Author: Valerie (Page 2 of 4)

Is there a deeper reason why the Cecil hotel is tied to many tragic incidents? when I think of everything that’s happened in the Cecil hotel I wonder if it is genuinely coincidental or if there can be more to it. Was the land cursed? Was the Hotels career doomed, to begin with?  Did the Hotel being built in a dangerous area contribute to its reputation today? I drove by it one time when I was on vacation in Los Angeles and on the actual street it looked nice well kept, 2 streets down it was the complete opposite it was dirty, and there were homeless people with tents and people doing drugs. I feel like the new owners pushed the reality of the area out to shelter their customers. The hotel was built in a low-income area where a lot of crime occurs. After seeing it in person I kinda understood why the area itself had a bad reputation.

I don’t really know what to expect in my research. I have high hopes that my exact questions are answered but there’s a chance I wont find them or wont be straight forward. Its a topic thats talked about but from what I’ve tried to research it wont come easy.

If my research goes against what I expected I wouldn’t throw it out. I would throw it out if it isn’t enough information or if i feel its repeated I will throw it out. I would try to write about it anyways not everything is supposed to go how you expect.

In James Baldwin’s speech he was saying things, people don’t think about. He went into detail about how it is to see this white world in an African American boy’s eyes. who spoke on things I never really realized and was kind of eye-opening. What truly spoke out to me was the line on page 2 that said “ but children are very different. Children, not yet aware that it is dangerous to look too deeply at anything. Look at everything , look at, each other, and draw their own conclusion. They don’t have the vocabulary to express what they see, and we, their elders, know how to intimidate them very easily and very soon”. That line spoke to me because I kinda mentioned this in my essay. I brought up the fact that most trauma students experience in the education system is when their young because they don’t know what’s happening is wrong and are to scared because their teachers intimidate them. I found it nice that it isn’t just me that sees this kind of act towards children.

As silly it may sound I always wanted to learn how to write cursive. I know when my sister where younger it was something that was prioritized but not anymore. I truly wanted to learned and begged my teachers from the 6th grade up until the 8th to teach me even if its on my free time. I have OCD when it comes to my writing i don’t like when it looks sloppy and I’ve rewritten assignments just because i don’t like how it looks. I thought if i learned script it wouldn’t be such an issue anymore. Anyways, my teachers never took the time to teach me. So now i took it upon myself to learn when i have free time i draw over some sheets I downloaded onto my IPad.  I started small like learning how to write  my first name and now I’m working on learning how to write my last. It’s not really a topic but its something I’ve always been interested to learn but never did.

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