250 Group Experience - 2

After few days we assigned what each member of the group should do. My job is to find statistics about our issue, which is the “raptor collisions.” Tasia is responsible about getting us an appointment with the clinic. Cynthia will take the care of doing the website that we are willing to do for our project. Rico and Walter are going to find more information about the problem from different sides and aspects. So, step by step we can all achieve our goal easily.

250 Group Experience - 1

From the first day of assigning our group members I really felt excited about this type of project. Generally, when a group comprises many members, it is more likely to have one bad apple in the group, but so far I find that all members share comparable enthusiasm toward this project and we all want to get accomplish top-notch work

A Bad Apple__Group Experiance

Blog Post: Have you ever been in a group with a bad apple? How might you deal with a bad apple? Is there another kind of bad apple that the podcast did not mention?

I have worked with a group for CE 205 project for doing a bridge proposal. I found this activity is very useful way to help students communicate with each other, but at the same time it had some negative parts that came from the existing of a bad apple in the group.

Dealing with a bad apple is a very hard thing. For the CE group project we had The Slacker who always say "whatever", and "I really don't care." We dealt with that bad apple by having a good leadership, who always tried to get everyone’s idea and set the best decision at the end of our conversations. I think good leadership, inspiring leadership can turn most 'bad apples' into 'good apples'.

In-Class Group Exercise

I used to work with a group for CE 205 project for doing bridge proposal. I found it very useful, but at the same time it has some negatives. The advantages were covering the disadvantages most of the time. The group project helped me to have good communication skills, to respect the meetings, and to be more organize.

On the other hand, the disadvantages were coming from the group member actions such as being late, not replying emails, and delaying in sending the information that we suppose to gather.

Personal Responce of Wendell Berry Pieces

Wendell Berry performs similar intent in both pieces “Manifesto” and “Marginal.” His intent is to bring people eyes toward the beauty of life by its simplicity instead of the modern chains. This was confirmed when Berry said in his poem “Love the lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor.” He also brings the same manner in the “Marginal” piece, when he showed how beautiful the life would be if farmers try using natural things. For example, using horses instead of tractors and using woods instead of petrol for burning-stove.

In contrary, the writer used very significant way in order to deliver his message to the readers. He encourages them by showing the beauty of doing something natural and simple instead of just punch suggestions in the table and wants people to do them.

Things I do for the enviroment

I used to print on one face of a paper when printing papers for the university's staffs such as assignments, exams, and quizzes. But now I am using the two faces of the paper, which this helps to save more papers and makes our planet more green. Moreover, when printing papers I use "fast draft printing," which also helps to save ink.

Personal Responce

Read emailed article. Write a personal response on your blog (as opposed to a critical response).

The article is well rounded. I like the concept, which said "Your Actions Make A Difference" because this type of thinking could affect our decision making in our life. It could help to make the life has different face and shape. For example, improving the relation between individuals and social structure, helping open people's eyes towards people that have bad situations, and making a person understand the important of our planet and environment.

In accord, “Turning Insights Into Actions” concept brought my attention toward the whole idea of the article, which is donating money, or time for helping poor societies and make the world better place to live. It helps me to think positively and deeply in each step I make for the earth without caring if my action will be distinguished or not.

Personal Mission Statement

I am at my best when the peace covered the world.
I will enjoy my work when it has a hand in making the world better.
I will find enjoyment in my personal life through looking at the beauty of nature, and the environment around me.
I will find opportunities to use my natural talents and gifts such as sports and being a friend.
I can do anything I set my mind to. I will donate whatever I got for poor people.
My life's journey is to spread the idea of peace in people head and bring them to the truth of what god wants us to be.

I will stop procrastinating and start working on:
• Protesting against wars.
• Participating in an organization that helps to make our planet green.

I will strive to incorporate the following attributes into my life:
• strong patient
• determination and insisting
• goodness

I will constantly renew myself by focusing on the four dimensions of my life:
• Working in an organization
• Love the god
• Have the desires
• Helping people to live a better life

Analyze Carson's piece using one of the rhetorical strategies: "Silent Spring"

Blog: Analyze Carson's piece using one of the rhetorical strategies listed on the worksheet.

