Tag: personal blog
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I Believe in the Power of Books
This I Believe essays are prompts that ask anybody and everybody what it is they believe in. These collections of personal narratives follow genre constructs that use a belief statement followed by personal experience that support their belief. This is exactly what we studies in my English Composition class earlier this quarter. Below is…
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Post-Truth Criticism of The BBC News Interview with Trevor Noah
By Kacie Fowler This is the final assignment from my communications class that tasked us with watching the BBC News interview with Trevor Noah from The Daily Show in terms of how they present news in the form of parody and how that differs from ‘fake news’. This paper answers specific questions we were given…
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Rhetorical Criticism of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
This was the first assignment we had to write in our communications class. The task was to pick a speech of our choosing and analyze it in terms of the use of rhetorical concepts, theories, and paradigms. I had combed through about twelve speeches before choosing Malala’s. One reason I did choose this, outside of…
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Japan: An Intercultural Experience
By Kacie Fowler This was an APA-style assignment from my Communications 101 class and also a bit about my trip to Japan (that came at the perfect time if we are honest). The assignment asked that we describe an encounter we had with a person and/or group from a culture that we are not from,…
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April Fools
Of course my second-first day of college would fall on April Fools, a holiday rooted in hoaxes and pranks. Being able to shift my career path and go to a “real” school (sorry Penn Foster) is a privilege I do not take for granted, but the imposter syndrome is already rearing its nasty face. What…
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Short Story
Prompt: Author writes his own murder before it happens. “Yah, yah, yah.” I drawl to my editor who has been hounding me all month about my new project. He’s been practically down on his knees, begging for even just a chapter to show the publishing team. “I’ll send it to you when its ready, John.”…
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Prompt: It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
Another rendition of the stories we wrote in my high school creative writing class. I think this may have been one of my favorites. The prompt, “It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…” was set upon us on Halloween in 2013. We had just finished up our study of Edgar Allen Poe and we were…
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Commitment Issues With Books
Only once have I ever not finished a book I was reading with no intention of ever picking it back up. However, I have abandoned a few for years. The book in question, was a book a friend of mine’s dad had written. He was self-published and had under 30 sales in a few years.…
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September TBR
A little late in the month, I know, but I saw this idea and wanted to give it a try. I usually do not set specific periods of time to read a certain amount of books within, but I do have a bit of a schedule to keep right now. Currently waiting for two books…
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Vegan Piroshkis
Not going to add a bunch of bullshit about family traditions and whatever else other people put in their recipe posts that no one reads. If they did read it, why is there a ‘jump to recipe’ button? The only thing I will say prior, is that I could not find many recipes for vegan…
