Contrast Essay #2 Paragraph

          My mother is slightly over weight, you wouldn't believe it if you watched her run around all day, and watch her work out. but that is the way she was built, and that is why she was always better at certain sports than I was in high school, she did softball, basketball, and field hockey. Then you look at me, a petite, tiny figured lady, with hair down to her butt. I did cheerleading all through high school, along with gymnastics (Talk about both us being over achievers). my mom has always been a workaholic whom can't leave her work at home, and she always comes back to the same type of job she started with, which is working with children and adults with metal disabilities. I can't make up my mind what I want to do with my life, I want to teach, open my own cheer gym, and work in the health field, with a big dose of raising a family in the middle of all that. two people, different goals, still over doing it.

Isearch progress

I haven't done too much on the Isearch. To be perfectly honesty, I have a case of the unmotivated bug. I did however have an appointment with a doctor, not about migraines, but bounced the, what could cause, or trigger a migraine? off the doctor to see if I could get her opinion on it to use in the Isearch. I've also learned of a shot that can be given to stop migraines, but that as well does not always work. So although I haven't been doing too much, book and Internet searching so far, I have been doing personal searching, and getting opinion from others. Hopefully my motivation kicks in to high gear, and get going on this Isearch more then I have going now.

Contrast Intros

My mother and I are certainly two of a kind when it comes to looks, just ask my boyfriend, he always says" you look just like your mother." Mostly he does it to get a kick out of watching me steam every time. But my mother and i looking a like is almost the only thing we have in common. My mother is the classic woman with a tom boy twist, and a big case of working too hard. I on the hand am your typical girly girl, cheerleader, and shopper.

My mother is my rock, she is there during the bad times, and always there to cheer me on during the good times. We are look alike twins, if I didn't have my long hair you would need to do a double take. But my mother and I are not the same other than our looks.you look at her you see your classic tom boy, and you look at me you see a make up loving, shopaholic young woman. There are several differences between us clothing, interests, and jobs.

Classification Essay

         A Preteen, Teenager, and a Woman; they are all unique, but a fragrance is unique to a woman, its more the fragrance picks the woman, conforming to a woman's scent. I always know how to spot a person that I know is looking for a fragrance, They pick up one spray, wafting,  pick up another bottle, stop and repeat. But finding that right fragrance for every person is a challenge, there is always three differences between scents. Fresh, Floral, and Warm. There are also certain selling points any beauty adviser must ask when showing, and selling a fragrance. First, you look for the signals that the client is interested in a perfume, and not just strolling by the counter and taking a sniff before they head on their merry way. I ask "Hi, How are you? I see you are looking at Lancome's premiere fragrances, what is your ideal scent?" "Fresh, Floral, or Warm."
         Now a days the search begins in middle school, when wearing a fragrance becomes more common. You start out liking fresh scents, your nose not yet developed for stronger smells. You try body sprays (Ralph Lauren Polo 1-4), scented lotions Justin Bieber, Viva La Juicy. During my middle school days I always liked the sweet scents from Bath and Body Works: Cucumber Melon, and Warm Vanilla Sugar. Still all fresh scents, in the category of fruity, sweet, with a hint of floral. Soon, I bought my first real perfume, Curious by Britney Spears, a sweet, bright scent. Over time my love of perfume is not limited to one perfume at a time, as I soon became addicted to the beautiful, fruit scents, I need more when ever I went to the store. To satisfy my palette I would purchase the perfumes, try them out, and if I decided I didn't like them, I started giving them as gifts, only to realize that buying and giving perfumes don't always go hand in hand buying perfume is a very personal purchase.
         A scent reflects who you are, how you want people to see you.  Are you a Chanel Chance Eau De Parfum? A floral fragrance, with beautiful hints of grapefruit and quince(An Innocent fragrance, surround by intoxicating notes.) as Sephora says. Maybe you are Versace Yellow Diamond, A warm floral fragrance, with a hint of vanilla,(glamorous, and chic). Every thing a teenager wants to wear around high school, attracting the opposite sex with a light floral scent. Maybe you are a Miss Dior Cherie, a favorite scent of mine, but not every person can wear it.  A spicy floral blend of mandarin, caramel, patchouli, chic and youthful.
         Each of my perfumes reflects me. Right now working at Lancome, and knowing that I am growing into a more mature woman, my scents are more towards the Warm side now. Sometimes layering a Warm fragrance, with another light, warm fragrance, putting a Body by Burberry lotion to bring out the spicy patchouli side, and mixing my new counter perfume La Vie Belle, with the bottom notes of vanilla, cedar wood, and musk, basically creating a new perfume, while other days I like to wear the pure perfume, which has always been a favorite on the counter for years Tresor, a Vanilla and Patchouli Fragrance. My fragrance usually reflects How i am feeling that day, and what mood I am in. I have serious scents and fun scents, intriguing scents and simpler scents. After all, Working at a make up counter always has the best perks, you get to learn, play, and find what works for you.
          Younger generations, older generations, they each have their own scents, the fruity smells, the floral smells, to the warm smells. Could be Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, or Taylor swift, Opium, Hypnose, Miracle, O De Lancome. Just because I tend to move towards the Warm scents, rather than YSL, Versace, or Chanel which are all along the lines of Floral scents doesn't mean my next customer will like the same thing. Every smell is different, every pallet is unique. It is all about your choice, and Chemistry with the fragrance, almost like the chemistry you need with your partner, your fragrance is your new partner.

