Research On Podcast: East Los

My podcast is being done on my favorite topic: East Los!
Doing my podcast on East Los Angeles, required me to ask some of former teammates, friends who still reside in East Los Angeles, and check the LA Times on any info on my hometown. I really like it, because the connotation east Los Angeles gets from the media and some movies isn't positive, yet we've had an Olympic gold medalist and one of the greatest boxers during their time, Oscar De La Hoya. The "Golden Boy" (De La Hoya) went to my high school and had my biology teacher, who was the coordinator of my Small learning community (that means I was around the same students for 4 years; we had the top classes in our school.) Our teacher described Oscar de la Hoya as not being the sharpest knife in the drawer, maybe from all the hits he took. Either way, our community has spawned hope, because of people like him. The institution that does so is James A. Garfield High School (as I have said before in previous blogs). I really am zealous about my school and community.





What I found out on my research was that The East Los Angeles Metro Gold Line was now open. I remember that projected started back in my junior year. It caused a lot of problems: people and cars couldn't reach businesses. This complicated it for them and losses were recorded. I heard from a person during a bus ride (not too credible) that it had already opened before November 6th but that the metro was loosing power as it went on. There was a problem on the way it was built but it was quickly addressed. That's the biggest news I found. Everything else pretty much remains local, like how the high school sport teams are doing. Maybe during my visit back I’ll make some positive news show up! haha

Research Paper

On music changing; evolving music changes.. well lets see.. My cousin used to listen to Eminem, then he started listening to Linkin Park, then he listend to Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osborne. From there he moved on to slipknot. After slipknot he moved onto some other hardcore metal stuff. All of a sudden i hear he listens to rancheras and corridos (which is like Mexican ghetto music).






This is an evolving music change that just happened perhaps spontaneously or it had to do with his gender and ethnicity. I would say gender because I believe men can take more pride in liking corridos as opposed to girls. Ethnicity because to be into corridos, chances are likely that you are Mexican. After doing some research, I found out that there has not been many similar inquires done about this; doing this survey and experiment was going to be harder than I thought.

The only similar research was on elementary kids in 1979, and he redo for it in 2008. They both showed that the kids were into rock in the 70's and hiphop more now in days. This was not as useful as i hoped it would be, so my paper ended up looking a bit whack.
I read more and I found a lot of research papers with a common reference that i could not successfully find. It was a paper on old people's music tastes. A high percentage of old people like music that was popular when they were in their "prime", or just younger years; the years i focused in on my research paper. The difference is that i saw the changes within those years. I made an excell chart and saw that most people have changes, only a few stay constant. One person that stayed constant was into Pop music, and the other two were into Alternative Rock. What does this mean? I don't know, we need more research on this just to know these things..and probably profit-of of them one day.

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Writing research papers has a procedure. I thought it was more tedious as high school made it seem. It’s not that bad actually, you first go out, mess around with people, get samples, come back, do some fun charts and algorithm style thinking (the kind you do when you program and computer science related activities [which I think are fun] ).. then you do that paper which is not as bad as it sounds. You introduce the thing (Picture star wars style intro), then you talk about what you did, who you mingled’ with, how you got info, who you spoke to, almost like telling a narrative but not as interesting. After that you have the discussion which is rambling about what you did, (by now you want to defend your case and you should be convinced that what you’re doing is worth it and beneficial somehow). Then you conclude it, and work on the abstract and stick it to the front. Yups. I can do one on something like “How Do you Like to Eat Hot Cheetos”. I have a lot of work this weekend; midterms and most importantly this writing paper. I have to get it done and Ace it so I can have an decent gpa, because in my math class.. well I’ve passed it 4 times but here in the university it’s different for some odd reason. I should do a survey and see the performance on people who also passed calc in high school and how they are doing now. Anyways, today is the day of the East Los Angeles Classic, the biggest High School Rivalry west of the Mississippi river. ( We beat Texas at this?) This rivalry has gone for many years and attracts about 30,000 fans; not counting how many view this game on television. I had the honor of playing this game, tho on the JV level (I had to leave to football to pick up my grades and to focus and have a good junior year that led to my presence in this class). True story.