Dedication And Acknowledgements

This dissertation is dedicated to the friendship and memory of Jill Huntley. She was a fellow
doctoral candidate at Columbia who encouraged me in this study and, over a number of years,
she and her husband, Eugene McDowell, facilitated my research by sharing their Washington
home with me when I needed a place to stay in the District. Jill's strength and faith during the
last year of her life gave me a new appreciation for the meaning and importance of friendship.
She lived her life well, acting upon her spiritual beliefs conscientiously by assisting both friends
and strangers in need. She faced her too early death bravely. During her terminal illness she
managed to complete her dissertation. Her example kept me working when I wanted to give up.
My thanks and appreciation to Paul N. Banks for persevering with me as my advisor through out
the time it took me to complete this research and write the dissertation. The inspiration for doing
the research came from the advanced degree program he headed in Preservation Administration
at Columbia University. The program was one of the most important and formative experiences
in my life. I am grateful as well to Steven A. Rittenberg and Stuart Brent for coordinating and
overseeing the administrative concerns that made it possible for me to complete my degree from
a geographical distance of 6,000 miles.
The members of my dissertation committee, Norbert Baer, Paul Benthel, Janet Gertz, and
Norman Weiss, have generously given their time and expertise to better my work. I thank them
for their contribution and their good-natured support.
I am grateful to many persons who shared their memories and experiences, especially the Barrow
family, Gregory Minnick of the Barrow Restoration Shop, and William K. Wilson from the
National Archives and Records Administration. Thomas E. Conroy generously shared his
meticulous research and insights that supported and expanded my own work. His conclusions
gave me the courage to challenge the common beliefs about the nature of Barrow's work and
contribution to the science of paper chemistry.
I must acknowledge as well the many friends, colleagues, students, teachers, archivists, and other
librarians who assisted, advised, and supported my research and writing efforts over the years.
Especially, I need to express my gratitude and deep appreciation to Tesse and Gene Santoro
whose friendship, hospitality, knowledge, and wisdom have supported, enlightened, and
entertained me over the many years of our friendship. They have consistently helped me keep
perspective on what is important in life and shown me how to deal with reality.
My thanks must go also to Althea and William Walton of Richmond, Virginia for their
hospitality. I thank the archivists and librarians at the Virginia Historical Society, the Library of
the National Forest Products Institute, the Library of the Technical Association for the Pulp and
Paper Industry, Mariners Museum Library and Archives, and the Agriculture Library of the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, for their research assistance and their patience.

I am grateful too for the support and advise from my faculty colleagues in library schools. I need
to thank especially Larry N. Osborne from the Library and Information Science Program of the
University of Hawaii who offered unflagging support and wise advice. Thanks also to Darlene
Weingand from the School of Library and Information Science of the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, for encouragement and emotional support during the home stretch.
My Final Portfolio!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Dedication!
DEDICATION

As well as everything that I do, I would be honor to dedicate this Final Portfolio to my
parents. The two persons that gave the tools and values necessary to be where I am standing
today. My parents support me on every step I make, and decision I take; but is necessary to
understand that they let me take my decisions alone in order for me to learn from my personal
mistake and as my father says to learn and grow from each seatback. I will never finish to
thank my father and my mother for all the opportunities that they have offer and gave me, for all
the teachings that they have told me and for every advise that come out of their mouth. I am so
graceful with them for trusting me that I would do a Good job in the university, and letting me
come to achieve a higher education.

