Rigoberto+Tejada

As a child, I really had trouble with learning how to spell. Till the 8th grade I could not correctly spell Providence. My fourth grade instructor was an incompetent teacher I learn nothing that year. Ever since then I have felt behind in all my English classes. In this college writing course I hope to improve on my grammar. I would really like to learn when and where the correct punctuations go in a paragraph. My biggest problem for this course will be grammar. After grammar I believe I will struggle with the process of gathering my thoughts and transferring them to paper. The kinds of things I love to write about are sports (Dolphins, Heats, and Red Sox), politics, and my opinion on a different array of subjects.

Activity 16 1. I could tell I was coming down with the flu. · Nose began to run. · Start to want mommy · Light headiness · Throat becomes itchy · Get a craving for cheez-it 2. The food at the cafeteria was terrible yesterday. · The steak and cheese bread was soggy · They were out of pizza · The main entrée was special Chow · Bertha(Head Lunch Lady) was out sick · Sandwich bar was closed 3. I had car problems recently · The seat belt buzzer keeps beeping · The heater is broken · There is a hole in the floor, I can see the road beneath me, I feel like Fred Flintstone. · Inspection sticker is expired · Radio has a bad attitude, it works when it pleases. 4. When your money gets tight, there are several ways to economize. · Get a rich old lady and make her your sugar-mama · Not buy as many drinks at the club · Walk to corner markets or work if possible · Eat at home, no fast food unless buying off the dollar menu · Conserve energy, shut off lights unplug phone chargers when not in use. 5. Some people have dangerous driving habits. · Text/ Talk on phone while driving · Speed up to beat the stop sign of a school bus · Don’t use turn signals · Don’t fully stop at stop signs · Drive Drunk Writing Assignment 1 The Worst Lunch I ever had. The worst lunch I ever had occurred while I attended Hope High school. My sophomore year during the winter time one day Bertha the head lunch lady was absent. This meant that the cafeteria would be understaffed and the Sandwich bar would be closed. Second the main entrée for this day was Chow. This was the first time I heard of Chow let alone eat Chow. I was curious so I went in the entrée line; once I saw Chow looked like dog food I decided I wanted to eat something else. Third I step into the pizza line but once I got to the counter there were none left. This left me with one choice which was steak and cheese. I took my food to my seat, sat down to eat my food when I realize that the bread of the steak and cheese was soggy. The soggy bread made the sandwich taste like throw-up. All these factors combined into my worst lunch ever.

Writing Assignment 3 Stress in my life Recently I have had a lot of new stresses in my life. First, I work as a school bus driver for First Student in Providence. This job has a lot of responsibility. I transport two schools, one being Perry Middle School and Kizirian Elementary School. I drive the Perry kids without a bus monitor which means I have to focus on the road, action of other drivers, and the behavior of the students at the same time. Second I am a full time student at CCRI. I commute from Providence to Warwick four time a week. I have to do home work and study for exams which cause me a lot of stress especially around finals and mid-terms. Third I live at home with my mother, brother, sister, and baby niece. My mom is a widow which in turn(me being the oldest) make me the man of the house, I help my mom with all the bills which is tuff in this economy. My brother is recently released from jail, on home confinement and unemployed. My sister is a teen mom who is also unemployed with a seven month old daughter. Most of these stresses began for me in the past year but I handle them the only way I know how which is one day at a time.

My Mom the Super Hero My mother Noemi Tejada is the most hardworking person I’ve met. First, she has two full time jobs (First Student, Johnson & Wales) that require her to work seven days and to wake up every morning at 6:30am. She then goes non-stop throughout the day till she goes to sleep around 1:30 am the next morning. Even though, she gets a break from work from 9am to 1pm she never stops to rest. Most days during her break time she is either caring for my infant niece Amvia or cooking for the family. But recently she has been helping my younger brother with his legal problems. My mom has always been like this. Growing up I have witness her hard work, I’ve seen her raise my siblings and I like making sure we never went hungry and always have clean clothes, yet care for my cancer sick father for eight years.

Brandon the Great VS Teddy the Shrimp Brandon Marshall and Ted Ginn Jr are teammates who are two completely different type of receivers. First off, Brandon is a big, strong guy. He stands at six feet five inches, weighs about two hundred and thirty pounds and is all muscle. Marshall was not blessed with world class speed so he is considered a possession receiver, but what he lacks in speed he makes up in effort, he is considered one of the leagues hardest players to tackle. Ted Ginn Jr on the other hand is a small, skinny guy. He is about five feet eleven inches tall, and weighs one hundred and eighty pounds soaking wet. Teddy was blessed with unbelievable speed and ranks up with some of the fastest players in the NFL. Second, Brandon has been in the league for five years. In that time he has put up some very impressive stats. Though out his career, Marshall has caught 327 passes for 4019 yards and 25 TDs. Ginn has been in the league four years but has under produced to the point of almost being cut. He has caught only 128 passes for 1664 yards and 5 TDs, which is almost the equivalent of one of Marshall’s season. Lastly, Marshall is a elite wide receiver, his talent and size forces teams to double team him which allows other players a chance to make plays. He plays with a disregard for his body and attitude that no one can tackle him. Ginn on the other hand has teams single cover him, which hurts his team because it allows the opposition to stack the box. (stop the running game). Even though he has the potential to be an elite receiver, his passiveness and fear of contact will not allow him to reach this level. Brandon Marshall and Ted Ginn share the fact that they are teammates and play the same position but other than sharing the same title are complete opposites.

