This is where I will be posting my writings and perspectives on certain topics that are assigned to me in my college level English class. 🙂
The reality behind school lunch
For this post, I chose to discuss an episode of Revisionist History called Food Fight. This episode focuses on the way school lunches in the United States have been shaped over time. It also dives deeper into how something that seems as simple as what kids eat at school is actually connected to politics, power,…
Discovering a story without words: flotsam
There is always something really interesting about a book that doesn’t use any words but still manages to tell a full story, Flotsam by David Wiesner is a perfect representation of that. At first, it may seem like a simple story about a boy at the beach who finds an old camera washed up on…
Are We Really Thinking for Ourselves? Media and the Power of Perception
One of the most interesting ideas in Rajiv N. Rimal’s article “Media Campaigns and Perceptions of Reality” is that people often make decisions based on what they think others believe, not necessarily on what is actually true. Rimal states that “humans act, at least partly, on the basis of how they think others expect them…
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