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February 12th Homework – Part 2

Posted onFebruary 11, 2019Leave a comment

Engaging others views is incredibly important for a number of reasons. The first of which being that it forces you to challenge your own views. It is incredibly easy to write a paper or speech without any challenge and only focus on the view points that you know, but once you receive challenge from someone Read More …

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February 12th Homework – Part 1

Posted onFebruary 11, 2019Leave a comment

The first of Gee’s theorems on Page 9 seems to be saying that for discourses, there is no being a partial part of a discourse. You are either in a discourse completely or out of it. Gee also mentions in this first theorem that, when learning new discourses, if you stop at the stage right Read More …

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Gee and Jordan Annotations

Posted onFebruary 6, 2019Leave a comment

This first annotation is a question type annotation. I asked this in the Gee post, as he said that, “at any moment we are using language we must say or write the right thing in the right way while playing the right social role…” and in my eyes, it seemed a little extreme and an Read More …

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Literacy Narrative Narration

Posted onFebruary 4, 2019February 5, 2019Leave a comment

While this came out better than my first podcast, I did struggle with the microphone on my computer. It didn’t capture the character of my voice and my attempt to narrate it and elicit feeling from the listener. Otherwise I found the project very enjoyable and would certainly do it again.

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Literacy Narrative Sketch 3

Posted onJanuary 24, 2019Leave a comment

In the 7th Grade, we had been assigned a creative writing assignment towards the end of the year. Since it was the end of the year, there were nearly no parameters and you could write about whatever you wanted really. In the mind of 7th grade me, I wrote about what I thought was the Read More …

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Literacy Narrative Sketch 2

Posted onJanuary 24, 2019Leave a comment

My sister had just gifted me Catcher in the Rye when I was in about 7th grade. She always made a point of giving us books in the past, but this one really piqued my interest for some reason. I had always known that it was a famous book, so it excited me even more Read More …

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Angela Davis MLK Talk

Posted onJanuary 23, 2019January 24, 2019Leave a comment

Knowing how big of a deal Angela Davis is, I was very excited to see her speak. The excitement of everyone else was also clear when I had to sit in another classroom to watch a livestream of the event because the venue was full. Regardless, for the time that I was there, I found Read More …

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Literacy Narrative Sketch 1

Posted onJanuary 22, 2019Leave a comment

For the longest time, my mom would always read to us before bedtime. Her parents did it to her. Her grandparents did it to her parents. It’s almost like a tradition of being a kid. My mom would read to us a wide array of things, most of which were either books filled with short Read More …

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The University of New England is a private, coeducational university based in Biddeford, Maine, USA. There are additional campuses in Portland and Tangier, Morocco. The Biddeford Campus sits on 540 acres, the Portland Campus on 41 acres, and the Tangier Campus on 3.7 acres.

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