Blog 10

Wow the semester is over. I can’t believe that… It was fast! I still remember my first day of class with Tasha. It wasn’t the official first day of classes at FIU. Actually I was taking ENC1102 with another creepy professor who seemed to doesn’t know anything so I swapped the class for Tasha’s. When I opened the door, 5 minutes before class start she was already talking to the students, and in a polite manner she asked me what the hell I was doing there. In the first days of class I was nervous. I don’t talk much at all. People in her class talk a lot, she always opens discussion. Ohhh I had the feeling that I would fail in class. The time went by and I found out how great that professor is. With hundreds of assignments she pushed us to learn. It is incredible how she can handle all the blogs, homeworks, papers, creates hundreds of webpages, be more inside the technological advances that us, and have her personal life. Tasha is a superwoman!
I think I never saw her angry on her classes. She was always smiling and being friendly to all. When I had some kind of problem with due dates or missed assignments she was always there to help. Definitely I am graduating from ENC1102 thinking out of the box. I will miss her smile, her crazy and hyper way of teach, my classmates and everything else. Ethos, logos, pathos, rhetorical analysis, sagging pants, skid row, claims…she made me learn..I will never forget it..I will never forget Tasha! Unfortunately is time to say good bye. From your quiet, weird, complicate, incomprehensible student I wish you all the best…always!
Take care
Fernanda

Blog 8

It is very pleasant to see that there are people that care and try to help people on the problems that still exist in the world. The initiative of creating a myspace page to promote thoughts, provide information, call people to action and try to solve the problems, is a very good idea and an honorable fact for the creator. It is an amazing attitude that proves to people that small actions can do huge things. People normally thinks that they are one small piece into the universe that would never make any difference on big issues, but these myspace pages prove the opposite. These pages prove that one single student can promote a big change in people’s life.
Myspace is a website that is very popular among Americans. Something published on this website would definitely aim the US population really quick. Otherwise one of the down points that I see on this kind of awareness is that everybody can see the main page but to navigate through the links, leave comments, send messages you need to be a myspace user. Besides this fact, myspace is popular in the US, but in other countries such as Brazil or Angola, this website is not that popular, existing the possibility of people never be able to participate of the campaign. When the intention is promote things within USA, myspace is a good and powerful machine, but when things need to be spread around the world I would not say that myspace is a good option.
Also I think that internet awareness is useful for people from middle class and up, since poor people do not have access computers or to internet. The myspace page kind of restricts too much the audience. Anyways, even with all contradictions that I believe that the myspace has, I appreciate the fact of seeing people that believe and fight for change, and in their own ways try to make the world a better place to everybody.