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Hello, this blog is about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its effects on me. The Coronavirus has affected me the most personally. It affected me on a personal level because of my identity as an Asian American. My family uses WeChat, a popular messaging app in Asia, to communicate with extended family. Throughout this pandemic, they have sent videos showing increased hatred towards Asians or Asian Americans. Some videos show people using weapons to severely beat, or use guns to kill them in Chinatown. Other videos show them being kicked off transport or discover that their property has been vandalized. Most videos in common reveal the perpetrators scream, shout, or yell derogatory names or tell them to leave the country. While this crisis has caused an increased hatred towards colored people, it targeted the Asian population and its sub-races first. Hatred towards Asians and its sub-races reached the White House in February 2020. President Trump believed it was acceptable to call the Coronavirus "The Chinese Virus" or "The China Virus" because it originated in China. A woman in the press conference audience stated that she heard a White House official call the virus "Kung-flu". This caused major backlash from many Asian celebrities and the White House medical staff, stating that it was "inappropriate".
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Hello, and welcome to my last blog. This blog is a reflection of my English Composition I course as a whole. I watched a video called Reflective Writing and read the article Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection. The process of documenting one's thoughts through writing is reflective writing. Reflective writing cannot happen without reflective thinking. Reflective thinking means to look back at a point in life and other surrounding points that connect to the future. Reflective writing, in the sense of academic writing, is looking back at how classes and experience brought a writer to the final product.
What is GRITT? GRITT means Genre awareness, Rhetorical awareness, Identity as an author, Theory of writing, and Transfer of writing. Genre Awareness: Genre awareness is... Rhetorical Awareness: Rhetorical awareness is... Identity as an Author: How are your past academic writing experiences different from your present experiences with writing in this course? How are the past and present experiences the same? How has it changed in this course? Include a conversation about naming and establishing a relationship with your author-self. Also discuss some or all of the following: being a blogger/vlogger, web site author, memoirist, research author, reflective author, found poet, counter-narrative writer, etc. Theory of Writing: How has this course impacted the way you define and value writing? Which composition concepts/terms do you most value? Include a one-sentence thesis or tag line that represents your theory. Transfer of Writing: How do you plan to use your growing writing knowledge to compose texts in future academic and non-academic contexts? Include a discussion about your writing processes, writing mindset/author identity, genre awareness, and rhetorical awareness. Conclude the conversation with a future scene of writing to illustrate how you might enact writing transfer in a different context. B
Hi! It was August 14, 2017, at 1 pm in Sydney, Australia. My brother, cousins, and I sat with 10-20 other people; signing terms and condition forms. We introduced ourselves, placed our belongings in lockers, and learned how to suit up. Our tour guide, Richard, opened a door that began the ascent to the Sydney Harbor Bridge summit for the “Climb of your life”. We entered at the pillared base of the bridge, slowly ascending flights of stairs, while Richard talked about the history of the bridge. Once we saw sunlight, we latched onto the bridge railing with carabiner straps, walking up step by step. Richard was telling us the many celebrities who climbed this bridge; the funniest one being Heidi Klum asking for a picture. Heidi said, “No Richard, it’s for the gram.” after he took her picture. He said to her, “Well, why didn’t you say so!?!” and took her picture again. We got to the middle of the bridge, where you could see the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbor when Richard took our pictures. We’re getting close to the summit when he tells us that Oprah Winfrey brought at least 300 people up the bridge, and a wedding was held there as well. The moment we got up to the summit, all I could say was “Wow!” and “I wish I had a camera to take a picture.” I kept switching between those phrases, which annoyed my brother and cousins. But, they couldn’t say anything because they had the same level of excitement as I did and had similar reactions as well. The sun was setting and they were doing controlled burning, which is when you burn items that could cause a massive wildfire. So, the smoke from that caused the sunlight and the sky to have beautiful goldenrod and dark orange colors. Richard took a ton of pictures of that scene and asked our group if anyone wanted a video of them at the summit. Our group of four decided to record a video for fun and to commemorate our vacation before going onto the descent lane. We received certificates that congratulated climbers for climbing and had our pictures taken with them. We gathered our belongings from the locker room before meeting our parents. We let them choose which photos they wanted to take home. We played the video and at the very end of the video, one of my cousins said “America’s great”. They laughed out of embarrassment because they thought Richard was done filming, but he wasn’t. He just tilted the camera down and let it roll for an extra second or two. My mom thought it was funny, and decided to take the video and send it to the four of us when we were back home. We stayed in Sydney for another day before going back to Melbourne, the city where our Australia journey began. Sydney Harbor Bridge during Twilight Hours.
Due to my grandfather’s passing, this blog post will be N/A.
Hi! For this blog post, I read A Fable for the Living.
