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A couple days ago the first draft of the research project was due and I was impressed in my work for a first draft. Before I started this project I didn't know what to expect in terms of my writing process because of my up and down history with writing a paper. This project is very interesting because not everyone picked the same question and film for their project. It's going to be different perspectives and I can't wait to read my classmates projects. This was only the second time I got to pick the topic that I wanted to write about. After I was done writing I felt good about my paper. I still have some things to fix because I think I have a little bit too much of unnecessary information but I intend to try my best to have a good paper.
This blog post is about my research project and how I feel about my progress. So far I have many ideas about what to write about and research. With my question I can go down different paths. The questions I am doing my project on is "What are the most dangerous male/female archetypes in American media?". Right now I am in the process of picking between two different archetypes for my project. I've been doing a lot of research on which cartoon or sitcom characters I can choose for the two archetypes I am looking at. One archetype is the fat, lazy and bad father like Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin and the other archetype is the bad child like Stewie Griffin from Family guy, Cartman from South Park and Bart Simpson from The Simpsons. I am actually having fun doing research for this project and I can't wait to see what my final paper will look like. With every draft of this paper I do I want to see my progress.
This blog post is about the class discussion we had about Miss Representation and The Mask You Live in. We analyzed both of them by identifying key words and information to start our upcoming research project. Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media and culture contribute treats women. The film draws back a curtain to reveal a glaring reality we live with everyday but fail to see how the media's limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls makes it difficult for women to feel powerful and achieve leadership positions. Society portrays women in negative ways everyday only to leave women trying to fix themselves, so they can look more beautiful. Everything on the internet, news, and social media is portraying women like a sex object for men. The last three words exemplify how a woman is strong in a world where they aren’t considered “perfect” and where they are only seen as a sex object instead of a powerful person. Women should be treated equal as men, they work and do the same thing but never gets the same respect or equal pay. As a guy the film made really upset because I truly think everybody should be equal in every aspect of life.
It’s important to understand your discourse community at all times. A discourse community is a group of people in this case students who understood basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about these goals. Each discourse community has its own unwritten rules about what can be said or how it can be said. Our class discourse community values are defined in a different way and it’s conceptualize discourse communities as social networks that frame the ethics, expectations, and exigencies of stakeholders who use situated languages to bond with others and to make meaning. In our discourse community we Cultivate joy in writing and learning. We connect past, present, and future writing histories and knowledges, clarify meaning for oneself, communicate ideas to specific audiences, compose in multiple genres, modes, and media to meet the moments of 21st century rhetorical situations, create reiterative writing processes to generate and revise ideas and construct a writer’s identity to interact with the authorial choices of others and of self. Each of these enacted values can evoke "writing-as-travel" experiences that manifest author-self interactions with material and immaterial writing activities.
In class we read two pieces, one from author James Paul Gee titled “What is Literacy?” and another piece by author Pablo Neruda titled “We are many”. In Gee’s journal, he explores discourse literacy from a linguistics perspective that suggests literacy is much more than reading or writing, but instead, a sort of identity kit where a person knows how to navigate a specific role in society. In his opinion from his definition of literacy, he argues that there are multiple literacies, as literacy involves the acquisition of non dominant discourses. A quote that I like from him is when he stated “ A discourse is a sort of “identity kit” which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize”. The other piece we looked at “We are many” by Pablo Neruda was really good. He has dug deep within himself. His introspection has unraveled some unexpected facts about himself. He has discovered that he is not simply a single being In fact he is made up of different people. The metaphor of “geography of self “ is unusually apt one that describes best the self exploration of diverse facets of the poet’s personality. Geography is a discipline of science that basically studies the world and its various physical features. Neruda’s discovery about various and contrasting aspects of his personality is like discovery various places and landforms on the earth. Neruda is like a world in himself. Many of its aspects have been discovered by him while several others may be found out the later in his life. The poem is written in a lighter note, yet it deals with an universal experience. We humans are a curious mixture of varying and opposing emotions, traits and characteristics bring out different facets of our character, sometimes leaving us baffled at our discovery of ourselves. What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) We Are Many (Pablo Neruda) Sadness is an emotion that every person has felt before. It's not a good feeling at all because it makes you not want to do anything and just stay in the house all day. A good friend of mines died when I was 12 years old by a hit and run from a car. My friend name was Chris he lived on my block and he was also my teammate on every sports team I ever played on. He was an amazing person. The reason I am talking about this is because his death occurred two days after our soccer team played our last game of the regular season and if we won we were going to be in the championship the following weekend. I am going to narrate the story.