Classification Outro

Fresh scents are more me, I tend to go towards the fruity, less floral, with a hint of vanilla. I'm a free spirit, with a young heart. Younger generations like the fruity smells, like Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, or Taylor swift. I tend to move towards those, rather than YSL, Versace, or Chanel. Every smell is different, every pallet is unique. It is all about your choice, and Chemistry with the fragrance, almost like the chemistry you need with your partner, your fragrance is your new partner.

Classification Intros

A woman is unique, but a fragrance is unique to a woman, its more the fragrance picks the woman, conforming to a woman's scent. I always know how to spot a person that I know is looking for a fragrance, They pick up one spray, wafting,  pick up another bottle, stop and repeat. But finding that right fragrance for every person is a challenge, there is always three differences between scents. Fresh, Floral, and Warm.

There are certain selling points any beauty adviser must ask when showing, and selling a fragrance. First, you look for the signals that the client is interested in a perfume, and not just strolling by the counter and taking a sniff before they head on their merry way. I ask "Hi, How are you? I see you are looking at Lancome's premiere fragrances, what is your ideal scent?" Fresh, Floral, or Warm.

Reaction to Cause Essay Comments

This Essay became more difficult for me than I think it should have been. That is what happens when I start writing and i let my mind run free with ideas. My sentences just start making no sense, which is where you saw paragraphs 4 and 5 get all boggled into a ball. I think my head was in the right place but with distractions around me, I would focus one second, and less lose all thought the next. I'm glad i picked that topic, and that I was able to sort of get my point across to you, and hopefully the rewrite is a little better to understand.

Rewrite Cause Essay

There are people that come and go in my life, that I have thought, 'wow I thought I meant more to them.' I had known my best friend since 4^th grade, there was only one year that I can remember us not being friends, and that was fifth grade. Puberty and girls being girls got the best of us, we would write the horrible things on notebooks and share them with other friends; “You don’t want to be friends with her, she smells.” “Did you see her clothes today.” And the worst one you could say to someone, “If your friends with her, then you aren’t friends with me.” But girls always make up in the end, you could snap your fingers together and BAM, they are friends, like nothing ever happened. Lorraine and I became more than just friends after we made up that year, we were sisters. I am now growing into a young woman, taking charge of my life, without my parents’ advice always guiding me. This is the time where I need my friends, whom are more like my sisters to help guide me through the hard ships that come with growing up. But I have learned that even the strongest bonds between sisters just can’t stand some trials that life throws at us. Lorraine and I talk now every month or two, it now depends on when something good happens in our lives, or when she needs something from me, but now I have gone through so much, and have grown with the new friends in my life. There are reasons why I love the friends I have in my life, three specific reasons that go with each of my three best friends. Trust, Caring, Compassion.

