History is our teacher, it shows our biggest flaws and successes, and it is in maps that history is writing. Without history, writers would not know the contexts of which to write in, “In many fields of study, an understanding of the geographical context of places and events is central to deep comprehension of the subject matter” (Educause Initiative 1). As explained by the Educause Initiative (Mapping Mashups), writers base their stories, experiences and knowledge off of history and since maps are the written form of history, it’s simple to see why maps should be taught in composition classes around the country. Maps allow a writer to link the event, place and time together in the form of a visual representation, not to mention it also gives the author a view into other things such as landscape, distance, so on and so forth. A good example of maps helping the author would be as follows, say a author is writing about the civil war. A map of the civil war would help him extremely in identifying location, location relevant to each other, landscape, population and even possible military movement. The map could also help the author for example in identifying what the social trend of the time was by looking at the region and analyzing that with the date. Indeed the map would be extremely useful to any author; they can do so many numerous things. The map can help the author in making connections. For example back to the civil war, an author writing about why the south lost can look at a map and make connections such as, connecting the weather with the landscape and considering those as factors of the south’s eventual loss. A map can also demonstrate events dealing with the matter that eventually shaped it. Maps do truly give authors a great resource when writing and most importantly it’s visual.
Work Cited
Educause Learning Intiative."Mapping Mashups."2006.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Questions
Is the "Idea" well planned out
Do they try and succeed in completing the objective?
How is there Idea going to benefit Nova
Would there idea draw a lot of interest?
Did they budget reasonably?
Did they look into budget, location, target audience etc.
Would I join in on the proposal?
Do they try and succeed in completing the objective?
How is there Idea going to benefit Nova
Would there idea draw a lot of interest?
Did they budget reasonably?
Did they look into budget, location, target audience etc.
Would I join in on the proposal?
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Journal Entry 10
Journal Entry #10
Rhetoric and Composition: How do students go about writing an essay, what techniques do they use?
English Studies: Should computers and laptops be allowed in classrooms.
Culture Studies: Why do two cultures sometimes have problems with each other and what steps can be done to limit that.
Discourse Analysis: How useful are books as a research tool?
5 topics I a, interested in
Do fraternities play a good role in shaping someone’s character.
The lack of technology advanced police stations and its effect on stopping criminals
Should players be allowed to take steroids
Should we completely move to electric car
Is the democratic and republican parties to powerful, to the point where there in to much control of politics and possibly starting what could be called a political cartel.
Should law enforcement be more professional policing or community policing.
Rhetoric and Composition: How do students go about writing an essay, what techniques do they use?
English Studies: Should computers and laptops be allowed in classrooms.
Culture Studies: Why do two cultures sometimes have problems with each other and what steps can be done to limit that.
Discourse Analysis: How useful are books as a research tool?
5 topics I a, interested in
Do fraternities play a good role in shaping someone’s character.
The lack of technology advanced police stations and its effect on stopping criminals
Should players be allowed to take steroids
Should we completely move to electric car
Is the democratic and republican parties to powerful, to the point where there in to much control of politics and possibly starting what could be called a political cartel.
Should law enforcement be more professional policing or community policing.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Research
The Community Policing Umbrella
Carl R Peed. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Washington: Nov 2008. Vol. 77, Iss. 11; pg. 22, 3 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
There are many strategies and tactics to address threats to public safety: broken windows, zero tolerance, Compstat, hot spots, situational crime prevention, and third-party and intelligenceled policing. Intelligence-led policing (ILP), in particular, is a useful strategy that can help law enforcement agencies better prepare for and prevent serious violent crime and acts of terror.
