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I was curious about why teens tend to drive more reckless than experienced drivers. I decided to do some research on this topic and found an interesting article about young drivers in car crashes. The article is titled "Do teen drivers crash more because they're reckless - or is it their brains?" This article focused on a study led by researchers with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. They tried answering this question and found that drivers who were more likely to be involved in an accident were those who's working memory development lacked. This opened up the question, how can we further prevent accidents with this information? The answer they gave was to incorporate further driving draining before giving a license. As well as improve on the car technology to alert the driver when something could go wrong.

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The origin story that interested me the most was mine about driving recklessly as a young teen. It's about me trying to race past a truck in the oncoming lane of traffic, only to be met face to face with an oncoming vehicle. It's really about a learning experience I had as a newly free teen. I learned that driving can truly be dangerous. You can never know everything that will happen, and with a simple mistake, your life could be in danger. This taught me to take driving more seriously and follow the rules more closely.

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A run on sentence is one that contains two independent clauses without connecting the two. An example is, "My friends and I went to the store we went to Chick-fil-A." An appropriate way to fix this sentence would be, "My friends and I went to the store, and then we went to Chick-fil-A."
A comma splice is when a comma separates two independent clauses ineffectively. An example is, "Our football team had lost the Super Bowl, people started to run onto the field." In order to fix this comma splice you must connect the two ideas. Example, "Our football team had lost the Super Bowl, so people started to run onto the field."

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For my Ted Talk, I used multiple ways to activate my schema. The first was I questioned and tried to predict what the Ted Talk was going to be about. I used the title to ask myself these questions. The title was "The Gift of Power and Emotional Courage." I asked myself, "What could gift mean in this context?" and "Is this going to be an inspiring message or encouraging one?" I then researched the speaker and found out she was an instructor of psychology at Harvard University. She also co-founded the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School. This told me she was a very hard working and well-accomplished woman. So I concluded that the Ted Talk was most likely going to be an inspirational talk and I should focus on finding inspiration in her words. Before this week I had a basic understanding of activating schema, I knew it was a way to try to connect to what you would read or watch before doing so. I knew it was an important tool to help with understanding the context and connecting to it. I learned this week helpful tips and tricks to actually do so. My favorite way I used to activate my schema was researching the speaker beforehand. This helped me a lot with answering my original questions and gave me a better idea as to what to look for in their words.

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Transcript of "The gift and power of emotional courage"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility.

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First, second, third. My heart races as I shift through my gears. Blood’s pumping through my veins like white water rapids. I’m finally free. I just turned sixteen, the world is mine to explore. To my left, I see the beautiful Rocky Mountains, an endless sea of grass to my right. Not a car on the road, I decided to see what my car can do. I didn’t save up for a sports car to not drive it right. I take a deep breath and sink into the seat. I am in control. I release the cold morning air from my lungs as my foot pushes the gas pedal to the floor. VROOOM! My head slams into the headrest, this is what I have been waiting for. Fourth, fifth, how fast am I going now? I can hear my parents whispering behind me. “Remember Bronco cars are dangerous, there’s a speed limit for a reason.” I ignore it. I have my license now, I know what’s best. “Oh no, what’s that?” I blurt as I reach the top of a hill. Just a truck, good. No other cars in sight, I can pass him. The distance between us narrows. I brace myself, “Is this the right thing to do?” Thinking I’m going to fly by him I get into the oncoming traffic lane. The gap between us stops growing like a goldfish in a small bowl. “What? How is he keeping up?” I can’t get back over. He’s sticking to my side. That’s when I see it peeking over the horizon, another car headed straight for me! I hear the blood pumping through my entire body. Should I slow down? No, I can do this, I’m starting to pass him. The car in front is getting closer and faster than expected. Oh no. Within seconds, I’m left with a choice. Back off and get behind the truck, or wait until I’m face-to-face with the car in front of me. I choose the latter. Is he trying to kill me? Why is this truck not letting me pass, I think I might die. This could be the mistake that ends it all. As the moment nears I begin to drip like a leaf in a rainforest. It’s about to happen, I can’t check to see where the truck is, I need to focus on not getting hit straight on. It’s ten feet ahead, I grip my steering wheel with my life, and jerk it over to the right. My entire life flashed before my eyes as I missed hitting both the car in front of me and the truck to my side by a few mere inches. I stopped driving like life was a videogame from this day forward. I often wonder, what If my car was a bit slower? Would I have died, killed someone, or worse?

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I learned that commas can be used as a ramp-up or a ramp-down in dialogue. Placing the comma after the dialogue ramps it down while placing it before the dialogue ramps the dialogue up. These have many uses, you would want to use a ramp-up when building tension in the dialogue and a ramp-down when bringing down the excitement. For example; "I can't believe you have done this," Emma exhausted. Versus; Emma exhausted, "I am disappointed in your actions."

