Journal Nine by Emma

Part 1: My active reading is going very well. Callings is a lot easier to read actively because there are brief stories rather than A Long Way Gone which was long and difficult for me to pause and annotate. Another strength of the book callings, is the overall theme of choosing a career that makes you happy. A weakness is getting intrigued with someone’s profile and it immediately ends. You wish you could know more about that person. I do overall enjoy the book, I love getting to know new people and hearing their life story and aspirations. In callings I feel like I meet new people and it inspires me to do what makes me happy.

Part 2: My favorite passage was Engineer and Entrepreneur Noramay Cadena. This woman is incredibly strong and hard working. She moved to Massachusetts with her newly born child and graduated from MIT. I researched how many people raising children in college graduate. Only 33 percent of people graduate. Noramay proved the world wrong by graduating and getting her dream job. My favorite quote is by her daughter Chassitty “I see people who are stuck in situations they can’t get out of. But you showed me that anything is possible. So when I do find my career, I want to make sure that it’s something I love and I don’t feel stuck. I want to go to work and be happy.” This is exactly how I feel which is why I put a lot of thought into what I want my future to look like.

Part 3:  If I were to stay in Ohio it would be because of my family and I enjoy having all four seasons. If my future career has a higher job outlook in a different state I will probably move there if the weather is nice. As much as I love four seasons I also love sunny states. If I had to move my dream state would be California. They have great weather and everyone seems happy there.

This is a beautiful beach in California. I would love to look out my window to something this beautiful. 

Journal 9 By Keirra Allinder

 
My active reading is going good so far, strengths would be my interest in how people feel led to a certain job. Considering the book isn't made up of chapters but rather each story is minimal 3 pages makes it easy to follow. Weaknesses I have found is that some of the stories aren't too interesting and the book is straight forward.  
My favorite profile is dentist story with McGarvey and his friend. At a very young age he lost his dad and mother had to raise 13 kids on her own. Moral of the story is that McGarvey knew at the age of seventeen he wanted to become a dentist. From "excelling in the dental assistant courses to knowing every instrument they picked up (49).  I once had a similar experience in taking interest in becoming a dentist I know its not for everyone considering you're working inside of people mouths but if I had the opportunity to make others happy about their smiles I know its even more worth it.
There is nothing I find attractive about Ohio which why I have plans of moving down south where the weather is warm and southern hospitality actually exists, plus I used to live in South Carolina. Id love nothing more than to move back to where I once called home.


My future home

Journal 9 Payden Fultz

My active reading is going pretty good so far learning lots of new vocabulary and different kinds of jobs you don’t hear about very often. Strengths that I see in the book are details of how these people found their calling. I am able to follow the book pretty easily because of how Isay rewrote this book. Weaknesses I have found in the book would be the language I think it’s very simple for the most part and that kind of drags me away from the reading and makes me want to read something else.

            My favorite profile so far would be the firefighter story with Dekalb Walcott and his son. I noticed that he cares about having money to raise a family; he is willing to give up a life long goal of becoming an attorney. “ I wanted to become an attorney, so I started college with plans of going into law. But my focus wasn’t on school; it was getting decent employment where I could have a family, and take care of that family” (pg. 55). My boyfriends father is a firefighter of 32 years I asked him what the most intimidating things about being a firefighter is and he said “ the most intimidating things to me would be not knowing if I’m going to make it back out of a fire and not being able to see my family again”.

            Nothings attractive to me at all about Ohio I absolute hate this state. Something attractive to me would be moving away to San Diego where all of my family is and where it’s always warm and everyday is like vacation. The possibility of moving there is extremely high since thats where my heart is set and stone especially since all of my family lives there. I would love to get back with my family. 

My future home where my  heart is set and stone at

Subjects and Slots for Presentation Projects. From Mike.

