Reflection of Class

Posted By: Robert Alexander
Topic: Reflection of Class

I believe that all the blog topics were great. Each week complemented the last week by moving forward with something new that reflected on the past week and the topic could be related to the last week on so on. Each week made me think about what really mater to me with my goals, planning, honesty ect. It was even fun to reflect on some of the other classmates’ postings to see how much the same and really different people took and looked at things.

I believe that each one of the students in this class has advanced as a writer. If it is not from the daily writing assignments that gave each student writing time to self reflect on ones own writing and views/thoughts, blog postings which engaged other students in each students writing, and the essay writing which gave the students a stronger and better understanding of MLA format and college/professional writing. Each student has embraced writing in some way or form as a result of the teachings this year by one form or the other. I found that the blog postings and response made me excel in engaging students with the weekly selected topic and being out right carefully with thought out ides that help me engaged the reader and master checking my writing. The daily writing assignments, I enjoyed the most do to feeling the most comfortable writing.

Now if I had to select one posting over any of the other postings I liked, I would have to say that I liked the first topic “Introductions”. Why well we get to talk about "US" that is why.

To recap my writings;

Essay 1 # Observational Essay (Cultural)
As my observation of a place and culture, I have never been exposed to I decided to go to downtown city of Los Angeles. So it was Saturday at 10am on September 03, 2011, when we jumped on the Metro train at Downtown Riverside station heading to Union Station in the city of Los Angeles. The funny thing is that I have been on mass transit and even a train but never the metrolink. So this was really the start of my journey to search for culture. The destination was chinatown and Olvera Street or some call little Mexico. It was a day of fun.

Essay 2 # Cause and Effect - Relationship influence from Porn
This topic was out of no were just was sitting their in class and said why not.I do have to say I would have never thought that their was so much support and information to show the Pro's and Con's of Porn.

Essay 3 # Mental Culpability of Minor Children (Roper vs Simmons) Death Penalty of Minor's:
With this paper I adventured into mentally capable of minors to being held to standards of an adult when they clearly don’t have the psychological mental capable to determine the same as adults.

Essay 4 (Interview) - I interviewed my friend that served in the Army and he gave me a light on the Pro's and Con's of Army Life. The one easy I did not like was the interview easy. I found it hard to fill four to five pages of the information gathered and wished I had a little more time to prepare for this easy. I was thinking that the interview easy would have been better placed as the second essay rather then the fourth.

Essay #5 Operation Valkrie and the anti-Nazi resistance.
I enjoyed this essay the most and that we got to give a presentation at the end.
Many of us believe that German Citizens, Government Personal, and Military Commanders supported the actions of the Nazi Parties takeover of the government and sanctions that took place that lead to World War II and the killing of many innocent lives. In this essay I cover the truth and facts around what really was taking place with German from 1930's-1945

anyways - I enjoyed the class it was fun, the teacher was great and I wish good luck to you all. Maybe I will see you again.

Now to my sweat goodbye !