I listened to the “Fannie Lou Hamer’s Fight Continues Today” podcast episode with guest speaker Keisha N. Blain. I chose this episode because I learned briefly about Fannie Lou Hamer in Landmark Speeches on Democracy and Dissent; we analyzed her speech “We’re On Our Way.” She was also mentioned in an introduction by Tom Hayden for The Port Huron Statement, which I read a couple of weeks ago. The introduction…
I chose the podcast “Moving Beyond News Deserts and Misinformation” because we discuss the relationship between news and politics in the journalism class I’m taking right now (Comm 271). I learned that most of America’s newspapers started out as political papers, as they were sponsored by parties. The papers’ goal was to spread a party’s message and news, and newspapers and politics were closely tied. Newspapers have become more separated…
Quick update before we start this week’s blog: I finished the last book in the Hunger Games series. What a whirlwind experience it’s been. I finally read them… ten years later! If you want to discuss it, please let me know because I would love to talk about what happened. All I have to say is Greasy Sae>>> Okay, since this is my very last passion blog, I thought I…
This week I’m going to review The Hunger Games! I feel like I am one of the only people who has never read The Hunger Games (or seen the movies), but it’s been on my list forever. It was super popular when I was in fourth-fifth grade, and people continued to love it throughout middle school. When I was younger, I went through a phase of only reading historical books,…
(I haven’t fully gotten to fix my citations, so just ignore the MLA format in certain paragraphs for now) Introduction How many Americans struggled in middle and high school trying to learn a foreign language? Learning verb conjugation charts and tricky grammatical rules only to remember the most basic phrases years later. The cycle of American teens struggling to learn a foreign language just to forget what they learned once…
This book is so trippy. That is literally the only way I can describe it. I feel like I know an entire world and story, yet I can’t describe it to anyone. There are so many small but important details. The entire concept of “you had to be there to understand” perfectly encapsulates this book. I have no idea how the author came up with this concept. There are so…
How many Americans struggled in middle and high school trying to learn a foreign language? Learning verb conjugation charts and tricky grammatical rules only to remember the most basic phrases years later. The cycle of American teens struggling to learn a foreign language just to forget what they learned once they graduate high school hurts not only the students but also all of America. However, many Americans aren’t even introduced…
This week I want to try out a slightly different format. I’m going to be reviewing a book in two parts. The first part, today’s blog, will be about my reading experience so far. I’m around 30% of the way done, and the next blog will finish off the review after I’m finished reading. I think it’s so interesting to see the progression of…
With all of the problems surrounding foreign language learning, there are solutions. In the past two blogs, I’ve gone into why the United States is behind and the implications surrounding the country’s deficit, but there are different ways the United States can combat and fix this problem. The overarching way the United States can do this is by improving and expanding the systems in place. When doing this, it’s important…
This week is a fun review! I’m gonna be discussing Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. This is an adult romance book that is set in England. Also, this is part of a trilogy! Each book focuses on one of the three Brown sisters, and this book just happens to be about Chloe. I’ve heard really great things about the other two books too. This book follows Chloe…
