It's the Climb...and the View is Fantastic

We are almost there! Tomorrow is going to be bittersweet because I want to get this presentation over with, but on the other hand I'm sad that this class and my other, Sociology class, are basically over now. Yes, my classes have had their disappointing days and leaping for joy days, but through those mountain problems that I encountered in my path I feel as though that I have reached the top, and the view from up here is gorgeous! I'm just glad that when I was climbing up that precipice of that mountain. I didn't stop even though I may have slipped off of the hard solid rock and scuffed my knee I kept up my perseverance and there was no turning back. The climb was way worth it! This journey has made new memories and friends along the way. We've learned to help each other out and keep up our determination all of us worked fantastically together. Welcome, to the top... all of the assignments and writing and hard ships... were all worth this view! Breathe it in and feel it. It is “Fantastic!”

Whew, that was CLOSE

So, I went to the Tioga Monday Farmer's Market and did an interview. First, i arrived and when I realized that I didnt know how to work video on my camera I thought okay I will go back home and read the instructions but on the way there and on the way back I was filming practice videos to test the sound and etc. When playing it back on the camera itself you cannot hear the audio but when you hook it up to the computer you can. So, after I discovered that I asked my roomate to go with me to hold the camera while I ask the questions and just to be safe I used my cell phone as a tape recorder :) BUT (doom, doom, doom) after my interview I had to go to the Verizion store to replace my phone that was malfunctioning. The guy exchanged my phone with a new one, transferred all my contacts and pictures over and I left......well on the way home I realized that my project was on that phone that was scheduled to be shipped off in the morning :( so I had to call the store back and by the way I sat on hold for about 15-20 minutes BUT I was NOT hanging up whatsoever......I HAD TO STOP THEM FROM SENDING MY PHONE BACK!!!! Finally a representative answered and I told him what had happened and it was SO nice of him to hold my phone until today when I was able to go and transfer my interview from the old phone to the exchanged one. CLOSE CALL, WHEW.


Brittany

Well..

I hope that EVERYONE had a great Thanksgiving and you ate organics so you didnt have yto spend the night with a trash can lol but I spent most of my time on the road driving to see family out of town all alone :( anyway, tomorrow I am going to call the farmers markets in St Pete where I am and in Gainesville and some surrounding areas to see if they will be available for an interview for the project. I couldnt make it to the Union St market on wednesday because I had to come home and well I already told you all that story lol but ANYWAY I already made the appointment for Monday @ 10 a.m. in the library's study room I hope to see all you there AND like Jenny said we MUST get things DONE time is running short and we are TOOOO fantastic to fail/look like fools when we perform our masterpiece :) I know that this will go well and I think everyone would enjoy it! See you guys monday....


Brittany

Unexpected

Hey i know i said i was going to be able to make the farmer's market today, but something came up and i had to go back home to merritt island this morning. I know this is alot to ask, but if someone can ask a vender my question, Do you thing that organic food is worth the price? If nobody can, I understand and will figure something out. Thank you and sorry about this. Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

So Little Time...

The title is so true "So little time" (haha and no I’m not talking about the Mary Kate and Ashley TV series that ran for like two years). I feel like everything is caving in on me and every direction I turn there's a wall, and I can't find the light anywhere! The pressure of the presentation, the finials, and papers, the tests...and...! These are all wrapping up the end of November... sigh. I really hope I can get everything done on time when it is due. And I hope our presentation is entertaining to Kate and the class. Personally I think it is a pretty good idea; it's cute and simple. Well I need to end on a Pep talk Time..."Ok I can do this! I'm ready, and I can find the way out of this cave. I will try my best to chisel my way out of it. It maybe slow but at least it will be my BEST!" :)

I couldn't help it when I found the second picture I just have to post it. I thought it was really magnificent and wanted to share its beauty with, Fantastic 5, even though I feel like the fist...

