Project Space Reflection

Christopher Dominguez

Professor Lawson

English 113 B

28 March 2013

Project Space Reflection

            For project space I chose my home church. It’s called Bethel Latino Temple but we are renting in the facility of United Community Church. This church is located in the city of Glendale. It’s around the block of the Americana and the Glendale Shopping Center. The church is owned by a Caucasians congregation but they rent it out to 4 different churches.  They also rent it for weddings, special events, and funerals. There are three Hispanic churches and one Armenian Church that rent out this place. All the different congregations have their different services at different times. Just the main amphitheater can seat one thousand two hundred people. The church also has a smaller church next to it, a gym, a dining hall, and a enormous parking lot. I choose this place because it was a home church and I saw how are serving the growing Hispanic community in Glendale.

            My writing process was very different than from project web. I did everything like it was suppose to be. I followed the prompt and tired my best to complete all the requirements. I thought that I was able to express myself better in this essay than in the one for project web. I found it a little easier to write this one. As I was writing my essay I notice that what I wanted to say came very easy to me. I did procrastinate on writing it on time. I knew that I had to do it but I ended up doing it the day before it was due. But overall I didn’t procrastinate a lot on this essay like I did for project web. The easiest part was the field work report because that helped me right me essay faster. The hard part was finding my focus on what I was going to talk about.

Project Web Reflection

Christopher Dominguez

Professor Lawson

English 113

5 March 2013

Project Web Reflection

            The topic that I choose for Project Web was cyber-bullying. Cyber-bullying has grown dramatically over social networks in the past few years. I had a few background experiences on working on this topic, so it was very easy finding research to back up my point. There wasn’t really anything new that I learned from working with this topic, but I did find a lot of shocking research. I am a little better on expressing my thoughts on paper then I was last year. It was very hard for me to write down what I was thinking and when I wrote what I was thinking sometimes it didn’t make any sense at all. Even though I would tell myself not to procrastinate I would end up doing it. I waited to like a few days after peer review to actually go back and fix what my peers had mention to fix. I didn’t turn in a 2^nd rough draft because I procrastinated. When I was doing my research I would start off looking for research for my topic but then I would daze off my topic and look at you tube videos. Working with the blog was very helpful. I was able to gather up all my research in one whole space and not worry of losing it. I think that is why I set up everything for the last minute. All the ideas that I got were from working with my group and investigating a little more on my topic. My first draft was easy to write up because all I did was introduce my topic. Once I started doing more research it started looking good. I didn’t want to sound like if I was jumping from here and there with my topic. Starting on my intro was also tough because I didn’t want to sound vague or cheesy. Once I was able to gather up my thoughts and set up an essay structure I was able to produce the final product.  I can say that I can see a progress on the way I’m writing. I’m being to use more “intelligent” words.

Amy Goldwasser ; Whats the Matter with Kids Today

I read the article “What’s the Matter with Kids Today“ by Amy Goldwasser.  At first when I read the article I was confused so I read it a second time and I was able to understand her point. When I was reading the first page, Amy, made it seem that she was totally against teenagers obsessively being on the internet. One part of the article that really made me think that she was against it was when it says “Internet has turned teenagers into honest documentarians of their own lives.” I can relate to that because I have friends on facebook and when they are going through a break up or having a baby, or having a bad day they go and post it on facebook. So that the whole world can know what is going on with their lives. All the stats that she uses has evidence is very shocking. How some teenagers don’t know the role that Adolf Hitler played in WWII. I don’t agree or disagree with Amy. Even though she really has lot of evidence to back up the negative part she gives a very reasonable solution to the problem. Yes she does state that kids now a days are more worried about updating their facebook status then a research paper for school but she also states what parents and teachers can do to change the way teenagers use the internet. I thought the article was just going to talk about the negative aspect of the Internet but she says “we need to celebrate that our kids are reading and writing for fun ; it’s part of their social life” I am on the border line for when it comes if I agree or disagree. But I can say im more on the disagree side.