A self-introduction is the act of introducing yourself to someone new. A self-introduction is extremely important because it helps other people know about your identity, personality, accomplishments, and other essential things related to you.
I am a son, Mexican, Seventh-Day Adventist, and student at GSU.
To communicate effectively with these groups, one must share a common interest in bettering the community. One must respect their values and goals or have experience in the field to properly communicate. I can introduce myself with my interests and motives for being a part of said group, and why I want to become a part of the group.
In my church, everyone is shaping the communication between us. The church contacts me or my family for events or for volunteering tasks within the church, and my family reaches out to the church for help in coordinating events or for possible volunteering opportunities. We need the church to bring us closer to the Lord and the church needs us to spread the gospel, so everyone must shape communication because it is crucial to this community’s goal.
Literacy impacts the community by improving the economy by educating more people to perform a wide variety of jobs and making a wider community. One way literacy impacts culture is by reducing inequality and prejudice by better educating people on history and morals. Literacy can impact the values of people by teaching what good values are in a personal life setting as well as a professional business setting. Literacy allows people to educate themselves or educate others.
Self-introductions differ based on the various community settings, for example, in a business setting one must introduce themselves professionally and present themselves with credibility. However, in an informal setting with friends, one must present themselves in a friendly, easygoing, and casual manner.
What is literacy? Literacy is the ability to read and write.
To what extent is it important to you? Literacy is extremely important to me on the extent that without the ability to read and write I could not advance in the educational system as far as I am right now. I would not be able to comprehend other people ideas and thoughts. Similarly, I would not be able to project my own ideas and thoughts to properly communicate in society.
3. What are some (non-traditional) Literacies you know? Digital literacy is a non-traditional literacy that impacts our everyday lives. Digital technology is used to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information.
4. Is there any particular literacy that is important to you professionally? I believe scientific literacy is a huge subject in my life that is important in my education. Chemistry contains a significant amount of scientific formulas, numbers, symbols, and terminology that are important to our everyday lives that we often do not pay attention to.
A) I believe the Ted Talk by Daniel Levitin on How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed speaks the most to me when he speaks about a similar problem I struggle with. Levitin describes vividly how the saturation and stress as impacting him in the current moment. His descriptiveness in his setting is extremely engaging because I can paint a solid picture of his surroundings and how he is feeling in the moment.
B) The other two stories also are personally engaging because they are topics I am heavily interested in, but they are missing a great deal of descriptiveness in the sense of imagery. I could always expand those stories to fit the descriptiveness element which I will do for my narrative essay. The stories are also missing a rising action or even a climax for that matter. I need to work on making the stories more engaging by implementing a great deal of descriptiveness, imagery, and action.
C) A good story for me personally would have to be my personal story. My personal story begins with two great details which is I as a character and the inciting incident. The inciting incident would be my issue in not knowing which major to choose. I took the reader through my own personal emotions and experiences which make me who I am today and make the reader know the characters traits. I outlined my core message and purpose of the story clearly and early on in the story which was choosing a profession and major I would enjoy. I made my story useful by showing the reader some techniques they could imply into their own lives when choosing a college major by choosing something that correlated to their interests and passions.
How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed, Daniel Levitin
TRANSCRIPT:
A few years ago, I broke into my own house. I had just driven home, it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town, and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees — and don’t bother asking if that’s Celsius or Fahrenheit, minus 40 is where the two scales meet — it was very cold.
And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets, I found I didn’t have my keys. In fact, I could see them through the window, lying on the dining room table where I had left them. So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows, and they were locked tight. I thought about calling a locksmith — at least I had my cellphone, but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up, and it was cold. I couldn’t go back to my friend Jeff’s house for the night because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning, and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase.
So, desperate and freezing cold, I found a large rock and I broke through the basement window, cleared out the shards of glass, I crawled through, I found a piece of cardboard and taped it up over the opening, figuring that in the morning, on the way to the airport, I could call my contractor and ask him to fix it. This was going to be expensive, but probably no more expensive than a middle-of-the-night locksmith, so I figured, under the circumstances, I was coming out even.
Now, I’m a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking.
So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep, worrying about the hole in the window, and a mental note that I had to call my contractor, and the freezing temperatures, and the meetings I had upcoming in Europe, and with all the cortisol in my brain, my thinking was cloudy, but I didn’t know it was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy.
And it wasn’t until I got to the airport check-in counter, that I realized I didn’t have my passport. So I raced home in the snow and ice, 40 minutes, got my passport, raced back to the airport, I made it just in time, but they had given away my seat to someone else, so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn’t recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.
