Dodger Stadium Preface

De Anda Jocelyn

Professor Marca

English 113 B

April 19, 2012

Preface

                        My group chose to focus our website on Dodger stadium and Chavez Ravine. We used our techniques to inform as well as persuade anyone affected by the construction of Dodger Stadium. We chose to pick the side of the Dodger stadium and represent them. Along the with persuasion we used ethos, logos and pathos in our website.

                        For this web project we had to de-familiarize Dodger stadium. We all had to become non Dodger fans and advocate without being one sided. We used pathos for the sympathy and emotions towards the people from Chavez Ravine. We wanted to make sure that we showed how we felt and our concerns about what happen.  We also used emotion to apologize for what happen and the building of dodger stadium. 

            Chavez Ravine was once the home of many Hispanics. It was the playground of children the history of families and the home of all of them. They were promised better days, money and better homes. There were people who were up for it while others refused to leave. To this day there are people who have not received their money of compensation.

            For Pathos we used our sympathy for the people of Chavez Ravine. We support the building of Dodger stadium. We show pathos because although we support the stadium we feel for the people who lost their homes. I would personally  be angry as well as devastated to be take away from a place I call my home. All for the benefit of the city and population. Along with the sympathy for the Chavez Ravine people we also used pathos for the Dodger fans as well as to convince people to become Dodger fans. We used put up pictures as well as videos in order to convince and entertain people.

            Our credentials in the website are facts that we listed. Magic Johnson is a former Laker player and now the current owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Other credentials would be the scholarships as well as funding’s the dodgers give. We put this in our website making sure we advertise Dodgers ethos. Along with their ethos we added our own credentials. We showed that we are college students adding out college email to our web page. This was for concerns as well as questions comments or anything else they would like to communicate.

            Our message is to convince people who were affected by Chavez ravine to forgive and see the benefits Dodgers did bring. We showed what the stadium has to offer.  Along with that we advocate the benefits of having the stadium. We showed how there is entertainment and how much spirit it bring to the city and people.

            Our methods was to lure people in with advertisement. Showcasing how much fun and how great the stadium is. We showed pictures of people enjoying the game and how much spirit it brings in. we also showed videos of the fans and how much fun and joy they bring and have while at the stadium. From personal experience attending a game I didn’t really watch the game because I was busy with the environment. It was a fun and joyful environment. The atmospheric was filled with people who loved to be around each other and feed off each other’s good vibes.


http://group-4.webnode.com/

Project Web 2

De Anda Jocelyn              

Professor Marca

English 113B

Project Web post 2

                After our first two meetings we continue with the contact and kept throwing ideas to each other. We last met on the Monday before presentations. We were unfortunately unable to get a study room but as determined students we sat in the second floor hall where the study rooms are located. To me I saw this as dedication. I was fascinated that my fellow peers where this enthusiastic as well as motivated that they made this into our meeting site. We sat there and tried to keep our voices at a moderate tone. We discussed what we needed to add as well as edit. We reviewed our page for minor glitches and assigned final detail to each other. We then had to go about our day. We kept in contact through Facebook to notify and help each other. We used Facebook as our communication and there is where we contacted each other be for questions, sending images, suggestion and other details. We spoke agreed used it as well to agree on meeting times. I like the fact that we used a social network to communicate with each other so no one could say they weren’t notified when they are always log into their social network. I believe this project web was a great idea. I was able to work with others and learn to manage a website. Along with this I learned a lot from my fellow peers. I was able to learn special skills they have as well as their interest. I would have not imagined the things they did if I had not gotten to know them better.

http://group-4.webnode.com/

Project Web 1

De Anda Jocelyn              

Professor Marca

English 113B

Project Web

                After the first day we established our groups we decided to meet on Thursday. We met in the library in a study room. We sat down pitched ideas and all had our ideas floating around. We focused on what we wanted and our views. I believe it was a convenient meeting at the library. We got the chance to listen to others feeling as well as thoughts. We decided we all agreed on the balding of dodger stadium was a great idea. We advanced from there. We all did our proposal and we had our ideas wrong. We were making our website seem more like a dodger advertisement and less advocating. We sat around when our papers where given and suggested ways in order to fix it. The advice professor gave us helped us and brought new ideas to us. We became determine to do above and beyond well in our assignment. We discussed what improvements and changes we had to do since we first met. We decided that we needed more information on what benefits Dodger stadium brought. We also decided we didn’t want to be so boring therefore we added some entertainment to our page to lure people in. our reason for the webpage is to attract people who are against as well as people who were affected by the Dodger stadium building.  

