CUNY Academic Commons | Joel Ortiz | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/joelortiz/activity/ Activity feed for Joel Ortiz. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d5a69e0392c42bf03d09368853bb9cf1 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Towards your own project (inspiration: Academic Tourist), on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/20/towards-your-own-project-inspiration-academic-tourist/#comment-2835 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:44:04 -0500 Laying out the physical setting of a story is always highly recommended way to begin a paper of any sort. Pelias describes the physical setting of a college classroom from a professors point of view to introduce […]

]]> 8e30757f4440fd126114b44defb4f1a0 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, The Academic Tourist Freewrite, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/20/the-academic-tourist-freewrite/#comment-2784 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:05:04 -0500 When reading through The Academic Tourist by Ronald J. Pelias there was one section that stood out the most to me. Pelias (2003) speaks of the “… working relationships with the community but actually just […]

]]> 03124a12691a37c97db68fca9f7e45ea Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Autethnography Prewriting 11/20, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/15/autethnography-prewriting-11-20/#comment-2648 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:28:18 -0500 1. I am a son as well as a brother due to the fact that I have siblings and parents.
2. I am a writer because I write poems/stories
3. I believe all lives matter
4. I’ve been to 3 countries: USA, D.R, P.R
5. I […]

]]> d948d734d7e42913148fb1d85014cd4f Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Standard American English, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/12/standard-american-english/#comment-2573 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:39:26 -0500 It would be ideal that we have a standard form of American English so we can have a clear reference to based our language on. If I were confused or in an argument with somebody on a pronunciation or spelling of a […]

]]> 902ca3b5f35d3d9af64ba370246c420e Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Post your children's book paragraph here!, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/01/post-your-childrens-book-paragraph-here/#comment-2389 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:39:25 -0400 When discussing children’s books, it is important as the author to fiddle with the mechanics of the text in order to better relate to your reader, which are the children. The mechanics of the text can be the […]

]]> 9cae7d0cbbe92763b537a74c25fef0ca Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Diss track paragraph!, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/25/diss-track-paragraph/#comment-2320 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:39:54 -0400 Diss tracks today can be viewed today as a method to gain popularity and “clout” due to mass amounts of people who enjoy conflict and aggression. What many rappers and fans do not understand is that many diss […]

]]> 867d99b603a91ad69b63f63ae89a0439 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Integrate a quote from The Guardian article, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/18/integrate-a-quote-from-the-guardian-article/#comment-2269 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 03:49:21 -0400 The language of the people should reflect the language of the nation. Yet the language spoken the most is the language of the world. This is the debate in Jamaica today, what should be the official language of the […]

]]> 9d4dd0b5ea3a8004e4d6e5b9b34150a1 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Literacy Campaign Report: India, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/11/998/#comment-2203 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:21:29 -0400 I was shocked to discover that a powerful figure such as Gandhi opposed the literacy movement because he viewed it as “western education,” I am interested in why a person as noble as Gandhi would oppose the idea […]

]]> de26ff6ddf4d7d3f82605942a9d47f7e Joel Ortiz commented on the post, post your literacy campaign paragraphs, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/02/backup-space-to-post-your-literacy-campaign-paragraphs/#comment-2119 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 02:27:06 -0400 5. More schools having open admissions- created more opportunities

The CUNY open admissions policies of the 1970s gave many students the opportunity to pursue a higher career that were not previously […]

]]> 67ad44ca083d71042909b18863561196 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, OPEN ADMISSIONS, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/27/open-admissions/#comment-2059 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:25:24 -0400 In our analyzes of “Huey P. Newton Hall for Political Action” we examined the issues and claims brought up by the Black and Puerto Rican community of CUNY students and the approach taken in order for their five […]

]]> e8479c695694fcfa4c532f5fd68a7441 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Autoethnography-- "My Struggles with American Small Talk", on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/08/30/autoethnography-my-struggles-with-american-small-talk/#comment-1714 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:48:19 -0400 As a person who lives in America, I think I can speak from experience when I say that the American culture is certainly one of the strangest. Every interaction with another individual almost always requires small […]

]]> b541a415acb68add14261ddf9b65fc67 Joel Ortiz commented on the post, Alexander Chee's "The Writing Life", on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/08/30/alexander-chees-the-writing-life/#comment-1653 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:42:35 -0400 In the second paragraph of page 45 in Chee’s “The Writing Life” Chee elaborates to reader how he learned from his friend that Chee had been accepted into a advanced literature class, yet Chee’s only real feeling […]

]]> fb996a93cf0d8fb39fe1a4765f78d361 Joel Ortiz became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/514172/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 01:55:30 -0400