Project one has provided me an insight i could not have acquired without the vitality of this class. Since the first day of classes we have been learning and cultivating a various set of skills that will help us sometime in the future. Project one was an application to the plethora of skills we obtained. I chose the movie ’42’ starring Chad Boseman. Boseman plays Jackie Robinson and takes you through Robinson’s journey of integrating the game of baseball. Robinson was constantly harassed, abused, mocked, and threatened on numerous occasions. The goals of project 1 were to (1) learn to discuss race in conversations outside scholastic or professional contexts and (2) employ rhetorical analysis for a meaningful argument about pop culture. By finishing Oluo’s book I felt much more comfortable on how to approach the assignment as opposed to starting it at the beginning of the semester. Oluo’s book thoroughly goes through and reveals all of the “gray areas” that the majority of the populous are afraid to address.
This knowledge is crucial to our development as student’s of Fairfield because it can be directly linked to Fairfield’s mission statement. The whole point of the core curriculum rather than only taking specific courses designated to your major is to create a well rounded individual. In a growingly progressive society it becomes more and more imminent to learn to address different cultures and situations from their specific perspectives. If we had a large portion of people that were only proficient in their specific fields of work our society would be completely set up for failure.
What I need to do personally in the future is reconsider my viewpoints on other contemporary arguments with the goal of either strengthening my position or switching my side on the arguments completely. The only way to accomplish this is to lay out all of the empirical evidence at hand and re-evaluate based off your own principles and to not be influenced by any third-party sources (in regards to potentially overpowering influences from parents, teachers, friends, etc).
Jordan Hamilton 
I love the way you bring up way you could do better for the next assignment and future writing that will be very helpful later on to acknowledge those things every time you write. I completely agree with your idea about how our development as students can be directly linked to our mission statement. We talked about this in class and it is bery true! I like that you brought it back up again to do the full 360 from the very beginning of our writing in this class to the end of our first project.
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I completely agree with your opinion about in class discussion helping throughout the writing and revision process. I personally had problems with the new APA format as I’ve never used it before, but class time was very informative and essentially set me up for success. I feel that you being critical of your own writing is very telling of your ethic as a student. You seem determined to do better and that is what makes the difference between an average student and a great student.
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