Text to Text Connection
The first reason Serhan and Mclaughlin’s essay connects with the previous The readings are that all of the articles talk about being compassionate to others around you. Bloom talks about how our empathy can show our prejudices and act almost as a spotlight to the people that are like us but doesn’t shine very brightly on people we find unfamiliar. In Serhan and Mclaughlin’s essay they talk about how Asian prejudice is rampant because of the pandemic. People don’t understand…
Serhan and McLaughlin
What is xenophobia? How does the term relate to the Covid-19 pandemic and the various decisions countries have made in dealing with the virus’s spread? Xenophobia is the fear of outsiders. This relates to the covid-19 pandemic because during the pandemic we considered East Asians outsiders and were afraid of them. Countries shut down their borders to travelers from certain countries because they believed that they were carriers of the virus so if they couldn’t come in then the virus…
Essay 2 Reflection
Describe your essay’s most notable strength, using at least one direct quote from your work to support your choice. My essay’s most notable strength is my integration of quotes. I think that I integrate my quotes very smoothly, which helps my writing flow. Ex.- According to Bloom, “Empathy is a spotlight with a narrow focus; it shines brightly on those we love and gets dim for those who are different and strange”( 3). I think that because my quotes being…
Codogan Response
What are the unique challenges Cadogan faces as he walks each city (Kingston, New Orleans, and New York City)? What do we learn, indirectly, about each city from Cadogan’s personal experiences? We learn that each city is extremely racist and that the people there are almost scared of the black people. New York City police officers were suspicious of black people and stopped them simply because they were black. In New Orleans, the people were scared of black people and…
Peer Review Revisited
I think that my second peer review experience went better than the first time. I think I was more confident and better knew what to look for when reading the paper. Although the paper I read did not have any big components missing, I felt like I could praise the person instead of not leaving any comments. I felt too that I could leave more direct feedback such as saying how a certain element helped connect the main idea to…
Connecting the Parts
The use of Twitter and absorbing other people’s views and opinions is something that definitely got through to Phelps-Roper rather than the people who yelled at her during picketing and counter-protested to silence them and helped her broaden her perspective. Thus, when people like Abitol saw her as human and didn’t make her feel like she was wrong even though she didn’t line up with his views she started to change. CG played a role in her becoming more of…
Lamott Response
I think she is talking more about the process than the product when she talks about the first draft. I say this because she says that when she first sits down to write her draft she just writes the words down so she can filter out her ideas. She often found that he built her ideas off what she wrote in her first draft. When she writes her first two drafts she is not focused on the product but rather…
DFW Response
When I first read the piece I was kind of confused by the fish story but as I read I started to understand it. His first main point is that we need to understand where someone’s point of view is coming from when we disagree with someone about something. Wallace mentions that people “never end up talking about just where these individual templates and beliefs come from”(Wallace 3). When we disagree we usually don’t bother to understand the other person’s…
Paper One Self Reflection
Social media is a blessing and a curse to our generation, it can spread information, and help us have a broader perspective, but define our identity even if we don’t want it to. I think that it encompasses all the ideas in my essay well and that it introduces my ideas well. I think it could be more specific about what platforms I am talking about. There are different types of social media platforms so I think it would help…
