Alexis Martinez

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WRAPPING UP THE FILM: CREATING A PLAN OF ACTION

This weeks tumblr post is instructing us to create a final outline for how my group plans on conquering this documentary project. (our plan of action) 

Now that the time and dates are all set up its time to get into specific detail as to what objectives must be satisfied based on our weekly schedule displayed above.

Now that i have completed this weeks tumblr post i can start to relax a little knowing my groups outline is almost complete. Now that this post is complete, on to find more research to support my groups documentary thesis. 

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Hey Marlaina great job on the scheduling! I think we set up a pretty good schedule last time we met. Hopefully everything can go according to plan and we can get this done soon! Im excited to start filming and editing on this topic. These two weeks sure are gonna be busy ones! 

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Wrapping Up the Film: Creating a Plan Of Action

a. What days and times will you commit to the project?

We will meet as a group on Tuesday at 3pm and Fridays at 9am and maybe after class if necessary.

Our meeting place is in the library.

Nov. 14th-18th

·         Tuesday-3pm Group Meeting

·         Wednesday- Research Individually

·         Thursday- Research Individually

·         Friday- 9am and 3pm Group meeting

·         Saturday- Individual Work/ Any other work that needs attention.

Nov. 21st-25th

·         Tuesday- 3pm Group Meeting

·         Wednesday- Individual Research

·         Thursday- Thanksgiving (Probably not going to work much tbh)

·         Friday- Group Meeting if necessary

·         Saturday- Group Meeting if necessary

 b. What days/times are you working as a group and when will you work alone?

We will work as a group on Tuesdays and Fridays during our group meetings while working individually on the days in between. We meet in the library and hold our meetings at the computers so we can work on the project together. We hope to establish a solid foundation for our project during the meetings in order to provide guidelines for our work individually.

c. Specifically, what aspect of the project will you address on each of those days?

During our group meeting time, we will discuss the plan of action for the day and execute said plan. Most importantly we will try and focus on filming and editing the required material during group meetings in order to have everyone’s input available.

d. Specifically, what will you do to complete those aspects of the project?

I will be researching topics and discussing my findings with my peers as well as collaborate ideas for filming and editing. I will try to make sure our time in meetings is well used by making sure we listen and apply to everyone’s input.

e. What specific aspect of the assignment are you most concerned about? What can you do to address those concerns?

My main concern in making sure our message for the video is clear and the viewers are able to distinguish where we stand on the topic. My focus is to try and make are message easy to understand for everyone.

f. What specific aspect of the assignment are you most comfortable with? Why?

The filming part of the assignment seems to be the easiest and since Marlaina has contacts in the VA I think I will make for great footage for the assignment. We have a great group and I am confident we will be able to complete the assignment with all guidelines met.

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#Week12

                      HISPANIC DIVERSITY IN STEM

PART 1 : 

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TOPIC : Hispanic Diversity in STEM

PURPOSE : To influence Hispanic middle school through college students to get involved in the STM education.

AUDIENCE:  Middle School- college students (13-24)

SOLUTION: Provide scholarships and educational programs for kids to raise the representation for Hispanics in STEM.

PART 2: 

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TOPIC 

ETHOS: 

“America’s future as a global leader in technology and innovation can be achieved by getting more minority groups involved and participating” 

                           - Education Supports Racial and Ethnic Equality in STEM

“The segment of the population will certainly be relied upon, heavily, to help drive the nation’s economic future and pace of innovation” 

                  -A Silent Crisis: The Underrepresentation of Latinos in STEM Careers

PATHOS:

Not only does the lack of Hispanics have a great effect on society in the economic and workforce aspect, but it creates the society’s attitude that Hispanics don’t even have the ability to succeed in such a way and reach high standards. 

This individual shares her experience being a Hispanic pursuing a STEM career. Her experiences are very unfortunate.

The following is a quote obtained from a scholarly source.

“my school guidance counselor didn’t think i had it in me because they didn’t see other Latinos excelling in … STEM.”

