CUNY Academic Commons | Erick Ochieng | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ochieng/activity/ Activity feed for Erick Ochieng. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 8bdff5363db8afe167bcb5182f9a9789 Erick Ochieng 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-2841 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:50:41 -0500 The beginning: For many years i have wondered whether it was me alone struggling with English writing while becoming a Science major. Now i realize that there are many more people out there struggling equally with […]

]]> f371a5d4faa707bf7363d38df3f3536a Erick Ochieng 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-2788 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:14:08 -0500 Class lesson Plan
For many years i have come to understand that majority of teachers do not struggle modifying their teaching lesson plans or guides. Teachers recycle the old plans they developed many years ago […]

]]> f150cd405bda4390c3c4b68dbfbd8026 Erick Ochieng 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-2649 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:28:34 -0500 I am a man
I am a soccer player
I am a christian
I am a Kenyan? i was born in Kenya? my parents lived in Kenya? I schooled in Kenya? I worked in Kenya. my cultural traits resembles the Luos in Kenya? My […]

]]> f7c5eb7231c470510ac8229117722793 Erick Ochieng 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-2579 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:41:10 -0500 Majority of people will have different arguments concerning the objectivity of standard American English. According to me, and for the sake of many with different views, that i will be open to discuss, i think […]

]]> 7cea426414b87fef2a0b72f1fbd9463d Erick Ochieng wrote a new post on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1076 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:39:46 -0500 Erick Ochieng

The origin of prescription genre can be traced back to 1550 BC during the Egyptian Papyrus Ebers era. At the time, medical information’s were written in hieroglyphics while health professionals s […]

]]> 39c9b994e2bdb3a531383001f649743f Erick Ochieng 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-2392 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:42:40 -0400 In order for your story books to be well received by majority of children, you should be very simple. You should aim in using larger and visible font in your text and ensure that they are appealing to a child’s […]

]]> c7a2f4050bc5093f8f746d1e2518ae8e Erick Ochieng 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-2325 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:45:26 -0400 Despite musical parodies and attacks, Hip-hop music has always existed from the past. Hip-hop music is a cultural movement that started way back in the 1970s attaining a widespread popularity between 1980s through […]

]]> 0ea2a555589ef6ca0e9a89ff1d6432bd Erick Ochieng 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-2271 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 04:47:58 -0400 Recently, leaders in Jamaica had a debate concerning the standard language to be used in the republic. While some proposed the use of two languages as official national language, many are not sure how to go about […]

]]> 3a71b93fa652c376f3dc7fff6074b678 Erick Ochieng commented on the post, Cuban Literacy (Max), on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/16/cuban-literacy-max/#comment-2209 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:24:39 -0400 Cuban Literacy Campaign is interesting to me because of the way in which it was initiated. I like that one of the leader, Castro saw the need to influence the country and focus on improving the literacy. Despite […]

]]> 33e0aa927678533f79948b27f849804b Erick Ochieng commented on the post, Impact of Cuny Open Admission Campaign, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/27/impact-of-cuny-open-admission-campaign/#comment-2184 Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:15:38 -0400 Thank you.

]]> d6939ccb080ed9f9399f87881cd5c9b6 Erick Ochieng wrote a new post on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=998 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:15:13 -0400 English 121

Prince and Erick

Literacy Campaign Report: India

 

The Mass Literacy Campaigns in Pre and Post-Independence Era of India is viewed as the best move India made today. India is the second […]

]]> 617bcf31b64165bea23a9bc0174b3f5c Erick Ochieng 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-2106 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:22:40 -0400 According to New York Times, CUNY Open Admission movement benefits were discussed in two ways. One, the Admission helped improve cultural diversity in CUNY colleges. Compared to the earlier years before the […]

]]> 8944f0b0dcb151a0c899ce01b43bbe8c Erick Ochieng wrote a new post on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=982 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:24:13 -0400 Erick and Israel

The Study Details CUNY success from   Open Admission Policy by Karen W. Arenson was a campaign that created an opportunity for changing the odds for the disadvantaged students. For example, s […]

]]> bdcc59781bf8a4e73229e1c69f400869 Erick Ochieng 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-2005 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:33:42 -0400 Prince and Erick
Rainbow

The child’s drawing is a representation of rainbow. This is because it has different colors like a rainbow which normally consist of seven different colors . However in the drawing, t […]

]]> ea56d1e8d1aeda05e24bc06b3c7f2daa Erick Ochieng 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-1923 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:06:46 -0400 My Struggle with American Small Talk
The article by Karan Mahajan on “My Struggle With American Small Talk” describes the typical challenges immigrants encounter after migrating to America. While comparing his […]

]]> 885582fed8556a39ae5072a34e115a4e Erick Ochieng commented on the post, Summarize Harriet the Spy, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/03/summarize-harriet-the-spy/#comment-1922 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:05:11 -0400 Harriet The Spy
I find the movie about “Harriet The Spy” completely thrilling and educational. The young Harriet despite being a child, demonstrated such a powerful character in mind and action. While maj […]

]]> ff8cca8f7475fdcc1c3a116c46c71430 Erick Ochieng wrote a new post on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=951 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:36:57 -0400 The children book by Patricia L. Mervine “The Mouth With a Mind of Its Own” describes the challenges children with speech problems encounter communicating in their early childhood. In the book, Mathew for example […]

]]> 60dd296db338ca87b712d69d9f0893ca Erick Ochieng commented on the post, Literacy Sponsor and Deborah Brandt, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/03/literacy-sponsor-and-harriet-the-spy/#comment-1750 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 13:39:02 -0400 The document by Deborah Brandt about literacy describes the general challenges experienced by people in developing writing and reading skills. In this piece, Brandt used different methodologies to explain and […]

]]> fbb3cca3405a45b8631b1534f5a595ea Erick Ochieng 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-1657 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:43:30 -0400 On the second paragraph, Alexander Chee reflect on the letter she wrote for her University application. She is aware she performed poorly and failed in Studio art, therefore by default her major was to be in […]

]]> 1df48bfb066cb8af621d03d99a5b2288 Erick Ochieng became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/513634/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:48:56 -0400 ca5b3eeac3eaeea821295fd832fc4a42 Erick Ochieng commented on the post, Writing Selves, on the site English Composition 121 https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/08/22/writing-selves/#comment-1568 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:41:02 -0400 1. What are two distinctive memories you have of yourself writing?
Born in a country where English is not the first language, it has been tremendously an uphill task in my life to embrace the mechanics about the […]

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