Family ties and bonds are hard to come by, and when they are friends that are more like family, the trust is all you want to be there. So when you’re best friend asks you to go get a tattoo with her secretly against her mother’s wishes, you don’t think twice! The answer is “Yes.” She is trusting in you that for the next two years you won’t tell a soul, and you will get the tattoo somewhere that is covered; so, her mother doesn’t curse you out either for getting one. This is the memory that always floods my mind when I think of the person I trust most in my life, Amanda. Her parents so strict, that she would only tell my mother that she wanted a tattoo, and that on Easter day her and I were going to get one each. When her parents find out that she is still seeing the guy they don’t want her around, instead of the well rounded college football player that she dated in high school, Amanda runs to my house with the wind blowing behind, because she knows that if her mother calls, I won’t say she is sitting right beside me, even though her mother already knows she is. That is the trust she and I have with each other, it is a bond between sisters. There are ups and downs, bottles dumped on my head, and curse words at her from me, family members thinking that after pageants we would never be friends. But that is what a bond of trust is, we know each other in and out, the secrets are held inside us, carefully tucked away in our minds.

When the word caring pops into my mind, Katelin is the definition.Out of anyone I know she cares more about family and friends, before herself. Her heart is ten times bigger than anyone in this world. When ever I have gotten on facebook, and have seen all the statuses that friends post about their day, or what is troubling them, this is what Katelin posts, “Emma vayo, you are your mommies everything already I can't even imagine the moment you are in my arms, I promise to make you proud to have me as your mother, I promise to love you unconditionally and to give you everything you need and never let you go without, you are mommies whole world I can't wait to finally meet your precious face in 8 weeks or less♥ I love you emma, thank you god for blessing me with such a beautiful gift, and family ♥♥.” She cares about that little girl inside of her more than any person she could have met in her life, she is dealing with a bacterial infection in her lungs, and she won’t take all the medications because she is so worried about that little bun in oven. I love Katelin, she is a part of my little close knit family, and I know that when I need her and something bad has happened she is always there because she cares about whom ever is in her life.

Putting others before you, caring about everyone else before you care about yourself, the trust and caring you have for a person all together turns you into a compassionate person. You live for someone else besides yourself, Leeann does just that. She was the person that lifted weight off my shoulders, when life was too much to handle. Leeann would be there despite anything in her way. Family and friends before yourself that is what life comes down to. Leeann was very passionate about her job, like she was about the daughter she had on the way almost a year ago, when Audiranna came into her life she flourished in her new role as a mother but even more as a person.  She came to visit me at work today, and her just standing in front of me was enough to lighten my day, after a start that was less than spectacular to begin with, But just her being there and the feeling that she gave was enough to make my day feel a little less stressful, She is the person I can always turn to when I need to talk and need a friend who cares. She is the friend where all three reasons are built into one person, she is a true friend, whom I could trust with my most deepest secrets, the friend who cares more about everyone else, before putting herself first, and the friend that could show compassion for her best friend, and still show that same compassion for her worst enemy.

"Make New Friends but Keep the old." Katelin, Leeann, and Amanda, they are my rock. These three girls are not only a part of life; they are a part of me. I take a piece of them with me, as they do of me. I always know I can go to them, talk to them, vent to them. There to listen, to comfort, to yell when need. They are trust I look for in a Sister, the caring I want in and have in my family, the compassion that comes with years of friendship, years of heart break, accidents, they are the sisters that get me through life no matter how difficult it gets as we grow and start our lives out of our families, and creating our new families.

Classification Reaction

Classification not going to be my strong point in writing, I understand what the assignment is but I think picking a topic, staying on that topic is going to be hard for me. I like the tuna idea you gave, chunky, shredded, or grated. and different ways to use that specific tuna in meals. I also was surprised to read one on  relationships, more specifically on the guys in relationships. I have dated the snake before as well, so to read some one else point of view on it was great, I don't think i've ever dated the puppy dog, I go for the guys who think they tough, and have cocky attitudes, but are very motivated.  writing about my reaction to there classification essay's makes me wonder if maybe I won't have a hard time after all, because I can relate to so many of essays that were written, and the ideas are just following in and out of my brain.

