blog 14

Introduction:

My intro is too short it’s only a couple sentences long I need to extend it and explain the importance of MMA and how it entertains students on campus and how it may influence them to even partake in MMA on campus or close off campus. The UFC has been around for years and the sport even longer I personally participate and know professional fighters and the sport is their lives and I know it is more than just a fun thing to watch for ASU students.

My new intro:

The UFC is more the just a sport, the sport has shaped the lives of students and even taken their viewing time. The sport allows students to watch two men go at it in the ring and see who comes out. I know MMA has personally influenced me and has also influenced, my roommate we have MMA fever. Former ASU students are now professional fighters and my personal mentors. The world of MMA also keeps kids in shape and lets some stress be let out.

Body:

For my body paragraphs I need to make sure I actually incorporate an interview like in NPR I talk just about the subject the whole time and I need to interview a student or even my mma instructor who is a professional UFC fighter and see how it influenced him sense he graduated here from ASU. I should also use current students and see what they think of the UFC or how MMA may have influenced them.

My interview:

My interview needs to be more structured and actually ask questions I need to actually have a good interview not like the one I had earlier

New interview:

ME: do you know what the UFC is?

Manny: yes I do I watch all the fights

ME: would you say the UFC has influenced you here at ASU?

Manny: yes it has, because of mma I am training at AZ combat sports and I am in better shape and I have met so many cool new people and I have something to relieve the stress of the every day life at ASU.

Conclusion:

My conclusion needs to wrap things up. I do not at the moment have a tangible conclusion but I need to write one that will really wrap the podcast up and make thank the listeners and make the essay a good one.

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For my project I think I am going to write about the first Ultimate fighting championship. This is not only a huge thing in my life it has become one of the biggest industries and one of the most popular spectator sports in the entire world. Fighting has been around sense the beginning of time and this is the first time on US soil that all fighting styles were brought together in the same place and from there it grew to what it is today. Not only is it huge to watch people worldwide have started to fall into the mixed martial arts craze. I am one of these people everyone wants to train and be the next best big thing. The UFC has made its mark on the US and the world and has changed the culture of the US. It’s interesting to see how the UFC grew to what it is today and o see how it grew so fast. The fighters are also pretty interesting themselves because it is a spectator sport so they really make the sport more enjoyable and they make the sport what is today. Another interesting topic I could expand on is the training process and to see how long it takes for someone to go pro in the UFC.

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Sources:

Jamie Varner: Pro UFC fighter

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Cliff: Pro UFC fighter

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Tim Lajsik: ex UFC fighter

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Trevor Lally: Owner of AZ combat sports (number 6 gym in the country)

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UFC.com official UFC website

Estevan: pro Strike force fighter

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Jeff : Owner and founder of American Pankration on ASU campus

blog 11

Writing project number two, When I was assigned this project I was kind of confused on what I was supposed to be writing about I didn’t know that we had to write a review like one you might see on yelp or Google. When I started to write the project I started to really enjoy it I was having a good time with it I really feel like I was able to let my creativity flow with this project and I was able to really enjoy writing for the first time in a while. I think that this project made me curious for what was to come I was excited to see if I did good on it and I was excited to see what is in store next for this class. I think that if we had more time on this assignment then we really could have had fun with it. Like I didn’t have a chance to go to many of the places in my writing project but I think with another week or so I could have visited buffalo wild wings or sun devil stadium and taken my own personal pictures and really had fun with it. The project made me really want to look up reviews for the places I go from now on because there can be a lot of really good helpful information in the reviews. I had to put sources and really look into the places and then rate them for the criteria’s I saw fit for each place. I think that if there was a cross review like a comparison on some reviews or a common criteria that all reviewers had to follow like we did then it would be a lot easier to find the best places to eat or hang out on campus.

