There are many businesses and establishments held within the Progression Place building. The Progression Place has created a new environment where many businesses come together in one building in order to have a breading ground for success. There have been many new and old businesses in this building that have been either just been established […]
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Intro: For my College Writing Class with Professor Hoskins, I have had the unique opportunity to research a commonplace in the D.C. Metropolitan area and observe it through a rhetorical lens. I picked a coffee shop in the Shaw area called Compass Coffee. The cafe originated from an old laundromat and now has multiple locations […]
Introduction: Mapping Commonplaces
My name is Marguerite J Tucker and I am a Sophomore transfer student at American University in Washington DC. I am a Sociology major on the pre-med track; as a course requirement this semester I took college writing 101. Throughout the semester I researched a specific site in DC as a built environment. The site […]
Mapping Spirituality and Alcoholics Anonymous
This project aims to map the patterns of adaption of spirituality through the infamous “Twelve Steps” as a commonplace in Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) programs in the eight wards of the District of Colombia. In their website aa.org, Alcoholics Anonymous provides information and resources for victims of substance abuse. More importantly, it defines the Twelve steps […]
Project: Mapping Commonplaces
Compass Coffee Video: Below is the video I made for my multimodal section of the project. Enjoy! Essay: Mapping Commonplaces I have chosen to create a video for my multi-modal project showing Compass Coffee as a
Androgynous as a Commonplace
Androgynous: Adj. 1. being both male and female; hermaphroditic, 2. having both masculine and feminine characteristics, 3. having an ambitious sexual identity We have all heard our people preach about how we need to “be our own individual” and “do what we want”, which is exactly what we did. The media has such a small coverage […]
Commonplace 10
“The first wedding that I’ve been in my twenties Thinkin’ maybe someone is not somethin’ to own Maybe the government got nothin’ to do with it” Biking Frank Ocean Ft. Tyler, The Creator & Jay Z This song has one of the smoothest melodies I have heard so far in 2017. This highly contrasts what you expect of […]
Is Social Media the New Source of Rhetoric?
Within the world of social media, the audience pulls the strings. However, does this mean that we the audience are the form of persuasion? Are we the root of online/social rhetoric. The answer is a simple yes, we are the source of all our rhetoric on social media. However with such rhetoric, there is a […]
Commonplace 13: Not a Fan
“I’m not a fan, And I wonder if you really are, Or does it make you feel smart? A boy band with glasses, Just minus the heart. He’s shaking his ass, And you call it art. I’ll wait in the lobby; go meet him for real. We can all go to dinner, yeah, and I’ll […]
George Elliot, Middlemarch
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” – George Elliot, Middlemarch This quote describes how influential surroundings actually are on an individual. I think this is a very interesting thought. Perhaps, we were raised in a different environment – how different would […]