Group Project

We are doing our group project about revision and it doesn't seem as hard as I saw it in class my first time. I'm not worrying about it anymore, everybody is showing effort in our group, working as their best, so I'm looking forward for our presentation on Monday.

Essay #2: Community and Technology 2

I decided to do my project on RA's duties and shifts in Shea/Dirgin and probably on some of there programs. I'm planning to write about how all these dedicated boys and girls are capable of taking care of so many things at the same time such as studying time, go to classes, creating interesting programs, time to eat and etc.

Essay #2: Community and Technology

In this essay I'm going to observe Resident Assistant's community. I was trying to choose any other communities to observe but I just couldn't find any good ones, so that's why I chose Resident Assistant's community. At least I'm going to have a lot of material to write about. In my humble opinion their job is very important because many students just go crazy after they got into the dormitories. Besides that, they are doing very interesting programs for students to participate in and if they weren't any RA's in the dormitories, I just can't imagine how it would be there without them.

David Berreby, It Takes a Tribe

In this essay, David Berreby showing that students " don't just attend a college; they join its tribes" and I completely agree with his statement especially if you live on the campus because this is the important part of society and this is what it calls to be in the community. "A college campus is full of people inventing a sense of "us" and a sense of "them." In this quote we can see that when you attend college and join it's community there is always going to be different groups of people, "tribes" and when an individial realized to what kind of group he or she belongs to, "they'll act accordingly, even if they know that the divisions  are as meaningless as, oh, the University of Arizona versus Arizona State".

Essay#1: Constructing Identity. Part I. Collage. Discussing things and ideas.

Hello everybody!

This is going to be my first post in this blog for my English 102 class, so don't be very harsh on me.

I think that there are a lot of different things that exemplify my identity and I can categorize them on three main topics: what I was born with, how culture shaped my identity and my personal choices.

The first topic is easy, you all can know it just by seeing my driver's license, birth certificate or my passport. But the other two topics are much more interesting then the first one. I'll give few examples of how culture shaped my identity and my personal choices.

When I was 9 years old I moved to Moscow from  far away Siberian town Ulan-Ude and this transfer changed my identity completely. Compare people from my native town and Moscow citizens there are a lot of differences in everything they do such as how they talk, what moral values they have, how they dress and etc. And because of it I changed and I wouldn't say that I changed in a good way but thanks god in the age of 17 I moved to USA but this is already much more different story. 

Now let's get talk about my personal choices. My biggest and most important choice in my life that shaped my identity is soccer(but I'd rather call it football because you kick the ball with the foot ENTIRE game). I started to play soccer when I was 6 years old and this is the most popular sport in Russia so may be that's why I chose soccer.

So in the conclusion I think I can put some images of Moscow's Big City Life and of soccer into my collage.

Sincerely,

Your friend, student and colleague Victor.