Describe your vision for yourself in pursuing higher education.
My vision for higher education right new is very blurry. I’m not sure what I want to do, as I said in my Ampersand articles. I use to see as a bad thing, but after my experience and lesson in internship I learned that’s it’s normal and a lot of people go through it, but I am confident that one I will find the right path.
Beyond grades, what motivates you to work hard at school?
What motivates me to work hard is my family. My family is a big part of who I am, so I want to make them proud of whom I will become. My mom has thought me to be a hard working person as I mention in my American Icon Essay, and I’m very grateful of all the great things she done.
One valuable mistake that I learned from was failing math my first semester. I don’t really think that I necessarily become well in math the second semester but it traumatize me and motivated me to keep the grades up. So for second semester when we were assign Functonal art project math project I worked really hard and tried my best on making the best with both actual artwork and artist statement.
What project was most valuable to you, and what have you gained from it?
I think it’s a tie between my photo essay and Ampersand because I reflected a lot, something I didn’t do that much before in my writings. Writing both of these made me see who I was becoming and made realize so many other things about myself that I had not notice before.
Explain one or more specific aspects of your writing that have improved this year. In this explanation, you must directly refer to at least two specific pieces of writing that you produced for this class. You may use any assignment, project, writing sample, draft, blog entry, etc. You should discuss the writing tips & strategies we studied, the processes & methods we used, the critiques & drafts we employed and the products we created (feel free to use these specific key terms to keep your reflection focused).
A specific aspect that I have improved was connecting my writing to current world or me. My civil war essay in my opinion was jut explaining the problem but never going further, for example I could have used the quotes in a way to connect it to more of the modern war and end it with my opinion to make it more personalized. A good example of a writing that I am proud that I achieved to connect with me was the nature writing because I connected all he did to me, I just reflective a lot more than in my first writing.
Describe one specific goal for your future writing. Your explanation of your goal(s) must include some or all of the following: writing samples from this year, writing strategies you have used in the past, writing strategies or techniques you would like to develop, examples from authors you respect, etc.
A writing goal I have is just making my writing high quality by using writing techniques I learned this year. A writing technique I would definitely use is use quantity to improve quality because this helped me with my Ampersand article. I used my Internship Photo Essay and just went from there to make a new and improve ARTICLE. This technique seems to help me a lot in other essays also, like in my Media Saves the Beach.
If I could bring any character to college with me from one of the novels we have read this year it would be Chris McCandless from Into the Wild. I would like him to be one of my classmate and my roommate because I know that he was an extraordinary person and had very interesting views on life and lived by them.
He would have been an incredible and opinionated addition to class and discussions. He was already an educated man“you don’t have to worry about me. I have a college education. I’m not a destitute. I’m living like this by choice”. He shows the character he is, not caring about what society thinks it’s the way to live. In class you always wants to see other people opinion, and Chris would definitely show the other side.
Not a lot of people had come in my life and change my way or views in life (well mostly because I never had any) so having Chris there would had change because I would had someone that would actually be there hammering me to have an opinion and voice it out. He touched a lot of people with meeting them not that long One of the people that Chris met once her meeting “there was something fascinated about him… he was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us he was the sort of person who insisted on living in our beliefs.” they had just met one time and when she found out about his death it amazed how much it bother her.
Summarize the facts of the case, as presented by the prosecution. Include relevant witnesses and testimony. The prosecutions case was that the Arizona law was going against the Constitution of the United States. They presented relevant evidence and had witnesses to back everything up.They showed that in the amendments it states that everyone has the right to a speedy trial. James Madison declared that everyone in AMERICAN SOIL has the rights that are state in the constitutions, no matter of their citizenship.
2. Summarize the facts of the case, as presented by the defense. Include relevant witnesses and testimony.
The Defense case was that they are only doing their job, which is protecting their CITIZENS of Arizona. They claimed that the Governor had tried reaching out to Federal offices complaining about the rise of crimes caused by ILLEGAL aliens but nothing was done, so they decided to take matters in their hand EVEN THOUGH IT’S A FEDERAL affair. The founder of the law stated that Constitution only covers the “rights of citizen’s, not the rights of the whole world”
3. What was the most significant piece of evidence, in your personal opinion?
The most significant evidence I heard in the trial was when the Prosecution cross examined the Governor of Arizona. I feel like they really did their job at grilling him. They showed that they is really no right way for a cop to stop a person and ask for their ids and papers without racial profiling.
