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Through my journey in FIQWS 10108, I’ve grown not only as a writer but as a student and a person. This class was challenging because I no longer was riding a bike with training wheels like in high school, I was […]

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Here is my Literacy Narrative, the first essay of this class. Here I explained my own interpretation of image known as “A Clinical Lesson At The Salpêtrière”.

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Here is my CRA essay and reflection, probably the most challenging of all the essays. During the essay, I identified James Baldwin’s critique of society through his […]

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Here is my exploratory essay and reflection; during this essay, I broke apart Carmen Machado’s short story ” Eight Bites” and explained how it was […]

“Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, PennIt’s silly when girls sell their souls because it’s inLook at where you be in, hair weaves like EuropeansFake nails done by KoreansCome again, […]

This image depicts a man starting at close to nothing then turning into an almost complete person. This to me represents the theme Baldwin was displaying in “Sonny’s Blues”. Children in Harlem start with nothing; […]

This image is portraying the death of a woman angel, with a man in the background. To me, it is displaying Emily’s downfall because of her constant obsession with finding a man to replace her father. Throughout […]