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This passage was about how important storytelling is in everyday life. You may not know, but it’s used in video games, advertisements, movies, books, television shows. One aspect is because everyone loves a good story which is why it spreads like wildfire at times. A story can help in the process of getting something you want. For example, the…[Read more]

Both of these pieces, I can highly relate to because I know what it’s like to speak another language and how that can affect my English and I also know about the black English/language since I am African American. In the “Mother Tongue” I completely understood what Tan was saying about her experience with her mother’s English. My mom also immigra…[Read more]

The article mainly talk about how drastically the world has changed with the emergence of social media and the good or bad that comes with it. There was a lot of information that I had previously known about social media which affected my relationship with it. I didn’t get involved with social media until recently because I had seen firsthand h…[Read more]

In the “New York Times” article we see real people living with debt sharing their experiences. From reading the stories, I could feel the sadness of the authors. Whether it was about not being able to pay off student loans or continuously having to work to pay them off. We see how family members get involved and how debt is ruining their lives.…[Read more]

After listening to the podcast, I had mixed feelings and it definitely opened my eyes to the types of people we have in our government. With the whole Judge Kavanuagh situation, it just shows people are willing to throw away human decency and understanding to get what they want. The conservatives wanted him as a judge so badly that they were…[Read more]

After reading this article I am amazed, not particularly shocked, scared, and feel like I lost a couple of brain cells. I have heard of TikTok before but I had never used it. I feel like it’s too corny and cringe for my liking. It also feels weird that me as an 18 year old is watching videos of kids who are around 12. I have also seen content that…[Read more]

From the very beginning I wanted to do research in a topic that I could relate to most because it would make my writing feel more genuine and authentic. I chose African Americans in Education because I felt like it was a problem that had affected me which is crazy because education should be solely based on merit and not the color of your skin. It…[Read more]

Its similar in that a lot of the writing classes that I took previously before in that we really tried to break down the texts to see what the author was trying to accomplish with the article. I feel like it was more focused on language,tone, and mood in my previous writing classes while in my current writing class it takes into account the whole…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The article is about bringing awareness and educating the United States on the HIV/AIDS epidemic that’s happening in our country especially in the south. This is done through the eyes of Cedric Sturdevant , a project coordinator at My Brother’s Keeper, who is a big advocate for gay and bisexual African Americans liv…[Read more]

Writing can be seen as medium to express ideas, beliefs, and one’s imagination. Coming from a math and science heavy background, I personally don’t love writing. However, I have come to realize that it’s something that you can’t escape and is essential to any field I want to be in just on the basis of being able to communicate with others. Writing…[Read more]