The first article about the color blue was very interesting. It brought up the question of if we experience something, but don’t have a word for it or a way to describe it, does it really exist? I believe that if we have no way of describing it or even knowing what it is, then at that point it does not exist for us. It is crazy to think however that it wasn’t until recently ( recently in the history of mankind) that we created a word for the color blue. Most of the examples that the article used were of the Greeks describing colors with other things of that color, such as a wine-dark sea, which makes sense since as they said in the article, the color blue does not appear often in nature.

For the second article, I have to say that I have very little experience with journalism. I do not really pay attention to the news and most of the things that I learn that are happening in the world is through social media and through my family and friends talking about them. I do think that the article is right about the need for local journalism in order to create awareness over certain specific issues that happen all over the world children in poverty, clean drinking water, and the number of children not attending schools.

After reading the article, discourse community to me is a complex community which shares many values together. It can take on many different forms and they all share something, however that something that they do share can change between each individual discourse community. This is an entirely new concept to me as reading this article was the first time that I even heard the word discourse community as well as the first time I saw it be defined. It is a little puzzling as to what exactly makes up a discourse community as the reading said that the values and ideas that each community shares depends on what kind of community it is and who is a part of it. That being said, based on my own understanding of the word, I do believe that UCBA is a discourse community as students and that within, we have even more specific discourse community based on our different majors that we choose to study.

There are many big changes that happen in your life after you graduate high school and move on to college. Moving out, figuring out your own schedule, and living on your own are all part of becoming independent. However, one of the biggest parts of becoming independent is also supporting yourself. Often times, it is a very difficult choice when a student is deciding if they want to work part time or full time while attending 13 credit hours or more to keep a full time student status.

In order to find out just how hard working full time while being a full times student, or how to work full time successfully while keeping up with school work might be, I asked two current students and one graduate about their experience with working full time while in school. Hannah Rose, a graduate of University of Cincinnati told me that the hardest part of working full time was “time management. You can get to the point where you feel that you don’t have enough time to study and do assignments while still working that 40 hours and it can get pretty stressful sometimes”. Harper Napier, a current student at the University of Cincinnati responded that “things can get pretty hectic if you don’t plan things out. Procrastination if your biggest enemy. If you don’t do what your supposed to do and let things pile up, then you find that you just have no time to finish any work”. It seems that a common struggle for students who decide to work full time is being able to successfully plan out when to do each of their assignments, study, and work. When asked how students should decide if they should work full time or not, both Hannah and Harper gave similar responses. “If you aren’t able to plan out your day and put time aside for homework, meals, studying, and any other responsibilities you might have to do, I really don’t recommend working full time while being a full time student” Harper advised. “You just need to decide if you can stay focused and really put in the time and effort into everything you’re going to do because when you are going to school full time and working full time, every minute that you have counts” was Hannah’s response.