Final Reflection Assignment

For my final portfolio, I chose to revise a shorter essay, “Potential Ramifications of a Trump Presidency,” and a longer essay, “Assignment 7: Finding Place Research Project.” I chose these two essays specifically because of their differences. The former is shorter, more informal, and includes more of my thoughts and opinions. The latter is a longer research paper, and thus is more formal and less biased as I attempted to give a brief history of gentrification and its impacts on East Liberty. In my essay “Potential Ramifications of a Trump Presidency,” I kept my original introduction. I didn’t talk about other concerns a Trump presidency might bring about because I wanted to focus solely on his impact on the environment. I also did not expand the last sentence of my introduction to include how this could impact the world because I wanted to bring that in in a body paragraph. Most of the changes I made in the essay …show more content…
To do this, I added a working definition of gentrification to my introduction paragraph. I did this to address some questions about whether or not poverty or decline is necessary for gentrification to occur. I added a bit more information about why Google moved to East Liberty and how the stage was set there for gentrification to occur as well. I tried to keep the language in this paper more neutral and unbiased, stating facts more than giving my opinions, because I wanted this paper to be more neutral in contrast to my first essay, which took a strong position on the topic I was arguing. In this essay, I also didn’t go into details about other cities and communities that have been gentrified, or draw conclusions about what this means for the country, because I wanted this essay to focus specifically on the case of East Liberty and how it came to be