I Pledge To Succeed

When you want to achieve something great and want to accomplish something that is also going to be challenging, but yet rewarding, it sometimes helps to declare your commitment to that endeavor in writing to help you successfully get through the challenge. Having it in writing reminds you of how important what you set out to do is and it motivates you to finish what you initially started. Being reminded of a commitment helps you stick to it until the end. I am dedicated to Year Up Bay Area and I aiming towards reaching the finish line which would be my ultimate success. I have decided to pledge my commitment .

I, Cherelle M. Knight-Joseph, pledge to give 100% effort to the Year Up Bay Area program even during the entirety of the L &D and Corporate Internship phase. I will accomplish this by staying on top of my assignments, arriving on time, maintaining professional dress and networking with my colleagues.

I Pledge to help my fellow colleagues when they need my help and assist staff when they request me to do things which will make me an asset to this program and enable me to use the skills that I have. I will do this by making myself readily available to help and offer assistance when I am asked. This will help me in team settings to be useful where I am able to give good input and benefit from my surroundings.

I Pledge to stay focused and not settle for just finishing the program, but achieving beyond the program. The way I intend to accomplish this is to do my research to become more knowledgeable about technology and take more classes that will enable me to eventually attain a degree.

Lastly, I pledge to use every resource and opportunity that arises to help me reach my full potential and connect with the right people that will set me on the right track. I strive to use more of my resources by responding more promptly to invitations and  requests made by instructors, staff, and colleagues. I will put more effort into opportunities that arise by making myself more prepared and organized and also being more enthusiastic towards taking on extra tasks.

These things I pledge sincerely and realistically and I promise to strive to do them well.This will definitely set me apart and distinguish me as a potential candidate for a position when that time comes for me to start my career. I am ready to take that next step and pledging these things will reaffirm my commitment to the program and to the things that I have goal-ed for myself!

To what extent does a person’s neighborhood shape who she or he is?

To what extent does a person’s neighborhood shape who she or he is?

• In the first paragraph, briefly describe your neighborhood.

 

• In the second paragraph, describe which statement best fits you and why:

• I am who I am because of the neighborhood I live(d) in.
• I am who I am despite the neighborhood I live(d) in. 

Write a post on your blog- 300-350 words in which you talk about where you live now or where you spent a large portion of your upbringing and how this environment has affected who you are today:


I am a person that was able to live and grow up in different types of neighborhoods and have even experienced the living differences in other states. By having this experience, I was able to become very familiar to commercial and residential development . I am a very versatile and adaptive because of my upbringing of moving around and I think that it both positively and in some ways negatively affected my life. Overall it was for the best though there were some downfalls. It has enabled me to be very receptive towards change. I was originally born in Compton, Ca at a time where crime and violence was at high rate. My family made a decision to move to a more suburban area because they strongly felt that it would be a better place for me to grow up and be safe. It was a city called Fontana that is part of the Inland Empire which is an outskirt city of Los Angeles. This city is renowned for its trucking industry  which means that product is being constantly transported through residential areas and there is a lot of commercial development in that city. I was accustomed to a more laid back lifestyle. It was still a bustling city but still way more laid back than Los Angeles. I was able to grow up not having as many distractions as my cousins.

Advertising and Moi

PROMPT :

It’s hard to turn a corner nowadays without coming into contact with some form of advertising - we see it on billboards, buses, shelters and even on our phones as we listen and play. Answer one or more of the following questions:

·         What mediums or methods of advertising appeal to you and what repels you?

·         What does it take to grab your attention or interest?

·         What forms of advertising do you ignore?

Hint: Consider multiple forms of advertising, for example: Images, radio, ads with celebrities, multimedia ads, humor, sentimentality, shock factor, etc.

Use these instructions to guide you:

• ·         Plan, write  and publish a 300 – 350 word blog
• ·         Include at least 2 paragraphs
• ·         Refer to any examples to support your opinion. (Hint: Use pictures if available and suitable)
• ·         Include at least one word from your word bank and underline it
•       As with all your writing, be sure to proofread and revise. 

I am a person that is easy to persuade. Anything that is presented in a good way will grasp my attention. I am very fond of a well put together advertisement and the likely hood of me being a possible patron is benevolent. There are methods of advertising that most appeals to me  and there are methods that get on my nerves and repels me. I love to try new things and if the way something is presented to me is not genuine then I usually am turned off. Other than that, I am a fairly simple sale.

Many of the factors that make any product or service attractive to me is affordability, convienience, and usefulness. If any product or service that is being presented to me is reasonably priced, fairly accessible, and makes something that I already have or do more efficient, then I am convinced. I will be become a dedicated user or customer in a heartbeat. I am also very moved by inpromtu testamonials and real-life results which is something that cannot be scripted and guarantees authenticity in my book. Im also a fan of advertisement that uses humorous themes and underlying comedy to convey a message to potential consumers. This is the best way to get my attention.

The main things that repel me and annoy me to the uttermost is unsolicited ads it can be as subtle as someone trying to wave you in to a sales kiosk or as blatant as a knock on the door, and also that annoying stranger on your phone. I have experienced them all, and most of the time in these intances the company knows very little about me. An advertisement cannot be successful without doing a bit of research and homework about possible consumers. I am very offended when business offers me a service that implies something about me that is not true or I have not connected with in any way shape or form, and does not relate to me at all. For instance, when this representative of a tanning company launced a device that detects the color of your skin to measure the shading you would like. It was kind of odd to me to have someone insist on pushing that type of product on someone that could not benefit from its service. It would be better suited for someone else, for the case being that I am very much so darker tone and tanning is something I have never needed. This is something that is called poor advertising. It doesnt reach the audience that is sets out for. This could have been presented in a different way that could maybe make it useful such as buying this product for a friend and not for myself.

So you see, advertising can be effective, it just needs to be presented in a good way to really connect with the potential customer and have a useful purpose. I think that if advertisers think about it from this standpoint it would make their efforts more effective and many of us in society would be a lot more prone to persuasion and emptying our pocketbooks.