Blog 10

When you write a paper or a writing project like the one we were just assigned in class sources can make or break your paper or assignment. In our case the sources make our places on the map stick out with the sources we can back up opinion and make sure that everyone who reads our reviews knows that they are legitimate and will help people decide what they want to do and if they can trust your information and not have it all just be pulled out of nowhere. One way to do this is quote the info directly or even summarizes some of the information and then site the work at the bottom or directly after each quote. And have some context because “skilled writers know the importance of providing a context”(P. 580) in a review if you have to write a quote use it to your advantage feel free to re word and use the quote to your advantage “Modify quotations as appropriate” (582) and I agree completely with this if you are going to use a quote then make it one that gets your point across in the end and makes you look like a genius. Eighteen is very effective in helping if you really want to make a blog or put out a review of places like we just did in our second writing project. It shows how we could use page layouts and page markers to show important things and to catch a reader’s attention and make them more interested in our topics and to really get the point across in every review we have or will have to write in the future. The importance of pictures in uncanny it is the first thing besides the title that the reader will see and it is also the one thing that could keep them reading in the end. This is why we have our initial map as well as a picture on each of the slides to make them pop and to drag the readers into our reviews even deeper and deeper.

Quote citations

Palmquist, Mike. Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and beyond. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010. Print.

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Blog 9

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Places to watch the ASU football games

1. Dorm

2. Sun Devil Stadium

3. Buffalo wild Wings

4. Vista Del Sol Theater

Criteria

Food / Concessions available

Home Team Spirit

Price of admission

Visibility of the game

Research

Yelp.com

Buffalowildwings.com

Direct tv.com (channels to view in dorms)

asustudenttickets.com

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sources blog

In chapter twelve you learn how to look for reliable sources and how to narrow down a search to find criteria that you actually need for your paper or whatever you need the research for. When you look for a source online make sure you look for reliable sources that are actually written by a person who has research and isn’t just posting their opinion. For example in high school I had to write a report on martin Luther king and if you search martin Luther king jr on Google one of the first results will be a website written by a white supremacist group. Therefore the website is not a reliable source. To narrow down your searches when using online sources you can use “” and it will look for specific texts online that have that phrase or word in it. Let’s say you want to find out how skateboards are made. You would look up “skateboard blueprints” or maybe “skateboard designs” and that should narrow down your sources quite a bit. You can also take the phrase apart and look up maybe the “trucks” of the board or maybe the “bearings” that go inside the wheels. Other sources that are out there are the library databases so if we stick with this idea of a skateboard you may want to search “history of the skateboard” then there will be a selection of articles that are all reliable and will have some association with the history of the skateboard. It can also show you more articles that have to do with your topic. If you continue to search your topic try to stay away from Wikipedia or blogs because the information on those can be extremely unreliable and can really ruin your entire project if you put false info into it. And don’t be afraid to actually open a book and actually look at the index of an encyclopedia and actually find a source that is definitely reliable because it would be a text source that was published and is actually in a library. text sources are probably the most reliable and most helpful sources and will never steer you wrong of you want to really have reliable sources that you can always come back to the old fashioned book it will always help you out.  And please don’t make the same mistake I once made take note of all your sources you will need to go back to them later and may even need them in the future.

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heroes

Heroes Blog

Within the last couple days me and my roommates have gotten back into the old TV series heroes. There are four seasons on Netflix and in two days we finished the first fourteen episodes in season one. There’s something about a TV show where normal people like you and me can all of the sudden do extraordinary things. The show follows the lives of these young people in society and they all have a destiny to save the world. The show follows them throughout their struggles and it shows them all coming together in the strangest ways. In season one every hero doesn’t know there powers yet and it shows them really trying to use these powers to all come together to save the world. And of course every hero has its opposite a villain. In this case we have a man named Sylar who aims to steal every hero’s power by cutting their heads off and somehow consuming their brains and having their power forever. That’s the underlying villain but also there is a secret organization whose main goal is to find these special people who can do these spectacular things and he takes them and tries to make them use that for good. Or so that’s all we really learn from the first season. This show is really trippy and it’s pretty addictive and it really kind of makes you wish you could do some of these crazy things. Shows like this are what define generations of TV. This show came out in 2006 and it was all the rage every person on Monday nights would be watching it and every day at school people would be talking about all of it. The show makes people want to be a part of something like a hero organization. It is possible that this show got people to get involved in actually saving the world even though like through community service or through other help the world kind of organizations. Heroes has three other seasons that have come out after this season but sadly every season after the first has only gotten worse. This show did change the way people view heroes there not all in spandex and in comic books this show brings the hero into all of us it shows that there all around us and that people have their own special powers maybe not flight maybe not being able to read minds but it is true that we are all heroes to someone else and that is really what this show teaches us. Every person has a power and can really truly make a difference in the world in one way or another.

