I loved John Lewis’s disposition about community. I can relate to myself. I was fascinated to read his article, which made me believe that everything is possible with love and peace. We can hope to have more individuals like John lewis in our society. I love how he is encouraging young people to fight against hate and aggression. Lewis inspires them to use love and peace. Lewis uses his life experience from his childhood until now how many obstacles he had to go through, but he never gave up, fighting against violence. I am inspired, by Lewis’s attitude about life and the power of community. After reading both articles, I could picture clearly how devoted both authors were to their community. I agree with Whitehead’s point of view about how the community changes overnight. Unfortunately, neighborhoods are expanding. As a result, everything around becomes so unfamiliar that one can feel bewildered time to time. He makes a good point when he says that it did not happen overnight, it was disappearing gradually, one only notice when it was gone. The author is proposing to support our neighborhood and try not to neglect it. At the end of the article, he delivers  hope for the future. He states clearly not to judge any behavior until it happens.

After reading the chapter, ” Good Writer Always Follows My Rules,” I was impressed and attracted to the ideas. The following rules usually frustrate the writer. The Regulations do not make the writer a qualified writer. I agree with the author to give freedom to the writer to be more ambiguous and make the reader more interested. I chose this chapter because I can relate to the author myself someways. I am not into writing as a profession, but I think regulations can disorient the writer. Every writer has a technique of writing. Therefore, we have to accept it. The author also states that it is better to use rules with grammar to help the audience understand the correct language. I like how the author includes how to manage the time when one is writing. We should not stop writing. They are encouraging you to find your ways to write. Usually, the results are excellent. I was impressed by how they emphasize writers’ do to judge other individuals writing styles because of their structure. I believe if the writing style is unique, it can make chapters more interesting.

When I have assignments normally I would print them and read afterward. I was trained to read the paper book as a child and all my adulthood. I would only read brief news on the screen and some emails. When I went back to school in 2019 it was clear to me that I have to strain my eyes to read on the screen otherwise I would be behind the program. Especially things become more severe when we went fully remotely. I had to do a test on the screen and it is still challenging. I believe soon the paper books will be obsolete. I learned how to speed my reading on the small screen. 

The article was long but interesting. in the past few decades, Technology is progressing and is beneficial for us. The doctors are able to determine the early stages of cancer through imaging, and lifespan is longer than 20 years ago. The author brings examples about airplane accidents and how pilots’ knowledge declines because they are dependent on automatic devices. He mentions that pilots should be trained and observed how will they react if airplanes will lose control.  I believe that technology can get out of control because it is automatic and it is obvious to have incidents.  technology has pros and cons. We get so comfortable with advanced technology majority of people are relying on the technology.  The main concern is to test people’s adequate knowledge because someone like a pilot should be prepared to be appropriate in action and professional in manual flying. Does Technology take jobs away? In many dimensions yes, I can see it in everyday life. unfortunately, not everyone is educated to work in high positions and advanced technology fetches jobs from the working class. I can see clearly that soon we will be in a contactless society.

how does it affect my life? technology has an important role in my life.  As an immigrant, My family lives abroad and because of technology, i am able to see and talk to them. I read on my phone. I listen to various teachers every day if i am not able to read. technology  played a tremendous role in my education past two years. I am able to access any information and scrutinize it because of technology. I am convinced that technology somehow made huge differences in many people’s lives and like mentioned before it has pros and cons.

 

According to author the teacher plays tremendous role in child’s development and I totally agree with this statement. Childhood is important part for the healthy future. In many times children unfortunately have chaos in the family and neighborhood. the school is the place where they can have quality few hours. I am not judging their care-givers, it can be various reason what can cause parent to be oblivious. Therefore, the system should be responsible to help families like that at least provide schools where children can see and hear that they can have education and become professionals and don’t have to be criminals. I had interactions with various teachers, some of them had positive and also negative impact on my education. as a student you always obey your teacher, I was raised in society where teacher is always right. I recall my biology teacher from the first day when she entered the class, she was rude and was bulling the children. I started having aversion to her subject and never wanted ever look at her book and biology. She was horrible teacher.

James Baldwin made correct decisions when he was very young, I assume he had excellent teacher or someone who told him that there is better life and you are responsible for your fortunate future. I can relate myself in some degree with him, because my life was turned upside down when I was 10 years old. I always think it had huge influence on my education in negative way. Psychological satisfaction is crucial for child. Fortunately, two years later life started to go back to normal and I was able to come over obstacles.  I loved my teachers. My parents could not afford to buy book from me. school was not providing books for children and you were responsible to purchase your own book.  I had teachers how helped me with math for free because I was two years behind in the program. My family always wanted my brother and I to have high education and of course I am convinced that it was my inner voice whispering to me that education can give you a better life. I truly believe, every child deserves to have a teacher   who can make them feel that they worth something and there is always path to the successes.

