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I’ve always understood the importance of English, but lacked the motivation to pursue further education in the subject. In high school I took one year of AP English, and God bless Mrs. Farnsworth for being a saint and an awesome teacher, but I HATED that class. It was hell because it was a lot of boring work reading essays I didn’t care about, trying to write about my non-existent feelings (except for anger on doing the assignment) about an essay that I put no thought into. I was pretty set on the fact that this wouldn’t change once I started English 131 and was ready to bullshit as many essays as I could to get a good grade, but then realized pretty quick how enjoyable writing could really be. I base this quick turn around on perception due to the fact that you let us write about what we WANTED, not what we HAD TO write about.

Writing about what I am more interested in kept my attention during reading sources as well as made me WANT to make it perfect. I've never in my life before this class understood the feeling of wanting to make a paper perfect, until the first few essays were being written. It started with SA1, where I was really enjoying getting into Michael Scott's character, and progressed into my personal attachment with the morality issues presented in the Charlie Hebdo Massacres in SA2. This followed through with writing about a major issue dealing with foreign aid in Western Africa regarding the Ebola Crisis which is centered around medicine and public health, two things I’m pretty passionate about. With this being said, this portfolio will hopefully make it clear that all of the work both you and I put into this class has not gone to waste.

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