Check out this list

Here is a webiste that I came across. It is a link to all the Farmer's markets in town. Sorry but Wednesday is just not going to work for me! If you guys have to do the project without me that day that will be fine by me. I am positive that I can come up with a seperate presentation just for myself.


http://www.visitgainesville.com/press/item.aspx?id=21

Later!

Brittany

Around the World in...Research!

Searching frantically trying find the right cite going from one site to the next... just to find the right source to cite from. WOW! The treasure hunt was kind of intense, but exciting all in all...especially as it narrowed to the end; for even a stranger could feel our heart’s pumping and eyes popping out at the bright screen before us, along with the adrenaline rush as we clicked with anticipation! O.K so it wasn't all that intense...I had to be a little facetious there, but you get the idea.

One thing I’m really happy about is the fact that back in the 70’s or later. We all would have most likely had to do our research from books; looking at book after book. How tiring that would be? Thank goodness for the World Wide Web! I wonder how much longer it would have taken us to research that way? But maybe the whole assignment in general would have been easier then again perhaps not.

So I think I have my subtopic

So far I think that I am going to take the position of organic foods being good and healthy for comsumers although they are expensive. I am eager to hear what you guys come up with!!

Brittany

uuuuugggghhhhh

Ok so I have been absent because I have been sick :( and I am not happy because I am a tad bit lost with whats going on! I see that I missed the fire alarm lol what a shame that is :). So, I am going to print out the article that Jenny sent and take notes. I got that part. Next, have we come up with a subtopic yet? I saw that posted on C/C for next week. I also saw that we dont have a regular meeting time for class next week so are we going to decide on where we want to meet as a group so that we can submit the assignmnet that goes with it? Or have you guys already come up with this? I apologize for rambling on but I dont want this assignment to creep up on me, its worth too much :) Oh yea, has anyone decided on a conference time with Kate? Or are we going to do that tomorrow? I think thats it for now....thanks for helping me out guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Brittany

Sound the Alarm

Wow, so today was interesting...the fire alarm when off during English class. I wonder if there was a fire or if someone hit the alarm, perhaps a student had a test to take and didn’t want to take it today? Anyways, we all sitting there contemplating on what the sub was lecturing. When this loud eerie noise echoed from the dark hall ways of our class room, the sub stood up and strained to glance out the crack in the window. "Are there any people outside?" He asked. John replies, "Yes, looks like everyone is walking out." The sub says, "Guess we better leave too." As we all head for the door, the sirens were blaring and the lights from the alarms were moving around like disco balls hanging to the ceiling. As I headed for the outside doors, I passed many other blasting sirens, and just as I stepped out the door I was hit by an awful headache.

Krishna Organic Food

Its gonna be very cool to research and write a paper on organic food versus non-organic, since we had to do an extra credit paper on the film Food Inc. It seems like this topic is one of peoples major concerns next to global warming. I wasn't very into the whole organic trend until i started trying food from the Krishna people over by the bookstore. They grow their own vegetables and prepare their meals freshly every day, not only does it taste really good but it is very healthy for you. I recomend for those who haven't tried it, to go one of these days and give it a shot.


Alejandro Perez

Well I had been to the library research session before but each time that I go....I find out NEW information! I really do like taking the quiz with the button device :) I think that its cool and it surprises me how technology has improved a whole lot even from the time that I have been around to witness. I have actually used the ask a librarian service before and I love it I always get Diana Matthews who fortunately works at sfc (because like our presenter said you dont always get a sfc person but I DO:) Diana (and many others who work at the library) is sssssoooo helpful on line and in person. I LLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE SFC and I sale our school to any and everyone I dont think that NO SCHOOL IS BETTER. Now to the topic :). I think that Organic food is a good topic and I am looking forward to doing the research, paper and the visual/audio aspect. Hopefully it will not be that bad afterall. See you guys in class :)


Britt

Organic Food Topic

I'm gald we picked the Organic food topic, this really interested me ever ssince i saw Food Inc. I think we will ba able to get plenty of information on this topic. The idea that everyone picks different point to come from is better because i don't think we can all agree or disagree on one thing. I'm still not sure what we should do between a radio show, a video, or a web site, I'm also glad we took a trip to the library too, I've been a couple times just to do homework, but never knew there were so many different resources, and people willing to help you out in what ever it may be. The library website in particular was very interesting to me, because it can help you find anything you are looking for in the matter of seconds just by typing in a couple of key words.

