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Do you participate in social media? If so which one(s)?  Do you feel like you can express yourself on the internet in ways that you would not in person? Explain.

How do you work on your own mental health. When you feel emotionally challenged, what steps do you take to help balance your mind? How do you feel it helps?

Many of you came from urban environments while others came from rural or more natural places. Please explain how nature influences the way you feel both physically and mentally

The Mexican student, the Ghanaian Immigrant and Ann Patchett face different struggles in their arrival at a final realization. Choose which one you most  relate to and explain why. This is a sophisticated question that requires at least four or five sentences for a response. Please the question to create the response.

You have written one response essay and are almost finished with your narrative. Describe what you feel are the most important differences between the two.

In “Spell World Backwards”,  the author breaks the narrative into three distinct sections, like a beginning, middle and end.  How do you perceive what the narrator does to divide these three parts?

The narratives “An Immigrant’s Silent Struggle” and “My Year of No Shopping” describe distinctly different scenarios, however, they share many characteristics.  Please consider similarities they share and discuss them here.

Good Morning 021 Students,

I hope the instructions have been clear so far. I am looking forward to working with you today. This is the first blog post for you for our new, online class.

Please respond to the following and then go to Google Hangout and wait for me to call you.

In paragraph 2 of An Immigrant’s Silent Struggle, Robert Kosi Tette implies that what he is wearing is very important to both him and the people who see him in Ghana. Why do you think that is?

Thank you all for your very thoughtful comments about the reading. You have each submitted interesting perspective about the importance of clothing to represent status.  Important elements of a blog response to consider are;

1) Try to make sure you use correct grammar.

2) Try to make sure that your format includes either part of the original question, or, if you are responding to one of your classmates’ blogs, you refer to the blog that your classmate has written.

3) You make sure that you express yourselves clearly so your classmates can understand your main points.