I never fully understood how to write a proper paper. My English teacher in high school told me "A good paper can not be written in mere hours from the deadline". I thought he was crazy until I received my papers back with markings on it saying why it wasn't good. My papers were never good because I always procrastinated until the day before and rushed my work. I talked to three professional writers Don Murray, Mary Karr, and Anne Lamott about the writing process I always say "As a person that writing isn't my strongest asset I am my biggest critique." I asked the writers what do they think of the writing process. Anne thinks for a second before speaking “I have a one inch picture frame I put on my desk to remind me of short assignments.it reminds me that all I have to do is to write down as much as I can see through a one inch picture frame.” Don nodes his head as he says “The writing process itself can be divided into three stages: pre writing, writing, and rewriting. The amount of time a writer spends in each stage depends on the person.” I agree with Don's point of the three stages of writing. I believe it is very important to pre write and re write your work after because it will be mistakes that will need to be changed. Mary looks in agreement as she says "Every writer I know who's worth a damn spends way more time "losing" than "winning". This quote by Mary is perfect because you can not be successful without failing at least once in life. So instead of rushing it wait for your turn and it will come. Mary continues as she quotes the great Mark Twain by saying " The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug". Anne quietly speaks under her breath before adding “For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” I asked the writers how do they edit the work they think isn't the best? Anne with a big smile on her face said proudly “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something, anything, down on paper.” Anne said with determination to end. It was after Anne was done talking the class was over and I left the class feeling more comfortable with my writing abilities. .The focus of this particular blog is for my viewers to get to know me better. It's important for an author to share his or hers ideas. This is pretty much a first impression. I shared my personal thoughts in this blog. I hope it's a fun and interesting read for the outside world. If you want to use this questionnaire click the link. the-proust-questionnaire.html
__1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? My ideal of perfect happiness is making my mother proud of me for getting my degree. __2.__What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear is losing my parents. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? A trait that I deplore in myself would have to be procrastinating. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? A trait that I deplore in others is disloyalty. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? I admire my mother the most because she is my backbone, I wouldn’t know what to do without her. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? I love comic book characters. I have different collectables. __7.__What is your current state of mind? My current state of mind is I’m really excited for this semester. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? I believe loyalty because you can know somebody for a long time and then they can turn on you very quick. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? When I tell someone I will call them back. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? My height. I’ve always been short. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? Tom Brady and Donald Trump. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Having a sense of humor and being understanding. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? Alexa Bliss she is a female wrestler. __16.__When and where were you happiest? I am the happiest when I am listening to music and not thinking about the outside world. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? I wish I was a really good singer and dancer. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Sometimes I overthink a situation and get myself upset. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t think I’ve achieve it yet. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A tiger because I love them __21.__Where would you most like to live? The Bahamas because my family lives there. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My wallet that a friend gave me before he passed away. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? To lose a close friend, family member or a child. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? I’ve always loved doctors __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? Being optimistic __26.__What do you most value in your friends? When they tell me how they feel. They can trust me. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? R.L Stine and Edgar Allen Poe. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? The Flash and Spiderman __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? My parents. __31.__What are your favorite names? __32.__What is it that you most dislike? When people are not happy. __33.__What is your greatest regret? Not telling somebody how I really felt. __34.__How would you like to die? knowing I achieved everything I wanted in my life. __35.__What is your motto? Be yourself. |
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