CC at Miami Response : My Name

My Name by Menfei Yuan, is a very eye awakening essay. Mengfei Yuan is a Chinese immigrant who moved to the States not too long ago. She had a very tough transition coming here, whether it was language, friends, culture, and even food, everything was very different. Yuan had a personal issue with Americans mispronouncing her name, so she changed it to "Fayer". She thought if she changed her name, it would make her fit into American society, but what she realized is that she felt that apart of her Chinese side was gone. Fayer explains that in China your name represents who you are, it has meaning and pride behind it, and when she changed it she felt upset that she lost her Chinese heritage. This essay was a very interesting essay to read and now whenever I meet an immigrant to the United States, I will be more conscious of pronouncing their name and trying to understand where they came from.

2 Nagging Grammar or Writing Questions

#1) When do you the word affect and effect?

#2) Where and why do you use a colon and semicolon?

Staple's Essay: Public Spaces

Staple's essay is a very famous and important essay to read about. I read this essay in high school and am not surprised that it keeps coming again in my academic career. He writes about the topic of race, which in todays society is a very touchy subject. Stable is a young, black male and is looked upon as a thug, scary, and harmful when he walks around the streets of Chicago at night time. He is not walking around causing harm or looking for any of trouble, but is actually the complete opposite of a criminal.

Personally, I do not think I come off as a threat to many people. I do not notice many people altering their public space around me because I am not a big person. I am nothing close to 6 feet and only weigh around 150 pounds, so my build is very small. As I look back, I cannot think of any specific example where I felt uncomfortable because someone around me was altering there space around me. As a society, we should all try to forget about the race issue and the stereotypes, I mean there is a black male running our country, which is a major step forward fixing the racism.

It is very sad to say, but Staple's incidents are very common in todays world. Staples admits that this example of the woman walking faster and faster away from him in the dark night is not the first time something like that has happened. Many people avoid him at night, whether they are in a car locking the doors, or sit further away on the subway. I see both points of view, and I think that this issue is such a problem because there have been so many incidents that don't turn out so innicent that many people try to avoid them at all costs. I try my hardest to look at everyone the same way, but I have to admit there are times where I can relate to the people walking faster and faster at night, alone in a dark alley. This has to do with the media, T.V, and movies in my opinion because they make so many story lines of rapes, murders, and mugging, so it hard to pretend like no of this happens.

Nicholas Connolly- Sequence IV

Rank= webpage, photo essay, wiki, movie, graphic story

Topics= Chicago Cubs, Miami University, English 111. Ms. Wood's class, Movie or TV Show, Music

Question #1= How long does the move and photo essay have to be?

Question #2= Why are we doing a project so technical? Why not just stick to the traditional writing style.