Presentation Feedback

Daer group members,

please review my presentation and use the critique sheet Dr. Archibald has provided to give me feedback so that i can improve my presentation.

Conference notes

After my conference with archibald I found that I have a few corrections to be made as well as a better understanding on how to write about my topic. I found that my topic was to wide of a span in between what I was writing about and what I was trying to argue. I didn't focus enough on arguing a topic that is debatable by others so much as argue a vague point, I will be doing some revamps on my paragraphs and focusing now more on a more arguable version of my topic.

Souirces for the 3ResProj

I actually had a hard time finding sources for my paper. So i desided to be creative and add some alterior sources from my own experiances as well as experiances of others. I also found some sources of cases on the use of the "n" word in which the person was fired from their job because of a false case of racism in the work place. In using the "n" word as a reason to get the person fired in order to eliminate compitition in the job, which now a days isn't so uncommon.

Conference notes

We talked about what my idea were and which one's had the best making for a good topic paper. I decided that  my topic would be how the usage of the "n" word has changed from the past versions and how people don't understand just how powerful and hurting the word was.

ResProj paper ideas

1- "In both era’s the topic of race for the most part has stayed the same, that the African Americans wanted equality, however the way they fought for their cause differed from the two times in history. Both Ida B. Wells and the freedom riders had similar thoughts and ideas but how they acted on these ideas was completely different (Benjamin)."

2- One of the main differences in the two era's was how they acted against violence with non-violence, any normal person that is faced with death will run away or defend himself/herself but the freedom riders would not fight back. This made a huge difference when it came to right and wrong because who would think of the people not fighting back to be the wrong in their ideas.

1. After reading these quotes from my 2Syn paper what do you think about these topic ideas? 

2. Do you understand what I am getting at? 

3. Which one sounds best to use for the 3ResProj? Why?

Integrating Sources 2 examples

Example #1-

In my paper I stated how wells quotes, "If my life makes a difference in how people see lynching, if only by a small amount, then I would gladly give it up."

Example #2

I also state how Arsenault tells, "I don't know if the men that were sent to protect them would do so or feed them to the wolves."


These sources tell of the harshness that is prominent throughout the 2 essays and it will have a bigger impact, that is why I choose these for my report. 

After reading this what do you think my paper is about?

In both the era's, when Ida B. Wells took up her fight in getting her ideas and opinions about race where she told the public just how unjust the justice system was and how badly her fellow African Americans were treated as well as when the freedom riders rode in a bus into the sourthern states in order to prove that both whites and blacks could get along as equals. In both times the topic of race for the most part has stayed the same. However the way they fought for their cause differred from the two times in history. Both Ida B. Wells and the freedom riders had simular thoughts and ideas but how they acted on these ideas was completely different.

What is a synthesis?

         When beginning the process of synthesis there are a few things to consider before even starting. First you need to know what 2 writings you are going to talk about. Then you must consider in what way they are linked, for a good synthesis paper has a good connection between the topic in each paper. Look for similarities and/or differences between the two and report your findings. They call this process synthesis because synthesis means "Combine" into a new substance. To write this paper your must first understand both of the reports you are writing about and link them in some way inside of your paper.
   
          In my paper we are discussing the topic of race, I am comparing the racism during Ida B. Wells time and the racism found during the Freedom Riders era. During Ida B. Wells era the black community was in constant fear of the white racists, not only found among the civilians but also found in the police, government and even in most colleges in america. In secret the African Americans would write their stories of hate and oppression in the shadows wishing that one day there would be equality and peace for everyone. But during the era of the Freedom Riders the racism in America had been boggled down to the southern states. A combination of whites and blacks rode buses into the southern states in an attempt to show the southern people that they were equal and wanted peace, much different in the approach then writing stories in the shadows that the old black community took. But then again the old ways laid down a foundation for the new ways.

http://users.drew.edu/~sjamieso/Synthesis.htm

Library search

I found a lot of works (books) by Ida B. Wells as well as a few articles that were also written by her in newspapers.

they say I say response 1

I looked at the second exercise and noticed that I don't always follow these guidelines so using this book might help me get a bit better. Later I can fix this in the final draft.

The 1st blogger assignment

When I first picked this project out I choose it not just because it is a well debated topic but also because it has a long and lively history. The topic of race has plauged the masses with constant debating for hundereds upon hundreds of years never ceaseing, never cooling, never letting go the differences that we all have for each single person of humanity is different and what people fear most is that which is different.

I found that most of the information was relatively easy to find when using the internet but that is probubly one of the easyer ways of obtaining information. Using the internet i managed to find a book based on racism during that era,

http://books.google.com/books/about/Darwinism_and_racism_in_America_1870_192.html?id=M5k4OAAACAAJ

then I moved on to getting the majority of the rest of the sources from the web and alot of articals posted about there. I found that some of the larger booms of racism happened in the era of 1870 to 1920, one of the larger happenings was the KKK which began In the 1870's with the first clan and continued for many decades after, following the first came the second clan in 1915. These clans were founded for one purpose and that is to discriminate against not only blacks bu asians, catholics, and communists.

their acts would usually end up with wild and large beatings and violence that usually resulted in one or more deaths. And their racism is ledgendary to this day.

Much of america during this time both before and during martin luther king jr. was drenched in racism and bigotry. During this time salvery was still just beginning to crumble in the south after the civil war had endded and large amounts of african americans were entering society together with white people which as you can imagine didnt go to smoothly at first. Large amounts of crimes were commited and most of the people that were accused were normally blacks, but of how many of those black were accually involved is uncertain. most people just accused them for everything and when you get treated as somthing for long enough you eventually become it. Many riots were held by blacks asking for equal rights and after a few more decades with the coming of martian luther King Jr. the got it.

Many lynchings were also help at this time by some local groups but mostly by the KKK groups in the area. Many were killed by these members of which were made up of mostly southern plantation owners and people who had falling outs because of the loss of their side in the civil war.

And that is much of what I learned and will be putting in my report.