Midterm Assignment

Hisham Almalibari

English 1102 -04

Ms.Ingram

Mar 2.2012

Midterm Assignment

First the letter:

Dear Friend 

I would like to invite you to take mt English 1102 class with Ms. Ingram we have learned  things in class so far.

In the beginning we warmed up the class with interesting book to me about cooking and life! not because I love cooking which you know I don't, but because the writer share his stories and emotion with us which I very much like it.also the book contain some businesses experience so that was a plus.So it wasn't a bad as start it was actually quit fun.then we wrote about our self in essay which was quite interesting because it asked us different question than the one in English 1101.and third thing we got to research some thing there is argument about and try to give our opinion about.

sincerely 

Hisham

Second 

I choose the annotated bib assignment to talk about it's somewhat hard especially in the beginning where we need to research about my topic. And I have changed my topic from microwave bad effects to autism and it's connection to vaccines. So why did I choose this piece and where I got the Idea from as I said before in my blog I am entrepreneur so I got this idea to use technology to help human beings with  motion gesture and speak recognision perhaps I can help limit the side effects of Autism with a computer program will not cost much.and can help people. the idea hit me because I read a lot about everything so I had a few information about autism and /i try to develop my programing literacy. Also it come from noticing one of my cousins who got autism so I thought I can hit two bird with one stone learn more about the disease and finish the English project so that will keep me interested.  .so my audience are the parents in general who's children in age of take vaccines.I think the skills that I worked on to write this piece is fast reading because there were a lot of materials to read and also researching carefully for the materials.There is not much to take risk in this assignment. I think some of the material will give me my final opinion about the topic. I didn't revise any part yet but I am planning to especially the annotated bib part.as I mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph I had difficulties in researching for the the topic so I had to change it. I have got a lot of information in library day about researching in the library website. I think I learned if I challenge my self I can do good things.

Third :

I really liked the books both of them there are not incredibly hard as much as Writing About Writing.

and I gave several reasons why i liked Peace, Butter and Jelly in the letter part above and I quote myself here" contain some businesses experience and the writer share his emotion with us".

fourth. Haiku

I think this class challenge me to the limit in my writing which is a good thing and will help in the future.

Fourth Blog Post Assignment

what have I learned from this blog about the research? I learned that I have to read articles carefully and understand it and then summarize it and use it in my paper to support my argument.
About the writing process?
I think it help me keep  organizing and timely manged because we cut this big project to small possible pieces to write about.
About your inquiry question?
I think the previous steps which is researching and writing can eventually help me in answering my inquiry question.
About myself?
I think the most important is what I mentioned about getting the big project in small workable pieces.
about the blogging question. blogging is not new for me at all I actually have several blogs and I think it can help you a lot if you commit to it but unfortunately I have not commit to any blog, so I did not get much of benefits from it. so I am very much liking this blog project because it help me in so many level and it's kinda force me to commit to blogging and perhaps I continue blogging because it will for sure help my English improve!

Third Blog Post Assignment

Second Draft


who is my audience?
Since my research question is do vaccines one of the reasons that cause disorder of neural development (Autism) so I think my main audience are the parents of the children who take the vaccines because they get to chose whether their children will get the vaccine or not.
 I think in my case I will only use time to describe the history of autism development and also the vaccine development and the relation between them.
I am investigating in this subject because as I mentioned in first blog one of my relative has autism. I think if I understood autism and its causes I might help in the curing for the behavior part using new technologies such as computers and Kinect (motion sensing device mainly used now for video games).
I don't really know about the high school writing part since in my country we didn't study much of writing not to mention a research paper, but I think maybe it's because they want it completely academic and they thought students might not have enough experience and information about the topic.
of course I have seen the two main argument in my research paper which is :
1- vaccine one of the main reason that cause autism.
2- Vaccine has nothing to do with the increasing number of people who get autism.

One of the new interesting things I have learned this week is that vaccine industry is a billion dollar industry so people and companies of both side of the argument are defending their cause. One of the lawyers bribed some lab to make results that match one of the argument side!
I have learned that you might get a lot of results in the library article search but you can refine you research by putting some criteria that narrow down the results.

First Draft
so I will answer the question that has been asked in ms. Ingram third blog assignment.
who is my audience?

