As we have often discussed, COVID has caused a huge downfall in America’s society as it was something completely unprecedented and unavoidable. We did not know exactly how to deal with or respond to the outbreak and were forced to adapt to new restrictions for safety purposes. Many companies and…

In our Youtube/Playlist project, we were required to find videos that potential job seekers and college students could refer to for inspiration, education, and personal benefit. In the process of doing this project, I came across a TedTalk given by speaker Kerri Twigg entitled “Burn Your Old Resume, the Future…

As COVID struck the world so hard in the year of 2020, we were forced to adapt to new procedures and restrictions that were set in place in order to protect us from contracting and continuously spreading the virus. These changes were made much quicker than people were hoping and…

Chapter 6 of “Designing Your Life” explained the importance of prototyping. The chapter explains that “prototyping the life design way is all about asking good questions, outing out hidden biases and assumptions, iterating rapidly, and creating momentum for a path we’d like to try out”(111). Otherwise explained, we need to…

Within the first few chapters of Designing Your Life, we have learned a great deal of how to make the right decisions in our lives that would result in an overall better outcome in regards to how we live our lives in hopes for it being a successful one. I…

Art Spiegelman was born to Vladek and Anja Spiegelman on February 15, 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden. He has come to be an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best-known for his graphic novel Maus. This book has recently been completed in Prof. Baker’s Social Justice in Modern and Contemporary Literature…

Angela Carter was born as Angela Olive Pearce on May 7, 1940 in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. She was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist. Her works were feminist, magical realism, and picaresque. She is most known for her book The Bloody Chamber, which was published in 1979…

In response to the recent contributions to the continuous injustice against black people, many people took to social media to present their many forms of activism. Therefore creating and reproducing several hashtags aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement and the many recent victims of police brutality. The question to…

This post is based on my final podcast submission for my Social Justice in Modern and Contemporary Literature course with Prof. Baker. It will serve a purpose to educate readers on the history of the Black Lives Matter movement and how it came to be such a heavily used phrased…