Blog Space

De Anda Jocelyn
Professor Marca
English 113B
March 19, 2012

Culture

     During the site visit and this project I learned a lot from my group. I was able to see how they viewed culture and the reasons they chose their location. We all had the chance to explain our location as well not have to agree on a neutral location. If we went the way where chose one location we would not have been able to express our view of culture.
     My location is located in Echo Park down sunset towards Cesar Chavez. The place is hidden in a way but welcomes people. In the surroundings there is houses and right in the middle there is a sandy area where cars can park and it’s very opened. As I sat there I took in the beauty and its surroundings I also took in the fresh air. I went to this location at night because that is when the Los Angeles skyline looks best. All the light where lit and looked like a bunch of Christmas lights. The hectic, polluted, overcrowded city looked at peace. It looked calm and everything was just like a picture.
     When I got to the location there were two other cars in the parking area. The people decided to stay inside their car because of the wind. One car had a pair of couples while the other car had one. They seemed to love and enjoy the view they kept taking pictures and saying how beautiful this place was. The people in the area don’t really seem to mind the spectators because they are aware of the beauty of the place.
      The houses around there are houses of decent income families. Most of the homes there are two or three story homes. If they are not they are a large size one story home. What I also notice when I went was the neighborhood mascots. They are peacocks running around that area. When I first saw them I had been amazed because it was about three of them and they made it seem like they were pets. I asked one of the home owners where these birds came from or who brought them. He just said they had always been there and all the neighbors feed, care and look out for them. As I took pictures I saw a shadow but when I looked the bird was walking away. I tried to capture a nice picture but when it saw the flash from the camera it ran. It amazes me.
      This place is my place is my place of Zen. The overlook is of Los Angeles as well as some East Los Angeles. From there you can also view some of Sunset. Sunset is well known for celebrities and the typical frame view. But this part of Sunset shows difference. It shows the real life, and it’s also the end of Sunset St. or as some might debate the beginning of it.
      While my time spent there I was able to hear one of the couple’s arguing about the view. I can recall her using pathos to convince her boyfriend that there was no other view like this one. She began to use logos as well as ethos. The skyline and the back view of a dark empty Dodger stadium on the south side of the view was her ethos. Logic because she began to say he had to admit there was no view like it and she tried persuading him. I felt awkward ease dropping but it was an interesting conversation.

       To sum up, the location I chose helped me go back to my tranquility. It brought me to peace as well as helped me write this. I love that view it’s my second favorite one but it’s the only view around my neighborhood. While there I was lucky enough to catch pathos, logos and ethos.

Blog2

De Anda Jocelyn

Professor Marca

English 113B

February 25, 2012

Interesting readings

            The readings in Another City made me realize how people view Los Angeles. To me it had been my city, the city I grew up in and my playground. The readings from the book help me get a broader look on how Los Angeles is viewed.

            The only perspectives I had gotten of Los Angeles where tourists as well as people who were born and raised in the city. It was always almost the same tourist amazed as well as expected what they saw in movies. The people who were born and raised in the city complained about the everyday struggles, the obstacles, the traffic, and how they wanted to leave. It was different to see the view of other people. It was nice to have people write about the city in which you tend to have a love hate relationship with.

            The stories in which we discussed in class all had a similar topic. The topic was how the environments changes you shapes you and or influences you. The people from the stories we read all spoke on their environment and how they have changed or what the city has made them see.  I enjoyed to read their perspectives of Los Angeles. The most interesting ones would be the people who came to Los Angeles and were not familiar. Their perspectives I enjoy the most because how we spoke in class about the “frame” of Los Angeles. I put myself in others shoes and imagine places I would like to visit and how the media advertises it as well as frames it.

            Along with the reading there where presentation on certain readings. I enjoyed this because I was able to see my classmates view on the readings. The readings are like a painting where different people can have different opinions. They also sparked ideas in which I had not thought about. This interaction was good because we were able to speak of our ideas as well as to agree to disagree and learn a couple of things.

