In this blog post, I am using an "X-ray" process so I can see the "bones" of my research project argument. At this point, my research is still a work-in-progress, so this post serves as a part of my revision process. This will help me to have a better understanding on what I am doing for my research project. This x-ray will make it easier for me to access my own work easily after it is complete. At this point, the most recent draft I have completed is linked right here.
1. My thesis statement is: Don't know yet, I need to create one. 2. My first supporting point that argues the how or why of my zeitgeist is: Fracking is bad because it ruins drinking water, creates earthquakes, lets off negative gasses into the atmosphere. 3. My second supporting point that argues the how or why of my zeitgeist: Fracking is good because it creates jobs, allows us not to depend on foreign countries for gasses and oils. 4. My third supporting point that argues the how or why my zeitgeist is: 5. My counter argument and rebuttal is: The country cares more about money then the environment. 6. My prediction is: fracking will die down over the years due to damaging the environment. 7. My conclusion revisits the thesis statement and makes: Need to create a thesis statement. 8. X-ray summary: In this X-ray I've realized that I have my supporting points and counter argument and rebuttal but I need to create a good thesis statement. without the thesis statement I won't be able to finish the conclusion of my research project.
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Hello, today in this blog post I will be sadly informing you guys that I am changing my topic for my research project to animal cruelty. I feel that this is a more interesting topic for me to work on. In today's society people do not care about how animals are treated. They are caged, beaten, and deprived of food. This causes some animals to have lower life spans than the ones in the wild. People wonder why animals are going extinct, but we are a big part of the reason.
In this blog post, I will be talking about my research project that I have began working on and a source on youtube has helped me tremendously. Some of my classmates have helped me out by sending me links that will help me by giving me sources for my research project. The final product so far of my research project is right her if you click the link right here . This video helps me with my research project because it gives a great insight on what fracking is. The video is kind of bias on whether or not fracking is a good thing or bad thing but it still does a good job of informing on the positive and negatives of fracking. Also it gives an excellent visual representation of fracking and shows step by step how fracking is done and the good and bad that is happening in result of it.
In this blog post I will be talking about the zeitgeist I chose for my research project in my English 100 course. I will be telling you the framework for my project and the necessities needed to know where I am going with the project before I start, so that I won't be lost in my research.
For starters the zeitgeist I will be doing my research on is Fracking. The primary source I will be using to get my information on the topic is going to be through YouTube and I will find websites that talk about fracking and how it is damaging the environment now. Yeah fracking effects, the environment. This will be a problem for the next generation after me if we don’t take action and create a solution. Fracking started around the 1860, s but in the 1940, s is when Floyd Farris of Stanolind Oil and Gas began a study on the relationship between oil and gas production output, and the amount of pressurized treatment being used on each well. From here bigger studies started to be created then finally came along fracking. Fracking occurs all throughout the United States. It takes place in twenty-one states already and could soon be coming to five more. Fracking exist because of Floyd Farris like I said above but it is still around to this day and used so much throughout the United States because it gives us access to an alternative use of fuel, lowers energy cost, and create jobs. Those things sound good but with the good there's the bad. Negative Effects of fracking are that it requires about one to eight million gallons of water to complete, creates possible water contamination, may trigger earthquakes, and has possible use of hazardous chemicals. These possible effects alone make me cautious on the idea of fracking. Anything that could cause an earthquake or damage our clean water I think should be thought about if its needed or not. This has me thinking that this is not the only thing that America is doing that has a tremendous negative effect on not just the environment but in other areas also. Twenty percent of the chemicals used in fracking our also considered a “secret”. That should have you worried alone if this is something our environment should be using or not. This zeitgeist makes me really want to find out if fracking is a necessity to America right now and if it is worth doing considering that it could be affecting our environment in negative way. In this blog post I will be Reflecting on What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) and creating found poetry trying to take out the meanings of the full readings for To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson), Our Discourse Community Values, and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda). What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) Reflection-
This writing is about a linguists named James Paul Gee who discuses different ways to define discourse and how the meaning could fluctuate. He talks about power and how using standard Academic language is the dominant discourse and can bring you closer to earning goods and resources with a better chance then if you are apart of the black vernacular discourse. Which is the language that most African American middle class-man used to use. Gee also talks about the difference between learning and acquiring. Learning is something that takes time because you are not around these things everyday and you're trying to learn to remember and use what you're learning properly. Acquiring is something you get from just being around it. Such as your first language. This blog is me showing the well being of my digital portfolio for this website. I will post a picture of a chart that my professor gave us to evaluate the well being of our website so that it is created to be the best that it can be to our ability.
In this blog post, I will focus on reflecting on some of the things I learned in my English 100 class. I will be sharing my opinion on what I have learned about my author identity, my theory of writing, my growth as a writer, and my knowledge transfer to future writing situations. Here is a link to a video I used to help me make my blog post. Reflective Writing
High concept: What is the major appeal of the story? What is at stake? My story is appealing because a lot of people can relate to it and it goes through many emotions that people go through every day.
