4b; reflection from project 3

1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?

~The classmate I chose is Christina. The category is 3b World Cities. The city choice is Los Angeles.

2. What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?

~Both Christina and I said that Los Angeles has a stereotype for being upper end, and full of rich and famous people. We also both wrote that L.A. has a very bad air quality problem.

3. What is something different this classmate said about the choice?

~Christina wrote that part of her stereotype for L.A is lots of skinny, tall, blond girls in huge houses. The looks of people never crossed my mind when I was writing my stereotypes. I focused mostly on ideals than actual looks of the area. Also she found that L.A. is the largest city in California and I never ran across that in my research.

4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?

~I would relate this to Freire's ideas on dialogue because I learned many things from Christina's post that I did learn while researching it for myself. One example is "L.A. was founded in 1781, and became part of Mexico until 1848 when America took it back in the Mexican-America War." I did not know this. Another thing that I did not know was that L.A. is the biggest city in California. I thought that it would be on the top 5 cities, but I did not know it was on the top of the list.