Hi, this is my final blog post! It’s a vlog and I’m going to be talking about and reflecting back on the class and how it’s affected me as both a person and a writer. I’ll be discussing over specific terminology and even sharing an allegory that I wrote. I do want to make this a formal assignment.
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In this blog post, I am using an "X-ray" process so I can see the "bones" of my Research Project argument. At this point, my research project is still a work-in-progress, so this post serves as part of my revision process.
1. My thesis statement is: Homeless youth symbolizes the American zeitgeist of today when it comes to our acceptance of the LGBT community, and us as a society should find ways and push the government to fund or support laws uplifting shelters and support systems for those who are gay or transgender. 2. My first supporting point that argues the how or why of my zeitgeist is: That most parents reject their LGBTQ children and kick them out of their house. I added in percents from research that prove my point. The source(s) I used for this point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/03/29/homeless-rates-for-lgbt-teens-are-alarming-heres-how-parents-can-change-that/ 3. The second supporting point that argues the how or why of my zeitgeist is: How 1 in 4 teens are forced to leave their homes after coming out, and using the story of Rex Ogle to support it. The source(s) I used for this point: https://lesley.edu/article/the-cost-of-coming-out-lgbt-youth-homelessness https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dad-kicked-me-out-gay_n_5b33b23ae4b0b5e692f38ab7 4. For the third supporting point that argues the how or why of my zeitgeist is: There are no federal programs, no federal protections, and few laws to protect the youth from being discriminated while accessing homeless services. The sources(s) I used for this point: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbt/reports/2010/06/21/7983/on-the-streets/ 5. The counterargument I used in my paper was the idea of straight pride parades, but I'm planning on changing it to something surrounding Evangelical Christians and their dislike for the LGBTQ community due to religion. 6. I haven't exactly come up with a prediction yet, but I plan on adding it in. My prediction would be that there's going to be more calls for action, but that the government doesn't exactly do much. I feel like the people are going to be stuck funding themselves and having to keep asking for donations and all. I feel like if the government wanted to help change the idea of the LGBTQ youth no longer being homeless, they would've already stepped in and did something. 7. The conclusion at the end I had a call for action by listing multiple charities that you could donate to if you wanted to help, but also called out the government by saying that we should push them to fund places for LGBTQ youth to have a place to rest. Hi and welcome back to my blog! For today, I’ll be going over what I have right now in my research project and what I plan to add. I also want to talk about things that I think I could improve with the right help, and what I want the impact of my project to have!
To start, I’m going to talk about what I right now have in my project. I knew I wanted to do something surrounding the LGBTQ community but I was unsure on where to start exactly. I started on and decided to write about homelessness in the LGBTQ community. I think I have a pretty good base to it, and I know that I have good body paragraphs with supporting evidence. I also made my bibliography and made sure that all my sources were cited. I do want to make sure that my MLA formatting is correct and re-check that everything in my paper is needed, that I’m truly capturing the “zeitgeist” of our day and age surrounding my topic. A few of the things that I want to add in are another rebuttal, someone who’s against the LGBT and I think that evangelical Christians would be a good viewpoint to add in. I also want to work on my thesis and my conclusion. I’m not sure if they’re strong enough or if they’re where I want them, but I think they’re pretty good for a first draft. I want my paper to be written so well that it can potentially change viewpoints. I know it’s kind of rare for anyone outside of this class to come to my blog and maybe even read my paper, but just talking in a regular sense.. I think if my paper had the power to change someone's viewpoint from a negative type view to a more positive and accepting view, I’d feel pretty satisfied. Overall, even though I’m only at a draft I’m still pretty proud of my draft. I actually feel good about a project for once and I’m looking forward to my own finished project. Hi and welcome back to my blog! In this blog post I’ll be discussing everything going on in my research project so far and my plans for my draft such as where I’ll be getting sources from, writing goals, the impact of my research on my life.
