Reading Response: The Case Against School
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...
Critical Analysis- Terror and “the Sublime”
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...
Star Trek 2: The Rote of Khan
I didn’t want them to do Khan again. It just didn’t make any sense. In a LOGICAL world, the first thing Spock Prime does after the reboot curtains is find a ship and destroy Khan’s. The very first thing. So bringing him back sounds creatively lazy. Besides, how on...
Asian Americans in Early Film
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...
Final Essay | Immigration Reform and the Obama Administration
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,...
Today: Xmas cards.
My car is essentially out of commission until i can secure a replacement exhaust part, a process that (turns out) is much more difficult than you would expect. While I’d rather NOT be losing all my sick time from work to a week’s worth of absences so far, a...
There’s always something
I think I’ve finally got a layout I like, I think I’ve finally got a setup that works. But where to begin? There’s a dozen meaningless ideas that have been bouncing around in here for years, and they stay bouncing around because there’s always something more meaningful that needs...