VARK activity

READ/WRITE: During this process of finding out what my preferred learning style helps. this is because i already knew that i learned better by visual and by doing things myself but knowing what my weaknesses are i can prepare myself for when i have other professors with that type of teaching style. if i just stick to one learning style i might just fustrate myself and will give up on what i am doing.

Liturature circle blog response#3

Q: How is Juan Salvador's faith Changing?
A: When Juan was a child he believed without a doubt about God, and what his mother had taught him about God. But after being on his own for awhile when he was missed the train he begged god for wings, he was in the sand storm, and when was sent to jail(and prison) and defend for himself. Having to go through numerous attacks, almost getting rapped he began losing faith but did not admit it still. But after he had broken out of prison he met Duel, a half Greek and half Turk man,

"it was the first time Juan had ever come close to a man that wasn’t Catholic, but readily admitted that he didn’t believe in God.”

(page 218). Duel was the first friend Juan had that was not Catholic and did not believe in God but did believe in the devil. Duel took Juan under his wing and taught him how to play poker and taught him how to “The art of taking money from the greedy workmen who drank too much”. Also by hanging around Duel and making business in the basement of a whorehouse by then Juan realized he had lost his faith by completely and seems as if he gave up on God.

What is the value of bravery when your actions are foolish?

Q: What is the value of bravery when your actions are foolish? :
A: Bravery is not worth much when those actions make it foolish, an example from the book is when Juan was playing games with those boys and betted he could hold on the longest while the train road away. But he knew what he was doing was ridiculous but because he was trying to prove to boys that he had just met only weeks before that he was brave. Which was useless and wasted his time and made him go through something he didn’t need to go through. This is because he ended up running after the train and tripping and falling… making him miss the train. Now he is forced to run on the tracks instead of waiting for the train for another 2 weeks. His bravery got him is this predicament which made him run after the train for miles while he suffered with thurst.

Q: How does sacrifice influence/impact the family? :
A: Many people live for their families, many would give up their happiness to make their family happy. For example, say you mom wants you to be a nurse but what makes you happy is play soccer, and you want to be a professional, but becuase your mom really wants you to be a nurse your going to do it because it will make your mother happy. Also many people will sacrifice for their family without thinking twice. Like in Rain Of Gold. After Juan makes the foolish choice of playing with those boys and misses the train. Later he finds his mother begging in the streets; he overhears what people say about her calling her basically "an old ugly begger". This is significant because Juan's mother a proud, strong woman. He never imagined seeing him mother this way. How would you feel seeing your mother, the person who has taken care of you your whole life being disrespected and on the streets putting her pride and honor aside just so your family can survive? People do crazy things for their family especially so they can survive.

*tiPS t0 SUCCEED iN C0LLEGE.

literature circle new ROG.

On the first page i drew from the pages 95-97. My drawing is about the section in the book when Don Pio is looking for land for his family and he is very sad because he hasnt found any good lsnd for him to use. He is sitting on a knoll and begins to pray to God and pulls out his roasory and begins pleading to god. Then haz if God is comeing to him he  realices he doesnt have to look for land anymore because he had found it. They were alrwady on it. He realizes this becuase he knew that if they were to become rich that his family.. Generations from then would become the power crazy savages like the ones he had faught before. This is important becuase of the beliefs Don Pio were for good,and with faith he found what he was looking for. And all he wanted was his family to be a decent and honest family.

on the second paragraph i drew when Don Pio went to see Don Porfirio to speak to him because "the president" was being unjust and cruel. For the littlest reason he would kill someone. Like for instance a man cut a piece of alfalfa for his horse and got shot for it. But it took until one of his  good friends grandson got killed for that very reason. But when he got to the outskirts of the capital he was stopped by Don Porifirio's men and told to wait till hefinished withis festivities. When he got to the river he saw they rest if the colones the soldier had referred to. It took 10 days for the party to end. And Don Pio's grandson had been shot  becuase he wanted justice for what had happened to don pio. I think this was important becuase if don pio hadn't handled don porifirio's outrageous acts maybe it wouldn't have gon that far.

what is the value of your name when it is being vilified?

if my name were to be vilified i would be proud of my name more then ever. But if i needed a job badly and had no other choice but to change it a little to get the job i would do it. Especially if i was supporting more than myself. But if i had more uncommon name i might fight for it more.

leave

"leave your cellphone at the classroom door"

    the consequences of assimilating into the digital culture is that once you start integrating technology into your life it can either complicate or make it easier. For example, those who are digital immigrants its difficult adapting cellphones, and computers into their like. Like for instance my parents are digital immigrants, they have no idea how to use their cellphones except how to make phone calls. And for me i was born around technology, for me i can pick up a cellphone and figure out how to use it pretty quickly. And because the need of computers in school it was important to learn and use them, so for me technology is easy to use. its only a matter of time that  everyone i the world will be digital natives.

