Assignment 4b

1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?
Classmate Yesenia Chavez, component a World Cities, Oakland

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

Yesenia and I both thought that many would assume Oakland was a dangerous and volatile city. We also focussed on how the city was very culturaly diverse. The fact that Oakland is protrayed in a very negative light was something I found that we agreed upon as well.

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

Yesenia and I didn't have much of a differing opinion. She did state information about the community events hosted in Oakland which I did not touch on. Other than that our ideas were relatively the same on the city.

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 learned to look at the positive energy that Oakland could give off. While I seemed to focus more on the stereotypes the city had to offer Yesenia actually gave examples of good things going on in the community. I learned that it is good to search for the positive and by doing so I can learn much easier. By doing this I can practice Freire's concept of teacher/student learning.