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Gee Text to Self #1   Gee defines his portions of a new form of looking at literacy, called Discourses, as “saying(writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations”. He also claims in his writing that “At any moment we are using language we must say or write the right thing in the right way while playing the right social role and (appearing) to hold the right values, beliefs, and attitudes”. What I believe Gee is saying is that your Discourses are the different ways in…

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My literacy narrative is about the time which I learned that writing could allow me to express my beliefs and opinions when I won an essay contest held by an English school in India. This experience let me look deeper into writing and let me realize that writing was not a tedious and annoying assignment, but an opportunity to show people my stance on topics and get my voice out there. This essay contest gave me confidence in my writing…

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It was the morning before the class I despised at 7:30 am. I drove up the block dreading going to my first class. This class I dreaded was a class titled “World Language and Culture” and it was necessary for me to take in order to graduate in the spring. I pulled up to the school and breathed in a breath of the salty air and stepped into school walking straight up the stairs and into the class just as…

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What I learned from this is that downloading and making a podcast is difficult. There is a learning curve to the software and it took me a long time to figure it all out. I also learned about the freemusicarchive.org website, which before I did not know existed.

It was a normal rather dreary day on Cape Cod in Massachusetts as I drove up the block dreading going to my first class. This class I dreaded was a class titled “World Language and Culture” and it was necessary for me to take in order to graduate in the spring. I pulled up to the school and breathed in a breath of the salty air and stepped into school walking straight up the stairs and into the class just…

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Sitting in biology class freshman year of high school my teacher went off on a tangent that was completely unrelated to biology but extremely inspiring to me. My teacher had a passion for looking deeper into human thought and expanding his mind in many different ways. My favorite part of his class was when he would begin to start talking about the space time continuum and Einstein’s theories of relativity. This one off shoot in class sent me on an…

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Preschool was one of those times in my life where I learned a lot of the simple lessons that I base my life around. My preschool was a small one with around 7 students and only two boys including myself. There we went on trips outdoors and I started to love going on adventures. Usually people do not remember much from the early years of their lives but I have a clear memory of one particular moment, learning to spell…

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Though I had to leave at 1:45 due to my next class starting at 2:00, Angela Davis talk was truly interesting and inspiring for time I was able to stay for. I wish I was able to stay longer and felt rude leaving but I had no choice. Davis’ speech focused heavily on her desire for equal rights and opportunities for all as she quoted some of her favorite passages from other speeches and books. Angela toward the beginning spoke…

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It was a normal rather dreary day on Cape Cod in Massachusetts as I drove up the block dreading going to my first class. This class I dreaded was a class titled “World Language and Culture” and it was necessary for me to take in order to graduate in the spring. I pulled up to the school and breathed in a breath of the salty air and stepped into school walking straight up the stairs and into the class just…

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