TIB Reflection
During the first three weeks of school we were working on a this i believe essay. A this i believe essay is something NPR started doing a couple years ago were people send in there essays and recording about one belief that they are passionate about. Each student was supposed to choose a belief and write about this. This was hard for some students so we did multiple assignments so we could figure it out. I had no problem choosing because i have for the last two years always used karma to do something morally right. once we were almost done with choosing we learned about narrative coherence, communal relevance, and authentic voice. WE had all this down so the next step was to process our beliefs.
I processed my belief by thinking about karma. Some people had to dig deep but all I did was expand on it. I believe this was because I have always seen small things happen because of karma, but nothing ever big for a story. This is why I started to think about karma in a different way, a unique way. What if karma isn't real but the idea makes it real. I know I have seen karma happen in small ways. I know I feel better about my self and feel I have good karma when i help someone out. Karma has helped me make the good decisions of helping people out when they really need it. It has helped me become a better person.
I am most proud of my original voice in my essay. I have always tried having my own voice in all my papers but i did really well on this one. I didn't just right about karma, I wrote about it in my view. I added my unique twist that i always have in essays and wrote it how I see it. This was easy for this assignment because it is actually about what I believe in. One line that shows this in my paper is the line about karma not being real, yet it is the idea that makes it close to real. This is unique to me I feel because I always take this approach on multiple views. Even when I was just a freshmen i always viewed ideas like this.
If I am going to send my paper into NPR I am going to need to improve my communal relevance. I have lots of ideas but I have to much original voice. I try to make my ideas to unique and I don't have any stories that can relate to other people. I just have my Ideas and my small stories. I don't have some big life changing story. To improve my paper i need to defiantly improve my communal relevance. hopefully I can make my story reflect on other people and improve how they live.
This conversation has helped me think about what I need to do for my corrections. Also this essay has helped me expand on my idea of karma. While I have always thought of karma this way it was hard to put it into words. Now that it is i feel i have a better understaning of karma. I also understand that I need to get some more communal relevance by adding a story that can relate to people or a idea that people want to fallow or something where they can think about it.
I processed my belief by thinking about karma. Some people had to dig deep but all I did was expand on it. I believe this was because I have always seen small things happen because of karma, but nothing ever big for a story. This is why I started to think about karma in a different way, a unique way. What if karma isn't real but the idea makes it real. I know I have seen karma happen in small ways. I know I feel better about my self and feel I have good karma when i help someone out. Karma has helped me make the good decisions of helping people out when they really need it. It has helped me become a better person.
I am most proud of my original voice in my essay. I have always tried having my own voice in all my papers but i did really well on this one. I didn't just right about karma, I wrote about it in my view. I added my unique twist that i always have in essays and wrote it how I see it. This was easy for this assignment because it is actually about what I believe in. One line that shows this in my paper is the line about karma not being real, yet it is the idea that makes it close to real. This is unique to me I feel because I always take this approach on multiple views. Even when I was just a freshmen i always viewed ideas like this.
If I am going to send my paper into NPR I am going to need to improve my communal relevance. I have lots of ideas but I have to much original voice. I try to make my ideas to unique and I don't have any stories that can relate to other people. I just have my Ideas and my small stories. I don't have some big life changing story. To improve my paper i need to defiantly improve my communal relevance. hopefully I can make my story reflect on other people and improve how they live.
This conversation has helped me think about what I need to do for my corrections. Also this essay has helped me expand on my idea of karma. While I have always thought of karma this way it was hard to put it into words. Now that it is i feel i have a better understaning of karma. I also understand that I need to get some more communal relevance by adding a story that can relate to people or a idea that people want to fallow or something where they can think about it.