SSR #3

ENG – 300 May 14,2018   SSR #3   Summary: In chapters 9 through 11 of David M. Levy’s Scrolling Forward, the author talks about the importance of documents and the consequences of giving more attention to digital documents than actual physical documents. In Chapter Nine, Levy describes documents as an integral part of our …

Paradigm Shift Final

Final Script: Saima: Since its inception, the idea of ‘dating’ has changed quite a bit. Dating used to consist of first dates that ended with marriage proposals, or families making marriage deals between their children. However in the past three decades, dating has very much evolved. Today, online dating has become one of the most …

Summary and Synthesis Report #2

ENGL-300 April 18th, 2018 Summary: In the first chapter of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric, LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the English language and for our understanding of cross-cultural influence. Chinese American rhetoric is the hybrid of …

Concept Mapping

This I Believe

Suffering has always been a part of human existence, and these requests are as old as medicine itself. Many patients who are in the final stage of their lives have requested doctors to aid them in exercising active euthanasia; which is physician assisted suicide. When people see the word euthanasia, they see the meaning of …

Paradigm Shift: Story Board

Class Article Response

In class, we read an article by Virginia Heffernan called “This Week Proved it: The Internet is Optimized to do us Harm”. It focused on how the internet can be a dangerous and unstable place especially with the heavy involvement of social media. Heffernan proves her point by exemplifying her own article through frightening word …

Rough Copy of Audio File

Individual Project- Checkpoint #4

I Believe Script

Individual Project- Checkpoint #3 Suffering has always been a part of human existence, and these requests are as old as medicine itself. Many patients who are in the final stage of their lives have requested doctors to aid them in exercising active euthanasia; which is physician assisted suicide. When people see the word euthanasia, they …

SSR 1

Summary and Synthesis Report #1 Summary: In Chapter 3 of Bootstraps, Victor Villanueva talks about how racial and cultural biases can be challenged through open discussions in classrooms. Through a few personal experiences, he notes how people look down on most latin and black communities for not speaking proper, white English  and assumed they were …