Today's class consisted of more Oral History Project presentations, the group presentation on This Chair Rocks, and current event presentations. I liked listening to everyone's oral history projects and finally presented my oral history project on my mom. I am really thankful for the opportunity to be able to do this project because I learned a lot more about my mom that I didn't know before. My mom has lived a wonderful life so far and it was pretty cool to put all of those memories into a powerpoint and booklet. From the book presentation on This Chair Rocks, I learned about ageism. The part of the presentation that stood out to me was the author's quote that compared aging to race, and I agreed with the critique by my classmates how that is a terrible comparison to make. However, the book is still very educational and has a lot of useful information in it. Out of the current event presentations, the one about robots and how they could potentially help the elderly was very fascinating. I personally think that unless robots have the emotional connection that humans crave, they would not be the best for helping the elderly. In terms of progress on my NAP project, my group visited Little Italy on Saturday during the farmer's market and got a really good look at the neighborhood, environment and landscape. Little Italy is designed to be urban and hip, and is not senior-friendly in many ways, besides the fact that there is a trolley station to get there in the first place. I am looking forward to working on the NAP project and combining everything I have learned about it, after researching and exploring the landscape.
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