I will use the sample essay about J Cole’s album KOD and argue why using music has been an effective way for people to express their feelings and the help they need. Seeing that people of color typically brush their health issues under the rug to never be talked about music has been a way for people to feel like they connect with others. Music has been used to make people feel like someone else has gone through what they may be going through. In my essay, I want to accomplish spreading awareness on how people use art to tell their own stories. They say a picture says a thousand words but music has been used to speak many more words than that. Art can speak for the people. Something that inspired further research was knowing that people of color think that mental health isn’t real and can easily be controlled. People of color are forced to keep quiet about what’s going on in their minds. Humans may think their crazy but that paper they write a verse on about anything they want to talk about will not judge. My thesis is important because people can only stay quiet about their struggles so long before they take over. Spreading awareness of this form of art that gets anyone’s story out could save someone’s life. I plan to extend my research by finding an artist who is talking about mental health. When people find someone else who was brave enough to post the struggles they both share, it makes them more motivated to find healthy revolutions and not feel alone.

By this quote, the author means she wishes she can make the journey of finding yourself and coming to love yourself and culture easier for all immigrant students. This will be hard for her to do because everyone’s journey is different. Her journey consisted of years of trying to not just blend in with the crowd but to be completely covered by it. She would be deathly afraid of being called on by the teacher but gained a bit of confidence with her Spectrum group. The author states, “I know that some kids want to disappear and disappear until they do. Sometimes I think I see them, in the blurry background of a magazine photo, or in a gaggle of kids following a teacher’s aide across the street. “ This is demonstrating how she sees what the other immigrant students are going through clear as day since she suffered from this since her adolescence. Shes have been going this feeling since the first grade. She is now a high school student who learned to wear her skin proudly and wants to spread confidence to other people in this category of immigrant children. Preferably without the long journey of shyness, keeping her opinions and insights to herself, and the feeling of wanting to disappear.

Both John F Kennedy and Abrahim Lincoln stand for equality and everyone being presented equally. The separation of who the world makes seem is important is the problem that the United States has. John F Kennedy states, “So in many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and The shadow of disappointment set up on us. We have an alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we will present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.” This is demonstrating how African Americans are made broken promises. The things said to them mean nothing because there is little to no action put behind them. Abraham Lincoln wants actions put towards remembering people who put action into our country. Lincoln states,”The brave man, living and dead, who struggled here, has consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but you can never forget what they did here. It is for us to live in, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have this so normally advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great asking him in before us, the from these honored that we take increased devotion…”. This is demonstrating how the people need to take action on making sure that the actions people took for our safety and country are counted for. Both of these individuals for actions of change and want them to stick. The country looks at these problems but they aren’t fully addressed. In Birmingham the people asked for the segratings signs to be taken down. Some were taken down for some time and returned back to their place. The problems of the United States have not been solved.

  Malcolm x was an activist who came from slavery descent. He was a man who went through many trials in life, with the white man, black man, the people he looked up to and would die for, the people who he brought together to fight the common enemy, and even sometimes himself. One of his biggest tests in life was him being in prison but he was grateful for what he gained from it. He gained a tremendous amount of curiosity and knowledge. He gained the ability to read and write and was able to do it for hours at a time, sometimes for up to fifteen hours a day. He read and copied the entire dictionary teaching him phrases and events in history he didn’t even know existed. This opened up the explorer in him while he was incarcerated. He just felt like his mind could find the answer to anything. While incarcerated he never stopped learning how to help the black man. He rather read in the isolation of his cell than in the library, as he did this he was teaching himself literacy and how to not be affected by ignorance. While he is locked up his mind is so free to new information he feels like he is outside those brick walls. He is allowing his mind to wander aimlessly in the literacy and he is loving it. With this narrative, I can gather that even incarcerated literacy can give you the freedom to get your questions answered from behind the wall.

Amy Tan who speaks English very well and has developed her own English besides what she speaks with her mom. She and her husband have made it an intimate language or them. Amy’s mom’s struggle with “perfect American English; has most definitely been a burden for Amy. she has been forced to take care of people who don’t treat her mom fairly. As she does this to protect her mom she at times turns red from being uncomfortable Amy sees writing as a way to portray a story with imagery and feelings. Amy feels like her mom does that perfectly even though sometimes people try to make it seem like they completely can’t understand her mother. Amy prides herself on being able to have that shift between the English she speaks with her mom and the English she writes with. Amy took the statics of Asians typically being better at math and science and threw it out of the window. She decided to Major in English when she started college and only got better from there. She would get the 60s or 70s on reading and writing assessments but is flourishing with her English. Ss the passion of writing grew for Amy she was more clearly seeing how “broken’ her mom’s English was. Amy did not like people referring to her mom’s English as broken, as if it had to be fixed. Amy would still support her mom. She was able to understand her completely and still understand and feel her mom’s feelings. Amy is just perfecting her craft of English but to her, her mom’s English is perfect.

Hello, my name is Salimatou Bah but people usually call me Salima. My intended major is biology. My preferred gender pronouns are she/hers. I am excited to learn how people form their opinions and persuade people to agree with them. That is something that I feel would personally help my life. I’m nervous that I’m coming into this course not so good of a writer but that makes me even more excited to learn how to improve it all.

A quality of good writing is clarity. Your audience should question what you’re going to say next and you should say it. You should have them wondering then answer their question. It is important to write well because it corresponds with your verbal communication. If you can clearly convey a message through typing your verbal conversation would probably clearly convey messages as well. You want your audience to understand what you’re trying to point out. You want to state your point, give your evidence, and give reasoning to your audience as to why your point is valid. 

I think the easiest part of writing for me is writing conclusions. Your conclusion should be a summary of your writing piece and your most important points. I feel like I am good at highlighting the important points in my conclusion further proving the point I’m trying to prove to my audience. The hardest part of writing for me is citing my evidence. Once I have a good grasp on a topic I am able to give opinions and facts in an effective way so my reader can try to relate to my views. I have to work on citing because when I do research and don’t cite my sources it may be seen like plagiarism when in reality it is not. We have to give everyone their credit for their articles and thoughts that helped to build our opinions on any topic.

 Being a good writer corresponds with being a good reader who can take texts and interpret them depending on what they are trying to do with them. I expect to write research papers in my intended major. I feel like this will affect my career opportunities because this encourages me to understand readings from different perspectives. I feel like this could open up the opportunity to find why things happen in our world and what we can do about it.