4. What was the most significant argument made, in your opinion?
The most significant argument made in court was when they argue that
5. What do you personally believe the correct verdict should be? Do you agree with the jury? Why or why not?
I personally agreed with the verdict. I believe that once you are in the United State you should be cover under the Constitution and have the same rights: Everyone wants to a better life for themselves
Kurt Vonnegut is often compared to Mark Twain because of they shared the same sense of humor in their writing. Both of them express their questions of life through writings, for example about god and the world.
We all miss you here, and wish that you are doing well so soon you can come back home. Mom says that she loves you very much and misses her big cheese. It's been a while since I last heard from you; last I heard you were stationed in Hawaii. How I wish you are here to see how things are things are changing.
I got a job at a factory, can you believe that? At first I could not believe it either. There are posters everywhere encouraging women to join the workforce encouraging us to work. “We can Do It” they say to us it look like they spoke to every women in the world because now we all working. Can you imagine that? Rosie the Riveter has showed women that we are not just stay at home women and clean, we are strong working women that deserve respect and any job we want. Now that all the men are at war after the Pearl Harbor attacks we are left here in charge and becoming head of the houses, our kids rely on Times are changing for the better, the United States is changing. Women have even had the chance to be apart of the Army, here they created what’s called the Women’s Army Corps. At first we all thought that it was a temporary place where they can shove a broad make them work auxiliary roles, but as if July it became a permanent branch to the ARMY.
Well I hope my talk can distract you a bit from everything you are going through over there, wherever you are. I know that you been stationed in Hawaii when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen, I read stories of how people could only saw dust around them, how they could hear the guns going off for so much time. So if you survived that then you can get through this, there is word that we are winning the war. Everyone hopes this to be true.
3. an overview of the tone & ideas of your letter.
The overview of my letter will talking about how I'm really excited about the woman's power its gaining during the war and that I'm just hoping it will stay the same after the war ends and the men come back
1. What are the most interesting aspects of World Wars 1 and 2? WW1: Nine million died on battlefield. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Black Hand was last straw and set off the War. Reason that US entered the war was because Germany send a letter to Mexico offering them to join their side. 116,000 soldiers of US army died in a short period of seven months WW2: The treaty of Versailles and thanks to the great depression caused WW2. Hitler was involved with WW1.
2. What do you hope to learn about these wars? I would just like to learn how this wars connect to us today. How can this have shaped our economy? Also just like a quick overview of both wars, just to refresh my mind, I have short term memory loss so I forgot some key points of the main points.
3. How/Why are these wars important today? How do they impact and/or inform our world today? hint: think about alliances, democracies around the world, cultures, international institutions, nuclear (and other) technologies, etc. The only importance that I can think of is how violent the countries got with each other. They invented weapons that were very threatening, a whole new era of weapons were born.
Choose from the following, and write a thoughtful, refined essay that uses a variety of direct evidence to thoroughly answer the prompt.
" Describe how the balance between specific stories about the Joad family and broader description of the migration of Dust Bowl farmers impacts the novel as a whole."
John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath, wrote the novel in a very interesting and clever format. At first glance the pattern in his writing wasn’t as obvious as many readers wanted, but as you take a step back and analysis everything in the first couple of chapters you get to start noticing this pattern about zooming in and out of the story about the Joad family. You get to see the big picture and not just one example of a family which you think has the worst luck. Zoom out chapters depicts everyone’s hardships and struggles dealing with the Great Depression, but providing chapter that specifically talk about the Joads helps the reader to feel more emotionally connected.
