Self Reflections
What I learned about the topic: I
learned about the wonderful history and mysteries which makes California always
attractive and stays alive. The main reason California is wealthy in resources
and unbelievable stories is because of the Pacific plate collide to America and
the friction makes all the valuable resources that human ever wanted. And, that
Pacific plate creates the LA and San Francisco earthquakes. More about the
Silicon Valley, its uncountable entrepreneur millionaires are another
interesting part to attract more and more people. Finally Hollywood and its
part of making successful dream land in the States is a very important fact
that I ever learned in my readings. My final conclusion is the desire and
illusions of real and unreal opportunities drive people harder to move on and
on till to reach their goals.
What I learned as a reader/writer: I found
out that California is that much full of amazing stories during very few
decades. I was surprised again that California is not only rich of gold but
wealthy in nearly all of natural resources. As a reader, I like about the
history and big dreams people had along its history. And of course their hard
working attitude are also make me feel stronger and less lazy. And I understand
more on how to write to attract readers to caught their curiosity on the topic.
Out of Class Essay #1
What I learned about the topic: California
is an analogy between over expectation and failure. Among four songs, I love
the Californication of Red Hot Chili Pepper and chose to write for my out of
class essay. Actually I was having a hard time choosing Hotel California and
Californication. But I don't know why I was so into Californication and chose
over Hotel California. Perhaps the meaning of the Californication touched me
more than the Hotel California. Both songs reflect the false image and
exaggeration of the state can fulfill.
What I learned as a reader/writer: PIE format. I was almost
forget the PIE format for our body paragraphs. I learned how to a analyze a
quote by introduce in our body paragraph, incorporate and interpret in it. Warmed
up again about noun phrase appositives which is I almost forget how to use. My
favorite part during out of class essay-2 is about friction diction. terms to
improve understanding, the critical thinking. The most important thing I
learned about reading is called close reading: word choice, tone, imagery, and
metaphors
In
Class Essay #2
What I learned about the topic: I
learned about propositions laws in USA and how does it work. People has enough
power to change state and federal laws by voting them. The critical thinking
helps me to understand more about what I read. I did Prop-37 and it is about
GMOs which should label on everyday consumer products.
What I learned as a reader/writer: I guess, the critical thinking thing is the major and main for
the essay what I learned during that time. Although there are only four pages,
it is very confusing for me to understand and categorize. However, it is very
useful for me to identify how good is the topic during reading and writing. I
believe I improved my essays writing skill pretty much.
Out of Class Essay #2
What I learned about the topic: California
is not only full with treasure but also full with sad stories of earlier
immigrants especially Asian and local Indians. From an immigrant boy and his
mom from poem "Yuba city school" reveals the saturation of immigrants and their troubles
to readers. Coming to California is not a easy task and restarting new life is
not as easy as what many believe. As I'm a new immigrant to USA and I feel and
understand their saturation comparing to my real life experiences. History
remind people's mistakes and give chance to rebuild their images. Although the
United States has bad images on minorities, there are getting lesser and so far
on the right track for a place for all people despite of majority of minority.
What I learned as a reader/writer: I learned California's
history about Asian immigrants and local India sad stories. From both topics
and poems, I learned how to use compare and contrast the tone, theme, use of
history or other literary conventions on my essay writing. I improved my PIE
format, close reading and quotation style of Introduce, Incorporate, and Interpret
while learning about out of class essay-2 as well.
Out of Class Essay #3
What I learned about the topic: I
think there are too many poems and topics to read in order to write this essay.
All the readings basically tell me is misunderstanding
leads to stereotype and follow by prejudging on other people without proper
information lead all problems. Movie "Crash" teaches me that people
are changing due to their past experiences and not wise to judge them by their
past, skin or the way they look. People have different underlying values in their
subconscious about races and might prejudge accordingly. But sometimes that brings
unpredictable outcome for their prejudgments. What I learned is not to
stereotype and make prejudgment without proper information.
What I learned as a reader/writer: I think there are too many
poems and topics to read in order to write this essay. Complicated yet let me
learned reading strategies and let me figure out the different genres of art:
play, film and novel. All those helps me to get a well understanding of Multiculturalism
of California.
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