Ashley Diaz Multicultural Lit blog

 A day that i realized that a food that i was looking at in a bad way was actually going to be one of my favorites would have been butter chicken i had always seen it as interesting and was not appetizing to my looks i had never been a picky eater but i was always afraid of tasting other foods from other community i was afraid of trying something because in a very long while ago i had tried a food i had been looking forward too and i had not liked it so this made me afraid of trying it but one day in school my friend had offered me some butter chicken because of a food pot luck she was doing at school i agreed and said yes i would love some at this point i realized if i had opportunity to take it  i would maybe just because i did not like a food a while ago trying new things would not affect me but instead it would help me realize what i do and don´t like i decided to put my differences aside and try the food it was amazing and it had a very special spice to it i had not taste...

 A food that well represents my community that i had seen in the New Orleans episode would have been the yacamein the soup reminded me of a birria soup it is made differently in all of the the community but it has similar ingredients and the look reminded me of how it had a reddish tint by its red ingredients the birria is a lamb broth based it is used to cure or to bring warmth which i think the yacamein brought to its community it helped it grow and to get one another get to know each other the yacamein lady reminds me of my grandparents they are so passionate about the food and to show others they're love of making food the way spreading it around will help others see where they come from and how to experience the old well made food today now a days the food does not taste the same as back then when it was made with hands that learned the recipe long ago side by side than a recipe online, This makes me realize the authenticity of the dishes and how unique to the community they w...

One dish that would represent my my culture would be a difficult choice for me to make. There are many dishes that represent each city depending its making and where its origin came from most of the recipes come from being passed down to each generation a dish that would describe my family would be tamales or pozole these dishes are made with such care and have very strict instruction they have to be done with so much patience and the ingredients have to be precise these dishes are made very differently  depending the liking of others they're is nothing more important than to grow and enjoy from one another recipes than too judge and not accept it this way another way to modify the dish is going to happen the dishes get better and are made with what is needed the dishes only get more exotic and tastier the dish that would best describe my culture would be each and every one of them they each all create the culture they each have roots to every country and city in my whole culture t...

 a memory that is connected to meaningful food would have been being surrounded by all my family and everybody being all together and connected on Christmas Eve not only is this food or dish or tradition in many cultures but a huge one in mind it is a type of food that you only eat once or twice a year and very very special occasions around this time things have occurred a lot surrounding my family and in my family but it became something that I had to endure and grow from it not only did it make me realize and understand the reality but it also came with the Bittersweet Memories that family could relate to this family dish is called tamales these dishes have always been one of my favorite foods the way it is made the way it is eaten is very unique there is a lot of many dishes that can have the same ingredients but will always stand out I've always loved this food since I was a little girl it made me feel warm and made me understand my culture it made me see beyond so when Christm...

 during this whole week of writing my essay I definitely put effort into understanding and taking in information that would help me later on the way that I think the writing process shaped my strengths for my final essay would have definitely been the revising and the drafting the drafting helped me be organized and put everything and it's right spot what type of paragraph have to go first the type of quotes that I had to pick out specifically for that paragraph how I wanted to word the information or my explanation to the certain type of quotes I feel like that was what helped me strengthen my essay another thing that I definitely think that helped would have been revising my paragraph As I was going through Reading back and backtracking if the information was right and if it was making sense if my essay was messed up and unable to be readable as I was revising my essay I realized I had a lot of mistakes and some of the things that I said I would fix later as I was coming to the e...

 when writing an essay the drafting is one of the most important parts to me in my opinion the drafting helps you really understand how to write your essay what you want first what you want after and how to very well Express the quotes that you have written down while writing my essay I didn't get  far in writing my draft which is something that I'm really pointed about I realized that I messed up an opportunity that would have helped me I write my essay better the draft was something that I have always seen as important step when writing the draft helps you stay organized and adjusted it helps you understand what you need to write and talk about you get a clear understatement of something that would be a template for what you have to do the templates are always something that is pre-run to make sure that everything is well and fit together and stays put this is how I think about drafts they are like a construction paper where you lay out a format that you specifically want an...

