Blog 11

Prepare an individual writing plan based on previous practice tests. Think of what your weaknesses have been and the general directions you have to follow and post a blog with detailed directions to yourself for how to pass the test and what you have to pay attention to as you write.

                 My weakness is develop the evidence hardly and slowly, so it makes me rushing to finish my essay completely, and don't have time to double check my essay.  Thus, I still need to pratice more and more to improve my skill on development about the evidence for the thesis.

Blog 11: Revice the CATW Pratice 2

              There are some information about the individuals in groups. The article "In Groups We Shrink" by Carol Tavris indicates how people react differently on their own in groups. They have different behaviors between themselves and within groups. People become lazier when there are a large amount of people in groups. There's no one has responsibility to stop an accident or helping others because they think they don't have to do anything and there are someone else would come to take care of it. This phenomenon, psychologists call it "diffusion of responsibility". I agree with the idea that the author had mentioned "the more people in a group, the lazier each individual in it becomes".

               Someone would be dead indirectly by the people who is not concerned for the victim eventhough they saw and heard that, they are still not going to take care of it. Here is a news I have watched on YouTube, and it happend for real in China, October 2011. In the remote monitoring, it recorded the day that a three or four year old girl, walked alone on the street who had accident twice by two trucks, and there are 18 strangers passed by, but nobody was going to call for help or give a helping hand. After a long while, a trash man saw this girl, and called for help. Finally, this girl's parents was coming after they heard that accident. Unfortunately, it's too late for curing.

               I also experienced the same situation in my surrounding area that people in group are careless about someone who needs help. I remembered a day when I was on the way back home from shopping mall, i heard someone was screaming from across the street. I noticed that someone had robbered an iphone from that lady because I saw the lady was running and yelling behind a guy who hold an iphone in his hand and running realy faster. The lady kept running and yelling, but still no one was going to help her to catch the robber.

               In brief, these two evidence are both express that people are less responsibility when they are in a large amount of group. It's bad behavior and coldblood by uncerned others in groups who needs helps. You might save someone's life if you give whom a helping hand. For example, if there's someone who called for help earlier, the girl might be saved; if there's someone or some people who walked on that street caught the guy who robbered the iPhone, the lady might retrieve her iPhone back. Therefore, there probably will decreasing the crimes and misfortune by helping others who needs help in any situation you at.

Blog 10: Type CATW Pratice 3

              Our birth order may influence our life a lot. The passage "How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life Adjustment" by Lucille Forer identifies child's position in a family as the only child, oldest child, middle child or youngest child. The oldest child would became more responsible and efficent than the younger children by the sibling role. The middle child is similar to the oldest child, but sometimes he might ask his parent or an order sibling for help when he needs it. The youngest child doesn't need to concern anything because others always come to take care of him. The only child has to learn to take care of himself if his parents are not able to. Those positions affect them to develop their behavior and attitudes toward themselves and others. I agree with the idea that the sibling role within the family group is the development for children's attitudes and behavior toward others.

             I am the middle child in my family, and my family position turns me become more responsible and more efficiently than my younger sister. I'm satisfy for being a middle child in my family because I can be concerned from my parents and my older brother. For example, when I got in trouble with my home work, my older brother always come to help me. On the other side, I would become a responsible person by taking care of my younger sister. For instance, I always cook for my younger sister if my parents are not at home.

             My friend Lucy, she's the only child in her family. Unfortunately, her parents are very busy on their business. They don't have much time to take care of Lucy. Therefore, she learned how to take care of herself, and solve problems by herself as possible. For example, she got a lot of skills on cook, and cleaning. she usually done her homework without any help. For this reason, I admire her with her independent.

            In short, it's very important by our birth order in the family. It influences our a lot in our life, help us with development on our behavior.