Copyright United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Nov 2008
If you conduct a search about Sir Robert Peel on the Internet, you will learn that he was a 19th century British prime minister considered to be the father of modern policing. While some may not know his name, many in law enforcement are familiar with his words. "The police are the public and the public are the police; the police are only members of the public who are paid to give fulltime attention to duties, which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
In Peel's principles, we find the foundation of modern-day community policing. In his timeless writing, we find the essence of what it means to police a democratic society. Although Peel lived more than a century ago, his words continue to challenge all of us in law enforcement to keep a laser focus on our relationship with the citizens we serve every day. At the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) office and in thousands of community policing agencies across the country, we use the word partnership to describe this indispensable relationship between the community and law enforcement. Partnership is central to modern-day policing because it recognizes a basic truth-law enforcement cannot do it alone.
The safety of our streets, schools, neighborhoods, and nation depends upon the actions of many who, as Peel wrote, "are paid to give fulltime attention to these duties, as well as those who simply want to be safe and free from fear." Partnerships help us build trust with the community and each other-federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. While partnerships are vital to policing, they must be purposeful and directed toward improving quality of life. This leads to another essential element of community policing, problem solving.
Problem solving seeks to reduce problems by addressing their immediate underlying causes. Much information on the nature of those causes can be gathered through the use of problemsolving models, such as the SARA process, which includes scanning, analysis, response, and assessment. Many of these key tools also can be used in the criminal intelligence arena. Problem solving, like partnerships, can guide intelligence-led strategies by providing a framework for gathering, assessing, and analyzing data.
This brings me to the final aspect of community policing, organizational transformation. Leadership and organizational structures must support and reward innovations in community partnership and problem solving. Organizational changes should include aligning recruitment, training, performance evaluation, and technology to support the fundamental principles of community policing. If community policing is truly going to be institutionalized and embraced, we must do more than just say that we are proactively serving the community. We must build organizations that do it. Partnership and problem solving will not occur spontaneously within our agencies. These two vital aspects of modern-day policing will only happen if we nurture them in our departments and officers.
There are many strategies and tactics to address threats to public safety: broken windows, zero tolerance, Compstat, hot spots, situational crime prevention, and third-party and intelligenceled policing. Each of these tools is viable and has an appropriate place in our arsenal against crime and terror.
Intelligence-led policing (ILP), in particular, is a useful strategy that can help law enforcement agencies better prepare for and prevent serious violent crime and acts of terror. ILP can take advantage of the partnerships built through community po- licing by leveraging the trust between citizens and law en- forcement. It also can be in- formed by the problem-solving processes and benefit from the organizational transformation inherent in community polic- ing. Put simply, ILP is not just consistent with community po- licing but it fits well under the community policing umbrella. As Dr. David Carter writes in Law Enforcement Intelligence: A Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies, "ILP is a new dimension of community policing, building on tactics and methodologies developed during years of community policing experimentation."
After many years in law enforcement and nearly 7 as the director of COPS, I have yet to see a successful and sustainable crime-reduction strategy consistent with our democratic values that fails to build partnerships with citizens and embrace problem-solving principles. Make no mistake-policing becomes less effective and more likely to drive a wedge between law enforcement and the public when conducted outside a comprehensive community policing framework.
Community partnership and problem solving in policing are not relics of the Victorian age or a bygone era. They were not buried with Peel when he died in 1850. They are as modern as the war on terror and as current as today's headlines. And, they are annually recognized through various recognitions and awards.
Staff Sergeant Walter Kreitlow, a Florida law enforcement investigator in his civilian life, wrote, "Our community policing goal here is to establish a better relationship between the community and the police, so the community isn't afraid to go to the police to report crime." Sergeant Kreitlow has served in Iraq, training members of the Iraqi police force.
Another statement of community policing principles comes from Lieutenant General David Barno, the former commander of combined forces in Afghanistan. "Our personnel are assigned to and responsible for specific geographic areas and they continually operate in those areas. This allows them to develop and maintain relationships with local leaders and the local community. As a result, our people are gaining a greater knowledge and understanding of those areas, and they get much better information on how the bad guys operate."
