Manuel Ludizaca

A freshman college level English Composition course aims to improve students' abilities with writing, critical thinking, mechanics and usage, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary. By studying English 101 at Luzerne County Community College, I will work diligently to improve in all of these aspects. My main focus is to develop skills specifically to create clear and concise thesis statements, strong and persuasive essays with cajolement, and to develop different perspectives on narratives and other essays. These writing skills may also improve my critical thinking and reading skills.

This course emphasizes rhetoric and composition with a focus on expository writing and understanding writing as a process. The course establishes effective college-level writing strategies through four or more writing projects comprising at least 3,000 words in total.

I am tearing my hair to squeeze every single word from my poor mind to finish this letter. Yet deep in my frontal cortex, there is no part of mechanisms that is designed for writing a self-analyzing letter to my instructors. However, it has been ten weeks I studied in this course, and all my favorite works in these ten weeks are gathering in this tiny portfolio. I have wrote a several rhetorical practices that taught me basic rules of rhetorical essays. I have wrote a rhetorical analysis, which explained both the thesis of the reading and my own arguments against the reading. I finished my last rhetorical project three days ago with telling another interesting story. All these assignments were tiny pieces of my writing style and they built up together to present me a general concept of being a successful writer. I learned that, and I made a number of changes to upgrade my writing skills. At last, I decide to offer you these changes I have made as a start-up story writer in the college.

Throughout the first eight week’s courses, Amy demonstrated a high level of competencies in understanding and applying theory into practice. She was also able to utilize the supports provided to her through the college to vastly improve her professional writing skills, limiting her grammatical errors and increasing her well-deserved passing grades.

The history of Mexico is much different than the history of its northern neighbor, the United States (U. S.). At one time Mexican territory extended north into the Colorado area and west to California before ceding the property to the U. S. after the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Mexico and most of South America had been settled by Spain upon encountering the New World in 1492. So South American Spanish colonies spoke Spanish, had a ruling class that was not native born called peninsulares who were born in Spain but lived and ruled Mexico. Mexican ties with Europe were strong and in its colonial days the rulers and upper class individuals tended to draw from European society to make Mexico feel like the place they left behind. With regard to Mexican Natives, Spaniards intermarried into ruling families just as if they were in

Ignacio Ellacuría, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to help liberate the poor and oppressed in Latin America. He spent most of his life working in El Salvador. He was born on November 9th, 1930 in Portugalete, Spain located in the Biscay province. He was educated at “ the Jesuit school in Tudela, Navarra.”1

During my time surfing through the vast waves of the internet I had actually found one really interesting project that was funded by the World Bank. So apparently the World Bank had funded this project to pave a 900 mile road that opened the western Amazon to the rest of the people of Brazil, the road was known as BR-364. In the article I read we followed the life of one Antonio Carlos de Santos and a whopping 34 of his relatives who somehow fit all of them and their belongings on a truck headed for a chance at a better life. Now, back to the story at hand, things sound pretty dandy so far. The less fortunate people of Brazil would have a chance to go and make a living for themselves by using the land for farming, even the government along with some small private companies could use the enriched grounds to their advantage too.

Simply put, Don Manuel Osorio Manrique De Ziga is a great piece of art. The colours used in the piece were very well used. The meaning was very easy for me to find in the piece. I had also learned a very important life lesson from the piece. Don Manuel Osorio Manrique De Ziga captures how fleeting a child’s innocence can be through its powerful colours and imagery.

As the time goes by, it comes to the end of my first quarter in UC Davis. In my first quarter, I decided to take the UWP 21 course to improve my English language skills, learn new knowledge about writing, and eventually become a better writer. After a consecutive series of academic study, I believe that I have made great progress in my writing ability and been qualified to attend the UWP22 course for new challenges.

I am writing on behalf of Giulia Vastano. It has been my pleasure to get to know her this year as her English instructor at Father Ryan High School. She is enrolled in Advanced Composition and Film Studies and is excelling in both. Both classes are centered on writing and critical analysis, and Giulia is definitely a leader in class discussions and her grasp of critical concepts shows in her papers. She is not afraid to take chances with her writing and gets to the core of her topic quickly. I think her writing has improved because of her love of reading.

“Dynamism Of A Dog On A Leash”, an oil painting created by Giacomo Balla in 1912, which is an Italian Futurist painter. It was one of the famous work in his life. That painting is locating in New York Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Balla’s father was a photographer. It’s a part of reason that affect his art style and pay attention in non-visual performance. When he stayed in Paris, he learnt deeply about impressionism and pointillism. After that, he felt interested in color and light control. Than he began to practice his own style. His work is full of dynamic and speed. He was emphasis the process of movement and all the motions recorded in the same space. Futurism since from the 20th century, which is celebrated advanced technology and urban

I decided to partner with Juan Lopera to establish a business based on selling empanadas. The idea was to call the business Sazón Hispano (Hispanic Seasoning). Him and I knew each other before the course, and decided to partner because we knew when it came to making a business, we wanted to bring part of our culture to the Clark Community. The reason why we chose empanadas is because we noticed it was a product that was not only shared between the Dominican Republic (my country) and Colombia (his country), but also between most Latin American countries. This way, we not only serve Latinos but also people outside of the culture that want to taste a bit of our culture.

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary

Alcohol. Its been around for millenniums before jesus and its always going to be around and most of us can't do anything about it but we can find a way to stop alcohol from getting stronger. We all know someone or something that has ever used alcohol either to; have fun,drown the sorrows of the day, or just to fit in. Every body will encounter alcohol one point or another so might as well know what the effects of drinking are. All people drink; women,men,teens,and elders. The point is that alcohol is everywhere and i mean everywhere. It is published by everyone and everything. It gets published from billboards to commercials,tv shows, and celebrities . Where the media is trying to sell the young folks, a lifestyle that they can't afford and which leads to crime to get the money for the alcohol they want so badly, even some friends will be pulled into it and hurts to see them go. Because of this we are also get pulled into that way of life, its likely that you can later abuse drugs(alcoholism about). Drinking is just part of this generation and no one knows when It will stop. I learned that the effects of early drinking and the effect on men and women, the long-term effects of drinking and Its effects on the brain and liver and what are the damaging effects on your body. The effect of drinking and driving and the effects of drinking when a woman is fertilized and the disabilities that can happen to the child. I picked this subject

I believe that my academic training and my work experience as a tutor have prepared me to be an effective researcher and instructor in the Department of Writing Studies. My doctoral study was conducted under the supervision of