During this semester we had work on two journeys our experience in learning how to make good ideas to form a good writing. Our two journeys were a internal journeys, that is a personal notebook and an external journey, that is this blog. Our internal journey was based in freewriting. Letting ourselves go with thoughts and immediately writing them down. The external journey is based on think, then writing. Being this one a more public form of writing.
Between these two journey I find more effective the internal one. Thinking and writing, at the same time. I personally like this one because I write it, then I read it and rationalize what I just wrote. Sometimes I'm even surprise of the things I wrote. Now I write all the ideas I have first, whether they are related to the subject or not and then decide which path I'll write about. The internal one has giving me the benefit of one thing taking me to the other and joining them until I fi d a final idea.
In my external journey I've learned to be more fluid with my ideas. Because I have in my head that another person is going to read it I write an idea, read it again and then I think if I should leave it or not. I don't feel so much liberty in expressing my ideas. I try to avoid bad ideas and express good one. Unlike my internal, that I have learned to go to the jugular, which personally I tried to avoid at the beginning.
Overall I like the internal journey over the external, I've come to know myself a bit more in the internal. The thing I mostly like about the external, is that I've become more fluid. Fluid in the way I choose what I'm going to write. At the beginning I thought to much about what I was going to write next now I just "go with the flow" and all my ideas come out but in a organized way. Now sometimes I pick some paper and start writing randomly as a way to get some thoughts out of my head.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Student Research and Writing Conference Reflection 2
I also assisted to the panel of "Creative is Critical: Based on Fiction" (2:40-3:30), supervised by professor George Noble. The panel was about creativity in fictional stories. The story that I like most was "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perking Gilman.
The story was about a woman, the narrator, confined in her bedroom and writing everything in her journal. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. Too the point in which she feels amused and excited about the yellow pattern the wallpaper had, she even starts to like the smell of the wallpaper. At the the end of the story she begins to think their other woman behind the walls and she feels she is one of them, she feels so protected within those yellow walls of the room she locks herself inside the room and the only place she feels safe is within that room.
In my opinion, I found the story a bit insane because she accepted to never leave the room, and androcentric because the woman does not have the freedom she should have in a marriage, her husband is free but she is trapped in a room going crazy.
The story was about a woman, the narrator, confined in her bedroom and writing everything in her journal. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. Too the point in which she feels amused and excited about the yellow pattern the wallpaper had, she even starts to like the smell of the wallpaper. At the the end of the story she begins to think their other woman behind the walls and she feels she is one of them, she feels so protected within those yellow walls of the room she locks herself inside the room and the only place she feels safe is within that room.
In my opinion, I found the story a bit insane because she accepted to never leave the room, and androcentric because the woman does not have the freedom she should have in a marriage, her husband is free but she is trapped in a room going crazy.
A day as a tourist
I went to Rincon with a few friends, a town in Puerto Rico, with the mentality of being a foreigner or a tourist. Amazingly that part of the island, which I have never been to, is so beautiful. Unlike the metropolitan area, it's very open and natural, it doesn't have so many buildings and that I personally like. I basically was a inside tourist but at times I acted like I was from the United States.
At the beginning we were acting as if we were from American and we came to se a surf contest. The receptionist was incredibly nervous everytime we were going to talk to her because she didn't spoke English. To the point that one time I went to ask for towels and she went away! So we did this on everyone we talk to and they only laughed and tried to talk back but you could feel they really wanted to help.
At the beach and at night it was different. We encountered a lot of outside tourist. They were different from the locals, they were more friendly but asked to much. They could notice we were locals but the locals couldn't figure out we were really puertorrican. Overall it was a fun experience and a good way to make people treat you more friendly and less hostile.
At the beginning we were acting as if we were from American and we came to se a surf contest. The receptionist was incredibly nervous everytime we were going to talk to her because she didn't spoke English. To the point that one time I went to ask for towels and she went away! So we did this on everyone we talk to and they only laughed and tried to talk back but you could feel they really wanted to help.
