Monday, October 22, 2007


As you can see, this book called “100 simple secrets of successful people”, I read this book when I was studying ESL level 5 at Wright College. This book, I think, It is a very important because this show us how to become better humans beings; moreover, it is book that can be used to answer almost all your personal questions approaching you to the best logical answer possible. This book also gives us tools to be successful persons in everything that we do, or are trying to do, With themes like “Creativity comes from within,” “Competence Starts with a feeling competent,” “It is never Just One Thing,” and “Winners are Made, Not Born,” are a clear example of what this book is related about and overall which topics are going to be explained forward.
My reaction to this book was very gratifying, because I learned a variety of keys that are being useful in my personal life. This book also taught me how to affront the variety of difficult situation that a human being, later than soon, can affront in a determined situation in the life. Life is made of good and bad moments that can be memorable for us, but the big deal or the key to become to be a successful person in life is to learn to overcome them in a logical way, with measure and overall with wisdom, that it is the most important thing.
I really recommend this book, because each theme has no longer explanation and comes with a short explanation in the bottom of each page, so it is not really boring to read it; each topic it is going to take like 5 or ten minutes to read, but the most important thing is to apply to our life what we have learned, and the best way to do it, it is putting in practice in our job, or whenever you think that it is necessary to do it.

Investments


This text book is about business investments. I bought this book in beck's and paid 17o$ in this book.

Total amont of pages is P.837. I regurally could read 20 minutes for one page. There are so many terms that I have to find in my electronic dictionary. That is why it took so much time to read this books. However, if I use a dictionaly, I can read and understand what is written.

It has a lot of contant. It shows why people invest, what is the investment, how to invest, and so on. Those contain so practical examples and problems. This book is very useful for me, and through this book, I can learn much more about investment technically and specialy. Only thing that I don't like is that this book is too technical for me, so I have to study hardly before I attend the class.

Throght reading "Muscla Reading", I could understand more rapidly this text book. Before I read the whole containts, I read the summary parts of the chapter which is written in the end of the chapter. Actually it worked well. Before I start to read I can know that this chapter is about.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

My Calculus book


I have the Math 207 in this semester. So I bought this book for the class. The book named Thomas' Calculus. It's a very heavy book. It has 1228 pages ( not include the answer key and some formulas pages).There is a hard cover that covering this book. There are some formulas in side the very first page. And then, a following thing is Contents. There are sixteen chapters in this book but we only have to learn the first five chapters for Math 207. Each chapter separate into five to eight sections. Each chapter begins with a picture on the left hand corner. And then, a overview of a last chapter, then a section begins. The sections begin with some examples to show you how to solve the problems. There are some rules and formulas in most of the sections. There are a lot of exercises in each sections. Most of the images in this book are the graph of functions like hyperbolas parabolas. The assignments were already assigned on first day of the class. The instructor also put the assignments on Blackboard.

Reading this book is not so difficult but you have to remember the rules and formulas. I don't like this book because it is very heavy to bring it to school. I don't mean that I hate this book. I don't hate this book because I can learn many formulas and rules that I have never known before and I want to improve my math skill. We have done the first two chapters. The first chapter is not a difficult chapter but the second one becoming more challenge for me. However, I already have a strategy to overcome this chapter.
I have a Social Science class this semester, that book is a Social Science's book. The name is Through THE Eyes OF Social Science. That book is very thick, I hate that book because it have totally 645 pages and 14 parts, no picture in the book! All the think is the words! So, every time while I read the book, I just want to sleep. But it is useful sometimes, last time when I have an assignment , it help me a lot.



Finally, I think this book is useful but I hate to read it. I think no one will interesting it.

Art appreciation


This is my art book for my art appreciation class. The name of this book is Livign with art and is so so heavy. It has approximately 600 pages, this book is practically about art history and appreciation (duh) theres alot of pictures of paintings and sculptures, also theres mini biography of some artists. This book has 22 chapter, first we have an introduction of what is art, then we have visual elements, different types of media, art in time, art from different cultures, etc.
I enjoy reading books about art, i like to discover new artist and study famous artwork, looking up for the smallest details or trying to find what the artist wants to communicate thru their artwork. Personally this book is interesting but its way to big and heavy, i get bored easily whenever I am reading it while doing homework, its not hard but theres some words that i dont understand.

Class blog 2

This book is for my accounting course book. It is the thickest book that I have. Of course I couldn't look on every single word or every line. So, I used the strategies form my reading textbook reconnaissance. First of all, I look at all the chapters and then scan headlines, look at the charts, pictures, diagrams. Second of all, I know what I want to know and what materials I need before I read. Third, make some qustions from an assignment before begin reading. Also, underline the unknow words and highlight the main ideal or important section can save lots of time for reviewnig or to study for the tests. Normally,I try to spent half hour to read every day, most of time I would like to read news paper because I can find out the local news and what is going on in the city. After I went back to school I had changed my suject to read because I have to read my textbooks in order to get a better grad on my course. It is worthy on what I read because those textbooks are very useful to me and I can learn lot of knowleges form them.

Chemistry textbook


The textbook I chose is chemistry book entitled Foundations of college Chemistry by Hein and Arena. The book is heavy and thick. It has a beautiful cover of penguins on ice. The book has a Long list of table of contents. Besides it has a lot of pictures and drawing of atoms elements and compounds. There are also pictures of chemists in the lab doing experimentations and researches. In addition the book has a clear pictures of periodic table of the elements. The book also contains self-testing questions at the end of each chapter. In my chemistry class we are normally assigned a chapter to read in advance and prepare for the class. I love my chemistry book. It is a book that contains important details of chemistry foundations. I found it very interesting and helpful in my studies. The book is not boring to read because it has colorful pictures of the elements.