day 8

a lot like all the other days. still feeling results after every time i use the shake weight. feel as if im getting a little bigger

Day 7

a little sore today. did the shake weight for six minutes like said. did it without the video this time. arms and upper body were throbbing as i finished

Day 6

mostly the same as the other days. it was still very difficult too finish the workout with out stopping. arms were still sore today and were swoll after using shake weight.

Day 5

day five was a little different than the other days. i was pretty sore and it was harder to finish the workout with the shake weight. after i did the shake weight workout I also lifted at the gym to see if any of my max's went up. it has only been five days so i didnt expect much, and there was no real change in the amount of weight i could lift for bench press, bicep curls, and tricep extensions.

Day 4

Day 4 was a pretty good workout. After doing the shake weight my arms and chest feel like ive went through an upper body workout.  Even though you only do it for 6 minutes, its still tough and difficult to finish without being out of breath or being a little sore

Day 3

Day 3 was the same as day 1 and 2, it was still pretty tough to do the workout the whole time without stopping.  Arms sore and veins popping out.

Day 2

Once again the shake weight killed me like it did the first day. It's alot harder than i ever thought it would be.  I also could see immediate results in my arms and chest as they looked and felt bigger

Day 1

I performed the shake weight for six minutes today and was very surprised that it was as difficult as it was.  I figured it would be somewhat easy, but it was hard and i felt the results right away.  I lost my breath and realized quickly that it wasn't easy like i thought.  Measurements on my right arm = 16 in, left arm = 16 in as well. chest measurement = 40 in.

RR#6

            The last part of Nickel and Dimed is the evaluation.  Barbara Ehrenreich grades herself and says that she was average because even though she used a lot of concentration and skills that she didn't know she would use, she recieved very little encouragement or compliments from her coworkers.  She says that the unskilled jobs are both mentally and physically challenging.  Ehrenreich finds that the markets are becoming extremely competitive.  She realizes that the pay that hourly workers are making isn't enough and the rise of rent is taking away the opportunities for lower income families to have places to live.  Low income homes in cities are disappearing forcing families to live in small hotels or apartments.  Employers do whatever they can to keep from having to give raises in wages.  She just felt as if the people in the lower 20% of the economy were treated so poorly that they flt as if they couldn't ever find a better job.
            Overall I thought this book had its good moments as well as its bad moments.  Mostly I feel like it just wasn't realistic enough because Barbara had a car as well as a savings account where she could get money out if she needed too.  Also with having a car, she had way more possibilities for her to get around then most poor people because they have problems with transportation.  I do think that some of the information she found about the low wage jobs helped me to really understand how hard it would be if I had to live like that.  It was also interesting to see how bad the jobs really were and all the hidden costs that can come with having a low wage job.

Extra #2

I am very glad that we did peer reviews today in class.  I believe this will help me to better my paper and make it the best possible.  Last semester, my teacher didn't let us do peer reviews because he said it was a waste of time.  I think that really hurt the overall grade and job that I did on my papers in English 103.  From the peer reviews, I learned what some of the good parts of my paper were and also how to improve it and fix some mistakes I didn't notice until I read it out loud to them.

RR#5

      Chapter six focuses on reading resources rhetorically.  It talks about rhetorical reading and how to read with a purpose or purposeful reading which is reading to learn and gather info.  It also talks about considering context and annotating resources.  Resources need to provide evidence to support and also reasons that support their claim.  It gives the inappropriate and appropriate ways to paraphrase the notes on resources.  It also talks about summarizing and the right ways to write a summary.  Chapter seven focuses on tracking and evaluating data.  It shows you how to verify, copy, respond, and fill gaps to see if you have collected useful and valid data.  It shows you how to evaluate validity by looking for the internal structure as well as the external comparison.
       After reading these two chapters, I now have a better understanding about finding and validating whether resources are good or bad.  It also shows me how I can paraphrase resources that are used for my notes.  I now know how to evaluate validity by looking at the internal structure and whether the argument follows coherent lines of reasoning.  External comparison also helps to evaluate validity by looking at the info and comparing it to other.