Month: October 2023

Journal Entry #17

“Up until sometime in the 1800s, though, lobster was literally low-class food, eaten only by the poor and institutionalized.”  page 366

For me this quote stuck out to me because I would have no idea about this, and I think it’s a fun interesting fact to me just because how pricey lobster is now and how prioritized it seems to be.

Journal Entry #16

I could have worked on the lack of motivation to make changes to my essay. I wouldn’t say I made much of a difference when it came to working on essay #1 just because I’m too strong of a procrastinator.

Journal entry #14

I had decided that I wanted to write my essay #2 about ASPCA just because I felt like the sad ads really had everything distressed over. I think I’ll make what I need to get by using this example, another reason I want to write about is because I do love animals and any time this commercial would come on id look over at my grandma and she would be bawling her eyes out, so in a way it’s like a sweet memory I have.

journal entry #15

“’I was so angry at the misdiagnoses for so many years,’ she says, “being told that it was anxiety, in my head, female stuff.” this stuck out to me because a lot of the time women’s concerns go under looked when they go to the doctor, for example my mom had been suffering from some horrible shoulder pain, the doctors kept saying she was fine and it was just sore, until she took my step dad with her and the doctors quickly found out that she has some type of rotated disk in her shoulder, I can’t quite remember what exactly it is but the recovery time for the surgery is 6 months.

Journal entry #13

“But without investing face-to-face time, we lack deeper connections to them, and the time we invest in superficial relationships comes at the expense of more profound ones.” I thought this stood out to me a lot because social media is the most fake thing to exist, people will make their lives to seem better than it really is, and it just causes horrible mindsets and jealousy between followers.

Journal Entry #12

The argument I had was in person. It was about the opposing person feeling left out. I would say I took the more mature and reasonable positions. I felt as if I was using the logos when it came to persuading. I think it was successful for me, both of us saw the lack of communication from their side.

Journal entry #11

“The term ‘racism’ had taken on its broad, all encouraging, ‘systematic’ meaning the idea that’ we live in a racist society’ and that this inbuilt, inescapable institutional racism is policed by a thousand and one micro aggressions.” this line stuck out to me because no one realizes or thinks of the micro aggressions or other actions, like for example as someone who is Hispanic, and when I was a little girl id feel different from other people when people would only talk about white princesses

Journal #10

I personally don’t see much to disagree with, I really enjoyed a lot of what I read, but I can agree on how a lot more people are definitely way more sensitive to things especially after covid-19, I don’t believe there is much to do about it than just ignore them and continue doing things that are at least good for your well-being. This article still makes very strong points that are often under looked.

Journal #9

I could have done better with not procrastinating the essay. My only complaint about the peer review is that me personally and I know of some other people that their peer partner didn’t send them the like editing, which kind of sucked especially if we were looking forward to the constructive criticism. I like my final product, I got to learn things about classmates that I would not have guessed. I thought that was admirable.  I also learned that I’m mainly just good at writing essays when they’re about myself.