If you don’t know, in my blog post 10 I started to explain the process of my project and what I planned on researching about.. the LGBT community and their impact on our world today. I’m still stuck on if I want to make it a paper or do a multi modal project. My teacher was suggesting that we focus on one story in the LGBT community. Quite honestly, I have no idea on what story I want to include in my paper. Not anything from today's age at least. I want to find a story this week that I can add to my paper, but not just any story. I really want something to truly capture the spirit of today and how people are a lot more accepting of the LGBT community in this day and age vs. a decade ago, but how even today people are still fighting for rights. I plan on getting my sources from local news sites, but I want to try and find blogs or interview some of my friends who are apart of the LGBT community as well. I think I would be able to use their stories as the main focus if I wrote a paper but I’m still deciding. My writing goal is to write around 200 words per day when writing my paper or even go over that if I’m in a motivated mood. One thing I know for sure that I want to add to my paper are the Stonewall riots to compare to times from decades ago. Something that I’m struggling with would be finding out who my exact audience is, that, and narrowing it down. I still need to get started on my paper or multi modal project, but at the very least I know that I want to put it in a direction of maybe the violence towards LGBT people and how it’s much better lately but still.. not quite. I’m thinking that I can bring up exact stories of trans people and their murders even today and how even in 2019 they have to fight for protection, simply for being who they are. Hello! In this blog post I’ll be going over my topic for my Research Project which is going to be related to the LGBTQ community. I’ll be explaining the “zeitgeist,” or “the spirit of our time” of the community today and how it’s going to affect both me and others in the near future.
The zeitgeist topic I want to research is the LGBTQ community and the impact that it has on society today. I think this would be a good opportunity for me to look into it and see if this is maybe something I want to get involved in in the future in terms of helping and finding out ways that I can help support. A few primary sources I’d use to begin my research would be articles and blogs from people who are LGBTQ themselves. This zeitgeist would most impact people who are young adults, or teens people ages 15-25 since we are the new generation and anything new and upcoming in the LGBTQ world would fall on the new generation and it’s our choice to change laws and the world when it comes to topics like this. In my mind, the boomer generation and even some of the new generation now is too far strung on old, conservative ideals and they don’t support things such as the LGBTQ community as much as the new generation of kids and adults. This zeitgeist has always been around- as LGBTQ people were always a thing. The only difference is that now it’s a lot more accepted. Years ago, it wasn’t even legal to get married in same-sex relationships and it still isn’t in some countries. This zeitgeist would most impact the LGBTQ people, but also people such as lawmakers or the government since they would eventually be the ones changing laws about these types of things. This zeitgeist exists because you can’t exactly help who you’re attracted to. It’s nothing new, people have been attracted to the same sex for centuries upon centuries now. People would get criminalized about it and sometimes even killed. It needs to change. Liking someone, regardless if they’re the same gender as you or not.. It’s just something that happens. Why should someone care so much about who someone else loves? It’s not impacting your life directly. This zeitgeist makes me feel like I want to support those in the LGBTQ community. I have a few friends who are a part of the community, and the idea of her being pointed out in a negative way just for her being a different sexuality just isn’t something that I can get behind. She’s a person just like the rest of us. This zeitgeist makes me want to think how the LGBTQ people have been impacted themselves from a first person point of view. Even now that it’s much more accepted today, there’s still a lot of people who aren’t completely on board with it. That’s completely fine and all, but there’s a line that needs to be drawn when you start treating them a lot different just because of their sexuality.. I’m hoping that if I do the research about it, I can also figure out new ways to help support people in the LGBTQ community. This zeitgeist makes me want to change the way I do things by being more active in the world. If I see something wrong or someone being singled out I’ll step up and say something rather. Another way I could help is by calling politicians and asking for different laws to be changed regarding the community. In my ninth blog post, I’ll be interpreting four texts and how they relate to our discord community in my English Composition I class. It’s supposed to be a reflection and how the four texts relate to the spirit of our discourse community. I’ll post links to the four texts below.
