Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

Title: Blog 24:  Last Presentation Reflection
Label: Presentation
Directions: Please answer the following questions, and submit them to the blog.
Due Date: The day after your block presentation by 8:00 A.M.


(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

My experience with mentorship. I feel like I've learned a lot, both negative and positive things, and it's shaped the way I look at certain things in life.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          (AP)       CR       NC
I had all the requirements. I just didn't meet time.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       (P)          AP       CR       NC

Senior project was fairly easy for me and I feel I did fine aside from senior presentation.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

Everything aside from mentorship at first and presentation. The research process was fairly easy, although tedious and unnecessary at times. The interviews went smoothly, although the transcribing is questionable.


(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

Finding a mentor and enjoying my topic. I would have done a different topic like music or business.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

It has helped me find an interest in business. It's interesting how learning about one topic convinced me to pursue something else in the future. Why business? It is a faster paced and open field; I plan on doing pharmaceuticals maybe, simply because you're saving lives while doing business. 

So in a sense I do appreciate the long-winding research done throughout the year, because it helped me redirect the direction of life I want to take. Other than that it has been the opposite of helpful.

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

1. How can an attorney best present his case?
1. By presenting himself well
2. By working his evidence
3. By preparing <----BEST ANSWER

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

  

Mostly my mentorship experiences helped me, through the time I spent watching trials to the time I spent talking to my mentor about my IC2 and just generally how he does his work.

 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

 

Finding a mentor was a huge and very frustrating problem, but I was barely able to find one thanks to my mom's connection with people from Pomona Courthouse.

 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

 

Mainly my mentorship and a lecutre by Kenneth Brown regarding influence. I got most of my answers and learned the most from my mentorship, something no amount of articles or books can help me experience, and the Kenneth Brown book was the centerpiece for my very first answer, something I already had in mind before starting senior project. 

Blog 22: Independent Component 2

(a) I, Preston Le, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hours of work.”
(b) My mentor, James Perry.
(c) The mentorship hours blog has been updated to include the IC 2 hours.
(d) 

What I completed was essentially a mock direct examination. For those that do not know what a direct examination, it's a trial process that involves asking the witness questions in order to get as much information from the witness as necessary. Direct examinations usually take 30-60 minutes long depending on the witness. Most, if not all the evidence, is presented and recorded during the direct examination. The video above is my IC 2 and it is, according to my mentor, more or less what a direct examination looks like.
 
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

Transcript of the direct examination can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12otzI2J1V2BkoMkmY51bSBgEc5fIBkd65R7I1Ft8o2Y/edit?usp=sharing

 Before I had the scripts typed, here are a few samples of what notes I had to take and what I had to write before typing (if I took every single picture, it wouldn't fit on the blog because there was a lengthy case file I had to inspect which would subsequently violate the court's policy of confidentiality):

During the IC 2 process, I had to look through most of this book because it was very important understanding the concept of direct examination during criminal trials. Keep in mind this is only for driving under the influence trials, there are much bigger books for bigger categories like murder.

 
(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
It was through this component that I found one of my answers for the EQ, and not only that, but my EQ , which is 'How can an attorney best present his case?' ties into this really well because direct examinations really bring out the nitty gritty of your case. It draws out all the information you can make use of during your case.

Blog 20 - Interview 4 Reflection

Title: Blog 17 - Interview 4 Reflection

Where I worked.

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
This interview helped me get my answers for my EQ.

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?
It helped me get my answers for my EQ.



The link to my interview!

Blog 19: Third Answer

• How can an attorney best present his case?
• An attorney has to understand law very well.
• Supporting evidence:
• Penal Codes
• Mentor approaches his cases by thinking outside the box
• Al Capone got in jail because a lawyer managed to find loopholes in the criminal justice system
• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• Story of US
• Mentorship/Interview 3
• It's important to understand law so that it can be applied to every case should the situation require it.

Blog 18 : Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
How can an attorney best present his case?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
An attorney has to present himself well in order to present his case.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
An attorney has to understand the evidence well in order to present his case.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• paying attention to detail can help you in the future
• understanding the facts can allow you to think outside the box more effectively
• my mentor has always stressed that detail is crucial

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
 Hill, Christin. EVIDENCE. N.p.: Harvard, n.d. PDF.

6.  What other source supports your answer?
My interview and my IC 2.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
It's very important to not miss anything that may be crucial later on. I tend to do that, and should i become an attorney I need to learn how to be more observant.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing you learned in the interview?
Many things such as the answers to my EQ

2. How has your approach to interviewing changed  over senior project?
Not much

Click here to listen to interview.