Reagan Braker

  I think the begging scene of the movie shocked me the most when they were showing there home underground. It made me sad to think that they were living in these conditions. It also made me curious how they ended up in this position. I wonder what events happened in there life to lead them to living underground. What surprised me most is how much of a community and support group they built underground. It was weird there houses seemed normal to them. A question that came to mind after watching the documentary was why did the train company decide to finally make them move after many years?    Some feelings that stayed with me after the film were feeling grateful for all my necessities and shelter I live in today. I also was very sad and emotional to see them living in those conditions for so many years. We may want to avoid research in our summaries since we want to focus and analyze solely on the documentary. We are supposed to be describing what watched in    ...

In Chapter Ten we learned about visual literacy. Visual literacy is when someone has the ability to interrupt through an image the importance and awareness of visual communication. In my reading, I learned some important steps on how to examine the rhetorical context of a photo. For example, the photographers context and purpose for making a photo and the original context and cultural context. Also, I learned how one can examine photos better to understand what they are portraying to their audiences. One can understand a photo by looking at the people, lighting, framing ,repetition and many more details in the photo. After reading about visual literacy, it made me think about how prevalent visual literacy is in our everyday walk of life. We look at so many different photographs every day on social media, news, television and many more visual outlets. Photos and imagery are used more than any other time in history due to all the media and social media outlets that are running twenty-fou...

The first few weeks of college have started with some emotional ups and downs. I have been able to meet a lot of new people so far from my classes and on the golf team. I’ve been enjoying golf practices and going to the tournaments with the team. College golf is a lot different from golf in high school so it is going to take some time to get used to.   Also, I have been able to attend some fun sporting events and campus events. I've gone to some of the soccer and football games here on campus and North Central has put on some enjoyable events for us freshmen to meet new people. The Naperville downtown which has many shops and restaurants has been really enjoyable to explore. One of my favorite shops, Lululemon, is right downtown so it's nice it's close but could also be a problem.  Some challenges have been balancing my homework, classes, and golf team practice. It definitely was an adjustment to planning out my days and finding time to get my homework and studying done. ...

The first challenge I encountered with my micro-theme was finding a topic. It was difficult to find a topic that I am passionate about and was enjoyable to write about. Also, it took some lengthy brainstorming to find a topic that I thought would be interesting. I came to the conclusion to write about social media. Since others and I spend numerous hours on social media.  In the middle paragraph, I had to take some time to make sure I was utilizing words and qualified language to suggest ideas for the problem. Also, I struggled with the ending paragraph of my micro-theme and how to wrap up the ending. But I deliberated, and I was able to develop my closing paragraph. I had some difficulty with just some simple grammar issues throughout the paper but I was able to work those out. Something I was not used to doing was having set up phrases throughout the microtheme. But after getting used to it, it became more of a habit.  After writing about this topic it really had me taken ba...