CUNY Academic Commons

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I found this piece very interesting as Catherine Ramsdell pushes for an argument on why stories are important to have in our lives and we are exposed to stories in our daily lives secretly. I found the second part interesting as she’s putting it that anything that communicates something to us—the audience can be con…[Read more]

Language is a topic that has many implications to our lives. As mentioned in the two pieces; they way we talk can give away or hide who we are. The way we talk can cause people to mistreat us as they believe if we can’t speak proper English as we can see in “Mother Tongue” when the doctors placed less effort into their response to Amy Tan mother’s…[Read more]

I found this article very insightful into bringing light to an issue on social media that was a blind eye to everyonr until the recent years when it blew up due to the 2016 election. Social media was a force of good initially but a few updates to make our lives easier turned it to a catalyst of arguement and debate. With updates such as the…[Read more]

I found The New Yorker piece to be satire as the overall purpose is to make fun of student debt and honestly, I felt I wasted some of my time reading this. I expected more from this and felt kinda let down. The New York Times piece on the other hand was interesting to read as we get to see the perspective of those affected by student debt and how…[Read more]

I find this episode of “The Daily” very interesting because of the discussion of the intersection of the #MeToo movement and politics. The discussion with Mike Davis was very revealing because they discuss his introduction of politics and his relationship to Neil Gorsuch. He discuss the flaws in the arguments against appointing Brett Kavanaugh to…[Read more]

I personally never used TikTok but I am aware of it’s existence due to it appearing in other forms on the internet. After reading the article, it confirms my ideas of the purpose of apps these days and it’s just to grab our attention and keep us on their apps for as long as possible. I like how the article went into depth in the algorithms that is…[Read more]

I personally never used TikTok but I am aware of it’s existence due to it appearing in other forms on the internet. After reading the article, it confirms my ideas of the purpose of apps these days and it’s just to grab our attention and keep us on their apps for as long as possible. I like how the article went into depth in the algorithms that is…[Read more]

My topic is about gaming/eSports and I want to research about ‘why there is a lack of females in professional gaming or gaming in general?’ How I came up with my question is through my knowledge of the lack of female friends playing eSports related games and the lack of females in the professional scene and wanting to find the stem of the problem.…[Read more]

I have learned rhetoric in the past in high school but we we weren’t writing essays with it, just only writing a paragraph analyzing a text with rhetoric terms. In this class, I learned a bit more on rhetoric terms and how to use them and identify it more. I also learned how to improvise with writing with rhetoric because the recent assignment…[Read more]

“America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic” by Linda Villarosa follows Cedric Sturdevant, a project coordinator at My Brother’s Keeper, who delivers and checks up on young black gay men and transgender women who has HIV and AIDS. His goal is to keep them up with their medication and to teach them about HIV and AIDS and what they can and can’t do by having the…[Read more]

I think “The Braindead Megaphone” discusses about society feeding us stories, where some have the truth stretched. The biggest offender is the media, where, “In surrendering our mass storytelling functions to entities whose first priority is profit, we make a dangerous concession: “Tell us,” we say in effect, “as much truth as you can, while s…[Read more]

I believe writing to be a way to communicate and express yourself to others, in the forms of texts, blog posts, essays, articles, etc., but there are many other purposes to writing. There were many types of writing assignments given to me in high school for example. Some assignments were reflections; there was a school wide assignment…[Read more]