Personal Narrative: My Internship In El Mexicano Newspaper

I started this internship on the 27th of June I would have liked to have done it during the first summer session, however, I had to take an additional 3 credit hours before that because I wasn’t aware my remedial math course didn’t go towards my degree. I have worked for El Mexicano Newspaper for about two years now, but that was mostly as a distributive position so when I realized I needed to do an internship to gain experience this was my first choice. I have never been a confident writer before this internship and now after having done it professionally I must say that a proofreader and editor is a lifesaver. Consequently, this internship took me out of my comfort zone a lot and for a while that was touch, however I learned to adapt to that and became a better communicator because of it. The toughest part of this internship for me was probably interviewing people. Therefore, that may be the reason why I enjoyed writing about analysis pieces rather than communicative ones. Throughout this …show more content…
Specifically the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which, thus, made me, read the rather controversial book YURUGU: An Afrikan- Centered Critique of European Culture Thought and Behavior.
The book written by Marimba Ani discusses the notion of Yurugu, which Ani defines as, “A being in Dogon mythology which is responsible for disorder in the universe. This is a being conceived in denial of the natural order which then acts to initiate and promote disharmony in the universe.” (Ani, P. xxviii) I used that term quite often in my piece entitled #CompassionMatters and used it to discuss how challenging a movement’s rhetoric to apply your own is often problematic because it takes away from the overall agency and empowerment a movement is supposed to