The Great Depression rocked the United States by the late 1920’s and most of the 1930’s, banks were closing, people lost their money, dustbowls occurred so people lost their farms too, people were fleeing to California to look for a better life that they had seen advertised in flyers. The Joad family is a perfect example of what families had to go through, from being kicked out of their farm to being starving tricked into buying Jalopies. Chapter 7, a zoomed out chapter, talks about how used car sales man deceived poor families into buying jalopies “Watch the womans’ face. If the women likes it we can screw the old man. Start ‘em on that Cad’. Then you can work em’ down to that ’26 Buick…. Show ‘em that Nash while I get the slow leak pumped up on that ’25 Dodge.” Knowing that the Joads had just bought a ‘car’ and knowing that this must had happen to them really makes you like you were the one that’s been lied and tricked into buying this piece of junk. Trough his book we can not just connect to one family, but to many also, it will be just like multiplying little Joad families by thousand and thousands times so tit think it has a good balance of variety of stories.
Chapter 26 is about people getting really frustrated and standing up for what they believed as a whole, not just one person outside in the picket fence protesting, but in a union. They are tired of being given low wages, unfair treatments, etc... This is the point of the novel when they are in their breaking point and became desperate. But take a look at the zoomed out chapter “In the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” this quote I took form the novel reflect on the entire book, we are all going to get to our breaking point from having this madness in our hearts.
Being able to connect to one family but also knowing that there were so many others in the same situation is very tricky, but thanks to John Steinbeck format of writing he made it possible. He had the just the right amount of zoom in and zoom out chapters that it didn’t made one more important.
Write an open letter to a particular leader (or leading group of people) in which you outline specific advice to improve the American/Californian/local/other economy.
Dear Obama, America through my eyes is a place where people come to to have a better life, but recently it has not been the same story. The problem right now is not health care, you got to go straight for the problem, the effects of the growing job losses. Creating more jobs are key to this economy, in a way I think it can be like a domino effect in a way, if you fix one of the main problem then the rest will slowly start to improve.
And if this means to borrow money then be my guest, slowly but surely it will be pay back. This doesn't necessarily mean that I want you to have the same mind set that Hoover had, just that you have to do some last adjustments in the end. This probably will take some years but please whatever you do, make it fast.
Do you believe that the Grapes of Wrath successfully establishes sympathy for the plight of Dust Bowl farmers? Why or why not?
In my opinion Grapes of Wrath shows all the hardships and struggles that Dust Bowl farmers went through. In the chapter when two little kids are just staring at a piece of candy and their dad tells them that theirs no money and can't buy it I can really relate because I seen, in especially my little sister when we go to the store and she wants toys and my mom says no because there is no money I can see definitely connection, maybe not as extreme but very similar. But I don't necessarily think that the entire purpose of the book was so people have sympathy on them and just feel so sorry for them. One of the other purpose of the book in my opinion was to show people that mostly everyone was having hard troubles not just the farmers, and wants to teach us a lesson on not repeating history or all of this struggles will again occur but I guess no one listen because I can relate or know of people that experiencing similar situations.
Having so much freedom with the Ampersand writing has been somewhat challenging. It's harder for me to choose a topic because each concept I came up with I feel it is not creative enough, and not really the right idea. But having all the due dates has helped me a lot because I know that if I follow them I will be able to accomplish a revised final draft and will be in good enough quality to be published in Ampersand.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama are very similar. They came into presidency with very highly popularity, both came when the US is in crisis. Obama was gained a lot of popularity with his speeches and was the poster child for "HOPE" , FDR made a lot of connections to regular citizens through Fireside Chats (radio talk shows). They have from the beginning of their terms have pass bail outs, FDR proposed 500 million dollars, and Obama also proposed a bail out. Similarities also are that they both feel that the two parties should work together to put this country back together instead of going against each other .
"This contest is more than a contest between two men. It is more than a contest between two parties. It is a contest between two philosophies of government." FDR on his last speech of the campaign.
Predict how companies or industries similar to the one that you worked at during internship would have fared during the Great Depression. Would your company have thrived or sunk?
My company is a combination of charity events and hall rentals. I think the hall rental part will definitely gone under, it is a luxury to be able to have your weddings or sweet sixteen in a hall and back then I don't think that people were planning to have that type of huge events. The company also host charitable events and in the Great Depression I don’t people had the time and money to go in events and donate.
