Everyone understands the basic idea of everyone being their own person; no one should be an exact replica of anyone else. In order to completely understand how “place” matters in my discipline, keep in mind that we do not all come from the same background. Therefore, everyone has their own interpretation of how “place” matters…
Metaphors can mean so much or so little to different individuals depending on how much they interpret it; which shows how much they paid attention to the topic. Depending on the knowledge an individual knows about the topic is how well they will understand the metaphor. For example, If the speaker, writer, or reader begins to explain the…
February 16, 2016 Cindy Mijangos One University Dr. Camarillo, California 93012 Santa Cruz Village Rm D209 B Dr. Stacey Anderson CSU Channel Islands Camarillo, California 93012 Dear Stacey, I am writing this letter so you are able to come aware of the different types of genres we expose ourselves to by reading and later…
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…
After reading the article Backpacks vs. Briefcases I realized how many articles, blog post, and images send a rhetoric message. Media uses rhetoric to persuade the audience, us, by using one of the rhetorical appeals (Ethos, Pathos, Logos). A good example of media using rhetorical appeals is when an animal shelter commercial appears on television and…
First impressions are very important although we won’t think that they are. One thing we don’t realize is that first impressions last forever. You will always remember the first time you meet someone or your first time going to a new place. When we first arrived to the Santa Rosa Island I was expecting the … Continue reading Santa Rosa Island Reflection
After going to the Reagan Library for the first time I was astonished by many artifacts. I’m not going to lie at first I though we were going to an actual library to look at books. As soon as we started walking into the museum my jaw dropped. The picture on the left is one … Continue reading Reagan Library Reflection
This week in my University 198 class we read archives again, this time the folder of archives that I had were about the Civil Rights Bill. The folder had letters to Bizz Johnson, most of the letters I came across were written from high school students. Most of the high school students were taking an … Continue reading Civil Rights Movement
In my history classes in high school I only learned about basic dates and events, teachers never told students the whole story. That is why historic events never fascinated me, I was given dates, what the name of the event was, and why it was important to U.S history. Now it is different, I don’t … Continue reading Reflection on a Primary Document
Vietnam War Every letter that I read in class on Friday was heart warming. Most of the letters I read were from women from various ages. But this was a male writing a letter to the senator. When I read this specific letter it almost made me cry a little. These letters were written in … Continue reading 1971 Vietnam War Letter
Scroll to top