I am still in the research process. I think today’s class did help me though in understanding how to actually write the paper and has given me a better idea of what I need to do.
Category Archives: Daily Write
2/5 – Relevant to the Myth of Melting Pot
We watched this video in my Developmental Psychology class this morning and I wanted to share with my classmates. Who would we be without labels?
Daily Write 1/27
my the most gained insight was when I was reading these bridge projects and it reflected on mostly on family and education and how it is in America.
New Semester Resolutions
I plan to grade more quickly and efficiently using online rubrics in Blackboard (so that students can receive more meaningful feedback).
I plan to allow students to lead more discussions so that they can get actively involved in the material.
I plan to reference resources for research more often and more clearly.
Daily Write
There is a huge difference between writing a texting as a whole. When you are writing you aren’t writing it too one specific person, you are writing it for the general public too see if they like your opinion. Also when you are generally trying to write a lot more than you would text. When you text you send it straight too certain people and generally in a shorter length.
Syrian crisis
When I first heard about the immigration issue of the Syrian people I grew very interested. I guess because here at home we don’t experience the sort of problems they are. I would like to believe that all around there’s peace but its not. We cant let the tragedy of a situation go ignored , just because the problem didn’t hit home doesn’t mean we aren’t suppose to help.
All 7 Continents make up the world and there comes a time we should put aside our differences and help thy brother and uplift up thy sister. Look past the color of skin, the texture of hair, or whatever else that may differ from us, Its sad that it took the life of a little boy to make our heads turn. It saddens me to think what our world is coming to . I want to change the world but I can only do so much, it would take a whole nation to change the situation.
What’s holding us back from rising up, speaking out ,and taking action?
It hurts even more to know higher authorities know about certain situations and they cover their eyes. If money or valuable information or resources aren’t involved they don’t seem to get involved
Its time to wake up, if we sit back and watch the world fall apart around us then eventually we are going to fall too, because even if we don’t want to admit…. it we need one another
The Dichotomy of Charles M. Blow
I decided to participate in the homework assignment for Wednesday, October 7th. I went first to the New York Times and read a few Charles M. Blow editorials (his recent one on guns and one on Jeb Bush’s comments on energizing his African American voters). I found both compelling and decided then to look into his twitter feed. I noticed that he has retweeted a lot of praise he’s received for his recent book. I noticed that he also tweeted about recent incidents involving US race relations (particularly an interesting video posted by a Texas mother who noticed a distasteful referencing of slaves as “immigrants” and “workers”). I also noticed that he often tweeted about going to the gym. One I found intriguing though was his sarcasm as he shared an abcnews article on Ben Carson who said he didn’t know what he would do as president if Hurricane Joaquin hit the US. Blow sarcastically wrote, “SHOCKER,” in all caps, so I investigated his recent column list to see if he’d written about Ben Carson. And he had. It seems in his personal space (twitter), Blow uses rhetoric that is much more inflammatory (all caps, sarcasm, anger), though the rhetoric used in his columns is more focused on how much the country needs to pay attention to these issues for the betterment of society. He writes about Carson,”But as a political figure, his stature is diminished as he reveals himself to be intolerant, bordering on soft bigotry, and also reckless and needlessly inflammatory. No one can discount what Carson accomplished professionally, but those accomplishments must now stand shoulder to shoulder with this new persona: whisper-soft purveyor of hyperbolic hucksterism,” but he blatantly uses sarcasm in his tweets that reference Carson which makes his bitterness toward him much more prevalent in his social networking space than we see in the tone of his Times columns.
Daily Write 9/14/15
Today I learned that reading is not enough. You can go deeper and dissect the piece of writing. I learned about ethos, pathos and logos in pieces and how to use them
8/31 Daily Write
During discussions today, we talked about the events of Khayat’s memoir that seemed most significant, challenging, or insightful. We met in the Harrison Room of the library, which would’ve had a great view of the Lyceum had it not been so sunny. We had to keep the shades closed to have discussion.
I was impressed with how many students found comfort in Khayat’s ease with which he discussed his failures in life (the missed field goal of the LSU game, the snub he received when trying for the position of dean of the law school). We discussed the interesting ways in which writers can build ethos, and that by admitting his failures, Khayat seems more accessible, more human in a way.
Some classes felt it was problematic that Khayat used the term “Old South traditions” when referring to the values people hold who could’ve vandalized the original design for the civil rights monument. We discussed connotation and how we often hear words like “tradition” or “heritage” in reference to “hate” or “racism.”
Many of us shared the artifacts we’d found over the weekend that supplemented ideas presented in the Khayat text. One of Khayat’s oppositions to the original design for the civil rights monument was its opportunity for vandalism. Many students brought in articles related to the vandalism of the James Meredith statue by university students and those students’ subsequent indictment on federal hate crime charges. We looked at Khayat’s text, not from the standpoint of a memoir, but as an argument about the current state of the university. Such great discussion today!
Looking forward to seeing how these daily writes, weekly writes, and discussions translate into the rough drafts of our video essays on Wednesday!
8/28 Daily Write
Today we had class in the Quad on campus (and read Robert Khayat’s “sunrise vision”). It was a beautiful day for class as the first week here at the university has seen fall-like temperatures in August (though many of our classmates from more gentle climates claimed that our fall feels like the hottest days of their summer…haha).
Today we reflected on the first week of school as well as new insights gained reading Khayat’s memoir. One thing that stood out to me during our discussion was how unfamiliar many of the traditional symbols of Ole Miss are to many students, particularly from out of state but some native Mississippians as well. Next week (Friday, September 4th), there will be an event at the library about many of the symbols the university had to reject or phase out in an attempt to make the campus more inclusive. Here is the link for more information about the event.