Intro

      To start off, my name is Matt Klein.  I am from a the small town of Stickney around 10 minutes away from Chicago.  My major was journalism but now i'm trying to change it to PE.  I love to play baseball and football.  I used to catch for a junior college called Morton College. I also like to fish a lot with my dad and friends.  I am a white sox fan and will die a white sox fan.   I love to watch football on Sundays and participate in competitive fantasy football leagues.  I love to go to parties and toss around the bean bags.  I like to write sometimes depending on the topic and knowledge on the topic.  That's about it.

Narrative on Social Diversity and Multiculturalism

       What is social diversity? Social Diversity is the different factors that change our society.  Factors such as religion, race, age, skin color, style, etc.  It's is all the different factors that shape our society.  Multiculturalism is how we accept and promote each culture in society.  How we accept the Mexican culture mixed with other cultures in society.  It is how some people celebrate Cinco De Mayo and others treat May 5th as another day.  Social Diversity is really important to me because it keeps the world exciting.  I have a lot of "lived experiences" that have bin important parts of my diverse life which made my life more exciting.
    I think everyone in society shapes the social diversity in society because everyone is different.  Everyone throws in their own little part to create a diverse society. A really important part of diversity for me was my class and the neighborhood I lived in.  I am in the middle class and I totally enjoy it.  For the most part the neighborhood you live in shows what class you are in.  I like the style all my friends had living in my town.  High school also helped me understand tons of diverse issues in society.  I walked in and was suddenly surrounded by tons of different styles and tons of different types of people with different attitudes.  It taught me to accept other kinds of styles and not judge people entirely if they have a different style then you.  One of my best friends turned into a "Guido" but I still respect him and I'm still best friends with him.  Since my high school was not a great school which had lots of gang affiliation and fights I had to learn what to do and what not to do.  It is safe to say that my high school prepared me just a little more for the real world. 
        Since I decided  to change my major from journalism to PE, I am interested in child obesity or some health issues.  I am not sure if this is a social justice issue but it will affiliate with my major immensely.  To me this is an important topic because it will be linked with my major.  Children Obesity will also eventually turn into a bigger and bigger problem with the advancement in technology.  Kids will be stuck on the games instead of going out.  I can talk about how schools require students to have a PE class.  I can also observe how many students are actually forced to be involved in gym class.  I think many schools have PE class but many don't watch and observe there students during class.  Soon enough when Playstation 10 comes out PE will be the only workout these kids will get daily!

Exercise 2

"Most of us, I think, can swing both ways in our feelings towards pigeons, an ambivalence that doesn't seem to apply to other "pests" because pigeons occupy an odd category of creatures that we can both love and hate, animals that are untidy and irritating yet, at times, utterly enchanting."

"Yet these two feelings, our separation and connection to the natural world, are always in conflict, even among those who have tutored themselves to believe in one rather than the other.  This seems especially true when confronted with creatures like pigeons, who aren't easy to hate and aren't easy to love, who both foul the nest and yet possess the beauty of a gray river stone, smoothed by the timeless movement of current."

      I think the central question he was trying to ask is that is bad writing to one bad to others. The thesis seemed to be that some people might like your style or your certain paper.  Just like the pigeons, some might not like your paper but some might see a beauty to it like the pigeon.  This is what I thought the thesis was and it seems to make sense to me.  The author was trying to understand that some people might not like your writing just like how some people are fans of Obama and some are not. 

     When you right a research paper a good method you can use are using personal experiences and observations along with facts to not bore the reader.  Facts a lot of times are boring if that is all you keep reading

     I never really created a research paper that has personal experiences in it and observations.  In mt recent years of schooling, research papers were papers that you researched a topic in books or websites and they seemed quite boring.  The pigeon essay uses the authors personal experiences and observations which makes it unlike of what I thought a reseach paper really is.  I will be more interested in research if I can add my own expeirences.  This way it can make the paper and research more fun, which will most likely create a better paper. 

     I thought I can relate or extract the message out of this essay.  I am not totally sure that my assumption is correct but I think it can definitely relate.  I learned a lot about pigeons reading this essay.  I never really thought in depth about the pigeons and there skill to make you hate them or love them.  I learned that nature will always be there and people are going to have different views on the way they look at nature.

Exercise 1

• You have to know your thesis before you start.
• You need to follow a formal structure.
• Form matters more then content.
• You cant use the pronoun I.
• You can use your own experiences and observations as evidence. 

           In middle school and high school many teachers always wanted their students to form a thesis before anything else was done with the paper.  This is why a lot of students think this statement is true but in reality it's not.  A thesis can become better if you write about your favorite or best argument/point first because then you can reflect your thesis completely on your ideas.
          Following a formal structure is a huge part about writing a nice paper.  Papers have to be organized with transitions and right paragraph sequences.  Certain paragraphs should be before or after other certain paragraphs.  A formal structure also means having a intro, body, and conclusion for your paper.  If we are talking about research papers you definitely have to have a formal structure.
          A lot of students are too attached to the intro, body, and conclusion that they just try to put together a paper and as long as it looks good they will hand it in.  This is a bad thing to do because actually this statement is "neutral" or false depending on the way you look at it.  This is because form and content are really important issues and you need both to create a good paper. 
        Students try their best to stay away from using the word I in research papers but there are different types of research papers.  With the social action research paper I think you should be allowed to use the letter I because you are doing the researcher your self in real life situations.  If you doing a normal research paper with lets say your using websites to write a paper about Bill Clinton or something then you shouldnt use the word I. 
        Using your own evidence is fine if your doing certain research papers.  My answer for this is basically the same as the before statement.  Your not going to use your own evidence with writing about Bill Clinton but you will with a social action paper obviously. 

Step 2

        There is a big difference between facts and opinions.....I somewhat agree with this statement.  Facts is information that was already proven which makes it a solidified piece of information.  A opinion is just a personal opinion; it is only yours.  I guess you can say that opinions are sometimes true and correct which can make them facts.  This is why I somewhat agree because this has me thinking about some peoples opinions "can" be correct but I guess facts is information that has been proven.  You can also say that facts are also opinions because the facts had to come from someone to start off.  Very confusing statement but kinda interesting to think about.