While the thoughts of Sir Robert Peel once were imported to the United States from England, it is quite clear from these quotes that the United States now exports community policing to those parts of the world desperate for democracy and the rule of law. Community policing is equally vital in long-established democracies now struggling with the terrorist threat. After visiting the tragic scene of the 2005 London bombings, the BBC quoted Los Angeles, California, Police Department Chief Bill Bratton, "In dealing with serious international crime, you need to focus on the community. If police do not have relationships with the communities in a city as ethnically diverse as London, the game is over; we always will be playing catch-up." Commenting on the same terror attack, Sir Ian Blair, the commissioner of Britain's Metropolitan Police, said, "It is not the police; it is not the intelligence services that will defeat terrorism. It is communities that will defeat terrorism." Confronting homegrown extremism in Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonnell stated, "Like other types of law enforcement, fighting...radicalization must involve community policing."
These quotes illustrate that around the world, law enforcement is recognizing the importance of community policing. I began this speech with Peel's words, and I would like to close with his words-words that should echo in our minds for as long as we do this kind of work. "The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it."
In fighting crime and securing our homeland, many approaches will be tried; many strategies and solutions will be offered. That is a good thing because we must remain vigilant and always resist the complacency that shadows any long struggle. Nevertheless, as we constantly seek to make our communities safer and more secure, we must hold on to those fundamentals that we know work. We must maintain an unflinching concentration on the immediate causes of the problems we seek to solve, partner with those who can best help us solve them, and align our organizations to better combat those things that most threaten the domestic tranquility of our nation.
[Sidebar]
"These two vital aspects of modern-day policing will only happen if we nurture them in our departments and officers."
[Author Affiliation]
Director Peed heads the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He delivered this speech during opening remarks at the National Intelligence Sharing Summit in Washington, D.C., on November 27, 2007.
Author(s):Carl R PeedAuthor Affiliation:Director Peed heads the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He delivered this speech during opening remarks at the National Intelligence Sharing Summit in Washington, D.C., on November 27, 2007.Document types:CommentarySection:Notable SpeechPublication title:FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Washington: Nov 2008. Vol. 77, Iss. 11; pg. 22, 3 pgsSource type:PeriodicalISSN:00145688ProQuest document ID:1624587341Text Word Count1320Document URL:http://0-proquest.umi.com.novacat.nova.edu/pqdweb?did=1624587341&sid=3&Fmt=3&clientId=17038&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Carl R Peed. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Washington: Nov 2008. Vol. 77, Iss. 11; pg. 22, 3 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
There are many strategies and tactics to address threats to public safety: broken windows, zero tolerance, Compstat, hot spots, situational crime prevention, and third-party and intelligenceled policing. Intelligence-led policing (ILP), in particular, is a useful strategy that can help law enforcement agencies better prepare for and prevent serious violent crime and acts of terror.
Copyright United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Nov 2008
If you conduct a search about Sir Robert Peel on the Internet, you will learn that he was a 19th century British prime minister considered to be the father of modern policing. While some may not know his name, many in law enforcement are familiar with his words. "The police are the public and the public are the police; the police are only members of the public who are paid to give fulltime attention to duties, which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
In Peel's principles, we find the foundation of modern-day community policing. In his timeless writing, we find the essence of what it means to police a democratic society. Although Peel lived more than a century ago, his words continue to challenge all of us in law enforcement to keep a laser focus on our relationship with the citizens we serve every day. At the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) office and in thousands of community policing agencies across the country, we use the word partnership to describe this indispensable relationship between the community and law enforcement. Partnership is central to modern-day policing because it recognizes a basic truth-law enforcement cannot do it alone.
The safety of our streets, schools, neighborhoods, and nation depends upon the actions of many who, as Peel wrote, "are paid to give fulltime attention to these duties, as well as those who simply want to be safe and free from fear." Partnerships help us build trust with the community and each other-federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. While partnerships are vital to policing, they must be purposeful and directed toward improving quality of life. This leads to another essential element of community policing, problem solving.