 When i was writing my essay i became very conscious of how unaware i was about not truly knowing how to understand and write a well essay as i was writing i could not understand what i was saying and writing it really made me struggle bout what i was going to say next i also did not know how to explain the quotes and what to say with them an explanation that would match the next sentence and it would all make the perfect paragraph I truly didn't understand the meaning of writing an essay or how to do it perfectly but it really became an experience that I can grow and learn from I definitely understood how to write an essay better than what I had in the last couple of years it became easier and truly stuck to me about what I had to do next I do have another class that I have to write an essay for and this really made me understand how to write an essay I would say in this situation not only did I win on understanding season how to write them but I also will get a most efficient gra...

 as this semester is coming to an end I'm starting to get even more overwhelmed with a type of colleges that I have to choose how to look into them and what they need to apply but at the moment the three colleges that I am very proudly looking forward to would be Georgia Southern Georgia State University and or Augusta University the reason that I'm looking into these colleges or universities would have been for their programs of dental hygienist or dental assistant the reason that I have been looking into Georgia Southern would have been that there dental hygienist program or their Dental Associates program it has a very new building to it their program has very new additions to it that would help me learn in the bigger environment than what it used to be the building being brand new and opened up just for this makes me feel seen and heard for what I deserve and for what I need the reason that I am looking into Georgia State University would be that it seems more efficient clo...

Are the brainstorming one of the ideas that really stood out to me would have how does isolation help a person understand themselves or find themselves as a person that has been isolated or has pushed people away this has been as strongest idea for me it helps me understand what is Cheryl went through and completed with me it helps me and it makes it easier for me to connect certain quotes to the type of emotion or feeling that she has ever felt it also helps me understand what the part of the essay is going to be about what type of clothes I have to look for and how to connect them in to the type of events that happened this idea is something that comes very easy to me it is very understandable and is very unique to me and to others it's going to help others understand what Cheryl went through in the easier topic or logic this brainstorming idea also have a very deep meaning to others more than me what made me choose this topic would have been the depth of each meaning of the quot...

 after completing the assignment on making College affordable and finding the best fit one thing I learned was how to apply for colleges and what most colleges ask for that is something that you're not taught in the beginning of the school year only towards the end of the school year when you're reaching the point where you are either going to college or not you get the option to choose what type of colleges and what majors you want to study that is something that I thought was very interesting towards the end of the year for me I really got to be able to understand choose what would be the best fit for me what kind of things did I want to study I think this information is very important to seniors or upperclassmen because not a lot of people that want to go to college know how to apply to college or what the type of information that is needed that is something that is very important because from Most universities or colleges need for you to apply so they know who they are goin...

 some changes that I made while revising my paragraphs would have been the type of elements that I was putting into it I also realize the type of effort that it's needed to it what revising and reviewing my paragraph I realized that I need to focus on my punctuation how to write the paragraph in the best manner well Friday my paragraphs I decided to improve on the type of effort that is needed to put into it the type of quotes and how to explain the quotes I realized that my explanation and the way I write isn't perfect and it doesn't need to be perfect but it has to be better while writing my paragraph I also realized how to pick quotes and how to explain them better my writing has always been something that I've thought about as with deep understandment and deeper meaning not only is it something that's being written about something or someone else it also has something to do with me it can be comprehensive and make me feel seen such as others not only can they he...

 Today we discussed about artificial intelligence and our own writing and how to understand it reflecting on my own writing compared to AI there is a huge difference AI something that doesn't know how a person might feel or get information from the internet from other people artificial intelligence is also not a reliable source when it comes to writing it can give you false information and give you other people's work this makes it not understandable and difficult for others not only are you stealing other people's work and taking credit for it but you are making it less understandable than it's supposed to be while writing your own essays with your own words you get to put your own feelings and problems into it you get to give a feel of what it feels like for others and what it feels like to you sometimes while writing your own essay instead of it being artificial intelligence you get to understand yourself you also get to think about what's been other people's...