So thats why I dedicate this Portfolio to my parents, whom expect my effort on every
thing that I do, and I think that this Final Portfolio is the perfect image and reflection of my effort
and hard work on my first semester on the university.
Mom & Dad: I hope that I can make you proud, the same way that I am proud of having both of
you as my parents and as the compass of my life!
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Acknowledgements
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished
collectively.
Golda Meir

First of all It would be very unfear If I start to post my final works by only giving credit
to myself and without mentioning all the persons that help me to developed, correct, polish and
improve on my work.
To start with I would like to thanks to all my classmates whom together we made the
elaboration of many peer reviews to help each other on different aspects such as grammar, topic
sentence, thesis statement, and many other things that we discuss in class. To my group for the
first Project: Melanie, Ivonne and Sean; I have no words to thank them for the magnificent
mutual respect that we show to each other on the different meeting that we had. With the
combination of the four of us, we made possible the elaboration of a high quality project, we
learn to work together, to not only hear others ideas but to also accept them, and specially to
understand each other strengths in order to distribute the amount of work in a efficient way. To
James and Alon, my peers for the second project, especially from them I learn a lot regarding
grammar mistakes. Since James is an excellent writer, he helped me to understand how to
localize when there is a sentence transition missing and the connection that I had to develop
between one paragraph and another.
To my college writing professor Benjamin Doyle I had no words no thank him for the
amazing work he did with my classmates and me. From hard lectures, readings, grammar,
punctuation, to his personal experiences; all this journey in order to achieve the goal of being
better writers. The patience, dedication and way of teaching and speaking that he had with each
one of us is something to admire. I wanted to thank him specially for always being so able ask
any type of question, and always for sending his feedback and comments on EACH WORD
AND LINE of our drafts. Professor: You make me understand something very important for life

that I will never forget: I should never be afraid of expressing out loud my opinion, since is mine
and it could never be wrong. Each of us has a different way of thinking and seeing the world, and
as long as we support with good and valid argument our points of views, well do fine!
Last but not least I cannot stop mentioning the writing center. I really appreciate the help
that the writing center was able to give me when I need it. They not only revised me my essays
and help me to correct my grammar mistakes, but besides that they also teach me amazing
lessons and tricks that would serve me a lot in my professional future.

I would like to finish my acknowledgement with a significant phrase that Helen Keller once said:
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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Introduction!
INTRODUCTION

College Writing 1111 is not the actual name of this course, the real one is: Ways of
Seeing, Being, and Representing: Self-reflexive Critique in Writing as Social Practice"
not coincidentally but because its exactly what we have been through this last months. In this
course the focus wasnt really learn how to write better essays, with less grammar mistakes, and
how to us punctuation correctly, it goes very further than only that. We encounter ourselves in
this course in front of highly complicated readings such as the one from Butler, Rodriguez,
Wiseman, and other writers and we focus through out the semester on the UNDERSTANDING
of each sentence, the meaning of each word and on deciphering the real message that the author
is trying to gave us. On each of our projects we use different focus, and each of them was about a

different topics, problems or situations, but on each new work that we work on, we should be
able to apply whatve learn on the past one; and that was the magic of each project. Even thought
projects where about different ideas, we where able to find the relationship of them and our
original focus An Account of One self: A reading that we though that was almost impossible to
read, but that we end up loving it.
This portfolio that I have created has a specific order of things, and it is not by
coincidence neither, but because I made it in a way that my audience, new College Writing 1111
students, can observe how on each on each project we where ask to speak back to a specific idea,
and how we always go back to the previous project. Something t could be really hard to
understand this type of essays without reading the original source on which our work is based on.
But even thought of that with this essays that youll find next, our focus was for our audience to
understand what they are reading without the need of knowing what my original source was.

Each project below is in order on which we made them, from the first one that we
develop in September being number one, as the last one being our Final Work. Besides that you
will also find among the projects some images, blog post, and other things that help me in the
construction of each project, so I also post so you can understand the improvement as you go.

