Website Preface

          For Project Web, our group decided to focus on the Dodger Stadium and how the sacrifice of what used to be a small community, Chavez Ravine, turned out to be a beneficial choice. For those who are unaware, Chavez Ravine is basically the sacred city that was destroyed and replaced with our Dodger Stadium. In our website we compared and contrasted how although it was a tough decision to build the dodger stadium, it ended up being a productive one. We argue how the Dodger Stadium helps our community economically. It creates jobs, taxes, and expresses diversity. Our audience will be ancestors and family relatives of victims of the Chavez Ravine situation. We also target residents the people of Los Angeles. We inputted logos, ethos and pathos.  Logos are that sources that supports our thesis. Our sources consists of the history behind the Dodger’s Stadium, Dodger’s away and home games, and frequently asked questions about Chavez Ravines’ ancestors. Pathos is emphasized in the song I added on the page. Finally, ethos is conveyed by providing our audience with information about the people who are in charge of the Dodger’s Stadium.

            The website homepage consist of appropriate information such as our slogan, logo, and categories.  Our slogan is “Joining Cultures for 50 years.” This could set the standard for people to realize how long Chavez Ravine has been invisible underneath the well-respected Dodger Stadium. Our logo is the number 50 gold-colored tag. Beneath it lies the year the Dodger Stadium grand opening to our current time (1962-2012).

Logos is emphasized through the statistics and factual evidence that is lingering on our website. Links, video clips and images are all prime examples of logos. We found detailed sources that focus on logos. For instance, instead of choosing a video clip of just the arena being viewed from different angles, we choose a video that gives us a timeline of events that occurs in the dodger stadium that is important. Logos is also the video clip entitled “the making of the stadium”. We compare and contrast pictures of the Chavez Ravine to our Dodger Stadium today.

            Ethos can be placed on what we entitled “About us” hyperlink. This may perhaps include descriptive information such as the founder of the Dodger Stadium, the current owner of the team, and some victims who may have suffered during the eminent domain of Chavez Ravine. Credibility can be Magic Johnson, who recently bought the dodger stadium for two billion dollars. Although I’m unsure about focusing on how he was able to buy to team, we may have that idea inconsideration.

            Pathos does appeal to the audience emotions. We expect to heal those who families may have suffered through the eminent domain of Chavez Ravine, by arguing how it may have been a productive sacrifice. We’ve done so in a sympathetic tone. This wasn’t a difficult task for us to do because quite frankly, half of our team personally is against building the Dodger Stadium over Chavez Ravine. We decided it would be best to be professional about the situation and just go with what we have. I also wrote a song that somewhat focuses on how wrong it was for them to destroy Chavez Ravine. Although it counter argues our whole thesis, it was necessary for us to contribute that to our website to pay respect for those who may have suffered.

            As far as presentation, we astonished our audience with the thought and creativity we that was in us. Another reason why we choose to support Dodger Stadium being beneficial is because we felt we can have more fun doing that rather than building a depressing based webpage that argues why the Dodger stadium should have been placed somewhere else. Hopefully our audience not only enjoys our website, but also learns something.

http://group-4.webnode.com/videogallery/

Blog Post #2 (Marlon Douglas)

On April 23, 2012, our group met up to add the finishing touches on our webpage. I honestly gave it up to every one of us. Working with each individual compact schedules, we were able to meet up as a team. What’s crazy about the specific time we met up is that the rooms in the library were all full. We didn’t use that as an excuse. Without any exceptions, we all agreed to sit on the floor to get the job done. That proved everybody in our group were serious about this project. For a moment like this, I would have captured pictures of us all sitting on that uncomfortable floor for an hour, but we didn’t have time to waist. We all were throwing out ideas that can top our opponents (the other groups in our English class). Our group is unique. We are all creative people who took project web serious. I’ll admit, I had no choice but to take this project seriously because the outcome of my grade somewhat depends on it. Honestly, even if I was doing great in Professor Marca class, I still would have been dedicated to the project; just off the simple fact it’s fun.  One thing I must applaud, is our group communication. It’s crazy how I bring this up because right now it’s 10:26 P.M and were still communicating through Facebook. How ironic is that? The whole point of us doing this project is to inform ourselves that the network can be an essential tool. It’s up to us to use it.

Blog Post #1 (Marlon Douglas)

If I had to choose one word to describe our work efforts for the first day, that word would be “preparation”. As a team, we brainstormed ideas that would make our webpage a good one. The thing I enjoyed about this group is how we all respected each other’s suggestion. Even if we may have disagreed with something, we were all mature about the situation. Bear in mind that I personally am not a team person. I’m not trying to seem like a person who preference is to be isolated, I just work better alone. The thing I enjoy about the experience of creating a webpage as a team is how we are force to work together. Although sometimes I don’t necessarily abide by the saying “Two heads are better than one” It’s a great saying to live by. Jonathan, Angel, Jocelyn and I are all unique in our own way. That’s why our group is a productive group. If one were to study our work habits, they would have no choice but to compliment how dedicated we were constructing the website. Our body language was on point; meaning you can tell everyone was engaged in making our webpage the best webpage it could be. The challenge for this project was playing the role of supporting the Dodger Stadium and how it was worth building over Chavez Ravine. Personally, I am not for a corporation destroying a village to benefit themselves. I am aware that it does benefit somewhat benefit the city, but how much do they really give back to our community. Fortunately, we were able to find enough sources to support how beneficial sacrificing Chavez Ravine for the Dodger Stadium was.