English 1101

      In this informational book "The Graduate Survival Guide," written Anthony Oneal with Rachel Cruze and foreword by Dave Ramsey, educates readers about possible chances of graduating college debt free. The Authors develop their claims by having college graduates who have first hand experience with debt from college. The purpose this guide is to educate future college students and to decrease the number of students in debt, in the future. The intended audience of the book are high school graduates and college students.        Reading this guide gave all of us a real idealistic insight on how to not have student debt. We hear many people say that students loans are to help you more than they will break you. But that's only for the stage in life that we're in now because we're college students. What about when we graduate? We believe that that's what made the book a perfect book. It discussed the ups and downs while in college and then when your done wi

       In the autobiography, "Becoming", (2018) written by Michelle Obama, explores the life of Mrs. Obama as a kid to growing up into a woman and The First Lady. She tells her life in chronological order, from her youngest memories to the older lessons in life she learned. The purpose of Mrs. Obama writing this autobiography is to explain to readers why she is the woman she is today. The audience target would be the American people and citizens of the United States.         While reading the first chapter of the autobiography, we felt closer to Mrs. Obama. Her childhood is not as similar to ours but we were once little girls and grew up with a family. She shared special moments that she had with her family, and we can relate to having special moments. Some of the moments are moments that no matter how old we get, we will remember it like yesterday. The first chapter told us a lot about Mrs. Obama that and her family.       Mrs. Obama appeals to ethos in this first chapte

         Author, John Green’s fictional writing, “The Fault in Our Stars” (2012) suggests that every living individual should live their life the best that they can, while given the opportunity. The author develops his story by chronologically delivering these events. The purpose is to give you a visual of someone else’s living situation, in order to encourage you to appreciate yours. Green’s message is meant for everyone, as a bit of motivation.              While reading the first chapter, we as group liked how the author, John Green, portrays each character and their personalities. The main character, Hazel Grace, and the other character, Augustus Waters, have different personalities and that's what draws them together. Having that chemistry between the two of them makes a major statement at the end of chapter one. Hazel went from being used to her cancer and the same routine, to seeing something else worth her attention and time. Augustus brought excitement to her real life r

         In the text, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (1965), by Malcolm X and Alex Haley, the authors captures Malcolm X as he undergoes a moral and spiritual transformation that eventually led to his great leadership in the African American community. The author uses chronological order to show the journey Malcolm X took from his prison sentence, to him making a 180 and changing his mindset, and eventually becoming an influential leader that still has a legacy to this day. The author explicitly gives readers an insight on X’s journey, in order to highlight his great acts. The intended audiences are people who were followers of Malcolm X and/or African Americans. As a group, we feel a wave of sympathetic emotion towards the negative acts taken place during this time. It is hard as a young, black African American to listen to such horrifying events, being told by another young, black African American. To think if we were born during that time, we would have to deal with those typ

          Tiffany Hendrickson’s narrative essay, “Talking in Color: Collision of Cultures” (2013), explores the idea that a person’s voice supposedly attaches them to one race. The author supports her story by supplying real life events that she experienced while growing up and delivering them as they happened. Hendrickson’s purpose is to bring awareness to the world, to decrease the amount of negative judgment that is put out towards people every day, because of the way they speak. The intended audience is for people in need of a boost of confidence, and people who find themselves judging others.           After reading the text,  we can agree with how the author, Tiffany Hendrickson, feels about code switching. There has definitely been times were we felt we had to code switch. Sometimes it can be simple as having a conversation with friends to having a conversation with our professor. In those cases it doesn't seem uncomfortable. Only because it's necessary and respectf

         From the book "Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature", "Context" (1994) written by Dorthy Allison, explores her thoughts on how "context" can be perceived in different ways, especially the subject it is surrounding, it can have an effect on how others around you view you, or view someone else. The author develops her claim by providing her personal story/ flashback, as it happened, including her after thoughts, to strengthen her idea of context. The purpose of this text is to provide an insight on how context can influence someone's perspective about their background, culture, or etc. Dorothy's target audience is anyone who may have fallen victim to judging others based on their perspective of the context that they have been exposed to.         As we have read through this narrative, we've become sensitive to the understanding of the importance of context. Being that we are surrounded by different people with different ethnic

        In the narrative essay,"Mother Tongue",(1990), the author, Amy Tan defines what "mother tongue" is to her in her own words and the effects it has had on her, based off of hearing her mother's English. Tan explains her reasoning by providing personal stories about her mother and how her "broken English" had so many cons, Tan had to help her numerous times. The purpose of this narrative essay is to showcase that even though you may be surrounded by "broken English", that's not what defines you and there are ways to work with it and around it. The audience of this essay would be anybody who has a different language other than English as their primary language.         Reading this narrative essay gave us insight on how the English language can be difficult to learn and speak to other nationalities trying to learn it. Being that English is all of our first language we, cant fully relate to how Amy Tan feels, nor her mother. But we c

       In the autobiography, " How I Learned to Read and Write " (1845), the author, Fredrick Douglas, describes his journey on learning how to read and write. Douglas explains, starting from the beginning of learning to read to learning to write the alphabet. Douglas emphasizes his determination to learn how to read and write in order to show the importance of literacy . Douglas shares his personal experience, with the audience target being  African Americans and Caucasian readers.        This reading made us feel extreme gratitude towards our race and our culture. During the time, while Douglas was a slave, African Americans learning to read and write was looked down upon. Slave owners wanted to keep the slaves physically strong, but mentally weak. The fact that Douglas was willing to take such a risk to learn something shows his determination and compassion. Like our group member's grandfather, in like manner, who left home at the age of 12 to raise his special nee

Introducing the elite Quad Squad, we are THE freshman of Clayton State University; Nathan McClendon, Sydney Jenkins, Kaylyn Lassai, and Reighan Stallworth. Our first goal as a collective group is to become more comprehensive of what we read, and train ourselves to respond to these readings more effectively. We as a group intend to exceed the standards that are exemplified for the course and utilize our sources in order to succeed. We intend to retain the information we learn during the course and apply it to our every day knowledge. We are excited to be in English 1101 and to be in this class.