 today while focusing on constructing a strong literary argument paragraph about wild about is discomfort necessary well writing this paragraph I thought about the sentences to evidence the claim and the thought that went into five sentences something that would make it perfect something that would make it align with the whole chapter or the whole story that has to be written writing this paragraph made me understand how so many challenges can be brought up to choosing the perfect evidence to choosing the perfect quote to choosing the perfect type of steps trying to read passages to find the quote that would really align with what you want to say the challenge while writing my paragraph would have been choosing the quotes and how to explain them how to align them with is discomfort necessary while writing my paragraph I overcame the challenges by slowly reading the quote and then reading is this Comfort necessary I thought about my problems and thought about Cheryl's problems I rea...

 Reflecting on the amount of  times that i have been writing essays or that i have been told to write an essay either if its class or our of class has always been hard for me to write coming up with the ideas has always been something that's been a difficult Choice finding the perfect topic and how to write about that topic the type of evidence and the type of thesis to write or they claim to write to make it engaging something that will make it interesting to others or interesting to me something that would bring me my attention that would also influence others to be like okay this is something I want to read this is something that is interesting this is a topic that I want to know about and see other people's opinions this is how I've always thought about essays or writing essays something that brought my attention to writing essays is that sometimes the wording or how to write it is always hard for others just as much as it is for me and this has brought my attention to ...

 today we didn't get to view our digital posters and get comments on her work but we continue to finish them and we are going to be talking about how our process went and how we thought about how we wanted our own poster and how it came out today I will be talking about my poster it was one of the most challenging ways in the way of creating it in the view that I wanted to look like my poster was originally made by another template I had seen what I wanted my template to look like but I couldn't change the colors so what I did was copy and paste or create a page that will look exactly like what I wanted to talk like but with the colors I wanted to use creating my digital poster was something very stimulating to my brain that helped me understand my vision it helped me create what I wanted to see in my poster this poster also really helped me understand and see pictures that would go with my similes and metaphors my similes and metaphors also made me realize how even though afte...

My reflection on the similes and metaphors worksheet would have been that the most challenging figurative language for me would have been metaphor similes have always been pretty easy to understand and explain most of them are always like her as or with an a in it while metaphors have always been with a or any other type of comparison word similes have always been pretty straightforward and pretty easy to maintain while metaphors have always been more challenging to me in my perspective they make me question and they make me think about certain types that I can compare while being able to compare sometimes metaphors aren't straightforward to me in our heart to discover and to be seen metaphors are also pretty different in the aspects of their feelings the emotions and how to compare, these metaphors that I wrote have been challenging to me reflecting on them made me realize that I didn't really know how to write them how to understand them and how to see them these metaphors we...

 writing about similes and metaphors made me recognize myself in many different types of ways I actually got to notice about the amount of times that things have meant to me or the way that my life is portrayed sometimes these similes and metaphors help me express myself in a way where I can realize what sometimes things felt stronger emotions and stronger words something that could align to the same things and problems that I went through or places and feelings that that I myself felt some words are said stronger and portrayed stronger than others I could say I was sad or I could say I was depressed which both mean the same thing but stronger meanings these similes and metaphors made me realize how I made growth how I was going to really small and became big how I was once uninterested and now I am interested these similes are metaphors also made me realize on the struggles that I have gone through and how they made me realize so I was these struggles are only something that I go ...

 during this break how it describe how I spent my time or how I did any activities would have been that I enjoyed my family time and went out occasionally during this break I also spent most of my time working and helping around at the house some of these past times made me relax reset and be calm they made me realize that sometimes it makes sense and it's so much better to know that you don't have to stress about school work and work that has to be done around the house it also reminded me that it is fun to be alone sometimes and to be at peace and calm it helped me realize that some of the hobbies that I didn't do are some that I can't still do the amount of time that I spent with my family how I helped around the way I connected with them and enjoyed my time would be one of the best moments of my life I had never understood how it was to be happy with my family some of the recommendations that I would do or have for people that want to have fun during break or don...