Model Senate Project
For this project I was assigned a senator and then researched my senators views so that during exhibition I would vote accurately as I could from my senators perspective. I also had to write legislation from my senators view. During our exhibition we had to vote, amend and make speeches about two separate bills on the Fiscal Cliff, and Climate Change.
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Writing Reflection 1
As a writer I want to work on the skills of practice becoming more descriptive, writing outlines before starting to write, and reflecting midway of writing and reevaluating. These skills will make help me become a more organized and fluid writer.
I can work on becoming more descriptive by using the technique of “Show don’t Tell” I used this technique in my college essay when I opened my essay with an anecdote of showing the audience the “end product” of my hard work with my horse Vegas. My first draft of my college essay was incredibly dry and lacked emotion and the real point of what I was trying to achieve. I had to work unbelievably very hard to get my essay to the high quality that it is, and I feel as if I shouldn’t have to work as hard and recreate my writing, rather than improve upon my work. I feel as if I could write out a sentence and then practice rewriting that sentence in different ways ending with multiple options to use fir my writing.
Writing outlines for my writing will help me develop my idea that I’m trying to educate others with. I have struggled with this because in my Tocqueville Reflection I completely avoided organization and my argument in my first draft was atrocious. I was making a statement that was relevantly irrelevant, and that’s why it is important for me to have outlines that I can refer to so that my argument doesn’t get lost in translation.
When writing I sometimes become lost in thought and will write and write without thinking about how the argument is relevant to the writing. Reflecting and reevaluating midway of my writing would help me bring a cohesive element to my writing. In my college essay, I barreled through my first draft, without taking a break. I was disappointed when I read over the draft and found that it was not well transitioned or related to what I wanted to say. I believe that to fix these mistakes is to have out my outline that I have and every few lines or so, start reading from the beginning of the writing to get a feel of what I’m saying. After reading the writing I would then go back and make the needed revisions so that I can continue my writing.
I can work on becoming more descriptive by using the technique of “Show don’t Tell” I used this technique in my college essay when I opened my essay with an anecdote of showing the audience the “end product” of my hard work with my horse Vegas. My first draft of my college essay was incredibly dry and lacked emotion and the real point of what I was trying to achieve. I had to work unbelievably very hard to get my essay to the high quality that it is, and I feel as if I shouldn’t have to work as hard and recreate my writing, rather than improve upon my work. I feel as if I could write out a sentence and then practice rewriting that sentence in different ways ending with multiple options to use fir my writing.
Writing outlines for my writing will help me develop my idea that I’m trying to educate others with. I have struggled with this because in my Tocqueville Reflection I completely avoided organization and my argument in my first draft was atrocious. I was making a statement that was relevantly irrelevant, and that’s why it is important for me to have outlines that I can refer to so that my argument doesn’t get lost in translation.
When writing I sometimes become lost in thought and will write and write without thinking about how the argument is relevant to the writing. Reflecting and reevaluating midway of my writing would help me bring a cohesive element to my writing. In my college essay, I barreled through my first draft, without taking a break. I was disappointed when I read over the draft and found that it was not well transitioned or related to what I wanted to say. I believe that to fix these mistakes is to have out my outline that I have and every few lines or so, start reading from the beginning of the writing to get a feel of what I’m saying. After reading the writing I would then go back and make the needed revisions so that I can continue my writing.
State Law Mini-Project
The Street Law Mini-Project was to educate ourselves and other people around us about the balance the need for the 4th amendment. The balance was between analyzing real life and theoretical situations, defining and understanding reasonable suspicion and probable cause, apply this knowledge in an encounter with the police, and recognizing the freedoms and restrictions of search and seizure. With the knowledge that we learned about we had to then apply it to a project that would inform others in a creative way.
I connected to this project because of the recent news of police brutality and I have seen that people don’t really understand reasonable suspicion and probable cause. I wanted to define these two key terms because I knew that I had no clue what they were, I had only heard of them in movies and TV shows, and I wanted to educate others on what they actually meant. When we had two guest police officers come into our classroom, and I heard them talking about reasonable suspicion and probable cause and how they would apply them to a situation, and I realized that reasonable suspicion and probable cause were completely different and wanted to know more about those two terms. So for this project I wanted to define those terms in a creative way, and I decided to create two political cartoons, that would be fun and educational.
I connected to this project because of the recent news of police brutality and I have seen that people don’t really understand reasonable suspicion and probable cause. I wanted to define these two key terms because I knew that I had no clue what they were, I had only heard of them in movies and TV shows, and I wanted to educate others on what they actually meant. When we had two guest police officers come into our classroom, and I heard them talking about reasonable suspicion and probable cause and how they would apply them to a situation, and I realized that reasonable suspicion and probable cause were completely different and wanted to know more about those two terms. So for this project I wanted to define those terms in a creative way, and I decided to create two political cartoons, that would be fun and educational.