My digital portfolio says I’m not a writer...yet. But, I can be with some more work and time. Taking this class has shown me that who you were in the past isn’t forever (educationally speaking.) I used to be horrible at writing as well as math or at least I thought until this semester. I’m not perfect but, looking back I’m better then when I started. I’m hoping to come back to this digital portfolio and keep on posting on ocassion and work on my writing some more. Until then, Peace.
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1. My Writing Process Is my favorite because it flowed easily and came together well. My grammar was on point and I wrote a lot without rambling. 2. My Writer's Roundtable I like this one the most because I feel like I did well on it and it was fun to write. 3. Week 5 Reflection I like this reflection post the most because I added the most detail to it. Probably because I go on the longest tangents when I'm angry. But, I also think it was my best because I used meme's and a picture. Both my writing processes are pretty much equal. I'm a creature of habit. I wake up on my off days from work drink coffee and watch a tv show or two. I then open up Prof. Mangini's website and read what the framework for the current blog post or paper is due while I have all my notes and pens and paper spread around me. I try to pull my thoughts together. The outline then starts to develop and I get distracted by my stomack growling and I go eat lunch and take a break and browse the internet while I digest my meal. After that I go to the gym and then go back home and shower and start to form paragraphs based on what I outlined that morning.
The next day I repeat that process and then edit and turn in. In this found poem piece I am using the “erasure” method which is when you take words or phrases from multiple works and put them together to make a new piece.
Found Poem 1 (Uses: - Stumbling into a Blank Landscape and -Climbing) Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the stain of love Watch out for the gashes I saw those unforgiven ghost dig deep squeeze shift your balance hold on by grips, crimps, cobbles, and knobs kick your heels this is not the story of return I can cry but can’t wake up hang by a rope and dream. Found Poem 2 ( uses: Domestic Escape Hatch and Harsh Conditions) Slice wide the midnight sky Tides and storms,other times adapt to loss what we fear, we try to tame impermeable I’d been led to think I was in control burning the past effigy It’s not easy is it? Class
In this past class we went over creative writing, The difference between showing and telling, and what is expected of our one semester memoir. I liked how professor Mangini explained it to us through showing us scenes from movies. I can’t remember all three of them, but I know the one was “Ferris Bueller's day off.” (Is that what it is called? I live under a rock when it come to movies sometimes) I feel like using movie scenes was helpful because I am very much a visual learner. I’m excited to do my one semester memoir because I like that type of writing.. “showing and telling I mean.” Not that I do it well but I like reading writings or books from writers who do that well. It makes you really feel like you are in the middle of a story. Home: This past week my family and I went to my aunt and uncle’s house in Northfield, NJ for Thanksgiving. It was nice. Thanksgiving was and is not my favorite holiday though. Don’t get me wrong I love my family and am very thankful for them, but my south jersey family is my dad’s side and there is not any cousins my age so there isn’t much to do. I’m too young for the adults and to old for the cousins.. so me and my sisters who are 21 just sit there and chill until dinner is ready and pretend to be interested in the football game. The only thing that made this year exciting was my Irish cousin were in the area and came to celebrate with us. But, then the whole day was ruined because my dad decided to scream at my sister for no reason basically and when my mom went to defend her he freaked out at her and when my mom defended herself my dad says “Don’t you ever talk to me like that again.” I really hate that. He talks to my mom like shit all the time and always puts a dark cloud over every family event with his negativity. I used to think and tell myself he’s an alcoholic so maybe if he just stopped drinking he’d be nicer. He’s four years sober and still a jerk and still talking down to us. He’s only nice to our dog. I look at my parents marriage and I really hope I find someone who is the