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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,...

Compare and contrast the depictions of newspapers, journalists, the masses (newspaper readers/voters/citizens), politicians and/or big business in Citizen Kane and Meet John Doe. Identify the common themes and differences in the ways the films portray these subjects and try to draw some conclusions about the directors’ visions of journalism and politics in the...

     The assignment was to use black paper shapes on a white board to convey, for lack of a better term, art. Feeling, impression, narrative, conflict, something internal to us and conveyed by construction paper. I wanted no part of it. I wanted to overcome technical and creative...

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...

 Final | Why Read Mill Today? (John Skorupski) The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with...

Making Galactic Empire Great Again: A Post-Colonial Exploration of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Earth      Isaac Asimov wrote Foundation and Earth in 1985 as what would be the final chronological volume in his series of “Foundation” novels, begun in 1942. For inspiration, he credited his reading of Decline...