Concept Mapping and Clustering

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Specific Topic: The Effects of Global Warming to the Health of Human Beings

Thesis Statement: Respiratory and Cardiovascular disorders are the common health effects on human beings from global warming.

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Deal or No DeaL?

Our first meeting in English 2: Writing in the Discipline was extraordinary. I have met different students from different colleges of whom I made friends with. We are A3-2 heterogeneous section so it is expected to be a class of various fields in engineering, education, marketing, and accountancy. Yet most my classmates are from the College of Business Administration and Accountancy, my fellow yellow Griffins. Everyone was busy talking with their seatmates, including me of course, when our professor came in.

Her name is Lynnie Ann Deocampo. The moment she entered the room, everything went silent. She smiled, introduced herself, and started talking about the rules and regulations in our class. She talked in English so fluently. Really, I am fascinated. Wow. It seems like the words she uttered came naturally from her mouth. The statements were fluently spoken by her that it captured the attention of everyone.

Speak in English. That's the first and the last rule. Whether you like it or not. From the time we enter the room, we should be talking in the English language. As what Ma'am Lynnie told us, "There is no room for the vernacular here." If ever one is caught speaking in a language aside from English, he or she will have a certain deduction from his or her own grade. And if we are caught by our own classmate, he or she can earn that corresponding deducted point which will be given by teacher Lynnie herself. Better risk my own life than dare to speak in Cebuano.

Deal or no deal? I know why our professor implemented that rule. It is for our own good. Just like a mother wanting the best for her child. Because I believe that one way of improving my skill of communicating in English is by using it myself and expressing my ideas in the way that is effective to the one I am talking with. That is why I'm on this challenge. Ma'am, I am taking it as a deal.

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Writing in the English language

I started studying the English language when I entered my kindergarten school at the age of four. From correct emphasis of consonant and vowel sounds and proper pronunciation of words, to the formation of complete sentences in making statements, I can say that English has already been a part of my life. It's been there, like the food I eat everyday.
Yet the feeling of reluctance and doubt are still over me somehow. Every time a teacher asks me to write a composition about a certain topic, I have hesitations that I myself could not explain. There's a part of me that says I can do it even better now since I already entered my tertiary education. But the contradicting part discourages me to do it because I simply don't have the gift.
Fear and low self-esteem. Those are some of the negative notions that I am fighting right now. So pessimistic that sometimes made me think of giving up.
NO. I should not, because if some people can, then why couldn't I?
Now, I think writing is just a piece of the big challenges ahead. So instead of running away from it, why not face the challenge and develop it? Because after all, I am the one who can have greater benefits to that self endeavor. Courage and perseverance are the only weapons to win the game!

The Mistaken Class

Today's Tuesday. The first day of class in my second semester in college.  After my Accounting 112 class, I hurriedly proceeded to my next class in English 2.  I and my new classmates, though there are also some who where my blockmates last semester, were waiting for our English 2 professor.  I have so many expectations about what will be my teacher look like.

Finally, the moment of waiting was over and a female professor came in.  Then I realized that she's the English professor.  She introduced herself and wrote her full name on the board.  Talking about her expectations in the class and the rules inside the four corners of the classroom, I came to the impression of her as a good professor.  While she was talking in front, everyone was attentively listening to her.

But everything came different when she announced that she was not our English 2 professor after all.  She apologized.  It was a mistake that she entered our classroom without really knowing what section we belong.  Well, all just came to a laugh.  It was been a funny encounter for the first day of school.

However, it was been nice meeting you ma'am.  She is Prof. Faith O. Miguel.