complete opposite of my dad. It panics me honestly. I don't want to date or marry a guy who drinks a lot because I’m afraid that even though that guy might not be an alcoholic now what if he becomes one later? It is also hard to tell the difference sometimes because we live in a culture where it's cool to get shit faced drunk all the time… In a previous post Week 5 reflection, I have enough material to turn it from a telling story to a showing one… *Vibrate* *knock knock* a text comes in. As she is sitting there alone in her room. She opens it and reads: T: Hey A, Meet me at “Mas Mexicali Cantina” at 7:45pm tomorrow? A: Sure. Arriving at Mas Mexicali Cantina” at 7:45pm she opens the door and makes her way to the rooftop bar, sits down and orders a Corona, and checks her phone. *radio silence* She figures maybe he is running late and shoots a text letting him know she is there and where she is sitting. Twenty minutes go by and she gets no response. She then figures she might as well hang out for the length of time she paid to park. She orders another Corona. As she sips she starts to feel the heat of sideway glances from the bartender, hostess, and guests. She feels funny. She pays her tab and makes her way downstairs checking the other two bars just in case. They are empty. Shoulder slumped and mentally kicking herself in the ass she walks to her car. When she is three-fourths of the way hope she gets a text with a all too convenient excuse: T: Hey sorry I didn’t get back to you or show face. I had a family emergency. (Edits to be done soon)
Sometimes when you do the same thing everyday it is like looking through a window pane and seeing what life is like through other people sitting around a table. How you are really not like them. Familiar. It’s 2:25pm a group of people all in black punch in their own personal code. Click click click click enter. They go over to the man who wears the blue tie and listen to direction. Ray: You are on kitchen. The party count is 450. We need two water cambros, 500 butters, 42 bread baskets with 10 rolls each, 84 creamers, lemons cut, 4 tea boxes, and 500 salad forks put in the freezer. Me: Okay Ray-ray. As you walk through the kitchen it is a bunch of cheerful hellos, calm hellos almost too calm. A storm is coming. after walking through the kitchen its two flights of stairs to a room with rolling containers of different size and shape dishes, chaffers, burners, serving utensils, and bread baskets. 1,2,3,4…..42 I try my best to stack them into my arms. Into the elevator I go. Ping! the old elevator made it down to the first floor. Now the balancing act of making it past the dish line, and around the bustle of the kitchen begins! Will she make it she does! Kick! into a dark vestibule she goes. Kick! Into the lighted grand ballroom she enters and passes the staff polishing silverware, glassware, and goes over to the staff fan folding the 450 napkins to be placed on the table for the evening. Me: Can i grab 42 napkins? Staff: Yeah lady. 2 water cambros, 500 butters, 42 bread baskets with ten rolls each, 84 creamers, lemons cut, 4 tea boxes, and 500 salad forks later it is time for cocktail hour! Unfamiliar. Walking into a banquet room wearing a navy blue dress with a cream colored lace sash sitting at a table of ten with familiar and unfamiliar faces. The room is already set with silver chargers, silverware, glassware, baby clue napkins, with mason jars full of daisies and I didn't set a thing. I sit down at table 9 with my fellow table 9 people. The DJ then cuts the music to let us know the bride and groom will be entering shortly so if we could all sit down. Everyone sits. The Bride and Groom are then introduced and after the rumble of applause settles and best man and maid of honor give their toasts. In my mind I feel as if I need to get moving because its 15 min call and salads are going to be served shortly, but then i remember I'm a guest. Class: Notes anyone? Please and thank you. Home:
I'm so tired. The kinda tired where you question life and why you are doing what your doing tired. Why am I working 64 hour weeks. Do I need two jobs? Why am I at DCCC again? Should I continue working on homework or sleep? I guess I have to do it all now since today is my only day off.... Do I want to work insane hours and have money or time off and hobbies and some money. I really don't have much else to talk about. Really really. really. really really really really really really really really really really really really really really don't. Spelling really alot makes it look like its spelled wrong.
