Fashion Trends

With me, fashion is a way of me expressing myself. My personality is generally laid back and a little old fashioned at times, so I tend to wear comfortable clothes that I feel myself in them. I keep up with the trends, but only buy and wear the clothes I like. I am always open to try on different types of styles to see if I can broaden my taste. I would not consider myself a trendsetter, because my style generally stays the same. I guess I could call myself not really a risk taker when it comes to fashion. I love looking through magazines to see all the different celebrities and what they are wearing and I usually really like their outfits, but it usually does not fit my style. I never stop buying a certain brand if it has gone "out of style." Style is a personality trait, so I tend to not change it very often.

Activities on Campus

I am a member of the Stockton volleyball team, so unfortunately that single activity has taken up most of my time. I would love to be more involved in all different varieties of activities, but with homework and the tough commitment with volleyball I find myself short on time very often. With only a few weeks left of volleyball season, I am definitely looking forward to becoming more involved with events around campus. I would love to attend one of the career fairs coming up, and I also cannot wait to go to some basketball games. Being a college athlete takes up most of my time and also a lot of energy with school work on top of it, so once I am out of season is when I will really get the chance to be involved. 

First Conference

I thought my first conference was extremely helpful. You pointed out exactly what you liked in my introduction paragraph, which gives me an idea as to how I should structure or write the rest of my paper. I like how you individually took the time to thoroughly check each and every paper, and not just rush through them. I thought your criticism was very fair, and when it comes to improving something I take any kind of guidance from a teacher as constructive criticism which I believe you gave me a lot of. I really hope wehave a couple more conferences like this one to cover some more of my paper aside from my introduction paragraph.

Univision: Immigrant Therapy

The blog which intrigued me the most by its title, "Univision Embraces Hispanic Victim Psychology," iswritten by Stanley Renson who discusses a program called Univision which supplies the Hispanic community as a whole with information and entertainment, in a way easing their troubles of fitting into the United States. Ifound it interesting that Univision has such a large influence on the community as it was stated, "Their chief American political contribution has been the development and promotion of public political debates. They have done this both at the state level and the national level." Univision consists of political reporters and types of programming, which answer the many questions immigrants may have. I also found it interesting that President Obama was interviewed by one of Univision's reporters, Don Francisco, who had the guts to ask, "Mr. President, within our Hispanic community, there is a concern that not only the problems that we face are not being solved, but that they are getting worse. For example, Arizona's SB1070 law which practically turns immigrants into criminals; What do you think [of] that?" President Obama answered the best he could, but I found it very inspiring that immigrants are speaking up for themselves.

I find Univision to be very useful to the Hispanic community, because it supplies them with the news specifically pertaining to their interests. Immigrants should be the first to be informed of their rights and new laws or regulations toward immigration which is where Univision comes in.

http://www.cis.org/renshon/univision-victim-psychology

Silko's predicament

There was no doubt that Silko passionately dislikes the idea of Border Control,especially the Border Control police officers. I could sense the anger and frustration she has towards the idea of being free in the United States of America, but she is constantly looked down upon or feels as if she comes across as a trouble maker or very suspicious. One part of her story which I found quite amazing and very strange was the connection she made with the German Shepherd. I have seen television shows where people claim they can talk to animals and know exactly what they are thinking and what they are trying to say, but this situation really amazed me especially since she had marijuana in her pocket. Being able to lookat an animal, and feel the same emotions and mentally make an agreement stunned me.

More than just a job

Can a career become your identity? Well, when it comes to my mother, I believe it can. My mom qualifies for the "supermom" title. For eighteen years, she managed to take care of me, and then also deal with my other siblings once they were born. I have a sister who is ten, a brother who is nine, and the another brother who is six: talk about a handful. My mother manages to make sure everyone is fed, dressed, and out the door on time for school every morning. She also makes the best dinners every night (which I have missed dearly), and always looks forward to dinnertime solely to hear about how everyone's day has gone. Before my three siblings were born, my mother was a consultant, but chose to give it up to do what she loves the most; being the best mom in the world. In my opinion, her career is her identity, she is "supermom", someoneI will aways look up to and admire because of her job.