Portfolio

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nlTTYuis8BusT9T7ANuF0J_muswxnAUkd3N6fhrDUR4/edit

Academic Narrative

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzGK_YEUyM6fdF1yuAlqjJZbhVrHsWaJzDqYhZ2XfoA/edit

Research Paper

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_WW-hj5QS1naMHqC0-xuideT1ZmeEW5fPq26UoijNDU/edit

Paper Reflection

Paper Reflection

This is the first proper research paper I wrote throughout my academic year. I wrote research paper before in the High School however I didn't know how to cite the work cited and insert quotes, etc. This paper helped me to learn how to write research paper also since Professor Dan gave us a lot time to focus on this research paper, I learned more about my topics.

Extra Credit : Interview

Interviewee: Wesley Ueunten

Interviewer: Shin Shan Cho

Location: San Francisco State University

Date: 03 May 2018

Interview

• Tell me about your education in the past when you were growing up

I grew up in Hawaii. My education system was really bad because I think my area where I live. Not that we are poor, my parents are in middle class. But where I grew up, we(our school) didn’t have many resources. When I hit to sixth or seventh grade, we didn’t learn many new things. For music class, we had to share one trumpets with four or five people. Yeah, we didn’t have many resources. Textbooks are the same for like ten or fifteen years. That’s how bad it was. So when I went to Highschool, I went to private school. I was kinda behind compared with others. When I went to college, I was still behind compared to students who went to here in mainland.

• Do you think the education in US is good?

I would say it is inconsistent because the place when I grew up, it’s bad but some places; even in Hawaii, there are really good public school from beginning to the end. The education in here is so much inequality. So if you have money, you can go to private school. The education system is not that great but it is getting worse and worse. So people who have money, they sent their children to private school. So all the good students go to private school. Some people who couldn’t afford education for their children and bad students go to public school. So the inequality of education is growing in Hawaii.

• Do you know anything about education in developing countries especially in Asia?

I’m not familiar but I am wondering if it will have some similarities. Like parents who have money, they send their children to private school. Parents who don’t have money, their children stay in public school. In Japan, there’s a lot propaganda passed down to the education. “ Be loyal to your country” Even my education system in the past was bad, we didn’t have to memorize things and not that much propaganda like in your old school. Memorize Memorize and I think there’s connection between getting student to memorize uncritically meaning you just memorize and you don’t think. Once the students learn without thinking critically, which means you just feed them anything you want. I am lucky that it didn’t happen to me.

• What are the educational differences between US and Asia countries?

I would say it will be still have educational inequality between this two countries.

• Do you know anything about Myanmar?

I know about there has large amount of Chinese population. It controlled by military very a long time; repressive government even with Aung San Suu Kyi. Many different minorities within country; like small different languages. But I don’t really know that much about Myanmar.

• In general, what do you think about what government should invest more money on? Education, medical, government, etc?

Definitely on medical and education.

• What I have research in Myanmar education, teacher get paid very little compared with other countries especially in US. Do you think Myanmar Government should increase the salary for teachers and why?

Wow, that’s really surprising for me. Even though some people like me who passionate to teach and this career doesn’t give me some amount of money, I would be stressed out because I would think about money first in order to survive my living. It sounds kinda selfish haha. But I strongly suggest to Myanmar Government that they really should increase salary for teachers because being teacher is part of learning process like students will learn through their experiences of course and also acquire informations for teachers is important too.

• How do you think or feel about Myanmar either in the history or current time? What should Myanmar change in any other ways that you could think about?

Based on what I know, Burmese people believe in Buddhism and I don’t get why the government ruled by military which means full of anger and other stuff. And I feel like they should change the rule of the government.

PW: (05/03/18)

PW: (05/03/18)


I think "keep it real" in academic writing is like be true yourself about what is your main point and opinions.
-credibility and personal opinions.
- connect with the audience.
- clear message
- be confident with your speaking.
- relevant to yourself; like expereinces
- your own message
- vlunerble


Coates
- how he writes to his son and his personal experience
- what he notices around the world through his education
- his body appearance and reality (race/ social issues)

 Malcolm X
- religious/ spirituality
- shows creditable by reading a lot, learning self taught in prison
- tells stories/ history

Adisa
- tells about her childhood/ poetry

Villanueva
- his race; personal identity

PW: (05/01/18)

I think I like "Victor Villanueva" because he talks about his personal stories about how he grew up in his environment through "Ghetto" but he made himself educated person. So that makes me feel like I have more hope and chance to become educated person. like other people can make themselves to become educated person so why can't I do when my situation is better than him; growing up in the bad environment.