At the beach and at night it was different. We encountered a lot of outside tourist. They were different from the locals, they were more friendly but asked to much. They could notice we were locals but the locals couldn't figure out we were really puertorrican. Overall it was a fun experience and a good way to make people treat you more friendly and less hostile.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Student Research and Writing Conference Reflection
I assisted to the student research and writing conference on wednesday the 26th, and listen to the panels of "Using Technology to Enhance Learning" (1:50-2:20), supervised by professor Frank Flanagan.
The panel was about how to use technology inside the classroom and outside to maintain a effective contact with your classmates and the professor. They focused more on the use of Google+ and its Google Drive. This kind of technology gives us the advantage of creating a paperless classroom, which I find good for the environment and, for people like me that don't like to have a lot of paper in my folders, it's a success. The most intriguing fact that caught my eye was the use of Google Drive to share your work with others, but not only that, they can revise and correct it or edit the electronic paper and when they send it back, you can see all the editing that they did, from erasing a word to implementing a new font. Even if their was no editing done in the paper it would let you know.
They use it outside the classroom effectively by maintaining a organize environment because it saves your work and the work given by the professor in the cloud network and you can access it from any computer, tablet or even phone. Not a lot of professors use this technology even though it is very good for the student and for them.
The panel was about how to use technology inside the classroom and outside to maintain a effective contact with your classmates and the professor. They focused more on the use of Google+ and its Google Drive. This kind of technology gives us the advantage of creating a paperless classroom, which I find good for the environment and, for people like me that don't like to have a lot of paper in my folders, it's a success. The most intriguing fact that caught my eye was the use of Google Drive to share your work with others, but not only that, they can revise and correct it or edit the electronic paper and when they send it back, you can see all the editing that they did, from erasing a word to implementing a new font. Even if their was no editing done in the paper it would let you know.
They use it outside the classroom effectively by maintaining a organize environment because it saves your work and the work given by the professor in the cloud network and you can access it from any computer, tablet or even phone. Not a lot of professors use this technology even though it is very good for the student and for them.
Monday, March 10, 2014
A Room with a View
In the movie "A Room with a View", written by E.M Foster, their are two characters which are tourists. These are Ms. Lucy Honeychurch and Ms. Charlotte Bartlett. You can clearly differ from the others that they are the tourist in the first chapter of the movie, when they are in Florence, Italy. I believe you can clearly see a traveler's like experience when Lucy goes to the town square, where she witnessed the man being stabbed. She observes everything, and takes photo's of the monuments and the people in the square, something every traveler does to remember the place.
Like in "A Small Place", Lucy feels like and outsider, not knowing what was the food they served at the "penssione". Ms. Bartlett, having a feeling of being a bit disgust of a new smell, the smell of Florence. Like most tourist, the locals can notice that you are one, like the man smoking in the ally notice Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Lavish were lost traveler's. But unlike them, that tried to flirt with Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Lavish, Jamaica Kincaid would feel certainly uncomfortable with the British women in Antigua or the British women in Italy. I believe Jamaica Kincaid would respond to the British women in France as a ugly person in a beautiful place, the person would stand out from the original crowd.
Three quotes they mencion in the movie that relates to being a tourist were, "The young English girl, transfigured by Italy." (Ms. Lavish). This quotes foreshadowed what was going to happen to Ms. Honeychurch, she was transformed by the love she felt towards Mr. George Emerson. The second quote indeed has a connotation of implying that Ms. Honeychurch would fall for Ms. Emerson, the quote is, "I have a theory that their is something in the Italian landscape which incline, even the most 'stolick' nature of romance." (Ms. Lavish). The last quote is, "Italy and London are the places were I feel I truly belong." (Mr. Cecil Vyse). This quotes feels like what Kincaid said in "A Small Place", that home is where your heart truly is.
