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<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>I didn’t really get the New Yorker piece. It seemed like they were making fun of the new generation and that they’re complaining. This is a big issue now that the interest rates are increasing and this article is not really helping the situation. I don’t read this genre a lot because sometimes I don’t get what th…[Read more]

A lot of political topics confuse me and I usually have trouble understanding. But what I don’t agree with is the republican said that impeachment should be the last thing the government should agree on. If they’re facts and evidence as to why this government official or president should be impeached, it should be a good enough reason why they are…[Read more]

Tik Tok to me is another way to get distracted from reality. Since it is so easy to watch a 15-second video of someone reenacting a relatable moment in your life, you seemed to get hooked and want to watch more. I recently downloaded this app to see what the excitement was. I thought this was just going to be a trendy app that people were going to…[Read more]

Linda Villarosa’s article titled America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic is about a man named Cedric Sturdevant, who is trying to help out people who have been affected by HIV and AIDS. He drives for miles and miles as a visiting nurse to bring medication to the ones affected by this disease. He started this project because he can relate to this epi…[Read more]

I think that “The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders was very informative. Chapter 2 was that part that resonated with me because I’ve seen it happen before. Sometimes people at parties tend to follow a person or even in real life there is always that follower that does not think for themselves because of a person’s rhetoric. At times I t…[Read more]

I know that writing is used as a form of expression and a way to reflect. In previous English classes that I took, we learned that almost all writing pieces express what the author has gone through or what they were feeling in that exact moment. For example, Edgar Allen Poe was a writer that wrote with a Gothic style and always had the reoccurring…[Read more]