Literature circle

On the first page I drew the scene at the beginning of the book, on pages 8 through 10, when Espirito (an Indian) follows a deer in desperate need to find water for his village, because all the waters have dried. He then watches the deer and waits for it to leave so he could go to the stream. When he drinks the out of the stream he says it’s the sweetest water he has ever drunk. But before he had drank the water he took a “stone” from a cliff next to the spring where the water was trickling down creating the spring. He then went down the mountain and went to a store which was owned by Don Carlos. Espirito wanted to trade the water he discovered telling him “he had the sweetest water in all the world” to trade for food and clothing. But Don Carlos said no because he couldn’t trade for water. Because he lived by a river already, but then Espirito showed him his “stones” and Don Carlos and screamed at him that he would trade him all the clothes and food he needed for it. This is because the stone wasn’t actually a stone but a gold nugget.

I selected this scene because I felt it was important. I felt it was important because if Espirito had not found the gold in the cliff the Americans would have never intervened and taken over their box canyon, and his village wouldn’t have had the deal with Don Carlos, which was that 2 fully loaded burros would be brought to Espirito’s village because he gave the cliff with gold for food and supplies for his people. But when Don Carlos sold the mine to Bernardo Garcia, and then soon after the Mexican revolution started. In result Espirito’s way of life in the box canyon went downhill. I saw that Espirito loved his land and the way he had lived before the “gold fever” had taken over box canyon. I learned a little more about the revolution in Mexico, by how the revolution was brutal especially to the civilians which were never safe. Also that people would be taken and killed for no reason. Another thing is that the people with power were so corrupt, one day you would be as poor as dirt next thing you know you find gold and would become rich, and be cruel to the people that you once had been. Money changes many, makes them greedy and selfish.

On my second page I drew the scene between pages 85-88. Which was when Victoriano gets caught looking through the mine’s trash. Señor Jones and El Liebre claimed he was stealing from him when that was not true. This is because people, before Victoriano, had been looking through the rocks even before Victoriano could remember. Next thing you know Señor Jones orders El Liebre and his men to get Victoriano so they could teach him a lesson, then hang him to make an example of what happens to a thief for the rest of the village. They planned to hang him in the town square so everyone would see. Then Lupe sees whats going on and starts yelling, then Doña Manza tells her to get her mother. When Lupe gets to the lean-to she tells Doña Guadalupe what is happening. Doña Guadalupe tells her to tell Don Manuel to stall so she could give her final blessing to her son. Quickly Doña Guadalupe grabs her bible stuff a knife in the middle and grabs her father’s old gun. She then quickly walks down the hill to the square to see her son standing there all bloody and beated down. When El Liebre permits her to give her blessings Doña Guadalupe starts secretly cutting the rope. Then when she saw that Victoriano was not responding to her instructions she bit him in the ear telling him to take the gun she then tells him to run when she cuts the rope and yells to the sky. But The Jack Rabbit already knew what was going on and drew his gun knowing it was an escape so he knocked Doña Guadalupe out of the way. Then Victoriano started shooting at the men when he knew he couldn’t get away from the fast man. Then he ran into the forest where they didn’t even bother to catch him. El Liebre was dead so then the soldiers wanted to hang Doña Guadalupe and Don Manuel for it. Then all towns people realized that they can beat the soldiers if they united. When they gathered together singing the redhead leader knew what was going on and got away before the people would take their wepons.

I selected this scene because I felt it was important that the community realized they could take back their town if they all came together and that everything was possible with some faith. Also the strength Victoriano’s mother had to do what she did knowing there was a chance that she would die. I connected this with real life crisis and how the government takes advantage of the people. But when we come together to help each other we can solve most of our problems and obsticles.

What is the digital culture?

To me the digital culture is how we use technology everyday in our lives. For example, our phones; almost every American has a phone from the ages of 9 to 60 and up. And phones keep getting smarter and smarter where you can have internet access up to GPS system. Another example is the use of the internet; before in the 1970's the internet did not exist. But now many high schools and college courses have online homework and online classes. And now a day’s many teens and adults all alike depend on their phones either of work or just to socialize. Technology is affecting our world from day to day basis whether you realize it or not.