Emily's UNE Portfolio

In my revisions, I had troubling figuring out how to change the different quotes into the ways the book explained, but I did them the best I could! Attached are images of the revisions.

Tonight, I revised much of my paper. The images capture the major changes I made to the body of the essay. I moved a lot of ideas from paragraph to paragraph, wrote new things, and deleted sentences. The green parts and comments on the side of the paper detail the changes that I made. I … [Read more…]

In Anne Lamott’s passage titled “Shitty First Drafts,” Lamott explains that first drafts are not meant to be good. I think that is was enlightening for me to read because I was struggling to see how my first draft could be any good. Some of the mistakes that I have noticed were explicitly explained as … [Read more…]

I think that these essays showed me a lot about the essay I wrote. One thing that stuck out to me is that I need to focus one organizing my essay. Also, a lot of these people were really good at making the evidence not too long and I need to make sure to focus … [Read more…]

From my brainstorming, I decided that I agree more with Zander than Southan. Art has effected me in positive ways. Also things such as art therapy and art being an outlet to people are things that I have witnessed first hand. To some people doodles may be a waste of time, but to me it … [Read more…]

I watched the TED Talk by Benjamin Zander titled “How does Music Transform us?” In this TED Talk, Benjamin discussed the importance of classical music and how after being exposed to it in the right way, the majority of the population will enjoy the music. During the talk, he was able to show the importance … [Read more…]

We were assigned to reread and annotate the article about the Effective Altruists. I think I approached the second reading differently than the first because I already had an opinion of the group and therefore was not willing to consider siding with the EAs. The majority of my reactions to different parts of the text … [Read more…]

While reading Rhys Southan’s article about Effective Altruism, there were a few parts that stood out to me. I disagreed with most of the article and felt like the movement was basically just a cult. However, this one part was relevant. Southan talks about Peter Singer’s experiment where someone is faced with the challenge of … [Read more…]

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