Short Story Love In L. A By Dagoberto Gilb

I really liked the presentation about sexuality in Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic. This gave me a better understanding on how people suffer when coming out and dealing with constant criticism in their country.

with a great sense of loss. The novel shows that loving someone also means inviting the

“Love in LA” is a short story written by Dagoberto Gilb. The author was actually born in LA; his mother is Mexican while his father is from Kentucky. From this, you can infer that the narrator of “Love in LA” is either fully Mexican or at the very least a “halfie,” even though the story itself does not explicitly describe the appearance of the main anti-hero, Jake. This story is written in the third person point of view. Although it is in the third person point of view, the story focuses on mostly Jake. The plot centers on the young and optimistic Jake. One day while driving in traffic, while day dreaming of a better life for himself, he crashes into another car. As he was pondering whether or not to drive away, he saw that the owner of the car was a nice looking woman; so he second-guessed speeding away. He then attempted to flirt with the seemingly naive woman, named Mariana. Jake tries to avoid having to deal with the insurance company, however Mariana does not end up buying Jake’s lies and proceeds to ask for his number, insurance, plates, and driver license number. Jake then giving her what she wants but because he does not have insurance, he ends

For the first presentation, I was partners with Maddi and we conducted a lifeboat simulation to demonstrate the discrimination people face based on diversity and primary judgement. I really enjoyed watching everyone in the group share their input. I also loved how people allowed others to speak up as this does not always happen during normal class time. It was cool to see how similar our class is to the other groups I have seen attempt this task. Asking how far along in the pregnancy the woman was happened near the beginning of the exercise as well as other things like putting women and children on the boat first. I was also proud that they thought about how helpful certain people would be if something were to happen. These specific individuals

I thought the first speech “Gut explosion and funnel cakes,” by Amanda Erck was executed with real class. I particularly like how she used an embarrassing story and turned it around into a positive. I thought she built up ethos perfectly by explaining her disease. She really drew me in explaining what Celiac Disease was and what kinds thing she can and cannot eat. Amanda was able to stress big points by using humor. The line that stuck out to me, in particular, was when she started talking about carnival food. She said that a “small crumb of a crouton would make her insides like the worst part of a Hurr-a-whurl ride.” I thought that was a great use of figurative language, giving the audience a clear visual.

The book I chose for my companion book is a book that gave me all the feels it made me cry and made me happy all at the same time. The book is called Love Lucas by Chantele Sedgwick. In the book Oakley a teenage girl was a normal girl until her brother got diagnosed with cancer. Oakley was the girl that was always with her brother through thick and thin. When Lucas passed away she changed into the girl who didn’t want to talk to anyone but then after the funeral, she got the news that she and her mom were moving to California to live with her aunt for a little bit. She was unsure how she felt about the move, she would leave all her friends and also her dad would still be home. After a while, she became more comfortable with walking around so

The presentation went fine. Everyone in the group show up on time. I was nervous and I could not communicate my thoughts clearly. The other people in the group did a good job presenting. The crowd could have ask questions instead of waiting for class to be over. I also wish that the SXU database could have have better sources to

My group's presentation and discussion went pretty smooth. My group was prepared for the lecture we were giving to the class. Our material was very straightforward and very informative. To me, it was repeated information that I already got taught. Our group started a slide show and everyone contributed into it. I believe that each one of us had the same amount of work. We all split up all the work to who wanted what and who was good at which. Before starting the slideshows, we all told each other that each was responsible for 4-5 slideshows. We did not want to have one person doing more than the rest of the group. I contributed the slideshows that had to do with individual Latino/a students. I presented the experiment that the author presented

The presentations were awesome. One of the groups covered the topic of women rights back then. I was shocked with that information. Women during that time were considered inferior to men. Also, their vote didn’t count. They depended totally of their husbands; women were almost completely silent. The group presented all that information incredible with great organization and motivation. Every person was clear in what they were explaining. They

Michaela has shown a good understanding of the concepts and ideas discussed in our Unit of Inquiry. She effectively engaged herself in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners. She identified and analyzed problems and provided solutions by finding different ways to approach a problem. Moreover, she consistently reflected on her own works and used insights gained through reflection to improve her own or other's work or situation. However, Michaela has to continue working on her oral presentation skills; using loud and clear voice when presenting and elaborating her ideas. Student presentations will be done regularly in the class to provide more opportunities for practice and feedback.

The presentation by Beth Hughes was by far the most interesting for me. It was a great experience to have her as a guest speaker. Being able to relate to the guest speaker and getting to hear all of the things that she has gone through was helpful in better understanding what families like Beth’s go through. Also knowing that she is an average person like myself helps to be able to empathize with her and other families like the Hughes. The experiences that she went through with her two boys opens my eyes that not everything in life is going to go perfect and that not everything can be fixed. Just like Beth, I see myself as being a “fixing it” type of person, and I felt as though I could relate with the frustration she felt when she realized

On Thursday we had presentation too. The guest speaker talked about the Solid Waste. I learned about waste and garbage and the differences between these terms. We had an interesting exercise about, the amount of time it takes for garbage to break down. This exercise gave me a lot of understanding, for example, how easily people are destroying the animal’s ecosystem. People around the world are responsible for it.

Charlie just finished reading a book on how to give engaging oral presentations. He plans to use the techniques in an upcoming meeting that he has.

I decided to pick Team E’s presentation to evaluate. This team’s topic was the only one that I haven’t done some sort of research on for another class, and I felt that it was best that I picked something that I don’t really know any details about. Team E’s power point presentation was on Alzheimer’s disease. This disease was discovered in 1906 by Dr. Alois Alzheimer. He was the person who first saw the disease, and was able to notice the cognitive and behavioral degeneration in patients (Bremer, Ross, Shaw, Towery, 2012). This is a disease that is very damaging not only to the person suffering, but to

I got a lot out of all of the presentations this week (including my own), but the article that stuck with me the most was the one presented by Shawn (Identifying the Relationship between Trade and Exchange Rate Volatility) by Christian Broda and John Romalis. I particularly enjoyed his presentation and I thought it stood out due to the diverse views that elicited from the class. He effectively outlined the entire article by clearly establishing the keys questions the authors’ were attempting to address, described the key aspects of the extensive methodology utilized, presented the important findings, and then made us really apply what we had learned. Overall, as a discussion facilitator and according the assessment criteria, I would grade