I’m really sad this class is coming to an end. I’ve really enjoyed this class, in large part due to my wonderful classmates and teacher. Through this course I think I’ve really grown as a reader, writer, speaker, and community member. I have always enjoyed analysing writing, but I’ve never worked on analysing writing for…

I choose to listen to “The Bechnal Cast: ‘Black Panther.” I wrote my first essay on feminist portrayel in the movie Wonder Woman, so I already had a lot of interest in feminism in classic movies and box-office hits. I’m also a big fan of Black Panther, so I knew this podcast would be quite…

The Happy Little Herky sports a large dark hairo, a thick beard, a light jean jacket, and appears to be the spitting image of Bob Ross. The detailed Herky even exhibits a small paint pallet and brush. On the Herky’s jean jacket is a small button that reads “happy trees”, an ode to Bob Ross’…

Cameron Russell partially establishes her ethos before this Ted Talk begins. The title “Looks aren’t everything, Believe me, I’m a model”, establishes her expertise on the topic of beauty due to her profession. She further develops her ethos as she begins to talk, stating that she has been a model for the past 10 years….

My commonplace is that the system of mass incarceration in the United States needs to be stopped. Last year at my high school I took a sociology class. That class was my first peek into the criminal justice system, as mass incarceration was not an issue I had thought about much before. Although the class…

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Isabel, as you probably gathered from the title of my blog. I am from Middleton, Wisconsin so if you ever hear an over pronounced vowel coming from the back of the classroom that is probably me. I am majoring in English at the university, however that…