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Food’s Role  While I studied abroad in Italy during the January Venice Session in 2019, I took a course on the Aesthetics of Food Culture. During this course, we discovered the role that food plays during interactions with family and friends through analyzing film and different narratives. All throughout history, food is able to bringContinue reading “Food Essay Pre-Writing Ideas”

PODCAST: The Fault in Standard English Education in America “Language is essential in all aspects of our lives. We use it every day to communicate with our family members, friends, classmates, coworkers, acquaintances, and strangers. Educational institutions of all types across America, for the most part, teach Standard English to their students. I saw absolutelyContinue reading “The Fault in Standard English Education in America: Podcast”

  Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Super Size Me depicts this dangerous social experiment where Spurlock himself eats McDonald’s every day, for thirty days, three times a day. If McDonald’s doesn’t sell it, Spurlock cannot have it. Within the first day of ingesting his first “Super Sized” meal of the experiment, Spurlock gets extremely sick and throwsContinue reading “Super Size Me Response”

Karen Palmer talks about her traumatic experience escaping a marriage in a portion of a memoir called, The Reader Is the Protagonist. After recovering her daughter from her ex-husband and then leaving him for another man, Palmer seeks refuge in Boulder, Colorado with her new family and their newer identities. Starting this new life meantContinue reading “Reader’s Choice: The Reader Is the Protagonist”

Language is essential in all aspects of our lives. We use it every day to communicate with our family members, friends, classmates, coworkers, acquaintances, and strangers. Educational institutions of all types across America, for the most part, teach Standard English to their students. I saw absolutely nothing wrong with this until my professor for myContinue reading “Podcast 2-Min Draft: Students’ Right To Their Own Language”

Jad and Robert Krulwich essentially tell the story of where typhoid originated and how it began to spread. The theme of the Radiolab podcast, Patient Zero, is how diseases like typhoid and HIV and AIDS began. By investigating and speaking to experts, they were able to piece together a narrative that illustrates the origins ofContinue reading “Patient Zero Response”

Today I attended an event title Digital Nonfiction: Composing Identities In and Beyond the Classroom. Londie Martin, an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, held a 70-minute interactive workshop and taught us how to mold our ideas for a nonfiction narrative. She taught us concepts from creative nonfiction that digital nonfictionContinue reading “Out-Of-Class Event Blog”

For our podcast project, I might tackle argument being had inside of my grandmother’s home. As mentioned in my essay Raising Your Husband, my grandmother has to put up with a lot when it comes to my grandfather’s daily needs. From being fed to being changed, she does it all. Her reasoning is that heContinue reading “Podcast Proposal”

Every day, my grandmother has to fall in love with a new person. She wakes up with zero expectations of how to communicate with this new person, how to pacify this new person, and how to cater to this new person she didn’t choose to marry. Originally, Jean fell in love with Tony Petruzzi afterContinue reading “Raising Your Husband: A Borrowed Memoir”

As a journalism student, this task of creating a personal memoir was extremely daunting. I felt as though my brain has been trained to only relay hard facts and that I wouldn’t be able to find a subject to discuss in a more intimate and personable context. It turns out personal essays require the essentialContinue reading “Borrowed Memoir Proposal”