                            -Lack of Diversity in STEM is Dangerous for Our Students

LOGOS: 

This bar graph demonstrates the participation of Hispanics in STEM field in the work force. The population of Hispanics has been increasing in the United States about 25 percent the middle of this century. The importance of Hispanics participating in STEM field would improve the nation’s future.

SOLUTION:

Awareness is the first step in solving the conflict of underrepresentation of Hispanic in STEM. Another way would be giving Hispanic students the opportunity to pursue a career path in STEM through scholarships. This will increase the percentage of Hispanics in STEM due to having the financial support.

http://www.hsf.net/

http://www.greatmindsinstem.org/college/henaac-scholarship-program

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Hey good job on your post, you made sure to have everything labeled which made everything easy to read. Also you provided links to pages that show solutions to your topic. Some of your quotes really do say a lot about the issue your focusing on. Your images also complement your point of view very well. 

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#week12 Diversity in the VA Healthcare System

Part 1 

1. Group Proposal:

A. Topic: This documentary is about the cultural diversity in the VA health care system, in more specific details this video will elaborate on the medications prescribed to VA patients, the nurse’s cultural competence, and the health insurances that are provided to patients in the VA system based on their disability percentages.

B. Purpose: The group’s stance on the VA healthcare system is similar to the beliefs of the veterans who seek medical attention from the VA. Most patients will elaborate on the diversity of the VA system and through this documentary my group hopes to expand on these issues that most patients face when dealing with the VA. The purpose of this documentary is to also present a suggested solution that could advocate for the situations occurring at the VA healthcare system.

C. Audience: Through this documentary my group is focused on persuading the American people (civilians) that they should be focusing on the way the VA healthcare treats our veterans since our veterans are the ones who have fought for our freedom, its only right that we ensure that these veterans are getting the proper medical attention that they need and deserve. By shedding light on the daily struggle that most veterans encounter when dealing with the VA healthcare system, we as a nation can help to come up with a solution so that we may help improve the VA system and get our veterans efficient and effective medical attention.

D. Solution: The solutions for improving the VA healthcare system is to get a better pharmaceutical method for prescribing medication to patients, instead of the doctor exploring other medical options for pain management, they more than often than not, tend to prescribe highly addictive narcotics. The next solution deals with the nurses competence, with the patients at the VA making appointments is no problem but most veterans have a prolonged waiting time to see the doctors. By getting more nurse students interested in working for the VA we can get more doctors and nurses to help out with the lack of staff at the VA and thus improve the waiting period and get veterans faster medical attention. Lastly the benefits that most patients are given are based on their disability percentages, but even then the benefits are paraphrased to seem like they are getting enough medical attention are, in reality the benefits that only cover the bare minimum. By improving the benefits that each patient receives will help most veterans get faster medical attention. A good example is allowing veterans to seek medical care outside of the VA system without having any financial burdens.  

  Part 2 

Logos

“Under a 1996 law, disabled veterans needing care must be seen by a provider within 30 days. But five years after the law passed, the GAO found that two-thirds of the specialty-care clinics they examined had wait times longer than 30 days.”  

                                                                                               -Rachel Landen

“In one case, a medical provider recommended that a veteran be seen on Jan. 31, 2006. But the scheduler entered a desired date of Oct. 2, 2006, and created an appointment for Oct. 17, 2006, resulting in a reported wait time of 15 days.”

                                                                                               -Rachel Landen

Advocacy

“The problem is not that they don't have the money,” Selnick said. “If you don't know how to spend it wisely and don't know how to manage things, this is what happens.”

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/30/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/index.html

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Reflecting on our research skills

WHAT: I learned a lot of information pertaining to my topic and the how to create a literature review. A literature review should not have any biases and should only describe and state past studies on the topic. Researching for my paper took a lot of time and was very time consuming. Finding, reading and comprehending the scholarly articles was interesting and I learned a lot of new information on diversity. The factors that influence diversity and affects that hinder the advancement of diversity is extremely complex. The primary research is where I was able to put all information into perspective and finally be able to make my own conclusions on diversity.

