Pop Culture # 5

Well this week I found a new band called  Seabird, and I cannot stop listen to one of their songs called "Don't You Know You're Beautiful". Every time that I listened to the song I remember my mom, maybe is because I missed her so much and the lyrics of the song have a lot of meaning for me. You know when you find a song who say everything that you are feeling right now.  Also I think their other songs are great too. I love to find new music to add to my iPod. =)

Post 9/25

Well I think that one of the skill that I have learned is how to manager my time. Especially now that we are getting so busy in our classes, I am trying to make time to do homework and study during the week. Also I have  to do a lot of reading this semester especially in my Hispanic Literature, Biology, and English. Last semester I didn't have to read that much, so I think I am getting use to. I think that this class is helping me to work harder when we have to write an essay because we don't have a lot of time. Also one of the things that is really going to help me this semester is the Writing Center. They really help you to review your essay and they tell you what you are doing right or wrong. I'm definitely going to use the writing center this semester a lot.   

Pop Culture # 4

On Wednesday I went to see this play called, Yo Soy Latina. The play was about  3 women who share the meaning to be Latina. Each one a them have a different character in which they tell who hard it is for them to understand what make them latinas. One of the things that some people have to face is that they came from to different cultures. If your mom or dad can speak Spanish and don't teach you, they are taking for you part of your culture. Well I also know that to be latina is not just to Speak Spanish and know everything about the culture, because in the play there were a woman who was an American, but her mom was from Cuban. However, she said something that really make me think even though she doesn't how to speak Spanish. She is latina in her own way and she loved the culture. I love the play and even though I really miss my country. I am so proud to be a Latina and now that I making my future  and life in this country I wan to be successful in my career and things that I am going to do in my life like all of the latinas how are following their dreams.

Johnson and Stevens

Well in Johnson's articles he claims that watch TV make you smarter, but I disagree with him. I don't believe that making TV can make people smarter. Well it we watch shows such as Discovery Channel, History or so many others shows in which we are learning something. Dane Stevens respond to Johnson's article "Watching TV Makes You Smarter". She strongly disagree with Johnson's article, she said argued Johnson main point in which he said that TV make us smarter. She defend her position using new examples or using information about Johnson's article such as 24 (a show  he singles out as particularly "nutritional") . But this show has some controversies about the representation of Muslim terrorists in the show. After all, in her article Stevens really made good points about how she disagree with Johnson. 

Pop Culture # 3

On Thursday night my brother and I went to eat in Mexican  restaurant  with some other friends. We decided to get carne asada (roast beef) usually when we went to a Mexican restaurant we always ask them if we can have more rice instead of tortillas, because we don't eat tortillas in our country we eat rice a lot. However, when the waitress bring us the carne asada everything looks so good, but when stared eating the food was so spice. I think they put some jalapenos in our food, and our mouths were on fire literally. I just don't get it sometimes just because Mexico eat a lot specie food and tortillas that doesn't mean that every country in Latin America does the same. Even though were speak the same language and maybe we look a like that doesn't mean that we have the same cultures. Since I moved to live here I had met people for some other countries such as Mexico, Cuba, and  Dominican Republic and every single one have different cultures and tradition. Also our Spanish is very different from their Spanish. I just wish some people realized that we are some different and that they understand that Mexico is not the only country who speak Spanish. 

"Shitty First Drafts"

I think that Anne Lamont's advice in "Shitty First Drafts" was very interesting. I feel like she was describing me because every time that I have to write an essay I have not idea where to start. However her idea to just sit down and write everything that come to your mind can help you to find the right track. Well actually that is what I did today when I was writing my essay at first I did not what to put but then I start writing different things about my topic and suddenly I got 3 pages. Now I just have to go over again and review like she said i just my first draft.  

Well I think that Student A did I good job in his essay. I really like the way how he summarize Johnson article and how he also used some shows to prove his point an argument against his article about TV makes you smarter. 

















 How does it differ from your 
usual drafting style? What one thing do you think the student writer from the sample essay did very well? Why? What one thing do you think the student writer needed to work on? Why?

Pop Culture #2

R.L Stine is one of my favorites authors a just love the way he wrote his books. I am a huge fan of Fear Street witch is a series of books about terror. I've read at least 10 books of his Fear Street series. I love books about mystery and terror even thought I have scary movies. When I am reading one of his books I really get engaged with the character and the story in general. He also has around 100 books about this series and all of them are different stories about teenager who have to face tragic situations. Also in the majority of his book there is always someone who dies. My favorite book about his series is Switched  after I read that book, he become one of my favorite authors and I wish I can read all of his books. =)

Pop Culture

I am watching this show called, Scrubs and I just love it. The show is about a group of  doctors who have to deal with their patients and also with their lives . Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian which is one of the main character, he is the one who tells the story and what is happening in the hospital.  The show occurs most one the time in the hospital and every character has to deal with their own problem, but at the end of each episode all of the have learned a valuable lesson.

Class Discussion

Well I was a little lost at first and to be honest I wasn't prepare for class today. I read the sample essay  and not the article so it was my mistake. I don't like to talk so this mean that I am not contributing in our discussion in class, but I also notices that we have to give our opinion and discuss because it sees this is a fundamental step in this class. I know that talking about  what we read it will help us to put information together. I also know that there is just one of two people who talk in class in given their opinion or argument about what we read. So I will try to my best to be prepare for class and to be part of our discussion in class.

Watching TV Makes You Smarter

In the article of Steven Johnson," Watching TV Makes You Smarter" he believes that watching TV or play video games make people smarter. He argues that earlier shows only follow one or two character and they were very simple. The shows that people watch in these days are more complex and follow one to ten character in witch the show really make you pay close attention to see what is going on. I honestly disagree with his argument that if we watch TV you are gonna be smart. Even though some of the shows that we watch on  TV can be sometimes entertain and maybe can give us a difference perspective about the world. I probably agree that when we are watching a show we a making a cognitive with the show in which we are taking the information and process in our brains, and we are paying close attention to what they character in the show are doing and how they solve their problems. According to Johnson people can learn the skill or solving problem watching TV, but one of the things that it is different between a show and the real world. It is that in a show when they characters have a problem they make look like it so easy to solve a problem, but in real life it is not that easy. I will agree with Johnson article if he will say that if people watch show if witch they are gathering information that are value for them. 

Introducing Myself

My name is Gaby Rodriguez and I am from Ecuador South America. My major is Spanish and I am a sophomore. I love to read books about Mystery and my favorite music is rock, reggae, and ska. My favorite author is R.L Stine I love the way he wrote his books and the way he tells the stories. Well sometimes is hard to find the information that you are looking especially when you are doing a research and argumentation. I have some experience doing research paper, but one of the part that it is very hard to do when you are doing a research is cited the information correctly.

Skill

The skill that I have acquired is how to speak a Foreign Language. I have been living in the United States for 5 years. When I came here I did not how to speak English it was so hard and frustrating not to able to understand what people around me were saying. I took me a year to learn the language and to be honest with you English it is a hard language to learn because you write and pronounce different. However I was hard but not impossible as everybody say if you want to be good in something you have to practice a lot of. One of the things that motivated me were my dad and my brother because they have to pass for the same thing that I was going through. And after all they learned the language and I knew that if they did I was going to do it too.
I think that one of the things that I can applied for the skill that I have in my writing, it is that if I want to become a good writer I have to practice and do review over and over again every single essay that we write this semester. This will help me not only to correct my mistakes, but also it will help me to put my thoughts together. Also with dedication and determination I will be able to write good essays.