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1. Share: What's your biggest circle of Influence?

My biggest circle of Influence is my mom and dad. As you can see through the picture, my parents have influences over many thing that i like, and go through in my life. They have made me who I am today.

2. Over the years, has there been a change in how much influence you have on certain people in certain settings? Where and how?

Over the years my friends back at home have had a smaller impact and influence on my life. Since I moved to New York I have had less time to do anything with them. And now they have their life goals as the same as me, our friendship has started to fade away.

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1.3 Ranking Reasoning

7. i. Claim: Students should get free bus passes.

a. Public transportation reduces traffic.

b. Students pay tuition.

c. Riding the bus is fun.

d. It helps the environment.

6. ii. Claim: Classes should start later in the morning.

a. Teenagers naturally wake up later.

b. Teachers are also tired in the morning.

c. Students would be more focused.

d. Cafeterias could sell more breakfast food.

8. iii. Claim: Everyone should learn how to cook.

a. Cooking saves money.

b. Cooking is healthier than eating out.

c. Cooking shows are popular.

d. You can impress your friends.

5. iv. Claim: Reading fiction improves critical thinking.

a. Fiction helps people imagine perspectives.

b. Some novels are boring.

c. Fiction builds vocabulary.

d. It strengthens empathy.

1. v. Claim: Voting should be mandatory.

a. Democracy works better with more participation.

b. Some people don’t care about politics.

c. Other countries have mandatory voting.

d. It would make elections fairer.

I believe this is the strongest because voting is very important to create a better future. Voting allows everybody to participate in national conflicts.

https://wearelee.org/blog/your-vote-matters-5-reasons-why-you-should-vote-in-any-election/

2. vi. Claim: Homework should be reduced.

a. Students are too busy with jobs and activities.

b. Extra practice improves learning.

c. Students get stressed from too much work.

d. Teachers spend too much time grading.

3. vii. Claim: Social media does more harm than good.

a. People waste time scrolling.

b. Social media spreads misinformation.

c. It helps people connect with friends.

d. It creates anxiety and comparison.

9. viii. Claim: Video games should be considered a sport.

a. They require strategy and skill.

b. Players practice many hours.

c. They don’t involve physical activity.

d. Gaming competitions draw huge audiences.

4. ix. Claim: College students should take at least one art class.

a. Art classes reduce stress.

b. Creativity is useful in any career.

c. Some students dislike art.

d. Art encourages problem-solving skills.

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Before the final I didn't have a graph showing any statistics, and I didn't do a great job applying how drumming can be played by the audience regardless of age or financially. This is my final draft showed on the link, but I couldn't go back and show the previous because it was updated.

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Overall doing the walking research project I have learned that researching and observing your everyday spaces that you walk through have such a deeper meaning through architectural, diverse, and art including chalk drawings on the sidewalk, or graffiti seen on the buildings designs. With my research I can see on a daily walk how rhetoric devices including logos and pathos are seen. Signs commercialising the appeal to products, or services are seen throughout the stores, and are seen on fliers throughout the streets. I also see advertising to charities on the multiple churches I pass through in my walks using pathos. With these examples I can compare how just a normal walk in urban lives can contain vast amounts of advertising, and architecture, and art which may not be seen in a normal walk in an urban, or suburban area where I grew up. With the research done beforehand of the walk by reading the “Walking Methodology” by Springgay and Truman I try to incorporate my thoughts with the article through seeing, and acquiring the sensory embodiment and experiences of the street through my initial thoughts of the street,and its livelihood. This is shown how the article emphasizes how walking draws attention to the sensory inputs of how the place smells, sounds, movement and more. With all of these experiences and things I observe gives me an idea of the embodiment of the area. I also love how my connection with Jamaica and its history isn't concluded through a text book, but the streets. My relationship with the city is through the culture of the shops, restaurants, and even the movement of the streets gives me a pace of the people, and its history. Springgay and Truman briefly talk about how your observations of the area or neighborhood ties to its cultural background, and walking is a way of containing relational and historical knowledge. There are many more examples within the article that I try to use, but I also try to implement other resources in class into my walk, including the city gueogesser. The gueogesser helped me understand the culture of a city, and how the layout of the buildings, and the streets, and even the sun or the trees can help me initially understand and guess an answer. With all of these examples, they have all helped give me an understanding on how to research and observe my walk.

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For the final draft I added a graph/picture that showed some fun visuals and facts about the benefits of playing an instrument. I also changed the part where it says you can start playing at any age. Before that I had it at young adults, but statistically you can play at any age you'd like. This allows the audience to be engaged no matter the age.

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Sophia Feeney is a current senior here at St. Johns. With time flying by everyday she's coming closer and closer to that finish line. But she's gonna miss it here she says "My best experiences here at St. Johns is the service plunges with campus ministry, I've been able to travel to places domestically and internationally, and it kind of gave me a purpose of what I want to do for my career." This picture was a recent plunge to Vietnam where she helped local communities in Saigon. And with all of her experiences she advises the world "not to stretch yourself too thin, but at the same time, don't be afraid to stand out and get involved."

