1. The Un-California - Daniel Weintraub
2. This short story by Daniel Weintraub is about Sacramento. Sacramento, being a beautiful, growing city is considered Un-Californian because of the way of life here. People are considered to be almost equals, the rich living close to the poor, the fact that there are no hills to overlook the town, so the super rich can not be the elite and look over the city as if it is theirs, everyone is on the same plane. The weather is nice, and people are not upset or angry when it rains, they understand that in order for them to continue their way of agricultural life, that they need a fair amount of everyone, sun, rain, and clouds. Sacramento is a little bit of everything, but not like the rest of our beautiful California State.
3. My Favorite sentences are "It's not as if the city's streets are now crowded with Hummers. And those you do see tend to be spattered with ud, ust back from a trip to the mountains. Around these parts, people actually drive them there." because I think that this is so true, people buy these big trucks and SUV's and just travel around town. They are such a waste of gas and money, the only real use for them should be in the snow or high mountains.
4. This reading made me think about how places can change so quickly. Santa Rosa used to be a pretty small, not to busy, quiet town. Now Santa Rosa is becoming a commuter town, with thousands of residents, and houses and buildings going up everywhere, like Sacramento. Sacramento didn't use to be so big, but like everywhere else, its growing to be a monster. Appartments in the city are starting to be placed around, and the whole downtown area is starting to look almost like San Francisco. It is just crazy how things can change so dramatically.
5. I did not know that Sacramento had 2 rivers running through it, the Sacramento river and the American river. Driving through Sacramento, I had only ever seen one river, and knowing that its almost always hot there, I think that having these two rivers there is probably a big help to most people looking to cool off.
1. Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin - by Deanne Stillman
2. This short story is about the Mojave desert, and all the possibilities it can bring. The Mojave is a place of silitude, a place where you can go and think about whatever you want. The desert is an empty place where any of your dreams can come true, where you can talk to the wilderness, and the wilderness will talk to you. It brings you close to nature, and with that, you feel one with yourself and humanity.
3. My favorite sentence is "I know I am close to the Mojave when the L.A. radio stations fade from Grammy Award winners to Christian advice shows and I start receiving tansmissions of other bearded evangelicals, primarily Z.Z. Top" This is my favorite because I think that it is funny how peoples interests change throughout the state, people in the desert could not give a rats butt about the Grammy's, but they love their good ol' Z.Z. Top music.
4. This reading made me think about how I need to find myself my own personal place of solitude. Somewhere where there is now distractoins, no noise, nothing but good old nature and what it brings. Somewhere where i can think and act as I please, no one to conform to.
5. I have always heard of the Mojave desert, but I never knew where it was, but now i know that it is in California. California seems to have everything, the ocean, the forest, the desert, and many beautiful lakes, it has everything you could want.
1. How many angles - by David Kipen
2. This story is about Los Angeles, and the center of everything. The center of things are not usually what we think they should be, as in this story, David thought the center of Los Angeles should be a freeway, but in reality the center is not even a paved road. Things are not usually what we perceive them to be, we should all venture out and find things out for ourselves.
3. My favorite sentence was "the geometric center of anything is never what or where you think it is" This is my favorite because it seems so true, nothing is ever what it appears to be, you just have to go through with it, and find out the circumstances of your actions.
4. The reading made me think of life, and the fact that we do not know everything. There is always, and will always be the unknown, and that is what makes life interesting. Going out and discovering things for yourself, and finding what really makes you happy is what life is about.
5. I also thought the center of Los Angeles would be somewhere very populated, with freeways and building surrounding it, but in fact the center is this quiet, non residential area, a beautiful sanctuary.
1. Centered - by Veronique de Turenne
2. This short story is about the trip to the center of California. California, being the busy, populated, beautiful state would seem to have a center filled with cars and phones and freeways, but at the center of California, there is nothing. Just the vast wildlife, and rolling hills, and the green pastures. The wildlife is just afraid of you as you are afraid of it, and this is a place where I want to be, a place to watch the sun set with nothing around to bother you.
3. My favorite sentece is "In a state this big, where the holy trinity of Smogland, fogland, and logland divide us, what could the geographic center possibly look like?" This is so true because everywhere in caifornia is all poluted now, smog covering the hills and sky, I want to find a place like this where there is no smog, where there is no cell phones, nothing but lush beautiful scenery.
4. This reading made me think of how poluted and distant from the earth we are. We are not in touch with it, we are the destroyers of it. We need to start realizing this, and change our ways, we need to enjoy the outdoors and the rolling hills instead of wasting our life watching tv and seeing the same sights, everything is more beautiful in person, and we need to see them before they are destroyed by our stupidity.
5. Before reading this, I never knew where Highway 49 led, now i know that it leads through the Sierra foothills, leading to Downieville, the center of California. I am going to have to go there since it is so close!
