Multi-Genre Research Proposal

 

 

Multi-Genre Research Proposal

 

                             For my Multi-Genre research paper, I was on the fence between the holocaust and the origin of soccer. I love both topics a lot, but if you know me well enough or even just in the slightest, you know soccer is my life. I love every single thing about it. So I think for my multi-genre project, I will be doing the origin of soccer and when it was first invented, how it came to be the game it was. and things like that. I hope to find a lot of interesting information about the game and it gives me even more reason to love the game I play.



Do Good

Do good!

I watched many of the videos on the Start Something That Matters website and I thought all of them were great ideas that all were for a great cause. But a few stood out to me..

http://startsomethingthatmatters.maker.good.is/projects/oregonpublichouse?position=24&sort=360

This one was about a not for profit Pub in Portland Oregon. The idea for wanting to raise money for local charities from a pub is awesome! I really liked that one of the reasons they are making a pub is when people have financial problems their giving’s go down but alcohol sales go up. And they want to earn money and give it back to local charities that need it. I connected with it so well because I love the idea of giving back to the community you love and care about. I personally love that they buy most of all their food from local farms and sellers so that they are still helping their community.

http://startsomethingthatmatters.maker.good.is/projects/goodspread?position=6&sort=954

Another article I really enjoyed was this, it was called Good Spread, they are a company that sells peanut butter and for everything of peanut butter they sell they send Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food to country in need. And that is such a great idea and way to help others in need. Peanut butter out of everything peanut butter is the way people help save the world and help fight hunger.  People who care about people that are thousands of miles away are truly the MVP’s.

Response to Peccha Kucha

Response to Pecha Kucha

            The Pecha Kucha I watched was Brown M&M’s it was presented by Mare Swallow the Director of Chicago Writer’s Conference. Ms. Swallow did a good job of getting her point across which was read the fine print, if you are so passionate about making something happen or getting a job you should read the fine print for anything that may be hidden in the fine print. She used quite a lot of examples of situations of when and why you should read the fine print.

            In my option I think the presenter should not cuss during her presentation because she is talking about a professional subject and she constantly curses often and I think it is vary distracting at least for me because after she says that I have to take a second and almost recover from what she said because you don’t hear the F bomb in most professional presentations. Also she could make more of her pictures more relevant and not use pictures just as a way to distract the audience

            The Pecha Kucha is a good way for presentations to be done I honestly think it will make this project a lot easier to be done. I think will be able to do 10 slides and feel confident on what my slides are throughout my entire presentation. Since me and Lindsey are working together on this project, I believe that we will be able to get all 20 slides we need and will be happy on how it all turns out.

Want a baby?

What made me choose Chinese adoption was that there is a couple in my church named the Barton’s, and they adopted a boy and girl from China after they got married. Their oldest is a 9 year old boy and he has the most energy in a child I have ever seen, he is always really excited about helping others if it is at home helping his parents and sister or if it is helping people at church with cleaning up. Their youngest is a 7 year old girl, she is the sweetest little girl. She cares about everyone she comes in contact with. Always wanting people to smile and laugh, I think that is such a great quality in someone. It is so incredible to see and watch them grow up and see how strong they become in their faith.

The adoption process in China is pretty tough, you have to be very serious about making a child apart of your family because first you must choose an adoption agency that you want to go through to get said child, then after you finally made the decision of the adoption agency. You have to fill out an I-600A form that is just an application to be able to adopt children from another country. After filling out an I-600, you must add tax information, evidence of you and your spouse’s background check. Also copies of your health records signed by your doctor. After getting all of that paper work together and finished, you must get all of it notarized then get into contact with the Chinese Consulate in your own state who will sign and review all your paper work. After you get all of your paper work in, it could take up to a year to get your child. But as soon as your papers are cleared the adoption agency will send you a sealed envelope to bring with you when you go pick your child up. You must have the proper paper work to be able to take your child home like: a Chinese passport, and a US visa for your child. When that gets cleared you are able to finally take your child home with you.