What is the theme (meaning) of your story? The theme of my story is that you don’t always take an L just because you Lose. Sometimes when you lose you can take out more positive than negative. What goal are you struggling to achieve? I’m struggling to describe things better and allowing the readers to be right there in the story with me. I’m also struggling on the beginning of the story and bringing the readers right into the action. Lastly in struggling on the way in ending my story, I have to end my story with no context. How have you been transformed by the event? Back then nothing changed for me. I just knew I was sad and upset because of the loss. Now come to this present day that loss changed me because now that I see that you can get a positive and a lesson out of any loss or set back even if I'm down I look for the positive. Which techniques do you use to conduct you as a character with the audience? Feel sorry Show humanity Admiration I make my readers feel sorry because they can see how sad I am from the crying I do in my story. I show humanity a lot because I use a bunch if feelings and emotions that humans experience every day, so they can connect to the story somehow. In my story I lost a football game, but what if I didn’t lose and I won. I probably wouldn’t have learned the lesson from this situation that there are positive outcomes that come from negative situations. I probably would have never regretted some of the things I did during that season that possibly affected our chances of winning. I was the quarterback but kept telling coach to put me at wide receiver for recruiting reasons and now that I look back on it that was selfish because even though I scored and threw three touchdowns in the game we loss I was still rusty because I did not play a whole game or practice as a qb in three games. In today’s blog I will be explaining how my narrative that we are working on in class allows me to travel into my mind and my emotions. Explain how narrative_project reaches the high stakes of meaningful storytelling and explain what shapes our sense of identity. I will be using these videos to talk about these things. Wizard of Oz: If I Only Had The Brain, Heart, Nerve, Wizard of Oz: Meeting the Wizard, Wizard of Oz: Meeting the Wizard.
To start this blog post, my narrative allows me to travel into my brain (mind) by letting me see a different view on things. Back then I didn’t learn a lesson from my loss I just felt the emotions and just let them go through me without stopping and thinking. Now that I look back on things there was a lesson to be learned and it wasn’t as sad as I took it back then because we were not expected to make the playoffs, but we did and put up a fight. Next, the narrative allowed me to travel into my heart (emotions) then by letting me feel all the suspense before a big playoff game and all the feelings that make me love sports. Now I cherish the moment because at least I got to experience a playoff fame because a lot of people don’t get to experience that. Especially not being the quarterback and throwing three touchdowns and running one in their first playoff game. The mixed emotions were what makes this memory stay in my head and makes me love sports forever. The narrative also meets the nerve (high stakes) because I take the readers into my mind and let them experience numerous emotions in one day with me. I also allow them to know that I shed some tears and that lets the audience understand how important the game was to me. My narrative allows me to re-examine the power of (agency) I have in examining my life story because if I do not explain something or describe something good enough then a reader could get lost. I also can decide what I want to share and what I don’t which can either help the story or take away from it. There are many small decisions that I can make or not make to determine if the narrative is good and properly written. What shapes our sense of identity: Life events or the stories we tell ourselves about life events. The story we tell about ourselves shapes our identity because we tell the story how we want to tell it or how we experienced it. Someone could experience the same thing as someone but interpret it a completely different way. Also, our identity could be shaped by other people. For example, in high school people come up with lies and rumors that can shape a whole different identity for someone then what it really is, and we can't do anything about that. Once words are out in the air people can't take them back. In my class we were instructed to write a draft for 30 minutes for for the memoirs we are working on. Here is what I got down but I will be changing the topic for my real memoir. Here I am in this huge house in the beautiful kitchen that I never expected to be living in. 12 years old on the phone about to make a decision that will determine the rest of my life. Who would ever turn down living in such a nice place and house? Apparently, me. I originally lived with my grandma which I called Memom and her mother, my great grandma that I called momom. I was happy living there. I had my own room, got anything I wanted, went to a school that I liked, and the food was to die for. My memom made the best fried chicken I ever had in my life to this day and my mommom would make me pancakes anytime of the day no matter if it was six in the afternoon or three in the morning. My parents I rarely seen as my mother lived in south philly and my Father did live around the corner with his parents. Then suddenly, they both started to come around and wanted to see me on the weekends and I felt like they had me picking and choosing even though I just wanted to stay where I was, with my Memom and momom.
One day my Mother came over and told me how she would pick me up from school the next day and take me somewhere. I didn’t know where somewhere I was just thought it would be to the movies or something fun. So, the next day comes and I go through a normal day at school laughing and learning with friend that I knew for years. Finally, recess is about to come my favorite part of the day and I get pulled out of class because my Mother is here to get me. |
Javon Lindsey-TerrellHello, I am a student at Delaware County Community College in English 100 learning how to correctly write and analyze my own work to make sure it reaches certain criteria. Archives
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