blog #7

In the article "A Required Course in Beating the Freshman Blues" by Rene Sanchez and it was published in a book called The Writer's Response. In this article the author talked about how college and universities are coming up with new programs or course to help students success and keep students from dropping out of college. 

This article talks about how colleges and universities are coming- up with new programs that could help the students become more successful while they’re on their first year in college and lower the drop out rate. Also it talks about how faculty members could help too. Some of the things the program provides are one; teach students the study skill on how to take note or study for an exam. Two; all freshmen are required to take the same courses that were lead by faculty and they will have a small group conversation. Sometime the faculty will have their students to set up meetings to see how they are doing. 

After reading this article I thought this would be good for the students especially for those who just enter the college life for the first time because it would give them some ideas how to handle their time and how to study for an exam. If I had another chance to repeat the first year I would took a course like this because i wasted a lot of my times. 

Blog # 6

In the article "Dear Dads: Save Your Sons" by Christopher N. Bacorn and it was published by the Newsweek. In this article the author talks about how the importance of having a father and having someone to look up to. This boy's father had left him and his mother four years ago and this had affected him and his mother a lot. The was not doing well in school, drinking a lot of alcohol, violence things like that. While for the mother, it was hard for her to take care of him because he doesn't listen to her and she even took him to see a professional counselor. But it didn't work out since the boy had given up on him-self and the counselor had given up as well. According to the author what every children need is a man who loves him, spending time with him and someone who is proud of him.

After reading this article I thought sad to this young boy is going through the things that he is going through and the mother couldn't even help. Being a father that means that he have a lot of responsibility for the family. Obviously this boy's father was not taking the responsibility he should be taking instead of throwing everything to the mother. One of the things that I agree what the author said how the fathers should be for example like taking the kids to a basketball game or reading to them and the main point is spend time with the children. I think this will have a lot of effects on children when they get older or even one day they are being a father and they would know what they need to do for their next generation.