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my paper blog

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My paper uses the lens of Mark Twain and his short story of “two views of the Mississippi” I used his view on tourism and wander and all his lenses to really bring the weight room of the Sun devil recreation center into more than just a room where people work out and turn it in to more in to a place where we can make ourselves athletes it is a place where students can change into the best they can be. I used the lens to take each part of the weight room and bring it to new light weather it was from the view of a tourist and weather it brought wonder into the eyes of new members and I also went into the emotions that fill the room and make it what it is. I then go on to bring in how all that wonder can be lost and how you can give up on those feelings and love for the place I even went into how a seemingly harmless place that you spend so much time in can be so dangerous and can even cause you physical and worse even emotional pain. I wrote my paper on the Sun Devil Recreation center because I personally spend most of my time there and am so involved in the schools athletic clubs and figured I could change this view of just a space into a place that really means something to me and the students at ASU 

English rough draft

JP Noda

9/14/12

Miss Santana

Hidden away in the Sun Devil Recreation Center there is a room that from opening time to closing time will always be full. This room is the weight room and from six in the morning to eleven at night people will be in there working to achieve whatever personal goals they have. The building is a symbol of health and a symbol of students taking the time to make their bodies all it can be. The building is one of the most crowded and most used buildings on campus. Clubs meet there, health examinations such as physicals or concussion tests can all be done in that same building. And tucked away in a corner of the gym is a room. This room is obviously important to the average student because students will cram into this room and lift and workout for hours until it’s time to quit. The weight room is about the size of a high school basketball gym and is filled every inch from wall to wall with free weights and lifting machines. The only time you can get any productive lifting done is early in the morning anywhere from six in the morning to about three in the evening. Yes the Sun Devil Recreation Center weight room is more than just a room filled with sweaty guys and girls and is more than just a room in a school gym it has so much more.

At first glance the weight room does look like just a room full of guys sweating and staring at themselves in the mirror and well it really has so much more to it. The room is full of young athletes and guys who want to make themselves look as big and as strong as they can.  If you take this into the lens of mark twain and look into the tourism aspect and the weight room the wonder it brings at first glance and even the emotions that fill the room. And as you dig deeper into the weight room and learn its functions mark twain’s ideas of the risk of the place and how a place that once had so much meaning to you can all of the sudden lose that love or romance for the space.

As a tourist walks into the halls of the Sun Devil Recreation Center they may notice the big shiny metallic like machines that line the walls and crowd the floors but as they explore they can find themselves in a room. This room is filled to the maximum capacity with meat heads and jocks. They swarm the machines like flies on an old birthday cake. Most of the people making noises as they struggle to lift the weights and as their muscles tear on miniscule levels and continue to be in the room for hours swarming each machine as if their lives depended on it. While this seems weird and uncharacteristic to humans and to the tourist it seems chaotic and even hellish a tourist may see this place as a pit of sweaty and gross men but to the local it is the home and the training ground for great athletes and body builders alike.

As you walk into the room full of people you start to be in awe and wander about the fullness of the room and why people would spend three hours lifting a piece of metal wrapped in plastic. What’s so special? And why do people spend so long in this one crammed room? What is so special about it? The weight room in the Sun Devil Recreation Center is full of machines that bring awe to the eyes of the untrained sun devil or athlete. But these machines have a purpose these fancy weight lifting machines were designed to build machines of their own by crafting the simple human body into a well-oiled athletic machine.

The room is filled with emotions each person in this crammed room brings their own emotions to the table. At first glance if you look at every person in the room the emotions all the hundreds of guys and girls crammed into that tiny place. Your fist thought might be anger. But there is so much more each person has their own reason for being there in the weight room. The emotions can range from the frat boy who wants to find that lucky girl. The dedicated athlete who spends day in day out eat, sleep, and dreaming of his or her future in the sport they love. The emotions continue to range to the person who has been overweight or out of shape their entire life until they got here to ASU. These people are the ones who have the most emotion tied up into all physical activity to just stay in the best physical shape possible. Not necessarily an emotion but a chemical reaction in all men is the production of testosterone and when lifting weights that chemical flourishes and can even cause false emotions like anger or even lust.