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Humans Of St. Johns Interview: Sophia Feeney

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Humans Of St. Johns Interview: Sophia Feeney

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Script: of audio interview

I Sophia Feeney, consent to this interview

Harrison: Okay, I'm Harrison Ryder. Can you tell me your name, major, and your year at St. John’s?

Sophia: Yes, I am an International Management major, and I minor in French and Economics. I'm a senior, and my name is Sophia Feeney. Should’ve started off with that.

Harrison: Okay, what made you choose St. John’s in the first place?

Sophia: I would say, for me, it was definitely the diversity. Coming out of high school, I was living in a pretty monoracial area where everybody kind of looked the same — a rural town in Pennsylvania. So when I toured St. John’s and I saw the diversity, I kind of fell in love with it and knew this was the place for me.

Harrison: Yeah, that sounds great. How are your classes going so far this semester?

Sophia: They’re going well — very busy. I take six classes, but you know, as a senior, I'm kind of on the last legs. So I would say I'm pretty satisfied.

Harrison: Okay, how’s your academic workload?

Sophia: I would say it’s not light, but it’s not... I mean, it’s pretty rigorous. It keeps me on my toes, and it keeps me busy.

Harrison: Okay, yeah, sounds good. Do you have a place where you usually like to study — at home or at school?

Sophia: I like the library, but I also like to go to Marillac sometimes. I know it's really busy there in the cafeteria, but sometimes I like the noise. It kind of makes me stay working because I feel like I'm being perceived by people, so I feel more motivated to get more done when I'm at Marillac.

Harrison: Wow I never thought of that, sounds good. Can you describe a typical day for you at St. John’s?

Sophia: Every day looks a little bit different because I’m very involved on campus — so can I give you my week instead?

Harrison: Why not.

Sophia: So typically, Mondays are the days I have all my classes. So Monday, starting at like 10:40, I have class, and then I have class from 10:40 to typically Common Hour, which starts at 1:50. And then during Common Hour, I usually have a club meeting or something going on on campus. And then I have another class from 3 to 6, and then I have another class from 7 to 10. So Mondays are a very heavy workload.

And then on Tuesday, I work for the Core Studies department in St. John’s Hall, and I’m the coordinator for the First Year Seminar Peer Leader Program. So that’s usually my Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. And I'm also an intern, so I kind of mix those days up with my internship.

And then Thursday is pretty similar to Monday in terms of classes, clubs, things like that. I’m the Treasurer for Women on Wall Street as well, so I'm very involved in programming and stuff. And then on Saturdays, I am an ambassador, so I do tours in the Welcome Center for Admissions.

Harrison: Okay, well, yeah, that’s a lot of work. What do you think about New York City in general?

Sophia: I love it. It’s like my home. My dad’s from New York — I didn’t grow up in New York, but like I said, I love the diversity. I love how you can go to any neighborhood and be speaking in any language or connect with any culture. I love the artistic scene in New York — the film scene, the music scene. New York has a little bit of something for everybody.

Harrison: Do you go to Manhattan often, or do you like to stay in Queens?

Sophia: For the time being, because I'm so busy, I like to stay in Queens, but I’m not opposed to going to Manhattan. The commute’s a little bit far from where we live in Queens (Jamaica), but yeah, I would say maybe twice a month. If I had more money, maybe I'd go more often.

Harrison: Okay. I have two more questions for you. What has been, overall, the best experience here at St. John’s for you?

Sophia: The best experience, I would say, is going on service plunges with Campus Ministry. Through Campus Ministry, I've been able to travel to places domestically and also internationally, and it kind of gave me a purpose of what I want to do in my career. Because of the plunges, I joined AmeriCorps, and that was a life-changing experience, and it’s opened so many doors for me. So I would attribute the plunges to a lot of my outside success and aspirations as well.

Harrison: Yeah, that sounds great. Okay, for the last question: if you had to give advice to somebody coming to St. John’s, what would it be?

Sophia: I would say don’t stretch yourself too thin, but at the same time, don’t be afraid to stand out and get involved in many different things. Because then you can kind of decide what you like, what you don’t like, and decide what you want to prioritize. But also just be conscious of your bandwidth and not try to overextend that. And it is college — so definitely have fun with everything that you do.

Harrison: All right. Yeah. Those are great answers. Thank you for your time.

Sophia: You’re welcome.

