Outcome 6 (Sentence-Level Error) – Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling). (Word Count: 180) As for sentence-level errors in my writing, I feel as though I do pretty well with that too. As I write, I do little revisions along the way before I do my final touches after my whole piece is written. I also have either my friends or family proofread my writing to make sure it makes sense. Sometimes I will read my writing out loud when I do…
Serhan and McLaughlin’s essay on the dangers of xenophobia surrounding pandemics relate to past sources through the ideas of empathy and making connections. For example, in Serhan and McLaughlin’s essay, the idea of empathy is introduced slowly throughout the whole piece. Eunice, a prominent figure in the essay states, “When you wear a mask, it’s a symbol of solidarity to other people,It’s [a way of] saying, ‘I understand that things are scary, but here is a thing that I’m going…
Xenophobia is an irrational fear or dislike of people who are from different countries. It relates to Covid-19 as Asian people have been targets of violence since the beginning of the pandemic. Countries have placed bans/sanctions against people of Asian descent. Many victims of the prejudice and xenophobia felt afraid for their safety. As for the political factors, leaders (who held implicit and explicit bias) felt “afraid” for their countries. Even though they probably felt as if they were doing…
The unique challenges Cadogan faces have to do with how other people perceived him. For example, in Jamaica he states he could have been shot if he wore the “wrong color”. He would make friends with strangers and talk with them for hours. He loved the “rules of the streets” and felt more comfortable there than he did at home. The contrast between his old home and how his new home created a feeling of curiosity. While he was in…
David Foster Wallace’s speech, in a nutshell, is about listening to others. One of his main points deals with the idea of virtues and how they don’t always wire in with listening. It has to do with the idea of self. Wallace says “It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through…
In this article, psychologist Paul Bloom expresses his concerns with the idea of empathy. One of his main points is empathy is a narrow subject. He compares it to spotlights “that only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases”(Bloom 1). With this claim, Bloom uses examples of how too much empathy can provide more stress on the individual receiving the empathy (he uses the Sandy Hook shootings as an example). I think he is right to…
In Chen’s piece about Megan Phelps-Roper, the quote that stood out to me as a starting point for Phelps-Roper’s journey towards change was “She had a well-sharpened tongue”(Chen, 2015). This explains to me that Phelps-Roper knew what she was saying, and knew how to make it appealing to others outside of the Westboro Baptist Church. Her tweets elicited reactions, good and bad, from thousands of people. People were listening. She placed the church on the map. Her journey with David…