Discourse Community Values “Writing-as-travel” Conceptualize discourse communities Social networks that frame the ethics Bond with others and to make meaning Cultivate joy Connect past, present and future Clarity Communicate ideas Multiple genres, modes, and media Writing processes to generate and revise ideas A writer's identity to interact Of others and of self Author-self interactions shape our learning We Are Many Of the many men whom I am I cannot settle on a single one Under the cover of clothing Departed for another city. Everything seems to be set My person Occupies my mouth I am dozing in the midst I summon my courageous self, A coward unknown Swaddles my poor skeleton. Tiny reservations. All the books I read, Dazzling hero figures Envy of them, I am left in envy Admiring even the horses. But, I call upon my dashing being Who I am, Who we will being. Call up on my real self, the truly me If I really need my proper self I must not allow myself to disappear. While I What is Literacy? What does “literacy” mean? An old term A variety of other meanings “discourse,” An “identity kit” People, books, and buildings. Abstract things. Bodies of knowledge, values, norms, and beliefs. A shared history. Being a woman or a woman. A student. A club. A number of important points that one can make about discourses. “Ideological,” A set of values and viewpoints. Internal criticism Cannot stand outside all discourse and criticize. Like trying to repair a jet in flight by stepping outside of it. Discourse concerns itself with certain objects Puts forward certain concepts, viewpoints, and values. Discourses Related to the distribution of social power Hierarchical structure in society. Individuals do not speak and act, Historically and socially defined discourses speak to each other through individuals. To you, I belong. Place of connection and joy An invitation “Belonging,” Our lives are connected History, experience, love, and hardship. Students bring to the classroom their own individual stories. As well as those of many others. Tapping into emotions. Writing, art, song, dance, the media, photography. One generation to the next. Accepting difficult emotions. The past is with us in the present. Sensations, and images often buried deep within us. “Grief is the land of wet tenderness.” The re-socialization process. To listen deeply to each other To take care of each other. Intellectually and emotionally. To help people remember the feeling of belonging and connection. Home page well-being assessment: Flourishing
Why assessment summary: I have everything that needs to be on my portfolio page, and my text is enlarged so it’s a lot easier to see. How assessment summary: I don’t need to do anything else. About page well-being assessment: Flourishing Why assessment summary: Everything is where it needs to be, I’ve put spaces between each paragraph to make it easier to read. I have a picture, I’ve described everything that I need to and put hyperlinks. How assessment summary: I don’t need to do anything. I might move the picture around, I might not. Narrative project page well-being assessment: Sustaining Why assessment summary: When it comes to the preface, everything is well and spaced out. I’ve written out what I need to. On the other hand, I need to add one more draft for my memoir and make the memoir mine. How assessment summary: I plan on editing and trying to make a 3rd draft by November. It might not be posted but I definitely want to start working on it. Blog page well-being assessment: Flourishing Why assessment summary: I’ve finished all of my blog assignments on time and I think for the most part I’ve completed them to my best ability. How assessment summary: I don’t need to fix anything, but I do want to try and be more dynamic with my posts. Contact page well-being assessment: Flourishing Why assessment summary: I have my contact box. How assessment summary: I don’t need to do anything. In this video I'll be explaining my feelings about Midterms and my reflections on the class. Things such as how my author identity has changed, how I've grown as a writer, how I'll take things I've learned from this class to other classes and so on. In this blog post, I’ll be talking and exploring in to my Memoir Project and explaining how my narrative allows me to travel into my brain, heart, and nerve thanks to the help of the three videos that I’ll link below. I’ll also be explaining how I have the power to author my life-story and how what shapes our sense of identity.