Los Angeles

De Anda, Jocelyn
February 6, 2012
English 113B
Professor Marca
                                                           Los Angeles
    The readings from the book Another City gives you the perspectives of multiple people. The
narrators are either Angelinos or they moved to Los Angeles. The writings vary
from poems to stories. Everyone’s interpretations of Los Angeles are different
and some have a little similarity but everyone’s message is different and their
way of communicating it with their audience is unique. Through the readings I have realized different things.
 
One was how your environment shapes the person that you are. In one of the
chapters there is a boy who likes to listen to Soul Music and because of its environment
and society he has to conform and listen to their style of music. He was a Los
Angeles native and being a Hispanic he didn’t just let his passion for music
revolve around his culture. He was unique in that way but the fact that he
would change his ways to fit in I didn’t find it right for him to do that.

 Another chapter would be Los Angeles. The narrator in
this story tells the L.A riots in his perspective. I had never heard the story
through someone that was there, someone that went into the action. He continues
to say that how he is now afraid of African Americans. He became a racist.
Living in a dangerous part of Los Angeles his mentalities had to change and it shaped
him into being a racist person. He wasn’t a racist before. This makes me feel
like I also judge people. Walking through different neighborhoods, depending
the area or how the people look I tend to take out my key chain that hold my
pepper spray just in case I would need it. As when the narrator said he didn’t
like guns but then suddenly wanted to shoot people shows how the environment
changed him. I had never really thought I’d have to carry pepper spray but the
area in which I went to high school had many perverts. They were not shy to
speak their mind. I also would take adult school in which I would walk for an
estimate of eight blocks then id get out until 9 and then walk back about 4
blocks. Most of the time I was alone and felt unsafe, this area was more dangerous.
In my head every guy to me looked suspicious. This point I took matters into my
own hands and for my safety I decided to purchase and carry a pepper spray in
case of any emergency. The where I had to do everyday task made me more aware
and be more precautious. I am glad that to this day I have not have to use the
pepper spray in any situation. Although it gives me a sense of security.

  I believe that it’s not only in Los Angles where people change. Crimes happen
everywhere and Los Angeles has been an antagonist in movies and gives an image
of how there is violence everywhere in the city. As a child and watching these
movies I believed them but now that I’m older I see they are not true. They
base this harsh violence on an events that the writers most likely did not
witness themselves. I have been able to explore and see different parts of Los
Angeles. I witness the environment that you live in shapes the person you are.
In my home you could go out take a walk at eleven at night if you desire, but
not where my best friends live. Both live in South Central and they cannot take
a walk at night because they are afraid. They have heard stories and seen what
goes on so their environment. This made them more careful and aware.

  The readings have made me aware of other people’s views of Los Angeles. I never had
thought about how people from other countries or states view the city in which
I grew up in and I call it home. I was most exited to learn about the riots. I
had never really been told what happen during the riots. My mother had told me
about them but she wasn’t in the action, she was at home. She was pregnant of
me and would have never even thought of going out into the riots. As I read the
story I pictured it in my head. I wanted to be there. I wanted to be alive and
see what happen, how people reacted and how they took control over parts of the
city.

  The readings of Los Angeles display various messages. The message from three of the
chapters assigned have talked about how Los Angeles changed them but they do
not exactly say that. They talk about change and shaping oneself. The messages are discreet and some how they changed.

Proposal

De Anda Jocelyn

November 14, 2011

Professor Marca

English 113A

Proposal

            Reading is an important ability in which everyone will need. It can either become a passion or an enemy. Reading became my best friend as a child and developed my point of views as a mature teenager.  A book change people’s views, perspectives, believes and thoughts.

            Through the life story of Dave Pelzer in the book A Child Called It, I realized how serious and real the child abuse in this country is. Through the eyes and experience of Pelzer one is brought into a world of misery and pain. Pelzer had a great life up to a point, his mother became an alcoholic and Dave Pelzer was her target. He was treated worse than an animal he was seen as just an object. Pelzer took abuse from his mother from her breaking his body parts, burning his arm to shoving a dirty used diaper with human discharges in his face. The story can only bring one pain and sympathy for Pelzer but hate and anger toward the mother.

This book was a life changing experience for me. With every beating and suffrage the young boy suffered I grew hate towards the mother. I had always known the love and compassion I had for children. I wanted to be the voice for the younger children whom could not speak up against their abuse parents. I wanted to stop the abuse and not have to see life stories like Dave Pelzer’s. This book inspired me to become a social worker and be there for children. With literature I was educated and lead to the path in which I was destined to be.