Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Updated Schedule Next Two Weeks!!

No class 4/4 (Finish your public document and written assignment)

Presentation: 
  • Present your public document, any video's, interviews, class facilitation etc...
  • Presentations are 10-15 min long 20 min max
  • No power point presentations
  •  Provide any related documents that you used in your project to the rest of class if applicable
Paper:
  • 4 pages long
  • I want to know about the process of putting together your public doc.
  • What happened? What did you learn? What problems did you encounter? Anything relevant to your project etc.. (See stage 5)
  • Make sure that it is organized and structured properly
  • I don't just want written sections from each individual

4/7/14

No Class

Read: Inventing The "Magic Valley" of South Texas 1905-1941
CLICK HERE!!
By:  Brannstrom, Neuman



4/9/14

No Class

Response Paper Due (Post on blog)

                      
4/11/14  (Resume Presentations)

Group 1.  Solveig , Leeon, Yadira
Group 2.  Luis, Marcel, Itzel

4/14/14

Group 3.  Caridad, Jacqueline, Hector
Group 4.  Ana, Marcela, Monica, Roxanne

4/16/14

Group 5.  Dora, Damaris, Grecia
Group 6.  Sebastian, Arnold

4/18/14

Group 7.  Jessica O, Jessica G. Araceli



16 comments:

  1. RESPONSE TO: INVENTING THE "MAGIC VALLEY" OF SOUTH TEXAS

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  2. I can't access the magic valley thing..it tells me that EBSCO problem..

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  3. I login with my panam thing then it tells me that theres an ebsco error

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  4. Problem should be fixed, I downloaded the article to the Google Drive. Just click on the Brannstrom_Neuman pdf.file.

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  5. now it says
    Unable to access folder with ID: 0ANqWqXF4TE0hUk9PVA. Check access permissions on the folder

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  6. I keep getting the same thing. It won't let me access the file on google drive. Is there another way we can access the article?

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    1. Send me your email and I will email you the doc.

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  7. Its still not letting me access it and I cant seem to find it in the articles and databases.

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  8. Has anybody attempted to access the article? HOw did you do it?

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    1. Send me your email and I will email you the doc.

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  9. I tried it on both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and it works fine.

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  10. gaguilera@broncs.utpa.edu, Also, did you want us to upload it here?

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  11. Dora Rivera
    English 1302.02
    April 9, 2014
    Inventing the “Magic Valley” of South Texas, 1905-1941
    The Magic Valley came to be because of the image created. They persuade people to come like women and men to live a better life and grow as much as they can because the crops grow like magic. I can see how the pictures can make the valley a myth. Tourist, travelers, and other publishers create an image over the valley. We create image of the valley and make people believe it’s the best place to live on earth. I personally love the valley because it’s what I call home. To me the valley consists of just land and fields to crop plants. It’s a place where Anglos claim ownership over land and Hispanics can be the labors, but in other people’s eyes, they place an image on how the land should be and look like. The valley is built on land and water sales by place-making creating a place-image of what they expect the valley to be; a farming frontier. We focus on the place image of the land that is created by the land developers. Just like Shary, he focused on the land to make it what the people want to see. I think it was a great idea of planting grapefruit to attract people. He used texts, images, and performances like Montgomery’s pamphlet to get people to think that the valley is a place to live. Shay created pamphlets that reached out to farmers that grew grapefruit and gave them the ideal way of living here in the valley. The magic valley was created by the texts, images and performances the land developers had put out for people to see and attract to. I think that the land developer’s main goal was to give people the image of what a great living it would be living here in the valley, where you can crop every month and live happy.

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    1. That was the developers main goal, but the reason was to sell more land that he owned. They made it look so great and profitable which it was because of the cheap labor.

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  12. i think that in a way Anglos now a days still look at the valley the same way that their ancestors did.

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