Blog Post 1: What's Your Problem?
PART 1 : Minimum 300 words.
Follow the below steps, either in order, recursively, or however you want to approach them, and post a minimum 300 word blog post that communicates your thoughts, findings, and experience moving through this topic invention process.
Your post should include your writing in response to all four of these prompts:
1. Look up the different definitions of the word "community", and then synthesize all these findings into a single, sentence definition of your own words that defines the term in a way that makes sense to you and this project.
2. Brainstorm and list all the communities that you belong to based on your definition. Everyone will approach this differently, but generic examples include: Miami, Florida, U.S., earth, college student, F.I.U., major, field, occupation, gamer, programmer, vaper, ethnicity, race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, athlete, sports fan, music, dance, arts, abilities, disabilities .... the list keeps going.
3. Choose 2-3 communities from the list (or how many you want really) that interest you the most, in which you have a stake somehow, and for which you think there might be some significant issues worth looking at.
4. Conduct some background research about each of these communities, looking for what the issues and arguments are within that community or issues with how the community interacts with others. This will help to get you thinking about a problematic discussion you can join or start to eventually help make things better.
- What is the main, problematic research question that will drive your initial research? This is still tentative, meaning you may change it in the future, but it's time to start getting more concrete with your plan. Also, this shouldn't be an explanation of a topic--this should be a single question ending with a question mark.
- Why did you choose this question? Why do you think it is important to research, both for the community and you personally?
- What is your current opinion in response to this question? Why? Before you start objectively researching opinions, it's a good idea to think about your own perspective and bias going in. Also, if a fact seems to answer your question instead of an opinion, your question may need to be revisited! There should be multiple possible viewpoints in response.
- What kinds of sources do you foresee accessing to formulate a working answer? Your reading is Chapter 22 from Everyone's an Author--look at all the kinds of sources discussed, including field research, and hypothesize a little about what kinds of information you will need, and what kinds of sources might work best to find it. Again, you classmates discussion posts from unit 1 also provide information about types of sources.
Again, you need not answer these questions directly in order--your blog post is about discussing these things with your audience. And as always, interesting but relevant titles, images, and links will help draw them in even further.
When I think about community I think about fellowship and comfort. I think of a group that makes you who you are. Some groups I belong to is : Investing, Boxing, Navarro family, Latino, fiu , Miami, and Florida. Theses are all the communities that are apart of who I am. Boxing in particular is one that is special. I have been boxing of ra year now and it has changed how I view life. I feel much more calm and alert. Another community that is crucial is the Navarro Family. This is my family. (No we don’t own the pharmacy.) my family is a big part of who I am and with out them I wouldn’t be where I am nor would I ever be successful. I believe they helped me get to where I am. Lasting Columbus is a community that defines me as well. This community shows me that I have a group of people that I can comes to no matter what. When I graduated from Columbus I connected with so many people that still today I keep in touch and hang out with. I also have teacher that I see and even internship opportunities.
ReplyDeleteSome brainstorm ideas I have for these are :
1. How can we make schools in general more involved post graduation?
2. Does family make you successful or is it all on you?
3. Does working out / exercising help clear stress and anxiety?
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Does family make you successful or is it all on you.
This is a question I have had for a long time. Do people strive more because a family is more involved in one’s life or is it frankly no different.In my opinion it can go either way. It is more on how the environment is. I believe if you are in a good situation at home (no money wise but support wise) you might feel more comfortable to take a risk. While if you are in a home where people continuously bring you down you might not feel that same way. I think it might not be the main factor I think people can power through situations as well as possible.
I’ll probably be trying to find research that shows stats on how this is. I will most likely use statista to find these stats. I will also look for full project on how people are through hard ships at homes vs good situational home.
My personal opinion of this question is yes it does matter but it also does not. I think it depends on the type of person you are. Surprisingly. I think it will be a shocker to find out that introvert tent to be more successful in hard conditions than extroverts in hard conditions. But at the same time people can struggle in family conditions as welll which can hold them back. I think overall at a certain point in your life you do have control and can make something special if you don’t give your self the excuses because many people tend to ride with excuses and jsu live life one excuse at a time.
This is my opinion on the top. I want to see how accurate my thoughts are on this topic. I think I am not as far as I think I am. I used a more aggressive hypothesis this time around.