Group Project Experience

I have worked in group projects and had both good and bad experiences.
A good/successful group project was when everyone in the group participated, shared their ideas, and were prepared. That is, everyone knows what things have to be done and were motivated.
A bad/unsuccessful group project was when someone if not most of the group members did not participate, did not care to prepare themselves for the meetings and had no idea of what was going on. When someone is not interested, they would not want to do anything and make faces whenever are asked to do something. Another bad thing is that whenever we're in group discussing something, their full attention have to be present... that is, NOT texting or playing with his/her laptop, etc.

Fecundity

It is summer. A big group of people pass around and nobody notice you. Why is that so? Your bright and shining color, surrounded by those leaves that never leave, attracts little friends that without you feel sad. Your eyes are so sharp, looking at everything around you, not missing a thing; You're mouth is so dry, and yet smiling, calling their names. No, nobody is looking at you, you're not worth their attention, too pale to be noticed. Who are you again?

Current article link

http://u2.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1920/5887/1/Thesis%20Griffith%2026Apr2010.pdf

Sandra Steingraber

The best way to create awareness about it is through the use of common places that people often go. These places include supermarkets, malls, hospitals, bars, restaurants, etc. Depending on how much money the organization have, it could be as simple as a poster on each of the above location or it could be advertisement on website pages that people often use. For example: facebook, youtube, hotmail, etc. If more money is available, then the use of tv ads, radio and newspaper could be used.

Student Government Involment

One year during high school I decided to get involved in the student government. The decision was instantaneous, it was mostly because our professor was getting upset that no one of our class wanted to do anything. So, I decided to recruit a group of people and be part of the student organization, and there I became the president of the class.
To much of my surprise it was not a bad idea at all to be involved. I got to learn how to understand people, know how to get them do something that they are against, to persuade them, and to organize entertaining and funny activities. However there were challenges as well. One of them was that we had to meet a certain funding quota to do a final excursion.

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Rhetorical Analysis: Substance

The author used facts, quotations and statistics in her writing. She listed enough evidences to convince readers that she is well informed and know what she is writing about.
At the beginning she used pathos to get readers attention and then moved to logos, explaining why it is true. Then used ethos to support what she is writing, mentioning what have some researchers done, what have been used and also who are the ones being affected.

Outline

• Introduction
• Historical Context
  
• Thesis
• Audience
• Purpose
• Strategy
• Effectiveness

• Body
• Use of Transitions
• Within paragraphs
• Between paragraphs
  
• Delivery
• Style
• Context
• Substance
  
  
• Conclusion
• Reemphasize thesis
• Sum up main points
  

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Something that stayed on my mind was the image of alligators because the author viewed them as not being dangerous and more importantly that they too have a place to live. He mentioned that under God's eyes, those creatures were part of him as well. I thought about it and it seemed to make sense because if they were created in the first place, then that means that they should be treated as fair as humans. However, since human beings tend to control everything, then they decide what is "good or bad". These details lead to the author's point that maybe we're not the ones who control those creatures, maybe is the other way round, because some creatures can be so venomous sometimes, that if human were to be fighting to them, they would win.

Industrial Tourism and the National Parks

The author uses different kind of transitions throughout the story. He created a section for the problem of industrial tourism and a section for the solution. Within the problems and solutions that he created, he numbered them, letting the reader know that ahead, there would be another point. Also, in some part of the story, he wrote according to what people might be in doubt and responded to them. For example, he wrote about those people who would agree with him and those who would not.
Another way of transition that he used is thinking as the reader, he thought that some people might ask about something about what he had in a paragraph and in the next one paragraph he started with questions that some readers might have, such as "What about the children? what about the aged and infirm?" or "Is this assumption correct?". After that, he would answer and propose something.

A First American Views His Land

The writer creates a normal speed rhythm, but there are parts where he chose to include a poem-like structure, with few words within line. This makes the reader to slow the rhythm and to create a moment to appreciate the poem within the context overall. The author combines the narrative story with some poem in between them, showing the relationship within those two structures and how he goes from explaining the details to a more imaginative way of describing.
The breakdown of few words in the poem creates a necessity for the reader to pay attention to every word, and to find a meaning from each. Also, within the passage apart from the poems, the writer uses metaphors often, instead of simple words, but rather chooses a more creative way to describe the environment.

Thoreau/McCandless

When comparing Thoreau and McCandless, both have something in common as well as differences within them. One similarity is that both of them escaped from society and live how they want, not being surrounded by the classic stereotypes of life but rather live a simple life in harmony with nature. A difference is that Thoreau had a goal already, he wanted to live in the nature more of like a permanent place rather than temporary as McCandless. This can be perceived with the fact that McCandless traveled throughout USA and stayed in Alaska for a while and then was ready to move on. On the other hand, Thoreau built his house in the forest, having in mind to stay there and live maybe forever. McCandless had the mind of a carefree person, when he decided to burn everything, to erase his past so to say, whereas Thoreau expressed more of a mature picture, acting responsible.
Both Thoreau and McCandless appreciated nature. They preferred to live in nature over living in apartments, houses, in a more "luxury" way. Not being afraid of being surrounded by bugs, bacterias, when in society people get rid of them.
Thoreau might have affected McCandless with the reality of society, how life is so complex when being followed by rules, by the ideology of everyone, and so from there McCandless want to find the truth, want to experience what it is like being away of that society that he does not feel into.

Blood Dazzler Imitation Poem

I see
infinite hope in their faces

and taste
unlimited happiness within

and feel
their encouragement

and hear
unreachable voices

and want it
to be spread