Reflection 1:
168 Hour Assignment
The assignment I chose to reflect on is the 168 hour assignment. The skills that this assignment helped me with was organization and time management. By writing my schedule out on paper it showed me how much free time I have, when I have it and when I can and can't do other things. Now by setting out a schedule I know if I can take my time with some assignments or turn them in as soon as possible. And it also helped me stay more organized with my other classes. Before I was forgetting things here and there but now I will keep an agenda to stay on top of everything. It will help me make more use of my free time and keep up with all my errands classes. Making this schedule really helped me see my days of the week better. It also showed me that if I stay on task with all my classes and assignments that I can keep my weekends free instead of spending them making up for time wasted.
168 Hour Assignment
The assignment I chose to reflect on is the 168 hour assignment. The skills that this assignment helped me with was organization and time management. By writing my schedule out on paper it showed me how much free time I have, when I have it and when I can and can't do other things. Now by setting out a schedule I know if I can take my time with some assignments or turn them in as soon as possible. And it also helped me stay more organized with my other classes. Before I was forgetting things here and there but now I will keep an agenda to stay on top of everything. It will help me make more use of my free time and keep up with all my errands classes. Making this schedule really helped me see my days of the week better. It also showed me that if I stay on task with all my classes and assignments that I can keep my weekends free instead of spending them making up for time wasted.
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Reflection 2:
Midterm Project Part One: Media and Messages
The assignment I chose to reflect on was the midterm project part one: media and messages. I honestly really enjoyed this assignment because it gave me different view and more insight on how people campaign and attempt to get their message across. It required us to look deeper into the content instead of just watching it as part of the political audience.
I think this assignment helped me improve on my analyzing an comprehension skills. It required me to look at every part of the video from the people to the images to the music included with it. I was able to analyze how different people take their approaches towards a campaign. By analyzing each part it helped my better understand why they were trying to influence the voters to give them their votes. Instead of just letting ads pass by now I look at them differently and at every angle to see what they are trying to promote and how. I think this assignment did help improve my academic skills because now I put more focus into everyday ads and commercials and it helps me learn more about the media and how they get their messages across.
My learning goals for the next assignment are to use the analyzing and comprehension skills from this assignment to understand and look over the issues I’m researching more thoroughly. The skills I feel need more work are my researching skills. I need to find ways that make my research more effective and find more places on where I can get my information from.
Things I can do outside of this class to improve are to read more newspapers and articles and have myself analyze them to know more about what is going on in our country and to better understand why certain things are taking place. This assignment helps me focus more on all of the content for my other classes. I understand more of what I’m reading now and looking deeper into the story or articles.
Midterm Project Part One: Media and Messages
The assignment I chose to reflect on was the midterm project part one: media and messages. I honestly really enjoyed this assignment because it gave me different view and more insight on how people campaign and attempt to get their message across. It required us to look deeper into the content instead of just watching it as part of the political audience.
I think this assignment helped me improve on my analyzing an comprehension skills. It required me to look at every part of the video from the people to the images to the music included with it. I was able to analyze how different people take their approaches towards a campaign. By analyzing each part it helped my better understand why they were trying to influence the voters to give them their votes. Instead of just letting ads pass by now I look at them differently and at every angle to see what they are trying to promote and how. I think this assignment did help improve my academic skills because now I put more focus into everyday ads and commercials and it helps me learn more about the media and how they get their messages across.
My learning goals for the next assignment are to use the analyzing and comprehension skills from this assignment to understand and look over the issues I’m researching more thoroughly. The skills I feel need more work are my researching skills. I need to find ways that make my research more effective and find more places on where I can get my information from.
Things I can do outside of this class to improve are to read more newspapers and articles and have myself analyze them to know more about what is going on in our country and to better understand why certain things are taking place. This assignment helps me focus more on all of the content for my other classes. I understand more of what I’m reading now and looking deeper into the story or articles.
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Reflection 3:
Midterm Project Part Two: Political Structure
Doing this assignment really helped me get a view of what the political structures of two swing states are like. For this assignment I decided to research Colorado and Florida as my two swing states. We had to look up the average income, education statistics, ethnicity and race percentages, and age and gender percentages of each state. It gave me a better idea of what life is like in different states, especially two of the nine most important when it comes to presidential elections. By doing this research it helped me get a better political view of what I should pay attention to in each state and how one should campaign to the different groups in each state. It also helped me see why presidential candidates spend so much time in these states and why they cater and pay more attention to different areas like education, race or poverty within each state.
Midterm Project Part Two: Political Structure
Doing this assignment really helped me get a view of what the political structures of two swing states are like. For this assignment I decided to research Colorado and Florida as my two swing states. We had to look up the average income, education statistics, ethnicity and race percentages, and age and gender percentages of each state. It gave me a better idea of what life is like in different states, especially two of the nine most important when it comes to presidential elections. By doing this research it helped me get a better political view of what I should pay attention to in each state and how one should campaign to the different groups in each state. It also helped me see why presidential candidates spend so much time in these states and why they cater and pay more attention to different areas like education, race or poverty within each state.
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