Assignment 4c - Reflection
1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?
Yesenia Chavez, Component B Beaches, San Diego
http://yeseniachavez.blogspot.com/2008/10/3b-beaches-goatrock-beach-san-diego.html
2. What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?
Yesenia and I both agree that San Diego beaches, including Mission beach San Diego, are very popular beaches, and very much tourist destinations. People flock from all over the world to visit San Diego and swim in its warm, inviting waters. The surfing and atmosphere is so fun and inviting, everyone will want to stay.
3. What is something different this classmate said about the choice?
Yesenia mentioned that the beaches in San Diego are protected under the law as a state park, and that might answer the question I had on why the people attending the beaches could not bring animals or food into the park. I thought state parks were 0nly in the foresty areas, pertaining to a lot of wild life, i did not know that state parks also reached over beaches and the aquatic life in our beautiful country.
4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?
Not understanding why dogs, food and fire were not permitted at San Diego beaches and other beaches in southern california were answered right away when i found out from Yesenia that these beaches were under state regulation as state parks, and therefor were monitered and kept on close watch by state officials and troopers. Having this protection over the land and beaches not only keeps the beaches clean, but helps to keep the environment, and our sea life thriving.
Yesenia Chavez, Component B Beaches, San Diego
http://yeseniachavez.blogspot.com/2008/10/3b-beaches-goatrock-beach-san-diego.html
2. What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?
Yesenia and I both agree that San Diego beaches, including Mission beach San Diego, are very popular beaches, and very much tourist destinations. People flock from all over the world to visit San Diego and swim in its warm, inviting waters. The surfing and atmosphere is so fun and inviting, everyone will want to stay.
3. What is something different this classmate said about the choice?
Yesenia mentioned that the beaches in San Diego are protected under the law as a state park, and that might answer the question I had on why the people attending the beaches could not bring animals or food into the park. I thought state parks were 0nly in the foresty areas, pertaining to a lot of wild life, i did not know that state parks also reached over beaches and the aquatic life in our beautiful country.
4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?
Not understanding why dogs, food and fire were not permitted at San Diego beaches and other beaches in southern california were answered right away when i found out from Yesenia that these beaches were under state regulation as state parks, and therefor were monitered and kept on close watch by state officials and troopers. Having this protection over the land and beaches not only keeps the beaches clean, but helps to keep the environment, and our sea life thriving.
Assignment 4b - Reflection
Choose any 1 classmate of project 3 that wrote about your same topic in any one component (a World Cities, b Beaches, c Inland Areas) and briefly compare/contrast their choices using the following format in a blog post:
1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?
Jessica, Component a World Cities, Los Angeles
http://jessica-srjchuman7.blogspot.com/
2. What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?
Jessica and I both focused our responses on how Los Angeles is one of the leading music and telivision producing capitols in the United States. When we both thought of Los Angeles, we thought of plastic surgery, blondes, and surfers everywhere. We thought that if the people were not already in the industry, that they were attempting to join in.
3. What is something different this classmate said about the choice?
Jessica focused some on the history of Los Angeles, saying its history dating back to 1850 after the Mexican/American war was won and California and Los Angeles was granted to be part of the United States. I thought this was a good idea to throw in its history, while I focused more on the attitude and life style there in Los Angeles.
4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?
When I talked about the music industry, and the culture and arts in Los Angeles, Jessica taught me about the history and the fashion and shopping in Los Angeles. Her response opened up my eyes to the other major industries in Los Angeles, the shopping industry. So no matter what a person is into, there is a little somthing for everyone here; with the shopping and arts and history and theater and movies and thrills and the stars, there is Los Angeles, a beautiful sunshine city.
1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?
Jessica, Component a World Cities, Los Angeles
http://jessica-srjchuman7.blogspot.com/
2. What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?
Jessica and I both focused our responses on how Los Angeles is one of the leading music and telivision producing capitols in the United States. When we both thought of Los Angeles, we thought of plastic surgery, blondes, and surfers everywhere. We thought that if the people were not already in the industry, that they were attempting to join in.
3. What is something different this classmate said about the choice?
Jessica focused some on the history of Los Angeles, saying its history dating back to 1850 after the Mexican/American war was won and California and Los Angeles was granted to be part of the United States. I thought this was a good idea to throw in its history, while I focused more on the attitude and life style there in Los Angeles.
4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?
When I talked about the music industry, and the culture and arts in Los Angeles, Jessica taught me about the history and the fashion and shopping in Los Angeles. Her response opened up my eyes to the other major industries in Los Angeles, the shopping industry. So no matter what a person is into, there is a little somthing for everyone here; with the shopping and arts and history and theater and movies and thrills and the stars, there is Los Angeles, a beautiful sunshine city.
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