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I have always looked at myself as a person who’s better at numbers than writing, and reading. I have never really enjoyed reading or writing, because I never been good at it. It felt like it took me forever to read a book, and that alone made me just watch a movie instead of reading a book, and that didn’t make me a better reader or writer. I was not surprised that I wasn’t good at it though, because I never practiced. Before College when I got a writing assignment, I often opened a word…

A lot of times when we are actually thinking of getting a tattoo, we think of a really lengthy and dreadful process. This is oftentimes an absolute dreadful thought. Many people won't even dream of choosing or acquiring a tattoo just because of their idea of what the process involves or what they have been led to believe. To emphasize what acquiring a tattoo entails, we will first have to consider a little part of the human anatomy. The skin is built up of 2 layers; the epidermis and the dermis…

It is known that the world and everything within it changes with time, whether it's technology, relationships, or even the economy. These changes sometimes are for the better and sometimes it's like taking three steps back. It continues to be obvious that with each generation comes a new set of alterations and attitudes about life in general. However, when concentrating on the evolution of identity in American Literature it is clearer to track the patterns. Specifically, Walt Whitman's…

The most enjoyable part of this academic year is that I got to learn Spanish for the first time in my life. It’s amazing of how I can understand most of the words in Spanish whenever I see it on the street or in the flea market. Moreover, I love being in Ms. Favela's class because I get to learn new things and at the same time, I'm also more creative, more sociable with others. Other than Spanish class, I'm surprisingly pretty good in chemistry, and the funny thing is I never thought that I…

Autobiographies and biographies have many differences and similarities at the same time. The contrasting and comparing styles the authors used, the features of the books and the view that it gave me personally were each somewhat different for each of the books. After finishing the books Prepared for a Purpose by Antoinette Tuff and Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas they gave the insight to see that these two genres were similar yet unalike at the same time. They style used in the autobiography of…

Here at UCI, I have taken many writing courses before this class such as AC Eng. 20B, AC Eng. 20C, AC Eng. 20D, AC Eng. 28, Writing 39A, and Writing 39B. Writing has always been my biggest fear and it is something that I have the most difficulty doing it because English is not my first language that I have learned in my life. In addition, I never had any problem communicating with people, but when it comes to writing, I always have to go through a lot of struggles to put them into words because…

I chose these four lessons as I believe they demonstrate the most growth and provide variety within my portfolio. The speech in which I put myself in John F. Kennedy’s position was especially interesting to write, because although it was outside of my comfort level, I was given the opportunity to identify and write as somebody completely different from myself— someone in a position so powerful that a nation depends on him. In contrast, the letter in lesson nine is written from the perspective of…

Would you put your life at stake to have a surgery to possibly become a genius? In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon didn’t fully understand what could happen to him if he had the A.I. surgery to hopefully triple his low I.Q. of 68. Charlie wanted to learn,read,and write. He wanted to fit in and be like everyone else. After the operation, Charlie began to learn things in a couple months that took people a lifetime to learn. Charlie Gordon’s life…

What if you walked into an old abandoned house, and met an interesting old man? In the story, ¨Treasure of Lemon Brown¨ by Walter Dean Myers, he uses dialogue and figurative language to develop characters and character relationships. In the text it states, ¨look into the moon and see anything you want.¨ This dialogue shows that Lemon brown is trying to tell Greg what his boy looked like. I think he is trying to tell that his son was hopeful, young, naive but by doing this he used a hyperbole.…

Strategic Writing Chapter Two Response In chapter two of Strategic Writing, Deborah Dean writes that successful writing is only accomplished with inquiry (23). Dean argues that we need to push students to investigate new ideas, rather than rely on what they already know (24). A big idea Dean tackles is that our knowledge comes from our experiences (23). Dean suggests supplying students with ample experiences in the classroom to build knowledge (25). When students are more knowledgeable, their…