Dress to Impress

 

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   When reading the article about a black man doing an experiment in how dressing a specific way affected others reactions towards you, it was sad that it did not surprise me when he got negative feedback when he dressed down. In today's society, if we don't follow the social norm rules, then we are not accepted. Based in how you look, it will take a person 3 seconds to decide if you are good or not. 

I'm actually glad Pedro did this experiment because it does make others realize that it is super important in how you dress and look. It was actually really sad when he began to feel uncomfortable when he dressed down and upset when people treated him rudely.

As someone who grew up in Chicago and always rode in public transportation, I have also been guilt of treating someone when dressed in a certain way. However, I would think about and it bothered me that I treated someone like that. It wasn't nice and it wasn't right for me to judge someone I did not know. I think that people need to realize that dressing a certain way does not define a person. Dressing a certain way is just a way of style and nothing more.

Unprofessional and Injustice

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When watching Making a Murderer, I still find myself feeling surprised that the sheriff and his department got away with a lie for so long. It surprised me how there's a "system" in law enforcement that officers must take when handling a crime, but they chose not to follow otherwise. Fortunately enough, the truth came up and they were put in a very uncomfortable situation. There's one scene that I find interesting every time and one scene that makes me angry. The scene that I found funny is when they are interviewing Sergeant Andrew Colborn (18:38) about him receiving a telephone call regarding Anderson and the crime he did not commit. The reason as to why I found this specific scene funny was because Sergeant Colborn seemed very uncomfortable. He had the posture a child usually has when they are being scolded: shoulders are dropped, hands in between their legs, moving around in his chair, and most importantly, trying not to make eye contact. This to me, I think, should be important postures someone who is interrogating another person should take into consideration. Sergeant Colborn knows him and his department messed up and that he was in big deep trouble. As for the other scene that made me upset was when they interviewed Mark Rohrer, the Manitowoc County District Attorney (27:42) when asked if he turned in a report. Now, this one made me upset because I had a little hope in Mr. Rohrer for the fact that he was a lawyer. I felt that out of everyone in the department, he would of been the one to do the right thing. When put in the spot about there not being any record about these documentations he supposedly turned in, it made me angry. He started off with being confident and then when put on the spot, he was out of words. All that confidence left.  As a lawyer, you spend years in school learning what is constitutional and unconstitutional. I'm anxious for the next couple episodes to come.

My Writing Fears

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A fear that I constantly seem to have, one that I have now, when it comes to writing, is clarity. I have many ideas running through my head and can never seem to figure out how to put them down in paper. I absolutely hate writing papers because it takes me a day or two to get my thoughts together. And whenever I get my papers back, I am always afraid to look at the comments professors make because I expect things like "This doesn't make sense" or "It needs more details or explanations". I hate writing formal papers because they need to make sense and they need to be detailed and they require so much more explanations than I can actually explain! Makes sense? I've written a bunch of papers back in grade school and high school and my teachers seemed to like it or they really didn't care. My AP writing course, however, I barely made it out alive. My senior year in high school, my English teacher slaughtered our papers. Once I got to college, I hated writing. And when I say hate, I mean to say, I hate formality and structure. Writing I can do, when it comes to free writing and creativity. However, I won't be writing pretty poems or anything of that kind in the criminal justice field.

Another fear that I have is my grammar. English is not my first language. When speaking, I twist my words and mispronounce a lot of them and get constantly teased about it. So when I write, I am always afraid that I might be using the word wrong or that there is a better word for that particular word. With Spanish being my first language, I always have to make sure that the word I'm trying to use means what it actually means and that I'm not mixing it up with anything in Spanish. For example, the Spanish word soportar does not mean support in English, even though they sound and look similar. So trying to use the word soportar wouldn't make sense in English.

Writing is just scary for me because I never know how to word things and don't know how to explain things good enough for someone to understand. I always thought I made sense and was so confident on my writing until everything that I thought was right was noted as wrong.