This week was all about my methods section, I have some revision to do but for the most part my peers enjoyed the section of the paper and stated that i gave enough information to repeat the process for future projects on island oak trees. I am still polygoning my groves in ArcMap, it has been slow and painful but the map is coming out fantastic. I am still having issues with the 1989 map but this can be solved next week when I meet with Ryan Summer.
When you thinking of hip hop or Rap what do you think of? Guns? Violence? The Hood? Weed? 
Well, I imagine that out of all the different words that came to mind homosexuality and/or gay if so we are probably on the same page lol. To most the idea of homosexuality and hip-hop are like fire and water and it is not an unreasonable assertion since when the do mix it’s in the form of “Faggot” or “Fag”. But it’s 2016 and things are changing last year the oil and water mix were able to produce some explosive results. Last year the controversial song Throw That Boy Pussy by Young Fly Red, a young African American Queer Rapper from New Orleans. Initially, the song got a lot of pushback, even I had to listen to it a few time before I liked it but know it has over 2 million views.
Well, The Huffington Post did a brief interview with Franklin Randall (Young Fly Red) discussing his music as well as his past and goals. But the part of the article that has a very strong rhetoric they have quotes of big name rappers supporting homosexuality as well as queer/gay rappers. The Ethos that is produced from this point on is impossible to argue with, artists such as Frank Ocean, Kanye West, A$AP ROCKY, Fat joe, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, T.I., Russell Simmons, Tyler the Creator, 50 Cent, Beyonce, and Eminem. If you read the Rhetoric behind the whole article it’s definitely in full support of Queer artist but LGBTQ.
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Hi my name is Ruby Ortega and I am perusing a Bachelors of Science degree in Business and an Option in Marketing. I am a fourth year student here at CSU Channel Islands who will be graduating in the Spring of 2017. Even though I have one more year left looking back at the past 4 academic years seems so surreal, and I can’t help but be excited for what has yet to come.
Before I dive into my college endeavors I can’t bypass my true passion and what inspired me to pursue a Business degree in the first place, baking. As a child, I would sit and watch my mother create elaborate cakes for hours and before I knew it I was the one mixing all the ingredients together. After that I hadn’t put much thought into the idea of baking as a career, but then I was asked the questions, ” what do you want to major in and what are you gonna do after you get your degree”? At age 16 I went with what I knew best and that was to become an owner of my very own cupcake bakery. And as an aspiring entrepreneur wanting to open my own cupcake bakery majoring in Business was a given. At this point I am sure you can guess what my answers were to those questions.
Then age 18 came and the idea of majoring in business started to feel more like reality when I confirmed my acceptance to CSU Channel Islands. My experience here has been very unique and I am not just saying that because I go here but because it is true. I have been fortunate to have had Business classes that have taken traditional approaches on teaching and have altered them in an interdisciplinary manner. For example I took MKT 311 in which, was Consumer behavior. This course explored the world of marketing but also included the field of psychology and how different types of psychology were utilized to research consumers shopping habits and preferences. This class was very interesting because it put into perspective how an entirely different field from business such as, psychology could translate into the business world. Another course I took that explored three fields at once was BUS 340 which was Business & Economics in Literature. This particular class was very unique in that the chosen texts for this course were playwrights. Now I know you may be thinking how does performing arts translate into business and economics? Well these playwrights were written around stories that focused on sensitive business and economic issues such as the poverty and unemployment rate in the U.S and the housing market crisis. One project that I really enjoyed in BUS 340 was when we had to take on the role of being a marketing consultant advertising two plays. In which, we had to compose a marketing plan that compromised of promotion ideas, allocation of costs, lists of real companies and third parties we would utilize to execute our marketing plan.
With this being said I am familiar exploring subjects or a selected topic among multiple disciplines. Researching topics in an interdisciplinary manner do pose its challenges such as learning new terminology and concepts but at the same time it raises my appreciation for other majors. As well as makes me realize how intertwined different disciplines actually are.
All,
Thanks for the great group editing session in Capstone yesterday. It sounds like most of you found that very useful. We’ll be doing this again.
I must apologize for not recording our in-class blog discussion yesterday. In summary, we talked about always making sure we use proper grammar and spelling, having a piece of multimedia in each post, and making sure all the rest of our webpage was complete (the about me, resume, and research overview).
As a reminder for next week, I expect:
For anyone that wanted to incorporate yesterday’s comments into their first Methods draft, you may drop that revised Methods Section off to me in my office (BTW1265). As I said I will be in tons of meetings today, so please slip it under my door if I am not there. If you are indeed dropping it off today, please do so by 1pm.
This is an “easy” week in terms of things due for next Monday’s class. But please don’t let your foot off the accelerator. Keep charging on your revisions to your Intro, your Methods, have started on your results, etc.
Recall my next formal office hours are Friday 9-9:50 in the Tech Lab in Sierra. My “unofficial” office hours from noon to 2 on Mondays up at Tortillas/Pizza 3.14 seem to be going well and so I will be continuing those. Please do try to stop by any of my office hours on a given week if you can, even if it is just for a two minute update or to ask a brief question. This really helps me keep abreast of your progress (As do your blogs).