SO WHAT: This literature review and the entire experience is extremely useful for future classes. As a college and research student and future medical professional, I know more about diversity and the obstacles I would need to overcome to treat patients more efficiently and have a better understanding of different cultures. Research is also important for professional research and especially for a graduate degree. I now have experience and I know the process to take when doing a research report.

NOW WHAT: Now that I know the effects on diversity in the medical field, I will be more active towards this issue and try to advocate the problem on diversity. All medical institutions have this dilemma, therefore, bringing my knowledge to administration would be a start to addressing this problem. I will also put the knowledge of researching a topic when I being my masters and maybe a Ph. D. degree in the future. I will be able to research primary sources and gain first hand experiences from that.

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Hey good job on your post! You did great on explaining how the assignment allowed us to explore issues within our field and how it has become an important tool that will be very useful for us in upcoming papers. Its apparent that doing this research allowed you to view the problem of diversity in the medical field in a non biased way which gave you some ideas on how to fix the problem. Good Job!

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WEEK 11

WHAT:

My semester topic was gender diversity in the field of nursing. Before I researched anything about my topic I was aware that nursing was looked upon as a mostly feminine profession, but I was not aware of how drastic the difference was between the amount of women that make up nurses and the amount of men that make up nurses. After researching this topic, I found that women make up more than 90 percent of nurses in the US. This issue has its roots in nursing schools, where the lack of gender diversity is apparent in the number of make students and the number of male professors teaching at these nursing schools.

Creating a literature review caught me a little off guard in regards to how much work it was but I learned that if you do everything in a timely matter it is not as difficult. The fact that we had multiple assignments that were all part of one big assignment made it a little bit easier to keep tract of our progress and made putting the literature review together that much easier.

Reading and researching at this academic level was very interesting since everything I read was written by scholars of my field which got me excited to start my future education in nursing. Although some articles were a hard read due to the vocabulary used, the information they presented was invaluable to me as a future nursing student.

SO WHAT:

As a future nurse and college grad I hope to use these skills learned about doing research and writing literature reviews to one day write and do my own research in the field of nursing and hopefully become a contributing member of scholars that are doing their part to make nursing a better career path to all men and women interested in joining. I hope to be able to do research and write papers that are as accurate and trustworthy as the articles that I read in order to be able to help other nurses provide the best care that they can provide.

NOW WHAT:

Now that this assignment has taught me about different levels of research and articles,  i will be able to apply that knowledge in writing future papers for all the courses that are to come, and I am confident that if I apply the methods used for the literature review, any future papers will be superior to anything I would’ve written before. These writing skills will not only help me in my graduate life but also in my post graduate life once I have a career. The research conducted also allowed me to become familiar with issues surrounding nursing which is of great importance since it is the field I am interested in.

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Diversity of Ethnicity on the Law Enforcement field

http://www.newsweek.com/racial-makeup-police-departments-331130

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-us-pushes-police-to-diversify-fbi-struggles-to-get-minorities-in-the-door/2015/03/12/01bd5806-c753-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html

I chose to elaborate on the audience and purpose because i think that it is important for the community to know what type of audience the author wants to reach out the most and what is the main purpose of this genres.

The first genre that i chose is an article that talks about the increasing numbers on the population of different ethnicities on the Law Enforcement field. The author seems to want to attract audience that speak English as well as people who are around the college level age (8-25) and above because all this information can be used as informative purposes so that they can use this info to get it in a research paper that they are doing. The author might also want to persuade the people from the different races talked about to be more willing to get in to the Law Enforcement field so that they can help their ethnicity have more and more people working on that field so that they can feel that they have more equality among all those people who work as Law Enforcement Officer.

