Review Kepler's Three Laws. No, despite how the earth has grown away from its own center as it expanded. If the force of gravity is acting on you as you fall, then there MUST be a reaction force happening, too. By Newton's Second Law, earth, being by far the more massive of the two of you, both being subjected to the same force, will be accelerated less. Any cycle associated with a day is associated with the earth's spin on its axis.
Any cycle associated with a year is associated with the earth's orbit around the sun.
Any cycle associated with the moon's cycle of phases is thus associated with the moon's orbit around the earth. Now the counterclockwise spin of the earth on its axis results in the apparent rising in the east and setting in the west of all the natural heavenly bodies. This one is just descriptive, and you should know it before the semester is over. It's among those things I'd really hope you'd know before you leave here.