Opinion Editorial The assigned opinion editorial struck me with a learning curve. What a genre! It took me two vastly different drafts to achieve a finished product. I was finished when I came to understand the importance of bending towards my audience. I had never written so purely of my own opinions, so my tendency…
Drifting Between Drafts
Opinion Editorial Draft 1 Slaughterhouse 55: An Environmental Appeal The meat industry is a villain relentlessly attacking the environment on multiple plains. Every year seventy-billion animals are born to be eaten by humans. Animal farming disproportionately contributes to global warming, deforestation, water contamination, and the depletion of natural resources. Livestock have many of the same basic needs…
Thinking Critically Quickly
This is a collection of responsive blogposts. The indicate my ability to uncover the rhetorical situation, structure of an argument, and sometimes indicate my opinion of the pieces as well. They are organized in chronological order from the beginning of the semester through the end. February: Rhetorical Situation of an Op-ed: Revitalizing New York City’s…
Retrospectating
A Sketch There is a Chinese proverb that claims, “The nets for catching fish are like words arriving at meaning”; a thought can never be realized to its 100% potential through language. Nonetheless, writing is the process of sifting, clarifying and synthesizing thoughts-words are the medium. Sometimes this is at the cost of leaving out…
OPINION EDITORIAL
Slaughterhouse 55: An Environmental Appeal The meat industry is a villain relentlessly attacking the environment on multiple plains. Every year seventy-billion animals are born to be eaten by humans. Animal farming disproportionately contributes to global warming, deforestation, water contamination, and the depletion of natural resources. Livestock have many of the same basic needs as humans, for in…
RESEARCH CRITICAL ANALYSIS
SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/25/nyregion/new-york-city-public-housing-history.html NYCHA: Exacerbated by Time Public housing in New York City, run by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), is a system designed to relieve housing-stress on cost-burdened households; those who delegate thirty-percent or more of their annual income on rent. In reality the system of affordable housing has created a mess of…
VISUAL ESSAY
VENISON: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BAMBI’S MOTHER