As you keep reading, take into account that this was not an easy course, thinking a lot and
very deeply was the require # 1, and as the tittle of the course said, we where ask how each
reading make us see, feel and act, in other words how each author like Butler persuade us.
Adorno, Foucault, Wiseman, Rodriguez all of them where able to persuade me, but each of them
in a different way; and that is exactly what I would like you to understand as you read my
project, I would like you to feel what I felt while I was reading, I want you to enter my mind and
see what I see and think about each essay, reading or Account of the self that we read.
Table of Content!
BLOG TABLE OF CONTENT

Post # 1

Introduction

Post # 2

Acknowledgements

Post # 3

DEDICATION

Post # 4

Course Placement Essay

Post # 5

Final Project # 1

Post # 6

Blog post of Project # 2

Post # 7

Final Project # 2

Post # 8

Final Project # 3

Post # 9

Social Activist Group images!

Post # 10

Final Project # 4

Post # 11

Biography (Works Cited)

PUP HISTORY
The history of PUP may well parallel the nation's growth and development. As it met the needs
of a fledgling Philippine civil service under American rule forged from anvil of Spanish
colonialism, so will it serve the rising expectations of the people in the 21st century...desirous
now of reclaiming their rightful place in the community of independent nations. As it has
withstood the test of time, so will it continue to pace contemporary Philippine history.
Here are the highlights of its growth from a mere business school with an itinerant existence to
the country's largest state university. Click upon the timeline link provided below to proceed with
the specific part of the PUP history timeline.

1904-1951
Take a journey to the University's humble beginnings as it started being a Business School.

1952-1971
This period covers the time where the Business School became a College whose main thrust is in
Commerce.

1972-1985
The Institution's transformation from a College into a University happened during these period.

1986-1990
This period brought about a dramatic change in the University firming its commitment to the role
of education as an equalizing factor.

1991-1999
To keep pace with changing conditions, the University underwent continuous change in this
period.

2000-2011
A transition point as the University heads for the future, grasps new and emerging technologies,
and prepares itself to become globally competitive.

2012...
Transforming PUP into an epistemic community.

MISSION
Vision
Clearing the paths while laying new foundations to transform the Polytechnic University of the
Philippines into an epistemic community.
Mission
Reflective of the great emphasis being given by the country's leadership aimed at providing
appropriate attention to the alleviation of the plight of the poor, the development of the citizens,
and of the national economy to become globally competitive, the University shall commit its
academic resources and manpower to achieve its goals through:
1.

Provision of undergraduate and graduate education which meet international standards of

quality and excellence;

2.

Generation and transmission of knowledge in the broad range of disciplines relevant and
responsive to the dynamically changing domestic and international environment;
3.
Provision of more equitable access to higher education opportunities to deserving and
qualified Filipinos; and
4.
Optimization, through efficiency and effectiveness, of social, institutional, and individual
returns and benefits derived from the utilization of higher education resources.
Philosophy
As a state university, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines believes that:

Education is an instrument for the development of the citizenry and for the enhancement
of nation building;

Meaningful growth and transformation of the country are best achieved in an atmosphere
of brotherhood, peace, freedom, justice and a nationalist-oriented education imbued with
the spirit of humanist internationalism.
Strategic Objective: 8-Point Agenda
1.
2.
3.
4.

Pursuing Academic Excellence through Disciplinal Integrity

Embedding a Culture of Research in PUP
Assuring Transparency and Participatoriness in Giving Rewards and Sanctions
Modernization and Upgrading of Physical Facilities, Equipment, Library and Campus
Development
5.
Reconceptualization of Academic Freedom
6.
Institutionalizing Civil Society Engagement and Involved Extension Service Program
7.
Fiscal Responsibility
8.
Assessment of the Institutional Processes and Critical-Rational Review of the Entire
Organization
(View more information on the PUP 8-Point Agenda)
Shared Values

God-Fearing

Love for Humanity and Democracy

Collegiality

Integrity and Credibility

Transparency and Accountability

Passion for Learning

Humanist Internationalism
Mandate
Presidential Decree No.1341 mandated the PUP to expand the program offerings of the
University to include courses in polytechnic areas and has also given the University the authority
to expand diametrically through the establishment of branches, consortia and linkages.