Vietnam: Historical Thinking and Veteran Interviews
My final draft of my in-class timed writing on the Gulf of Tonkin issue is below.
Veteran Interview Video
Project Reflection
In class we had to learn about the cold war between Russia and the United States. After that we learned about the nuclear testing that was happening during the cold war. We also went on a field trip to see a memorial that was built to honor the people who fought in any of the wars who were Native American. We then researched for four hours on the Gulf of Tonkin, to prepare for timed in-class writing. Then we all got our groups to do our Veteran interview, we prepare for our interview for a wee, while we were reading a book called, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. After my interview I was in shock of how much these people really went through. After our interview we revised our timed in-class timed writing to extremes. Then we had our exhibition.
In my group I was the communicator, which means that I had to contact our assigned veteran, setup our interview, and get some basic information for before the interview. I believe that I did a really good job with the role I was given because I am really good at talking to people and being very respectful. I could’ve probably been a little bit more specific on a few things and been more organized. I wouldn’t pick another role because I’m not a very organized person for the logistics role, and I do not get along with technology of any sort so tech wouldn’t be good either. What sticks to me is that all of the campaigning for the army is kind of sick and twisted, because from everything that the veterans were talking about was, it may bring you ‘honor’ but it really messes you up for the rest of your life, and they fact that they are trying to make it seem so glorified makes me sad that they are ‘fooling’ people to think that ‘It’s not that bad, nothing can happen to you’. I used to think the same thing about those campaigns, and I realized that those posters are only trying to convince you of what it may be like, not what it is like.
I really struggled with Reading the Silences, because I was paraphrasing a lot in my paper, so I didn’t want it to seem like I was completely making it all up with no proof that t really happened. So in my last paragraph I tried really hard to put in quotes to show that I was talking about something that was real. Contextualizing came easiest to me because I really like to take outside information and connect it to the things that I am learning about because it helps me remember and it sticks to my memory.
The biggest revisions I made for my paper were, I basically rephrased everything and then put in a few quotes. I rephrased my whole paper because when we were first writing this, I just wanted to get out all of my ideas on the paper and I knew that I would have time to revise it later, therefore it sounded incredibly unprofessional. If you were to read my very first draft at our exhibition I would have gotten quite a few weird stares. I also added in quotes because it seemed that I was going off of nothing in my first draft.
In my group I was the communicator, which means that I had to contact our assigned veteran, setup our interview, and get some basic information for before the interview. I believe that I did a really good job with the role I was given because I am really good at talking to people and being very respectful. I could’ve probably been a little bit more specific on a few things and been more organized. I wouldn’t pick another role because I’m not a very organized person for the logistics role, and I do not get along with technology of any sort so tech wouldn’t be good either. What sticks to me is that all of the campaigning for the army is kind of sick and twisted, because from everything that the veterans were talking about was, it may bring you ‘honor’ but it really messes you up for the rest of your life, and they fact that they are trying to make it seem so glorified makes me sad that they are ‘fooling’ people to think that ‘It’s not that bad, nothing can happen to you’. I used to think the same thing about those campaigns, and I realized that those posters are only trying to convince you of what it may be like, not what it is like.
I really struggled with Reading the Silences, because I was paraphrasing a lot in my paper, so I didn’t want it to seem like I was completely making it all up with no proof that t really happened. So in my last paragraph I tried really hard to put in quotes to show that I was talking about something that was real. Contextualizing came easiest to me because I really like to take outside information and connect it to the things that I am learning about because it helps me remember and it sticks to my memory.
The biggest revisions I made for my paper were, I basically rephrased everything and then put in a few quotes. I rephrased my whole paper because when we were first writing this, I just wanted to get out all of my ideas on the paper and I knew that I would have time to revise it later, therefore it sounded incredibly unprofessional. If you were to read my very first draft at our exhibition I would have gotten quite a few weird stares. I also added in quotes because it seemed that I was going off of nothing in my first draft.