Problem solving seeks to reduce problems by addressing their immediate underlying causes. Much information on the nature of those causes can be gathered through the use of problemsolving models, such as the SARA process, which includes scanning, analysis, response, and assessment. Many of these key tools also can be used in the criminal intelligence arena. Problem solving, like partnerships, can guide intelligence-led strategies by providing a framework for gathering, assessing, and analyzing data.
This brings me to the final aspect of community policing, organizational transformation. Leadership and organizational structures must support and reward innovations in community partnership and problem solving. Organizational changes should include aligning recruitment, training, performance evaluation, and technology to support the fundamental principles of community policing. If community policing is truly going to be institutionalized and embraced, we must do more than just say that we are proactively serving the community. We must build organizations that do it. Partnership and problem solving will not occur spontaneously within our agencies. These two vital aspects of modern-day policing will only happen if we nurture them in our departments and officers.
There are many strategies and tactics to address threats to public safety: broken windows, zero tolerance, Compstat, hot spots, situational crime prevention, and third-party and intelligenceled policing. Each of these tools is viable and has an appropriate place in our arsenal against crime and terror.
Intelligence-led policing (ILP), in particular, is a useful strategy that can help law enforcement agencies better prepare for and prevent serious violent crime and acts of terror. ILP can take advantage of the partnerships built through community po- licing by leveraging the trust between citizens and law en- forcement. It also can be in- formed by the problem-solving processes and benefit from the organizational transformation inherent in community polic- ing. Put simply, ILP is not just consistent with community po- licing but it fits well under the community policing umbrella. As Dr. David Carter writes in Law Enforcement Intelligence: A Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies, "ILP is a new dimension of community policing, building on tactics and methodologies developed during years of community policing experimentation."
After many years in law enforcement and nearly 7 as the director of COPS, I have yet to see a successful and sustainable crime-reduction strategy consistent with our democratic values that fails to build partnerships with citizens and embrace problem-solving principles. Make no mistake-policing becomes less effective and more likely to drive a wedge between law enforcement and the public when conducted outside a comprehensive community policing framework.
Community partnership and problem solving in policing are not relics of the Victorian age or a bygone era. They were not buried with Peel when he died in 1850. They are as modern as the war on terror and as current as today's headlines. And, they are annually recognized through various recognitions and awards.
Staff Sergeant Walter Kreitlow, a Florida law enforcement investigator in his civilian life, wrote, "Our community policing goal here is to establish a better relationship between the community and the police, so the community isn't afraid to go to the police to report crime." Sergeant Kreitlow has served in Iraq, training members of the Iraqi police force.
Another statement of community policing principles comes from Lieutenant General David Barno, the former commander of combined forces in Afghanistan. "Our personnel are assigned to and responsible for specific geographic areas and they continually operate in those areas. This allows them to develop and maintain relationships with local leaders and the local community. As a result, our people are gaining a greater knowledge and understanding of those areas, and they get much better information on how the bad guys operate."
While the thoughts of Sir Robert Peel once were imported to the United States from England, it is quite clear from these quotes that the United States now exports community policing to those parts of the world desperate for democracy and the rule of law. Community policing is equally vital in long-established democracies now struggling with the terrorist threat. After visiting the tragic scene of the 2005 London bombings, the BBC quoted Los Angeles, California, Police Department Chief Bill Bratton, "In dealing with serious international crime, you need to focus on the community. If police do not have relationships with the communities in a city as ethnically diverse as London, the game is over; we always will be playing catch-up." Commenting on the same terror attack, Sir Ian Blair, the commissioner of Britain's Metropolitan Police, said, "It is not the police; it is not the intelligence services that will defeat terrorism. It is communities that will defeat terrorism." Confronting homegrown extremism in Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonnell stated, "Like other types of law enforcement, fighting...radicalization must involve community policing."
These quotes illustrate that around the world, law enforcement is recognizing the importance of community policing. I began this speech with Peel's words, and I would like to close with his words-words that should echo in our minds for as long as we do this kind of work. "The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it."
