Gap Nation

Coming into college was a huge game changer I still can't believe I made it this far. The assignments here are more critical thinking based, and I'm not really used to that so it's a big change on that level. Also there's so much freedom but I notice it's so easy to lose focus with all the freedom you have. In college they expect more from you than High School usually would, with assignments you are responsible to read the directions and make sure you turn it in correctly. The first week of school was so overwhelming that I tried to hang on to this bullet train because college level thinking is crazy fast the pace in College is a different level than High School. I learned real quick that I need to be more prepared in class. Starting this semester off I was worried about two classes that I struggle with reading in the professors had a high standard that I have to follow as well and I thought I couldn't commit to that standard but four the past couple of weeks I...

There's nothing that I like to do more in this world than spending time with my brothers, growing up there was four of us and we had to do everything together and I mean everything. My older brother Tori was about five years older than me and I remember him being my greatest role model because he didn't care what people thought about him, if he liked it he did it. My brother had an amazing style his personality was outgoing, confident and everything I ever wanted to be, me and my two youngest brothers all looked up to him. We lost him four years back, and that was a difficult time for me and my family. I lost one of my brothers and that was a knife to the heart, people always consider  me very outgoing, loud, energetic, and all that stuff but if it wasn't for my brother showing me that it's okay to be yourself. I don't think I would be like the guy I am today, he had the best style that I never seen before. I admired him so much they're were times when me ...

I believe that in Charles M. Blow’s " Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint" is more successful in delivering his thesis statement because he shows a situation that occurred at his sons’ school that put us in what's going to happen next. It goes in greater detail about what's going on, not for too long but to give us background information. Now some of the reasons why Blow's was more successfully in delivering his thesis statement than David Brooks is how he explained it. In paragraph 6 through 9 it put the reader in his son shoes what exactly is going on. "I did not pay him any mind, and continued to walk back towards my room. I looked behind me, and noticed that the police officer was following me. He spoke into his shoulder- mounted radio and said, i got him;”  There's more, up until we get in paragraph 9. It shows the Fear that his son is going through " at this point, I stopped looking directly at the officer, and look down towards the pavemen...