The second genre that I chose is a image that show bar graphs with different information and numbers that represent the numbers of the ethnicities and gender. the audience intended for this genre is educated people who can read in english and can also read bar graphs. This bar graph can be used as an informative source as well as a persuasive source. It can be a persuasive source because there is races that are shown in the graph that don’t even make 10 percent of the total population of the total people in the FBI. It can also be a persuasive source to women because women don’t even make up one third of all the population of the FBI agents so that may work as encouragement to them to become a special agent.

These two genres can be very helpful sources because they both inform you about how diverse being in the Law Enforcement field is and they both have very limited information but they both get to the point very quickly by not making people get bored with many different information. The only difference is that on the article they talk about how the population in the Law Enforcement field regarding the ethnicity have increased while in the bar graph the numbers shown have very little amount for many minorities.

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Hey good job! by separating the individual genres and explaining the major differences in separate paragraphs you made your observations easy to read. Giving multiple arguments to back up your claims adds to your credibility in the subject. 

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Gender Diversity in the field of Nursing

http://minoritynurse.com/why-gender-diversity-in-the-workforce-matters/

http://www.nerdgraph.com/the-modern-nurse-exploring-todays-diversity-in-the-nursing-profession/           

Both the web article and the series of posters both have a particular structure that help the genre is conveying the intended message. The web article follows the structure of an article that you would find in the newspaper, it has a headline that is written in bigger text than the rest to highlight the topic, and each different section of the article has a sub- title in order to give the reader an idea of what the information they are about to read is about. Since it is a web article there are some limitations that it has, for example the amount of visuals it can have is limited since the main medium for the conveying of info is text not pictures.  Another limitation is that it takes time to read an article, so if the reader does not have the time to read it, they might just glance over it missing value pieces of information.

               The second link is the series of posters that show the issue of the lack of gender diversity through graphs and charts. These too have a similar structure, which is seen by adding a title to all the different sections and graphs, which serves the same purpose as before, to give the reader a hint about what the information they are reading is about. Posters have some limitations too but they have more freedoms as well. One limitation is length, most posters cannot be too long and have too many paragraphs because people will lose interest, they point of a poster is to provide quick accurate information by using visuals such as pictures, tables, and charts. In the posters, you can see that there are not many long sentences but mostly little phrases that go hand in hand with the tables and charts.

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Week 3 Assignment: #mygenre2

Introduction: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2011/12/women-in-the-military.pdf (Link to Article) This article is an informative paper about women in the U.S Army. This information includes a couple of graphs, statistical analysis, and general analyzation of different key aspects to women being active duty.

Structure/Delivery: Q: How is information shaped by genre? This information is shaped in the form of a science experiment report. The article opens up with a brief introduction then compares many different areas of the army with women participation such as marriage rate, rankings, branch comparisons, ethnicity, occupational roles, and ideology or reasons for getting involved with the Army. This article helps prove that the number of women in the Army are starting to increase in many different areas that most people doubted possible.

Audience/Purpose: Q: Who is the intended audience? The intended audience is people within the age group of 18-40. (Not restricting other ages) This article would more than likely attire to people interested with the Army, or even young females interested in getting involved with the U.S Army.   Q: What is the Purpose of the info presented? The purpose of the information presented in this article is to inform the audience how more women are joining different army branches to do what the men have been doing for centuries now. By providing statistics on women involved throughout the army one can compare ethnicity, rankings, occupational roles, etc. Q: How does audience tie into the purpose? The audience ties into the purpose of this article because some of the readers may be young females interested in pursuing a career in the U.S Army. By reading this article women can feel confident about trying to work among side men and other women to defend their country.

