This week was really cool getting to watch everyone’s This I Believe videos. We had several modified schedules due to a two hour delay and the musical preview, which caused us not to get through everyone’s videos but I will most likely end up watching the rest of them when I have the chance to outside of school. I really liked getting to hear my classmates share things that they believe in. Some things I already knew about like Alana and her grandma, but other things I didn’t know because they are things people choose to hide away. I feel like this project allowed people to share who they are as a person and to share things that we often hide away. I know that personally there are aspects of my life that I would rather not have people know about, and I chose not to talk about them in this project. Other people were much more brave than I was in the life stories they chose to share and I really commend them for doing so because it really allowed us to see how they came to their belief. Getting to see the parts of people’s lives that they choose to hid can also be really healing. There has been a lot of research that shows sharing personal stories can help them to heal from that. I know that personally my story was more of getting to share my younger sister, but others were about hard times in their life that they may not have healed from but I hope that through this project they were able to heal.
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Working on a project can seem pretty cut and dry. You’ve done all your learning now it’s just a matter of putting things together to share what it is you learned. Sharing a personal belief is different, there can be learning in the events leading up to the formation of a belief but when it comes to sharing the cut and dry version of the belief didn’t seem like it was going to be difficult for me. I’m not really a person to withhold certain beliefs from people, and my belief that everything happens for a reason is definitely one that I don’t withhold. I thought that this project was going to be so cut and dry, not emotional or difficult. Once I got to working on it I became nervous that it wasn’t going to turn out right. I kept putting things where I thought they would fit but they didn’t feel right. Also as I worked I started to get more invested in the project. Once I finally felt like everything was in the right spot and together, I was really wanted to show my mom and my sister. I wanted to show them, but once I got the chance to show them I was really nervous to show them because I was scared of what they were going to think of it. Making me realize that while my belief is solid, the feelings I had during the story that goes along with it is what made me nervous. Realizing that I have to share this with the whole class made the project more difficult than I thought it would be. This week we worked mostly on our “This I Believe.” It did get a little monotonous at times, but I really enjoyed it. Being able to see what random, and not so random, people believe is really cool.
The United States was founded on the idea of freedom, but I often feel scared to share what I believe in because there is always someone ready to call you crazy based on one belief. Most of the time only hearing one belief is often one sided stories can be considered dangerous like Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche shares is her TED Talk The Danger of a Single Story. Only hearing one thing can limit what you know. During this project I felt that once I figured out my belief, it was a little difficult to pick one memory that would help to explain my belief that everything happens for a reason. I have so many experiences my belief has been confirmed, but on Tuesday after class I was feeling that I had no clue what I was going to discuss. My belief was both confirmed and I figured out what moment from my life I was going to share, was from that day. The birth of my youngest sister or something along that line was what I wanted to discuss, and after taking my sister to dance I felt like that was the afternoon that I needed to share. Actually writing about it was difficult at first but once I figured out how I wanted to start it was smooth sailing from there. After Tuesday, I feel that I was able to steer clear of the dangers that a single story can present based on the way that I have chosen to script my belief. I just hope that no one get in arguments over their beliefs, because if they do it will spoil the beauty of this project. This week we focused a lot on online privacy and forming our own opinions on the subject. I feel like having the discussions with others helped me to see a perspective that I might not have seen before. Prior to this week I knew that there was limited privacy online, but I wasn’t aware that my every move is being recorded in a file or that it was being sold to companies to cater their advertisements towards me. I don’t see a problem with that but I also can see where it could go in the future of identity theft. After seeing and discussing where the tracking could go, I was able to decide that I believe that we need some sort of regulation for tracking.
I really liked getting to be apart of the research the Mr. Schoenborn is doing with a few professors at Central, especially because I have been apart a lot of research studies in the Physical Therapy department but never the English department. The only thing that I wish would have been explained more to us was what exactly the College Ready Writing is and what exactly we were doing prior to actually doing it. Participating in the PT department’s research growing up I always knew what I was doing and what they were looking for. Not really knowing why we were doing the mini lesson till afterwards didn’t allow me to personally learn as much. I did think that I learned something but just not all that I could have. |
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