Looking deeper in this mysterious room you get a great sense of danger and maybe even fear. The room has so many people that a weight being dropped on you can bring a quick trip to the gym to get into shape into a long trip to the hospital to cast your broken foot. Not just physical danger by having weights dropped or fall on you is the possibility of some testosterone pumped frat boy being rubbed up on the wrong way and starting a fight. Emotional and self-respect issues and damage can be done here. If you have a skewed view on yourself or any self-confidence problems being in a gym with a big group of guys all trying to show off and one up each other may not be the place for you it can only hurt you more if you already have issues and can hurt you in ways that a simple trip to a doctor cannot help.

When you visit a place enough the love you have for it can diminish pretty quickly after a month or so. Even the love you have for a significant other can wither or become annoying after a month of day to day contact to them. The Sun Devil recreation center is the same way after days of being in a gym over and over you can lose every love for it fast. The mysteriousness and the tourist aspect of it being all so new and fun can become nothing. All you will want to do is stop going or stop caring. That once great romance with the gym and all it stands for can become a great hate and within the course of a month or two become nothing but a deep hatred.

The Sun Devil recreation center is the foundation of all physical activity on campus this building is what helps make future athletes and coaches and maybe even models in the future. This small room tucked away in the Sun Devil recreation center is what can define who an athlete is and make people who they want to be its so much more then just a weight room. It gives people the tools to become whatever they want.

Part one

Mesa trail

Mesa trail is told from an interesting point of view it is told from the first person point of view but not of a person. The story starts off at the head of the mesa trail and it describes the entrance to the trail. As you start this “journey” it describes the trail itself the fact that it’s wide enough for a horse or for an Indian to just walk but the experience is completely different for each person. It then continues to talk about the day time and how it’s an open land with trees and flowers and mountains but not much action going on. The author is extremely descriptive with every detail talking about the flowers the mountains and as the story continues he talks about the night in the desert and how the place comes to life. The desert comes to life the owls wake up and the wolfs and coyotes come out to eat and it goes into detail on how every animal is vicious and  then out of nowhere it changes back to daytime and you continue down the trail. But this time we find life but in the locals who live on the trail and it goes into even more description of how they live and there housing.

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Polk Street

The story of Polk Street is basically a recap of a day in the life of a local of Polk.it begins with a guy looking out his window and he sees the streets booming small business all open everyone working hard and making a living. When I thought of this I think of a market place or the streets around pikes place in Seattle WA it reminds me of a marketplace. As the story goes on the day progresses to the evening when saloons open and people get off work and go drink and have a good time. Then it gets to ten or eleven and the night quiets down. This story is very descriptive much like the first one it makes you feel as if you are there looking out the window at this bust marketplace on Polk Street. This story tells the tale of most cities where every day is a cycle.

Place matters

A Place matter isn’t a story like the other two papers it’s more of an instructional essay on how to create a lens. The writer talks about how to take a random space such as my dorm room and make it a place make it cozy make it appeal to every reader. This paper is about making the lens for the average person seem interesting and worth the reader’s time. It says to make a dark space into a bright place to transform the readers idea of the space completely if they once hated it make them love it make them change their views on that place. Give the reader a “sense of the place” be descriptive and bring them into your view into your world. Make the reader feel as if they know that place give them as many observations and descriptions as you can use scenery details and make them love the space.

Chapter 14

Chapter fourteen was all about plagiarism a how to get past it or to make sure you don’t do it. As a student plagiarism is very common because it’s easy just copy someone else boom less work for you. But it is wrong and can easily get you kicked out of any school or even get you fired from your job.  To avoid plagiarism as this chapter says is easy make sure you site your work and take good notes in your own words. The better the note the less likely you are to plagiarize and if you do get accused to of plagiarizing then make sure you have your notes bring them in and go back to the portion of your writing that aroused suspicion and double check it if it’s very similar to the source site the source or re word that section.

