Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Noah Horn
UWRT 1102
20 March 2017
exercise. I was able to hone in my research and define my topic using a different style of thinking
than one would normally use when attempting a to explore a community. Using pictures I was
able to better understand how I was going to portray my community as well as what exactly I
would be able to inquire more deeply into. My presentation, on the other hand was not nearly as
I approached this project with an inside out mindset. I wanted to find pictures that
represented my community first and foremost. I wanted people to get a taste of what
MEcklenburg community church was like and while their understanding may be basic, it allowed
my audience to literally get an inside view of my Church. I then narrowed pictures down to
represent some of the issues that I wanted to focus on within my community. I was able to find a
picture that showed the size and modern look of my churchs sanctuary and I combined this of a
picture with the newly renovated childrens ministry area. This not only showed two locations
within my community, but also allowed me to talk about the issues with how the church may be
using the money. I used the logo and picture of the apparel so people could see the image that my
church was attempting to portray. THis then allowed me to shine the light on the fact that due to
the business like nature of my church, there may be an overemphasis on branding and name
recognition. Finally I was able to show a picture of the worship team which gave my audience
insight into the age of my church while also allowing me to comment upon the potential
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fabricated diversity, and the bias towards youth and attractive people. The only concept I was
not able to portray through my picture was the fact that the senior pastor of my church acted
more Chief Executive Officer than a Minister or traditional senior pastor. I included an Image I
found online because I felt this was one of the overlying themes and concepts in my inquiry
project and leaving a representation of this idea out of my collage would not portray an accurate
My design of the picture was mostly artistic in nature. I wanted it to not simply be 6
pictures aligned on the screen but wanted it to appear like a legitimate collage. The only really
intentional part was the placing of auditorium as a background of sorts. Having it as the largest
picture allowed me to show the large size of my church and gave the audience a more indepth
My presentation was far less successful. My intention in the presentation was to portray
how much I appreciated with and identified with my community while talking about how I only
began to critically analyze it recently. I feel like it turned into a complete deep criticism of my
church. I feel like my audience would be confused if I had mentioned that I currently work for
my church and that at this point I have no intentions of changing that. I want to make changes in
my church and to truly be a part of a community, you must know its strengths and weaknesses;
however, due to my desire to be an engaging presenter, I focused far too much on the negative
aspects of my church. I do not think I would have changed any of the ideas I presented; however,
I wish I had approached them in a less critical tone. I want to be critical of my community but I
did not want my audience to believe that I was completely against the community I was apart of.
I also would have prepared more exactly what I planned upon saying. I knew what I wanted my
audience to understand about each picture but my preparation did not go far beyond that. I feel
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that I spoke well and the informal tone I used was appropriate for the setting, but the tone of
what I said would have been completely different had I prepared more specifically what I would
have said.
inquiry paper. Most of the time simply writing something out and focusing my thoughts through
words and outlines had been most successful, but the way that the collage forced me to think
about individual concepts within my community really opened the door for further research and
inquiry and out of all the activities we have completed for the class, this is most certainly one of