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Peter Heller talks about his writing in the book The Painter, not The Artist. He decided to write his book in Boulder Colorado because of its innate beauty, artistic aura, and isolation from the industrial world. He likes to explore his mind and memories while he writes in a coffee shop. A cliché is something said or done that most people would consider unoriginal or uncreative. Peter talks about how he tries to avoid them. He talks about being humbled and rewriting. He talked about how avoiding a cliche is almost impossible so it's always a good idea to re-read and re-write. Peter also talks about being aware of your senses when outside, to immerse yourself and understand the layers of your senses. These tools are what he uses to "create a home" to make the reader feel safe in the immersive writing.

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Broncos thoughts about Ideas and Learning

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Broncos thoughts about Ideas and Learning

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I think learning is the most important think we can do as a species. In order to create new Ideas we must know what has already been done and why that idea succeeded or failed. I believe the internet has exponentially increased this rate as we can now bounce ideas off of almost any human on the planet. In order to have a "Great Idea" I believe one must be considering to solve multiple problems or issues with a specific goal in mind. A great example of great ideas is Elon Musk. He has always had a clear end goal and vision as to what and why he was creating his companies with an overarching common goal of progressing the human race to sustainability and and the next level of civilization. I believe in order to learn one must be willing to accept that they can be wrong. They must also be willing to try and fully understand, to ask questions and not be afraid of judgement but embrace it. I think in order to learn one must set aside their ego and let another guide them through the journey of life and knowledge. I believe in order to learn you must do. You can understand a concept or idea with words and images but to truly learn how to use it in the real world, you must do so with your own hands and practice.

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I can hear him, but where is he? “You can’t get me, Deadman!” Brandon shouts as I frantically pounce in the direction I hear his voice. I land on the empty trampoline, blinded by the blanket covering me. Damn, nothing there. The scalding heat from the summer sun is amplified as I scurry around trying to tag Brandon. I must find him. I pause trying to triangulate his location. I focus on the curvature of the trampoline and the sound of his voice. There, that must be him. I take a deep breath. The blanket is making it hard to get a breath of fresh air. My muscles are tense as I ready my body to leap like a panther. “I’ve got you!” I exclaim while lunging towards Brandon. He quickly evades, oh no. I’ve gained too much air. My pulse stops as I see where I am about to land, the hard metal skeleton of the trampoline stares into my soul. BAM! My entire body shrivels with pain as my teeth slam into the cold sturdy frame. I feel like my body has given up. “Is this it? Am I going to die?” I think to myself as the pain grows rampantly.
I have completely forgotten what I was doing. My brain is puzzled as to where I am. Brandon whispers, “Are you okay dude?” Unaware of why I had stopped moving. My entire body feels fuzzy. I try to reply but notice my mouth is filled with a metallic-tasting liquid. “I’m bleeding.” I manage to squeak, still covered by the blanket. “I’ll go get your mom!” Brandon frantically chirps. He hops off the trampoline and hurries into my house. I roll to my back, making sure all of my teeth are still there. It’s just my lip. It feels like a ravine has opened on my face. “Thank god,” I expel in a sigh of relief. Thankful to still have a full set of teeth. “So that’s why they call this game Deadman.” I laugh at myself, waiting for my friend to come back with help. I wonder, was playing this game a mistake? Or maybe an important learning experience.

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My family means more than words can describe, they have raised me to be who I am today and for that I am forever grateful.
(Thats me on the far right)

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“Oh my god they are so CUTE!” a little girl screamed in the distance. I glanced at my sister with curiosity in my eyes. She responded, “Let’s check it out!” We scurried around the corner at the Boulder County Fair, passing vendors selling clothes and food of all types. They didn’t interest us. We had to know what the little girl was talking about. Following the sound of her voice, we found her. She wasn’t the only one there, the entire tent was surrounded by people in awe. “Race you there!” I exclaimed to my sister as I ran past her to reach the tent. I was surrounded by a sea of people. An intense desire filled my soul, I needed to see what was going on. I pushed past the ocean of people, like pushing the water behind you to move forwards. I could hear my heartbeat in my ears, “I’m getting closer,” I told myself. “Look at it gliding down!” someone screeched in the crowd. I looked up. There it was, wings spread, falling to a man’s hands. “Is that a chipmunk?” I asked myself, dazed by the unfamiliar but charming creature. It wearing two bold white stripes down its sides and a thick black strip down its back, unlike anything I had ever seen. “That’s a sugar glider!” My sister shouted while pointing at the mysterious fluffball. Shocked to see her I gasped. “I didn’t even notice you made it,” I laughed with embarrassment. “We should get some! Emma had one and I’ve wanted one since!” she instantly came back with. Oh my god, we haven’t had any pets besides a cat before. I wanted it, I needed one. “Do you want to hold her?” The man at the tent inquired my sister. Her eyes ballooned, “Yes please!” From that moment she had already decided, she was getting one. I swallowed my anxiety, “Let’s do it!” From that moment on we were parents, my sister and I had babies to take care of. I learned so much about responsibility and wonder, what if I wasn’t able to overcome my nervousness? Would I forever be afraid of taking care of another living thing?

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This is me and my girlfriend, we have plans to travel the country going from state to state to capture and help create its and our beauty within it in 2022.

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This is a representation of something I love. I love Colorado's natural and inherit beauty, I love photography, and I love being outdoors to enjoy those things.