4c - Reflection

1. Who is the classmate, what is the component, what is the name of the choice?

Anthony Frye, World Cities Component, San Francisco and San Diego

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

Both Anthony and I described San Francisco as home to liberal people and San Diego as more conservative.

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

In Anthonys' differences he indicates that San Francisco's weather is cold and foggy and San Diego is warm and sunny, yet in his statistics he states that the average mean temperature in SF is 59 degrees and SD is 64 degrees. That is only a difference of 5 degrees. While the fog does roll in off the bay, San Francisco is not always cold and foggy. It has neighborhoods that see fog more frequently and some that are warmer than other parts of the city. Overall, I don't disagree with anything that Anthony has indicated in his description of the cities.

4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? What new idea emerged from this process?

Reading a blog can be considered informal education. We become familiar with someone else's consciousness and this can transform our idea to form a different opinion on the subject. In this practice, we have to be respectful of other people's opinions and this creates a social network which is important in Freire's ideas.