Rhetoric/Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Q: How does genre help establish info credibility? This genre helps establish credibility by appearing as a academic article that has reliable information about women in the U.S army. The article also helps establish credible information by providing the right statistics to back up the articles claims. Q: How does each genre help form audience responses? This genre helps form audiences responses by providing the statistics behind each section of the army, by showing women that they are equviliallnt amount of females and males involved In a certain branch it will help other women develop a sense of inspiration or motivation to go through with their thoughts about joining the army life style. This may also spark a response from readers who may find it hard to believe that women are cable of doing what the men do. Lastly the final two pages of this article are facts about women’s mental illness experienced after their time served in the army as well as their ideology about the wars and reasons for them joining the army help women readers sympathies with the authors purpose to get more people to think about the diversity of women in the U.S Army.   Q: What evidence is used to support claim? The use of graphs, statistical tables, and other table comparisons one can see how the information stated in the article is proven liable. The statistics show that in almost each section of the occupational roles (excluding infantry) have an equivalent ratio of females to males. The data also states that women usually pick Air Force but throughout the years more females are getting involved in other branches (Army, Marines, Coast Guard, etc.)  The other statistical table shows the ratio of ethnic groups involved in the U.S Army as well as the table of ranks help prove that women are starting to prove that they can do the men’s job to and can help assist in the fight to protect our country.

Conclusion: Q: Did the genre reach its purpose? I do believe that this genre did reach its purpose of informing the audience on the staggering number of women going active duty. By proving not only a text statement but the graphs and tables to back up the information will help build the articles credibility overall. Q: Which genre was more effective in conveying a message? The statistical part if this article did a better job of conveying the message better than the text did. The article may state what ever it wants but without the proper credentials the article will not be supported to be considered an academic article. The graphs have actually data about the number of women in each branch or company, etc. 

Final Comments:

More women are getting involved with the U.S army, it is only a matter of time before women start proving that they can go infantry to.The article helps expand the topic of women Involved in the army not only to the ethnicity part but all the way to their believes and reasons for joining. This article helps get man by different aspects that women consider when going active duty.

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Hey good job on your post, keeping your answers short and to the point made it an easy read, while keeping all the information there. Also, re writing the question was a good idea, since i do not have those questions memorized and being able to know what your response was referring to made it easier to understand the points you were trying to make. 

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Week #3: Genre 2, Diversity of men in the field of Nursing

Why Gender Diversity in the Workforce Matters by: Robin Farmer

http://minoritynurse.com/why-gender-diversity-in-the-workforce-matters/ (link to article)

This article falls under “Typography” genre and is about the importance of gender diversity in the workforce and why it matters. It is a magazine article that contains various pieces of information detailing key points in the importance of gender diversity

Structure and Delivery

Q1). How is the information shaped by the genre?

This article is a digital version of an article found in the magazine “Minority Nurse”, that being said, it is long enough in length to state the key points the publisher is trying to make. This article is meant to be long but not as long as an actual academic article. This being taken from a Nursing magazine, implies that it is being targeted towards people who are already nurses or thinking about becoming nurses. Since it is nursing magazine, it has a certain level of reading, in the way that it does not contain any slang of any kind which adds to the credibility of the article.

Q2). How are the genres organized to convey their messages?

This particular article is written in fairly large font over a white background, which portrays a sense of credibility. The title of the article is larger than the rest of the text which causes the reader to focus on the title first. Then each point of the article is titled with a bold text which makes it easier to find those particular points.

Q3). What other communication features contribute to the message?

As I said before, the vocabulary used in this article is that of a casual/academic level in the way that this article uses no slang and has proper grammar but it is not written in that of an academic article which to some people is difficult to read. This article is easy to read, but does show some degree of academia. The white background make the article look clean and classy, while the font keeps it casual.

Audience and Purpose

Q1). Who is the intended audience/discourse community for each genre that the authors seemed to have in mind?

This article comes from a nursing magazine, and it intended for people who are nurses or are planning to become nurses. Although this article does not focus on diversity for just nurses but in the workforce in general, it is also relevant to anybody who holds a job.

Q2). What is the purpose of the information presented in the genres?

The purpose of this article is to inform the workforce community of the importance of gender diversity in the workforce. It does this by informing different ways of increasing gender diversity and also explains some of the causes for the lack of diversity.

