For each blog post, there is a picture that I took included; the picture is not meant to directly relate to the text, however, the image is meant to accompany the blog post in a way for you to better enjoy the post and for further reflection purposes. While these […]
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Chapter two of Junot Diaz’s book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, makes the fictional character feel personal and relatable. Diaz accomplishes this by doing a play-by-play of events, describing everything in detail. This chapter is told from the perspective of Lola at the age of around 14. As […]
The story “Carbon” from Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table encourages his audience to think about the writing process and the roots by tracing the life of a single carbon atom. Although it seems Levi’s book of short stories is about chemistry, it is not. The purpose of the story, “Carbon”, […]
Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Warrior” story from her book, The Woman Warrior, tells a story filled with culture, irony, detail, analysis, and fear. The story is told from the perspective of the daughter who is assumedly Kingston, the author. She tells us about the story taught to her by […]
In Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Letter to My Son”, he tries to explain the numerous difficulties, hardships, and what it means to be black in America through his own knowledge and experiences. While the majority of the letter and advice to his son is told by sharing his own stories and the […]
My music, you inspire me to work. How I love the pressure you put on me, Taking over my mind, all with a smirk. Always run me as busy as a bee. Compare you to a scorching summer day, You are more biting, fighting, and intense. But there is […]
After reading an excerpt from Dorothy Woodsworth’s “Grasmere Journal, 15 April 1802” and William Woodsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, it is clear that they had varying perspectives of the same experience. As a reader experiencing Dorothy’s story, I had a sense of worry at the beginning followed by […]
After reading William Hazlitt’s, “On the Pleasure of Hating” and Marcus Aurelius’, “The Mediations (Book Two)”, I’ve realized that there are many different ways of expressing thought into text whether it is in a more casual voice or scholarly voice. The stylistic choices and voices of the two authors’ works […]
Although the majority of my writing has been for academic purposes, I have always enjoyed writing as a way to express my own thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. For me, having to write my thoughts down forced me to learn how to organize my thoughts and how to compose them to […]