S3 Reflection

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This is a continuation of a Flickr set that I started in the summer of 2009. As I noted in that earlier collection of photos, I still have many parts of New York City left to explore -- but I've also realized that I don't always have to go looking elsewhere for interesting photographs. Some of it is available just outside my front door. I live on a street corner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where there's an express stop on the IRT subway line (with a new space-age subway station scheduled to be completed by fall 2010), as well as a crosstown bus stop, an entrance to the West Side Highway, and the usual range of banks, delis, grocery stores, fast-food shops, mobile-phone stores, drug-stores, Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks, Subway, and other commercial enterprises. As a result, there are lots of interesting people moving past my apartment building, all day and all night long. It's easy to find an unobtrusive spot on the edge of the median strip separating the east side of Broadway from the west side; nobody pays any attention to me as they cross the street from east to west, and nobody even looks in my direction as they cross from north to south (or vice versa). In rainy weather, sometimes I huddle under an awning of the T-Mobile phone store on the corner, so I can take pictures of people under their umbrellas, without getting my camera and myself soaking wet... So, these are some of the people I thought were photo-worthy during the past few weeks and month; I'll add more to the collection as the year progresses ... unless, of course, other parts of New York City turn out to be more compelling from time to time.

For my S3 presentation I felt very uneasy for the days leading up to Thursday.  Throughout the whole weekend and on Monday I was concerned with nothing but Halloween so I didn’t really start working on my speech until Tuesday.  I think this was my favorite speech so far because I was the most interested in this topic especially because the speech had to be addressing a certain decision making body of people.  As I have mentioned before I am really interested in law and am hopefully on my way to become a lawyer.  More that that I am interesting in politics as my major is political science.  I think this is because during my senior year of high school I took a school trip to Boston with about 15 other girls from my school.  In Boston we participated in a program called Harvard Model Congress.  We were all appointed a House Representative or Senator and we had to act as them creating and voting laws in our separate individualized committees.  I learned so much about the way the government is ran and it really helped me to visualize what we had learned in the government class.  I used  this experience in my speech and it helped me to formulate what to say so the class would understand who I was talking to.  I think that this was the best speech i have done so far.  I felt very confident even though I did forget to change my slide and also I did forget to say some important information but it was in my slide show so I feel like the class was able to read it off the slide and did not necessarily need me to say it.  Overall I felt really good about my speech and I think that having my notecards helps me but looking back I didn’t really use them and I think that this shows how much I’ve improved and am now able to remember my speech for the most part.

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  2. Ps, here’s what one other student said about your presentation:
    “We talked a lot about Voice lately in class, I thought that someone who was clearly really prepared and gave her max to keep energized throughout her speech was Ashley. Her tone of voice was joyful from the beginning to the end and it definitely influenced the audience positively.”

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