I just wanted to take a minute and thank my class and Professor for this experience. It was quite an adventure. It was an experience that you had to be in for the whole ride. I learned many things. I also realized that this class correlated with one of my communication classes that I took this semester as well. It was a great help to learn some of the same tactics in both courses.
The blogging experience was definitely new but exciting. I'm glad I have gained some knowledge and will be able to use this in the future. I might not be a great writer but I know I have learned some great tips to become one.
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This semester has been a challenge. A challenge for the best. When I first walked into this class I instantly knew that this class was going to be a little different. I was up for the challenge. I thought it was a great idea for Professor Mangini to be different and teach our class differently than any other ENG100 class. This blogging and web page experience was a whole new thing for many of us. I am usually not the person to come out of my comfort zone but this class was a good place for that. I can admit some days I didn't know what I was getting my self into but that didn't stop me from coming.
I also learned a lot about scene writing. I think I enjoyed learning how to write in scene the most. I thought my writing was so boring and not artistic until Professor Mangini taught us how to write in scene. I completely re wrote my Life-Choice Memoir over again and definitely made it more lively. I know I might not be a great writer, but I know I have learned many new things this semester. This blog touches on my reflection about my Research Paper that I am currently in the process of writing. Below are my processes of writing and how it is coming along these past few weeks. The video Reflective Writing was very inspiring and helpful when it came to writing my reflections.
Who did you work with to compose your research paper? Was this a good approach? I work with myself. I wish I didn’t have so much going on all the time because I would have loved to have worked with someone. I just have a crazy schedule. What rhetorical mode and genre are you using? The rhetorical mode of this paper is argumentation and the genre is MLA Research Paper. When did you write this project? Good approach? A little here and a little there. I have had a lot of craziness going on towards the end of this semester, so time has not been in my favor. But its coming along. I had a rough start with this research paper and I have to admit I am not completely finished nor at the point to where I would like to be. It was not a very good approach being that this is a very big assignment. I tend to stress out a lot but I plan to take it step by step. Where did you write this project? Good approach? Most of my work has been done in the learning commons at DCCC. I have attempted many times to do work at home but never can I get anything done. It is just too hectic. Kids fighting, things flying, me screaming. Just dosn’t work. I literally drive straight from work to campus just to get some quiet time to get work done and I think this is the best thing I can do. Why did you choose to write about your chosen topic? Good choice? I chose to write about universal health care because my children just got kicked off of their CHIP insurance, which I’m highly upset about. Apparently, I make too much money. Which I don’t understand how. Nothing has changed in the 2 years that I have worked at the same job. Now I’m forced to pay outrageous prices for health insurance. This is a constant issue that many people face everyday. So, I figured this would be a great topic to write about. How did it feel to write this argument ("during, after, and since")? Do you have any "if only" moments that can help you revise the draft? I wish I had more time. I wish I had more time for research, to write the paper, and to have it all organized. I just feel like this semester went by too fast towards the end. I'm usually not late with my deadlines but this paper has been a little more time consuming for me. How will you revise your argument? I will submit it to the online tutor on the DCCC website. I will also let someone who hasn’t read it yet, take a look at it. I also will use the notes we have taken in class regarding our MLA citations. This blog post features my annotated bibliography for my research paper that I am in the process of writing. I chose my topic from the documentary film Where to Invade Next and I have written a full summary of the film in my blog post: Summary and Rhetorical Analysis of Where to Invade Next. My research question for my paper is: Should the American government provide universal healthcare for its citizens? Below, I have provided sources that are relevant to my paper and will help me develop my argument that the US government should provide its citizens with a universal healthcare system. Source 1: Moore, Michael, director. Where to Invade Next. Dog Eat Dog Films, 2016.
GWYNNE, DYER, Universal healthcare a no-brainer, Waikato Times. 02/10/2018, pB4.
Boyer MH. The Health Care Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans. JAMA. 2008;299(12):1480–1481. doi:10.1001/jama.299.12.1480
"U.S. Healthcare System" Research StarterseNotes.com, Inc. eNotes.com 18 Apr, 2018 http://www.enotes.com/research-starters/u-s-healthcare-system#research-starter-research-starter
In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore went over many different aspects that could help make America a better county. Here I mentioned a few topics that are debatable and in my blog post #9, I summarized the documentary “Where to Invade Next.”
In the documentary “Where to Invade Next”, Michael Moore travels to multiple European countries and interviews people to bring back ideas to improve the United States. Here I will write a rhetorical analysis of the film. Moore discovered that many countries other than the U.S. offers paid maternity leave, free college tuition, and thriving middle classes. Things in which our country is currently struggling with. With all of his traveling, Michael Moore came to conclusions that these principals began here in the United States but became lost and never found again.