Ampersand is coming, Ampersand is coming, Ampersand is coming!!!
Post your personal goals, hopes and ambitions for your class' production & publication of this book. My Goals for the book is for everyone to put their best efforts, we can not make this book as successful or even more as last year's if they are people that slack off or just don't care. Personal Goals for the book is that I do a piece of writing that you can tel its been revise and well thought out. I want to feel confident enough to compare and contrast my first writing (American Icon) with this one to see as an example of how I have evolved as a writer this year. Also I hope that I can exhibit my new outlook on life through this writing, I would love to show my skills I learned during internship in this process of writing, be more persistent.
Bobbie Brown looks back on internships, decisions, and life
"I did a lot of exploring"
BalboaPark is just one or two streets away from the building, so you can still catch a glimpse of the tree tops when you park in front of the San Diego Woman’s Club. “What a beautiful building, looks just like the white house only miniature size” I though as my sister drove away leaving me between a parking lot and a Union Bank. My stomach wasn't helping with my anxiety, not knowing what to expect scared me. But when I enter the colonial-style clubhouse I felt at ease. The San Diego Woman’s Club (SDWC) is a very generous club that host fundraisers for charities and rent out the clubhouse for parties, weddings, Sweet 16, etc. The inside of SDWC reflects the outside very much: colonial, a lot of wood, and very bright. The carpet definitely dates back a little bit but that’s what makes it so unique, it preserves the essence of when it all started, 1888. But the definite stand out is the beautiful well-maintain hard wood floor; it reflects the shine that is coming through the windows perfectly. The office in the other hand, reflect a normal office: two wooden desks, fax machine, desk chairs, and calendars.
My mentor welcomed me with an inviting warm smile, I suddenly felt like I had just begun my journey and Bobbie Brown was here to help me. I could already feel the bright energy that she was radiating with her presence. She looked like she was ready to start working, holding her cup of coffee with one hand and holding her laptop with the other one. My mentor’s job is being in charge of all the events taking place at the clubhouse, marketing, press releases, etc.
Bobbie Brown was born in Texas, and was the oldest from her brother and sister.Bobbie like many other people, mentions in an interview conducted by the end of the second week of internship that her biggest challenged was “Deciding what to do, what I wanted to do” And when I asked how she decided she responded. “I took a lot of classes, wasted a lot of money, did a lot exploring”
Why were you interested in business? How you got into that?
I don't know, I guess marketing because I will always see those logos and were well done. I will think about the process of arriving at that point, where the logo was really good and came across well. And when people saw it and responded, I was real curious, even commercial, real curious about how they knew what I would like, I could feel them talking to me, like they were inside my head. So I got curious, then I wanted to do a four year degree in marketing but my school was too small and didn't offer that, they only offer business administration emphasis in marketing so I did that instead.
And when I asked her about her own personal experiences on internship and lessons she replied “I learned that I work well independently, well I was responsible for all the media and all the PR and I didn't need anybody else to help. I mean one of the girls, she was really nice like actually had something to offer, she was kind of a go getter too. I really liked working with her, but the others really didn’t contribute that much. I enjoyed the team work when everything was going well and everybody pitch in, everybody did there work load but not when certain people slacked off and get lazy and not care. You always have to have the company’s interest at heart because that’s who you work for”
Bobbie’s story is very easy to relate to , I know I did. I can relate to the fact that she didn’t know what she wanted, career wise. She taught me that it’s okay to be indecisive; it doesn’t mean you are a failure like I use to think before.
What makes a good interview or article?
The article I read where very professional, it looks like they did there background information before the actual interview. Sometimes they did had some really follow up question, the only thing that I don’t really like was that at times they did ask questions that were a complete off topic of the previous question.
What other elements of writing are used?
In the Winona Ryder interview there is really not a lot of writing because most of the article is the interview. But in the beginning it was straight to point. It gave some background information, and when they actually conducted the interview.
What makes these finished, professional pieces of journalism?
I think this piece of writing is really good and well put together because the author probably made a lot of revisions, drafts, got a lot construction criticism.a
