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One of the largest "hits" for my freshman year was the research paper. I genuinely enjoyed writing that huge research paper about technology in the cold war. I think this is for a few reasons. The first one being that WWII and Cold War history is something that I am very passionate about (I can blame my Dad for that). The second reason for me enjoying the research paper was because I believed that I was good at writing something like that (not to brag or anything). One of the things that I most improved on while doing this paper were my citation skills. That was definitely something that I had almost no experience in until writing the research paper. The writing project that I had the most trouble with was the literary analysis. I really did believe that the paper would have been the death of me. One of the main reasons for this is because I had a very strong feeling about the book that I couldn't necessarily put into writing (or say for that matter). This is because I

I believe that one of my greatest strengths lies in the context of the rhetorical situation. Rhetorical situation is a group of categories that are required to be accounted for whenever a writer writes a his or her writing. These categories are purpose, audience, genre, stance, and design. I thing that I generally do well on all of these things. However, I believe that my strongest strengths are understanding who my audience is going to be, and also expressing my stance on a certain topic. One of the most strong categories of writing that I posses is giving my stance on a particular issue and then backing up. This is something of which that I know for a fact that I lot of people have issues with across my generation. However, not only do I present and back a stance, I generally believe that I do a fair job at realizing who is actually reading what I am writing. It is crucial to understand this for a lot of things that I write since a lot of it is very controversial. Some of the thing

I found this reading section to be both the most action packed and most disturbing section so far. The most disturbing thing to me (besides Ade Coker dying), was the hypocrisy of Papa throughout the entire book. It just appalls me to the level of disgust. One of the most gruesome scenes occurred in this section. We see Papa beat his daughter to a point to where she almost dies. She even had to stay in the hospital for a prolonged period of time while everyone else thought that she was in an accident. We see Papa being a hypocrite throughout the entire story. He has a version of self righteousness that justifies his actions "in the name of God". These actions are ruthless and abusive towards his entire family, and they somehow put up with it (that will most likely change soon). Papa will go through with these actions to fight against his wife or his children committing sins (at least by his standards). After he does these actions, he says things like "no one will ever h

I would have to say that my most favorite video game at the current moment is Arma 3. There are only two other people who I know in our grade who play this game. I find this very surprising because Arma is by far the best game to ever exist in the current moment. I would even say that it is better than any COD or MW game. There are a few reasons for this, all of which surpass the capabilities of any COD or MW game. Arma 3 is better than these games because it looks better, it is more realistic, and it is by far the most customizable game to date. Arma 3 just looks better. No doubt in my mind about that. This is obviously because Arma runs on PC hardware (not console) which already means that it looks a million times better than any console game such as COD. Arma 3 is the most realistic military FPS to date. Everything down to fatigue and walking speed is carefully tuned and altered at the most precise time to simulate real life. Also, there is no jumping (because you actually don'

Thomas G: Gun Control Gregory F: Police Shootings

I chose an article from Vox. Vox has been known to many as a reliable news source and has been cited by multiple politicians is the end all be all of news sources. The article which is titled America's gun problem, explained , attempts to give a large number of statistics and then links these "facts" together to form a statement (I will come to this statement later). There is also a video from Vox that accompanies the article, and I will include all of the facts and statements that they make there into this blog. The first claim that Vox makes is that America's gun problem is completely unique compared to the rest of the developed world. They do this by comparing homicide rates between countries (in the article) and by comparing mass shooting occurrences between countries (in the video). After this claim, they then go on to claim that more guns means more death. They even show an entire chart of all of the states and shows that a larger percentage of legal gun owner