Working title – A PART OF NATURE Genre – short film/documentary Duration – 5-7 minutes Target Audience – DC locals; Rock Creek residents and park preservation activists; general public of all ages. Outline – The black screen fades into a camera facing me as I tilt my head up and stare into it. You will […]
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A Mosaic of Subcultures
During the month of February, I attended Professor Hoskins’s office hours and fell upon some interesting revelations and a newfound point of view for the direction of my research. In our College Writing 101 class, my peers and I have been asked to take any site in Washington, D.C. an analyze it in terms of […]
Commonplace; Supermarket Flowers
“A heart that’s broke is a heart that’s been loved.” Would you rather have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Ed Sheeran’s “Supermarket Flowers” narrates the beautiful tragedy of mourning the death of one’s beloved grandmother. He does this by outlining the routine he had to perform after the woman died (such as fluffing […]
Commonplace; A Bank of Smiles
I thought this particular finding would be an amazing thing to share on my online platform. I discovered this gem as I was working this morning. My co-worker and I decided to clean up the clutter in our front desk to bring it up to dead storage. After we carried up a bunch of paint cans […]
Commonplace; Salimos de Aquí
Salimos de aquí de un paraiso pérdido… Salimos de aquí de la perla privilegiada de la sombra asociada de la envidia caribeña y de la estupidez isleña de sentirse en menosprecio por ser de aquí… Y así salimos descalzos y así aprendimos sin querer For my final Commonplace for WRTG 101, I am going to […]
The moral of the story is there is no moral of the story.
The moral of the story. It’s a fallacy. A trap. At least this is what Professor Hunter Hoskins makes of the concept. One afternoon in early April, I was sat in his office dissecting the main meat of my final research project when the instructor planted this seed for thought in my head. What he meant […]
Fleming’s Final Chapter; Schooling City
In his final chapter of City of Rhetoric, David Fleming contends that being part of the city is embedded into human nature, and we should strive to embrace and preserve this while respecting and improving the argumentative comfort zone that is the city within and without each of us. In other words, as humans, we cling […]
“His & Hers?” Explaining the Gender Revolution
Suzanne Tick breaks down the gender revolution from an interior designer’s perspective. In her “His & Hers? Designing for a Post-Gender Society,” Suzanne Tick argues for a social revolution in our contemporary design landscape, in which gender lines are crossed and blurred. Tick, a leading textile designer in the United States, insists that fellow designers […]
Annotated Bibliography; RCP V
“Don’t Kill the Deer in Rock Creek Park” Kirkpatrick, Jay, and Allen Rutberg. “Don’t Kill the Deer in Rock Creek Park.” The Washington Post; Washington, D.C., 3 Feb. 2013, p. C.4. ProQuest, http://search.proquest.com/docview/1283505746/abstract/A63445CE490E4F47PQ/1. In their “Don’t Kill the Deer in Rock Creek Park,” Kirkpatrick and Rutberg discredit the urgency to kill deer roaming and living […]
Commonplace; Another Love
“I brought you daffodils, in a pretty string, but they won’t flower like they did last spring.” Tom Odell, my favorite male artist, talks about the struggle of being with someone new without having moved on from a past relationship in his song “Another Love.” I find this specific sentence especially interesting because the word […]