Meta Graf

I was sitting at the table, sitting on the bed, then moved to the couch. though after thought starts flowing into my head, first graf not good, I knew I needed to dig deeper, find what really means a lot to me. I try not to get distracted from the writing, but its very hard when you are 24, a girl, and into facebook, netflix, and shopping online, every little distraction edges into the writing time. When I open the screen to start writing I do the bad habit, especially during this cause essay and stare at the screen, just stare straight ahead and think what can I write. I don't want to have to rewrite, so i want to think it out first. BAD IDEA! I am over think so much, where do I add detail and where do I not put detail in. My mind is turning and twisting into a big ball of mush and the though aren't pouring out into the writing I am thinking of. I am getting frustrated, I know i can write a great paper, but I am having a time management problem, along with a major brain cramp. Finally it hits me, take a deep breathe, and start moving the fingers one bye one! There it is done an Essay about what is really important to me my non-blood family, that is little but has a big impact on every aspect of my life.

Cause Essay

There are people that come and go in my life, that I have thought, 'wow I thought I meant more to them.' I had known my best friend since 4^th grade, there was only one year that I can remember us not being friends, and that was fifth grade. Puberty and girls being girls got the best of us, we would write the horrible things on notebooks and share them with other friends; “You don’t want to be friends with her, she smells.” “Did you see her clothes today.” And the worst one you could say to someone, “If your friends with her, then you aren’t friends with me.” But girls always make up in the end, you could snap your fingers together and BAM, they are friends, like nothing ever happened. Lorraine and I became more than just friends after we made up that year, we were sisters. I am now growing into a young woman, taking charge of my life, without my parents’ advice always guiding me. This is the time where I need my friends, whom are more like my sisters to help guide me through the hard ships that come with growing up. But I have learned that even the strongest bonds between sisters just can’t stand some trials that life throws at us. Lorraine and I talk now every month or two, it now depends on when something good happens in our lives, or when she needs something from me, but now I have gone through so much, and have grown with the new friends in my life. There are reasons why I love the friends I have in my life, three specific reasons that go with each of my three best friends. Trust, Caring, Compassion.

Family ties and bonds are hard to come by, and when they are friends that are more like family, the trust is all you want to be there. So when you’re best friend asks you to go get a tattoo with her secretly against her mother’s wishes, you don’t think twice! The answer is “Yes.” She is trusting in you that for the next two years you won’t tell a soul, and you will get the tattoo somewhere that is covered; so, her mother doesn’t curse you out either for getting one. This is the memory that always floods my mind when I think of the person I trust most in my life, Amanda. Her parents so strict, that she would only tell my mother that she wanted a tattoo, and that on Easter day her and I were going to get one each. When her parents find out that she is still seeing the guy they don’t want her around, instead of the well rounded college football player that she dated in high school, Amanda runs to my house with the wind blowing behind, because she knows that if her mother calls, I won’t say she is sitting right beside me, even though her mother already knows she is. That is the trust she and I have with each other, it is a bond between sisters. There are ups and downs, bottles dumped on my head, and curse words at her from me, family members thinking that after pageants we would never be friends. But that is what a bond of trust is, we know each other in and out, the secrets are held inside us, carefully tucked away in our minds.

When the word caring pops into my mind, Katelin is the definition.Out of anyone I know she cares more about family and friends, before herself. Her heart is ten times bigger than anyone in this world. When ever I have gotten on facebook, and have seen all the statuses that friends post about their day, or what is troubling them, this is what Katelin posts, “Emma vayo, you are your mommies everything already I can't even imagine the moment you are in my arms, I promise to make you proud to have me as your mother, I promise to love you unconditionally and to give you everything you need and never let you go without, you are mommies whole world I can't wait to finally meet your precious face in 8 weeks or less♥ I love you emma, thank you god for blessing me with such a beautiful gift, and family ♥♥.” She cares about that little girl inside of her more than any person she could have met in her life, she is dealing with a bacterial infection in her lungs, and she won’t take all the medications because she is so worried about that little bun in oven. I love Katelin, she is a part of my little close knit family, and I know that when I need her and something bad has happened she is always there because she cares about whom ever is in her life.

