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Music The Other Wes More

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            Music is a sanctuary for many people in today’s society and it provides a moment of peace to many people. In the other Wes Moore’s Hip Hop played a special role is Moore’s life. The role that music plays in my life is small but important. Music for me presents an adrenaline rush and a push to go harder. Since a young kid I have been listening to classical music from my country but as soon as I moved to the United States everything changed. Since I moved to Jersey City my music taste has completely changed. I started listening to many Rap/HipHop artist since it was the most popular in my area.             In the book, “The other Wes Moore” the author gets pranked into thinking that he could escape military school and go back home. In my life many people have tried to trick me into certain things, but I haven’t fell for any but one. When I was about 13, I was tricked by a classmate w...
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Wes Moore Life Path

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                                                                           Wes Moore Life Path    The author describes Wes Moore life different because he made different decisions when it comes to life correlating to me, I have made a decision that I believe could have altered my life path. A decision that I made that could have altered my life path was making the decision to move to America. This was a joint effort from my mother and I. My mother having a six-figure job in Colombia was the hardest to leave since it is really rare for a person to reach a six-figure income in COL. I also had to make the decision to leave all of my friends and all of my family behind for this new life. This would have altered my life because I wouldn’t know the things I know...
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Wes Moore

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                                                                                                Wes Moore      In today’s society the greatest battle we face is stopping the youth from involving themselves in crime and violence. In my opinion, we are products of our expectations. Since youth there was a time in all our lives were someone paved the road. Someone we looked up to install this expectation in our head from wanting us to be a police officer to being the highest rank gang member. This question means a lot to me in many ways. Since a young kid I always had really high expectations of myself disregarding the hardships I had to go through. When I first arrived in th...
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Is Higher Education Worth The Price

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                           Is Higher Education Worth the Price        The question Is Higher Education Worth the price? Has been more levant in the past couple of years due to a lot of college graduates not finding a job after graduation. In the text “The New liberal arts” by Sanford Ungar the author states “College graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal-arts degrees” this being because in the 20 th  century just a liberal arts degree isn’t enough. This major is becoming irrelevant and the job market for this market is scarce. Furthermore, Ungar states “America is the only country in the world that clings to such an old-fashioned form of post-secondary education as the liberal arts” which implies that it is difficult to explain the advantages of a liberal arts degree to people from other cultures.  Furthermore, in many other countries the study or med...
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Is Fast Food the New Tobacco?

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                                       Is Fast Food the New Tobacco?   Normally you would present both the good and the bad sides off a topic but when it comes to Fast Food there is only negatives. In my opinion, Fast food is the new tobacco in many ways starting off with fast food being addictive. In the passage, “The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing” by Gerald Graff the author emphasized “Then as now, these are the only options for an American kid to get an affordable meal”. As a college student in the 20 th  century, I can confirm this is still true. Most meals found in my area can cost from nothing less than 25$ and up. There is not in between, meals are either junk food or really expensive top of the line food that most lower-class kids can’t buy. Furthermore, in the article it states, “Only about 5 ...
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Is Pop Culture Good?!

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                                           Is Pop Culture Good?         Pop Culture has its benefits and its negatives, but all things consider pop culture brings more positives and brings a lot of opportunity for the youth.  In the article "Watching tv makes you smarter" by Steven Johnson the author mentions sleeper’s curve. Sleepers curve idea states that as time passes, the median level of cognitive complexity provided by popular media increases. Meaning that over time most TV shows are getting more complex. Furthermore, Johnson states that Sleepers curve is the most important force for altering the mental developing of our future generation. Some may argue that this is a positive and a negative. One side stating that the intellect of our future generations is at hands of these big media companies. Whi...
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Assignment 1

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                                                                                                     Autobiography                My name is Jorge Quevedo, I was born in Colombia and moved here when I was seven years old with only my mother. I am a junior here at NJCU and I have many interests like basketball, coding, hustling and business ventures. I decided to take this course because literacy is important in almost every aspect of life and to fine tune these skills practicing is key which is included in this course. Literacy is evident in my home and community in many ways starting off with ...
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