Two Possible Products

My first possible product is a photo essay from TIME magazine that deals with what foods families from around the world eat. One thing that I believe contributes to the overall success of this piece is that in each picture they show a lot, if not all the foods that the family eats in any given week. Also, the way that it is arranged in the picture is appealing. Another thing is the caption of each photo. Under each photo there is a description of the average amount each respective family spends on food weekly. This photo essay also gives you a view on how much people need to survive, and how gluttonous the world can be. I saw a family from a camp in Chad that spends $1.23 weekly on food for a healthy family of 6.

My second possible product is another photo essay from Mother Jones.com about the women in Afghanistan. This essay presents photos that show the lives of many different women from Afghanistan and tell bits and pieces of their stories. Most of the pictures, if left by themselves, would seem boring and look like pictures of random women in Afghanistan, but with the captions they are something more. The quality of the pictures, also, are very high which I like because you can see detail and clarity in them.

Both of my products are photo essays and/or websites where the content would be a photo essay much like the two listed above. I know that I will find these helpful with my work because I can see the kind of photos necessary for a piece that has to do with presenting information to the generally unknowing audience.

Presidential Election 2008 Reflection

I feel happy about the results of the election. My hopes for this country are to get out of the war and to stabilize the economy. My concerns are that Barack Obama won't be able to stick to the words said and promises made. I feel that I have become well taught in politics. I used to be very ignorant in the subject, but I became interested and active lately, and have been adamant about learning what I don't fully understand about any given sub-category of politics. We have done blogs for the political race for presidency, and have been assigned to watch the debates and stay updated with the politics, which has helped me immensley. In my opinion, in class I don't think we could have done any more to further my knowledge of current politics. I feel that it was a well set up lesson plan. Furthermore, I feel that the youth of today tries to seem less ignorant than they are, but it makes them look stupid because they don't research politics and they don't understand how it works completely.

Research Question Ideas

Question 1: Quality of Wildlife in Correlation to Beach Quality

I plan on writing about the quality of wildlife in correlation to beach quality. My idea for this is to explain through graphs of how the beaches have affected the quality of wildlife in San Diego beaches. Here is a Report Card for Beaches in SD for 2007. This will give me information on the beach qualities.

Question 2: Poster Revision

I'd be revising the posters at the Living Museum in Ocean Beach with Jade Tyler. Here is some background information on Ocean Beach.

Here is one poster that shows good organization
Here is another that shows use of pictures and placement of text