Category: PCC

There was some real luck here. Between work and classes and procrastination, time was really down to the wire. Fortunately I’d chosen one of the few texts that had been written in the last 50 years, and it wasn’t even an original thing. So all I had to do...

Haha, these responses got shorter as the semester went on. From a solid two pages down to one. Still this was just English 1C, so my bigger problem was typos… Lori Andrews’ exploration of the illusion of online privacy occupies a rhetorical space similar to earlier readings on campus...

This class really had a ton of writing. Fixed some glaring typos, but left the obscure ending. The line I was drawing between philosophers and mental patients isn’t as clear as I’d like, but oh well. Foucault’s exploration of Bentham’s fictional “Panopticon” is utilitarianism at its brutal finest. The...

I’m doing a re-read and some minor editing on each of these, but I’m kinda surprised by how few changes I’m making. Some pronoun adjustments for clarity here and there, mostly. Lots of cringing at wayword sentence structure, but oh well. Practice practice. The original here was a trans...

Another English class. Not everything was a massive essay. These ‘reading responses’ were just a couple pages at a time. Easier to digest, but harder to parse, with less context baked in. This was my take on some esteemed educator who was trying to argue against the roots of...

This was an English class… from Jan 21? Seven-page essays just a couple weeks into a community college semester? So traumatic that I’ve forgotten all about writing this one as well. My sentence structure is a little elaborate at times… In their individual works, both Edmund Burke and Sigmund...

A research assignment from History of Asian Pacific Americans, Nov ’16 What kind of Media roles did Asian American Women play, contrasted to the roles of Asian American men? Why were Whites used to portray Asian characters? Historically, American film studios have reflected a balance between the artistic bent...

This was May 2016… the final from Pols01, where this process essentially started. I have no memory whatsoever of writing this :D Efforts by the Obama administration to reform immigration rules call attention to a single issue that has been taken up by agencies at multiple levels of government,...

The last assignment of the previous module was an extra credit piece- use Excel to build a ‘binary calculator’ that would convert 8-char binary to numeric values. Mine could have been more polished if i’d had more time on it, but as it was it was still spectacular for...

Essay 3: Technological Immunity             In 2015, fourteen people in Bakersfield were gunned down by a couple that had pledged allegiance to a terrorist organization. Afterwards, part of the story was the inability of investigators to access the killers’ phones for potential evidence (Nakashima). A similar circumstance has arisen...