The Life of a TV Addict Television Addicts are people who will watch all the programs they can, for as long as they can, without doing anything else. TV addicts, first of all, will watch anything on the tube, no matter how bad it is, Cougar town for example, is a sitcom about a recently divorced women who restarts dating. The dating scene has changed and the men who are out there are much younger than her, so they consider her a cougar. In addition, addicts watch more hours of TV than normal people do, they get into a routine or habit that is very difficult to break. Watching TV becomes a unconscious act, so most TV addicts don't realize they have a problem. Finally, addicts feel that TV is more important than other people or any other activities that might be going on like sleeping, work and school. Many TV addicts don't have a full night's rest because they spend their night watching TV, since they had a hard time sleeping they are more inclined call out of work or miss school because they are tired.

Never Wrong Gift and Curse A know it all is a person who always believes they have the best answer to any question. This character trait is a gift and a curse. Being a know it all can be a gift, First most of the time the person is very clever, they might be able to understand information quickly than others. Next, people that are know it all have lots of confidence they rarely shy away from voicing their opinions. Lastly a person who is a know it all is not afraid to march to the beat of his own drum, so they are more likely to create a idea that other people might not see. Being a know it all can also be a curse. First, the person might become egotistic because they feel they are the smartest person in the room an might talk down to the people around them. Next a person who is a know it all can be consider a assertive person because they might start to force their ideas on people who don't care for their point of view. Lastly a know it all can become a loner because they don't take other people opinion seriously, they will in some cases ignore the advice of a person who has experience in a area or idea they are pursuing. Being a know it all is a gift and a curse and is not something a person might want to be know as.

Obsession Obsession is the domination of one's thoughts or feeling of the same idea, image ,desire,etc. When a person is obsessed with watching TV they put their viewing time above everything else including but not limited to family, obligations,etc. A obsession will consumes all a person time, the person does not realize they suffering from a problem, that their behavior is damaging to themselves and people around them. Obsession are extremely hard to break, for example,a person with a drug obsession is said to almost be impossible to break unless the person seeks professional help. So if you or a person you know is obsessed with something help them try to break the habit or find help from a person who will lead them to break their obsession.

Rigoberto Tejada Nancy Noonan ENGL 1005 May 5, 2010 Americans Attitudes toward Money Americans attitudes toward money can be divided into three categories. There are the cheapskate/penny pinchers that never waste a dime, the reasonable spender who will look for bargains but don’t excess over it and the extravagant/ showoff that spends every dollar they earn. First, Penny Pinchers attitudes toward money is an obsession, they make extreme attempts to not waste money. They search every flea-market or bargain store for items on sales. They strive to never pay face value for anything and believe that the discount product is just as good as the name brand products. Next, People whose attitudes toward money are reasonable are in the middle between the cheap and extravagant mindset. Reasonable spenders tend to be the majorities of Americans. They enjoy bargains but don’t obsess over paying as little as possible. They shop for quality products but don’t always purchase the best because they spend toward necessity.

License to Fornicate In the U.S, Americans need a license to drive a car, they need a license to own a gun, you even need a license to sell pants in some state and there are good reasons for these licenses regulated because it affect other people. Yet there is license to bring a human being into this world. There are too many young parents in the US who are still children themselves. I see children everyday who's parents don't see them for anything other than a well-fare check. If there were some way to regulate people having unprotected sex or inform people about the use of contraceptive there would be a lot less children who go through the horrors that many inner city children experience. “The United State has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world.” Teenpregnancy.com states that there are 750,000 teen pregnancy each year. Most teen parents that I know did not plan to have a child, they make the mistake to not use protection that affects them and their child for their entire life. Most of these teen parents are not ready to be a parent, many are still legally considered children and live at home with their parents. Many teen parents I have met are not financially ready to have a child, many are unemployed, and those who do have jobs are working dead end jobs for minimum wage because it is the only job they can get since they did not graduate high school. Then there are the parents who are just not fit to raise a decent human being. Every day I interact with people who don't care about their child until DCYF comes to remove them. These people fight hard to keep there child but its not for the reason most people would fight, ex. (love, care for child well being etc.) they fight to keep well fare check they receive because of the child. Then there are the parents that are not mentally fit to care for a child. Some students on my bus go to school wearing the same ripped shoe and clothes that were donated to them at the beginning of the school year because their parents spend any and all income on drugs. Kids come to school starving because there is no food at their home and once they become old enough turn to a life of crime just so they can eat. I have heard stories of a women who had a son at the age of 13 then another at 17 and twins at 19 that is four children before the age of 20. the women worked two full time jobs just to support her family but even with government assistance struggled mighty. Well by the time her oldest son was 14 he joined a gang and was sexually active, she was oblivious to all of this till he was killed in a drive by shooting but as bad as her losing her son was, the news became worst once she found out that his 13 year old girlfriend was pregnant. This meant she was going to be a grandmother at the age of 28 and another child will be growing up in a broken home without qualified parents. The story about the teenage mother of 4 is common in many inner cites in America. This cycle is not okay. We as American need to do more to help prevent situations like this from happening. Be it educating kids at a younger age about condoms and contraceptive to child protective agents not turning a blind eye at children in bad situations. Maybe my idea of regulating fortification is overboard but some thing needs to be done because society is paying for the decisions of others and the one's suffering the most are the innocent that did nothing but being born.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/12504-teen-pregnancy-rates-usa/