Since my research question is do vaccine one of the reasons that cause disorder of neural development (Autism) so I think my main audience are the parents of the children who take the vaccine because they get to choose whether their children will get the vaccine or not.

as about the question about the time I think in my case I will only use time to describe the history of autism development and also the vaccine development and the relation between them.

and I am investing in this subject because as I mentioned in first blog one of my relative got the autism. and I think if I understood the Autism and it's medicine and causes I might can help in the curing for the behavior part using new technologies such as computers and Kinect (motion sensing device mainly used now for video games).

I don't really know about the high school teaching part since in my country we didn't study much of writing not to imagine a research paper, but I think may be it's because they want it completely academic and they thought students might not have enough experience and information about the topic.

of course I have seen the two main argument in my research paper which is :
1- vaccine one of the main reason that cause autism.
2- Vaccine has nothing to do with the increasing number of people who get the autism.

one of the new interesting things I have learned this week is that vaccine industry is billions of dollars industry so people and company of both side of the argument are defending their cause. it even got to bribe some lab to make results that match one of the argument side!

I have learned that you might get a lot of results in the library article search but you can refine you reserch by putting some criteria that narrow down the results.

I have responsed to Cody Talley blog about frozen food and microwave at this -link-.

Hisham Almalibari 

Second Blog Post Assignments

Second Draft

I found some interesting articles and books about vaccines and its connection to autism. I found a lot of sources, articles, and books. I even listened to long radio recording about vaccines in general and its potential to cause diseases and there has been a lot of arguments but it hasn't really been any good argument.
I have read the article "MMR Vaccine and Autism: Vaccine Nihilism and Postmodern Science" by Dr. Gregory  A. Polan. He published it under mayo clinic which is a leading national health provider and he is saying that there are no proven connection between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and the autism. He is also saying that it's simply wrong the ideas of people who are saying that the vaccines are bad for the health and they are by doing this encouraging other parents to not vaccinate their children and he is saying that it might get them to have sick kids. He is also arguing that instead of defending the theories (or conspiracy as he saying) that the vaccines are bad for health and the research centers should spend the money and the effort in something that actually help the people who got the disease.
I didn't face problem in researching for autism because there are a lot of resources in contrast to to my first research question if microwaves are bad for the health.


First Draft
I found some interesting articles and books about vaccines and it connection to autism. I found a lot of sources of articles and some books. I even listened to long radio recording about vaccine in general and the it's potential causing to diseases and there has been a lot of arguments but it hasn't really been any good argument.
and I have read the article "MMR Vaccine and Autism: Vaccine Nihilism and Postmodern Science" by Dr. Gregory  A. Polan. where he published under mayo clinic which is a leading national health providers and he saying that there are no proven connection between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and the autism. he is also saying that it's simply wrong the ideas of people who are saying that the vaccines are bad for the health and they are by doing this encourage other parents to not vaccinate there children and he saying that it might get them to make sick kids. he also arguing that instead of defending the theories (or conspiracy as he saying) that the vaccines are bad for health they should spend the money and the effort in something that actually help the people who got the disease.
I didn't face problem in researching for autism because there are a lot of resources in contrast to my first research question if the microwave bad for the health.

First Assignment

Second Draft:

My question is how people get autism and is there any cure for it and does vaccine really one of the causes of autism?
 I am interested in it for several reasons like my cousin suffers from this disease, and I need to know more information about it because I am working on project might help the kids who are suffering from this disease to help them beat the disease and could let them live more normally. Another reason that I chose this topic is because I had really hard time and got frustrated searching for resources for the topic of microwave harm on people so I decided to change the subject. I think it's important for people to know about this disease because it's started spreading in the world.
There are claims that some vaccines cause autism and other people claim it has nothing to do with the vaccine.
I don't have any point of view yet about this problem I have to explore more in this matter to give my opinion about the conflict.
First Draft
my question is how people get autism and is there any cure to it and does vaccine really one of the cause of the autism?
and I am interested in it for several reasons like my cousin suffer from this disease, and I need to know more information about it because I am working in project might help the kids who surfing from this disease to get them beat the disease and could let them live more normally.other reason that I got really hard time and got frustrated searching for resources for microwave harm on people so I decide to change the subject. I think it's important to people to know about this disease because it's started spread in the world.
there are claims that some vaccine cause the autism and other people it has nothing to do with the vaccine.
I don't have any point of view yet about this problem I have to explore more in this matter to give my opinion about the conflict.