Storytelling
I have always had a strong desire to use my hands in my future work field. I never exactly knew what my major was going to be or what I was preparing myself to become. I knew I loved using my hands because in the past I have installed the duct work in construction and have realised how much hands can really do. I would say I am a tactile learner as well as a visual learner. I needed to find a career path that was exactly those two things. I kept searching for a career that included those two practices and later went on to shadow doctors, but eventually one job captivated my eye. A maxillofacial surgeon was the job that amazed me, by the way the surgeon used his hands to take out wisdom teeth and cut inside the mouth so precisely. Later on, I received braces and had the opportunity to shadow my orthodontist in depth on what he does around his own business. I finally knew my general path which was the pre-dentistry route. I now know that I need to be a biology major to seek out a dentistry route. I want to be hands on about my work and help people at the same time. I know I want to start off as a dentist and see where that takes me which is why I have chosen to be a Biology major to start off with.
My Favorite Movie
My all-time favorite movie would have to be something that contains a great deal of action but also a movie that includes an inspiring message that can motivate me, and that movie would have to be, “SOLO: A Star Wars Story.” This movie is the backstory of one of Hollywood’s most beloved character Han Solo. This story is about Han Solo’s young adult life trying to get out of a terrible place where he is being held captive only to make his boss money to pay off his debts. He does manage to overcome all odds and make a great escape, which is the main theme or message I continue to see in this cinematic masterpiece. He is left with a great scar because he left the love of his life but is still determined to overcome all odds and make money to buy them a great spaceship with the plan of rescuing her. The movie is quite beautiful in terms of the cinematography and CGI. The impression this movie makes is that Solo overcomes all odds no matter the cost or his circumstances. Solo always manages to pull ahead no matter what even if he is knocked back four or five spaces, he always manages to go ahead tenfold. This impacts me because I hope to pull ahead in anything I do no matter the circumstances that are against me.
My all-time favorite movie would have to be something that contains a great deal of action but also a movie that includes an inspiring message that can motivate me, and that movie would have to be, “SOLO: A Star Wars Story.” This movie is the backstory of one of Hollywood’s most beloved character Han Solo. This story is about Han Solo’s young adult life trying to get out of a terrible place where he is being held captive only to make his boss money to pay off his debts. He does manage to overcome all odds and make a great escape, which is the main theme or message I continue to see in this cinematic masterpiece. He is left with a great scar because he left the love of his life but is still determined to overcome all odds and make money to buy them a great spaceship with the plan of rescuing her. The movie is quite beautiful in terms of the cinematography and CGI. The impression this movie makes is that Solo overcomes all odds no matter the cost or his circumstances. Solo always manages to pull ahead no matter what even if he is knocked back four or five spaces, he always manages to go ahead tenfold. This impacts me because I hope to pull ahead in anything I do no matter the circumstances that are against me.
I believe this news article speaks the most to me about a huge problem we see in America today. There is a massive division on how different races see racism as a whole and how they are treated in America. This news article has data that portrays how Blacks and Whites see how they are treated in America. According to this news article, “An overwhelming 87% of black Americans say black people face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but only 49% of white Americans say the same thing” (Struyk). This article uses the application of Logos by providing the facts and statistics of the American people; significantly for the American people to deliver better insight into the real problems people like myself face every day. This quote also applies the element of Kairos by publishing this article at the perfect time when the Charlottesville event happened. This communication piece communicates with me because some people are truly oblivious to the other side of how badly one can be treated. Stereotypes are only a minuscule problem in the bigger picture but they still manage to affect people like me by tossing us to one corner and telling us the only thing we’re good for is the stereotype the race has. The mistreatment is the much bigger picture that my parent has faced by being rejected of certain jobs and being neglected as a person that does not fit in. The harsher treatment by the police has also been a huge problem. The other side does not see this problem as often so they have a whole different picture of racism.
Much like Evelyn’s story, I too have had similar social struggles in the past. I used to be shy and nervous in new social situations with people I have never met. I believe this began in the 5th grade,when I started going to a new school I had never attended. In the past I always was in my comfort zone with people I had seen every day, so socializing with them was no problem. Now the scene had changed completely. I knew absolutely no one at this school so my shy and nervous tendencies began to shine. One day I had enough of being nervous and always having the fear of messing up and making everyone dislike me. I realized that everyone was exactly the same and there was truly nothing special about them that I did not have as well, and that anything I said or did would easily be forgotten about in a week or so. I would soon gain the confidence to be myself and startedto talk to just about anyone. This level of maturing or acceptance that I am worthy of being liked and accepted is what has helped me to leave my fear of messing up in any social situation.
