A) five options for Profile:

Keep Cincinnati Beautiful– Volunteer services/ Makes our community better.

Red Cross– Volunteer services beyond Cincinnati

Patrick Brady at Cincinnati Childrens– Research Director, how its changing

Cincinnati Homeless Coalition– advocacy group for homelessness in Cincinnati

Middletown’s Women’s Shelter– Options for women of the area with children or in domestic violence relationships.

B) To have a Profile published on The Activist would mean that the specific person or business has a good influence on us as readers or that maybe it would be interesting to us for some reason like our major. I think it’s important to consider all options while all of us are picking out who to profile in class. We wouldn’t want to be redudnant in topics. I also think you’d want it to be something you think will appeal to other people or that a certain audience of your choice would find intriguing.

C) After researching more I think I am going to do a profile on Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. I came across the page and I think they are great advocates for our community considering the amount of homelessness we have in the Cincinnati area. Advocacy is something I’ve always liked and I think its a good way for students to be involved with volunteer services too. Monday for our observation time I plan on emailing Mark Mussman from the group. He is the Director of Education for the group and I think he would have great information for me to write about.

A) I think about why we name certain things the way we do quite often. For someone or everyone to not have a name for something that we now see everyday is astonishing. It makes you question if possibly the color blue was not seen at all and that is adapted. The Himba tribe had no distinction between blue or green but were able to distinguish shades of green from each other. However when I looked at the green blocks it was difficult for me to decipher which was the odd one out. In fact I didn’t get it at all. People have ultimately different perceptions about what is reality. It would be hard to imagine that people did come across the color blue and hadn’t named it. Maybe the color was just unnoticed. Its hard for us to say considering we see it all the time.

B) I personally am not a journalist. Yeah sometimes I write in my “calming Book” but its more or less just prompts which make you think. I do enjoy reading some journalism entries. The effort being made in the article about the new model journalism is good to see. I liked where they mentioned covering “neglected areas”. Also the reporters seem to write on appropriate and interesting topics in which help communities.

C) According to Erik Borg in this piece, discourse communities is a group that is widely used to analyze written communication. For me, I see it academically where we as students communicate and often have goals. Also I see it as both written and spoken communication. The concept of discourse communities is important and I think many of us can relate. Here at UCBA discourse community applies for every one of us and it makes us a community as a whole. I say this because we as students are all here to learn and achieve goals. Whether it’s short term like passing an exam or long term such as graduating. Also professors and administrators are using communication and have goals right with us.