Rachel Chris reflects a very important issue at her time. She fully succeeds in supporting her substance. The solid substance has a plethora of evidence and facts to connect them with the main subject. Chris used facts, numbers, and different regions as materials to reveal her knowledge about the subject, which is the DDT.

Using these evidence helps to create concrete examples to appeal logos. For instance, at the beginning of her text she limit he talking only on eagles, and she gave a lot of numbers about the inclining of the number of birds on the western coast of Florida. Then, she presents the same sort of situation in other birds. She also brings the same situation in different places in the word such as Belgium and England. All this evidence is to confirm her rightness toward the DDT and to show that we “Earth Citizens” all have same destiny and connected together.

Reading Like a Writer: "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf" by John Muir.

Question: How does the writer structure the essay and to what effect?

The writer starts with a small terrifying story of his experience with the alligator. Using fierce and cruel at the beginning of the story has the effect to give the reader bad ideas about the alligators and other creatures.

The writer used some questions such as “Why do so many minerals poison him? Why does water drown its lord? Why is the lord of creation subjected to the same laws of life as his subject?” and so on. This assesses higher order or critical thinking. It also can evaluate student thinking and give them more concepts.

Reading Like a Writer: "Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks" by Edward Abbey

Question: Break the piece down paragraph by paragraph. How does each piece act as a “building block”? How does the writer create dramatic tension or interest through these building blocks?

The text is divided into 5 main blocks. Each block has its unique context and content, which lead to a dramatic tension and interest. It is also a form of completion to the blocks that come after. The first block is a describing of Edward’s job with every small detail. It gives a general idea of what the subject of the text is going to be about. The second block is when Edward introduced the problem between “Industrial Tourism” and the national parks by starting with civil engineers came to build new roads and destroy the nature of the national park. Using this block perfectly shows the relation between the governments and the officials in the national parks. Examples of national parks that were destroyed by building highways, interrupting places by large asphalt parking lots, and doing new roads are the main topic of the third block. It reflects what has happened in these particular parks with unnecessary and destructive development. Fourthly, he talks about how people should use their feet, ride bicycles, horses, and how to break the chains of modern life. The way he explains this concept by showing how fun a person can be when using this kind of transportation builds the whole idea revolves in the mind of author. Finally, the fifth block consists of give some practical proposals for the salvation of both parks and people to solve the problem.

Reading Like a Writer: "A First American Views His Land" by N. Scott Momaday

Question: How does the writer structure the essay and to what effect?

The writer used very special techniques to develop his text. In my opinion, “A first American Views His Land” by Momaday is a model of an interesting excerpt mixed between actual text and poems. Using some specific poems, which relate to the subject play very important part to make the text more interesting to read. It also helps to bring readers attention for reading.

Moreover, I agree with the student who said in the class that reading the poems in Momaday’s text in different rhythm and way gives the poems different meaning.

Thoreau/McCandless Questions

Thoreau compared many things in nature on his simple way of life. The relation between Thoreau and McCandless was very obvious. Both Thoreau and McCandless revealed the relation between the environments around us and our souls and how beautiful the nature is. Also, they showed the simplicity of life and the beauty of nature if people implied it to their daily life and know how to use it.

People know themselves better than anyone else, so consequently when you paint your own house, that you built with your own hands, the same color as you, you know your own house’s personality. When it rains, the house becomes pale, just as you become pale when it rains, and when it shines, your house blushes, just as you turn red in the hot sun. That was very understandable when Thoreau said “One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color.” He also added “Better paint your house your own complexion; let it turn pale or blush for you.”

Thoreau’s work might have enlightened McCandless in the idea of that everyone should do something in their life instead of “sitting in their butts”. We can get this when Thoreau metamorphisized the cuckoo birds with how people today buy houses, in which they do not contribute to any of the house’s architecture and they just live in it.