypnotism has a variety of uses. It can help reduce stress, anxiety, pain during childbirth, symptoms of dementia. Certain symptoms of ADHD, skin conditions like warts, pain during dental procedures, nausea and vomiting of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. It also can help chronic conditions, a smoking problem stop, and help you lose weight. Some people use hypnosis to keep them on a diet, or others to treat arthritis. The experience can vary dramatically from one person to another. Some hypnotized individuals report feeling a sense of detachment or deep relaxation. While others feel that their actions seem to occur outside of their conscience, but some remain fully aware and able to carry out conversations while under hypnosis. Results vary from person to person.

Hypnotism was a fascinating phenomenon of the 10^th century. Most hypnotists are thought to be manipulative, dominative, and creepy due to Svengali a hypnotist with evil intentions from George du Maurier’s 1894 novel “Trilby.” Many people didn’t believe hypnosis was real. Is it real of fake? A question that can be debated over and over. Hypnotism can be very easily faked but it can also be really done. No one really truly knows if it can be true or simply a trick of the mind. Most though say it’s just bunch of bologna.

Some are easily hypnotized, others not, and anyone can do it. It can be self- induced or another can make it occur. You can hypnotize using your voice, eyes, or object such as a pendulum of some sort (usually most people think of a swinging clock). In a book I read a girl named Molly Moon uses her eyes to hypnotize. How to hypnotize yourself or another have different but similar results. Hypnotizing Another: 2 types of hypnosis, one where you inform the person they’re going to be hypnotized and the other they have no clue. One way is instant hypnosis. First have the person sit next to you (face to face), have them put their hand on yours (palm to palm). Second tell them “Look at my eyes and continue looking until I say something.” Third tell them “In a moment I am going to count to 3. Press down on my hand and I’ll be pressing up against your energy and simply follow my instructions instantly.” Fourth say “1…2…3… push, push, push.” If he/she is pushing gently tell them to push harder. Fifth now with your other hand, put it on top of their eyes, like your shading them and slowly caressing down. Sixth then say “now as you continue to press down on my hand I want you to develop a feeling in your eyes like you’re up much too late at night watching an old black and white movie, you should go to bed but you’re just so tired. You feel your eyes so droopy… and closing…and drowsy…and…sleep!” As soon as you say sleep you have to slip your hand away quickly. This might not always work so practice makes perfect!

When I say the last word of my paragraph, you will have learned new things of hypnotism. Now you know how to hypnotize another to sleep, and what hypnosis is used for.

The End.

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Student success Statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good).”

Joseph Smith

We need to influence others to be good and do good. Make being good a popular thing and to get rid of the unsound things. like make violence uncool.

Successful Students 9

Successful Students

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9. … don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late- night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour a night sessions for Fridays’ exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated prepatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathon. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a higher score the next day is like planting watermelons seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

Choose the right.

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Student Success Statement

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
Howard Cosell

Some people do weed cause its cool, but is it??? the thing is not everything that the crowd is doing is good ya know. So don't be in the in crowd , be an outcast if you have to be, as long as you do what you think is right not what everybody else is doing. You are you.
*You were born an original don't die a copy.*

Successful Students 7-8

Successful Students

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7. … understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you will become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. … talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough they can put it in their own words. Talking about something with your friends or classmates is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short term to long term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

PLEASURE OR PAIN?

PLEASURE OR PAIN?!?!?!


Will you graduate or not?

I rather graduate then fail. I wouldn't want to fail miserably.I want to get my grades up and do well, but sometimes its just hard.

Successful Students 5-6

Successful Students

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars; willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no.4). Why do they expose themselves to their temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons; is there something else you could be doing with your time?

6. Take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

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Student Success Statement

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is never a wrong time to do the right thing. We have all the time in the world to be good, but it is up to us to do it while we can. 

Successful Students 3-4

Successful Students

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3… ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and acknowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4… learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, and you share the same interests, the same goals – in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up losing a season. Be a team player!

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

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Student success statement

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what is right and what is wrong.

What is good makes you feel good, what isn't good makes you feel not so good. Good deed= happy feeling :)  Bad deed= no bueno feeling :( or >:( 

so overall you'll know what's good or not so yo might as well choose the good as it makes you good and truly has more benefits.

Successful Students 1-2

Successful Students

1-2

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…1… are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, and you make the choice.  Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2… have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions; what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can and will.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Tennessee walking horse torture

They are cruelly abusing the horses. In Tennessee walking horse trainers torture horses.

Poor horses are being hurt and hit by owners to win pointless competitions. Is it worth it?? A dumb prize over a living creature?!??

Study for Multiple Exams Part 2

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: Everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of research before I ever think about writing. I then organize my research then sometimes prepare an outline before actually writing. I always print out the paper and come back to it the next day and reread it. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give my eyes a break from it I think it looks perfect. But if I look at it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors or phrases and sentences I just want to reword.

