During this semester as a student in this class, I prepared myself for what the class was going to bring me. A fresh start at a new school with new people and a chance to be successful at one of the best colleges in the country. It’s like only yesterday I was buying notebooks and mechanical pencils, along with whatever the supply list told me to buy. But now I enter college with a MacBook. How times have changed I guess that is what growing up feels like. 

The first assignment in this class that sort of touched me or had an effect on me was the reading on Amy Tan as she goes on to talk about how she created her essay to demonstrate how disrespectful and unaccepting Americans may be toward people who don’t speak English as their first language, such as Amy Tan’s mother, whose English differs from that of native English speakers. She claims that her speech is seen as broken by others. In the end, Amy learns to accept who she is and persuades the audience by sharing her own problems and answers. People’s judgments of the way she speaks are the challenges, and the only way for her to overcome them was to simply ignore them and accept herself as she is. Now in my literacy narrative, I too go on and explain how the language in my family has caused me problems in the past. They had restrictions on me so that I can slowly become more fluent in the Spanish language as they prevented me from speaking English to them. As well as not using foul language in places where they are not supposed to be said like in school. 

For me, I have a problem just rereading or waiting for a person to revise my work I just hate having to rely on others to submit my work. I am not trying to put anyone down but I was placed in a group where one dropped out one doesn’t do their work and the other just doesn’t communicate. I have tried to communicate however it feels like a hassle because it’s like I’m forcing them and bothering them so I asked one time they never revised the work and never again did I ask them. 

In the semester I took it upon myself to resubmit phase 1 and phase 3, I went back and used the feedback given to me by professor Crowe. There was even an instance where I had my work removed when talking about a discussion post because I failed to see that it would possibly affect my classmate. It’s sort of like using my personal experience to cater to the audience or being aware of how they might take it. The harsh reality that knows one wants to say is that in order to be successful you need to be controversial. For me when I write you need to take a side, the one you feel is right, even if it’s against the majority vote. Like my response to “Anti-Trans Laws Aren’t Symbolic: They Seek to Erase Us From Public Life” (2022) by Jules Gill-Peterson in the discussion post. Although what I posted could offend my classmate I still stand by it because I know that I am not in the wrong. I stand for what I said because it is true that the LGBT community is very messed up recently we saw Balenciaga under fire for the BDSM scandal but the LGBT community is as bad if not even worse. 

Switching topics to my back to my phase 1 literacy narrative It was the first time in a long time that I have written about a personal experience, especially one as deep as what I had to go through during that time of this. It caused trauma so when I was writing the narrative it felt like I was getting something off my chest. To think that my childhood friend could have been assaulted or even worse dead because of 1 decision that we as a collective group made showed me that we have to live life to the fullest because we a fragile. 

In phase 2 here we analyzed a piece of writing and determine the rhetorical devices that were used to write the piece of writing. I Choose a writing by Fredrick Douglass called fourth of July which talks about why should slaves be separated from something they worked so hard for. Here I determined they the piece used Exaggeration and imagery. 

In phase 3 I wrote a research paper on the effect of gun violence on adolescence and how it affects their mental health here I had to gather a plethora of sources to help the audience understand the caliber of the issue we are having. It hit me so hard because nobody needs evidence to say that gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in children and that it is actually more common than people actually think. It is sad that despite all of the school shootings that have occurred there is no solid or proven way to stop these occurrences. 

Without further ado, I introduce you to my digital portfolio where you can fully see all the work I have done during this stressful semester for Writing 2100.