"Journalists Have Families Too!": Revised

A definition of community involves a group of people who all share a common trait. It may be their race, religion, interests, or anything of the sort. Communities are supposed to make the people that are apart of them feel connected and wanted. For me, my community is journalism. It is my strongest central community because in journalism everyone must contribute a piece of themselves in order to create a greater whole . If someone slacks off, or doesn't do their job, then the entire paper could be a wreck. Especially for the people with the most impacting jobs, such as the section editors and editors’ in-chief.

Journalism works like a family. There is someone to provide income for the family, someone to run the house in order to make living smooth, and then the children, who basically need to be instructed what to do in order to accomplish something.The "children" of the family are the reporters of the newspaper. They are given the assignments, and then they come back with an article. The family members that provide the income are the section editors. They take the articles from the "children" and work it into the paper; sometimes needing to work tediously extended hours to bring home a paycheck, or on a journalistic viewpoint, a newspaper. Editors in-chief are like the behind-the-scenes family members. At first it may seem like they're not doing a substantial amount to contribute, but they are truly running the show. Without all of the members of the family, everything would be complete and utter chaos, and not everything would be done properly. My collage relates to my community because it displays a part of how everyone contributed to make this paper. We couldn't have done it alone, but when we focus and put our minds together, we can come up with something brilliant.

I think my fellow classmates realized this from the comments that they left about my collage. One fellow student commented, "I definitely get an easily understood sense that your community is journalism."Another wrote, "Your community is clear, and shows how you are connected."I believe that these quotes, along with my collage, display my definition of community in a way that shows I am connected.

Although I must say that in journalism, sometimes the people you work with put you on the verge of tearing all your hair out and collapsing into a nervous breakdown (especially the night before a deadline), you still love them and need them all the same, just as you would with a family. This is why journalism is my community, and hopefully it will stay that way for quite some time.

Response to "I Just Wanna Be Average"

I must say, that after reading such an extensive amount of essays in one sitting, the one essay that particularly stood out the most was the longest one. I'm not saying that Mike Rose's, I Just Wanna Be Average only left the most significant impact on me because it was long, because it truly had an insightful message, which really stuck with me.
I also really enjoyed the way Rose described the characters in his essay; it made me feel as though I were reading a short story opposed to an essay.

My Community Essay

A definition of community involves a group of people who all share a common trait. It may be their race, religion, interests, or anything of the sort. For me, my community is journalism. It is my strongest central community because in journalism everyone must contribute a piece of themselves in order to create a greater whole. If someone slacks off, or doesn't do their job, then the entire paper could be a wreck. Especially for the people with the most impacting jobs, such as the section editors and editors in-chief.
Journalism works like a family. There is someone to provide income for the family, someone to run the house in order to make living smooth, and then the children, who basically need to be instructed what to do in order to accomplish something.
The "children" of the family are the reporters of the newspaper. They are given the assignments, and then they come back with an article. The family members that provide the income are the section editors. They take the articles from the "children" and work it into the paper. Editors in-chief are like the behind-the-scenes family members. At first it may seem like they're not doing a substantial amount to contribute, but they are truly running the show. Without all of the members of the family, everything would be complete and utter chaos, and not everything would be done properly.
My collage relates to my community because it displays a part of how everyone contributed to make this paper. We couldn't have done it alone, but when we focus and put our minds together, we can come up with something brilliant. I think my fellow classmates realized this from the comments that they left about my collage. One fellow student commented, "I definitely get an easily understood sense that your community is journalism."
Another wrote, "Your community is clear, and shows how you are connected."
I believe that these quotes, along with my collage, display my definition of community in a way that shows I am connected.

MLK Day: Community in Action

When I discovered that our assignment was to listen to a keynote speech related to Martin Luther King day, I was semi-interested in how it would turn out. Much to my dissapointment, I ended up mentally pleading for the seminar to finally end as each tedious minute dragged on. After listening to, "A World Without Poverty", I concluded that Sylvia Orduno's speech proved ultimately ineffective. I found this speech to be so, due to the speaker's utter lack of organization, preparedness, and passion.

The most significant factor that Miss Orduno failed to accomplish were her organizational skills. It seemed as if she was simply floundering around varied subjects, and going on about different tangents, which made the presentation quite difficult to follow, and left me a bit puzzled. For instance,Miss Orduno began her speech with something about listening to the radio this morning, and hearing arguments on racism; then all of a sudden she started speaking about the history of Martin Luther King in random chronological segments. As she was speaking, Miss Orduno admitted, "I'm actually bringing together all kinds of stuff"; yet then quite soon enough, she began speaking about a considerable number of citizens who lived in Detroit without water, which seemed to take up an extensive amount of her presentation time.

This particular lack of organization can also be connected with Miss Orduno's lack of preparedness. Although I empathize that she must have had little time to prepare, I would still expect better from someone who has been so involved with this particular campaign for such a prolonged period of time. More than once, I noticed that Sylvia would occasionally lose her train of thought. She repeatedly apologized, but in the end, the apologies didn't do anything to dignify her speech.

I must say that one of the most substantial ways in which a speaker can prove being effective or ineffective, is the amount of passion and enthusiasm they contain; not only in their tone of voice, but throughout the entire way they present themselves during their speech. If the speaker lacks passion, then I won't be able to truly enjoy or be impacted by what the speaker is attempting to bring across. It seemed as though Miss Orduno was simply going through the motions; sprinkling her sentences with various "ums", and speaking in a monotone voice. I really wanted to believe that what she was speaking about had meaning, but I failed to be impacted.

Although Miss Orduno's seminar was less than spectacular, her attempts were not completely fallible. Marian Kramer's video was succinct but impacting. I could tell that she was truly dedicated to her cause, and for that, the," A World Without Poverty Seminar" can be redeemed in a minor sense, although I still found it ineffective.

Definition of Community

To begin, my definition of community basically consists of a group of people who exist and interact among eachother. The members in one's community could be next door neighbors, or they could be involved in some sort of group or club together. But another thing that comes to mind when I hear the word community has to do with community service, as in what the members of a community do to better their surroundings; whether it be cleaning up garbage in a local park, or donating blankets to a homeless shelter; basically any sort of way to simply give.
This topic of community service brings me to my own personal experiences that are related to community. One major thing that comes to mind is my participation in Key Club, which is basically a community service club. If you think about it, Key Club is a community in itself. I would have to say that this particular experience with community was definitely a positive one, because it gives me a chance to make a difference in the world, albeit a small one, but a difference nonetheless.