I really related with Anne Lamott’s essay. When I write my first drafts, it is usually just to get my ideas on paper in whatever order my thoughts present themselves. Most of the time my first drafts are disorganized and lack grammar and mechanics, because I am mostly letting my thoughts just flow so my … [Read more…]
While reviewing the other people’s papers, It was cool to see how others chose to organize their papers, as well as the different points of views they chose to expand upon. I struggle with writing a conclusion paragraph, but after looking at how others wrote theirs, I feel as though I can write one.
After watching How Can Public Art Transform Rough Neighborhoods, and reading Southan’s Essay. I believe that art may not solve all the world’s problems, but it is able to impact the emotions of others and perhaps turn something bad into something good. I thought it was pretty neat that, even though Dre Urhahn and Jeron … [Read more…]
Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, are two artists whose original plan was to go to the community of Vila Cruzeiro and create a documentary of what life was like to live in the Favelas in Rio. The Favelas, is an area where there is a lot of poverty, crime and drug wars. Towards the end … [Read more…]
After spending some time on the Effective Altruism website I was able to grasp the idea of what their group is better then just reading Southan’s essay. When I first read the essay I kinda of have a negative mindset towards them that their goals were unrealistic. As I was looking through their website I … [Read more…]
A part in the reading that stuck out to me was where Southan references an essay by Peter Singer called Famine, Affluence, and Morality. He purposes a thought that says “Suppose you saw a child drowning in a pond: would you jump in and rescue her, even if you hadn’t pushed her in? Even if … [Read more…]
