Literature Essay

Try As They Might

Throughout humanity people have always been divided into different classes, from monarchies of kings and peasants to oligarchies of the elites ruling over the bottom rung. In Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, the effects of stratification on the poor working class are portrayed through Bigger Thomas, a poor young African American male. Throughout the history of the United States blacks have always been on the bottom rung of society, starting off as property to becoming people with limited freedoms. Through mutiny and revolts they paved the way to equality for all racial minorities. Through Bigger, Richard Wright portrays the effects of class stratification. He shows people being kept powerless, which causes the poor to be disconnected from other classes of society and lash out through revolts or through violence.

WLE Reflection

My Workplace Learning Experience this year was filled with excitement, laughter and joy. My previous internship was quite different from this year’s due to their complete opposition. In my previous occupation, I was a teacher for South of Market Child Care. For this internship my job was to observe children and teach them important information in life, such as the alphabet and counting numbers. This year I was able to commit to doing volunteer work at the Animal Resource Center, also known as the ARC located in the San Francisco Zoo. My unpaid internship there has given me an insight of the rules of the working world, the differences between my school work versus my internship work and the affect of this internship on the kind of work I want to do in the future.

Keynote Artist Statement

This keynote presentation is an explanation of E=MC^2 and the various possibilities that it possesses. It shows E=MC^2 through images, the uses it is applied to and what I understood and learned from this project. Although the uses of E=MC^2 will be around for the time being, its usefulness may dwindle as time progresses and Quantum Physics begins to reign but the positive impact of E=MC^2 will continue on.
This keynote presentation demonstrates my understanding through the images and texts used in tandem. For every keyword or important fact there is an image to supplement it. In the explanation of E=MC^2 and its variables the use of images is applied to have a visual image of what the equation may look like. For the innovations that E=MC^2 is applied to I used images to depict the innovations. This helps those who are not familiar with the innovations have an image and an understanding on what I am talking about in the video. Having the images pop-up and having the most important texts appear on screen help people remember what the most important aspects of the presentation is.

Website Artist Statement

The website that I have forged for the Eureka! Exhibition was one that showed my perseverance and devotion to my work of art. If not for my willingness to make mistakes and learn tips and tricks from Ted, my website would not be as magnificent as it is now.This process of web making has taught me many things about iWeb such as how to make buttons, copy rights, how to find and legally steal copyrighted images, set background images and overall everything on how to make a web page. When I first started this project I was in a state of being overwhelmed. It felt that this website project was like a black hole and I was on its fringes being sucked into the infinite void of cold black dimensional demise. But after getting the hang of things like how to enable images with hyperlink (click your button then the hyperlink button on the navigator and enable image as hyperlink type in URL) and thus transforming an ordinary electronic portrait into a secret window portrait wormhole to other sites. Similarly backgrounds are easy to set behind as well.

Physics Research Briefs, Website and Keynote Presentation

The link to my E=MC^2 Website that houses my Research Briefs and my Keynote Presentation about E=MC^2. http://www.es-cat.org/~ailejay/Eureka%21_E%3DMC%5E2.html

Spanish Reflection

Learning a new language is a difficult task as it requires thinking in a completely different perspective. I recall a teacher of mine explaining this dilemma as a math problem. In the English language one plus one is 2. But in another language such as Spanish, one plus one is 3. It is this type of thinking that one must keep in mind as one speak another language. This type of thinking is difficult for me to comprehend as everyone around me speaks English and not being immersed in Spanish hampers my ability to retain it. So I will understand the language at some points but then completely forget what I learned a few weeks later. This roller-coaster of instability makes it difficult for me to learn the Spanish language.

Science Reflection

The work behind the Eureka! Project has helped me discover a few things about myself and about E=MC^2. I learned a few things about my topic such as the meaning of E, M and C in E=MC^2 and why we would square C. In the process of finishing this project, I learned a few things about myself and my work ethics and how I believe my work ethics are at a sufficient level where I am able to work with my own set deadlines and not have people breathe down my back.

Math : Greenbacks & Greenspace

Statement

The job that I took was a problem about how the new land of San Francisco should be allotted. First piece of land was the 300 acres of land from the Presidio, (L), that George Lucas gave back to the city after he decided he did not need that much land. After the closure of the Navy’s 100-acre shipyard in Hunter’s Point (S), the government gave it back to San Francisco. Then, with the lease on the 150 acres of land that allowed parking lots for AT&T Park, (P), ending, the city can use the area as they wish. The total usable land is 550 acres. But there are some conditions that must be met.

English Reflection

Brain Projector Canvas

The way we read affects the way we absorb the information, the message of the text we are currently reading. Some people like to breeze by texts, only consuming the most important, the most juicy of the text. Others prefer to completely read everything and soak up the scene like a sponge and be this shadow or director in a movie, knowing, seeing and watching the characters in action. But for me, I like to be in the scene, to paint the scene in my head, paint the rolling meadows of grass, lilies, the one tree on top of the biggest meadow casting the elongated shadow of itself across the mound it stands on. To show the bright clouds rolling along the sun’s shining rays with the smell of fresh air buzzing out and about like a bee whizzing from flower to flower. Then apply characters to the meadows as they sat down next to the tree happy that the sun is gracing them with its rays, eating sandwiches, talking like it was summer and school was finally over. I would mentally paint the scene in my head and “visualize” what it would be like in that scenario.

Math Reflection

Math Reflection

Throughout my life math was and still is a major concept for me to grasp and understand. Math is similar to grabbing water with your fist; you reach in and shut your fist thinking your have a fistful of water only to realize it slips out of your fist, leaving only trace amounts of water on your hands. In my experience this sums up my experience with math. I manage to reach into the pool of math knowledge and grasp some concepts, yet as quickly as I learned them I would lose track and forget them. As such math has been a roller coaster ride of great heights and large slopes. Yet, similar to any scholar, past or present, my experiences have dictated my beliefs in this math centric universe. It is these beliefs that govern my math lives.