Thursday, Nov. 17

1.  Jordan and John: Robin Williams

2.  Max and Emma: Kanye West

3. Jussett and Regan: Ellen Degeneres


Tuesday, Nov. 22

1. Shaylee and Evan: Steve Jobs

2. Jack and Miranda: Jack Hanna

3.  Payden and Keirra: Taylor Swift

Snapshot Four by Shaylee

          Music has always been an important thing in my life. I listened to it in the car rides when I was little, and I listen to it a ton driving now. My dad has always been interested in speakers since I was little. From when I was little to now I have listened to many kinds of music including my dad’s old 80’s music junk that I can’t stand. My mom’s music is the kind I love. Its todays hits. Even though I grew up with both of their music tastes neither one is what I listen to the most.

            My almost favorite music is the stuff you can find in today’s hits station, or today’s hip hop and rap station. I listen to rap when I work out, which is a lot of the time. I don’t listen to it for the lyrics, because most of them are disgusting, but I listen to it for the beat. The beat is so uplifting and fast. When I lift and run I listen to the beat to go along with my lifts or steps on a run. You can’t find a fast beat like that in other music.

            A flashback I have and will always be important to me is about a song called “Seven Years” by Lukas Graham. It was played at Noah Lears funeral, which was a kid who I went to high school with that was a grade under me. He was playing basketball at a local church, which was across the street from my house, and he went to dunk a basketball and the hoop fell on his face and chin. For eighteen days he fought for his life in Childrens Hospital, and then Hospice. The day the school found out about his passing, they called everyone into the auditorium and told everyone the news. Then everyone played this song. During his funeral, they played this song on repeat. Friends, family, and people who didn’t even know him filled the basketball gym full for the funeral. People were even standing during it. Just seeing everyone in the school during a school day do nothing but sit there and cry was so hard to watch. Especially seeing his favorite teachers say goodbye to him was so hard. This song will always remind me of Noah Lear and the day of his passing, and funeral. This song will always mean something to me and everyone who knew him. 

This is the album cover for Seven Years by Lukas Graham.

snapshot 4 from Evan

Music to me is a way to express yourself in a way only you can. It tells a story. depending on the artist it can tell your personal story.I listen to anything really but country music. nothing against it but to me its just as dry and boring as the desert and i just personally do not like most of it. One artists i find very interesting is an artist known by the name Sia and what interest me isn't just he music its her background story. When she was younger in her 20s she actually was offered a record contract and become some what famous and became addicted to drugs. this lead her on a downhill spiral of bad choices and jail time. Quite some time later she went to rehab became clean from the drugs and is now famous again but is 40 years old now. i don't have one specific flashback i remember but every time i hear her music i remember what ive personally learned and that is with some things that has happened in my family personally that life is about second chances.everyone messes up but its how you turn things around that matters and she corrected her mistakes and bounced back from it and showed the world that she is in fact talented.

this is sia she often wears the wig to cover her face i personally
think as a new identity to give her a new name to hide the old her.

Snapshot 4 Payden Fultz

Snapshot Four: Music and Flashbacks for evidence

Storyteller became a commercial

 success and set multiple records upon its release.

 By debuting at number two on the billboard 200 chart.

            Music is my life in lyrics. It is my personality. It understands me. It knows me. Music knows things about me that I never knew about. Music helps me when I am sad, frustrated, sad, and angry with someone. If I went through something that nobody can help me with. I would turn to music. Music it is always there to help. I like to listen to pop and Country music because I can relate to them in different situations that I am in. They are catchy and it makes you want to listen to the music. I find Carry Underwood very engaging because she had put aside her singing dreams for a degree in broadcast journalism, but everything changed after she auditioned for American Idol during her senior year at Northeastern State University. She won the show's fourth season in 2005 and went on to win multiple Grammy, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards. In 2008, at age 26, Underwood became the youngest member of the Grand Ole Opry. She really sings about things that I can relate to and understand and that’s what makes music interesting because you don’t think people can understand things the way you do but as you listen to the lyrics you’re just relating left and right about things.

            Music is like a time traveling machine; it can take you back to your first cheerleading routine, your first loss, your important event and forward to your first win and your last competition. I remember listening to the song trouble during practice while we were listening to our cheer music for the first time. We all sat on the floor we practice on and we all held hands listening, and hoping it was everything we dreamed about. It was important to me because that’s what we perform and it is what we sing during the routine to make facials without actually thinking about it.