Reading Annotation Blog #11

Reading Annotation Blog #11


The book called " Bootstraps" by Victor Villanueva talks about his personal story as a Puerto Rican  in the United States. The first chapter " The Block" which means where the black people and other uneducated people with different culture and different languages used to make TROUBLE. The author went to School with different teachers which have different understanding of students. Some teachers don't even know about the background of the student's life and language culture. "No college" since he talks a lot of about "Ghetto" when usually don't have education background so what the college mean for is the future of the prison.  Victor really want students in ghetto should be continue on the education instead of hanging out for no reason with other uneducated people. Because, he grew up from the society however, he out of there and made himself educated person. Therefore, the first chapter is talking about his first step of life and success. 

"Still, I have a hard time seeing you as someone of color." My guess , that he meant that as a compliment, likely having something to do with competence. The colleague must see "color" as brown and black and not quite as able (though the incompetence is a social problem, tot a genetic predisposition, no doubt). (xiii)

"Color isn't always race when it comes to teachers. It's an attitude, more an understanding of where we live than where we're from." (2)

Language was not the problem of the would- be dropout. (8)

Reading Annotation Blog #10

Reading Annotation Blog #10

"LYING IN THE TALL GRASSES,  EATING CANE "

This article is talking about how she became the writer/ poet through discovering through the Caribbean and African American writer. She is from Jamaica, by the time when she's back to the country, she started to observe the people in her country and their education. During her work, she talks about her mother language which is Jamaican. However, she feels like even though she has been writing for over twenty years; she doesn't feel like she is not perfect enough.

"They lived life with a robust intensity that tingled me to the core. I searched my mind for words, language with which to convey the intensity of their feelings, but believed myself to b sadly lacking. So I stored their stories in the recesses of my mind. " (185)

"I always suspected this history I was being taught was somehow erroneous or at best lopsided and suspect. ! didn't feel wrong or inferior, yet my education was telling me that even the way we Jaqiaicans spoke-was wrong." (185)

"Why did it take me eighteen years to discover them and then so far from home? From then on, I read avidly and tentatively began to seek out black writers in New York" (186)

 In many ways, I sense that the depth of my feelings borders on sickness; yet I am also painfully aware that this lover is as necessary as the blood that feeds my heart. (188)


Questions:

- What she means by first priority? " But I have never given writing first priority" (188)
- Who's her lover in poem?

PW (04/26/18)

PW (04/26/18)

Richard Wright is trying to say about the race while there was discrimination and racism back in the history of United States. I think the article introduce with that quote because the narrator also been through the situation and understand how they felt. They are meant to born with negative assumptions even though if there is true or not.

Blog #9

This article talks about history of black people and how they been treated. Everything around for us was terrible, dark and violence crimes. In 1986, the narrator was in sixth grade when the white boy was about to shoot him based on his skin tone. The narrator had to learn how to shield his body by nodding and shaking hands in order to survive the neighborhoods. He had to be careful with whatever he does because based on the skin tone, the rules are essential for him. The violence makes him cost the body. Later, he married to a woman and have a baby; they lived in Delaware with not enough property.  Slavery and Enslavement are not meant to be the end but it is wrong to claim the black people's present circumstances but never compensate for the triumph. They struggled a lot in the past therefore the narrator wants his son to understand his ethnicity and how he should be acted in order to responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies.

"Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people, " but the means by which "the people" acquired their names" (6)

 "I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life and the pursuit of this question, I have found, intimately answer itself."(12)

"It does not matter if the agent of those forces is white or black-what matters is our conditions, what matters is the system that makes your body breakable." (18)

"The world had no time for the childhoods of black boys and girls. How could the schools?" (26)

"Slavery" is this same woman born in a world that loudly proclaims its love of freedom and inscribes this love in its essential texts, a world in which these same ....... is the enslaved." (70)

Reading Annotation Blog#8

Reading Annotation Blog#8

Learning to Read article is talking about how Malcolon X's reading process from the beginning to pro. Before he became the minister of Mr. Muhammad’s, he went to the prison. This was how he started to read and study. He started to read about History of the United States then around the world. Which book made him more interested reading in book were "Abolitionist Anti- Slavery" and "the father of History". Through reading books, what he had learned was how the white people brought up issues with other types of ethnicity. It is basically talking about how reading can change through your thinking?

"Reading it over and over, especially certain sections, helped me to understand that if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man- because the white chromosome is recessive." (3) 

One
 was,
 “What’s
 your 
alma 
mater?” 
I 
told 
him,
“Books.” 
You
 will 
never 
catch 
me 
with 
a 
free 
fifteen
minutes
 in 
which 
I’m
 not 
studying 
something 
I 
feel 
might 
be
 able 
to 
help 
the 
black 
man.
" (6)


Where 
else 
but
 in 
a 
prison
 could
 I 
have 
attacked
 my
 ignorance 
by 
being 
able 
to 
study 
intensely 
sometimes 
as
much 
as 
fifteen
 hours
 a 
day?
(6)

Research Paper Peer Draft

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12P40MQoZl6GBO-yXKuoxHuVaetWt1z4KhWHKOdpTeds/edit?usp=sharing

PW: (04/19/18)

PW: (04/19/18)

The open- ended question is really important because it makes the interview looks more interesting and more things to learn from their answers and also we can ask more questions based on their answer too. For example; how, why and what would you do, etc.

