Hi, I’m Maryfer Mariano and I’m 19 years old. I was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to the US when I was 9 years old along with my mom and dad and my younger sister who in fact …
Category: Student Work
Writing Task resilience- Maryfer
Being part of the highschool graduating class of 2020, I as well as many other students struggled with the whole switch from in person classes to all online courses. Freshman year of college is in my opinion the best year …
Reading Response Obama- Laurencia Colon
Barack Obama waking up and hearing Gramps ( Grandfather) and Toot (Grandmother) arguing. Toot wants Gramps to drive him to work that morning because she was bothered by a “Black fella”. Obama was disturbed by such attitude but tries to understand Toot …
Reading Response Obama-Alexander David
Chp 4 page 82 P1,”We were in goddamn Hawaii. We said what we pleased. ate where we pleased; we sat at the front of the proverbial bus. None of our white friends, guys like Jeff or Scott from the basketball …
Reading Response Obama-Karem Ali
In this paragraph Obama talks about Malcolm’s book and how it offered something different. He talks about how one line from Malcolm stayed with him too. Obama also talks about Malcolm’s wish and how he shared the same wish. Obama …
Maryfer Mariano- FD #1
Part one: What is the effect of Douglass’s own reading, in general, for him? Reread paragraphs five and six. In responding to this question, look carefully at how he describes his reading of both “The Columbian Orator,” and Sheridan’s speeches …
Writing task between two worlds- Maryfer Mariano
For most of my life, I’ve grown up between two worlds. I was categorized as the girl from 602 or 702 or 802 which happened to be the bilingual classes at my middle school for 6th grade, 7th, and 8th …
Writing task mentor quote- Maryfer MARIANO
“Maryfer, no va a ser fácil…Nada que valga la pena en esta vida es fácil de obtener, Cuando yo estaba estudiando, fue mucho el trabajo que pasĂ©. Venimos de una familia pobre y con más RazĂłn debemos esforzarnos más que …
Between Two Worlds-Karem Ali
For me my two worlds were because I was bilingual/bicultural. In one world I can be myself and socialize with friends. In this world I speak English and be myself wherever I want. I can where what I want and …
Writing Task Between Two Worlds-Anastasia Ortiz
All my life growing up Ive been taught different things. How i should act and dress in public or to change into something “appropriate” if any other man is coming over. Been told to not ask so many questions and …