Author: Faye

For almost all of my life, I have written formally for an academic paper. The only times this would be twisted would be when we were going through the creative writing unit in high school English or when I had to write my college essay. But none of that compares to writing for a conversational Read More …

In Adrian Chen’s “Unfollow”, I believe that he is using Megan Phelps-Roper’s story to deliver a message about acceptance. I believe this because of how he deliberately uses and frames Phelps-Roper’s story as it progresses from general hate to acceptance. Let me explain. At the beginning, it is thoroughly explained that the Westboro Baptist church Read More …

Jamison: “Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: topay attention, to extend ourselves. It’s made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse.” (5 People Who can…. Emma Pattee) Stevens: Yes! And “researchers have found that trying to Read More …

In Leslie Jamison’s “Devil’s Bait”, we are told the story of a Morgellon’s disease conference. In it, we are asked to consider if these people, who may or may not be faking their illness, are worthy of our empathy. Jamison says they are. But let’s establish what Morgellons is first. If you haven’t read the Read More …

Here is the interview for English Project 2:

Project 2 requires an interview segment about “your key terms and what it means for barriers to understanding/including others and to being our authentic selves.” For reference, I’m planning on doing Paper 2 about authenticity and society’s complex relationship with it. Basically, how people crave vulnerability but reject it at the same time. For the Read More …

This article was all about how Sgt. Keith Wildhaber, a member of the police force since 1994, claimed to have been denied 23 promotions in 5 and a half years because he is openly gay. Wildhaber had initially filed a discrimination complaint internally, but a month after he did so he was transferred to another Read More …

Kenji Yoshino, in the “Preface” from his book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, discusses the concept of covering. Covering, as Yoshino defines it, is when an individual covers up a part of themselves in order to better fit into society. While this is essentially just assimilation, Yoshino concedes that the act of Read More …

When people view concepts with such opposing foundational beliefs, it is hard not to wonder why and how such a thing came to be. So, when Moises Velasquez-Manoff discovered that attitudes and beliefs regarding race were so different in Hawaii, he decided to find out for himself what was going on. This decision was inspired Read More …