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After reading her article, I’ve come to the realization on how frequent and how significant story telling is in our daily lives. Within every conversation, there is a new story and brings about new connections made by others nearby you. Bringing about critical points in a story connects to the story teller and their peers. Since i was little,…[Read more]

In James Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?”, there is a lot packed in there which i agree and disagree with. I never looked at language from this view but I see how language is something beyond speech. It is a way of life that carries on the reputation of one’s life, one’s race, one’s social, economic, and/or…[Read more]

“The Dark Psychology of Social Network” brings forth the optimism there is to social media and all of it’s aspects. It can either help build one side or destroy one side. Like how it was spoken about in the 2016 election. But even besides the election, social media is filled with millions of people all around the world, sharing their own opinion…[Read more]

The New York Times Article uses a cool slideshow representation to give us a wide variety of experiences that students our age from all around the world have had with college debt. The majority of them are young teens starting off in college and don’t know any better than wanting to go away for college to get away from their parents. But after…[Read more]

The podcast, “Republicans ‘Dead Chicken’ strategy on Impeachment” from the Daily had a lot to say towards Brett Kavanaugh. Starting to speak of the major powers of influence that the media has upon major cases like his one is similar, if not, the same amount of distribution as checks and balances do have between the legislative, judicial, and…[Read more]

The podcast, “Republicans ‘Dead Chicken’ strategy on Impeachment” from the Daily had a lot to say towards Brett Kavanaugh. Starting to speak of the major powers of influence that the media has upon major cases like his one is similar, if not, the same amount of distribution as checks and balances do have between the legislative, judicial, and…[Read more]

I never used tik tok. I have seen many clips on Instagram of funny tik tok videos people make about college, relationships, and family related activities as a young teenager. This reminds me of the app “vine”. After reading the article, it is clear that both of these apps use the same algorithms to keep the vast majority of the public’s attention…[Read more]

What I have learned in writing so far this semester similarly relates to the types of writing I’ve done all throughout high school. As we started off writing a rhetorical analysis essay in this semester, I was pretty familiar with it because that is all I did in my senior year of high school in AP Literature. My understanding of the rhetorical t…[Read more]

My topic now is the switch to electric vehicles. This has interested me as I’ve driven down the local streets and highways of New York and seen the most exotic million dollar cars roll by. They are quite fascinating and have the most aesthetic appeal, but the amount of gas those supercars and trucks burn is outrageous. This topic of electric c…[Read more]

<span style=”font-family: ‘Times New Roman’,serif;”>In the story from the New York Times, Cedric Sturdevant is the main character who is going around from the small community he lives in to other states for the sole reason in helping people fight the battle of having HIV/AODS. In the South, where he lives, are the most amount of people with HIV.…[Read more]

I’m the beginning of “the braindead microphone”, I had a strong gyst of the overall idea and I agree with what was happening. Usually, whenever the speaker at an event starts talking, everyone’s attention shifts. Their conversations die out and they lose their train of thought due to the speaker being on the stage giving some words. From there, I…[Read more]

Throughout the four years I have been in high school, I have grasped a strong concept about what writing is. To me, it is a method depicting all the thoughts and ideas that are stored inside one’s mind on to paper. After being in the rigorous AP English and Literature classes for the last two years of high school, I completed a variety of writing…[Read more]