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This article is interesting to me as it is about storytelling, which is very central in various aspects of anyone’s life. The article mentions advertisements, which usually tell a story in there own way. for example, a lot of car ads show happy families going on trips together. this kind of imagery makes most consumers think of times when they did…[Read more]

These articles address language, which is an integral part of who we are as people, and which place, or culture we represent. As a backwoods guy from upstate New York, I grew up almost exclusively around white, conservative country people. I then moved to Texas for a while before moving here to the city. My country roots are definitely reflected…[Read more]

I thought this was a well-written and interesting article about social media. I am fairly new to this area, and do not post much, but going off of what I have observed from friends and family, social media is a useful, yet potentially detrimental vice that almost everyone in today’s society uses. My main beef with social media is that so many…[Read more]

After reading both of these articles, I was even more grateful of the situation I am in now. I was fortunate enough to receive financial aid as well as an athletic scholarship to this school which is pretty affordable to begin with. I was aware of the problems that student debt can present, but both of these pieces underlined the fact that debt…[Read more]

I have never used Tik Tok, and I am fairly distanced from this topic because I don’t use social media that much at all. That being said, this was a very informative and interesting article. After reading it, I think that Tik Tok probably causes more harm than good because it is, for the most part, a waste of time for users, and holds an addictive…[Read more]

This style of writing is very different from anything I have done. The main difference has been that instead of using sources to make an argument, we dissected it to find which forms of rhetoric were used to make a point effective. This makes my own writing more like a checklist than the argument style papers that I have written in the past.

The…[Read more]

Gun control is an important topic to me because I am a gun owner, but at the same time believe something needs to be done to stop the unending barrage of tragedies caused by irresponsible gun use. This problem is not only a result of guns being in the hands of the wrong people, but is also caused by a general lack of knowledge about safe firearm…[Read more]

This article details the work of Cedric Sturdevant, an African-American, Southern man who helps locals who suffer from HIV and AIDS. The reason this work is important to him is that he is an HIV survivor as well. As a gay, black man in the South, when Sturdevant contracted the disease he had no support system, and felt ashamed to go for help…[Read more]

To me writing is an effective way for people to portray an feeling, recapture an event, or express an emotion. Assignments i have received in the past are research papers, journalism articles, and rogerian argument papers. The sources I used for these projects were mostly books from the library as well as internet articles. These assignments have…[Read more]