CUNY Academic Commons | Edgar Montas | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/edgarm1/activity/ Activity feed for Edgar Montas. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2c5721b64eb87d5d233b12326dbecc05 Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=926 Mon, 08 May 2017 14:29:38 -0400 Tenure was introduced to fix the problem of unfair firings of teachers and educators, so they could keep their jobs if they fulfill the specific requirements of it. In fact, tenure wastes a lot of money in […]

]]> a48f8fe3defc85c1a82706d0d7035595 Edgar Montas started the topic Border Crisis in the forum Talk Activism https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/talk-activism/forum/topic/border-crisis-3/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:40:54 -0400 Border crisis problems have been becoming worse and worse with time. Tensions between India and Pakistan are becoming intensified and that doesn’t make it safe for the civilians on either countries. In “Fighting Intensifies Between India and Pakistan on Kashmir Line of Control” by Hari Kumar and Salman Masood (2016) the authors tells us the…[Read more]

]]> 3a0fddc4a1effa494786b77b292d40ef Edgar Montas joined the group Talk Activism https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/460435/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:56:13 -0400 150362f8b9e9394aaa67b221e2ec7da2 Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=789 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:20:47 -0400 In “Precarity and Gentrification” by Samuel Stein he defines gentrification basically as an economic process which the city uses their raw materials to get profits and renew neighborhoods. It states that It […]

]]> c2377ea57755ca69add4725daa704f18 Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=698 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:43:30 -0500 Doctors are prescribing drugs to veterans without actually diagnosing them. Drug addiction is becoming a common problem with people and veterans, doctors should find some other way to treat their patients. They […]

]]> 497f4497ae8d291dbdfb242e110c30cb Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=548 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:28:45 -0500 Drug addiction has always been an issue in people’s life, destroying them and it’s been  increasing within the years. In Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis according to the edi […]

]]> d5c7ed586f91b77846bb017e0ce46d46 Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=486 Sat, 18 Feb 2017 07:41:49 -0500 In Batman’s Bad Call, excerpted from “Chasing the Scream” by Johann Hari, he explains how people could do unusual things and how they struggle when they’re lonely, how addiction is not chemical base but […]

]]> 69569a1a1352783b26cb7b14a53dcae9 Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=361 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:37:12 -0500 The following links lead you to the article called Injecting Drugs, Under a Watchful Eye. In this article published by Tina Rosenberg on The New York Times, she’s giving her opinion based on research and s […]

]]> e0606177231ab376aa047dc3687c736b Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=203 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:35:53 -0500 In “3 ways to speak English” by Jamila Lyiscott, she expains how articulate she is by speaking three different languages. An example of this is when she’s talking to her friends “…when I’m on the block I s […]

]]> 78d3dcc47924c9c3a4c4bcaaf5117ad4 Edgar Montas wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=140 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 05:58:43 -0500 How are writing and empathy similar?

Well, when you write you are expressing your feelings, thoughts and experience. Let’s say you’re writing an story about someone you have to use empathy, put yourself in […]

]]> 10832d1554eac0bd1fb7d26f6b7ad2ee Edgar Montas became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/452798/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:10:44 -0500