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PART 2

All of the actual stories have pretty much the same view they talk about a first person view but they aren’t from the view of a person. The lenses could be told from any view suck as people because in the mesa trail there’s a community that lives out by the trail and the Polk Street also has people who live in the street so you can talk about what they see or what they think of the places they live in and for what there a part of. The lens can be created from any one of those descriptions from any one of those stories because they are all very descriptive and full of detail you can picture the place it became more than just words it became a place

OBSERVATION NOTES

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Organic Observation notes

When sitting here watching these guys and girls lifting you break them into social groups pretty quickly you have

1.       Your meat heads- people who lift for hours at a time every time you go to the gym there they’re lifting and talking they basically live there.

2.       Your athletes- your athletes go there strictly for business they go in lift to be better at a sport then they mostly lift alone but sometimes with a friend or two

3.       Frat boys- Lift there just to look good look good to make the girls fall for their muscles. Usually lift together in groups.

4.       And finally your guys or girls who lift casually for health and for fun. And these are normally the big groups of people

The possible lenses here would be through the eyes of any of these people or groups or even through a broader lenses like social groups or see how a team or frat lifts together like a family or community or even look through the lens of a casual health junkie who loves there body and who lives to feel good.

Today I saw another point of view in the weight room more than usual a huge group of girls came in. yes normally there are one to two maybe even three girls in there but today there were  a ton of them just lifting together and I really started to wonder what they were doing there.

I started to think of reasons they would show up. Was it the actual love of lifting or for the guys not really wearing much clothing making their arms bigger?  It was a weird observation I would say.

The people who work at the weight room in the src look pretty bored all they do is sit there and occasionally walk around. There are signs posted saying they can help spot you on a lift but I never have seen them do that. What do they see in that place? Just a job? Or are they actually enjoying it

Blog 2

Chapter three in this book was talking about how to read and actually understand your reading by using actual tools such as annotation and even re skimming headings and so on. It also talks about comprehending and evaluating your sources. And I personally have never been good at this type of reading and comprehension I’m more of a read the just remember kind of guy while this book says to highlight, write notes, and even go deeper into the author go research him and go see how reliable the information he or she is putting out there. The chapter continues and talks about how to then read out of the point of view of the writer how to see what they want you to see so you can fully understand the context of the text your reading. The chapter concludes with the last couple sections going on about reading as if you need to summarize or read as if you need to respond to questions. When you read you should be able to read so you can connect and summarize as if you were going to be tested or even had to write a paper on it.  (http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Annotation06_thumb.jpg)  

Then you will be able to fully understand and even be able to recite some of the information for future assignments. 

Chapter seven is about analytical writing. Analytical writings all start or pose a question then as you read you then get deeper into the question and even begin to find some answers.  The chapter then goes from analytical writings to analyzing different genres of writing like analytical, online based articles, and then multi media. But then after learning to analyze each of those sources or genres of writing then you learn how to compile all that information and write your own analytical paper with a question and information derived from your research and findings on each of those sources.  The book gives tips on how to pose your question in a strong way or how to frame your questioning. To then frame your paper to get your questioning across strong and in the right way that it will impact readers and spark there interest in your topic so they can continue research and possibly even teach you about your own questioning. The end of the chapter talks about how

now that you have this framed paper how to go about editing it and making it stronger to get your points across to the reader. It says to make sure it’s debatable; you are able to challenge your conclusion and to assess your frame work and your organization to make the paper stick out and worth reading.

The first two chapters in our English “Joining the Conversation” book are basically the guidelines to be a good writer. It tells us that a good and experienced writer has conversations with his audience. He treats his writing like a casual conversation at a party or a social gathering. He takes information from all sides and he puts it in to a piece of literature that speaks to the reader. The reader has to feel as if the words on the page are coming out of the mouth of the writer or character.  The second chapter moves on to talk about analyzing work and also starting to form a brain storm or free write for any upcoming assignments. The second chapter focuses on more of a learning how to be a great writer it gives you tools to become a better writer a better analyzer of work. While the first chapter tells you just write as if you were in a conversation the second one teaches us to pick apart the conversation and analyze the work. This text book is just a big manual to succeed in the writing world. I can tell as the year goes on and as we write these blogs we will see that the writing skills of each writer in the class will only improve in there writings. I know as I read the first 37 pages even I felt a little more confident in coming out to this to write a blog on an English text book of all things. I feel like this year in englisgh I will improve more than I have in my 12 previous years of writing in school.