CUNY Academic Commons | Katarina Bustoz | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/kebustoz/activity/ Activity feed for Katarina Bustoz. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d3a583445d8cf75939fd284b15271ce7 Katarina Bustoz wrote a new post on the site Read More Bustoz https://readbustoz.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=81 Tue, 14 May 2019 19:48:15 -0400 “Annie’s House” was written partially in response to a poem by my favorite recluse, Emily Dickinson. It reads:

The Bustle in a HouseThe Morning after DeathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted opon Earth […]

]]> a1b987f01798498d79fec3eb6efb8fb1 Katarina Bustoz wrote a new post on the site Read More Bustoz https://readbustoz.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79 Tue, 14 May 2019 19:22:28 -0400 Poetry is the format I struggle with the most. I love prose, I have fun with prose. Poetry, on the other hand, slows me down like no other. I enjoy reading other people’s work, from Rupi Kaur to John Milton. […]

]]> bf43badbe9641be614ec77bc1edd6a4d Katarina Bustoz wrote a new post on the site Read More Bustoz https://readbustoz.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=77 Tue, 14 May 2019 19:02:50 -0400 My own Catholic education instilled in me a fear of, well, everything. From ghosts to the devil himself, I was surrounded by scary stories. Catholic school can be a terrifying place, even without the fanged, […]

]]> 944b3dc1160f02f06ef3df48719595ee Katarina Bustoz wrote a new post on the site Read More Bustoz https://readbustoz.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=75 Tue, 14 May 2019 18:59:41 -0400 Writing about my health became funny pretty quickly. If I couldn’t laugh about it, I should give up now, right?

This wasn’t my first option for writing a memoir. I also considered my career in beauty as a […]

]]> 92827ed225e3be7b87e75ab2148821d7 Katarina Bustoz created the site Read More Bustoz https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/570741/ Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:43:02 -0400 f6938838805e225444a71729950b2fd4 Katarina Bustoz commented on the post, Final Post, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/27/final-post/#comment-2977 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:35:12 -0500 Toni Morrison’s quote concerning writing is, in my opinion, a great way to consider writing. One forces themselves to slow down and examine when they’re writing, whether it’s for academic or personal reasons. It […]

]]> edfd50601180da89f25c02dc000dd44d Katarina Bustoz 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-2823 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:36:04 -0500 Prompt 3: You can feel the cold, dank air on the back of your neck as the tiny hairs there stand at attention. From outside the din, you can hear the dissonant echoes of your classmates shrieking and laughing, the […]

]]> 72f89866461b84fdce3c1ae4d2d97946 Katarina Bustoz 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-2774 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:02:11 -0500 Ronald J. Pelias (2003) reflects on the culture of academia in his autoethnography, “The Academic Tourist”, noting that “academics… like tourists, like ethnographers, never get beyond the surface of things, […]

]]> 7e718baf35426090e59b22510fb395ce Katarina Bustoz 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-2570 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:36:00 -0500 As the United States continues to diversify, and as businesses grow increasingly globally-minded, it is vital to standardize the written and spoken English language. This is of course, separate from local and […]

]]> 7ccbfdf0ef79b1a619b800ee84e73769 Katarina Bustoz 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-2374 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:23:16 -0400 The genre of children’s literature is more complex than it first appears. Though the language is simple, there is always an implicit or explicit lesson that encourages the reader and their parents to further […]

]]> 54e7fee4d48191ae1077c039e79e3fff Katarina Bustoz 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-2309 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:32:11 -0400 The hip-hop genre can trace its origins back to the economically depressed South Bronx in the 1970’s. While the Bronx was burning, new artists were emerging in a music style based on sampling, rhythm, and a focus […]

]]> f64406111356f23c33beccbb5e554557 Katarina Bustoz 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-2272 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 05:08:38 -0400 In “Jamaica Debates ‘Queen’s English’”, author Caroline Turriff discusses the phenomenon of English education in Jamaica, a country that largely speaks the dialect known as patois. English is taught in schools […]

]]> 92df11280030e4377268ae5e8d0d7026 Katarina Bustoz commented on the post, Adult Education in Ghana by Israel, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/16/adult-education-in-ghana-by-israel/#comment-2195 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:16:55 -0400 1. The literacy campaign in Ghana went beyond teaching residents to read and write, functioning as a social justice movement as well. It was intended to improve quality of life.
2. I appreciate the concise, […]

]]> e72f71d1516c74c682f69c1b4c8daf06 Katarina Bustoz wrote a new post on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1035 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:02:23 -0400 Katarina Bustoz
English 121
Professor Walia
Industrialization to Indoctrination: Russia’s Quest for Literacy

Russia’s very name is evocative of an empire encased in ice, of a people thrown through rev […]

]]> 2c01c90f8020d450b71de7dd518b458a Katarina Bustoz commented on the post, OPEN ADMISSIONS, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/27/open-admissions/#comment-2051 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:12:50 -0400 In “Revisiting Open Admissions at CUNY”, Stephen Steinberg draws the parallel of representative disparity between white and minority (specifically Black and Latino) students in the late 1960’s and today. When CUNY […]

]]> d7933165001e6bbb700cffb8f3c137c7 Katarina Bustoz commented on the post, Analysis of Child's drawing, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/13/analysis-of-childs-drawing/#comment-1997 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:25:25 -0400 Jalysa’s and Katarina’s analysis
In this picture, the child is sitting in a normal seat belt, not a car seat. She is neither happy nor scared to ride with a seat belt, which may be important because it’s her f […]

]]> 8d84a6a4f8cf7318233007b331f20065 Katarina Bustoz wrote a new post on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=961 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:40:05 -0400 This child is more than likely the youngest, as she is sitting in the middle. We came to that conclusion because the seat belt is across her lap instead of at a diagonal, as it is with the side seats. Ava […]

]]> e9c8aae1c2eb7368cc37c79259f35489 Katarina Bustoz became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/516073/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 04:15:41 -0400