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Hello, and welcome to the second blog of many! This blog post is about learning how to create a multimodal website and answering eight questions based on multimodal work. The video tutorial, How to Create a Weebly Website was the starting point to a multimodal website. Multimodal work is defined by Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton in an article titled All Writing is Multimodal. The article, It’s All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design from Think Around Corners, defines what the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for and how it can help create a multimodal website. An article from Kent State University titled Assessing Multimodal Student Work outlines seven criteria for assessing a multimodal work.
Questions About the Four Readings Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? This website will be a digital portfolio for my English Composition I writing pieces and to grow and expand as a writer. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Multimodal means multiple modes. Ball and Charlton consider “multimodal” writing as a combination of modes, or communication techniques. Ball and Charlton state there are five modes: linguistic, spatial, visual, aural, and gestural. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I agree with Ball and Charlton’s claim that “all writing is multimodal” because the five modes are widely used around the world. An example of this is social media. Social media uses comments as the linguistic mode, photo layouts as the spatial mode; photos, emojis, and other images as a visual mode, audio clips or videos as aural modes, and hand or other body movements as gestural modes. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. I believe all of these deserve a 5 because they’re all crucial elements that bounce off or complement each other. The linguistic mode and aural mode go hand-in-hand because you have to think about what you want to say to your audience, and the message has to be clear. In order to do that, some people may write down what they plan on saying before it leaves their mouth. Visual and gestural modes rely on the spatial mode. If there’s too much space, a person may be overwhelmed to make an attempt to fill the empty spaces with content or gestures that could be irrelevant to what they actually meant, causing readers to lose the author’s point. If there’s too little space, the reader may consider the author’s point to be trivial compared to other matters that currently circle society. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? C.R.A.P. stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. Contrast means different elements stand out from each other. Repetition means to use the same element all over a piece of work. Alignment is the placement of items, which makes content easier to read. Proximity is the association of items. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking. Contrast- 5 Contrast helps direct a reader’s attention to specific details of the author’s content. Repetition- 4 Very important for readers to easily categorize specific words of a blog together. Alignment- 5 Same as content, this helps a reader navigate definitive points of a work. Proximity- 3 Sometimes, having a mixture of different associations can be beneficial. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? Sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest to use to assess multimodal composition are purpose, audience, tone, organization, transitions, synthesis, and detail. Do the Borton-and-Huot criteria seem similar or different from the criteria we would use to assess a traditional print essay? Why or why not? The Borton and Huot criteria to assess multimodal works seen similar to the criteria of a traditional print essay. A traditional print essay needs a writer’s thesis, or purpose. They need to organize the content of each paragraph and need to transition between the end of a new paragraph. They need to know what the tone of their paper should be and who is going to read their paper. The author needs to determine how to synthesize their work and others work in order to create a solid paper. A writer’s paper needs to have a sufficient amount of detail in order for the reader to understand their claim. Hi! This is the first blog of many for my English Composition class. Assignment one was to respond to the Proust Questionnaire, which is thirty-five questions written by Marcel Proust. Proust was a French writer who popularized the questionnaire as a parlor game and believed that one’s true self was revealed when answering these questions. I considered these questions to be very thought-provoking, and the link is down below for you to discover your true self.
The Proust Questionnaire _1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? My idea of happiness is standing on stage after a performance with a mic on its own stand, staring out at empty rows of seats, scanning for pamphlets or flyers that advertised it on the floor, and taking a deep breath of relief and sadness. __2.__What is your greatest fear? Being abandoned or forgotten. I felt like I was an afterthought or momentarily forgotten during some family vacations and during my high school years, when my friend group started getting toxic after junior prom. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I can be very critical of my own work. I feel like I’m always editing and revising my work 24/7, i.e. trying to find which sentence structure’s the best, depending on what I write. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? Insensitivity to people in certain situations. You don’t know what a person’s daily life is like, and you could unintentionally hurt that person or degrade them even more. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? My mom. She came from Southeast Asia, which is mostly poor, and grew up in between the Vietnam War. She’s the middle child of five sisters, and cares for her parents, i.e. my grandparents. She had 3 or 4 jobs during her high school years; and worked in a hospital and went to pharmacy school around the same time my brother and I were born. She spent many sleepless nights, but it was worth it because she received her Doctorate of Pharmacy, PharmD degree, in order to become a pharmacist. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? Clothing. The most I’ve spent on a normal day of shopping was between 50-100 dollars or more. __7.__What is your current state of mind? I’d compare my current state of mind to a philosopher or a young child, asking annoying questions about already defined words or ideas, i.e. “What is life?” or “What is love?” __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Honesty. Everyone lies, no matter how big or small it is. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I’ve lied on many occasions in the past, most of them were to not hurt people from foolish mistakes I made myself. