Asyria’s Journal

Writing is an important skill that can be used in many aspects of life. It can be used to communicate, record ideas, and inform others. Writing allows us to express our thoughts and feelings in an organized and clear manner. Writing also helps us to think more critically and develop our ideas in a logical way. Writing can also be used to develop our creativity and create a narrative that resonates with our audience. Writing is an art and a craft that requires practice, dedication, and perseverance to master. It has the ability to open doors and unlock potential, and it can be a great way to share our thoughts and feelings with the world.

This semester when writing I’ve become better than before. I learned many new writing styles and different topics. This semester has helped me become a better writer in many ways. I often use bigger words now that I been doing essays. I learned how to cite in MLA format with the help of the one on one zoom meeting. I enjoyed doing seminars for the first time, it helped me with my confidence and it felt like a ted talk because we definitely was talking about interesting topics. It helped me understand other peoples thoughts and how they think differently from me.

In this class it brought people together when working in groups and with us helping each other become better writers. It helped me help others with their writing skills and they helped me with mine as well. I loved hearing other peoples stories and seeing their point of view. This class has helped us all express ourselves within essays and it really helped us.

Three favorite journals

Journal entry 18

Journal Entry #12

Journal Entry #9

My process for coming up with essay 3 was with the help of the teacher. In the socratic seminars I felt that “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay and “Why Nice Guys Finish Last” by Julia Serano really connected because of gender stereotypes. I ended up doing an essay about gender stereotypes and it turned out really well. I think my essay was good because I did take my time doing it. I think this essay was my second best one because I think essay number 1 was my favorite that I wrote. This essay was better than essay number two because it didn’t require as much as essay number 2. From this writing I learned how to cite in MLA format. I really liked the one on one meetings.

The lines that resonated with me the most from “My Gender is black” by Hari Ziyad is “It’s amazing how Black children seem to have a clearer perception of reality than the rest of us, even when they don’t know what to do with it.” These lines stick out to me because black children see reality of life while they are young even when it doesn’t apply to them. Young black kids see different because its a lot of stuff they see.

The lines in “Why Nice Guys Finish Last” by Julia Serano that stood out to me is “Similarly, if a male high school teacher were to have sex with one of his female teenage students, we would all be appalled. The incident would clearly feel like statutory rape to us. However, when the roles are reversed — when the adult teacher is female and the teenage student is male — it generally feels like a completely different thing to us.” People in this society would think that the male would try to get on the female but not when the roles reversed. They would think it is okay that the female teacher have sex with the male student because it is a female teacher. In the male teacher situation it would be seen as rape even if the person consented to it.

The lines in “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay that stood out to me were “I sometimes cringe when someone refers to me as a feminist, as if I should be ashamed of my feminism or as if the word feminist is an insult.”  People often see the word feminist as an insult but I see feminist as trying to be equal like everyone else. People use it as offense like “Your a feminist,” but I think feminist just want things to be fair for females and males as in everyone gets treated the same.

The sentence that stuck out to me in Consider the lobster is “the name lobster comes from the old english…which meant spider.” I didn’t think lobsters were related to crabs at all. I think its pretty cool that I found that out through this essay. I hate spiders but I do like lobster but it kind of does make sense because lobsters have a lot of legs and they are considered creatures of the sea.

My strong line is with social media we can keep up with the lives and interest of far more than a hundred and fifty people. I agree with  this because on my social media i have over that many friends. With social media you can know whats going with other people lives and it helps you keep up with society.

Paragraph 12 is what I agree with. They talk about how students seek protection when they arrive to college. Some students are aware of what others are capable of and it’s a new environment.

Recently I argue with this girl because she was a fake friend. I was supposed to be her friend and she was jealous of me the whole time. She spreaded lies about me to multiple people and im the kind of person when im mad, i get really mad. I texted her on instagram and went off on her because she was a very weird girl. I won the argument because I ate her up!! She was trying to play victim but it wasn’t working because I already knew everything. I didnt persuade her to do nothing I just went off on her.

The line that stood out to me was “purity, on the other hand, is a inherently relative value.” I agree with this because purity is a value in most cases. Purity helps with self conscience and helps you build your character.

My process for the Autoethnography was reading the example essay and kind of getting an idea of what were supposed to do. I had many mistakes in my essay but I liked how we worked together to help our essay come together. I think I could’ve did better on the work citing and also my essay flowing together. I enjoyed the peer review it was very helpful because it helped me add and remove what was needed. Overall I think I did pretty good and I am confident about my essay. I liked how the essay was about our personal life so I did get a little deep. I learned why I wanted to go to college and the reality of it.