Like in "A Small Place", Lucy feels like and outsider, not knowing what was the food they served at the "penssione". Ms. Bartlett, having a feeling of being a bit disgust of a new smell, the smell of Florence. Like most tourist, the locals can notice that you are one, like the man smoking in the ally notice Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Lavish were lost traveler's. But unlike them, that tried to flirt with Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Lavish, Jamaica Kincaid would feel certainly uncomfortable with the British women in Antigua or the British women in Italy. I believe Jamaica Kincaid would respond to the British women in France as a ugly person in a beautiful place, the person would stand out from the original crowd.
Three quotes they mencion in the movie that relates to being a tourist were, "The young English girl, transfigured by Italy." (Ms. Lavish). This quotes foreshadowed what was going to happen to Ms. Honeychurch, she was transformed by the love she felt towards Mr. George Emerson. The second quote indeed has a connotation of implying that Ms. Honeychurch would fall for Ms. Emerson, the quote is, "I have a theory that their is something in the Italian landscape which incline, even the most 'stolick' nature of romance." (Ms. Lavish). The last quote is, "Italy and London are the places were I feel I truly belong." (Mr. Cecil Vyse). This quotes feels like what Kincaid said in "A Small Place", that home is where your heart truly is.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Two Small Worlds, One Family
A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid is based on the small island of Antigua. Jamaica Kincaid is obviously angry about the state her island has come to, and intelligent in the words she choose to express her view of Antigua. Similar to Puerto Rico, Antigua is a very beautiful natural island, but the reality that lays behind its beauty is the problem. Many people live in ways you would think "How can he/she live that way and works doing this?" It's true what she talks about how things change from time to time. Puerto Rico has change in a certain way from being the island of enchantment to being a place where people are almost scare to go out to places that where in a way in peace.
I resemble Antigua, in the way they had to express themselves with the British language, to my island, we have been little by little oppressed to do certain things in an American way. In the future, like Antigua, Puerto Rico might suffer in the area of education. Just like Kincaid explains, the funds if the island, both islands are being disproportionally distributed. Its a bit harsh how Kincaid said that the politicians that are not corrupted on the island are fools.
Puerto Rico is indeed like Antigua. Beautiful nature, filled with beautiful people and the islands around are almost the same. Is true that the level of poverty has increased in Antigua which is awful but, their not the only islands in that boat. I know that with the tourism the precious island of Antigua and Barbuda attract each year, their economy will stay afloat and poverty level will for sure lower.
I resemble Antigua, in the way they had to express themselves with the British language, to my island, we have been little by little oppressed to do certain things in an American way. In the future, like Antigua, Puerto Rico might suffer in the area of education. Just like Kincaid explains, the funds if the island, both islands are being disproportionally distributed. Its a bit harsh how Kincaid said that the politicians that are not corrupted on the island are fools.
Puerto Rico is indeed like Antigua. Beautiful nature, filled with beautiful people and the islands around are almost the same. Is true that the level of poverty has increased in Antigua which is awful but, their not the only islands in that boat. I know that with the tourism the precious island of Antigua and Barbuda attract each year, their economy will stay afloat and poverty level will for sure lower.
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| Beautiful beach in Antigua |
Monday, January 27, 2014
San Pedro de Macorís
I love to go to the Dominican Republic, and I have not meet someone who doesn't like it. I like to go to San Pedro de Macorís, my dad is from there, because of the food and the hospitality they treat you. The best part? All included hotels, all includes food and drinks. You meet new people and trade most of your culture with them, and you try new food and beverages. The climate is pretty much like here and the beach also. The food is delicious.
The people are most of the time friendly and always helping you. One of the things that really impress me was the importance and knowledge they have about their country and of their history. The other great thing about San Pedro de Macorís is that it is close to the capital and of nearly every hotel, the historical sites they have there and the variety of food they have that can grow over their but not over here. It is really a good place to live or to get a really good, relax vacations.
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