Putting others before you, caring about everyone else before you care about yourself, the trust and caring you have for a person all together turns you into a compassionate person. You live for someone else besides yourself, Leeann does just that. She was the person that lifted weight off my shoulders, when life was too much to handle. Leeann would be there despite anything in her way. Family and friends before yourself that is what life comes down to. Leeann was very passionate about her job, like she was about the daughter she had on the way almost a year ago, when Audiranna came into her life she flourished in her new role as a mother but even more as a person.  She came to visit me at work today, and her just standing in front of me was enough to lighten my day, after a start that was less than spectacular to begin with, But just her being there and the feeling that she gave was enough to make my day feel a little less stressful, She is the person I can always turn to when I need to talk and need a friend who cares. She is the friend where all three reasons are built into one person, she is a true friend, whom I could trust with my most deepest secrets, the friend who cares more about everyone else, before putting herself first, and the friend that could show compassion for her best friend, and still show that same compassion for her worst enemy.

"Make New Friends but Keep the old." Katelin, Leeann, and Amanda, they are my rock. These three girls are not only a part of life; they are a part of me. I take a piece of them with me, as they do of me. I always know I can go to them, talk to them, vent to them. There to listen, to comfort, to yell when need. They are trust I look for in a Sister, the caring I want in and have in my family, the compassion that comes with years of friendship, years of heart break, accidents, they are the sisters that get me through life no matter how difficult it gets as we grow and start our lives out of our families, and creating our new families.

Research Plan

For my Isearch I want to look at different medical journals, to get a doctors point of view, and see trials that have been done. I'm intrigued to read about and explore the different home remedies, I may even try a few to test them and put my own spin on them. I will be using the internet to find out the more simple answers and make them more in-depth, for example chocolate, why it effects migraines so much besides the caffeine and sugar in it. I think I'm going to run into issues when it comes to talking to people about migraines besides doctors, and making appointments for doctors is always a challenge, if you have ever made a doctors appointment before and they can't get you in until next November some time, that always works. In the end I think I will be able to find the answers to my questions, or find more questions that I will need to find in my search for the first questions. There are always going to be challenges when researching, and I am probably going to hit road blocks and have to dig a little deeper to find what I am looking for. But that is what research is all about and the discovery of those answers is always worth the wait and search, especially when you are dealing with your search topic personally.

What I Know

Knowing how Migraines effect me, and knowing about migraines medically is completely different to me. I             know little medically about migraines. I know some medications, food, drinks, life style, and stress triggers that can effect migraines, can make them worse, or can make them go away. I know of some myths, fables, and some home remedies that people have told me, and some that I have read up on through the years. But I have never dived deep into the world of migraines like I am now.
        When I know I have a migraine coming on my first instinct is I need to find some thing to drink, or eat but I stay away from certain foods. I don't get chocolate, although I have been told that when you have a migraine chocolate is good to eat because it helps the blood sugar, and it has some caffeine in it as well. I have heard conflicting stories about caffeine, it's been said that caffeine can cause a migraine to go, in not so many words OUT OF CONTROL. Whether it's coffee, tea, soda, chocolate, all are caffeinated and sugary, they taste good but are not for people like me who have migraines every week.
       Did you know that treatments of migraines can include anti-depressants, and powerful pain medications (Vicodin, Oxycodon, Excedrin, Tylenol, Ibuprofen). When I was tested for which type of migraine i may have, the doctor prescribed me an anti-depressant called Amitriptyline, it's a powerful anti-depressant that is addictive, and can have side affects that include dizziness, drowsiness, you are warned not to drive a car when you have taken the medication, alcohol can increase all the side affects. Does this sound like something you would want to take every night? Not for me, I would never take anything that my doctor would tell me "Once you start taking this medication you can't stop, because the side affects from stooping can have a serious effect on your body." Dealing with my migraines is enough, I don't need to add dealing with medication problem to that list, plus I have a problem with taking pills on time, or actually taking them. I have stuck with Pain killers for now because I don't know of any other treatments just yet to help with the pain of the migraines.
      One theory I have come up with on how to combat my migraine, is crawl into a fetal position, with the room pitch black, you could trip over a shoes in the room because you can't see it, no sounds not even TV in the back round. It's not a conventional way to cure a migraine and if I do say myself, it doesn't work that well at all. But I have no other ways to fight my migraines, except showering in hot water and sitting in the tub  for an hour or longer (the water doesn't stay hot that long most of the time). As for any other suggestions or theories as to how to get rid of a migraine, or how to calm them down, I don't have any, because I don't that much about migraines besides what has happened to me to during them. I'm interested to find out what others have for theories, and Home remedies in order to have a life, and not let migraines control my life, because my life is my own, and i only have one to live.