In “The Good Immigrant Student” by Bich Minh Nguyen, the author shares her story of being an immigrant student in the United States. In Paragraph 28 Nguyen says “I would like to make a broad, accurate statement about immigrant children in schools. I would like to speak for them (us). I hesitate; I cannot.” By that I think she means she would like to speak on what its like being an immigrant child attending an American school but thinks she cannot speak on behalf of the rest of them. Mainly because she thinks that everyone has their own emotions and views things separately. Everyone has different experiences. Also in the text Nguyen says “I wanted to disappear. I was not brave enough to shrug my shoulders and flaunt my difference: because I could not disappear into the crowd.” This shows that she is different from the students in terms of the way she goes about social interactions. Which is why she cannot make a broad accurate statement because she does not have the same experiences as everyone else.

After reading “The Gettysburg Address” by 16th President Abraham Lincoln and “Inaugural Address” by 35th President John F. Kennedy, I have made the connection that what they are saying is similar. The overall message is about equality. Their remarks do not refer to the same situation but they do relate to each other. The problem that Abraham Lincoln thinks the United States needs to solve is the problem of equality. He believed that all men are created equally. And JFK brings up the point that we are united as a nation, referring to the equality of black people and stated “we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty” expressing that he would pay any price to see equality among people in the United States. Is that problem solved? The answer is obviously no. As any normal person can see we live in a society stemming full of systemic racism and  major inequalities for minorities. And “President” (I will use that title lightly) Donald Trump thinks it does not exist. Not only that but the racist police that shoot unarmed, innocent black people that can amount to a list only from the shootings this year. There should not be a list like that at all. And it does not just affect black people, the Muslim ban proposed by “President” Trump was extremely racist by targeting Muslims entering America and ones that already live here, and extremely UNCONSTITUTIONAL. So, no these issues have not solved.

Hello, my name is Daniel Price (he/him), I am currently undecided,

After reading the syllabus, I am looking forward to the well thought out writing assignments we will be writing, and the group discussions we will have about the texts we will be reading, I will also be looking forward to real classes in person because that just sounds pretty cool to me. One thing I am nervous about is the lectures because I have a problem paying attention to literally ANYTHING but trust me when I say I will try my best.

The qualities of good writing is whether it grasps your audiences attention or not and whether it has any feeling or emotion to it. If your writing piece doesn’t get the job done and gets a hold of the readers attention is it really something you can consider good? Well that all depends on the persons mindset. I think for one to become a good writer they need to read. Reading allows you to gather knowledge and you can pick up tips about how to better oneself as a writer along the way. Being able to write well is an important skill because it displays intellect, brainpower, and most of all it displays how capable you are with expressing oneself.

The easiest part of writing for me is just gathering thoughts and putting it on a screen/piece of paper. When my head is clear it is very easy to just let the words flow out of my mind onto paper/a document.

The hardest part of writing for me is making sure it all makes sense or struggling with making errors which is an essential part of a writing piece but sometimes I really need to look over my piece at least three times to make sure these words that made sense in my head makes sense aloud to another person or making sure I made no spelling errors. I need to work on pacing myself and not going to fast and reading what I write when I write it and ask myself if it fits what I said before and what I will say after.

I’m not sure what genres I will be expected to write in my future career field because currently I am undecided, but if  I had to make a guess it would probably be creative free writing. Being a effective writer is important in any career field because it displays you’re educated and deserve the title you have earned.