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? My hair texture. The only two things I hate about it is it can get very oily and you can’t run a brush or comb from the top of my head to the bottom without it getting stuck somewhere in the same section you try to brush or comb it. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? I don’t have a specific person, but I do hate celebrity-based reality shows. I think they over-exaggerate a celebrity’s daily and personal life, even though there’s some comic relief in them. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? Kindness. It’s like a cycle, treat people with kindness and they’ll treat you back...most of the time. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Determination. A determined woman helps to keep spirits up when your down or encourage you even more when you’re doing well. Also, a determined woman empowers other women to do something that others or they themselves think is impossible. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “OMG”, “Ayy”, “In fact”, and I used to overuse “Truly” in the past. Also, filler words; i.e. “like”, “um”, “uh”, etc.; and greetings, but those are commonly overused by everyone. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? Music. I fell in love with music when I was four years old and I still love it. __16.__When and where were you happiest? When I climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia, August 14, 2017. I climbed the bridge with my brother and two of my cousins. The Australians were doing controlled burnings; burning bushes, branches, and other flammable items on the ground; during their afternoon to prepare for the fire season. At the climax of the climb, the sun was about to set. Our tour guide, Richard, took a picture of THE most beautiful sunset in all of Australia. The sunlight and sun were gold yellow behind the smoke. I wish I could’ve had a camera to take a picture, but, so far, it was the most amazing experience I’ve ever had. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? Parkour skills. It’s dangerous, but cool to jump across buildings and it would be useful if you’re stuck in a moving vehicle that you didn’t want to be in. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? How sensitive I am to things. Sometimes, I get upset over the tiniest things in the world. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? Right now, I don’t know. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A bear. Sleep through the majority of Winter?...yes please. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I’m stuck between Times Square, New York or somewhere in Europe. I love musicals so I would choose that area of New York. If I lived in Europe, I’d live in France or Italy. France, because of the Eiffel Tower, the Glass Palace, and to visit the Louvre. Italy, because of the canals in Venice, the Colosseum in Rome, and it's fashion capital of Milan. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? A gold necklace my mom got for her sixteenth birthday, which she gave to me on my sixteenth birthday. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Right now, when I failed two general chemistry exams during my last semester at college. I tried really hard to study for them, but I didn’t have a strong chemistry background, so it was extremely difficult to grasp the concepts. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? Creative writing. I write poems, lists, travel journals, etc. I wrote song lyrics when I was in middle school, but stopped because I felt like I restricted myself to just songwriting. I began journaling my daily life when I was 13, and stopped this year due to a difficulty with transitioning between high school and college. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? Tolerance. I consider myself a very open-minded person, and everyone has a story that should be heard. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty. Whether you’re right or wrong, friends should have each other’s backs. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? Ally Condie, Kiera Cass, and Suzanne Collins. Condie is the author of the Matched Trilogy and Cass is the author of “The Selection” series. One of my favorite genres is dystopia; the genre of the Hunger Games Trilogy that Collins wrote in, and the other two book series have a similar feel to it. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? Katherine from Newsies. The movie-musical is based on actual events of the 1899 newspaper strike that began in New York. The main reason for the strike was due to newsboys not getting a full refund on unsold papers. Katherine wanted to be a journalist when there were little to no women in the field and was born into the upper class of New York. Her father, Joseph, was the publisher of the World newspaper and wanted Katherine to avoid being involved with the strike. Eventually, she received recognition as a journalist and betrayed her father by helping the newsies win the strike. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? I don’t really identify with them, but I think Katherine Johnson’s story is very inspiring. I watched a movie called Hidden Figures, a biography of her work as one of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians during the Space Race. She overcame racism and gender discrimination during the movie and in real life in order for the Friendship 7 space capsule, commanded by John Glenn, to land safely back to Earth. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? Random people who do acts of kindness to others and get on TV unexpectedly. They don’t expect anything and just do it because they want to. __31.__What are your favorite names? I don’t have a particular group of names. I guess names with a unique spelling, but a common nickname or unique names that have meaning. I don’t like names that are too common because you could find more than one person with the same name as you in a crowd of thousands. I also don’t like common names that have an infinite number of nicknames that can be spelled differently. Short story: I once had five girls in my high school named “Madison”, none of them had blood relations to each other, and they all had different spellings of the nickname “Maddie”. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? I have a burning hatred towards raw onions. I’ve tried them, but it's either a hatred towards their texture or taste, I can’t tell. __33.__What is your greatest regret? I saw a former student that graduated from my high school. They were my student-teacher when I was in middle school. I saw them after my high school’s Spring music concert, and wanted to talk to them. I never did. __34.__How would you like to die? Drowning. I’ve been in the water since I was four years old. To me, it’s peaceful to just let yourself slowly fall into something that takes time to warm up. __35.__What is your motto? Expect the unexpected. No matter how many times you plan your life, it’s always throwing curve balls. |
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