On Monday I went to class with Professor Hoskins and some other classmates to present my project on the topos of Dupont Circle. Honestly, I was very anxious about presenting because I do not like speaking in front of a crowd. However, I persevered and decided to just present my project because I am very […]
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extrapoints
Office Hours 5
On Thursday, I went to office hours with Professor Hoskins one last time to ask some final questions. I cleared up some question on the Mapping Commonplaces project and extra credit assignments. Those questions were about the basic format of all of those assignments. Then, we went over my final plan for my essay one […]
Reflection on Gentrification Presentation
This afternoon I attended a series of presentations about gentrification in DC. The first presentation was Joseph Marcus’s movie about the gentrification of the area of DC east of the Anacostia River. Historically, Anacostia has been a primarily black community. However, recently the city officials decided to build a massive bridge across the river […]
Reflecting on Course Concepts
*This post does not reflect on just one concept. Rather, it focuses on what I have learned, and why I believe those lessons as a whole are important. I honestly feel that in this class I learned a tremendous amount of more new and more effective ways to write. In my last writing class, an […]
Office Hours 4
I went to office hours on Monday to discuss my essay one redo. I was very nervous because I had worked on it a lot and thought it was an improvement on my first essay 1 attempt. However, I was still weary of my redo because I was worried I was making the same mistakes […]
Office Hours 3
The third time I went to office hours was to make sure my Mapping Commonplaces project was on track. My first essay did not go well, but thankfully I had the opportunity to rewrite it. I knew I would not be able to rewrite my Mapping Commonplaces project, so I decided to go to office […]
Office Hours 2
The next time I went to office hours with Professor Hoskins was to talk about the redo for Essay 1. I was really lost because the original essay I submitted was pretty bad. Honestly, I did not know how to recover from the original essay. So, I went in and asked about where I went […]
Office Hours 1
Two weeks ago the third set of Digital Archives was due, and I realized I was not sure what to write about. I had felt like I had used all of the information about my site as I possibly could. So, I knew it was time to go to office hours. I went in to […]
Promoting a Culture of Health in American Cities
The speech today focused on the importance of health and infrastructure in a city. Mindy Fullilove spoke specifically about how you cannot draw the line at risk factors and health without talking about class and race, and urban renewal. There are historical reasons behind why risk factors are higher among certain groups of people. You cannot draw […]
Technology/ WordPress Survey
I completed a survey which questioned the advantage and disadvantage of the WordPress site and other technological applications such as Slack. I asserted that I like using both; however, I would like an introduction session which explains how to use and navigate each website. I think that would be helpful because WordPress can be difficult […]