Thursday, September 13, 2012


Part one
Mesa trail
Description: http://www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ncar-mesa-trail.jpgMesa 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.
Polk Street
Description: http://caroundtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/seattle-001-Small1.jpgThe 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
Description: http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/files/2011/12/plagiarism2.jpgChapter 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.

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
 JP Noda
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

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