The author is using various rhetorical one of them sounds positive he is using ethos in the last paragraph when the author shares his ideas what would he do if he was a teacher. Baldwin would encourage the child with following sentences “I would try to make each child know that these things are conspiracy and he must never make his peace with it.”

 

Tylor Branson’s article about  “ FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION PREPARES STUNEDTS FOR ACADEMIC WRINTING” was my choice to think about why this is a bad idea. when I enrolled in to college I was told that composition writing was mandatory for everyone in the first year of college. I was quite surprised in the beginning, because my major was vastly different that writing a composition. I followed all the instructions and started to write a composition. I strongly agree that is crucial to know how to write and read on academic level, but I don’t agree that one year can make a student professional writer to write research papers on high level. In many case if student is lucking accurate spelling and grammar rules, they are prone to make tones of mistakes. The author himself believes that first year is not enough to prepare students for academic writing. It should start in the high school. I don’t know what kind system of learning is in the high school in the U.S.A., but I believe the students should start to write correctly before starting a college, which can prepare them for next step in the education. College bombards students with different academic subjects. Therefore, every student should be prepared to handle numerous assignments, which they will be facing from every subject.  Spelling and grammar issues are lingering with me. I still struggle with this, because English is not my mother tongue.  academic vocabulary   is important to be a good writer and truly understand the subjects. In conclusion to write efficiently requires more than one year of training to learn how to write on academic level. I believe that brain storming is vital to writing composition, otherwise nobody will able to write a sentence. Majority of students if they were trained in the high-school how to write compositions on scholar level, they would be more successful in college.  Academic writing requires academic vocabulary and it is not a basic general writing.

Do we always pay attention to the title of the article?  I am always reading headline, sometimes I will get into authors mode and continue reading and amuse myself, but sometimes I just get tidies after reading few sentences as a result I move to other article. After reviewing all articles to read of them briefly I was hooked with the title “is marriage obsolete?” I started reading carefully, as I was getting more into story my interest grew and I was eager to find out what she had to share with the reader. I like her style of writing because she is not boring writer. I loved how she used an example of animal’s love life as a couple and how they care about each other, it was amazing to read. I believe she is using narrative genre of writing. In the beginning I thought she would start stating various reasons why should be marriage to be considered as an obsolete, but as a good writer she was ambiguous until the end. She is bringing out all the pros and cons of marriage. It is beautiful to read how she describes her marriage details and she is honest about obstacles in marriage and she uses her marriage as an example. The author is trying to make a point that new generation is perceives the marriage absolutely in other way than is was before. Woman is independent and powerful today.  woman is able to earn enough money to pay all her bills, travel, buy house and be able to survive without man. From the history, she brings the fact that woman was not allowed to owe anything. she uses research, while she is telling us the story. I was little confused with her daughter.  She was in one moment blaming herself. She believed that her daughter was against getting married or build a family because of them. The author is explaining that her daughter was witnessing how boring and tidies their marriage was after 12 years of living together. I don’t agree with the author. I believe living together even if you live with your own parents becomes tidies and one is looking for better place. We just have to help each other to make our everyday life more interesting and don’t blame each other. In conclusion she is stating that, When you are couple it is  important to acknowledge the issues and stand by each-others side.

I can relate  myself to Mohamed Hassan’s poem “Unlearning my Name”. I was impressed that there is someone who made a poem about this topic, he is brilliant. My teachers were trying to do their best to make me happy pronouncing my name last 16 years. I heard several versions of it, you name it. I loved my name even more, because it was my identity and I would not change it. I can understand also how difficult is to pronounce new name, and it is obvious when people are exposed to new foreign name, mistakes are inevitable.

Adichie’s ted talk was incredible and interesting. She described how can one single story crate chaos in our perception. She is utterly talented. After listening to her, i started thinking about my childhood, how was my imagination about single stories. I would red fairy tale from different story tellers specially I adored the brothers Grimm. I would like to bring one example from fairy story. I am from republic of Georgia and I was introduced to typical Russian folk tale, I am sure that every child knew and read about it in Russia.  She was character of supernatural female, her name was “ Baba Yaga”. she was an ugly old woman with a long nose, she lived in the forest in small house, which was standing on chicken legs.  When I was little girl, I truly believed that there is somewhere “angry grandmother”, and she will hurt me if I will enter into her house. When I became older my perception changed, luckily my frontal lobe was developing properly. I was not anymore petrified of “Baba Yaga”.

Is it inappropriate to judge a person or nation only after reading or listening single story?  How many times we would imagine something incorrectly because we do not try to get underneath? I was asked many times if in Georgia people had toilet inside. I was not embarrassed but was     surprised because many times they had no clue where Georgia was, but  they were brave enough to ask me that weird question.