In fighting crime and securing our homeland, many approaches will be tried; many strategies and solutions will be offered. That is a good thing because we must remain vigilant and always resist the complacency that shadows any long struggle. Nevertheless, as we constantly seek to make our communities safer and more secure, we must hold on to those fundamentals that we know work. We must maintain an unflinching concentration on the immediate causes of the problems we seek to solve, partner with those who can best help us solve them, and align our organizations to better combat those things that most threaten the domestic tranquility of our nation.
[Sidebar]
"These two vital aspects of modern-day policing will only happen if we nurture them in our departments and officers."
[Author Affiliation]
Director Peed heads the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He delivered this speech during opening remarks at the National Intelligence Sharing Summit in Washington, D.C., on November 27, 2007.
Author(s):Carl R PeedAuthor Affiliation:Director Peed heads the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He delivered this speech during opening remarks at the National Intelligence Sharing Summit in Washington, D.C., on November 27, 2007.Document types:CommentarySection:Notable SpeechPublication title:FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Washington: Nov 2008. Vol. 77, Iss. 11; pg. 22, 3 pgsSource type:PeriodicalISSN:00145688ProQuest document ID:1624587341Text Word Count1320Document URL:http://0-proquest.umi.com.novacat.nova.edu/pqdweb?did=1624587341&sid=3&Fmt=3&clientId=17038&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Friday, February 6, 2009
Journal Entry 9
COMP 2000 – Journal Entry 9
Answer the following questions about the English education article, “Participant and Institutional Identity: Self-representation Across Multiple Genres at a Catholic College,” by Katrina Powell.
1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides her work)?
The writer is trying to figure out how students constructs of “self” are reflected school genres and how their backgrounds, specific academic disciplines, and institutional goals affect the constructs.
2. How does this author collect the data she needs to answer her question?
The author collects here data through case studies, highlighting three
3. What sort of genres do you see your peers using as forms of “self-representation”?
I see my fellow peers using amny different type of geners
Monday, February 2, 2009
Journal Entry 8
COMP 2000 – Journal Entry 8
Answer the following questions about the cultural studies article, “4 Real: Authenticity, Performance, and Rock Music,” by David Pattie.
What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides his work)?
The writer is trying to find out more about the culture of these rock bands, the authencity and in general the people themselves
What sort of texts or sources does the author quote from to build his argument?
He uses what other people have actually said to support his argument,.
In what ways do you see others around you attempting to establish their “authenticity”?
I see others trying to establish there authenticity by the types of clothes they wear, they way they carry themselves and how they act.
Answer the following questions about the cultural studies article, “4 Real: Authenticity, Performance, and Rock Music,” by David Pattie.
What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides his work)?
The writer is trying to find out more about the culture of these rock bands, the authencity and in general the people themselves
What sort of texts or sources does the author quote from to build his argument?
He uses what other people have actually said to support his argument,.
In what ways do you see others around you attempting to establish their “authenticity”?
I see others trying to establish there authenticity by the types of clothes they wear, they way they carry themselves and how they act.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Journal Entry 7
Jose Villafuerte
Comp 2000
Journal Entry 7
1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research?
Shes trying to find out how professional editors revise their work and how this can benefit researchers to better grasp the revision process
2. What is the research methodogly for this article?
The author filmed six professional editors at their prectice
3. How does professional editing differ from how students revise their work?
The major difference is that a professional editor is editing the work devised by another person , thus will not intervene in the writers idea and well just focus on nore than modify the particular style. A student is however revising his own work and will feel tempted to completely change ideas inside of focusing in just revising the paper
Comp 2000
Journal Entry 7
1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research?
Shes trying to find out how professional editors revise their work and how this can benefit researchers to better grasp the revision process
2. What is the research methodogly for this article?
The author filmed six professional editors at their prectice
3. How does professional editing differ from how students revise their work?
The major difference is that a professional editor is editing the work devised by another person , thus will not intervene in the writers idea and well just focus on nore than modify the particular style. A student is however revising his own work and will feel tempted to completely change ideas inside of focusing in just revising the paper
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