Thanks team. I really like the momentum you all have established. Keep up the good work!
-Dr. A
In order to understand reading and know what you are reading you must learn to read like a writer. To read like a writer does not necessarily mean, “to read like an actual writer”, it means to understand how the author put the text together. In high school when I would get reading assignments for homework, I would read the material but as soon as I finished reading, I 
did not have a clue what I had just read. Now that I understand the difference of reading normally and reading like a writer I am able to read and understand material. Not only am I able to understand what I’m reading but also realize the different styles of writing authors use and improve my writing skills as well. Although we might not realize how much our writing improves because it becomes a natural for us but it does. In a way it is like the saying “monkey see monkey do”, if we are reading proper writing from material that does not use slang our brain picks up certain vocabulary used by the authors then soon enough we are either using some of the words, quotes, and styles of writing as well which improves our writing skills without us realizing it. One of the first books I read after I began to take my time and really focus and understand what I had read, was “The Boy in The Stripped Pajamas” by John Boyne and I absolutely fell in love with it. I enjoyed reading the book because the author tells a story about a young boy, who’s dad is a Nazi, becomes friends with a Jew and ends up dying in a gas chambers made to kill Jews helping his friend look for his dad. The author made me want to continue reading and actually feel bad for the young boy. John Boyne is using pathos in his own style of writing to get the readers attention. Also every time the author would explain the two young boys meeting up in secret makes you wonder interested in what is happening next. I’ve learned to use this pathos in my writing, in my own style of course, to catch the reader’s attention. This way when I am writing I am not boring the reading by making my writing too long and not getting to a point. As a reader I know what interest me therefore I am going to read material that is to my interest. Another reason why I like John Boyne’s style of writing in this book was because he painted a perfect picture for me, to understand what it was like living during a hard time like World War II without too much historical information. It is shocking how much a choice of certain words together or alone even can be so powerful and meaningful. That is what makes pieces of writing better and understanding words or word phrases is what helps us read like writers.
work cited
Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. London: R, 2008. Print.
The mind is a tricky thing; it is also a powerful instrument. Now, why should this be of concern to society? I automatically assumed it was due to the fact that all of mankind has one; but when John T. Furey and VIncent J. Fortunato address
the Theory of MindTime: The relationships between thinking perspective and time perspective, that answer is not properly addressed. The interesting fact of the matter is that this scholarly article with an intriguing title which spends so much time using the tool of reasoning and analysis without stating what sparked the writer to begin addressing this topic in a way that connects with the reader. Theoretical topics are hard to create direct relevance towards, because without proper evidence proving that theory exists, it is non existent to the public eye and more of a series of theoretical terms that are hard to grasp. In most circumstances, a scholarly article is picked a part by it’s peers or “peer reviewed”, and in this case that is evident in the structure of which it was “built” upon. The writer seems to have overlooked the audience’s capabilities and understood it’s main goal was to subject the reader to learning more about their particular study with facts and statistics than connecting with the reader overall.
The author’s intended purpose was to prove his theory that the mind is interconnected with time in “Past, Present, and Future” aspects of thinking. That sentence alone intrigued me enough to keep reading. However, the following information wasn’t so easy to understand, yet the material wasn’t so much what I was focused on for once. In order to see the purpose behind what was in front of me, I had to see the outline in the techniques of the way this article was being written. Author’s Furey and Fortunato showed me that even historical evidence is valid in the present and can be impactful towards the future. The main focus or “meat” of this article was the evidence that was presented throughout the study to greater prove Furey’s theory. Essentially everything is just a theory until proven otherwise with the proper evidence to back it up. Interestingly enough, Furey’s style of writing was filled with evidence for that same purpose- to prove his point. Writing is a series of constant “decisions”. (Bunn) This made me see that in writing, the choices that are the least meticulous usually end up being the most creative, while the choices that are the most meticulous, end up being the most credible.
In all honesty in writing this post, the site crashed and I ended up having to rewrite it. And instead of trying to re-iterate what I once wrote, I reflected my “past” but ultimately came to the conclusion that a big part of writing is re-writing. To me, just in having to rewrite this simple post, it brought me a greater appreciation towards the process of writing in how to accept the past in order to embrace the present and move forward towards the future. This awareness in itself of perseverance and acceptance is what connects the relationship of how to read like a writer.
Works Cited
Bunn, Mike. “How to Read Like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Vol. 1. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2010. 71-86. Writing Spaces. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.
Fortunato, Vincent J., and John T. Furey. “The Theory of MindTime: The Relationship between Thinking Perspective and Time Perspective.” The Theory of MindTime: The Relationship between Thinking Perspective and Time Perspective. Science Direct, Mar. 2010. Web. 08. Feb. 2016
All of my points, tracks, and shoreline data are in ArcMap now. Working on my map is slow and painful. The tracks are looking good and clearly show the shoreline eroding away. I intend to us a program called Digital Shoreline Analysis System DSAS which will help compute the rate at which the beach is eroding. I was not able to survey this weekend. We have turned in our Methods section in our capstone project. I am pleased with how my work is looking, but need to keep pushing to stay ahead of the game. 
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