Daily Writes

As a writer, I feel like I can easily go with the flow of the writing process and knock out an essay in a short period of time by just writing whatever comes to mind without it being a bad paper due to it being done fast. I always do my assignments in one sitting and the day that it is due. Many people call this procrastination and make it look like it is a bad thing, but this is the only way I can actually write and it is how I make my best work when I do it like this. I have been writing like this since freshman year of high school and I haven’t stopped doing it since. I haven’t turned in or written a writing assignment early in years. It is just how I do it and I can’t see myself doing it any other way.

To be honest, I haven’t been feeling much compassion recently. I haven’t been giving it or receiving it. I think it is because I have just been around guys for most of the days of the semester so far, and men don’t really care too much about compassion typically. I call my mother a couple times a week, and she is a very compassionate person. But other than that, I haven’t been giving or receiving compassion recently. I feel like I don’t need to be more or less compassionate with my friends right now, but I would like to call my mother more often to experience some compassion.

Many conversations these days end up in arguments and people getting offended. Politicians can’t even have a conversation without the discussion turning into a heated, emotional argument. We are more divided and stubborn than ever before. Children have also been more conversationally inept recently. This is due to technology advancing and smartphones becoming more convenient and accessible. Most teenagers text their friends more than they talk to them in person. With schools not compensating for this, children’s conversational skills are deteriorating at a rapid rate. The speaker offered 10 ways to improve and have better conversations.

1. Be in the moment, always be engaged
2. Don’t pontificate. Set aside yourself and your personal opinions when they aren’t welcome.
3. Ask open ended questions.
4. Go with the flow of the conversation.
5. Say that you don’t know if you don’t know.
6. Don’t try to “relate” to their conversation by saying that you’ve done the same thing.
7. Don’t repeat yourself.
8. Stop caring about the details so much when you talk.
9. Listen to the other person.
10. Be brief. Be interested in the other person.

1. An adverse childhood experience or ACE is a traumatic or scarring event which happened in one’s childhood that affects them long term or for the rest of their life. Typically, it is caused by parental abuse, neglect, or divorce.
2. Violence, poverty, and racism can lead into traumatic events that cause adverse childhood experiences. Poverty can lead to the child not having basic needs such as food or shelter, violence can be parental physical abuse or a traumatic injury at a young age. Racism can affect a child by making them victims of hate crimes, racial violence, or the realization that racism and discrimination exists in today’s world.
3. Adverse childhood experiences could affect literacy by changing the child’s worldview or affecting their ability to learn literacy. The child’s worldview could be changed by racism, which could change the way they interpret literature. Poverty could affect the child’s learning of literacy by restricting the availability of good education and sponsors of literacy.

1. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha brought awareness and helped solve the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. She helped the public drink clean water after the government changed the city’s water source to the polluted Flint river. After about a month and a half, the city of flint applied water filters to the river. Dr. Mona published a study which garnered national attention, which made the city of Flint receive federal funding and ensured the end to this crisis.
2. Yes one time I helped my buddy out by telling him to pull up his fly when it was down. Now that’s what the eyes don’t see.
3. I believe that if we all step up when there is a problem instead of being bystanders we can help the people for the greater good. Obviously that doesn’t happen often in the real world because people are more driven by helping themselves with money and leisure than helping others. There are some people who would rather help other people than have money or leisure, but it is not common.

1. Literacy to me is first the ability to read and write. Second, the ability to understand what the words mean on a deeper level. For example, understanding the story and knowing the purpose of the words on the page.
2. One of my sponsors of literacy is my Junior year American Literature long term substitute teacher, Dr. Stiles. We did a lot of reading in that class, and he really helped me understand the importance and significance of many novels.
3. I was walking into my American Literature classroom once again, as I said hello to Dr. Stiles as usual. He was my favorite teacher that year because of how normal and down to earth he was. He was not afraid to make jokes in the class at a student’s expense, knowing that the particular student would be fine with it. He was a young and intelligent man with a great sense of humor. At the time, we were reading The Great Gatsby. Honestly, I liked the movie better, but the few pages of the book I actually read were okay. Dr. Stiles made me want to read those pages with how he described the different instances of imagery and foreshadowing that F. Scott Fitzgerald carefully planted in the novel. Dr. Stiles described the green light and the hot day very well to us, which gave me more understanding of how to interpret novels and see the different literary elements the author put into them. The reason Dr. Stiles is my most memorable sponsor of literacy is not because he taught me how to read, but because he taught me how to read.

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1. Hi, My name is Jonathan Lockwood and I am from San Jose, California. I really like writing, but only if it is on a topic that I am interested in. Otherwise, I feel like I am wasting my time. I feel like I am good at giving honest reviews and I enjoy helping people improve. I want to improve on writing longer papers without it feeling dull or forced.
2. I really want honest feedback. I don’t care if you say my paper is bad, I value the honesty as long as you say how I can improve it.
3. IDK
4. Preferred email- jdlockwo@go.olemiss.edu
5. Yes

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Personally, I am not a minority when it comes to aspects of identity such as race, sexual orientation, or class. I do not relate to these posts that are about minorities and their struggle in society. It is difficult to resonate with these stories as I have never faced oppression based on any part of my identity that I was born with. My classmates never made fun of my father’s accent like they did with Kimberly Yam. They actually thought it was cool, he has a British accent. I find it hard to relate to Kimberly, but I can understand what she went through in her early childhood.