How I succeed in team projects: Never assume someone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Study for Multiple Exams Part 1

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 1

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: really it is my time management that I explained above. If I see I have multiple things due or to study for all at the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test on Monday and 2 tests on Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of Sunday.  Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other tests.

My overall study method: I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if I try to pull an all nighter. How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade; If I received a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I didn’t  prepare properly or I didn’t use the right study habit for that class. I usually try to go over what I did wrong and sometime discuss with the teacher what I can do differently on the next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

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Student Success Statement


"Seek to do good and  you will find that happiness will run after you."
James Freeman Clarke

If you open the door for someone who can't open it themselves you feel like you did a good thing. Its true okay do good feel good. .Do good = Feel good. You feel happiness when you seek to do good. Happiness seems to find you when you have done something good. When you help someone (do a good) you end up feeling like you did something good.

Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of tests or subjects. For me, any type of math is exceptionally difficult so I had to spend extra time on that. I would go back through the homework problems focusing on the problems that I had extra difficulty on. Many times I would ask the teacher for any additional study materials they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times focusing on what were key focal points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take the terms and apply them to an example or create different questions on the concepts focused on throughout the semester.

My time management secret: I always always carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show what each event on my calendar is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is school, orange is work, blue is for appointments, and green is for my sorority. Although I use white out frequently, I can see in bright yellow that I have that project for finance class due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it on [the previous] Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 1

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 1

Time management became a key factor in my study skills for college. In high school, there were times I was able to study for an hour or two the night before a test and get away with it. This was not the case in college. I made sure in college I was prepared for each class. Sometimes that meant writing out the terms for the chapter we read (even if when it isn’t required) to better understand them. That way when the midterm or test comes around I was able to understand what I was studying. I started taking excellent notes in class in college. I may have done this in high school, but in college I started typing up the notes after class then when I had a test one week later I was more likely to remember then as well.

My overall study method: structure. One thing I learned was I had to adapt or change my study method according to the class. I couldn’t study for a religion class the same way I studied for a finance class. But making sure I had enough time to study for each class – even if it meant carrying a planner with me at all times was a big part of my success.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Define Excel Arithmetic Operators

+ Addition
- Subtraction
* Multiplication
/ Division
^ Power or Exponent

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Student success statement

“There is no set path, just follow your heart.”

Anon

Let your heart guide you and let it help you when you make choices.  You make your path and you set it too and you do it with your heart.

Work Together Part 3

Work Together

Part 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: A big thing that not many will say is to ask for help if you needed it. It’s not a bad thing to not understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan you time out so you are completing everything that needs to get done and leave time to double check. Write things down and have good time management skills. Ask for help is probably the biggest thing I can say though. If you don’t understand, go to office hours or find a classmate that does understand and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking that I would have to try harder to fail than to succeed. It is something that is within me to succeed. If that is not who you are, then hopefully things that I have done can show you that success is something that is amazing to find! Good luck!

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Work Together Part 2

Work Together

Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all it is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are not just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practical situations. As for English I am no longer taking it but I would say to leave yourself plenty of time to write essays and papers. They take time to get all the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave them until the last second.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Work Together Part 2

Work Together

Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all it is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are not just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practical situations. As for English I am no longer taking it but I would say to leave yourself plenty of time to write essays and papers. They take time to get all the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave them until the last second.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Work Together Part 1

Work Together

Part 1

I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do their work. I don’t like having to pick up the slack, but I will if I know that my grade will be harmed otherwise. My greatest academic success was in my first semester when I had to write a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I had ever been assigned and I was a little scared. Also, it was the first paper where they were like; here you go, just write about something. I had to argue in favor of or against something, but it could be anything from the sky to hypnotism. I wrote mine on hypnotism. I worked on this paper for weeks and weeks. Every night it would be doing research or writing. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up being 12 pages but it was full on information. I turned it in and when I got back it back a week or so later, I had received the first A+ of my college career. All my hard work paid off because I got the grade I deserved. I was really happy and proud of myself.

Choose the right !!!

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Tiger Woods ignore his half-brother that is suffering from multiple sclerosis.
His brother is going to lose his house and Woods ignore his call for help and his pleads. he has been calling Woods and Woods has not yet responded to all the messages that are being sent to him.

Honest I don't think it's right to be like that to you're family, he has so much money and he could lend a hand to his poor brother. I would never just leave my bro when he needs me, that's not how a family is, a family is supposed to help each other and look out for  one another.

You can Succeed Every Day Part 1

You can Succeed Every Day

Part 1

My overall study method: I break up studying over several days and over the course of the evening and day. Cramming never works for me so I try not to do it. I will have longer sessions on nights before big tests, but I never stay up much later than normal before tests. I know that if I take the test tired the next day I will not do as well as if I was rested.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: I usually look over the test or paper to see what I did that the teacher did not want. Basically, I do not stress out about bad grades that much because for me they are not worth getting really upset about. I do well because I know that I know the material. However, if I do get a bad grade, or one lower than I expected, I make sure that the next time a test is coming study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the questions.

Choose the right!!!