Moore first traveled to Italy. There he discovered they receive eight weeks of paid vacation on top of paid maternity leave and paid honeymoon for newlyweds. In Italy, the whole month of August is a complete shutdown. In France, Moore discovered students have a full hour to eat and set up their lunch. They also focus on sex education differently than us Americans. Frances’s pregnancy rate is 2x lower than the United States. He visited Finland where it is ranked #1 for education. They believe in no homework and only have a 20 hour school week. They believe kids should still be able to be kids and play and interact. When Moore visited Slovenia, he discovered they have a free college system. Colleges are tuition free. Many American students travel to Slovenia to go to College with out inquiring any debt and the country is ok with that. When he went to Germany, he saw that the German’s have a thriving middle class. Warehouses have windows to keep the employees happy while at work. They also have a universal health care system and close to free child care. In Portugal, using and selling drugs is not a crime. By decriminalizing, drug use went down. Portugal also has a free healthcare system. They also believe that the death penalty is against human dignity. In Norway, they treat prisoners as normal human beings. Prisoners have the right to vote. The longest possible prison sentence in Norway is 21 years. In Norway, prisoners have about a 20% rate of being rearrested as apposed to the US of being 80%. Moore visited other European countries not to only seek about woman’s rights and free healthcare and so on but to bring up that all of these ideas were once American idea’s that just got lost and haven’t been found.
This post will reflect on how i'm doing so far at midpoint. I will go over my strengths and how well I've adapted to blogging. Also I have inserted my reflection to my Life-Choice Memoir Process.
Here is a little glimpse of my opening scene. Please provide me with some feedback so I can improve.
I can hear his teeth grinding as the handcuffs smashed onto his all ready bruised up wrists. “I’m so sorry, I’ll be back, I promise.” His voice echoed throughout the entire building as they pulled him down the stairs. Silent tears are already rolling down my pale cheeks. The poor little boy just clinged to my right leg as I tried to shove him back into the silent room. Without a word in my mouth, I closed the door once again. No need for words because this was already the fifth time this year. A boy without his dad. Nothing was changing, the same silence as it always has been. The little boy was now five years old. Five years of his short life that was without “him.” Each time just a little bit longer. Each time was a different excuse, another apology. But these doors were staying closed. In this blog post, I am explaining my processes and reflections on writing my first draft to my Life-Choice Memoir. I explain some challenges and some ways I believe I can better my drafts. I also included the link to a Reflective Writing video that gives an amazing explanation of reflection.
Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) is about a woman and a man waiting for their train at a train station in Spain. Even though the reading was very vague you could kind of pick out that the two were arguing about uprooting and moving their lives to another place, possibly Madrid. The woman was second guessing herself thru out the entire reading. In my opinion, I believe she does stay with the man even thou she didn’t really want to. She would tell him that she would “do it” because she doesn’t care about her. More say that she cares about him. She kept telling him that they couldn’t have it all. It seems as if she was doubting that their relationship could ever be good again no matter what he tried. The man kept reassuring her that everything was going to be ok and she always had a way to shoot it back down. Even thou the reading was very vague you still could kind of get a sense of what was going on. From what I could get from this reading the man was trying very hard to try to get her to be happy again. She wanted to try for his sake and not hers. I have made an important choice to stay in a relationship with my two eldest children’s father many of times. But the finally, after eight years of the same situation, I made the choice to leave. About five years ago he was in prison for stupid offenses. But since it wasn’t the first time of him getting in trouble. He was sentences to one and a half years. This was getting old after me having to raise my two kids alone for almost eight years, enough was enough. I would visit him every week and made sure he had what he needed and never cared about what I needed. I put him before me. But towards the end of his sentence I started to think a lot. I was never going to go anywhere in life if I was with him. I wouldn’t be able to marry him, buy a house, he wouldn’t ever get a decent job because of his criminal record. He was nothing and I was slowly realizing that. The last call that I received from him was like this. I quickly answered the phone call from The Chester County prison, which was a phone number I already had programmed in my head, from millions of calls that I would receive from him. “Hey, how are the kids?” This was something he always asked but I knew it was only to ask and never that he really cared. “They’re fine, but there is something I really need to talk to you about.” I knew I couldn’t tell him face to face because he would have made a huge scene in the prison. He would act like his world was ending. Which honestly it probably was. “Alex, I’m so sorry but I cannot continue to do this anymore. It has taken me this long to finally come to agreement with myself that this is what I want and what I need.” He already knew exactly what I was talking about because this wasn’t the first time that I brought it up. “I told you that I’ve changed, I’m not the same person that I was,” he would say. I have heard that one before too. There was nothing changing my mind this time. My kids were getting older and they didn’t deserve to see this. I was putting my children first this time, not him. I quickly just hung up the phone and didn’t answer anymore. This probably wasn’t the best way to end the conversation, but I was also heartbroken. It was a decision that I made and had to live up to. I did send him a letter, explaining myself. It was a lot easier to let my heart out on paper. |
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