I don't have some strong fantastic rebuttal yet, but I don't think it is the goverments job to micro-manage everything. I also don't think driverless cars are the answer to lives problems in the driving world because even though not every human is capable computers have their glitches too. Anna McCarthy
Professor Sabatino Mangini English 100-58 04 November 2015 Room For Debate I don’t think driverless car are a good idea. When researching the topic I found the article “Are we ready for driverless cars?.” In this article there are four debaters: John Villasenor, Ryan Carlo, Nidhi Kalra and Scott Le Vine. The thought of driverless cars is ridiculous because it relieves people of using their brain, takes the responsibility off of them, and hurts business for both taxi companies’ and Uber. The overall argument of the debate is that driverless cars are the wave of the future as long as the government can regulate it. The opposing argument is that a driverless car doesn’t have the ability to go out of its pre-programmed algorithm and make the same moral decisions that human drivers would have to make if faced with something like an unavoidable accident. John Villasenor a professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy at the University of California, Senior fellow at Brooking Institution and Member of the World of Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Cybersecurity believes we cannot afford not to create driverless cars. He states in his column that it could lower the chances of injury as well as death caused by motor vehicle accidents. John Villasenor says that the new technology has already contributed to the safety of drivers with things such as better “electronic stability control,” which improves the car's ability to take turns and to handle slippery surfaces. This one technological advancement in and of itself has saved 2,200 lives from 2008-2010. Ryan Calo a law professor at the University of Washington, Author of forthcoming article “Robotics and the lessons of cyberlaw.” Mr. Carlo is the second debater mention on the page for driverless cars on the New York Times Room for Debate website. He thinks a special agency needs to be put into place before a driverless car becomes readily available and legal. He used the example of when Toyota’s were malfunctioning a while ago the Department of Transportation (a government agency couldn’t handle it, so they asked NASA for help. Nidi Kalra is a informational scientist at the RAND Corporation and director of RAND'S center for decisions and making under uncertainty, is co-author of the report “Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Guide for Policy Makers.” Nidi Kalra has stated that driverless cars should be on the road as soon as they are safe and can handle things like predicting human nature of human drivers, tricky terrain, detailed road rules, weird objects in the road, and bad weather. The fourth debater is Scott Le Vine. Scott Le Vine is a transportation planner and research associate at the Centre for Transportation and studies at the Imperial College in London. Mr. Le vine thinks that their is ethical tradeoffs and too much risk. the Technology doesn’t have the capability of morals and can only follow its preprogrammed algorithms. He uses the example of an unavoidable crash where you are going to hit something and your choices are a) a mom with a baby in a baby stroller, b) a elderly couple, or c) a brick wall. Le Vine says a human would be able to make that decision in the heat of the moment, but a driverless car couldn’t. He also ask the question will human drivers be happy with a driverless car that will be programmed to follow the letter of the law and won’t speed? Driverless cars would be great for people who legitimately can’t drive or have a hard time driving. For example it could help people who are elderly, handicapped, or dyslexic. But, on the other hand it is just another way to dumb down society as a whole and remove the brain building life skill of learning how to drive. It also relieves the responsibility of their actions aka be able to get drunk instead of staying sober to drive safely. On top of that it would take away the business of taxi drivers, uber, and lyft. I think that it is great that we have so many technology advances that have came out and our coming out. When will too far be too far though? Will we see it? Works Cited Villasenor, John, Ryan Calo, Nidi Kalra, and Scott Le Vine. "Nobody Behind the Wheel." The New York Times: Room for Debate. The New York Times, 29 Jan. 2015. Web. 6 Nov. 2015. Class
In this past Thursday's class we saw pictures of Prof. Mangini's daughters' birthday pictures, went over how to write a paper, what rhetoric is,and how fantastic Hilary Clinton apparently is. Prof. Mangini's pictures from his daughter's birthday were really sweet. He told us how she really enjoyed it but, got freaked out by everyone singing "Happy Birthday" to her. Don't worry toddler Mangini it still weirds me out too. In order to write a good paper you need a solid thesis statement and at least three points to back it up. You start out with a "Introduction Paragraph." In this "Introduction Paragraph" you should have something to grab the readers attention, context(or back-round potato potato), and a solid super fantastic Thesis statement to start you off. After you have created this Mona Lisa of introductions you should use the next three paragraphs to explain and defend each point. each point designated to it's own paragraph. Your fourth paragraph can then be your opinion paragraph and your last paragraph will be your conclusion. The definition of Rhetoric is: an effective means of communication. Hilary Clinton can run like a girl into a ball pit at Chucky Cheese.
For Halloween I was going to go down to a bar in the city and enter one of the costume competitions dressed as "The Morton Salt girl," but I had to work because someone decided to get married Saturday and have their reception with us. It was a neat wedding though. The table cloths were black and the napkins dark purple. On every other table was one of those tall candle stick holders with candles that you would see in a castle. On the main bar in the lobby they had a giant sign on the center that said "POISIN consume at your own risk" with bottle that were black, purple, and silver with skulls and bones on them. Someone I think either the the groom's parents or maybe the bride's parents suprise the couple with a dance troop who came in after their first dance to perform the troop's version of thriller. That was kinda cool. Um.. Peace out girl scouts see you Thursday. |