 

I have learned a lot from researching this, it is unreal all the waiting one must do after getting all of the paperwork turned in. Even the paperwork process sounds crazy, but if you really want a child from China you will go to any lengths to get your child. Talking to the family at my church I didn’t fully understand the process they had to go through, but now I respect what they did even more. Parents must be very serious about the adoption process and I am pretty sure that all of the time they are since they are going to such lengths to adopt a child. It was extremely interesting learning and reading so much about this process. I can see why people do it.

 

 

 

Face-to-Face

Face-to-Face

I really like this website and what it shows. It takes many peoples points of views of people and they talk about events that their race has went through. It is very interesting to hear their stories and experiences.

            One of the stories was from a man named Khaled Abou El Fadl, he is a Muslim and he talked about the effect 9/11 had on him in his life. He said he can’t go on airplanes without people thinking he is going to cause an attack. He says that every time he reaches into his bag for a magazine, the person sitting next to him looks at him with the face of pure horror and fear thinking that he is going to pull out a bomb or cause an attack. Khaled says that since he has started wearing suits and ties on his flights it has made other passengers feel more at ease. I think that it is crazy that after so many years after 9/11 people still will judge someone on their skin color.

            Another one of the stories was from a lady named Sayema Hameed she is an American she was born and raised here. But she is still pointed out and bullied because of her race. She says that “she is scared for what is going to happen to her because her skin is brown.” No one should be called out and bullied because of their skin color. Or even for what the extremist of their religion may have done. We are all our own people, give everyone a chance and take a second and walk on their shoes because I promise you, I doubt you fully understand where they come from  or what they have gone through or what they have to go through on a daily basis.

            The Face-to-Face website was really neat and I liked seeing and hearing all the different stories of what people have gone through or go through. We are all people no matter what color our skin is.

Reading Response #3

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By John Berendt

           

            In the second half of chapter 1 I read about how Williams talks with his friend Mike Douglas a friend of his. They looked out upon Monterey Square on of Williams’s favorite squares in all of Savannah. “In my option, it’s the most beautiful of all the squares in Savannah.”

William and Douglas talked about how abused Monterey Square was when film crews came into town to shoot a scene in the square. And even after they leave they don’t clean up and Savannah doesn’t get any credit or recognition. The people of Savannah get upset by the fact that no one  really cares about their town or the people in it but the people who have lived there for a while.

 “But it really isn’t so wonderful at all. The moviemakers pay local extras the minimum wage, and Savannah doesn’t get publicity after all, because the audience usually haven’t the vaguest idea where the movies have been shot.” (Pg: 13)

 

I chose that quote because it really does shows how much disrespect the film crews have for Monterey Square, and for the people that are willing to take time out of their lives to help be extras in their movies. That picture is of Monterey Square today. I think that it is really cool that it is a real place and the author placed real events into the book.  I chose the picture below because it shows a fountain that got replaced that they talk about in the story, the film makers brought in truckloads of dirt to make that land flat in the square to make it the “perfect” scene

Reading Response #2

Reading Response 2

Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil

By John Berendt

“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is a book broken into two parts. Throughout the entire story author John Berendt talks about true stories that has happened in Savannah, Georgia. I am about 20 pages into this amazing novel, and I usually don’t ever read for fun but with this book I find myself wanting to find free time all time so I can read more and more

The book opens up at the Mercer house in the Savannah’s. The Mercer house was the Great houses owned privately in Savannah. The way the author John Berendt wrote the first page I thought was great, his word choice to describe Jim Williams the owner of the Mercer house.

 “… Eyes so black they were like the tinted windows of a sleek limousine- he could see out, but you couldn’t see in.”  I think it was an interesting way to describe Jim, it helped get any idea what he looks like and how he acts. It was the first glimpse of who he is and I was pulled in and found myself wanting to find out more.

What the first half of chapter 1 really focused a party Mr. Williams threw a party and the author talked about stories about the guests that attended. The stories that were told were truly interesting, there could be a story just about the back stories of side characters. That is such a good way to keep readers in the book. 

“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is a great book so far and I am excited about reading more.