My narrative makes things much easier to travel into my brain (mind) both then and now by the way that it allows me to think back on what I thought of the situation at the time. When it first happened, I didn’t know what to do and I was confused even. Thinking back on what happened now I have a completely different outlook on it in terms of mental health and how I would’ve much better dealt with things now compared to when I was much younger. I’m sure that goes for most situations though. I can find myself traveling into my heart (emotions) by how back then I was more so upset about things that I had no control over and I didn’t know how to control them. I was full of sadness and anger, while now at my much older age I have little to no emotion about the subject due to how often it would happen, but I still find myself getting upset whenever I do think about it in detail. At this point, I have a better understanding but I’m still very numb to the subject. Regardless, I think it’s healthy to look back on the past and gain an understanding of my feelings and let them out from time to time. My narrative shows risk by showing a more emotional side to storytelling, which is what I believe to be extremely important when you first write a story. I know that conflict has to happen for there to be a story so I decided to write about what I felt fit best from my life that has a lot of conflict. I’m shown by my writing that I can author what happens in my life. By this, I mean that I took the time to educate myself on mental illness. Like said in the video, it wasn’t enough for me to just want to see change but that I actually had to force and want the change of my life for myself. Wanting to change the way I see things about my life at home couldn’t have been changed if I didn’t have any sort of desire for it. Finally, I think the stories we tell ourselves about life events are what shapes our identity. My reason for that is because you could tell a story in a majority of ways, you might take the story in an angered manner while if it happened to someone else they might have taken it in a saddened way. In my mind, everyone is always going to have a different outlook on certain situations. The way you might feel about one situation will always be slightly different than someone else. Of course the events that happen to us are definitely a big part of what makes you, you.. but at the end of the day, the way how you take that event and whether or not you decide to keep pushing on from what happened is what truly shapes yourself. In this blog I’ll be discussing the first time I went roller skating! For my English Composition I class, we had to read Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) and connect ourselves to an emotion in the story. In the story, I really connected with the woman when feeling frustrated. My dad would often tell me when younger about how he would go skating when he was my age with friends. Even now he still brings up stories every once in a while about how great of a skater he used to be(and still is). Hearing him talk about it so often inspired me to want to become a good skater one day too. I’m pretty good now, despite this I still have a lot of work to do until I get to the point of where I want to be. I wasn’t always this good of a skater though, the first time I went skating things were really rough. I had asked my dad to go, and after a bit of research online I found us a skating rink we could go to. It was a chilly winter day, and after pulling on my orange sweater we were out the door. I was filled with nothing but excitement and I couldn’t wait to get to the rink. It took us about 30 minutes to get there, and I ran inside the building. I was met with a wild set up of colors, lots of purples and yellows splattered along the wall and an odd smell of sweat that filled the air. The carpet had a print that was confetti all over. Despite the tackiness of the display, I was too excited to let something as minor as that stop me. After paying we made our way to the side to get our skates. It didn’t take me long to put them on and my dad was pulling his on as well, he was going to be the one teaching me after all. Let’s just say, I definitely underestimated how different I thought skating would be. It was much harder than I thought it would be.. and I wasn’t even on the actual floor yet! By the way I was wobbling, you would’ve thought I was trying to imitate a baby deer. My dad took me onto the floor by my hand and I asked to go to the wall to hold onto it but he shook his head. I remember him telling me, “how are you gonna learn if you hold onto the wall the whole time?” At the time, I was kind of upset but now that I look back on it I’m glad he told me that. If he didn’t give me that word of advice, I’m almost certain that I wouldn’t have had the self motivation to push myself into learning. “Alright, alright.” I mumbled to my dad, and almost instantly after pushing myself off of the wall I slipped and fell right onto my back. I remember a little girl coming up and asking me if I was okay, so I guess I must’ve fell pretty hard. The few hours that we spent at the rink, I had fallen at least more than twenty times. My dad kept attempting to encourage me, telling me specifically to get back up and keep on going. The darkness of the rink followed by the bright flashy lights was exactly how I felt. The darkness represents my feelings of frustration and disappointment because no matter how many times I got back up I found myself falling again. The lights however, represented my passion for wanting to push myself to become comfortable with skating. Despite how dark it got in there, the light was never fully consumed by the darkness. It was time for us to leave, and I let out a big sigh on the way out to the car. “Did you have fun?” My dad asked. “Yeah, I did. I just don’t think I did so good.” “These things take time, you aren’t going to always get everything on your first try. You did really good for your first time here, these things take time after all.” Me and my dad found ourselves in the car, buckling up and ready to drive off. “Hey dad?” I spoke to my father. “Hey Des?” My dad responded. “Can we go skating again next weekend?” |
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