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For my walk I decided to walk, and focus on Parsons Boulevard around the station and my commute to St. johns. The avenue is alive with passing cars, and busy store fronts, and markets playing reggae, and ethnic music. The area feels very alive with busy streets, and side walks in parsons. And then on my commute to campus the streets get wider, and emptier. It can get packed during school days, but during the video the area isn't packed, and the road is mostly used for commuting via car. As I walked through the side walks, the local people didn't seem to follow many traffic, and pedestrian laws. People walk through the streets, and cars stop at a halt, and horns blazing. This also includes moving quickly, respecting the pace of the crowd, and giving space to vendors and bus drivers to move around the busy traffic Like the city tour we explored in class, the city feels alive and vibrant like Barcelona in modern times. This includes the history, Barcelona has sacred cathedrals including the Sagrada Familia, and its still intact architecture, and roads from the 16th century. Even though Queens doesn't have much history or sacred artifacts, we could say the same. The buildings are all centuries old and have been run by generations of families. I love how Jamaica, and hillside avenue is covered with history which we don't realize, the people are also very friendly and welcoming. I know my local deli guy who I buy snacks and drinks from, and many people have created relationships with their suppliers of all sorts of goods, and music is played on the streets making the environment vibrant and real. This environment hooks me and the locals make me stay. This makes everyone here. Racially the population is mostly Indian, and Latino but anyone can enter this space and feel welcomed, with no weird stares or bad interactions. Authority in this area seems to rest with the local police, business owners, and community leaders. The occasional police patrol will be seen, as I've seen in my walk, and business leaders also create an environment for jobs, and local access to buy goods. With these factors the police, and business owners make this area safe, and inhabitable. Being able to participate in this area, of course walking is free but buying food, goods, tickets for buses, or the metro is needed to be a participant of this area. This allows for you to get around easily, and being able to buy the goods you need. Social markers are seen many times throughout my walk. People of all ages, classes and religions are seen. Older women with hijabs, and many kids with backpacks going to the local high schools and St. Johns are seen throughout. But with many pot holes, and terrible side walks can make it hard to traverse throughout. There are also cameras, and some police presence in the area. Many local businesses have their own security using cameras. Police cars can also be seen patrolling throughout the streets. Even though there is security within the area, law is not enforced. There's trash in areas, and stray animals who walk among the streets. From all of these experiences that I have encountered, I believe that Hillside Avenue is a hub of cultural ideologies combined into one big melting pot from my melting experience and news and social media presence of the area. New York City is commonly seen as the melting pot of the world all into one city. Now that my knowledge has expanded throughout my experiences here has proven the idea that queens is “the world's borough.” Even though I think I have a good understanding of the area now, I still don't know so many amazing people here, or how everyone got here, and the history of Queens. To learn more about this I could look up the history of Queens, or ask the locals about their stories. I'm originally from a town in Massachusetts next to Boston, this area is a very new location, and culture wise. This area is very different from any other place I've been to in the world. As a person of a diverse and multi-cultural background I sense how this new area can be welcoming, but for some people I could see how it could be alarming, or discomforting. I would assume that everyone's welcome and happy here, but I could see alienism, and also language barriers with so many cultures. Using research methods can be very important to understanding the way we live, and where we live. Using research including the “Queens historical society” which gives an overview of Queens and its history. Also using “Walking Methodology” by Springgay and Truman can be used to compare my walk to their article and show how walking through an area can mean a lot more than it initially seems. Even with the many historical sources of Queens businesses shape queens and Jamaica. With the many different cultures running different stores brings so many new learning experiences to learn from. From the fun shops to the diverse restaurants I've learned so much more history by food rather than a text book in Queens.

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Harrison Ryder Walking Research Presentation Questions

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Harrison Ryder Walking Research Presentation Questions

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1. What similarities and differences did you notice from the presentations of your peers?

Similarities: I noticed that most people expressed the little details in the areas that they walked. Like trash cans, and the areas, some areas were very open, and some people explored inner city areas. For most people's explorations they walked through tight inner suburban city areas in Queens. Many people observed the diverse ethnic backgrounds through race and culture. Everybody experienced something new they observed in the area that they wouldn’t have during a normal walk. I loved how everybody appreciated the pace of movement, and how everybody experienced the people who walk in these areas which we explored

Differences: The people who walked through the St. John's campus realized how empty the area is during the weekend, and people who walked throughout the inner queens area realized how the street layout, and the amount of people is different. Some people experienced a lot of greenery at parks, or at the campus. But the people who experienced their walk in the city, all of the greenery and plants start to fade away to concrete roads, and the vast number of buildings. A lot of people saw a varied mix of people in different parts of NYC (queens.) Flushing has a very big Asian population, Jamaica is mostly African, Indian, South American, and near JFK the population in hotels and the surrounding areas are tourists with their suitcases.

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This map shows you an easy way to get through your freshman year step by step. It breaks everything down so college doesn’t feel overwhelming and helps you learn the skills and knowledge you need to have a great college experience. The “You Are Here” pin at Level One shows where everyone starts, so you’re not behind or alone. We all begin at the same place.

As you move through each level, you’ll gain more confidence and learn how to make the most of college life. These are steps I’ve already completed during my time at St. John’s, and if I can do it, you can too. St. John’s has so many opportunities, clubs, and resources, but it’s up to you to take advantage of them. If you follow this map and stay involved, you’ll set yourself up for a fun, successful, and memorable college experience.

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