Q3). How does the audience tie in with the purpose?

The audience ties in; in the way that this article is trying to encourage the general awareness of the issue that is gender equality in the workforce. The article is trying to keep people informed so that the issue may be solved.

Rhetorical Issues: Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Q1). How does genre help establish credibility?

This genre obtains it credibility by being an article from a medical journal type of magazine. The article also gains credibility by using the right information and statistics from various sources and citing the sources.

Q2). How does each genre help evoke an emotional response from the audience?

This genre helps form responses by giving the reader real facts about the situation and what is causing it.  By showing the reader how the lack of gender diversity is affecting the workforce, the article aims to receive a response, whether it is a positive one or a negative one. By showing the lack of males in the nursing field, and the causes of that, the article tries to receive a response from the male readers.

Q3). What types of evidence are used to support the claims of the information in the genres?

Statistics from various sources were used in this article to further add to the credibility. The writer also cites from various people who work in the field of nursing. This article has various quotes from various nurses and professors at universities, which are used as evidence to support the claim.

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#week1: introduction

Hello Everyone!! My name is Karma Dema and I am a freshman in UTEP. I am majoring in physics which is very wrong for a lazy person like myself but I work extremely well under pressure and I have always liked physics. I am from Bhutan🇧🇹 , a very small kingdom in the himalayas. I like to try new things so I decided to come to UTEP, thousands miles away from home and get my bachelors degree.

Some of hobbies include dancing, listening to music, reading, and watching soccer. (I tried playing too)

I really really enjoy watching soccer. It is a beautiful game and my favourite team is FC Barcelona. They are Amazing!! But my all time favourite player is David Villa Sanchez. He is the man!! 

“The extremist are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”

-Malala Yousafzai

Malala is my inspiration. She is a strong woman who fights for education. She gives me the strength to keep on going and makes me realize how important education is. I believe no one should be deprived of education. Education is for ALL.

My goals in life is to do well in Physics and teach. I also wish to travel around and explore the world. 

Goals for this semester is to expand my skills in writing and literature. Hoping for a great semester!! 

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Hey Karma, welcome to Texas the best state in the US. I hope you can fulfill your goal of becoming a physicist! I wonder how big of a difference in climate was it from the Himalayas to the desert that El Paso is! Anyways, nice intro!

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#Week 1: Intro

Hello guys, my name is Alexis and i’m sort of excited to be taking this class with you guys. Since we are not gonna be seeing each other in this class since we only meet once a week, this intro assignment is quite a good idea to get to tell you a little about myself and hopefully get to read your post to learn something about you. 

I was born and raised here in El Paso like probably most of you, and i gotta say, i really like it here. I always hear people complaining about how there is nothing to do here but in reality i think there is plenty to do. I was born is January 6, 1995 in what is now University Medical which used to be Thomason Hospital back in the day.

 I am currently working at GameStop while I attend school. Although i work at a video game store I hardly have time to play video games now at days. I am currently doing Pre-Nursing and hope to be in the nursing school by next fall. Being in the medical field has always been a goal of mine since visiting my dad at the hospital where he works. Also, the sciences have always been relatively easy for me. I’ve always enjoyed fixing things and figuring out how things work, and nursing kinda has both of them. English on the other hand is the death of me. I have always struggled with writing, I am terrible at it and therefore hate it.

Some of my hobbies include swimming, hiking, but mostly just watching anime or some comedy on Netflix. The Office is my favorite series, the dry humor of the show kills me since it is very similar to my sense of humor.

I have two dogs and a cat. I love my pets as I love all animals, but Cats are definitely my favorite. I just enjoy how independent and rebellious cats are. It is like cats are actually the smartest animals because I feel my cat only uses me for food and shelter.  Which is fine by me.  

Although I might seem a bit serious I think I am pretty easy going and try to get along with anybody I meet. Anyways, this was just a little about myself and ill probably read your intros to know something about you guys.