Great Work Experience

The best job I ever had was working at Sephora in Emeryville located on Bay Street. The primary responsibilities that I held there was keeping a positive disposition towards the clients while greeting them at the door, working at the cash register at a steady speed to ensure long lines weren’t a problem. I was a ubiquitous worker taking the inchoative to go above and beyond cleaning counters emptying the trash when I was on break. I worked on the floor known as the (stage) for the colleagues also known as (cast) would all work as a team to ensure the clients were satisfied with their shopping experience. Working at Sephora was a very enjoyable experience it was a dream job where I can be myself and get paid for it my bubbly/sparkly personality fitted great like a puzzle piece with the atmosphere, music would be playing all day throughout the store which keep my spirits in energy high. The skills I developed that will serve me will in internship is the ability to listening to other peoples point of view before I respond or react to the situation to get a clear understanding. The lessons I learned from the workplace and also about myself are to maintain a professional attitude always when you’re on the job because you never know who’s watching you such as the boss.

"A Rouge Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything"

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner main focuses is a number of questions and various facts to support each theme of the chapter. Freakonomics uses blunt analysis to turn conventional wisdom on its head. I believe the author wrote this book to express his mind through facts and statistics to support his ideas for the negative point of views.  The message he was trying to convey was how through his eyes how many negative situations are occurring that no one’s pays much attention to. Yes the passage that left a bad impression on me chapter 3 “Why do drug dealers still live with their mom” in this chapter they basically talked about African-Americans with straight forward facts and opinions in one of the pages they even state the word Nigger and I just didn’t understand what that had to do with the chapter. I can tell some situations were fabricated in the story because African American males calls each other Nigga not Nigger that name was given to use by slaves and it just rubbed me the wrong way it just showed ignorance to me on the authors behalf. The parenting chapter had the richest discussion within our book group we talked about how having a good, bad, or overprotecting parent could affect your life and self-esteem and just a child’s outlook upon life. After reading this book I lost interest in both of the authors and I would never buy and of their books. The way a nonfiction book is written can impact a reader's enjoyment and understanding of it. This book vocabulary really made me gain a lot of knowledge upon new words it surely enhanced my reading, but then again it was so many words I didn’t know so it caused me stop reading then look up the book so I completely started losing interesting for the book. No, I wouldn’t recommend this book because I feel its very one sided and only focuses on the negative outlook upon life within each chapter.

" Freakonomics "

Reading Freakonomics has been a weird but interesting road at the same time. I didn't enjoy the book at all because when I read, I like books to take my imagination to a peaceful place all this book does is remind me of all the basic problems I’m surrounded with every day. The reading process has been fine so far because I like how the book has several of different vocabulary words that are enhancing my mind and knowledge. The active reading strategies I have employed are whenever I come across a word that I don’t know such as “conventional wisdom” I look up the word within the dictionary, I find out what part of speech represents the word and I read the synonyms and antonyms as well to make sure I have a clear understanding on what I’m reading instead of just skipping the word like I use to.  Looking up each word helps me a lot because now it’s becoming a habit when I read anything I make sure I clearly understand what the whole concept is about. It provides me with a slight piece of joy to learn new words that most people in my community doesn't know and haven’t even heard of. I enjoy the fact that I could teach my younger cousins something new. The advice I would offer is not to over exaggerate the topics within the book with your own opinions, just read the book and take it as it is. The way I managed the reading is to split it up within a few days to read a few pages at a time to not overwhelm myself.