Library Session

The library class in how to research this class is always a huge help...even though I have been to that session before it is always really helpful because you forget how knowable their information really is. For our topic organic food is plentiful with arguments so that you can pick almost any food idea and run with it. On the Libraries research data base there are tons of information on organic food; I was researching some while the session was going on.



However, I do feel this paper is going to be the most complex paper of all of the papers we have written. To bad... wish English was getting easier while everything else is getting harder.

What do you think, Fantastic Five, about the video and the radio thing that Kate was talking about? Personally, I think a video would be easier well, maybe not. All of us will have to talk about that.

Alrite guys.....

I know that we discussed that we will be thinking of a topic but like I commented on Jenny's post I am finding it hard to think of a topic that all of us will be able to agree on and get substantial research and opinions for a 1200 word essay. I think that it would be more fun and quite challenging if we could all just submit one paper instead of five different ones. But since thats not the assignment I was wondering if anyone has thought of anything good for a topic?


Britt

The Uneducated American

Shit, i almost forgot to write this, its 1 in the morning lol. Well anyways i thought my analysis essay didn't go to well. But i was thinking about the piece that i wrote about, Uneducated American by Paul Krugman. I'm sure you guys read it, and i was just wanted to say that i completely agree with it. If the American government doesn't do something to get our national education up to snuff, then we could see more of a decline in our graduation rate. i think the government should put more money into education and less in other places. People, once wanted to come to America and study, now i think that in time more will want to go to other countries. Like Krugman said, Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

Breathe Easy for a while...

WOW! That's over now I can breathe easy for a while...reading those words reminded me of that Sara Bareilles-Love Song...Anyways I really hope that I did everything right in that Rhetorical Analysis essay. Of course, I didn't know what we were going to do so I felt a little blinded in the fact that I did not know exactly what we were going to write about in our essay, but I believe all in all that I met the challenge at least I know I tried my absolute best while writing the Analytical essay. If you think about it it was a kind of interesting, reading the article, The Uneducated American, and then really thinking about every word that the author said...I felt like I was putting the reading under a microscopic scope only I did not need a high magnified glass to do so. So, Fantastic Five, how well do you think you did? I think we where absolutely fantastic! Brittany was definitely all ready to give it her best shot before we walked in to write! :)


-Sarah

Orwell Essay

It was hard to read and understand Orwell's essay but it was totally worth it. It's amazing to see how people manipulate words and phrases to get away with many things. It was kind of ironic that many parts in his essay were very confusing and used complex words like does in his examples, I guess it has alot to do with the essay being written so long ago. The question that keeps bothering me is if we should completely get rid off bad english or should we keep some of it?


Alejandro Perez

Its AMAZING

The article was definately difficult to read but also interesting (that is after Kate disected it a bit for us to get us thinking). But my main focus now is trying to make sure that I make good detailed notes so when we write the essay I am well prepared and can fulfill the assignment with ease. I liked the activities that we did this week dealing with speeches and how one person may use language in different situations. For instance "freedom" was used in a totally different way than many of us would think. But when used in context with "fries" it was like an AAAhhhhh HHHHAAA moment and then the SAME word "freedom" had another definition!----THATS CRAZY :) Well, guys we ARE fantastic five so good luck on those papers and lets AMAZE KATE :)






Brittany

Speech for the better or worse?

In class while watching the Hitler speech, I was thinking about different speakers and how the use of words can really change the way people think about a situation. Martin Luther King Jr., Might have been one of the most influential speakers of all time. You could probably say that this nation would be different if it wasn’t for Dr. King’s words. Just knowing that words can have this kind of effect on people is kind of scary. What if someone in the Middle East started doing the same thing as Hitler did with the Germans?
-Ryan Adair