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I believe that place matters greatly, for your environment shapes you into the person you are. The place that you grew up in molds you into who you are, with factors like: race, average income, living arrangements, and local stores. These examples have helped me think about the importance of “place” because they have made me realize all the different parts that makeup a specific place and how each place influences a person in a unique way. I think growing up in my neighborhood taught me how to get along and respect other cultures, for my neighborhood was mostly Hispanic. My neighborhood defiantly impacted me in a positive way, it gave me a deeper understanding of other cultures/races and other economical classes. I think there are definite differences from my neighborhood than my peers in both the community SURF and CI students. My community/ neighborhood was very small and tight-knit, where as other people grew up in really big/ well-known cities. The difference between my city and theirs is that you would go to a high school football game and everyone knew each other, the grandparents and parents and students. Our city was inhabited by generations and everyone stayed there or came back after they grew up. So I feel that “place” influences people in the way that they look at others, where they want to live in the future, and aspires them to obtain certain goals.

In both of my articles, they explain that things like socioeconomic and demographic factors go into creating each “place”. Each place is very significant and also labeled by people who conduct GIS. They found that lower-income communities had poorer quality in healthcare, which is very unfair, for everyone should have the same quality healthcare no matter their economic status. The articles use both Geographical Information Systems and Spatial data. For they look at things such as: age, sex, ethnicity, income, social class, education, and language ability to determine the geographical factors that go into healthcare. They use Spatial data of socioeconomic disadvantages, sociocultural barriers, and high healthcare needs to identify the areas that do not have accessibility to high-quality healthcare.

Due to GIS I am able to grasp a better understanding of how “place” affects issues that are very important and heavily studied in my field. Using GIS, you are able to identify the issue of cities in more poverty than other receive a lower-grade of healthcare. It is important that you are able to see this while using the system because economic status should not have influence on such things as the quality of healthcare. “Place” allows you to pinpoint problems within a geographical sense so that it is easier to recognize them and categorize them into places that have similar issues.

I saw many links between the Geographical Information Systems used in my articles and the material we have already covered in class. In class we went over that communities that have an average lower income tend to have more fast-food restaurants, smoke shops, and liquor stores. I see the link that most lower-income families cannot afford to go to the grocery store and cook healthy meals, so they take the cheap alternative of fast-food. GIS could be used to prove that more healthcare is needed in communities of poverty, for they have more health issues due to the food they eat and their environment.

February 25, 2016

Ryan Lee

Pathways in Education
320 N Halstead St #210, Pasadena, CA 91107
Phone: 626-316-2217
Email: rlee@pathwaysedu.org
Subject: Summer Internship (Pathways of Education)

Dear Mr. Lee
This letter is in regards to summer internship offered through Pathways of Education. I would be more than happy to be apart of the amazing opportunities  Pathways offers. As a former student of Options for Youth I was lucky enough to be apart of the numerous activities offered by Pathways. Being among my peers as we helped the community had such an impact on my view of what team work means. Not only was I able to build stronger relationships with friends and faculty, I was able to connect with the mentors on the trips. With this being said I want to be able to help students the way I was helped. I think it is important for students to be able to connect with others who were  in similar situations and know it is possible to move forward. I believe I will be able to fulfill the requirments necessary based on my experience in leadership and management. I have always been a strong leader among my peers; and can connect and understand the struggles many high school students face.

I would like to thank you for taking my application into consideration and am more than ready to be apart of the Pathways of Education Team.

Thank you,

Ilyanna Camacho-luna

Type of Genre

1. Letter explaining why you think you will be a good option for the intern position
2. Audience is the leader of  Pathways programs
3. I have a good relationship with Ryan so a personal but formal freedom
4. Purpose of the intership is to work with high school students in the community and to prep for college

Works Cited

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Vol. 1. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2010. 249-262. Writing Spaces. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.

As a student In high school I always struggled with my writing, my teachers tried helping me develop my skills as a writer. However, I seemingly never found a way to really execute or exert the rules they wanted me to memories. the navel “Ten Ways to think about writing”, expresses many examples about different writing methods and provides information to college writers so that they can progress and develop as writer. For example, one of the many examples stressed in the novel expresses the idea that writers shouldn’t hold themselves back by listening to rules that make creativity harder to devolve. in the novel the author uses common rules often taught to use in grade school like always have a thesis, use concrete nouns, don’t use “I”. Theses rules became problematic for me because as a writer when you focus on a particular thing I tend to lose my creative momentum.

concepts illustrated in this novel point out the realistic problems college students indore. one of the examples given in the text that related to on a personal level, was the expression of understanding your target audience, when the audience change ,your message has to change. to make this example come to life the author gives an illustration of a college student in need for money. “ Imagine that you’ve ran out of money this semester and I told you that all you had to do was write a paper and your problems would be relieved. You still  might struggle a bit, and come up with some vague points about your situation. How ever, If I said Write to your best friend and stress your points to them, then you should suddenly have a clear idea of what you can say or should say.”(Shelley Reid 9) this example shows the importance of knowing your target audience, so that you can be direct.

Once you’ve identified a target audience, the writer then needs to put down all the detail you think of to appeal to those readers. the author states that when you have your reader don’t lose them somewhere along the way. Writers can do this by giving advice. This advice, however, does not need to be formulated in the  thesis statement or a topic sentence but needs to happen regularly so that the reader does need to happen regularly so that readers don’t miss something crucial.

Sergio Cordon

One University Dr.

Camarillo, California 93012

Santa Cruz Village Rm D211A

Dr. Stacey Anderson

CSU Channel Islands

Camarillo, California 93012

After reading the article “Navigating Articles” by Kerry Dirk, I learned many interesting facts about how genre can be so important to how we write our articles, papers and letters. Genre is used to incorporate both mood and subject to the text which for most readers would seem very difficult to comprehend had they not already understood at first. Which can vary from the type that you are writing from simply letters, papers, articles, etc. They say “is not to trivialize the study of genres; it is to take seriously the rhetoric in which we are immersed and the situations in which we find ourselves.” (Dirk 254). This quote explains that you must focus on not making such a light matter out of the genre and to maintain absolute focus so as to not be misunderstood by others.

They also want to ask what kind of purpose would I have for this and it is mainly concerning how genre can be effective in putting these different genres to use in different subjects and how they are affecting the subject at hand. Genre is mainly used to describe one theme or group on the subject in order to make use of the writer’s expression and individualism. For example, “new happens that requires a response, someone must create that first response.” (Dirk 252). This quote means that in order to express our individualism and create a genre we must create the first response in order to give genre its meaning. Genre can mean a variety of terms but one of the most common would definitely be a type of group or other such group specifically for their field.

Sincerely,

Sergio

Works Cited

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Vol. 1. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2010. 249-262. Writing Spaces. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.

I just finished writing my draft results section of my research project. I compiled the raw data into graphs to begin statistical analysis. Overall the project is going well. My next scheduled island trip is March 21-25 where i plan to lay rebar at all my site locations.