Annotation Blog #7

Annotation Blog #7

The article is talking about how to do an interview with good strategies. When we ask questions, it said there is also collaborative listening. There are two different questions which are closed questions and open questions. Closed questions are more simple questions like what, who, when, etc. But for the open questions are like why, how, etc. When we do the interview, the most important thing is being a good listener. Even we ask the perfect questions to interviewee, if we can't interpret and not being a good listener. The information we get will not be that good. In order to become a good listener, we should prepare for the set of good focused questions and need to change directions in anytime based on the interviewee is heading to. There are some strategies how to set up for the interview.


 "Those strategies are part of interviewing - learning to ask and learning to listen"(220).

"Although most people think that the key to a good interview is asking a set of good questions, we and our students have found that the real key to interviewing is being a good listener"(225).

"To become a good listener as a field interviewer, you must also haves structured plans with focused questions. And you must be willing to change them as the conversation moves in different directions. With open questions, background research, and genuine interest in your informant, find yourself holding collaborative conversation from which both learn. It the process, not the preplanned information, that makes an interview successful"(226).

PW (04/17/18)

PW (04/17/18)

I never listened to Kendrick Lamar but I think he is winning the award maybe he is representing his society by creating into a music. Maybe I would involved in the humanities by be myself and make sure my voice heard by everyone, just doing what I am believing in and keep going. In humanities, as a human we need to have a sympathy to emphasize other people who need help.

Research Outline

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MaSIH_R337MWR3kRf9QmuU5sedaq8a5SBcRMtKh5YAI/edit#

PW (04/12/2018)

PW (04/12/2018)

Both of my scholarly articles agree that Myanmar Education system need to be change and not investing more money on the military. Since, there wasn't enough money to afford; they didn't have better programming in the education and lack of teacher's requirement. They also talked about how diverse people have different language in Myanmar but the government forced to be have only one language which is Burmese in 8 different cities. They both agree that the reason why Myanmar Education System is out of date because they still believing in the histrorical period which really impacted on the modern society.

Annotation Blog #6

Annotation Blog #6

Chapter 4 is basically saying like whenever we write the paper, we need to prove our instinct whether we agree, disagree or both to let the reader know about where we are making a claim. Also, giving examples about how to write the agree or disagree in the passage and what we should need to put reason for those claims that we make. There are three ways to respond; 1) disagree and explain why 2)agree and with a difference 3)agree and disagree. what it means by when we disagree; we have to make sure we persuade our argument to the reader about why we disagree. when we agree, we need to tell the Reader about our experiences and sounds like more realistic. when we are in both, we need to make sure which points we agree and which points are not.

" For this reason, this chapter's advice applies to reading as well as to writing. Especially with difficult texts, you need not only to find the position the writer is responding to - the "They Say" but also determine whether the writer is agreeing with it, challenging it or some mixture of the two"(56)

"That is, the complexity,  and originality of your response are more likely to stand out and be noticed if readers have a baseline sense of where you stand relative to any ideas you've cited(57).

Chapter 5 is saying like most students are familiar with the sentence " Don't use I in essay" but the article said that it is okay use "I" because the readers might don't know "is that your opinions or other people's opinions" Therefore, "Differentiating your views from those of others, or even offering your own views in the first place."(72) then, there are examples to show how to write clearly "voice maker"

"Frequently, when students have trouble understanding difficult texts, it is not just because the texts contain unfamiliar ideas or words, but because the texts rely on subtle clues to let readers know when a particular view should be attributed to the writer or to someone else"(69).

Chapter 6 is saying like we all should have counterargument to make the essay sounds more interesting and more open minded.

"It suggests that even though most of us are upset at the idea of someone criticizing our work, such criticisms can actually work to our advantage(78)".

Chapter 7 talks about how "So What and Who Cares" important because when we didn't put it, it makes the essay looks less interesting and not too detailed about the topic. There are some template to grab reader's attention by suggesting the real problem in your claims. Also, we are basically trying to say is why we care about our claims and why the reader should care.

"The best way to answer such questions about the larger consequences of your claims is to appear to something that your audience already figure to care about. Whereas the "who cares?" question ask you to identify an interested person or group, the "so what?" question ask you to link your argument to some larger matter that the readers already deem important"(97).

Resarch Annotation BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1092oZfGAfIvXrcmIk8d3bK2xRixUq9KFSApRRu4-
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