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            Motivation is a very strong word.  Without motivation, it will be very difficult to get any where in life.  In school you can always tell who is motivated and those who just don’t care.  I believe motivation should come from within.  When you rely on someone else for motivation you don’t really want it bad enough.  Staying motivated is a challenge, but when you complete something difficult, you feel accomplished.  The word motivation in the dictionary means a motive or inspiration.  It is important to stay motivated in school because its your education, not anyone else’s.

            Every week for several classes we are assigned to read a section of a book or article online.  Most of the time I have an idea of what a word is but then others I become clueless.  This week I was reading a chapter in my Media book and found two words that I didn’t even have a clue on.  The two words were belie and decontextualized.

            The word belie means to show as untrue or to contradict.  This word is so present in our everday lives, especially in college.  There are times where I am reading something in one book and read the opposite in another.  Contradictions happen because of opinions.  I think contradictions make reading something more interesting especially when it contradicts your own opinion, just because it gets you thinking in a different way.

            The word decontextualized means to remove from context.  Now that I looked up the word it makes sense as to why that’s what it means.  I should have thought about the word a little more because I could have come up with a definiton that was similar.  This word relates to our studies because when we remove things from context, they have a completely different meaning.