CUNY Academic Commons | BERNICE GOMERA | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ecinreby/activity/ Activity feed for BERNICE GOMERA. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 4855e9ab46ad1286f6aba539183e57ab BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=969 Thu, 18 May 2017 11:33:22 -0400 Accepting syrian refugees into the U.S. is the least we could do. accepting syrians into countries have become a hard task since people are scared of the repercussions after doing so.  According to  Ignatieff ( […]

]]> c119e1cfec856cce6d7eeb0b614f361c BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=967 Thu, 18 May 2017 10:34:40 -0400 there is a new scholarship that allows SUNY/CUNY students go to school tuition-free, this scholarship is called the excelsior scholarship. you have to meet many criteria to be eligible for this scholarship such […]

]]> 427cd0b90ee38992eac1faf38fbaa3a4 BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=928 Mon, 08 May 2017 14:26:22 -0400 although tenure fixed the problem of teachers being fired without a good reason it created another problem when it lost its ability to modernize teaching due to protecting these teachers. in fact it has caused […]

]]> 2ef5420518f5283016693102b7880990 BERNICE GOMERA started the topic border crisis in the forum Talk Activism https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/talk-activism/forum/topic/border-crisis-4/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:05:42 -0400 isn’t it written on the statue of liberty plaque ” Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses … Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” then why is it that trump is refusing the tired, the poor, and huddled masses by signing an order to fund a border wall?  he is weighing down on…[Read more]

]]> cf16b84feb8f89ed294412937a368c6b BERNICE GOMERA joined the group Talk Activism https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/460705/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 05:25:34 -0400 58352d2a8d67ec05a0c40510f13c3f4e BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=705 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:40:54 -0500 Addictive behavior is caused by genetic or environmental influences. the article “can you get over an addiction” by Maia Szalavitz supports this statement states that “deep, emotional learning completely alters th […]

]]> 763a5dd5f2c13dd3b8ebd2a8d3527848 BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=559 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:20:24 -0500 deaths caused by opioid overdoses are becoming more common in the U.S. According to the New York Times editorial board (2017) “the opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015.”  (p.1).  PBS News Hou […]

]]> f2a0aaa861f57d970fc4917b72469a85 BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=529 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:35:42 -0500 Suffolk has 111 heroin deaths and 96 prescription opioid deaths

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People are dying more from heroin overdose than compared to prescription opioid overdoses

Using heroin is more dangerous than being […]

]]> b51cfeb20305e8ee79d430b43eccb14d BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=512 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:32:29 -0500 the opioid epidemic is a public health and safety issue. “the lockdown” and the “heartbreak over heroin addiction” argue this…

]]> 77eccaebbd81864d7b04957f90064c8f BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=430 Sat, 18 Feb 2017 04:59:50 -0500 in the article “lockdown” the author michelle alexander tries to show to the readers how the criminal justice system has “few legal rules that meaningfully constrain the police in the war on drugs” and how “it has […]

]]> 15588494f1ef3fcfd0708e0b2835d346 BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=377 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:45:31 -0500 the link above will direct you to an article about the failure on the  war on drugs. the author of this article is Jose Luis Pardo Veiras from the New York Times. the main idea of this article is to bring up the […]

]]> 0e4f8f074e8cc41f11e9c1bd0006998d BERNICE GOMERA's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/455332/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:14:38 -0500 a617b2f4c96d59a1b783f065eb292344 BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=285 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:10:32 -0500 Summary

Jamila Lyiscott the speaker of the “3 ways to speak English” explains how she speaks English with her friends, parents, and classmates should be known as articulate. For example when Lyiscott says “I’ […]

]]> 7bf93056b16e7ab5850c98c1c1a92727 BERNICE GOMERA wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=86 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:28:43 -0500  

Empathy and writing go hand in hand, this is because you can’t have good writing without empathy. Empathy is the understanding of someone else’s emotions, understanding why someone else is acting the way they […]

]]> 2a1825c37968b54429e9ac641e0bad4c BERNICE GOMERA became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/452773/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:44:04 -0500