What I have learned

1. By doing my research paper I have learned more about MLA citations, and have learned more about citing and how to arrange a research paper. It was very challenging for me because I tend to overthink too much and then overwhelm myself with the possible ideas and ways to go do an assignment. My understand of college-level research hasn't necessarily changed because before I did not know what to expect, but know that I have an idea of how it's suppose to go, I realize I have a very long way to go. 
2. The advice I'd tell a potential student is to get as much sources as possible, familiarize themselves with citation pages, as it is almost as challenging and important as the actual paper and break down your paper into some type of guideline. Breaking down a paper into subjects help to get the paper going, and makes it less overwhelming. Also scheduling different parts at specific times/days helps. Also in general free-writing does help the paper come along, because if the ideas are coming to you, you can just add to them with correct citations later. I'd also add that I'd tell any student if they have doubt on how their paper looks, to go to a writing center at their college, to get help.  
3.  I probably would have given myself more time for the paper, but overall I'm happy with it. I also believe I would have gone to the writing center, and utilize any available help on campus but time did not allow me. Now that I see the difference with a research paper and an opinion based paper I have a better understanding how to formulate papers in the future. I've learned that research papers work best when the topic is related to me.

Week 5 Blog

The author of my first reference is Temple Grandin, from her book named Thinking In Pictures published in 1995. It is a book source and it is important to my paper because my research paper is about Temple Grandin. It adds to the paper because it describes her sensation to touch. I talk about how some autistic people react negatively to touch, and in the movie her reaction to her mother's hug was negative. In the book Temple Grandin describes being touch like her senses being overloaded, and it caused her to want to run away like a wild animal. I chose this source because I needed a book source and out of the two book sources that I had I chose this one because it got more to the core of what I was looking for. “I always hated to be hugged. I wanted to experience the good feeling of being hugged, but it was too overwhelming. It was like a great all-engulfing tidal wave of stimulation, and I reacted like a wild animal.” (Grandin 62). 

The author of my second source is Davidson, Turkington, and Cataldo. The name of the article was called Autism and it's a source for Gale Virtual Reference. It is very important to my paper because it explains in detail what autism is. The authors argument is not really much an argument but an explanation as to what autism is. The reason I chose this source was because it was imperative that I had an encyclopedia reference plus I liked it because it was very detailed including the prognosis, the treatment, the symptoms as other pertinent facts. It had about seventy to eight percent of what I needed as far as explaining what autism is. A complex developmental disorder distinguished by difficulties with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, with behavioral problems as well as repetitive behaviors and narrow focus of interests (Davidson, Turkington, Cataldo 373).

Assignment #8

In the figure eight still there is a few emotions within the still. Temple’s emotions include panic, uncertainty, and comfort. Temple is in her state because I believe this is the part where she saw her grade. She’s distraught. She feels comfort in the squeeze box she created. Her roommate’s emotion are concern, fear, and disgust. She catches Temple in her squeeze box, unsure of what it is and its purpose. She misinterprets it for something sexual, and later Temple gets sent to the dean.  The cinematographic details I noticed was the wood in front of the squeeze box. That detail shows urgency for the compression and comfort that the squeeze box provides. It shows that Temple did not have enough time to remove the wood out of the way as they are right in front of the opening. I could use this image to show the urgency that goes through an autistic person’s mind when they need relief from whatever is stressing them. The evidence that this still provides is that the average person does not use a squeeze machine however it was concluded from Temple’s study that it has comforting effects for most people whether typically developed or autistic.

In still figure eight you see how far Temple has come in her design success. She is discussing her designs with someone that owns a large slaughter house. The cinematographic details includes a room full of men in a circle with the exception of Temple. I would use this still as evidence that high-functioning autistic people can lead successful lives.

By dissecting the film by stills there is more detail to be seen that might have been missed previously. From this exercise I learned to analyze a scene better, by taking in more information that would have passed me due to the speed of the scenes.  

Intro

Welcome to my blog for ENG 103.

            The purpose of this blog is to describe myself and my educational and career goals. My name is Z.P. and I am from Brooklyn, New York. Spring 2016 will be my final semester. After graduating Laguardia Community College I would like to leave the state of New York. I am currently not sure as to what state I am interested in because there are several factors behind the decision as to where I would move to. The factors involve cost of living, job potential, diversity, and mainly if the states will have my degree available. I also have to take into account my child, and that any school I put him in needs to be well performing as well.

           I am a Deaf Studies major, so that is seen more as a specialty and not many colleges have Deaf related majors. The field in the Deaf community is rather limited. The options are teaching, counseling, working as a social worker, an audiologist, speech pathologist, and being an interpreter.

           I originally came to Laguardia Community College with the idea that after two years I would be an interpreter. That is far from the case. In order to be a nationally certified interpreter you need to have a Bachelor’s degree first, then you have to take a performance, and a written test. I know for sure I want to work within the Deaf community, I just need to pinpoint what exactly it is I want to major in.
           As far as books, I'm not much of a reader. I find it boring. I would however read if it's required by a professor. As far as films, I don't necessarily have a favorite, since I'm not a movie person but I do have a favorite genre. I enjoy horror, fantasy/sci-fi, drama, and comedies in that order.
           As far as technology goes I am neither an optimist or pessimist. I am usually a neutral person. I can find faults and positives in anything. I do enjoy technology because it does help simplify my life. As with everything I don't think there should be too much technology, i.e. robots replacing train conductors, etc. I don't think technology is always correct, but neither are human beings. I just feel there is a need for balance, and it depends on the type of job. I think younger people more than older people tend to be more optimistic regarding technology.